World 8-1
Strange Dreams

Dreamed of being in a messy department store while looking for a pair of new shoes.  The shoe aisle was in disarray, and full of all sorts of random shoes that from simply uncomfortable to completely nonfunctional.   Out of the majority of the plastic shoes, the “sled-shoe” stood out due it being over 5 feet long and composed of clear plastic.  After trying one on and deciding that everything else was a form of Ugg or made of bent, thick plastic coat-hangers, I went home empty handed.

Last nights dream began in some sort of small-town festival; a talent show or rodeo of some sort.  I was there with family and we sat next to another man with his three sons and teenage daughter.
Later in the dream I moved into a new apartment a few blocks down the mainstreet.  It was a small, cluttered single-room that I had to myself.  After getting settled I opened the door to find several baby birds that promptly walked in and began looking for food.  They were very friendly so I tried to pet them while dodging their playfully snapping beaks.  At this point I learned they could talk, and the duckling informed me her name was Audrey.

Dreamed of a bizarre real-world catastrophe that eliminated all governments from the earth, leaving lawless and self-governed civilizations.  At the same time every person in the world was mysteriously given one of four different, strange objects.  I acquired a blue disk which could be thrown and return, as well as be used to materialize a solid square shape that would remain in whatever space it was placed (floating, etc).  Some acquired a strange set of red metal bars and joints which could become a small motorized tricycle.  There was also an item which could cause a large explosion, and the fourth escapes my memory.
People ran around for some time, looking for save havens from those that used their new-found items for crime.  Myself and my girlfriend hid in our apartment with a few neighbors until it was eventually attacked by a small group of kids who wanted to steal from us.  I chased them off and then left my place in search of a safer location for everyone.  The streets were barren and silent with the exception of a few scarce encounters with others who meant ill or were on a similar mission as my own.  I found several locations full of others, some were gatherings of those who were causing harm against others, while some were apartments like my own full of good people who were successfully defending their homes.  Eventually I discovered a large mall where many people were gathered to defend themselves and bring order to the city.  I decided to move the people in my apartment there, and caught a ride from a nice man with one of those small red tricycles back to Jacob St. where I lived.

Had another semi-frequent dream of loss.  In this dream I was deeply in love with a woman who felt the same in turn.  However life, youth and coincidence caused our peaceful separation for 20 years.  When we met again she had married with children, but our feelings were still intense and intimate, and we shared a mutual sense of regret for our potential life together.
The opportunity to renew this strong relationship arose with the chance of convincing her to leave her current life and continue with me, however my apprehension and inability to act quickly caused the dream to end with the vision of her silhouette vanishing around a far corner, on her way to rejoin her family.
I woke and spent the next several days with the deep, sick, realistic feeling of loss, depression and horrible ache in my core that these dreams frequently bestow.

Had a frightening dream of being in deep space, where there was an overwhelming atmosphere of claustrophobia and solitude.  It all began on a small, red moon in the discarded half of a ship.  The discarded wreckage and its associated ship were owned by some sort of ‘villain’, whom I had to track to another small planet nearby.
I did so only to find that he was deceased, which left me with the goal of getting home.  Spacewalking was impossible due to the awareness of weightlessness and lack of air, and there was a serious tension in plotting a return home.  Other than myself, my ship was home to a large amount of cats.  Refusing to abandon them in deep space, I had to determine how much food was available and the time it would take to return home.  I counted 28 cats onboard, with enough catfood to last the 300+ days for the return journey to earth.   Aside from the cats companionship, it felt like an abysmally lonely trip, looking forward to a year of space travel in what was essentially a small, metal box.

Dreamed that Bill Cosby was matched up with Barack Obama for a boxing match.  It was ‘old’ Cosby, so I felt bad.

In a recent work-related dream, I was living in an area I had recently completed for middle earth.  An army including myself had just conquered a fortress next to a dark wood.  This forest was the last place to be liberated from evil, and contained an massive evil spider known as the last of the eight black dragons.
The recent victory left me feeling fearless, and as I and two allies set off to explore the woods full of black fog I screamed its shortcoming defeat at my hand.  It was all quite epic.

Had a dream where I had a gratuitous amount of backhair.

I had a very short dream during the first part of the night, which placed myself and two others on a sea of cubes.  The entire world in addition to this was constructed of the same cubes, all uniform in size, but moving against one another fluidly.  The scenery would constantly change in an ebb and flow of angular, but smooth motion.  Finally at one point everything turned, becoming aggressive and violent, changing form and color rapidly, forming many different, varied scenes composed of the same blockish construction.  The blue blocks of the sea became brown forms of mountains, which rose upward to become cubic white clouds.  The ground was again replaced by water, and a large red worm-like creature flowed upward from the sea of blocks and toward me, but spread and washed over me as a blue wave just before impact.  The combination of my awe and panic brought the dream to an end.

In another frightening dream, human kind had migrated to another earth-like planet for its survival, however this new planet was inhabited by native beings who were physiologically identical to Earthlings with the sole exception of being 1.5 to 2 times larger on average.  The native beings of the new planet were also very violent and unwelcoming to earthlings, and humankind’s survival was hinged on their ability to hide their existence.
As an odd twist, humankind brought with them the curse of vampires, and through them this form of undead spread to the natives of the planet.  Ironically, native denizens of this world in vampirical form were more hospitable to earthlings, which caused a precarious balance of peace throughout this existence.