Sleep, but Never Rest

Wow. Lots of dreams last night! Let’s see if I can remember any…

I remember being at some convention-like/training area with a lot of people. We were being tested on random things. I remember one scene involved each player having to shoot a target in the sky with a bow and arrow. A lot of times, this was the face of a loved one and the weaker players couldn’t even shoot. 

When it was my turn, I had already had a reputation for being a good gamer/finding ways to bend game rules to win, so the crowd was interested in seeing how I’d do with this event. Since I’m desensitized and would have no issues putting an arrow through the fake face of a loved one in the sky, I was feeling pretty good about this game. However, they knew how I was and instead of a large target of a loved-one’s face, it “cycled through” images and ended on a tiny dot target. The crowd even went “Ooh!” since it didn’t take bravery or cleverness, it took skill.

I think I hit the target.

In the end, I was one of the highest scoring players. I remember this whole dream being in a haze of orange/red with gritty black dust.

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I remember being in a dream where my bedroom was an office…

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I remember learning some computer coding language that had objects that were thought as puzzle pieces and the objects began and ended with # and it was to symbolize how they fit together.

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I remember walking out of a building to my car and it had rained. It was one of those Ohio rains that lasted 5 min., but there were 1-2 inch deep puddles of water everywhere. While I was taking photos of my car, the weather got bad again and wind knocked a tree limb onto my car. Luckily, I was bending down at the time because the limb fell right over my head. I also remember tree limbs being tossed by the wind on the street.

This merged into a dream where I remember wearing clunky high-heels (gold and clear) and trying to go up and down stairs at a crowded party.

I remember being part of a group that traveled to some city for a convention. There was a scene where I was in the audience in an arena and basketball players and other performers were dancing neat choreographed dances.

Later that night, a Facebook friend that was friends with a friend in high school asked me why I wasn’t going to the bar with them. She said it was a tradition to go drinking on the convention trips. I wanted to stay at the arena because it seemed like more fun than going to a bar and getting sick from alcohol with people (women) I barely know.

In another dream, I remember a scene about going up a steep slippery hill/ramp with other convention goers. There was some pop/Latino music playing and I found out that dancing to it made it easy to get up the ramp.

In another dream, I was in a gym or some other big room with booths around the walls. It looked a little like a job fair. I remember shaking booth people’s hands. There were freebies on the tables and one freebie was foundation/concealer combo makeup. I told a nearby friend that I’m lucky I’m pale because I can mach a lot of this free stuff, but the makeup ended up being one shade too light.

One of the booths was for Title Boxing Club. I was like, “Oh, yeah! That’s the place that’s in the old Border’s bookstore building!” People looked at me weird and I tried to explain one more time, but gave up. This place, however, was located in another state.

In another dream, I was going through a bucket of things looking for things about Charlie* for some reason. I remember finding two gold coins/tokens with a location that started with an “N” on them. One was bent.

All I can remember was an oval mirror with a golden ornate frame. Every time I looked at it, it was larger and eventually damaged the ceiling.

I remember being teamed up with some guy who looked ex-military to participate in an Amazing Race-style game sponsored by National Geographic. It was pretty cool because there was some trivia involved and we had to seek out “markers” to gain points and be told a clue to another marker. They looked like the National Geographic symbol and floated above the ground. They were only about 8-12 inches tall and we had to spin them with our hands or kick them.

I didn’t recognize the guy I was teamed up with, but he was a nice guy and very smart. We were ahead in the game. I remember one point where I found the next marker outside of a one-story municipal building. I rushed over and kicked the marker and the guy came over to read the clue. I don’t know if I heard part of e clue and went on or what, but I remember taking off toward another building looking for the next clue and the guy stayed behind yelling for me.

I never saw him again.

I remember hours later going into a building and explaining that we were in a race and if that was the spot the clue said to seek out. It was, but the women at the counter looked at me rudely because they thought I was unprofessional. They said the next step was to watch a movie about something and the showings were at 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. It was around 2:30 at that time, so I thought that would give me an hour to hunt down the guy.

I could not find him. I found a LOT of gold (it gave you points to help out if you were bad at trivia) near a “starting point,” but the game would not let me collect it until I was finished with the marker in progress. Another team started at that starting point and grabbed almost all the gold as well as hitting markers within the gold for trivia questions. I continued to try to grab the gold items to cash in when the marker was completed. However, I realized I didn’t have a way to carry the gold. I thought I could use my shirt, but by that time, the gold in my arms crumbled and disappeared.

Lessons learned:

1. Listen to the markers in full.
2. Stay close to your partner and communicate better.
3. Understand the rules of the game so I don’t hurt my chances of winning.

Random parts from the dreams I had last night…

I remember being on a cruise ship going up and down a glass elevator again. I’ve dreamed this a few times.

There was also a part where I was driving near Delaware on roads I was unfamiliar with, but kinda guessed where I was.

I remember a co-worker being there and also Dwayne*…there was something about helping people over the phone for work and I kept having to help Justin Bieber (probably from a joke in waking life the co-worker made).

I remember a lot of sunlight, gold, and glass in the cruise ship.

* Names were changed