School Dreams

Last night I had a dream about high school. This is by no means the first dream I've had. It's just the first time in a while that I remembered not only it, but it made me remember other dreams that I couldn't remember upon waking. In last night's dream, I dreamed I was in a class and I was starving. I had a bagel hidden in a large purse or it could have been my backpack. I kept sneaking it out & taking a bite of it, then drop it back in. Then class was over and it was time for lunch. Yeah, apparently I just couldn't wait. I left the class and went towards the cafeteria, except I could not go in. It was already packed inside & I had to wait in the hallway with a whole lot of other students. I was standing near a wall and still taking sneaking bites of my bagel only this time I'd managed to put some butter on it. I looked around & saw KR & MB loitering a few feet away so I headed towards them but then they disappeared into the crowd and I saw my older sister sitting on a couch in a corner that never existed in real life. She was not actually talking to any of the other people and I headed towards her, but there were so many students it took me time to get there.

As I finally got to her, she stood up & said she was going outside so I followed her. Then I was outside. There were a bunch of people out there, too. I was headed toward where some cars were parked when I pretty much woke up.

In my dreams about the cafeteria, one of the "walls" is actually sections of safety glass in which one can walk down the hallway & be able to see in to the cafe.
Other dreams I've had concerning high school are ones in which I get to class & there is "pop" quiz. The questions are written on the blackboard and we have to write the answers on a piece of paper that is handed out to us. The whole time I can't keep my eyes open. I do everything I can to open them, first to read the question, then to write my answer. But I can't write while keeping the lids of both eyes propped open.

Others include being in a classroom, the bell rings to indicate the end of the school day & I walk out & go looking for my locker. I end up at the top of the stairs in front of the front entrance. Everyone is headed out the doors. I have to make my way out & get on a bus, but there are so many people it takes me a long time. Once outside, I can't find the bus I'm supposed to be on. Sometimes I get on a bus, but I'm not sure if it's the right one. I ask someone where the bus goes. Sometimes it's where I'm supposed to go, other times it isn't & I have to get off & find the right one.

It all reminds me of another dream I just recently had that I couldn't remember upon waking. It also involved a school bus except I was the driver. I had just picked up a bunch of students from the side of a road and headed towards a school. I didn't know where the school was, but I was able to follow another bus. I turned left at an intersection, then turned right into the parking lot of the school. It was a small school & there was a wooded area on both sides of the bus. I pulled up to let the children off, but then I had to turn around to get back out onto the road. Except there was very little room to turn a full-size bus around so it took me time & other bus drivers were getting impatient because their students were going to end up late getting off by the time they could pull up to the doors. That is all I remember.

A Zombie Dream & A Dr. House Dream

I had a dream that I was in a large rundown house. I was sitting on a couch or cushioned chair listening to conversations. Suddenly I was fighting off a zombie who looked a whole lot like The Master in the first season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. No, I have not been watching the show anytime recently. Zombie was albino white, not wearing a shirt, it's skin had lots of thick wrinkles, it's eyes were red and it had razor sharp teeth. My left hand was on it's right shoulder, my right hand had a hold of it's left forearm and I mostly could not take my eyes off it's mouth & teeth while I tried desperately to keep it from taking a huge chunk out of the right side of my neck. I kept screaming for someone to help me then I looked around & saw it was only me & zombie in the room.

I briefly woke up sweating & had to peel off my sweatpants. I immediately fell back to sleep and dreamed I was in a gym or fitness center locker room. There were other people (all fully dressed, as well as myself) maybe only about 5 or 6 people. I was talking to someone while attempting to find my locker & get my coat so I could leave. I finally found my locker, but my coat was not in it. I thought I had the wrong locker and asked a couple others. They all knew nothing about my missing coat. Dr. House was in the locker room (fully clothed) talking to a couple of the other people. He stopped talking and loudly said no one could leave until my coat was found. Some one asked what it looked like. I described it (black with a gray stripe, etc.). Someone took a black coat out of a locker & asked if it was mine. No, I said. The coat the person held up was made of a thinner nylon and had sections of black stitches in which one could tell it was filled with either down or polyester filler. A woman wearing business attire walked in and handed me a white, hardcover children's book, roughly 9 x 13 with only a dozen pages in it. I looked through it, then attempted to hand it back. She told me to keep it, I would be needing it. I didn't understand. I asked her how it would help find my coat. She told me it was inside. I opened the book again to the back cover. Folded inside and attached to the binding was a thin clear plastic folded-up coat. I had no idea how it was going to help me because I knew it was very cold outside. I just thanked her & said I still wanted my own coat back. The guy who had asked about the black coat he found was still holding it. House told me to just take that one. I thought the coat was rather ugly & didn't really want it, but I took it from the guy anyway. Then I pondered whether I should take the clear "coat" out of the book or save it for a rainy day (literally) when I woke up--still hot.

A Mistake and Trying to Shower

In one dream I dreamed my brother-in-law had a tesla coil concert in a regular neighborhood. Everyone was either packing or unpacking everything. The extension cords needed to be straightened. I grabbed the end with the plug and pulled it straight except it was at least a 100 foot cord. I had pulled it over neighbors sitting on the sidewalk either in chairs or on beach towels on the sidewalk & whatnot & then had to pull it back to the coils. The neighbors were not to pleased & neither was J. I kept apologizing but no one was overly happy. Suddenly I was inside a house and the authorities (local police, state police, FBI, I'm not sure) was after me. I jumped out a window and ran. I ran through backyards & such until my back started hurting. I realized my back was hurting because I was laying on my stomach & my cat was laying on my back (I turned over & gently dumped the cat off me).

Last night I had a dream that I was in someone else's house where I spent the night. I wanted to clean the bathroom shower. Except it was one of those multiple several-people-can-take-a-shower-at-the-s

ame-time showers, kind of like at a fitness center or, well, a prison, like I've seen on TV. There were a whole lot of people in the house who had also spent the night there. I was talking to someone in particular when I realized I was pretty much the only one who had not yet showered that morning. I looked at myself & saw I was wearing satin pajamas & a robe. I still wanted to clean the shower before taking one but I felt the need to find a pair of shoes first. I went to an area where everyone's shoes were and sorted through them looking for mine. My boots were there but I also shifted through a milk crate filled with sandals & flip-flops. I finally found a pair of flips-flops that were allegedly mine except I don't really own a pair. I already had a sponge and bathroom cleaner and headed towards the shower area to start cleaning when I woke up.

Trying to Close Up Shop

Last night I had a dream about the place where I used to work. I was trying to get things done and, as in many prior dreams, it was quitting time, but I seemed to have a million things I had to do before I could leave. Someone else was there with me but she had to leave on time. I had to go around the warehouse turning off lights, water, and close doors. Every time I went to the exit door, I'd notice another light on in another room. Then there was some kind of water leak in one room. I tried shutting off the water valve, but couldn't. I called TC the maintenance guy and he said he couldn't be over just then. Someone else came in & helped me stop the water. Then he left through one of roll up doors, but left it open as well as the light on in the area. So I had to turn the light back off & close the door. Except then the rest of the guys pulled up in trucks & said they had to either load or unload stuff. At first I was going to stay behind because I knew once they were finished they wouldn't turn off lights or close doors. I finally decided I didn't care. That was not my problem. So I left. And woke up.