Surprise

I was talking on the phone with Annette. There was a knock on my door. A lady I did not know came in with her little boy. She nodded to me and sat down on a couch and was waiting for me to get off the phone. Annette was still talking. I couldn't seem to get off the phone. Then there were more and more people coming in my house. It was like one of those new internet fads where you text message and people all show up in one place, but where the internet fans do it for fun, this was being done for love. They wanted to surprise me with love.

Soccer

I woke up early. There were a number of people in my house. (people who normally aren't in my house). They were all still sleeping, though Dan C. did say to me that if I talked to him, I wouldn't be happy. He didn't seem a morning-sort.
So I left the house.
We were all part of a soccer group, so I went over to the soccer field.
I was also supposed to make the oranges for the daycare, but I was cutting them in too small pieces for the kids.
At the soccer field we were kicking around a bit, in lots of different groups. There were going to be a lot of fields open but we were in the same area for practice.
Finally, the leader (Al?) told us where we had to go to play. Now I had to figure how to get the people who were at my house to the field (hopefully, they were up by now).
I needed to call the house but that was easier said than done. There was a new phone system and you had to search through these different phones to find each individual number. They were all a mess at first and I couldn't get the number right, but then I decided to take them all out and organize them.

There was also a guy with long hair and a moustache. He was at the house I went to when I left my house. Can't remember if he came to soccer too, I think so.

Unsequenced

When I have long dreams, I find it very difficult to sequence them because I think my sequencing abilities are logic based and dreams are not :) Also, time seems meaningless in dreams.

Dream 1: I was serving a meal on a table and the carpet underneath was so dirty. It was blue and filthy. I really wanted to change the carpet.

Dream 2: (this is the long one)
I went out at night to this giant formal dining room. Everyone was dressed in black and white. It was a weekend night, so completely full. I stood up to look at the room. It was a sea of people. Near our table (but not too near) was the musical act. He had a guitar, I think . Maybe one other person with him. He really wasn't very good.

I had a new job in the Civil Engineering Building, though it wasn't for Civil Engineering. I didn't have a key to the building yet and it was nighttime so I wasn't sure if I could get in. But there were actually lots of people going in, so it wasn't difficult to get in.
I had to get some books or something. I could see the photocopying room was full of people.

I saw a flashback to how a man's (maybe he worked in that building?) pregnant wife died. They were on the terrace. There were other people around. He was rubbing her tummmy. I thought maybe he would push her, but the barrier was really high. The barrier was also mostly see-through so as not to obstruct the view. She fell down with a needle in her arm. The husband didn't know who put the needle in but he could tell right away that she was dead. When the police came, they took the needle out and said that the needle was full of nitrogen or nitrous oxide (something like that). The smell was quite strong.
I went around shooting things to see if they contained that smell on the inside. To try to track the killer.

I took James downtown for breakfast. A lady was talking to me about how difficult it was for her to find things for her son to eat, and tricks she used. How to get him to eat granola bars. But I didn't really have that problem.

It was morning and Lorna was in our shower. James wanted to go to the potty. He knocked on the door and the door was unlocked so he went in and got up on the potty, but he wasn't going so I was telling him either he had to go there or he had to go on the little potty. Lorna stuck her head around the shower curtain. I don't know what for, but I turned my head away because I didn't want to see too much.

Luckily all my dreams are PG!

Pre boarding a plane

There was a huge plane due to take off tomorrow.
I had to bring in the confirmation tickets today to get the real tickets.
It took a while to find the place that the exchange had to be made.
Then when I found the place, I had to go through the whole waiting area, which was made up of a lot of booths until I found where I had put my luggage.
I got the tickety things and went back.
There was a family that was camped out there with Sara Lee cherry cheesecake. Mmmm.
They seemed a very friendly family. I think we helped them out with something and they helped us out with something as well. (vague on this though)

Car

Dreamt we went to but a new car. It was a kind of sporty car and red with a black door, or doors. It was a used vehicle. Myron went to go and pick it up, because it was registered in his name. He was supposed to pick us up some time after, but when he didn't arrive, we walked over to his boarding house to see if he was parked behind there.

Al

In my dream Shari was away for 3 weeks, so Al was having to eat on his own. He only had 3 things he would eat- chicken (or some main dish), pink wafer cookies and 2 bite brownies.
The pink wafer cookies he liked because they were soft and he was worried about a filling at the back of his mouth falling out.
He also had this scientific thing in his house that was supposed to oscillate and give a printout of the oscillation, but every now and then it would go completely crazy and the oscillation would not look at all like an oscillation. This may have been because water was getting in the machinery. There was a fountain that seemed to be made in the base of it. James was watching. He thought it great fun.
Then James and I went to some type of school/university we had the choice of taking the bus or the train/subway. You used the same ticket for each. I think we took the bus? Good transit anyway. We stopped and got out and entered the student cafeteria. In the first part of the cafeteria, there weren't many people, but when we got to the non-English speaking section, it was suddenly full. The section with semi-English speaking people was semi-full.
Al was talking to this chinese looking guy on the street and decided he wanted to take him to a movie. Al got in his car. The guy didn't make any move to get in. I got in the back seat, leaving the front seat free for the guy. Al drove up on the sidewalk, closer to the guy. Al was explaining what movie he wanted to see. The movie was in French. Al opened the passenger side door wide open to let the guy get in.
Then in RL James got up.

Ready for flight

James and I were getting ready for a flight.

Georges (my boss at RMC)was there with us. He gave James this activity book that had it's spine on the short end (mostly books have their spine on the long end). It was an activity book having to do with prayer and scripture. James seemed to enjoy it.

Georges had seen my apartment not my house.

I left James with him while I went to have a shower in preparation for the flight. THe flight was only in a couple of hours.

At the airport (maybe before this) my parents were there and playing a sort of peek-a-boo game with James. He was so happy to see them. He didn't expect to see them there.

A RL aside: The gift George gave is one he in RL would be unlikely to give. He, being my boss, is someone who sees my flaws and tries to actively get me to work on them.

Driving for groceries

This dream involved a lot of driving for supplies and being ordered out of the car by Jack (Kim's ex-husband) For some reason Kim and Jack were sharing the use of the 2 vehicles from their marriage and he would come by and arbitrarily stop us and have us get out and switch cars, saying he was going to work or something. Never planned ahead of time- like an ambush. For some reason, sometimes it was Myron alone in the car and he was very obedient to Jack. Kim and I gave him a bit of fuss.

There was also a dream about James having this hugely poopy diaper. Messy! (Very glad he doesn't wear diapers anymore in Real Life!)

Money

my dream that I woke up from at 2:30am
There were different types of money I saw. Our fax machine kept printing off these $1000 bills. They were very big, but they were worthless. There was some sort of choice that had to be made between the different monies.

my dream that I woke up from at 6:30am
this was an interesting one. I'm not sure if I'll remember the right order on all of it.

Most of the dream was set in a Church that was not my own. It may have been some variation of the Church that we did Bible School in a couple of weeks ago. It didn't have the same look but it had the same feel.

The childrens' room was a mess. I went to clean it up.

I was in the childrens' room and trying to find something James had left there. He was in daycare.

I called Myron to ask if he had brought James to daycare. I hadn't. How could I forget to bring my child to daycare? Then I couldn't remember if he went in the morning or the afternoon.

Then Caitlin and Sharon came into the room and we were looking out the window at the stars. I saw some really cool red star clusters move in the sky. I thought it was really cool- the aurora borealis, I said. Caitlin and Sharon agreed. But then I checked my eyes or my glasses and I realized they needed cleaning that the red streaks may have been from dirty streaks. That the red streaks weren't real. But once I had cleaned everything up, oh, how the stars seemed to shine, so clear and so many.
Caitlin was telling me that they wanted to meet with me later.

People from the church wanted to lock up, they didn't say this but I just knew.

I went to the post office. It wasn't far- may have been in the church? I don't remember what I was standing in line for but as I was leaving I saw a small package that might have contained an candy egg (small). I think it was from my best friend for Myron but it was postmarked in 1997. This package had gone a long way to get here.

People were milling around waiting.

I had left a family with some food, but it had been in their fridge a while and some of it had gone off. I said oh well at least you still have the eggs, but when they opened up their carton, the 4 or 5 eggs left were broken.

I told someone I was going to compete in the winter Olympics in the 5 x 5 skiing team. I had not skied in ages but Canada needed participants for the team. I figured, I was healthy, I could do it, so I signed up. 5 x 5 meant a team of 5 people, each did one of the 5 legs of the race.
I was trying to figure out how I should go there plane, train or bus.

There was a lady who wanted to come to Kingston to attend a school conference on teaching those under 5. I was helping her find if she had the right place and find a hotel.

from a dream dictionary:
Eggs
Eggs are symbolic of something new and fragile. They represent life and development in its earliest forms and, as such, the possibilities are limitless. At times, eggs can represent captivity or entrapment. Carl Jung said that eggs represent our captive souls. Therefore, the egg in your dream may very well represent you in the most profound sense. Are you trapped in a shell or did you break out of it and are now free to soar?

Childrens museum

In the dream I called it a childrens museum but I don't think it really was. James and I biked there. There were a big load of teenage boys biking there too. The roads were unfamiliar to me, but I seemed to know where I was going. The bike racks near the museum were full but there were some further away that were empty so we went there. The bike racks were big triangles that you could hang your bike on. If school had been in, my thought was that the bike racks would be full.
We went in. There was a room where you could buy kids clothing. There was a dress up room with more kids clothing. There were toys and things too. James wasn't as interested in the clothes as I was. We spent a while there and then went back to the house.
Shieleen was there with an envelope of something.

Loading a plane

James, my mum and I were trying to get on a plane. The security people took extra special care with my mom. They checked everything about her. James and I were off to the side waiting.

We were working out travel plans. Trying to figure out if I should keep james at the airport because we had another plane to catch in 9 hours. It is a 3 hour trip home and back and we were very tired, so it should have been a no brainer, but we were still considering all the options.

The mall

There was a time of lack at the mall. Noone was buying anything. There were a few people sitting around, but the shops were barren.
The was a person there who was going to work witha particular type of people (can't remember now). They had left their luggage while they went away for a minute. I looked at the luggage and they had brought a ball glove. Beside it I lay some card of boxing gloves.
I made a purchase.
Things were starting to pick up.
The mall was suddenly full and busy. Purchases were being made.
I went to take a bus. While I was waiting at the bus stop I could see a 'fancy bus' that had stopped for a rich man to stop- maybe he was a speaker. He had brought his new wife and his ex-wife. The ex was showing the new one around the place. They were quite friendly, but I thought it was odd- shouldn't the ex want to push the new wife down? I was waiting for the other shoe to fall but it didn't.

I may be over-Rustlesizing but when I woke up I thought the barren picture of the mall is where Rustle is spiritually now. When the mall is busy is where God wants to get us. There are people who don't have the money to make spiritual purchases and there are people who don't know how to make purchases. We need to prepare the way for them.

Job anxiety

(I am starting a new job in September)

In my dream, my class was coming in. I was greeting them, it was pleasant. Then I realized that I had not scheduled myself a TA to work with me and that I would have to deal with all of them on my own. I had 4 TAs but they weren't much help. How could I have forgotten something like that?

Dreams from my holiday:
Aug 4
Dreamt about superheros who were tied down with lots of red tape and paperwork
Aug 5
Dreamt I had a present of raw meat for Chelsea
I was biking downhill on Princess St. to the water. People were obstacles.
Aug 7
Dreamt I was the first speaker at a conference Michelle had organized. I spoke from Every Woman's Battle Workbook and 1 other book. I spoke for a good hour. Then something happened.
Al was in a car.
Some monsters came.

I was driving a van. I did some of the driving without my glasses on but I tried hard to remember them. The van was full of kids. Mainly girls. I had to reorganize them so the little boy sat on the boot seat- a little seat near the end of the van. The boy was younger than the girls.
Aug 9
Dreamy about communities helping and goodness.

10 rows of 10

Yesterday I got back from St. C and in the evening met with Sandy about
the prayer letter. The meeting went well, but after these meeting I tend
to get Rustly type dreams and last night was true to form:

I was in the clothing room at Rustle and there were heaps and heaps of
clothes. The clothes I remember were a bit odd- I don't know enough about
clothes to describe them properly but they weren't terribly practical. All
of these people said they would help and I made up this game as to how we
could have fun with the clothing room and then people went away for dinner
and didn't come back! I waited and found lots of great clothes while they
were gone, but they did not come back.

Then the scene changed and it was a different room. The Rustle people
(many I didn't know)- we were all lined up in 10 lines with 10 people
each. Each line was a 'team' for the scavenger hunt. In this case the
people went out in groups rather than individually and I knew they would
all come back as a team.

I will post some dreams from my trip soon, but I didn't have too many because I didn't sleep much!

Work

Last night and tonight I have dreamt about work (at Queens)
I have had to deal with rhe head of dept this week so that is probably why

This past night, I was in charge of finding all the people who cheated. There were 2 people who were helping me, making appointments with the students, I just had to let them know the names. They had the names of the first ones but there were a few after. Everything was really rushed as I was trying to graduate too. All of my report had to be done within 24 hours. I had to have a video to go along and I was shooting it on the last day. Scanning around the different rooms. I didn't know any of the students being called out for copying (generally, I know all of my students- all 600 of them!) I remember the great pressure to get things done. There was a bookcase rolling towards me. I screamed but it was stopped by another bookcase that was in the way of it. I felt that I had just scraped by. (and that is how I feel about the new position- will I just be scraping by? because the coordinator has made it clear that he feels to do this position you need a PhD, which I do not have. Actually, the person who did the job last year did not have a PhD either)

Yesterday, there was something that looked like an oil rigger with a boom that came off it and circled around. The boom had a sattelite dish on it. (I have a bit more written in my dream book- hopefully how it relates to my work, as I remember it had something to do with that, but I didn't have time to write it down here yesterday, so I lost a lot of it)