Orchestra

I think it's because our AAD concert is coming up, but I have been having a lot of dreams about being in band or orchestra lately. This one was last night.

Dream: 

I walked into band and all of the bands and orchestras I had ever played in were joined together in one giant rehearsal in a supermarket. Since the stage was too small for everyone, the flutes were all sest up in one of the aisles. We were also set up with one row facing another one, so my back was to the conductor on the stage. I chose a chair and then realized that I might have to play 2nd part when I was used to first. It's ok, though, because the song was easy. So we started rehearsing and since my back was to the conductor, I had to wait until the soud died down to know that we had stopped. I thought I was doing a pretty good job until the assistand band director yelled at me and Heather, who was sitting by me. I told him it was impossible to see! Also, there was a big display and column that was blocking my view. So I put the music on my lap and turned around anyway.

Up a little further, I noticed the bass clarinet was gone, and for some reason, I got up and started wandering. I happened to be in the bass clarinet aisle when the bass clarinet solo came up. I thought maybe I would give it a shot by ear. I definitely missed that one. Then I ran down the aisle and picked up this crazy gray wig that was blowing around and tried to put it on in time to run back down the aisle to play the next bass  clarinet solo. All of a sudden, I was playing an oboe. I played the last note of the solo, and even that was wrong. So I didn't impress anyone, but nobody seemed to notice either.

Music festival

This one's a little fuzzier because I waited too long to recount it.

Dream:

I was running an outdoor music festival with a heavy emphasis on the food that was being served. It was really complicated and all of a sudden all the food was being served and I hadn't done anything. I didn't really know what was going on, wasn't paying attention to the bands, but didn't really mind. I felt like I was just attending and didn't have to do anything and it was awesome.

All of a sudden, I had to run home to get something. Apparently my home was down this long country road. As I was walking home, my friend Sarah rode up on this huge bicycle that she was riding with her boyfriend (who was doing all the pedaling). They asked if I needed a ride and I didn't think I would fit. Her boyfriend assured me I would fit and all of a sudden the back of the bike opened up into a 2 person seat. I went to jump on the bike and warned Sarah's boyfriend that I am heavier than Sarah so watch out. He said it didn't matter (even though the bike only had 2 wheels). I junped on and it was a little wobbly, but it was fine.

Sarah then explained to me that they were on their way to her boyfriend's summer home with his friend (who was on another bike). The boyfriend got a phone call from his parents and they started talking French. Sarah explained that his parents are from France and they like to yell a lot. 

I forgot to tell the driver where to turn to get back to the festival and we had to drive a long way before we could turn around. We were in the country, after all. When I got back to the festival, I got on my google calendar and blocked off the amount of time I was gone, and realized I had been gone for almost 4 hours. that didn't seem right, so I was trying to remember when I left, but could not remember, so I left it that way and got back to the festival.

Mob bosses

Dream:

I was in a mob/gang/dirty person club and I thought I was fighting this man to move up in the ranks. We both had long spears and I easily speared and killed him. The "mob boss" or whatever he was, felt threatened and tried to spear me. I moved my head to the side and immediately knew I was the only person who had ever dodged his spear and I had a chance. So I fought back. I eventually speared him, but he wouldn't die. So I flung him around in the air and was really trying to kill him. 

At that point, there were a lot of other people in the room, people from movies, normal people, other mob people. And the cops were coming in, so I stashed this guy's body in some bushes under some blankets. 

Then I moved into another person's body, one who was sneaking around the corner and had never seen anything like that before. I had no idea why we were there. I dont remember if there was any more to that dream.

Dying

I have had a lot of dreams in the past that family members are dying or injured. Maybe I will post some of those sometime. This one was last night...

Dream: 

I was standing on the side of a dark room. I knew I was about to be shot in the chest and killed. At the last minute, I called Luke in the room and told him I wanted him to look at my neck one more time before I was shot. 

Right before the shot, I thought maybe I would be shot in the head and wondered what that would be like. Once I was shot in the chest, I saw myself in the mirror and a red fuzzy spot was floating on my front. As I was dying, I started to worry that I didn't tell my dad or other family members that I was going to die. Then I wondered how they felt last time I got shot and died.

Everyone in my life

Dream:

Everyone who I have ever had known was in one room. It was incredibly awkward and I didn't know whether or not to hug some of them and I thought it was going to be really hard to get all of them to talk about something they had in common. Overall, it was nice to see everyone again though. They looked so grow up and different!

Baby dream

Dream: 

I had a baby and I was bonding with it on the way back to a hotel. It started sucking my thumb and I asked my mom if that was ok. She said yes, but the baby had teeth already and I was getting afraid to start breast feeding.

  I then left the baby at the hotel with my mom and went to lunch with some friends. While I lunch, I thought "see I can be one of those moms that still has a life even with a baby". 

After lunch, I met my baby at the doctor, and the doctor told me that my mom had brought the baby without clothes. So the doctor had put a bunch of word magnets on both sides of the baby as clothing. I felt so bad for forgetting to buy my baby any clothes!

My doctor then instructed the baby on how to breast feed and the baby and I even had a conversation about it. When we got back to the hotel, my family wanted to go out, but I was afraid somebody was going to come vandalize our hotel room and take a bunch of stuff, so I elected to stay behind with my baby. I went to the library and checked out 200 year old books on how to be a mom and started reading with my baby in the hotel room.

Dreams...

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~William Dement

If you were in my head while I was dreaming, you would think that quote is all about me.

Welcome to my dream blog. All my life, I have had very vivid and crazy dreams. I kept a dream journal in middle school and a bit of high school, and I still remember those dreams today. So I thought I would post some of my dreams and maybe even analyze them!