Anxiety & Singing About Chocolate

I dreamed I was taking the clinical part of the Nursing Assistant test but I had not, in fact, had time to review anything. I had, in fact, just been "thrown to the wolves". I did not recall even calling to make the appointment, all of a sudden I was just there picking from a hat the 3 duties I'd perform. Unlike in real life, in the dream I was with 2 other testers and unlike the other 2 I was the only one who remembered to knock on the resident's door before entering. That was the only thing I could remember to do. Then the dream switched to...

...I was in a school gymnasium, either elementary, middle (junior), or high school. I was a part of a chorus (chorale?) giving a concert to the students. Also included was min8ive who stood to my right. We were all standing right on the floor, not any kind of stage or risers or anything and the entrance to the gym was behind us, the audience sat on the floor in front of us. my sister & I and a bunch of other people were on the right side of the room (from our POV) while other people who included an aunt I just got a Christmas card from and the mean egg donor were way over on the left. A song we were getting ready to sing involved the 2 of them as well as several other singers walking in from the entrance and lining up. I was taken aback to see the mean egg donor and hoped she wouldn't see me at all.

I noticed people noise coming from behind and wondered if the doors would be closed, I looked behind me & saw the entrance doorway had been removed, it being portable.

Then the song started and I suddenly had a chunk of chocolate in my hand and started belting out a song about how the chocolate was ok, but this other chocolate (that my sister handed me: it was smoother, creamier, slightly darker than what I had. I had some that was lighter in color and had all kinds of small air pockets. I broke it in half so I could hand her back the other half but it was quite thick and hard, like it had been in a refrigerator but it was not at all cold and it wouldn't break fast enough) tasted much better. Everyone took a bite of their chocolate and held it up singing about how yummy it was.

Thankfully, I then woke up. Kind of wanting some plain chocolate. Wish I knew what kind that was.

Dreams of Parties

I dozed off this afternoon and had a dream that I was supposed to go to a party my Aunt C was giving in honor of one of her kids. my younger sister, L, did not want to go because the egg donor was going to be there. I said I was going but was going to ignore her. Then I arrived and saw her sitting with my Aunt C and realized she was probably telling her all kinds of lies about us. We sat down at a table as far away as possible. It turned out the party was already beginning to come to a close because people had begun to leave. I waved to my Aunt C and L. & I left. We went to KN's house where a semgs gathering was going on. His fiance T had gotten a box of something from somewhere and set it on a kitchen counter. KW showed up and I stood talking to her for a few minutes.

She went off to talk to someone else and I suddenly decided to dye my hair. I got everything I needed and suddenly realized I did not want to do it at someone elses house. I proceeded to put everything back away. In the meantime T had taken out of the box the stuff to perm someone's hair. I went into another room and started talking to other people when I woke up.

Talking Cats, Murdering Rats and a Mass Murderer

Early this morning I had a dream that I was in a basement and saw a mouse running around. I chased it into the garage. I had the impression I was in the garage of the house where my maternal grandparents lived on Oakman in Detroit while I was growing up. The garage was packed with lots of stuff. I debated leaving the mouse but I kept hearing noises. I suddenly had my maglite flashlight in my hand, turned it on and looked around. I saw a couple large black cats sitting watching me. I was about to head back into the house when more cats appeared and they spoke to me. They told me I had to get rid of the mouse because it was dangerous. I saw the mouse dart out from a hiding place & run to another and it had grown to a rat nearly the size of the large cats watching me. A couple cats ran after the rat and managed to get it out of the hiding place into the open. I ran to it and, wearing my leather work gloves, I grabbed it & pressed it into the ground by it's neck trying to figure out what to do. It bared it's sharp teeth and squirmed trying to get away from me telling me it had to kill me. I looked around to see if there was any kind of container within reach to put the rat into. Suddenly there was a small saw in my hand and a cat sitting nearby told me I would have to kill the rat in order for it to not kill others. The cat had a relatively deep voice, btw, and spoke slowly and calmly.

I was pressing the serated end of the saw blade into the rat's neck being a little squeamish at first but knew I had to finish the job.

Just then someone else walked into the garage and noticed what I was doing and the rat was dead and I was forced to go back into the house. Except the house was suddenly very large warehouse type building and there were at least a hundred or so people standing around scared. I asked what was going on. Someone told me that the man who had escorted me into the building was going to kill us all but did not know how. I looked all around the building and found that people could hide and escape through certain walls behind huge shelves. I started pointing people towards them. As they climbed through, I suddenly had a bird's eye POV near the ceiling 100 feet above and saw the killer taking people into a large room that I could not see the interior of.

Suddenly I was just 30 feet above the floor, sitting on a wooden chair with only the front two legs of the chair balancing on some of the shelving people were climbing to escape. There were just too many people and they couldn't get out fast enough. Someone was balancing on the shelf below me and holding one of the back legs of the chair I was sitting in. I climbed out of the chair and told the man it was not necessary to hold it for me, but he insisted. I was the one leading everyone to safety and he was trying to protect me. I knew the chair was an inconvenience and wondered why it was in my dream and why I was sitting in it and I was trying to figure out how the man could get rid of it without alerting the killer and I continued to climb and I watched other people trying to climb as fast as they could so the people on the floor below could escape when I woke up.

In The Park, On a Fire Engine, In a Building

I had a dream that I was going shopping with MB, HS, and RK. All of their kids ran off to do their own shopping (except HS has a toddler so idk). HS said it wasn't worth shopping without their kids. I suddenly got the impression she meant people without kids were worthless and I snapped at her, told her none of it was my fault and turned and walked away trying to keep from crying. MB came after me & told me that wasn't what HS meant then asked if I wanted to go in on a pizza. Suddenly there was a pizza on a table in front of me and MB was pouring Ranch dressing all over her share. I was still angry and sad and I declined and walked away. We started out at a strip mall under the shelter. I walked out into the open where there was a large park where people were just laying on the grass or walking around a large pond.

I encountered another girl who just started talking to me. I couldn't understand most of what she was saying but I just nodded and conversed back. The pond was on my right and suddenly a ginormous cruise ship pulled up to the side of the pond. I looked up and saw the Captain standing there on the deck. He looked at me and nodded. The girl next to me thought he was hot so I decided to try to set them up together even though I did not know either of their names. The Captain jumped down from the huge cruise ship (jumped. as in a few hundred feet) and walked away. I grabbed the girl's arm and followed him. He walked towards a huge set of risers, the metal/aluminum kind seen at outdoor events like high school football fields or public parks with a baseball diamond. The Captain climbed all the way to the top before I could get his attention. He remained standing & suddenly had a pair of binoculars he looked through, like other people around him. He leaned forward as did several other people standing around him. I noticed they were all leaning forward way too far and before I had a chance to shout up to them, they all went tumbling down the risers knocking over the people in front of them. They all stood back up and climbed back to their seats unharmed. I could not believe it. The girl next to me was so busy talking and looking elsewhere she asked me how everyone ended up at the bottom. "They leaned too far forward," I replied.

I saw a couple of older people, in their late 60's or their 70's, on the bottom seats having some trouble. I walked over to them and asked if they were ok. The woman was having trouble sitting up. I touched her arm and she yelled out in pain. She said everything hurt and she needed to go to the hospital. I thought, "Lawsuit. She is going to sue the pants off everyone she can."

Suddenly I was in a fire engine with someone else who was not the girl and the engine was racing towards the top of a hill, but we had to go in a spiral fashion to get there. There were occasional crowds of people in the way, at one point there was construction going on. In a park. On a hill. The construction crew moved in one direction while the fire engine driver swerved in the other.

We got to the top of the hill only to find other emergency vehicles and no fire. The driver was not too happy. He said something about it costing whoever called $500 if it ended up being a false alarm and he knew the company could not afford it. He started to turn around and head back down the hill but I wanted to stay so I jumped out. I walked toward another building and walked inside. There were some people standing or wandering around. I tried to eavesdrop on conversations as to why emergency vehicles were called. Someone said something about thinking he/she saw smoke and thought the place was on fire.

I wandered through the building. It was just a shell made completely of 2 x 4's, most of them set vertically side by side to form the walls. There was small rooms and tiny closet or other storage spaces. I looked into each one looking for a hiding space of some sort in which someone had hidden an object that I was suddenly looking for specifically. Someone asked me what I was looking for. I replied that it was something my (maternal) grandfather said he hid in that building.

Then I woke up.

Working and Partying

Last night I had a dream that I was back where I used to work...again. *sigh* The place was a mess. It was very busy. One ex coworker was not there doing her job. I was asked to take back some equipment in her place. The customers asked me if I was the only one working there. Yes, I said. The customers looked around. I explained that normally someone else was there (the woman they saw when they picked the tableskirting up) but that I did not know why she wasn't there. I took back the tableskirts and had another customer bring more back. Once I finished, I called up to my (now ex) boss to tell him who returned what, but suddenly I couldn't keep them straight. One of them had returned x lavender skirts and n beige or ivory while the other customer had returned m beige or ivory and y lavender (m, n, x, y each = 3 or 5 but I can't remember in which order).

Suddenly I was in a large hotel walking through the hallway of one of the floors. I walked into a room that had construction going on and picked up a dark gray metal case. It had a camcorder and supplies in it. I was already carrying a light colored, white or ivory box. I left the room and walked down the hall to an elevator, pressed the button, the doors opened and I stepped in. The elevator was very large, the kind seen in a hospital that is used to transfer patients in gurneys from floor to floor. At first I thought someone else was standing in the elevator, but I looked again and saw the walls of the elevator were decorated and there was a lifelike person painted on.

I looked for the # floor buttons to press an appropriate one, but there was none. Suddenly there was a person standing there and she told me I was on the top floor the elevator could only go down. I ended up in the lobby where a big Christmas party was in the final stages of being prepared. Guests would be arriving any moment. There was a huge green decorated Christmas tree in the center and 60" or 72 " round tables were set up all around it, with white linen tablecloths. Someone in authority was setting up a table with fluted champagne glasses he was in the process of filling.

I retreated back to the elevator to go back up, but I ended up at a regular smaller people standing in it size. I got in and pressed the button for the top floor, but it was for a floor higher than I was previously on. I had realized I'd forgotten my bag of clothes so I pressed the button of the floor where I started out. I got off and went back to the room where workers were working on the room. I went in then wondered how I was going to carry everything to my new room. I was suddenly afraid to leave stuff there to make 2 trips and also didn't want to leave the camera equipment anywhere.

I was secretly told to take pictures and videos all night of a certain guest who would be showing up at the party soon.

Then I woke up.