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Dreams
When I left work on Friday I was horribly stressed out and looking forward to a relaxing weekend. I did get to relax during the day, but I never got quite as much sleep as I'd hoped because I kept having crazy dreams that woke me up in the middle of the night.
Saturday night, after watching The Dark Knight, I dreamt that a fellow study abroad advisor and I were in a helicopter, flying over this watery area that was like a man-made amusement-park "river". We and the other people in the helicopter all had life vests on and everyone was taking their turn jumping out of the helicopter into the river. After my friend jumped out of the helicopter, a few other people did. Then it was my turn, and I knew that - unlike the rest of the jumpers - we were just jumping into the river as part of our overall scheme to scale a cliff and break into Batman's house. I don't think we wanted to steal anything from him - I think we were just doing it to prove that we could. I was too scared to jump out of the helicopter, though, and was (probably stupidly) more afraid of the jumping-out-of-a-helicopter part than the breaking-into-Batman's-house part. I woke up just as I was standing at the edge, chickening out. I was too scared and full of adrenaline to sleep anymore.
Last night, I dreamt that I went to Kroger to buy Cheerios snack mix. I think this actually exists, because I remember seeing an ad for it and I think that was in real life, rather than in the dream. In the dream-Kroger (which was not my regular Kroger), everything was organized differently, so I had to look all over the store. I probably scoured the whole store three times before I gave up and walked home. On the walk home, I was followed by a guy with horns and hooves for hands (presumably for feet, too, but I think he was wearing shoes). It wasn't so much that I was afraid of him killing me, but I felt the need to get away from him urgently. I think he had been stalking me. I yelled something at him just as I woke up, so I yelled in real life. In my foggy waking-up state, I started to worry that I would wake Alfie up with my yelling, but then I remembered that I don't live at home anymore, so there was no one there to wake up.
I couldn't stay in bed anymore, so I relocated to the couch, where I dreamt that my family was going on a road trip and my mom kept pointing out the houses of guys she claimed I'd had a crush on in the past, although they were all much younger than me. Later, I was at a middle school reunion, where we were having a geography quiz moderated by some obscure 80s-90s celebrity like Kadeem Hardison or DJ Jazzy Jeff. The moderator was putting a lot of pressure on me to know the most about geography, since I'm a study abroad advisor.
srah - Monday, 4 August 2008 - 8:53 PM
Tags: batman, dream, fear, kroger, middle school
Comments (5)
Fraulein N - August 5, 2008 - 2:49 PM - ℓ
That's about five different varieties of bizarre. I love that you had no qualms about breaking into Batman's house. I would imagine it would be booby-trapped to the gills.
srah - August 5, 2008 - 2:57 PM - ℓ
And if you've seen the movie, there's this whole subplot about how if you've got some dirt on a super-buff butt-kicking superhero, you might not want to blackmail that person, because he'll put the hurt on you. I imagine the same goes for breaking into his house.
I also thought it was funny that I recognized it as "Batman's house" and not "Batman's crime-fighting dungeon" or "Batman's lair" or "Bruce Wayne's house".
This does not bode well for your Supermarket Sweep appearance.