Dave Matthews and Harvest Moon

I dreamed that my friend Joy and I went to this small restaurant in D.C. where the live performer for the evening would be Dave Matthews. All of the people in the restuarant were huge fans (except for Joy and me, who just respected his talent and liked him fine), so everybody was really excited. After dinner, Dave Matthews told everybody he wanted to go to Harvest Moon, which is this Chinese restaurant in Falls Church that isn't even that good. I was wondering why he wanted to go there out of all of the places in the Washington area, but he said he just likes to go there every time he comes into town. So everybody was asking if anybody knew where it was, and Joy and I did, so we led everybody to the right metro stop, and we got on a bus. The problem was, though, that Joy and I accidentally got off the bus too early, and we had to walk. It was late at night, and sort of creepy, and everybody would have probably come and gone by the time we got to Harvest Moon on foot, so we were trying to decide if we wanted to go after all.

My Cat Boots

In real life, we had a cat named Boots that disappeared. We never figured out what happened to her, and I have always wondered about her fate.

For some reason, I dreamed about Boots last night. I dreamed that she had gotten lost and couldn't find her way home. She was standing by the side of the road looking for home, and a truck drove by and splashed mud all over her. She had to become an alley cat and fend for herself. It was very sad, and I was crying in my dream.

Hot Air Balloon

I dreamed that I started a new job at a restaurant, and after only two days of working there, I had made quite a few new friends. The restaurant was in a building that used to be a school, and there were many rooms in the building that weren't being used and that had a bunch of stuff in them. One of the people I was working with was looking around the building, and she found a hot air balloon that was still usable. She asked me if I wanted to go for a ride in the hot air balloon, but I had my doubts about the safety of the ride considering neither one of us had ever been in a hot air balloon, much less ever piloted one. She was sure that it was fine, and that hot air balloons were so easy to work that anybody could do it. She even showed me instructions that she found with the balloon.

So we planned to meet out front of the building after work to start our ride. It was night outside, and there were lots of trees in the front of the building, and I started worrying about getting caught in a tree. I then thought about how dire the consequences would be if the balloon fell out of the sky. She reminded me that it was easy, and that if we got caught in a tree, we could just climb down. As we started floating up, the wind was really strong, and we almost got caught in some trees, but we managed to avoid them. We were then far above the trees and out of danger. Then I thought about the fact that we didn't know how to land in the spot of our choosing, and I was afraid we would end up many miles from the town where we lived. Somehow it all worked, though, and we landed in the right place.

I started asked people about how far you could travel from the D.C. area in a ballon in a couple of hours. Somebody told me New York was possible in two or three hours, and I started thinking how pretty New York would look at night with all of its lights and everything. I also figured we could go to North Carolina.

The next day, my co-worker invited two more people to go on a ride in the hot air balloon. The rest of the dream is fuzzy, and I only remember doing things to prepare for another trip, and it involved running around the neighborhood and going to friend's houses looking for things. All the while, we were trying to keep the balloon a secret from our other co-workers because the basket could only hold four, and we didn't want to make anybody jealous that they didn't get invited to go for a ride in the hot air balloon.

Cosmic Dream

I dreamed that a child that had just come home from a charter or religious school of some sort told me and some other adults that she had learned at school that there was a group of asteroids that was going to pass between Mercury and Venus (which for some reason in my dream Venus was instead called "June"), and by the time "June" rose in our sky the next day, it would have acquired a new moon. The other asteroids would simply go away.

I then began to worry that June/Venus having another moon would affect the gravitational pull between Earth and June/Venus would pull Earth a little closer to the sun and that the temperature of our planet would rise some (I didn't know how much). I was also afraid that the gravitational equilibrium between Earth and our own moon would be altered, and the ocean tides might be affected or we might loose our moon all together or the moon might coming crashing into Earth.

So we waited that evening, watching the news to see if June/Venus might have actually picked up another moon. While we were waiting, my cat wanted to go outside, so I let her. We then learned on the television that June/Venus had not picked up another moon and that everything was going to be fine. My cat then immediately wanted to come back in. I said, "I wonder why she wanted to come back in so quickly." Someone else replied, "Wherever an animal is, God is there, too."

Toothless Prosthodontist

I dreamed that my boss, who is a prosthodontist and specializes in making dentures, was missing his front bottom teeth. I was wondering why he wouldn't just make himself a partial denture. I thought if he had a nice partial denture, it would make his patients more likely to want to replace their missing teeth, too.

Saved a Baby, Late to Work

I dreamed a couple of days ago that I was going to be temping in D.C. and I was going to take the Metro. I couldn't decide which station to take, but I eventually decided on Dunn Loring. I was going to meet my dad at the stop nearest the place I would be temping, and he was going to show me where it was.

When I got to the parking deck at the metro (note - in real life there isn't a deck at Dunn Loring) I saw a big, black SUV parked in the middle of the driving path. I suddenly remembered that my baby sister (note - in real life I only have one sister, and she is full grown) was missing, and I was worried that she was in that car. I opened my door and ran over to the SUV and opened its door. The inside of the SUV was filled with water, and my baby sister was in there completely under the water. I quickly grabbed her out of the water and drove her to the hospital. She ended up living, although it was a miracle because she had been under water. I was so glad that I had decided to take the Dunn Loring Metro, otherwise I would never have been able to save my baby sister.

I then realized I needed to get going to work, so I got on the Metro. I got to the station and met my dad, and we started walking to the place where I would be temping. I thought I wasn't supposed to be there until 1 PM because this place was only open for half a day on Fridays. I suddenly realized that I was wearing sneakers and that I needed to find nice shoes for work. There was some time, so my dad and I were shopping for work-appropraite shoes for me. Then I got a call on my cell phone from my temp company, and the lady said, "You missed your assignment."

I said, "I thought it didn't start until one."

She said, "It ended at one. You were supposed to be there at eight."

I suddenly felt really panicky and thought they would never ask me to go on another assignment. Then the lady said, "We are really disappointed in you. What are we going to do with you?"

I don't remember any more after that.

Can't Go Back to College

I had a dream afew days ago that I was back at UNCG, and I wasn't able to keep up. Since I can't really play the clarinet for long periods of time because of my crown, I wasn't able to practice and I didn't make Wind Ensemble. I didn't even make Concert Band. Dr. Burke would not even give me the time of day. I suddenly realized I was late for a concert. I was next to last chair in the last band, and I hadn't been to any of the rehearsals. I figured that I would be able to sight-read the music, though, because I thought it would be easy. It turned out that they didn't even have sheet music, that they were actually accompanying a chorus and that you had to play by ear.

Bad Dream

I had a bad dream that my old cat got so skinny that her fur and skin were gone between her ribs. You could see her internal organs and everything. We kept thinking that it was time to put her to sleep because it looked like a painful condition, but she seemed to be okay other than being a little more tired than usual. I wasn't ready to let her go yet, but I knew it would only be days before she would hurt her internal organs or get an infection. I had to start saying goodbye.