On a Pier

I was standing on a pier with some other people.  The pier was all wood and surrounded by water.  We had to hang name tags on post that were sticking up.  The tage had to be in alphabetical order.

Stow Away

I was in a large warehouse with a lot of boats stored inside.  I looked behind me and there was a box that was shaped like a door, tall and not very thick.  There was a piece of plywood that was coming out on the bottom of the box.  It moved out more and more .  I pulled the piece of plywood off and there was somebody inside the box.  It was somebody I knew but had not seen for a long time.  They told me they were living inside the box and somebody had nailed it shut while they were in it.  I asked him how he could breath inside the box and he said that he just barely made it out.

Trim falling down

I was working on the inside of a house and there was some trim that went around the wall about half way up.  It was wide enough to place dishes on if you stood them up.  One piece kept falling down and would not stay up no matter what. 

Moving out of Office

I was at my old job and we were tearing down the old computer and moving to a new room.  The job was mostly done.  I took a few inches of the AC wiring where it went into the computer.  There were four pieces, three of them were white and one was blue.  I bundled them together and tied them with red tape at the top.  I mentioned to somebody that it was a rabbits foot now.  Somebody came in and said I couldn't take that wire but I told them that was how we convinced people the computer was really uninstalled.  There was a room next to the computer room.  The whole wall was a door that swung open.  Inside there was just a lot of pieces left over.  I left the room and as I left I noticed the ceiling also had hinges on it.  This enabled the roof to be lifted up and closed down like a cigar box.   When the ceiling came down it had a lip that fit into the door very nicely.

Cars and Trucks

I was helping a truck driver by leading the way through traffic.    The truck was a tractor trailer rig and had to pull out of a parking lot into a busy street.  We got going and the truck started flashing his light and blowing his horn.  It looked like the trailer had come disconnected from the truck.  I pulled over and the truck driver started shouting at me that we couldn't go this way.  I had to turn around and get more gasoline.  We got to our destination which was a house with an office inside.  I looked outside and it was snowing.  I remember thinking how odd to get snow in the middle of August.

Crazy Sergeant

I was in a room with a lot of military people.  It was a discharge processing area.  I was a sergeant and learned that if I made an angry face I could get people to do what I wanted faster.  While the people were typing my papers another sergeant came in.  He was a sergeant major and had lots of stripes.  He had more stripes than is normal but still was a sergeant major.  He knew more about putting an angry face on that me.  His face was so angry that steam was coming out of his ears and his eyes were bulging out.  Everybody dropped what they were doing and started doing his work. 

Red Sandstone Cliff

I was walking along a cliff that was all smoothed out from water erosion.  It was red sandstone and had lots of designs in it.  I looked closer and it was full of tiny grooves from the water running over it.  I looked up the cliff and it looked like the map of a city from all the patterns that were grooved into it.  There was a small cave where I could rest.  I looked down and there was water everywhere.  There was a small outcrop of rock and my car keys were resting on it.  I was afraid to disturb them because they might slip and fall into the water below.    

Two of Me

I was at a gathering and somehow I was there twice.  There were two of me identical in every way.  It was decided that one of the two me's should be killed to avoid confusion.  I kept telling everyone I was the real me but nobody was convinced.  An old girlfriend said she had placed an X on me in case something like this happened.  I looked down at my knee and there was the remnants of an X on it but it was mostly worn off.  Nobody was convinced I was the real me.  There was a line of people waiting to get in to a house.  some of them were reading a comic book about skeletons.  I told them I had the original and that the one they were reading was a reprint.  I told them the original was in black and white and the one they were reading was in full color.  My old girlfriend then said I was the real me because the other me could not possibly know that.

Small Christmas Party

I was in a room on the second floor of a house.  There were four other people there, all men.  Two of them left to go get ready for the party.  I was watching a TV show and it had skaters.  The skaters had to do a lot of strenuous stunts and the man on TV said that many of the female skaters were really men.  I looked and the skaters were all shown from the back and waist down.  It was hard to tell that the skaters were men.  I was looking through a magazine that my roommate had purchased.  It was full of Christmas things and had instructions on how to draw them, like "How to Draw Santa" and "How to Draw a Reindeer".  The price on the cover was $4.50 and I thought what a good deal for so much information.  I decided I would keep the magazine and not tell anybody.  The other person in the room decided he had to leave and called his mother to pick him up.  He was young and Japanese looking.  I was all alone in the room and decided this was not a good way to have a Christmas Party.

Cleaning Up

I was in a building with a few other people.  We were picking up trash that was laying all around.  I walked into one of the rooms.  It was a mens restroom.  There were two other people in there.  One was an older person who is dead.  She was shuffling around like she was confused.  I walked out of the restroom and into a lobby.  There was something stuck on the bottom of my shoe.  I picked it off and it was branches from a tree.  The branches were all white and bleached out.  I started breaking them in half so the would be easier to hold.  When I looked at them again they were really bones.    

Installing computers

I was in an office with lots of older computers.  There was hardly any room to move around there were so many.  My task was to install some new disk drives.  The disks were big and had lots of big cables coming out of them.  I walked to a stand up tape drive and punched some buttons.  The tape stopped moving and I knew I had done something wrong.  There was a display with red letters that had some computer terms on it that displayed the status of the tapes.   I looked around and somebody pointed at me.  I walked to him and he told me he knew what I had done.  I walk over and started hooking up the disk drives. 

Prinicpal's Office

I was back in high school and had to go to the principals office.  As I walked down the halls I looked in a mirror and saw I was a young man with long dreadlocks.  I was very handsome and the girls were looking at me and smiling.  The halls of the school were a light green and there were orange chairs along the walls.  I walked in the office and asked if the principal was in.  The girl behind the desk said that was a good question and wished she had a job as easy as the principal.  The girl recognized me and said they had a book I had to read.  I looked on the desk and there was a book of Psalms.  The book was very thick and had a hard cover with gold lettering.  The secretary told me that was not the book I had to read but it wouldn't hurt me to get some religion.  I told her I go to church every Sunday and she was impressed.  Just then the principal came out of her office.  She had been having a conversation with a man and he left.  She looked at me and smiled.

Fancy Dinner

I was staying at a high class hotel with a friend.  People were taking pictures but she did not want her picture taken.  We were going to a dinner party in the evening and I could not decide what to wear.  I thought a suit would be fine but my friend wanted me to wear a tuxedo.  There was a group of men sitting at a table and I asked them for advice.  They told me definitely wear a tuxedo because the event was too fancy to wear anything else.

Busy Office

I was working in an office with a lot of people.  My task was to take the mail and put it in the proper boxes.  All the boxes were overflowing with mail.  There was one box that was very important and I had to take care of the mail there.  It was for military re-enlistments and was very far behind.  The mail was falling all over the table from the mailbox.

Security Alarm

I was walking around a city with lots of different buildings.  The city was actually inside a big building with a tile roof.  We were leaving the building and I had to set the security alarm.  The code was 0720 and I entered it several times but the code did not take.  The police were coming and I tried to call to tell them it was a false alarm.  

Driving by the Lake

I was at a small town on the edge of a lake.  I was cleaning a car and somebody was helping me.  I suggested we go for a drive.  When we got into the car it was a big yellow school bus and we drove on down the road.

Elephants

I was in the backyard of somebodies house.  It was a summer day and and the grass was green.  There was a little girl playing in the back yard.  A very tiny elephant came in the back yard.  The elephant was no larger than a dog.  The little girl started petting the elephant and hugging it.  The elephant loved it and it's trunk went way up in the air.  All of a sudden the mother elephant came up the driveway.  She was very angry.  I grabbed the little girl and we ran into the garage of the house.  The mama elephant took the tine elephant away and left us alone. 

Cloth factory

I was in a factory that was making cloth.  The walls were all white.  There was a large machine that was making cloth.  My task was to take the cloth as it came out and roll it up.  The cloth kept going crooked and the rolls had lumps in them.  Sometime the cloth would catch on a nail in the floor and then start tearing so that made the bundles of cloth uneven.  I took the bad bundles and put them on a stack.  The stack of bad bundles was growing very fast.  Somebody else was running a sewing machine.  The machine took several spools of thread and wove the threads into rope.  The rope was very loosely woven and it had a distinctive geometric pattern to look at.  The pattern was complex and beautiful to look at.  All the threads were different colors.

Crawling to the warehouse

I was crawling along in a ditch trying to get to a building.  I was crawling to avoid being seen.  Two friends were on the other side of a field and kept yelling to me to hurry up.  A helicopter flew over head and illuminated me with it spotlight.  I tried to hied but the spotlight would not go away.  Finally I stood up and walked to the building.  When I got inside there was an argument going on.  Large men with hard hats were standing across from each other and shouting at each other.  They were holding four by fours in their hands and beating their chests.  I got closer to watch and another group of men cam charging out and a big battle started. 

Sports Car Conversion

I was at a diner and had driven a yellow sports car there.  It was yellow and only had two seats.  It had chrome mufflers that came out on each side.  While I was eating some kids came by and one of them carved his initials in the chrome muffler.  He also was an employee of the diner.  I told the owner that one of his employees had damaged my car and the owner said the employees could do anything they want when they weren't working.  I walked out to my car and more people were carving their initials in it.  I called the insurance adjusters to come out and look at the car.  There were about six of them and they were dressed in black suits with narrow black ties.  They started looking over the car.  They started to show me the rust spots and places where the chrome was peeling off.  One of them said the chrome was just paper and the best thing to do was to just rip the paper off.  They ripped off the paper and the car was no longer yellow but all black.  It was no longer a sports car but a roadster from the 1940's or earlier.  It had a big engine and exhaust pipes coming out the sides.  The cab of the car was more modern and rounded. 

Monkeys

I was in a building with lots of corridors and rooms.  I was walking with one or two more people.  They mentioned to me that there was danger around because the monkeys were angry.  We walked through a room that was full of monkeys.  They looked at us angrily but did not attack.  We walked slowly to avoid getting them angry.  We left that room and walked down a hallway.  Some of the monkeys followed us and started chasing us.  We ran into another room and it was also full of monkeys except these were bigger like gorillas.  There was a door on the other side of the room and if we made it to the door we would be safe. 

Pipe Cleaner Monkey

I was with a group of people.  One of them showed me a toy.  It was a monkey that was created out of wires like pipe cleaners.  They draped the monkey around my neck and it started to hug me.  I looked down at it and the monkey had turned into a live baby with big beautiful blue eyes.  I started to worry about where to keep the baby because I was living in a dormitory with a bunch of men.  There was a crib in the room so I put the baby in it and the baby was happy.  Everybody else in the room went on like nothing unusual was going on. 

Fishing Trip

I was in a boat with several other people.  We were there for the specific purpose of fishing.  The boat was traveling though the water very fast and I hooked a fish.  I shouted out for them to slow down but the driver kept on with the speed.  The fish was pulled off the hook because we were going so fast.  I caught another fish and got it in the boat.  There was  a woman on the boat and she said we had to purify the fish before we could eat it.  We had to purify it by kissing it's chest.  Nobody actually kissed the fish however we blew on the fish and tapped its chest three times.  I asked the lady where she learned this ceremony and she told me Uranus.  I watched the fish.  It was not flopping around but just laying on the boat very still.  There was a light in its eyes that slowly went out.  We then chopped off the head and tail of the fish.  The head we attached to a pole and dragged it in the water.  I noticed other fishing boats were doing the same thing with fish heads.  I asked the captain why and he said to get little pieces of fish meat in the water to excite the other fish.  I looked around where we were fishing and saw it was a channel.  The channel was lined with rocks on each side and was perfectly straight as far as I could see.  Boats were traveling very fast.  I looked behind me and there were so many boats in the channel they were churning up the water.  The water was all foamy and white with large waves.  The boats passed all around us and our boat was completely swamped with water.  I looked up front and my camera was soaked in water.  I turned it on and it still worked.

Conspiracy

I was involved in a conspiracy with a group of people.  We were conspiring against some authority figure but I am not sure who or what.  I was talking with somebody about including another person.  They asked me why this person should be included and I said because they were so smart.  The person I was talking to did not want to include this other person because they were too aloof.

Old Photographs

I was at the drugstore and there were a pile of envelopes with photos I had just got processed.  The man behind the counter made a comment about how many there were.  I started looking through them and there was a note attached to one of the envelopes.  It said to be sure to keep food crumbs out of the film because it could scratch the negative.  I looked and the negatives and slides were covered with crumbs of food.  I took a vacuum cleaner with a hose and blew all the crumbs off.  There was one envelope that was all in white.  It was a handmade envelope.  Inside where three black and white photos.  I had never seen any of them before.  One was a young girl sitting in a stroller.  The other was very old and looked like it had been color at one time or maybe was hand colored.  It was me as a child standing in front of a theater.  There were lots of adults around dressed in costumes like it was a Halloween party.  There was a man dressed like a cowboy wearing hairy chaps.  His shirt had been tinted a light pink color.  The other picture was a line drawing of something I did not recognize. I put them back in the envelope and noticed there was also a picture on the envelope.  It was the line drawing.

Strangers in the warehouse

I was walking around in a large room like a warehouse.  Everything was all in white but the lights were very low so it appeared to be dark.  There were rows of boxes that were about 5 feet high arraigned so that you could see over them but not walk around easily.  There were three teenage boys walking around looking at things.  I questioned them and they said the door was unlocked so they just walked in.  I knew the door was locked but could not figure out how they got through so many locked doors.  They left and the cleaning lady came in.  I told the cleaning lady about the boys and she showed me a bunch of screws that they had left behind.  I gathered up all the screws and counted them to make sure we had them all.  I placed them in a bowl on the floor.  As I was walking out I accidentally kicked the bowl and the screws went all over the floor.  The cleaning lady helped me pick them all up and recount them.