I slid on ice in my station wagon to a road side rest stop.  Once off of the road, I came upon a cottage-like shelter. In the yard there was a giant swing-set.  I swung for a while and at top speed, felt scared that I might fall out. I slowed down, got off and walked under a pergola in the courtyard.

Entering the cottage, I almost stepped on what I thought were chicks.  When I looked closer, they were actually Ritz crackers standing upright with beaks, pecking the dirt below.  I found this whimsical and continued to tour the place.

In one dimly lit, dusty room I came upon a bunk bed with two oriental ladies hovered together.  They handed me a blanket with two hot water bottles tucked in the folds.  At first confused, I soon realized that these water bottles were the ladies’ babies, so to speak.  I handed them back and knew that they all didn’t have long to live.

I left that room and peaked into another room where a large, giant-like man lay in a small bed.  Once he saw me, he grumbled at me to not to be there.  I went on in and sat by his bed.  I had no fear but soon he started to make me feel uncomfortable so I decided to leave, but as I looked out the window, I saw wolves outside wanting to get in.

Running through the place with my mom, the furniture kept blocking us in.  It was like weaving through a maze.  Finding a clearing at the back kitchen door, we ran past the wolves that were chained up in the lawn.  We barely missed their bites as we ran towards a truck and hopped in, driving away in the night.

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I went to visit some distant uncle and aunt for the holidays.  When I arrived at their home, I was the one hosting them.  I started cleaning all of the bathrooms meticulously.  While cleaning one of the bathrooms, I found that I needed to use the toilet so I sat down.  The uncle and aunt opened the door and came on in and started to talk to me.  I told them that I was using the toilet but it seemed normal for them to visit like this.  I asked them to leave so I could finish and they did.

It was time to go to the frozen river and participate in the glowing skate.  Walking through the cold woods I could see glowing lights that were being held by a number of people skating in a close bunch. Above them they were holding a truck.

Stepping out on the river some people said that there were unstable areas that I should avoid.  Just as they said that I saw a portion of the ice start to separate and rise up out of the water.  I jumped up onto one of the shifting pieces below me and slid high up into the air.  After the ice settled I fell into the water and scrambled toward the ice.  I got out and jumped up into the truck that the skaters were carrying.  I was so happy to be out.

Once on land, I started climbing up some muddy cliffs toward Noah’s Ark. It was far off and I was having difficulties reaching the top without sliding down with every step.  Once to the top I then had to climb a steep ramp up to the boat.  Grumbling all the way up, I became completely fed up with the situation.

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Extra Dream:  I scheduled an unofficial  happy hour with my company at a bowling bar.  We gathered around the bar while Lady Gaga music played in the background.  I jumped up out of my chair and began performing contemporary dances in an open space.  They were not impressed but I had a great time dancing!

While shopping for gloves at a second hand store I spotted a number of pets for sale in aquarium tanks at the top of some shelves.  A cat sized guinea pig looked down towards me and I felt that I had once owned him.  I remembered having one 30 years ago as a kid and how my mom would shake her finger at him when he wet on the carpet.  He would always respond to that gesture by shaking his finger back at her.  I decided to see if this guinea pig would respond the same way.  After I shook my finger at him, he echoed the gesture!  I was excited that it was once mine and decided to buy him.

I was handed the guinea pig which turned into a large blond woman which lay limp in my arms like a stuffed doll.  I carried her out to the car and we drove away. I ended up back at the second hand store and I now lived there.  The place was pretty dirty, dark and run down.  While walking through some isles I saw an infant wrapped up in some blankets.  I was shocked that it was alone and wondered how long it had been there.  I took it off of the shelf and placed it on the couch.  After leaving to get some water and coming back, the baby no longer had a baby’s head but an adult head.  The head was a creepy looking man’s head with greased back black hair and crooked teeth.  I was not interested in taking care of it anymore.

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I was in college studying Lady Gaga.  I was on my way to meet with the teacher’s assistant to discuss my final test grade.  I was certain that I did not deserve the “B” I was given.  When I reached the room, I saw Lady Gaga grading papers at her desk and continued on my way to discuss my grade.  I saw a bunch of Lady Gaga’s shoes in a closet and decided to try them on.  I completely forgot about my grade and decided that I may have deserved the “B” after all.

I walked over to Lady Gaga and thanked her for letting me try on her shoes and then I walked up a narrow stairwell to ground level.

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I was living underground a hay field during WWII.  I ventured out from my burrow in the winter, and while still night, a friend and I started racing our sleds toward town.  I was parallel to the country road and over some hills I could see the Nazis driving toward me.  At the speed I was sledding, there was no way to stop so I laid as close to the ground as I could and sped by.

Once in town I hid in an old white house.  The entryway was large and opened up all the way to the ceiling.  I ran upstairs and hid in the bedroom. I was now dressed in an old Southern dress and I heard Bing Crosby downstairs talking with Nazi soldiers.  He was saying that we had no more and they should leave.

There was an explosion and the house was mostly destroyed.  Looking down into the hall, I saw Hilter and Bing Crosby fighting each other.  It was very dramatic as Bing swung and missed while Hitler laughed standing above him.  Bing jumped up and shot Hitler in the head but before I could relax, Hilter had not been affected by the bullet.  Almost zombie-like, Hitler came charging at Bing.   I ran down and grabbed a board and started whacking Hilter on the head. He finally died. I hugged Bing and all was well.

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I had just started working at a water treatment plant in an old laundromat.  As I was cleaning up behind the counter, some ladies came in wanted me to wash their clothes.  I was confused at first but then explained that we were no longer a laundromat.  The ladies said that the old sign was still up outside.  Telling them we would fix it, I ushered them out.  When I got outside, there was a long line of customers holding laundry baskets waiting for service.  I started to panic and went inside, crouched in a corner and hugged a co-worker.

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Matt and I were walking down a dark stairway outside in an alley.  The with lights lit up the night sky as we walked though.  Fences surrounded us and we saw the homeless sleeping under newspaper blankets.

We were homeless too.  Matt suggested that we find an empty piece of ground to sleep on but after sitting down, I told Matt that I wanted to keep going.  When we got up though, we were completely naked and heading down the stairs toward the busy city street.

An old elementary schoolmate was across the street and saw me completely naked.  She was with a group of friends and yelled out “Whoa look at Becky  naked!”  I put my head down and shuffled off in search of shadowy places.

Matt and I found some shirts and pressed on through the city.  I didn’t care what I put on as long as I was fully clothed and warm again.  I saw a pair of muddy men’s jeans on the side of the road and grabbed them up.  Once we were dressed, I was in search for transportation.

I found a red bicycle for Matt and me to ride away on.  We found our condo and ran up the stairs to see if our stuff was still there.  Unfortunately, we had been robbed of all of possessions and they were replaced with goats, bunnies, kittens and ducks.  I said that I would rather have critters than the possessions.

I turned into an actress who was in a movie about my homeless experience.  This was a much more adventurous version of what happened.  I broke into buildings with Matt’s families looking for car parts only to find the workers still inside.  Apologizing we asked for the part and that we would pay them back later.  While leaving, we passed another family who was breaking in too and decided to just leave the item behind.

We ran into a factory and found pieces of bicycle that couldn’t fit together but before we got discouraged, Matt’s “actor” came with a giant bicycle as large as a car but with peddles.  He said it would hold all of our stuff.  We rode away but ended up on the top of a cliff.

We grabbed some zip lines and swooped off of the cliff face and over an expansive valley.  This was much more exciting than “real” life homelessness to the “actors” and much easier too.

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I was at my childhood home running down the hill in the backyard. I was holding what looked like part of a lawn chair.  The wind caught under the meshing that I held and lifted me up in the air like a glider.  I could control how I moved so I floated up and down above my neighbors houses.  My cousin was on the patio below me so I came down to see her.

This was our first meeting ever so I hugged her and invited her into my house to meet the family.  We all bonded but she had to leave.  So a guy in a black compact car helped her with her stuff and I ran and jumped in the back seat because I wanted some more time with her.  We drove to JFK Airport in NYC but the airport looked like a castle.

We dropped her off and the guy asked me to take the car back.  I didn’t have shoes on but decided it wouldn’t matter much.  Before I could get in, a man had me bring my cat Willey with me to an operation room.  I was to put a mask and a witches hat on Willey and climb up a ladder.

If I could stand on the ladder with her and have her be calm, she would be in Hollywood Movies. Willey did pretty good.  We didn’t stay up an hour and she squirmed a bit when I tried putting the hat on her.

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Dream #1

I was on a hike with friends when we spotted an old ice water slide. The slide was built into the side of a cliff.  We were told that it stopped being used because of the design being out of date.  Some people went to the top and started sliding down it.  I joined them and from the top of the slide I became pretty nervous about sailing down it.  I decided to just go for it and let go of the sides and slid away.  I bounced up from the slide and came back down and slid the rest of the way down very fast.

At the bottom I thought that it was pretty fun.  I looked at the slide and all the way to the top were pairs of shoes.  Each pair was by a marking on the slide that listed a year.  We were told that each year that the slide was used, a pair of shoes was set by the year.  It was very interesting to see all the changes in shoe fashion over the 100 years the slide was in use.

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Dream #2

I went to play volleyball at my old church.  I was doing pretty well until it was my turn to serve the ball.  It wouldn’t go over the net as if the ball were as light as a piece of paper.  The lady coach decided that since I was having trouble, the whole team would have to go to a practice session.  I was pretty upset that the team had to go through it because of me.

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I got on a raft with Matt and some others and we zoomed down a river.  I thought that the green-blue water was such a beautiful shade so I tried touching it.  As I reached in, someone told me that we were skimming over sand and that it would hurt to touch it.  I fell back and banged my elbow on a stone that was jetting out of the water off the other side of the boat.

The river was low and the banks rose above our heads.  Overhanging trees made our trip shaded and peaceful.  We came upon a part of the bank that had campers resting.  We looked through an opening and said hi very quietly as if we were aliens.  They were happy to see us and we moved on.

We got to a restaurant and hopped off of the raft.  I made my way through the crowd and realized that I wanted to be back on the raft.  I squeezed passed people sitting at cafe tables and entered a dark hallway.  I called for “fritz” the dog and he came running.  I told the people behind me that he wasn’t mine but that I was taking care of him.

He ran ahead and I wasn’t worried.  Every once in a while, I would call his name and he would appear from out of the dark corners somewhere.  When I got to the end of the hall, there was a large room with lights.  I started playing the room as a video game.  I didn’t even know what I was doing but I quickly pressed my thumbs down onto the controller and I racked up a lot of points.

My mom asked me what I was doing but I didn’t know.  Once the room was a room again, I realized that I won the game. I went to tell my gramma and she was happy for me.  She was living in a home that was very dirty and half torn up.  It resembled a cold, haunted house.  My aunt commented that someone had torn the upholstery off of the top of the couch and now the top was just all blackened.

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