5/19/04 - Iris AlRoy
Last night, i dreamed that i went to an estranged friend and told her i missed
her. i wanted to believe that she hadn't betrayed me. i did not have any clarity
in the dream, even after spending some time with her. Her place seemed like
it was hosting a zillion people who kept wandering in and out. At one point,
i discovered a back hallway which was decorated like a b&b, with a double
bed in a room. I ended up going to a huge spiral convention center where there
was danger of falling into a waterfall which was as high as niagara falls.
5/20/04 - Iris AlRoy
I was in the house I grew up in, and there was a man there who was not my father
but who in dream logic, was. He had intent to cut me and make me bleed. I strategized
by first hiding all the knives in the house, then plotted how to kill him.
1/10/04 - Davor
I dreamt I was going to ride my bike to San Diego, but very early on I realized
it was really hard to peddle and that my tires were flat. I pulled over and
saw my friend Lil P, she also had a bike, but was wondering why I was going
on this long trip. My tires wouldn't let me inflate them, so she gave me a ride
in her car.
Somehow I was alone and crossing into nomans' land. A land of some alien species.
I was caught in some sort of trap and marked with some device that made it easy
for aggressive aliens to pick me up. I ditched the device and ran into an alien
person I knew, they kissed me and unbenounced to themeselves injected me with
another traking device. They wanted to take me to some place safe so I wouldn't
get picked up by the alien patrol. But being tracked they wereon my trail. I
realized at the last possible moment that my friend had unintentionaly marked
me for death (something inherent and unconcous on their part). I managed to
escape along with some other humans ( i think I knew them) and we made the trecherous
journey back to our world. It was along barren road, but we made it.
1/9/04 - Iris AlRoy
I was with some friends, and parked my car on the street, going into a huge
convenience store for coffee. When we walked in, the store seemed to go into
a panic and was closing down. There was chaos and confusion, and nobody seemed
to know why they were closing. Finally, I intuited that it had something to
do with aliens. I brought one strange woman into the bathroom with me, like
she was a good girlfriend, and when I saw a strange look in her eye, she suddenly
tumbled out the window in a spray of sparks. I figured she was probably one
of the aliens. The rest is all a blur.
1/6/04 - Iris AlRoy
I ran into a friend on a journey, who said hello to me as I ignored him. Then
he told me he loved me.
12-13-03 - Iris AlRoy
I was shopping at IKEA, and there was a new section with fabulous lingerie and
really great makeup and clothes. I found a bra I wanted, it had tiny black ribbons
across the top and was printed with Boris and Natasha (from Bullwinkle). I realized
that this shopping was too great to last so I'd better hurry but I was still
so picky. Waking up I realized that I AM always picky, and won't cram my cart
full of anything unless i really do want it.
12-10-03 - YakTak
i had a dream last night that eric and dave were backup dancers for madonna,
in grey t-shirts & orange spandex leotards. until eric first pointed at a girl
in the audience and mouthed "i want you" and then accidentally scissor kicked
madonna in the stomach twice on stage and then her bodyguards rushed him and
knocked him unconscious. I then had a dream that i told eric & dave that i had
a dream about them dancing backup for madonna...
9-29-03 - Bonnie Duque
I was climbing in and out of the roof of a treehouse, which became a department
store I was shopping in for clothes and jewelry. Then I was standing in front
of an old fashioned mirror, trying on clothes. I put on a beautiful, simple
wedding gown and veil and pranced about, looking quite wonderful. I was happy.
The girl with me was also trying on clothes and we traded. She had me try on
some lingerie and old fashioned bathing suits. Then we put the clothes on a
small child and it looked very cute her too. Then I was swimming/wading down
a clear calm river with another older woman. She seemd to be very wise yet youthful.
I was carrying a photo with me and since we were already headed down the river,
she said I would have to carry it with me. But I found a nice bank to set it
down on and when I popped out of the water to set it down, my bottom was showing
and she gave it a playful pat. It felt so refreshing to be swimming along the
river in my undies. Then I saw an arial view of a beautiful lake and waterfall
surrounded by orange spikes of earth, like in Bryce Canyon, Utah. All the landscape
reminded me of Utah and the gorge at Zion National Park. 9/14/03 - Julian
i'm at a friend's wedding reception, or going up to the reception in a fancy,
elaborately appointed elevator. there's a woman in the elevator with me, dressed
well, with a glimmery wrap thrown over her shoulders. she points at my hand
and notices i am wearing two chunky rings made of resin on my ring finger -
one blue and one green. she asks, "are you married?" and i say, no, these aren't
real wedding rings. she raises the back of her hand - flat - to my face and
i see a modest diamond wedding ring. she says, plainly, "this _is_ real." we
face the elevator door as it opens to the crowded banquet room.
9/27/03 - Bonnie Duque
I was working for a large hotel and my boss showed up out of the blue which
seemd very strange to me for some reason and rather ominous. A large shipment
had come into the hotel and we, the workers, were told to move it into the kitchen,
no questions asked. As we stockpiled the packages, several of us noticed that
it was an unusually large quantity of industrial strength cleaning and chopping
supplies such as plastic sheeting, mop buckets, butcher knives and large cheese
graters. We realized that these were intended for a massacre in which we were
to be the massacrees.... So, we began plotting how to turn the tables and either
escape our doom or butcher them first. Then I was asked to examine a dead body
for an autopsy. The woman was middle aged, large and had been bludgeoned to
death. No one wanted to look at her, so I volunteered. My mom was with me and
we began examining her body looking for clues and notating what we saw. She
had been molested and raped since childhood, one of the doctors said.
9/3/03 - Edo
While visiting my parents, I get engaged in a discussion where I claim afterlife
is real, but it only distresses my family. Suddenly, 3 people arrive ® from
thin air, it appears, but my family pretends to ignore that - a team: a grey-haired
boss, a guy, a girl. The guy and girl instruct me. The girl gives me some pills.
Take a couple of the small ones first, she says, it will have a lesser effect
than the large one, but if you start with the large one, as you probably are
thinking right now, you will have a strong trip, but you won't remember anything
later; It's essential that you will remember. After she nakes sure I understood,
she takes me by the hand, says "we have to go now", and it seems we will all
meet later. We are on a train. My bag keeps disappearing, and when it's time
to get off the train, she does, but I'm stuck behind, searching for my bag which
disappeared again.
As the train moves on, the suspicion arises in me that itês a dream. I try to
will the next station to be an arbitrary one, and half succeed; now I know,
Iêm not worried. I try to will a better station. Perhaps Paris?
Next thing I know ® the couple reappears, agitated. Hey guys, I say happily,
there you are again - but theyêre surprised I recognize them and are stern looking.
Are you sure you did as she told you? You didnêt mix the pills? Says the guy,
and girl, stressed, asks me to say exactly what I took. Whatever you told me,
I dunno, I reply innocently, feeling fine but not too concentrated.
Ok, says the guy, what do you see outseide of the train window? There's an intersection.
And what else is in there? There was a sort of an accident, and this truckês
doors were smashed and a strange animal I have never seen before (2 meter high
toy-looking bear-man) comes out and walks around blindly. I think he has no
eyes. And that looks normal to you? He says. Sure, I say, why not? I just told
you there was an accident, and that this kind of animal... it happens sometimes,
doesn't it? Heês exasperated, waves his hand. The boss isn't gonna like this,
he tells the girl, worried - we botched it. Me, Iêm completely at ease, as if
I was given a tranquilizer. Iêm sure they mean good, and sorry the dream fades.
8/31/03 Lucci
I'm with all my friends at the time and we are at a party on the top of the
tallest skyscraper. We are all looking down at the city below as it is being
destroyed by the tornados. Itês not a nightmare, more like witnessing the rapture
for the heavens. I never really had placed any meaning to the dream until recently.
I have been a drug user for all of my adult life and have worked over the last
few years to be sober. I have just quit smoking pot and shortly after the dream
changed. This time I was driving with my wife Christa and as we came around
a corner, there was the tornado. I had to quickly turn around and drive as fast
as I could to get away. I knew I had to make it to the skyscraper and we did,
but just barely. I never made it to the top, just the eleventh floor. This dream
was more nightmarish as the building shook and thinks flew all around us. We
hide below some stairs, but still had a view of people playing hockey in an
arena below us and they where not effected at all by the winds. I think the
skyscraper is the comfortable high I was always in and the tornado is the chemical
wash of my mind. I think it changed because I am now in my mind and those chemicals
where being washed away. The Hockey team is my game playing Ego that has been
untouched by the flushing of toxins.
8/29/03 Iris AlRoy
I was driving in unfamiliar territory, with questionable breaks and poor visibility.
The dream all started at some kind of dating thing, where i ignored all the
action and spent my time trying to make jello molds. Why the jello molds, I
do not know.
8/29/03 Ozan
I walk into a garden and come upon a group of geisha who are unaware
of my arrival. The braches and leaves float past silently. The geisha are evolving.
They turn anxiously like a group of gazelle in safari. One of the geisha takes
me to the back of the store to show me her record collection but I suspect she
has other intentions. I see a ring which belongs to my friend, Mr. K, lying
on the table. Then, her father barges in and pretends to be furious at having
caught us doing something naughty even though we are doing nothing at all. He
shouts furiously but never lifts his eyes from the floor. I leave slowly simply
walking away.
6/26/03 Iris AlRoy
I went back to a mansion I had forgotten I owned. It was massive, one I've visited
before in other dreams. There was a lot of repair to be done, and the more I
looked the more there seemed to be to fix. Finally, I realized that I could
make the best of it, and move in, with a few other people, it got better and
better from then on, as I found that each of the roommates could have their
own floor in the building, and i ran into my bedroom with Bunny, and we passed
one fabulous bed and then saw another amazing mahogany, carved four-poster that
we jumped on and wallowed in our happiness.
6/23/03 Iris AlRoy
My roommate Lorely would NOT hold hands with me. I was bummed out because everyone
else was holding hands and she wasn't in the mood. Then I received a surprise
proposal from an old boyfriend. He gave me a ring made of a rolling paper. Weird.
6/6/03 Iris AlRoy
I was living in a little place with two other women. The toilet backed up and
there was, well, you can imagine, but it was just everywhere. it was really
amazing. i mean, the floor was kind of covered. I went out to find a plumber
while one of the other women cleaned up, but when i got back with the plumber,
it was still, kind of, well, dirty in the corners. the plumber simply went to
a large suction pipe in the wall which seemed totally out of place, which i
had never noticed, and removed a huge pink fake flower which was blocking the
suction. Under the first flower there was another, which was a lighter pink,
and then a colorless flower under the second.
4/15/03 Iris AlRoy
I was hanging around a club with some people. I had a sort of metal-chick looking
wig in a trunk in the back of the club. My ex came out and walked to the stage
with a guitar in his hand. I wanted to talk to him but I couldn't bring myself
to do anything but hang in the back and wish that he would notice me. He looked
heavier than I remember, but other than that seemed the same. I spent the rest
of the dream wondering why he had been there. So strange when you dream about
people that you think you're over.
4/5/03 Iris AlRoy
My sister somehow knew Gwyneth Paltrow (definitely a celebrity I hate). She
was having lunch with her in NYC, and decided to tote me along. She was bubbling
about how expensive the restaurant was and I was kind of like, ok, whatever,
lunch. So Gwyneth and I discussed men and biological clocks, and then I told
her I liked her movie The Royal Tenenbaums pretty much because of her eyeliner
in it reminding me of when I was a teenager. All I have to say about her, is
I don't like her any more now that she was in my dream, than I did before.
4/4/03 Iris AlRoy
I was living in a dorm situation with a bunch of interesting people. One of
them was an old boyfriend, and he told me he wanted us to get back together.
I kept expecting him to try to consummate this decision, but he seemed to be
avoiding that. I was pretty surprised, since in real life I'm sure he'd be going
for it.
3/21/03 Bonnie Duque
I was hanging with a bunch of friends and we were travelling together on a road
trip. Then someone gave me a huge box of Mary Jane as a gift. Then we all got
on a plane that the pilot went crazy on and did crazy stunts and tried to scare
us because we were late getting on. We landed safely but I told the pilot we
were late because we got pulled over by the cops so he understood and apologized.
Then we went inside this big "fraternity" style house by Pier 39 in SF with
lots of community spaces and bedrooms and all hung out.
Undated Leonardo Pasquale
A world of fast movements, crisp effects, illusions made real, and such things.
A beautiful work of art: a miniature skyscraper maybe 10 stories high, made
as a replica of a similar building next to it. A spire is all I can see from
the train track trestle, the station above the city. I just slipped out the
back door of a 2 subway train. I look at this fascinating replica.
Like the side of a African drum with leather strips pulling the skin taught,
woven metal bars spun out a series of shapes that stuck to each other like magnets
atop the sphere. Cylinders, cones, and a pyramid shape in the middle, which
held inside an elevator which 1 or 2 people could reasonably fit. A man in a
white tunic and a headdress signifying something of importance is slowly brought
up to the top, where the pyramid is. I watch: a man is on the side of the elevator
shaft. And he pulls out some tools and cuts something at the top of the elevator
line. He is sabotaging it. The important man goes down. Then comes up again
and the handyman has his tools and it seems he will garrote him.
A train goes by. I have gotten off the tracks.
I am at a swimming pool area. A woman, or a thing, of danger and importance
is located somewhere in the water. I have received some sort of instructions
from a man in a booth who refuses to come out and speak to me. Too dangerous
for him. I am not yet certain if I know he is on my side or not. So far I have
tacitly pursued several leads that seem to be emanating from his instruction.
Now I am near the pool, because I have been sent there, but I am relaxing. There
is someone who is talking, like a teacher, and it isn't very interesting. The
pool isn't entirely a pool either, it has grown over with vegetation on one
end. I can't see that side of it: the pool could be much bigger. Soon I drift
off from the class. My sister is hanging out, and there is a series of diving
boards. I want to dive into the water. But something becomes apparent now: this
pool is not ordinary. I am told to be careful, getting over the edge from the
diving board isn't as easy as it looks. I see now to what that refers: underneath
the platforms is a second ledge, not much further out, and there is a sequence
of hurdles from a track beyond that ledge. You must dive over these, but under
a bar that appears to be floating on the water.
Now as I look out, my sister makes the dive like a practiced porpoise and perfectly
swims away, and I see what looks like an old amphitheatre made from stone that
is before me, and it has been flooded with water. And further away, towards
the center of the pool, a small city exists. A fairytale land underneath the
water. But if I am not sure if the City is inhabited, it certainly shouldn?
be. But maybe the target is hiding there?br> the Snake King comes to visit me.
I know his performance. He looks like Jango Fett, muscular, light brown skin,
short dark hair, a sneer across his face. He says "I am the Snake King." I dispatch
him to see a woman, and I know he will scare her. This is some political as
well as sexual conceit behind this. He goes to a landscaped path through 10
foot high hedges around the grounds of the castle area. He leaps up into the
air and begins to unravel. Like a clown's balloon being blown up, he unfolds
in the air and expands into the roundness of a 25 foot long black snake?
Awake: Jen leaps upon me. It is the day after her birthday. She says to me:
I was born in the year of the snake
3/22/03 Boni Joi
Hippy terrorists invade my normally quiet small town Millbrook, New Jersey.
They force all of us at gunpoint out of our houses, including our pets corralling
us onto yellow school buses. Upon entering the bus each man, woman, and child
receives an eighties black or navy heat-set sparkle t-shirt with the words Disco
Sucks written across a rubber ducks body or "Give A Hoot, Don't Pollute" underneath
a suspended wings-splayed cartoon owl. Even the pets by obligation wear such
slogans as Yuppie Puppy or Corporate Kitty.
Two small dogs wag their tails so rapidly they almost disappear except for their
doggy t-shirts. I avoid abduction when I learn that we will be taken to a beach
or park and coerced to take psychedelic mushrooms or psilocybin mixed with a
previously untested drug. The hippies fear me when I say,?You do not want to
encounter me on drugs!"
Besides, I protest, how many of you were at the peace rally wearing camouflage?
And another thing, those guns have no bullets! They see I am a revolutionary
and leave without me. As the buses drive away I spot a tie-dyed sheet hanging
on the back of one that reads Soldiers For Peace. The rest of the town pretends
they are being kidnapped.
Now that everyone is gone I feel that sense of aloneness that one gets while
taking a long walk in the woods or Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Bored and lonely
I decide to break in to my neighbor's garages to examine all of their objects
and make up stories about their history. The Mr. and Mrs. Bamwolle's house has
a huge porch, Victorian style, with etched glass mirrored skeleton keys hanging
on fishing wire. I look down and I am wearing a frilly white dress, like a ballerina.
In their garage are display cases of jewelry: a ruby tiara, an aquamarine ring
and a black Tahitian pearl necklace alongside costume versions. The ruby tiara
has a price tag that reads 10,000 dollars. On a shelf rests a comic book called
Dark Boy. Next to that, a clear glass baton that functions as an ice-cream scoop
two-ended. I fancy the baton and take it with me. Outside it begins to snow,
even though it is summer. I catch the snowflakes and eat them out of the glass
scoops.
Mr. Vollmana's house is very seventies with carpeting all over the walls and
a celebrity miniature golf coarse set up in the living room. In another room
three guys I know from the organic food co-op are partying, a song plays repeating
the lyrics,?Here is a ghost, a ghost is a lie" in a Depeche Mode sounding way.
I begin to roll around on the carpeted floor, a sort of uncontrollable yogic
dance. I am on my hands facing the ceiling and cannot stop my legs from kicking
up until I decide to perform a shoulder stand against a black Formica desk.
When I move my legs away the name Rosemary appears taped up in individually
moving yet attached pastel colored glittery happy birthday letters.
One of the guys, I think his name is Egon, passes out on the couch and to wake
him up his friend Gustov squirts lighter fluid on his torso and lights it. The
couch guy immediately wakes up and begins to blow out the flames.
Mr. Amallaha's house is a garage converted into an apartment. A garage with
glass doors. A robust, red-cheeked guy asks me if I think he can get a thousand
dollars a month to rent it. Probably, I reply. Alice's house is surrounded by
power lines and power stations. So many wires in the backyard that they appear
to form a grapevine trellis. There are group of paranoid people in the house
and they do not trust one another because one of them is a serial killer who
kills his or her victims by cutting a hole in their throats and shoving a hot
dog in the hole. Cooked or raw? I inquire.
10/15/02 - Daturamatico
I am in a house, built like a huge shack.... not very well thought out. a wall
was very haphazardly put together so that if you leaned into it the boards,
which was not nailed, flayed out and fell upon you. I had to collect the boards
and lean it back upon the wall's). this done... and looking at this room which
had a wall missing, facing a sort of driveway.... (the house must have been
a long house which wrapped around the driveway, out back)... there was a cage
of ferrets. about five to six ferrets, 2ft long (not including tail) and roaming
about from the open cage. I must have been on some kinda bed, low to the ground...
as they sniffed towards my direction. I was not too worried and welcomed the
visit. they all climbed up unto my body (I was naked) and started to hang out...
and squirming about, clinging and at times piercing my body. I was getting kinda
annoyed yet was petting them... because they were sooo fluffy and warm. but,
again... the piercing was getting kinda harsh so I decided to stop this orgy
by trying to pull them off. as I pulled them off...they would immediately jump
back on, more aggressively. not biting at all... just clingy and squirmy and
all over my body and climbing towards my head, each time. I started to get upset
and yell... but realized it was late and did not want to wake my brothers who
were sleeping in adjacent rooms. so.. I decided to let them do their thing and
just tolerate it. I realized I must have passed out for a spell because they
were all around my head after awhile... and, although warm and fuzzy... somewhat
suffocating. so, again I attempted to peel them off... this time they ran back
to their cage... as I was pulling them off, though, I realized I was also pulling
off newborn ferrets... and threw them upon the pillow. they were already dead...
about 5 baby ferrets... my dreadlocks were all clumped up in a mess.... like
a rats nest. I turned towards a mirror to see myself. I looked pretty fucked
up and saw my reflection running from me and crashing into a window. my reflection
came back... looking worst than I felt... and my dream ended
10/10/02 Mike DeSeve
I dreamed my cell phone battery was dead. I was very worried because I was waiting
for an important call from my nieces and nephews and I missed them. I was standing
under a high red brick archway on a hard dirt road, In the center of the arch,
about thirty feet up, was an exterior art-deco light fixture and junction box,
which were falling apart. Before I could return to the train (?) and plug my
phone in there, my friend Phil grabbed the phone out of my hand and said' "THIS
is how you charge a phone", and leapt into the air heroically in his tight
jeans, arcing thirty feet upwards to the busted light. The light zapped the
phone with thousands of volts of electricity, sending blue lightning arcing
back to the ground, lighting up Phil from the inside, splitting the air with
his screams and zapping sounds, and blasting and burning away at my phone's
faceplate till it was a brittle, transparent yellow crust. He then zipped back
to the ground and handed me the charred hot yellow phone. It had a full charge
10/9/02 - Iris AlRoy
I had a dream I've had before, that I was in my grandmother's old house, only
there was a house attached to the original home through some secret doors. I
explored the new house which contained antiques and treasures belonging to my
grandmother, plus many toys and children's books, in perfect children's rooms
which seemed to have been simultaneously untouched and as if they had been inhabited
for years. I picked toys and books which I wanted to save for my future children,
since it seemed that the house didn't truly exist and I wanted to carry something
away.
9/12/02 - Iris AlRoy
my boyfriend was breaking up with me at this big all night carnival. We passed
a burning building and tried to get out of the way. We were asked to bring things
we didn? want to the inside in order to burn them.
9/6/02
I was being shown an apartment which was part of a creative community. It wasn?
perfect, in that there were some people living in what seemed to be hallways,
but my apartment had a view of the bay and a view of the city, and it was somewhat
narrow of a kitchen but with a lot of shelves and a full kitchen setup and opened
into a larger room which was the bedroom. And it was $625. 6/28/02 - Iris AlRoy
last night I dreamed that nana and grandpa were around and I was making them
a fruit plate to take to their room. There was a thief going around robbing
all the wallets from people. The next time I was with a crowd of people I realized
I could use intuition to sense energy. One person bumped into another in the
crowd. Another stepped on a foot. I realized the energy was off and fled, passing
the thief coming in on my way. I had figured out how to prevent people from
hurting me.
6/27/02 - Iris AlRoy
There were tiny dinosaurs which were like bugs almost, pesky little things which
bit you if you went close. I almost thought they were cute but then I started
thinking about finding one in my bed and how unpleasant that would be. The scene
changed into my house in new Mexico. There were snakes everywhere. I noticed
a big hole in the wall which was allowing dust to blow in.
2/20/02 - Iris AlRoy
I was in the dance chorus of a movie starring Julia Roberts.
In one section, I had opinions of how the choreography should be changed, and
the star and I had a little tiff. I felt terrible and blamed myself completely...as
time went by I approached her twice to apologize but she was getting married
that day as well as finishing the movie, so was probably preoccupied, I assumed,
angry at me. We shot the last scene, which involved the three dancers washing
our hair and dancing with her. After the scene, she came and made herself available
to me. I apologized profusely and she reminded me that she was equally at fault,
and then went on to tell me that I was a great person and shouldn't be so hard
on myself.
Part II - I was part of a dance troupe who did very sexy dances. I was not happy with the amount of sexuality we were showing and was being put down by the other dancers who said that if the crowd liked it, it was the right thing to do. I found myself with a biracial baby with very long hair, to take care of. I guessed I was the mother, though I had no memory of giving birth. I was trying to groom the baby's hair, and started wondering if I was expected to breast feed. Since I had no memory of birth I had no idea how I was to go about taking care of the baby. I looked down and my breast had some kind of wound on it. I couldn't tell if it had something to do with the baby or not.
I was with a couple friends, (don't know them on earth). they were coaxing
me to go to Arizona with them. I was excited and we began on a dirt road. I
noticed a snake on the side of the road, and then another one appeared a bit
further down the road. they told us to follow them as they were going the same
direction. we instantly took their lead and began following them, but just as
quickly as we starting moving, the whole picture stops and I am the only one
there with these two snakes. it was relayed to me that they were pythons. I
stopped to look at the two snakes coming together, but simultaneously I feel
soft whiskers on my right cheek and notice that it is a third snake.... but
it has whiskers and I am confused. it hangs on my cheek and tickles is soft
with it's whiskers, but then moves away from me slightly (only about an inch)
to look at me and says in a voice "shhh, Listen". then it tries to cover
my eyes and I can no longer see the two snakes, but am struggling to see what
they are doing. soon my friend snake, removes it's blinders and lets me watch
the other two snakes sparring, and dancing and winding themselves in each other
2-12-01 - Leonardo Pasquale
I was driving on some sort of coastal highway at
dusk. I wasn't going too fast, cars were passing me. then came a steep incline.
I was drinking water, and the amount of water I drank seemed to determine how
much gas was left in the car. I only had about two sips left as the car was
climbing this insane incline. it was 901˜4, at times it seemed even more than
901˜4. a few cars were stopping by the side of the road. I couldn? understand
how the car (the Toyota corolla) was staying on the road, it was certainly quite
scary. several times I thought I should turn back but I had to make it over
the hill (to see the other side).
suddenly, I was close to the top and the car disappeared and there I was hanging onto a ledge. it was well-lit: someone? living room. a middle-aged woman named Mattie or Hattie was there, and she was proprietress of this little hideaway or mountain rest-stop. I was desperately hanging on, not wanting to fall back down the approx 1 mile I had climbed up this hill. But I wasn? terribly scared, just wary. I didn? look downward, but kept talking to Mattie, trying to convince her to pull me up and away to safety. She was pretty stern and rigid in her ways. She was selling something, and this space I had reached, this ledge was for people who were buying or were somehow previously associated with her. We discussed this for 5 minutes, the whole time I was slipping and worrying that I might not be able to keep hanging on. But finally., I convinced her to let me grab hold of the plastic banners that she had draping off the edge. the banners were some kind of advertisement and she had a lot of them. they were made from a fibrous plastic. I grabbed hold. then I convinced her to pull me up using the banner. This she finally did.
There I was, in this terribly small room. She was very strict as to where I could stay for the moment. I needed to rest, and I was still coming down from being petrified. I lay straight on one side of the miniature room, right by the edge where I was afraid I could lose my balance and fall off quite easily. a few more hikers showed up eventually, crossing over the ledge like they had done it before. I took one look down and it was indeed a 901˜4 asphalt road that led to this perch.
eventually, I left the room, for I had lost my fears and had settled things with Mattie, and wandered around the plateau, trying to find a way to get back down or to go to the next location. On one side, there was another insanely steep incline, but this one was 651˜4 or so and cars were whizzing up it without much problem. At the top of this plateau was some sort of town. The hard way I had come was rarely taken by many travelers, but it was on the map.
outside, in a city, I? looking up into the sky with a huge crowd of people. the clouds are performing crazy rotations and storm-like movement. swirls, colors with bright indigo blue interspersed.
suddenly, after ten minutes of this action and my father standing next to me taking pictures of the clouds, I noticed the beginning of a swirl formation, a funnel. slowly it built up and then down came the funnel, straight down and immediately I darted to the front.
without hesitation. normally, I am a cautious sort, but without thinking I ran up through the crowd to the front of the line that was forming to go into the funnel, which now looked like a UFO beam. augie Kreveienas had also ran up and was ahead of me. and then who do I see up close but Elle and I know she wants to go, and I know she feels like she should, and I grab her and convince her to come and we are in this line to the heavens, together, and it is all right.
augie shoots upwards. the clouds are still roiling and the massive crowd is still in awe. Elle goes before me? it is risky - the hole will only last so long everyone knows. I shoot up and land inside a hazy, light-filled wooden octagon-shaped tree house. everyone is there, sitting around, practically bubbling with muted excitement. we are waiting.
then suddenly, we are all in a ford economize van driving down the main street of the city where we just were, past the crowds of people staring at the sky. it is not too bad of a day. we head over to a thrift shop. I have my camera with me.. Elle and I, so happy, were enjoying its presence. its beautiful polished steel, and curves. I was fingering it, I admit.
when we get to this thrift store Elle and I have a fight. she wants to go in
and do this. I am being cautious once again. she leaves and I am disgruntled.....and
wake up and she is gone
2-7-01 - Leonardo Pasquale
It was a funeral for grandmother, an Italian grandmother, not Betty though.
It was at a huge gothic church. All my family was there, as were friends (I
remember in particular towards the end of the dream seeing a nattily dressed
Jeff koyen drunkenly crossing the evil flood to get to the foot of the church,
where he passed out, bottle in hand). There were some very strange and twisted
circumstances. Everything was very ornate. There was lots of food and it was
good, and it brought up memories of Little Gramma
2/1/01 - Iris AlRoy
I was riding a mountain bike along some southwestern trails. I saw a huge curled
up rattlesnake in my path. it was too late to avoid it.
12/18/00 - Iris AlRoy
I had been chosen for a magazine spread. They had agreed to redecorate my apartment
for the spread, though it started seeming as if they were doing very little
and only were in it for the cheap content. They chose a sky blue bedspread for
me, which was not my choice, i was pissed off about the bedspread but happy
because my apartment seemed to be a lot bigger in my dream than it actually
is. The webpage which would correspond with the spread was supposed to be themed
with strawberries. The prior project, which I went to check in on, involved
posing babies playing together in the middle of a quiet main street. The production
assistants were taking babies as needed from several large brown cardboard cartons
of them by the sidewalk. For some reason, i was driving a car down the street,
and kept coming dangerously close to the baby boxes. I did not have a guilty
thought in my head about it. Where i was heading took precedence, without a
second thought.
10/29/00- Iris AlRoy
somehow i remembered that i own a second property, but
it was half built, and seemed both in new mexico and in san rafael. it was by
the ocean, although the ocean couldn't be seen by the road. i had just found
the place and was starting to walk around inside it and make plans to finish
building it immediately. steve, who did electrical work on my first house, lived
next door and he agreed to help me do some drywall on the walls. then, a bunch
of people trooped in and made themselves at home.
8/24/00- Iris AlRoy
i was somehow in the house i grew up in. i was running errands
with my mother when i checked my airline ticket and realized my flight was at
7:30 pm that night. though it was only 11am, she panicked and seemed to dismiss/not
take any responsibility or initiative for getting me there. somehow, taking
a cab was not an option, since i was about an hour away from the airport. i
was frantically making phone calls, trying to get help. somehow i ran into dave
on the street and we were in brooklyn. we went into his place, and it was full
of people i used to know and miss and people i'd like to know. i got hung up
on having dave be in love with me and somehow that delayed my visit tremendously
so that i ended up choosing to miss my plane partly because he said it didn't
matter. he wanted me to stay. so i missed the plane and ended up with a physical
crippling feeling where i could not move my legs except painfully and slowly.
8/13/00- Iris AlRoy
i was housesitting a beautiful mansion. It seemed like it
was my house but i couldn't believe it was really mine, it was so beautiful
and so elaborate. as i walked through it i had a feeling that it could be mine
if i could believe it was. also, the people i was housesitting for were originally
tenants of my own house and that added to that feeling. in the dream, i was
going out with the same person i've been on and off with all year. he had spent
the weekend elsewhere, and i found out it was at an ex-girlfriends house. she
had written him a bitter note because he wouldn't have sex with her. she looked
just like me only fatter and uglier. the note said in part "you are so hot,
but don't think it's because of how you look, because it's not" i then found
my way to a drugstore and starting looking at makeup at some type of department
store counter in there. the woman asked if i needed help. i said, only if you
can make me beautiful. i want to be beautiful. 8/11/00- Iris AlRoy i was backstage
at a show. i was friends with the superstar. i tripped over my ex-boyfriends
foot on the way backstage. i had a handsome man on my arm and the superstar
was fussing over me. i could feel my ex watching me. his new girlfriend entered
and said something awkward and unfunny. i ignored both of them. Then my ex was
snowing me with all kinds of lavish lies about how i was the one he really loved,
that he only moved in with her to please her. i listened without being sympathetic
to his begging. At the same time, i was nervous that i would fall for it.
8/5/00- Iris AlRoy
i was visiting my sister who lived in a city i've visited
before in dreams, but in this dream resembled a very cosmopolitan version of
santa fe. She pulled into the parking lot of some fictional sort of swanky southwestern
department store that seemed really familiar to me. on the racks were clothes,
some of which were things i'd always wanted but hadn't bought because they are
normally so expensive - they were all marked down to $1 or so. i got a huge
pile of clothes, and went to check out. i was in a huge hurry but i don't know
why i was rushing because my sister didn't seem stressed and i think i was thinking
that at any moment she was going to take control and put a stop to this shopping
and i wouldn't get what i wanted. on impulse i added two COWS to the purchase.
i got out to the parking lot and realized i hadn't gotten a receipt and that
maybe without a receipt i couldn't return the cows, plus i was visiting and
how could i deal with these cows? i thought about how my father needed money
and food and maybe i could give him a cow to eat. But it seemed like an overwhelming
responsibility so i went back up to return the cows. they assured me that i
could return them without a receipt. so i went back to the store floor and got
distracted by racks of clothes NOT on sale that were even more spectacular....just
exactly what i have always wanted. i started shopping again and i told my sister
we could leave. now i got stressed again because i didn't believe that i could
really return cows without a receipt. At this point the stress level was hitting
a high point, and i got a wake up call.
5/10/00 - Iris AlRoy
i was trying to order breakfast in the upstairs section
of a grubby, dark restaurant. The waitress was extremely impatient, and there
was no menu, so i racked my brain trying to decide what i wanted. finally, just
as she was ready to flee, i said, ok, give me some shredded wheat. She took
off down the stairs and i realized that she was planning to bring it with regular
milk so i tore off after her, screaming out "SOY MILK"! i was really frustrated
and angry at the service, and decided to walk around a little downstairs. i
saw a twin bed with some odd things laid out on the bedspread. It looked like
a garage sale held by a little kid of odd household objects and pieces of bent
wire. i somehow knew that i was entitled to one treat, and i was about to pick
out a plug in glade air freshener when my friend called me upstairs to eat my
shredded wheat. The waitress was nowhere in sight, and the cereal had been served
to me in a dirty loaf pan, all soggy.
5/2/00- Iris AlRoy
my ex was hanging around some kinda house with me. he was
lounging in a bedroom. he was pretending nothing was wrong between us but also
giving a vibe that he didn't care either way. a friend of his came in and was
trying to convince me what a great guy he is. "when you put different masks
on him, he's really great!" she told me. i was like, "yeah, i know, but that's
the real problem with him". i left the room, trying to get away. found myself
trying to maneuver a car through a tiny alley with a homeless person camped
out in the way, lying on a box with a blanket. i was angry that there was this
obstacle, but everyone acted as if it was outrageous for me to ask the homeless
person to leave. i then somehow parked the car and went shopping. for some reason
i was scooping tons of things i didn't want into my cart. a group of employees
came and started harassing me that i couldn't take the items out of my cart
once i chose them. i was ignoring them and scooping things out onto a basket.
i was determined to get rid of the junk i was carrying.
3/25/00- Iris AlRoy
i was a mexican revolutionary. and a man. i had killed many
people in this crazy subway spree, but i only killed the white people and only
because i was trying to escape. Then i was out on the street because i miraculously
escaped. i disguised myself as a girl, but was really pushing it because i ended
up sharing a bed with this girl regularly (as sisters) and she brought one of
the cops who was chasing me home one night. It was also hard to hide my penis
from her. But not as hard as you'd think. i ended up getting changed into a
girl and moving to another country. At the end of the dream i visited my family
and ended up getting caught in a ceremony where they showed films about what
"i" did; not knowing that i was in the audience disguised as a girl. We seemed
to be like slaves, having to obey orders to...tear up boxes and stack up flattened
garbage cans, hee!...seemed that there was still a lot of dramatic gunfire and
flattening still going on. i had left the ceremony with permission but having
to climb over office cubicles stacked up eighteen feet high, and barely escaping
a fire that the white people were caught in because they couldn't stop arguing
about whose fault it was that i had stepped on the typing table. At the end
i was somehow still trapped there and i was having to edit a piece of film for
a teacher in the aftermath of whatever skirmish had just broken out.
3/22/00- Iris AlRoy
i was wandering through these massive tents set up outside
a luxury hotel. It was some type of renaissance faire. People were selling costumes
and clothes and jewelry. my sister and i were partying with some guys upstairs
in their hotel room. Then it was showtime. me and carolyn were expected to perform
the whole of the wizard of oz, in three acts. i wasn't terribly surprised about
this, and felt up to the challenge. i seemed to be the lead character but felt
that i was the lion, not dorothy. my sister, I'm not sure what part she had.
We did not have costumes or makeup, being in street clothes. however, the first
act was well received. It was in a beautiful little theater and every seat was
filled. for the second act, things got chaotic. We moved the play to a smaller
"dinner" theater, where vendors were expected to set up (though they didn't
set up until halfway through the show, and did so right in front of us, between
the stage and the audience). i was losing ground and kept telling carolyn "let's
get on the yellow brick road" so we'd be able to pick up some other characters.
But the hotel-room guys, though they seemed to be supposed to join in, didn't.
finally, a couple of women complained that they wanted to see their beautiful
lesbian friend. from the stage i said, "i think she's in the dressing room".
my perspective followed them back there where they all fawned over her, and
she acted kind of haughty and seductive. they trooped back and my dream ended
with me wondering why lesbians were so incredibly obsessed with sex....i mean,
this was ART...
2/28/00- Iris AlRoy
i was somehow back with an ex-boyfriend. he was acting so
whiny and bratty...when i complained about his behavior he basically told me
that he wanted to just forget about the whole thing. meaning, if you don't like
my behavior, you can walk. nice....
2/22/00- Iris AlRoy
i had returned to the
house i grew up in, my mother was about twenty years younger, and so were my
sisters. my father, as usual, was not around. i realized that i was missing
some really important things and i returned back to this house and this time
to find them. having looked in places which are really impossible to find in
reality, since they're closets in a house which was sold eighteen years ago,
i remembered who might be guilty of stealing these things. it was two girls,
and since i was back in time i called up their mother. i explained the situation
and she was very understanding. but we couldn't find the things i needed, though
i could picture them more clearly than i had ever been able to before. I went
on a journey to a piece of land owned by a friend who seemed to have aged about
twenty years. the land was supposedly in montana,and it was so lush and beautiful
it glowed. we went on a search through these fascinating old thrift stores for
special things to replace the ones lost. i was taking so much time finding the
right things and was getting so distracted by it all, that only one friend waited
for me, explaining i would help them by feeding and putting the kids to bed.
We went to a house full of kids. i didn't recognize any of them except my ex's
daughter athena, who seemed much more aggressive and grownup suddenly. she helped
me as i struggled to time dinner and bedtime correctly.
2/10/00- Iris AlRoy
somehow, my ex asked me to marry him. in the dream, it was
still during our relationship. i had the impression that we had run off to vegas
to get it done. ended up spending the wedding night at home. But what a strange
home. my mother and grandmother both lived there, and we seemed to be included
in all activities, as if we were still kids. my new husband was very patient,
and seemed to have no feeling on what our life should be like; he seemed to
feel i had unreasonable expectations. in fact, when i pointed out that there
had been no honeymoon, he responded by telling me calmly that he only got married
to pacify me, and reminded me of an old fling who he hinted at having some involvement
with. hmmmm...i think there's more. But basically i woke up being really glad
this guy is gone. this is exactly what going out with him was like.
2/2/00- Iris AlRoy
nana saw a picture of another girl and was exclaiming over
how beautiful she was...i said, nana, am i pretty? and she obviously thought
not because she ignored the question. i had a "door" in my closet to a workshop
of some kind. The door was a black curtain. people kept using it as a door,
and i was annoyed. why i'm not sure. But tons of people i knew kept telling
me they respected my decision to not use the door and then they kept using it
right in front of me. at one point, the curtain even came down with the curtain
rod exposed as a very flimsy thing. i tried taping it to the sides to close
it off. that didn't work. i tried tying the edges of the curtain to things,
that didn't work either. i looked around for furniture to block it with. then
i looked at the workshop, and they had several big bookcases so i could block
it from their side, but they were too big for me to move myself. i watched a
home movie we made of me and my sisters playing a game on the lawn. It was like
a photo, but i was able to look through the lens as if it was a movie camera.
i watched my young self pose and thought, "i can see now that i moved like a
performer even then." i scrutinized the back of the house i grew up in and could
see movement in an upper window. It was my parents going from the bathroom upstairs
into their bedroom. It looked like my mother was doing "something" - that's
all i'll say to my father. i thought, how could i have not noticed that before?
1/19/00- Iris AlRoy
I had moved to New Mexico, somehow though, I was expected
to help a handicapped person with a wheelchair to move in with me. I sat and
discussed the situation with this strange woman who used to be my roommate in
san francisco. I put my foot down with her and asserted that i would stay if
I could make the whole house more like mine, putting my things out in the living
spaces. She seemed relieved that I would stay. I went into my new bedroom. It
had the only view of the Sangre de Cristo mountains in the whole apartment,
but other than that, looked like a doctor's examining room at a cheap clinic.
I went to some type of dance class; somehow now we seemed to be in Princeton,
NJ, where I grew up. In the street, parking my car, I realized that I had a
complete horror of being there (in New Mexico) or anywhere. I had to get out.
I felt like I was choking. I thought to myself that I needed to make a plan.
I decided that I wouldn't live anywhere, I just couldn't deal with making a
decision. There would always be something I was losing, and I wouldn't be happy.
I had to just keep moving. I didn't want to go back to New Mexico and had no
idea how I got there.
5/8/99
Everything in my dream was happening in a book at the same time. I had
seen the book, and the heroine was me as a pretty blonde. I was also the younger,
chubby preteen sister. The evil hero had started out as a brother in our large
family. He had been born with four arms, and a scene appeared of him with both
left arms cut off, looking small and pitiful. Later on, when he became evil,
every feeling he had of being an outcast made him dangerous. He now dressed
so that his stumps didn't show, in fact he appeared to have normal arms. He
was sort of a vampire, with an ability to morph into other people in order to
fool you.
At one point, I thought I had evaded the plot and escaped the book, but he turned up on the tv screen at a slumber party, catching my eye as he morphed out of a woman kissing a man into his evil self. I hid my eyes.
I went and tore up the book and wrote a symbol on it of a circle with an x which represented killing the power in it. The sister had a journey to take; and from looking at the book I knew he would be challenging her on it.
She had already met him and kind of found him attractive. He resembled, at
times, different men I'd gone out with. I was living in my old house. This guy
came and was making out with me, running his hand a few inches away from my
body in order to feel the energy.
5/10/99
I had just moved in, a friend was helping. Then another friend suddenly
moved into my room with some guy. Putting him on the couch. An old man. She
started not being direct about the whole thing so I just picked up my stuff
and moved it into another room. The other room turned out to be much better,
although it was the living room and had no privacy. Somehow the privacy didnêt
bother me. I moved stuff around, there were lots of fascinating antiques.
5/12/99
I went out on a walk with my ex's roommate and some girl who used to
be a stripper, was talking about it. They left without saying goodbye. I called
goodbye, then yelled it. It seemed I was in a foreign country, everyone had
an accent. The group (school?) stopped everything to kind of berate me for yelling.
I apologized loudly. Then I thought that maybe dave and this girl were in love
and didnêt notice how rude they were being.
5/18/99
Watching amouse get trapped by a cat. Mouse jumps right in front of
cat and we watch breathlessly, will cat decide to be friends uncharacteristically.
Mouse seems to think cat might and gets close to it. Cat picks up mouse by a
whisker, and then suddenly, it seems to be a kitten instead as the cat bites
off a paw, and then the cat seems to be a human instead of a cat.
5/21/99
i'm somehow linked to a huge, deformed, bald man; he's obese, has cracks
in his skull, gets more deformed the more i look at him. somehow i know that
if i try to escape from him, he'll kill me. i try several different plots to
escape. we're in a hospital, i seem to have a job there, everyone there knows
him. the scene changes and we're in a house that belongs to a relative, i am
looking at a turntable with a few friends. the big fat deformed guy and i fight
and i say the unspeakable "but you're ugly and i'm beautiful". he stabs me in
the arm with a poisoned thorn, i pull it out before the poison kills me, but
it subdues my energy a lot. he seems to disappear after this attempt, and i
go into the kitchen and consider making some instant coffee. i feel guilty because
it isn't my house and i'm using someone else's stuff. i pick up a totally sugary
peanut butter brownie, even though it makes me sick, and i try to eat it. i
accidentally drop it into the dirty sink, so i break off the dirty part and
try to take a bite. i realize that it's just too gross and drop the whole thing
in the sink. scene change. i'm in a department store with tons of beautiful
merchandise, everything is in huge duplicate amounts, twenty of this and that.
i'm there to do a product demo, and the department supervisor has arranged everything
so that it's easy to topple over. i accidentally knock over lots of things,
including a fourteen foot high curtain, and hope no one notices. i suddenly
see lots of people who i used to work with. i'm afraid they'll tell on me, but
they pretend to not even recognize me.
6/11/99
Iêm in a house where the door is on backwards. I look at it and decide
to flip it around, with some manês help. Only he points out that the hinges
are attached to the wrong side. I figure it works well enough how it is. Suhailaês
daughter doesnêt want to go to this wedding. Sheês complaining about it. I put
in –well, then tell her itês ok if she doesnêt go”. Suhaila is angry at the
prospect of this. She want to force her into it. But some guest there agrees
with me. I feel that Iêm right.
6/12/99
i know that brownie dream was freudian, but now i'm actually eating
feces. this dream made me feel so sick when i woke up that i don't think i'll
eat anything brown for days...in this dream, i am working with a bunch of people
in some type of new job...in real life i'm obsessed with healthy snacking, and
for some reason in this dream i am eating a bag of feces. my thoughts while
i do this are that this is the healthiest thing i can do...even in the dream,
i felt nauseous when i realized what i was doing...then somehow i'm speeding
along with a few old friends, applying for a job at some corporate headquarters
for nintendo, located across the bay from san francisco, and somehow looking
a lot like disneyland. when we arrive i make them wait for me to brush my hair
and adjust my outfit to look more together. somehow this takes forever. while
i'm doing this, i see my mom scurry down the aisle, i ask them "didn't you see
that was my mom?" and realize i'm back east now...they say yes, so i tell them
"well, go over and say hi!". wake up, feeling totally sick.
6/19/99
i'm living in a futuristic society; and my job is to report
on everybody to the authorities. this particular night, i had a lot of personal
opinions that get in the way of conducting my professional duty. basically people
bribe me to like them so that i will give them a favorable report. i don't know
who the reports are for; or why anyone cares. scene change and i'm in a house
i've agreed to housesit and i've neglected everything i was supposed to do.
a week has passed and it's finally sunk in that there are plants everywhere
that havent' been watered. i go around trying to take care of everything but
it's too late.
7/20/99
i was worrying about what to do because i discovered i had a disfiguring
condition; i was showing it to people but it was far worse when i saw it than
when they did. when i looked at my arms, they were swollen up with batteries
(c size batteries, i think) under the skin. the skin was all red and lumpy from
the batteries and my arms felt twice as big. this was mostly on the outside
of my forearms. a cross between huge insect bites and batteries embedded in
my skin. the feeling i had was that i was terribly sick with this condition
and had never noticed it before. but when i showed someone my arms, the swelling
was less and more resembled huge insect bites than anything else. right before
i woke up, i was worrying about MEDICAL INSURANCE.
8/10/99
i let puck out (a dog friend) he became a guy and the backyard became
the yard of the house i grew up in. i waved and cooed at puck and he responded
dully.
11/26/99
my friend mark was living in this beautiful house with a hot tub in
the living room. daphne had three rooms attached to it, with a view of a rushing
creek right outside. she wasn't living in the rooms, but they were set up with
minimal furniture as some sort of art display. we walked the rooms and i was
thinking, wondering where she got all the furniture. the house seemed like it
should be mine. but she seemed very unwilling to give it up. i started thinking
if i had ever seen someone living right by a creek like that, was it dangerous?
it was beautiful and i hadn't ever thought i might like it before. there seemed
to be a group of friends who perpetually hung out in the living area. for some
reason i was rewashing their dishes and some type of disagreement happened between
me and one of the girls concerning the princeton public library (the town i
grew up in). i went into the library with a little girl who was connected to
the house and i changed in the little girls's room into a sort of ball dress/witch
costume. then, it seemed that i was supposed to bring a package from the house
(which now seemed to be in downtown princeton) to near the princeton shopping
mall. i waited about an hour for the bus. my shoes were very high heels and
impossible to run in, so i missed one bus. i went back to the house in the meantime
and the girl i had the disagreement with was brushing and rolling up my hair.
she seemed quite proud of her work and insisted i trade something worth twenty
bucks for it. however, as soon as i walked out the door, the hair fell down.
the bus arrived and two girls from the house were with me, helping me find out
where to go. we talked to the bus driver and he said he knew where, and dropped
me at a church. it was a church i used to take ballet lessons at when i was
thirteen. we walked in and i found the room we used to take class in, still
with ballet barres and mirrors. however, i knew that my memory wasn't constructing
it right, and the church and the ballet room were actually very different in
reality, my mind was creating a composite of churches i'd been in since then.
i went to get something to eat. somehow, there was a supermarket connected to
the church. a strange one. there were big pieces of poisonous snakes hung up
on display. they all looked very different. for some reason, i had a memory
of eating a whole rattlesnake (not MY memory, i think!) and i started (warning:
gross!) uh, eliminating snakes. a woman came up and warned me not to touch them.
she gave me a plastic bag to pick them up with. for some reason, nobody passing
seemed to think this was disgusting, or unusual. they had a mild interest in
it, if anything, they were envious because i was producing my own poisonous
snakes, where they had to BUY them! where i touched them by mistake my hands
were burning.
1997- Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company employee - Susan
I was being pushed as usual to do more and more tasks with no help. I had had it. I run through the RD department and Completely ransack everything. I throw all of the computers, all of the phones. Everyone freaks out and Eric came over stated that he couldn't believe I had done this and had lost all respect for mr - I woke up and thought I didn't have a job anymore. Unfortunately, reality kicked in and I had to get up and get ready to return to the "Black Hole".
1997- Santa Fe Natural Tobacco employee - Lawrence
One night I dreamed that I was inside a video game called SFNTC. Everything was pixellized and neon colored on a black background. I was the little man in the game who was being controlled. My purpose was to collect and drop as many promotional components into envelopes and boxes as I could within a certain amount of time. At every corner of the building (on the same screen) were new surprises. Obstacles I had to avoid or destroy before they got me. Whenever I saw Pal in the game I could run up to him and pat him on the head for bonus points until he went away. The game played over and over again. It turned out to be a nightmare.
1997- Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company employee - Leo
In my dream, the SFNTC building was a huge warehouse/factory with loads of steaming pipes and rails on the ceiling. We were all at work while Robin would walk around picking on people. There was a woman called Jane whose job it was to move heavy duty equipment from one end of the building to the other. The equipment wasw attached to rails on the ceiling and Jane was using a remote control system. When Robin walked under the load, she dropped it on him. The next image, I'm standing by this huge door while Robin is being carried out on a stretcher. he is burnt to a coal like a big black human charcoal. He stared at he and I realized one of his eyes is sewn shut. The next day, I run into him at a biker bar. He says I shouldn't have been worried about him, that he was really touched by my concern. I look at him and he is not burnt anymore, but all over his face and arms I can see grids like from a BBQ grill. He smiles and I see his sewn eye again.
1997- Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company employee - Anonymous
I had to build a glass cage for Robin, I neglected to put a door on it. Then a pipe burst and the cage starting filling up with water. Robin was floating in the cage like a fish. It broke and he spilled out and people gathered around asking "do you want to se eif he's alive?" "I don't, do you?".
1997- Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company employee - Kathy
Tom was working reception. I went up front and saw that he had nothing on except a button down shirt which was unbuttoned. He wanted me to stay and I talk to him but I was afraid I was get in trouble. Staying up front with a naked man.
1997- Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company employee - Lawrence
I dreamed that Robin's shoulder injury had inspired him to try movement therapy. He called Iris, Von and myself into the conference room and instituted the SFNTC Dance and Movement Ensemble, of which we were to direct. The next day everyone showed up at the office in spandex ready to dance!!!!!
1997- Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company employee - Iris
I was living in a house and Robin was one of my roommates. I got a phone call that one of the other roommates had been killed on the road and the body was missing. I decided to escape, but at the last minute I changed my mind because I realized Robin was planning to kill us all and if he knew I suspected him he would kill me first.
1997 - Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company employee - Iris
I was getting married to someone I didn't like. It was in the office. Robin was there and he was a witch, bringing dead witches back to life to help him in his evildoing. I wanted to escape the wedding rehearsal. Bernadette threw a grenade to create a distraction. Lawrence was trying to help me escape but I couldn't find him.