092310 A fable, and other things

I don't remember the precise order of these so I'm going to list them in a way that matches the entry's name.
I dreamed I was cutting. Kind of trying to create a symmetrical thing with my last one, except in my dream I had the shape of it wildly wrong. And I nicked something important in the process of trying to deepen a part that hadn't broken the skin, and it bled very badly very quickly, and in a few seconds I couldn't properly move my left pinkie or ring finger. I swore. Very glad to wake up and realize this was a dream.

These next two might have been connected to each other. I was trying to help my brother with his birthday party... which was apparently in Pittsburgh for some reason. One of the boys arrived and we dropped him off at the (nonexistent) park near my house. But his mother was like, "What if he wants to get to the rest of the party? He can't walk it alone!" so I went to go get him. But when we got to the party, it was suddenly a dinner party murder mystery (this because I was thinking last night about how much I'd love to be clever enough to write something like Clue or The Westing Game, I really would). And... that's all I've got for details on that.
There was some kind of panel of people.
I was trying to show someone standing near me how awesome "Again" and "Golden Time Lover" were, but the first time I tried to demonstrate "Again" on youtube which resulted in finding things that weren't the original.
Then I was trying to... escape from something. I got several times to try it; I got caught the first few times, but then on the third time or so I found a way out through a series of open doors and over a railed staircase. When I escaped, I was in a field? And they tried to get me back somehow.

091610

Okay, no, I can't even pretend that I'm doing well with this, but I had some particularly memorable dreams last night.
In one, I was traveling live through versions of Mario Kart courses. Including that one where everything's dark and you can't really tell where the turns are until you run into something. What do you mean you don't remember that one? I totally remember...ed it in my dream. Creative stuff, that brain o'mine. I think after that I hung out with R.B. for a little while? Or was that later?
At one point I was at some place, with my family, that a big storm was about to hit. I was atop a steep but small artificial hill at some point. This was a very in-depth dream but I can't remember much of it.
But back to R.B. I dreamt his parents confronted me and asked whether, if he did choose me, I'd be eternally faithful to him. Like, not those words, but that kind of idea. wat, brain. I think I concluded that RJG had put them up to it... somehow? And my conclusion was that I couldn't wait forever, but if he came to me when I was free, I'd always be ready to date him. ._. 何が本当か、何が夢のロジックかは全然分からん。

After that, I "woke up" falsely, saw that it was already either 9 or 9:40, and after being indignant that I'd slept so late, I went to check my internets. I had a keyboard which felt overheated, so I looked and saw that there was water on my desk--from the storm in my earlier dream, perhaps? When I realized that I couldn't keep my eyes open while checking the internets, I realized that it must have been a false awakening. So I tried to wake up again, to the same exhaustion. And again, to the same exhaustion. The third or fourth time, I managed to wake up properly.

082210 What hotel has 99 floors anyway?

I woke around 5:30, let the cats in (accidentally) when I went to the bathroom, and then once I decided they were not conducive to sleeping again and chased them out, I had a weird dream.
First, I was trying to get to the 99th floor of a building, as was this ragged-looking guy. Come to think of it, he may have looked a bit like Begg from Drug & the Dominoes. 32222222222222222, Thisbe would //like you to know. The slashes are his doing too. In any case, the guy was more smoothly eloquent than Begg. But he was like homeless or something, not necessarily a great person, but not dangerous. There was also a woman involved at some point, also trying to get to the 99th floor. At some point, we went down by accident, and very quickly; I felt that we were moving downward extremely clearly. After that, when Begg-lookalike and I finally got to the 99th floor, for some reason we were let into a different woman's room.

She was kind, Christian, had children. I think early in the dream it might have just been her boy, but later in the dream there was a girl who was a bit older too. In any case, the dream skipped forward a little bit; the boy apparently softened Begg's heart somehow and Begg was about to leave. I was so impressed with how the little boy had changed Begg that I wrote him a note, but my handwriting was awful. I also asked if Begg had a facebook account or something, and he answered that his email was ffn.fff@edu.com. (Edu.com? Really, brain?) I realized it was time for me to leave as well. So then the next like ten minutes of the dream were me trying to organize my suitcase, my backpack, my sewing machine, and something else so I could carry them all neatly. Then I wound up speaking to the mother and her children, who had all woken up. My stuff was scattered all over and I kept seeing new things that I'd nearly forgotten (my Honors College bag, my blue Shonen Jump bag). At some point I realized it was winter break and was worried because I hadn't started my Nice cosplay at all. There was something on TV from the Proud Family briefly. The daughter was very enthusiastic about this. Then, I finally managed to get everything together and push it out into the hallway. I shook everyone's hand before leaving--awkwardly when it came to the mother; I was being cute, shaking the children's tiny hands, but really I probably should have hugged the mother. Then I went out into the hallway... and realized that rather than trying to stack everything so I could carry it neatly, I could just WAKE UP.

071910

Umm. I dreamt that we kids were at home, debating going to Bucca di Bepo's (BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY OF THOSE AROUND HERE) since apparently were suddenly incapable of feeding ourselves. And then Mom arrived home and I reminded her that I was leaving for Japan next week. Didn't you know that.
I commented that it didn't feel real. Well, you don't say...

I was working on a story of some sort (Soul Brigade-ish?) with my brother, at a computer lab. I switched computers with him because I wanted to try out the Intuos tablet connected to one of them. But I had to sign out the pen. Then I was back in the Teachers' Resource library, shelving things off the clock.

I also dreamt I was walking down the street with LM and AM, and they pushed me off to the side for some privacy.

070810 Active brain last night...

Though I can only get snippets of some.

Sitting at a crowded table with extended family. Eating? Playing a game? Not sure.

Taking summer courses--enough to have a full week, a full semester's worth. I kept forgetting what time my classes were. At one point, I went down into a classroom (=our basement) where the class had just let out. I was relieved that it had just let out because otherwise I'd look like a weird creeper. Then I asked the professor if he'd ever heard the piano talking when he wasn't using it, realizing that asking so made me a weird creeper. (Maybe it was like the alien sounds the X-Box makes?) I have the same roommates, but the room is very open and brightly lit by the sun.

I was male and being arrested for domestic abuse. I had a gun in my car, which was unlocked. Then, some other random guy comes up and hits the cop with his own gun (yes, hits--not shoots), and I stay where I am, screaming for help (for the police officer...). This is a sunny day in a dry place in the city.

Watching the end of an anime. Black☆Star and a mystery character hug. Mystery character disappears, Black☆Star becomes a toddler. Toddler runs over green field; Maka, watching, sees that Soul is asleep and smiles sweetly. Something about the sight makes me tear up. (This dream brought to you by the fact that FMA ends today!!)

I call CG and tell her I need something, then forget to pick it up from her when she comes to my house (which doesn't look like my house). We talk with her and her dad for a while. One of us kids needs to get a second job. I'm about to tell Mom that it can't be me, since I'm working full-time AND attending summer classes, when I remember that the summer classes were a dream. :| Then I wonder if I should take a summer class, an equivalent to that Fiction and the Autobiographical Impulse or whatever it's called. I try to sign up.

070710 No, brain... no.

Brain. We just dreamt about this. And seventeen is DEFINITELY not going to be in an American bookstore anytime soon, I promise. I know I ordered it, but there really is almost a month left before I'll get it. Soooo back off, okay?
Once I figured out that it was too soon to get the volume itself, I "realized" that I was just looking to confirm the cover art. There're still five days until that, brain...

On that note, happy Tanabata!

070610 Ack.

Dang it, dang it, dang it. Another dream about the arrival of 17. This time, I didn't figure out it was a dream (despite checking! Brain! Two fails in a row!!). I think for a minute I knew I was imagining it, but then I forgot. Anyway, I don't remember much except that it was dealing with the Kid Rescue Mission and Marie was going along which meant that Stein was a well. ;~; Here's to hoping.

070510 Ummm...

I dreamt I was one of the kids going to stop Medusa from reviving the Kishin?
The scene was completely different. I was going down a staircase (the Cathedral's?) to get to the basement, and I saw Stein at one point and he told me which floor I was headed to, so I went there. (Brain!! What are you doing!! Stein!! Was right there!! Ugh!! Stupid world-saving priorities.) There was a staff member there who said that students with a certain... major, I suppose? would need to have special qualifications to get in, but since I wasn't that major, it was all good! |D
So I went in there, and it looked more like... the lava area near the end of Super Mario Sunshine. Medusa was standing... on a table... drinking something... I hopped from table to table and kicked the glass out of her hands. I remember it shattering. But eventually the Kishin woke up anyway. So we... escaped with it? o_O And then it turned out that it was some sort of weird DBZ-SE fanfiction because somehow the Kishin was Vegeta or something.
:|

Ladies and gentlemen, my brain.

062810 DIE SPIDER DIE I don't care if you're magical

In-depth one this morning. Unfortunately I can't remember all the details. There was a ghost in this house... and... legends... and a spider that kept avoiding me when I tried to squash it which was actually a person of some kind... come to think of it, that probably wasn't very nice BUT I BET SHE WAS WITH ARACHNOPHOBIA ANYWAY and no one cares about Arachno-mooks. And then all the legends were resolved and it became a normal house, except there was this... sealed crypt thing in the backyard. (The backyard = NJ backyard) Also, very small sunflowers or very large black-eyed susans. I was a guy and I was walking my daughter through the backyard, wondering when I should tell her about the house's history. And then this guy came and wanted to exploit the legends, so he went into the crypt. There was a "coin" involved, but it was actually a washer. I went in after him to stop things from getting screwed up. Except by going in, that made the villain take action again, kidnapping my wife (......). At this point, I realized I was dreaming, so I had to make a quick decision: wake up and remove the stressful situation, or stay dreaming and figure out how to deal with the situation. I chose to keep dreaming, just in case I ever run into the same situation in real life. /voice drips with sarcasm

In any case, I made an effort to save my wife based on something I'd "done before"--I don't know if it was something I'd done earlier in the dream, or if it was a false memory, but in either case, the villain was expecting it. Now the guy who burst into the crypt earlier appeared from where my wife was supposed to come--wearing the dress my wife had been wearing--and the crypt changed into a tennis court. And we played... uh, it was tennis except with six people on a side like volleyball. My side was all awful. I heard something from real life and decided to wake up.

062210 Err... sorry.

Let's try to get back into this. The dreams I'm recording now are from between when I woke up at 6:30 and when I was re-woken at 8:40.

I cannot recommend reading about Death (from Soul Eater) as a method of falling back asleep.
I dreamt up a new episode in which for some reason Death was wearing his robe as a cape instead and had the body of a fairly well-muscled human. So the impression was kind of like Ashura when they fight, except wearing black cloth instead of pale skin. Umm had markings all over his chest too. I'm fairly sure the whole getup is an effect of those DeathxStein pics I saw a long time back. *twitch* And his hair was taped down with blue tape. Yeah... Wait...... shouldn't he have had... Brain, you lose like twenty billion points. Anyway Kid was there too, but Death was yelling at him for some reason after the battle. Which I think was in like South Africa or something (thank you, World Cup). Except it was my backyard.

After that, I had those bacon-grease-and-sugar biscuits which are so tasty as long as you don't think about what you're eating. I texted RB about them. Then we went to the Nygrens', and they thought they'd sent the biscuits from Germany a while back, which made perfect sense to my dreambrain even if we couldn't figure out why they were still good. Then C. picked on RB (who wasn't there) for using "2" rather than "two" in his text. Then Z. knocked on my door and woke me up to take him to soccer.

041010

Between 4:30AM and waking up at 7, I dreamt that it was yesterday and I was wandering the neighborhood and seeing cosplayers and getting excited for Tekko, and then I saw AL-san and arranged to go to the con with her. And as we were hanging out, I ran into Dan C-C and I think Rich from Quiz Bowl, which was probably my mind remembering that I have to write those questions and get them in.

040710 Something particularly notable...

I dreamt that I dreamt that Soul Eater 17 came out.
:|
And it totally appeared in my (school) mailbox without my ordering it. So I squealed and started reading it right away. I don't think much of what I know about it so far actually showed up... my brain made no attempt at the upcoming battle between M. and J. I was reading something about Medusa trying to take over Stein's body (from chibi form: minus ten points), and for some reason she wound up in Maka's instead. D: And then she... bit Maka's finger off? To make her bleed to death? Dunno really how to deal with that other than "Thank goodness Kim was right there," which she was, for an undisclosed reason.
It was around this time that I explained to my roommates that I was very excited, because I hadn't expected it to be out for another three months and hadn't even realized that it was out until it appeared in my mailbox. Which made me start thinking that it might have been a dream, because I certainly hadn't ordered it, so then I combed my memory for exactly what had happened between interesting pages and failed to come up with anything, and I realized that the cover wasn't exactly in the style of most SE covers, so I realized I was dreaming. Which caused me to "wake up" into another dream. And tell several people about what I'd been dreaming.


I am fairly certain that I'm actually awake right now. XD

031510 I hate swimming...

In my dream last night, I was going to some kind of swimming lesson. My sisters were there. It was not at any pool I recognized. There was some kind of... Bible study aspect to it as well. I got a facebook message saying that I should go to the next Esther's Circle because it was a celebration for someone's birthday and they thought I was only an hour away, not, you know, halfway across the country.

On Saturday morning, I woke up too early and then fell back asleep. I had those really weird dreams in which I'm exhausted but try to get up and go about my normal life as if really waking up. There were a few layers to them... in one of them, I was listening to my iTouch and it glitched and got stuck playing "victor", which would be creepy. Was creepy. Add to that the fact that I couldn't seem to move, and I'm pretty sure that I was convinced in my dream that I was hallucinating. ...I think I may need to stop writing Stein. oO I also dreamt that Mom came in and tried to wake me up, but I couldn't respond and couldn't move. Yeah. These dreams are so weird.

030510 Riiiiight.

Two sets of things I remember.
First, I woke up around what was probably 4:30. Twenty-ish minutes later, as I'm lying there expecting my alarm clock, I actually check the time and see that it's 4:52. Whut. So I get out AAI to play myself back to sleep. As a testament to how well it worked, I was soon under the impression that, as I played, someone mentioned Markus Zusak's The Book Thief and I am the Messenger--I think it was Edgeworth listing them as his favorite books, great taste that man, especially BT which everyone should read and WORSHIP--and also that there was this guy (Zato?) with a GIGANTIC sprite. And the action wound up back on an airplane. Nuts to that. I'm playing case four. Take me out of the courthouse and I'll shoot you and laugh. 8D

In the other thing I remember, which happened after I'd woken up, saved my game, put it away, and fallen back to sleep, I was in a restaurant with a large group of friends--probably Japanese class friends. Lai-san was there. We ordered our food--pasta and ice cream (separate, of course). Half of the pasta and ice cream came, partially served on Styrofoam plates. The ice cream was laid out on these Styrofoam plates in half-scoops and covered with a metal dish cover so that it wouldn't melt before we got to dessert (...yeah, that'll work). But I was on the half of the table that never got our food. Eventually I leave on a bicycle. Except halfway through this bike ride my brain decides that (a) I'm Edgeworth, and Bratziska is there and (b) I'm playing a video game from extremely realistic first-person perspective. I'm having trouble controlling the game camera and the bike at the same time--wind up riding backwards--so I try to press the L button to center the camera behind me as it would in Twilight Princess. Well that just makes me fall over. Franziska comes up to mock and whip me, but I just lie there on the ground. Then my alarm goes off.

These sound like good signs that I've been playing too much AAI, but also note that I keep dreaming about getting the new Soul Eater volume. Like I dreamt two nights ago that I received it. Argh. It was supposedly shipped two days ago, but the USPS tracking thing still says they've received notification to expect the package for shipping. Um. D: Googling "USPS tracking glitch" reveals people having similar problems, so I suppose it's pretty safe to guess that it's been shipped and is nearing my house. Please arrive soon! There's so much information waiting for me. About Justin. About how Stein's doing. About Spartoi. About Soul becoming a Death Scythe, almost certainly going by what I stupidly read on TV Tropes, and about Death Scythes in general (also by what I read on TV Tropes). Also by what I read on TV Tropes: about Maka's soul, some reproductive details about the different races, some interaction between Crona and Medusa. DEAR POSTAL SERVICE STOP STANDING BETWEEN ME AND THESE THINGS.

030210 How did it become March??

Gosh darn. I accidentally closed this page when I was almost finished with the entry. So we're gonna ignore the "two nights ago" and "snippet from last night" sections and just go with what I remember best:
I was outside my house with a pug. The pug's master had just died. The car that the master had driven (more like an Alleged Car: it was an odd shade of yellow, very low to the ground, rather old-school, and falling apart) was being driven away by someone else, and the pug tried to run after it. I had to chase it through my neighbor's yards. In my dream, I was crying pretty badly. The pug was howling or crying somehow as well.

021610 Anticipation is makin' me wait~

So I remember two parts of my dream.
I dreamt that I went down to Game Stop to get my copy of Ace Investigations, which I can pick up today in the PM (that's what the text message said), but in my dream it wasn't PM yet ;;. So then I went home and read A Conspiracy of Kings, which was... not very good ;;. But only in my brain of course. I had the colors of the cover right, but for some reason it was the top half of Sophos's face showing, not the bottom. He was a total bishounen. Very girly looking (lovely eyelashes), but a pretty girl... fffff April.

021210

I only remember what I was dreaming right before I woke up. I was in some kind of class (a writing one? But it was in Thaw 208) and we were given an assignment to work on in groups. For some reason I decided to make mine a pre-a/16 Medusa.Stein interaction. To write, we went down to this area where there were sheep. And outside, beyond an emergency exit door, there was an octopus on the lawn. Yes, an octopus... Eventually I sat down with Lai-san and Sarah Gruba and talked about my story idea. Sarah Gruba pointed out that I should be careful because they definitely must have interacted at one point before then, and I said I knew--for example, re: Soul's surgery (isn't that shiny? Just look how shiny that is), and by this time I was shouting over the alarm from the emergency door, because someone had gone out through it... Oh, wait, I realized, that's actually MY alarm...

020810 Snow day~

So what does my brain go and do? It goes and conjures up the Japanese class that I'm not having today. With a Sensei who was apparently new and didn't get the "no English" rule. (Hey, it's just like Ban-sensei......) It was a different room--a bigger one. And then eventually I left.
Wound up on a bus. There were people causing problems. We had luggage... the problems wound up solved, and out of annoyance I wouldn't let the people causing problems down the aisle to get off the bus. Oh, and also for some reason I had Susan's horn from the Chronicles of Narnia.

020510

I've let this lag for a little while... Sorry about that.
Last night--or rather, this morning, shortly before I woke up--I dreamt it was shortly before spring break. Martell-san came over to watch a movie or something and I fell asleep. When I woke up, it was 2 in the afternoon the next day. Next day being when I was supposed to leave. So I run around in a complete panic trying to get things together and then I try to call my parents to tell them I won't be ready. (Since they're, you know, coming to pick me up.) But my phone's doing something really weird... it won't make proper phone calls, and it keeps playing a video of some sort. I'm forced to take out the battery to make it stop doing that. Then my alarm went off.

010610 Several days' worth...

Monday morning, I woke up some time before I had to to catch my plane, but I didn't check the time because that would involve getting out from the covers. So when I fell back asleep, I dreamt about waking up. Except in my dream, it was for a surgery that I had to wake up. And then it eventually changed to Edgeworth having the surgery. And after the surgery, he was dressed in a yukata and was talking to Morgan. Why Morgan? I don't know. And there were paper doors and a bright morning.

Last night, I had a Soul Eater dream. Something about Justin attacking Maka and Soul between the Brew and his reappearance in 15. (It took me a few minutes to sort out, once I woke up, that this hadn't actually happened.) By an artificial river. He was working with Medusa. Blonde, adult Medusa. Brain, minus five points. Anyway I dreamt about him because I just finished writing something about him last night. Typing it up now.