Strange Dream: Archive

Purple Wedding Reptiles

There was a princess who was marrying an extraterrestrial. The alien did not speak English and had a smooth, gray exoskeleton. At first I was under the impression that the princess was being forced into the marriage. They both really loved the color purple and wore matching elaborate outfits that were exclusively various shades of purple. On their wedding day, they presented gifts to each other...

Dec 12th

Squeeze

My mother was alive and living with my dad again. She had been completely cured of her illness. Liz was still in California and my brother still married and living with his own wife and son, but I was living at home. Rob’s wife came over and asked my parents about their upcoming wedding. I was angry because they hadn’t told me yet that they were getting remarried. It had not...

Mar 13th

Alligator Swamp

At first I was just part of a team investigating some suspicious activity way out in a southern swamp concerning a hideous, backwoods old white man who was married to a younger girl. The younger girl was identical to Christina Ricci. There were some murders in the area and everyone suspected the old man was involved and feared that the young wife was next. It was agreed by the others on my team...

Nov 17th

Tube Socks

A zombie epidemic was just beginning. There were a lot of people being quarantined by the government because they were suspected of being infected. One of them was Mark. I was sure that he wasn’t infected and that they had simply made a mistake because he was acting like a psychopath, as usual. I found the cell they had locked him in and he looked fine. There were no visible marks...

Nov 16th

Flea Market Wizard

I was with my dad and 2 people who were supposed to be my mother and sister, but they weren’t. They were extremely pale and had red hair. We were all at this giant indoor/outdoor flea market for diamonds and jewelry and we were all supposed to select a piece of jewelry for ourselves. My red-headed mother and sister were acting very greedy and obnoxious, but accused me of being an ingrate...

Jun 19th

Mardi Gras Chewing Gum

There was a huge Mardi Gras parade in a city that looked like New Orleans but wasn’t. Erin and Jess S. were there with me and we were drinking and running around in confetti and generally having a good time. We were the only women there. At some point I decided to take my top off and run through the street and everyone was cheering. Erin kept laughing and saying she couldn’t believe...

Jun 16th

Grandma's Wedding

I was sick in bed and my grandma was getting married. There were a lot of things going on outside my bedroom in preparation for the wedding, but I couldn’t see what any of them were because the door was closed. Everytime I would wake up, I would find that someone had broken in and completely disassembled my clock radio, and it felt very threatening, like a warning that they could come...

Jun 13th

Radishes Are Junk Food

My dad, brother, and I were all at a barbecue some guy was throwing that I didn’t know, but worked with my dad. Although we weren’t at home, it was understood that my brother and I still lived at our dad’s house. There was a delapidated trailer next door on a large swath of land. It was a faded bluish-gray, and the foundation beneath it was in the process of a very slow...

Jun 11th

Rich Past

I traveled back in time to sometime in the mid to late 80’s. I was unsure whether or not the time travel was intentional. However, I had my current laptop with me including all of my current computer programs. My plan was to call Adobe and sell them the technology they would have created in the future anyway. My dad didn’t seem to get why this was such a great idea, but my little...

Dec 29th

Flexible Benefits

I bought a bunch of things at the drug store that all happened to be eligible for purchase with my flexible benefits card. I was especially excited when it turned out that even my gum was covered since without realizing it, the gum I’d chosen was antibacterial.

Nov 5th

Orange is the New Crack

I was at Chris O.’s place and there were a lot of other people wandering through the house. Most of them were extended family members of his. Every single light in the house was on and they were all uncomfortably bright. Chris pulled me aside and said he needed to show me what he really did for a living. I jokingly asked if he was a prostitute. He said he wasn’t and then he pulled...

Oct 10th

Getting Rid of Evidence

I was on a really stressful vacation with my dad, but the vacation house was actually his regular house. There were tons of people there, and the vacation ended when someone let my dog out and she flipped out and attacked an 8-year-old boy. He only had a scratch on his arm and he wasn’t crying, but the attack sounded really vicious so we decided to leave anyway in case someone had called...

Oct 2nd

Stormy Weather

Megan and I were moving into my old house on Chatham Lane. A couple had been living there for the 10 years since Liz and I moved away. As we inspected the house, we noticed the couple had randomly left things around the house with notes attached. They were things they really thought we would use and enjoy, but most of the stuff was just junk, like a lawnmower motor or a box of photos of someone...

Oct 1st

Young American Jihad

I was driving down highway 401 S when I was sideswiped and run off the road by a giant, black, SUV. A bunch of teenage boys got out and were really pissed about the sideswiping, even though I was the one who had been victimized. They took turns going into my car and pulling things out of it and destroying them. They were cutting up my credit cards and crushing anything that was visibly left...

Sep 16th

Twister

I was hanging out with a group of people in a basement. Some of those people were supposed to be coworkers, but Bruce Willis and a rednecky version of Brad Pitt were also there. We were all watching a movie that was a sequel to “Twister”. While the movie played, Brad Pitt was moving his hand around the back of my underwear. I felt a little guilty because I knew he had a girlfriend,...

Jul 29th

Burning the Belfry

My Aunt Annie was coming to help out our family with something. I kept making uncomfortable jokes about suicide and my Aunt Annie got really angry with me and told me how inappropriate she thought that was. I defended myself by saying that it should be understandable considering my upbringing. Later I was returning home from a family reunion. I lived in a big mansion that was empty and haunted....

Jul 17th

Apparition

Some aliens had just been repelled from the neighborhood I was living in using a satellite that had a powerful beam that shot into space. There was crowd watching, and when they dispersed, I began walking to my house, which was my dad’s house. On the way I noticed the house next door had a strange, gold-colored apparition hovering around it. My friend Christi was living in the house....

Jul 16th

Castaway

I was on an island where it was always nighttime and always raining. There were a handful of other castaways there, but the only one I recognized was Tyrone, a roommate I had 12 years ago. He was trying to get the radio working so he could call a boat to pick us all up and take us to the mainland for supplies. Then I was sitting inside a giant ship. I was leaning forward to try and see where we...

Jul 15th

Russian Prison

I was in a Russian women’s prison. The cells were bare and everything was made of smooth concrete, like the the floor of a garage. We were free to move about the prison as we pleased. It was not very crowded. The bathroom was down the hall and had several stalls, a lot like a school bathroom. I was in a cell that was supposed to be the isolation cell. The cell had a door to the outside,...

Jul 12th

Dead Friend

I was at a business meeting and once the meeting started I realized I had brought the wrong folder with me. The folder didn’t have any samples of my interactive work. It only contained random art projects I had done over recent years. Many of them were charcoal drawings of penises. I was embarrassed and fumbling around a lot as I tried to explain myself. Then I was at Kim Wilson’s...

Jul 9th

Road Trip

Heather Y. was trying to let me borrow a white blazer for a job interview. We were both pissed to discover that there was a giant blob of spaghetti sauce on the inside. Later I was on a road trip with my brother and we made a pit stop at a used bookstore. The store was dank and dusty. My brother found a set of books on tape for The Gunslinger for $5. I thought it was a great deal.

Jul 8th

Goody Two-Shoes

I was at a small family gathering with Brian. We were a couple. I didn’t feel good so I went to bed early. When I woke up, Brian was dating my cousin Meagan, who I thought was a goody two-shoes. I was hurt and angry, and felt that Brian really wasn’t Meagan’s type.

Jul 2nd

Bitchin' Camero

I had a job that was more like a class. The office was dark and there were rows of school desks filling the room. The entrance was in an alley in a very urban area. The people sitting at the desks were high school age. My friend from high school John B. was in the class. When I arrived at work, John B. beckoned for me to come sit near him. I was happy he was there, but when I went over to the...

Jul 1st

Coming Attraction

I saw a commercial for a movie called “Betty BC”. It starred my friend Amy and the proceeds for the movie went to some sort of animal welfare cause.

Jun 28th

Bedroom

I was in the process of redecorating my bedroom, which was a lot like a room that would be in a cottage in the woods in a fairytale. There were multiple windows which were small and set high on the wall, and they were covered with little curtains that had cardinals on them. Megan and some tall, skinny cowboy in his 50’s came to drop of a dresser of mine. The cowboy wore a big ridiculous...

Jun 26th

Dogs

I was with Heather Y. inside a very complicated office building that was lit like a library and lined with mahogany bookshelves. We were looking for her accountant. It was some kind of emergency. We finally found his office and had to climb some stairs and wait for him on a balcony. I young man came out who was in his 20’s. He was wearing a black leather kilt and no shirt. He also had on...

Jun 25th

Vegetable

I was living at my dad’s house. My mother was alive but she was in a coma in my parents’ bedroom. An older couple who were someone’s aunt and uncle was visiting the house. My dad, the couple and I were all sitting around a table in the basement talking.The couple asked about my mother, and my dad quickly said “She’s in the hospital.” I thought he was lying and...

Jun 24th

1956

I was my mother when she was 17. I was also traveling through time in a time machine with a male companion. If I traveled to a past where I had once existed, my previous self would no longer exist. Only my time travelling self would exist, along with the opportunity to change whatever I’d done. I traveled back to 1956. I was walking through a school that was empty, except that my boyfriend...

Jun 23rd

Career Options

I was in a giant building. There were lots of people staying in this building. There were 2 liter Diet Pepsi bottles everywhere which had some liquid left in the bottom. At some point I was sitting at a table with a bunch of people, and a young Indian dude was telling us that teachers make a lot of money, especially if they have a Catholic education. His name was Pradeep. I told Pradeep I was...

Jun 17th

Somebody's Wedding

I was in someone’s really elaborate wedding. It was in a really upscale hotel in Manhattan and everything was gold and white. Francine and Christi were also in the wedding. Our dresses were not gold or white. They were black on top with magenta, purple, and turqoise ruffles on the bottom. We were discussing how each of us woke up at 4 AM because we were so excited about the wedding. At...

Jun 15th

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Axl Rose Boyfriend

I lived in a house with a lot of different men. They were all in their 20’s and 30’s. There was a guy there that looked like Axl Rose, and I was in a relationship with him. It felt twisted and unhealthy. He announced to everyone in the house that he was leaving and he was taking me with him and there was nothing any of them could do about it. I felt like I was being kidnapped,...

Jun 13th

Manicotti Reeboks

I went to see Mari at the shoe store where she works. Cynthia was with me, and so was a girl I knew in Catholic school named Muffy. Cynthia was trying on some pink Reebok high tops with cow print accents. She called the color “manicotti” and said she used to have some manicotti shoes a long time ago and they made her feel really sexy. Cynthia and Muffy decided to buy matching shoes. ...

Jun 10th

Gerbil Jar

I was at a grand opening of some kind, only the building was huge and had clearly been around for a very long time. Inside the building was some kind of school, some corporate offices, and a poorly ventilated room called Chinatown. Chinatown was a Chinese herb store. It also had a closet containing a squat toilet with a wooden cover. I went to Chinatown to pick up a jar of live guinea pigs. I...

Jun 9th

Euthanization

I was staying in an old, spooky Victorian with a big spire. There was an evil vampire spirit living in it that was going to kill a lot of people, and the only way to make it corporealize so I could kill it was to kill this giant, sweet dog named Grace. The dog was really big and shaggy and had dark brown and black fur. I was really sad about having to kill the the dog, and this was worsened by...

Jun 5th

Childhood House and Grief

I was in my childhood neighborhood in Casselberry, FL. I went to see my old house and there was a young Asian couple living in it. I spoke with the woman for a while. She had recently quit her job as a bone medicine saleswoman at her husband’s request. She seemed to regret having quit. She showed me her old card. I gave her my current one because I noticed our business cards looked...

Jun 3rd

Celebrity Highway

I was with a man who was a cross between Richard Gere and John Lithgow. We were at a complicated parking garage, and the man was showing me how to read the ticket. It involved looking at a letter, and then a temperature, and finding the hallway letter that corresponded with the temperature. Ours was M 4 96. We got to the car and it was a green J-series Infiniti. It was really nice, and the...

Jun 2nd

PG-13

I called Anas to tell him I was doing okay because everyone was losing their job and losing their home. I told him at least I wasn’t homeless, but when I said that it turned out that I lived in a Winnebago on top of a tall building in a dirty, futuristic, nearly sunless Chicago. There were other people living in their cars on top of that building as well. Suddenly I was watching a woman...

May 31st

Hotel Mystery

I was in a hotel with a whole bunch of people, and there seemed to be some kind of crime mystery in motion. I was involved in some way, but the mystery and my involvement were very ambiguous. I was only sure that I had not done whatever crime was being investigated. Among the group of people were an Asian couple that looked like Sun and Jin from the show “Lost”, but were not them....

May 29th

Murky Pond

I was in a building with lots of windows that looked out over a murky pond. I was talking to Genevieve about how I wanted a cushy, corporate creative director job again and to move back to Providence. I was saying how I wanted to do it before wintertime so I could walk to work in a big puffy coat, and I did a funny waddle to demonstrate what that would look like. Genevieve responded that I...

May 28th

Missing Eyes

I was in bed with my old boyfriend, Kevin. He was still living with his dad. He was holding me and we woke up together. I started to give him a blow job, but his semen was leaking out and had a bad taste. It had the consistency of glue and I kept gagging on it. I finally stopped and I said I had to get going. He looked devastated and I noticed there was a really complicated math problem written...

May 27th

Dollhouse

I was washing my hair a billion times in a stressful house with screaming kids. Madonna was there. Then I was in a room with Eliza Dushka, joking about Fox. I was in a show with her that had an actual Raggedy Ann doll that came to life. At some point I billed Juan for $120. I was fighting with Erin.

May 27th

Technology Glitch

I was recording a dream about fighting crime and a flying carousel, but when I was looking for a photo to go with the dream, instead of a regular image search, I had an extremely technologically advanced stock photo book. In order to find an image I had to write what I was looking for on the first page, and then all the subsequent pages would be the image results. I couldn’t figure out how...

May 26th

Styleville

I lived in an apartment in a township just outside of NYC, called “Styleville”. It was green and pretty and supposed to be replica of Pennsylvania Dutch Country. At some point I was riding a bicycle into New York, and my hair was bothering me. I went to smooth it out and I pulled a giant fistful of hair off my head. When I looked closely at the hair I saw that it was melted where it...

May 16th

Fleas

I woke up to discover I had fleas all over my legs. I didn’t know how to get rid of them so I went to the kitchen and put Callie’s last dose of Frontline on my own neck. I was concerned about how expensive Frontline was.

May 15th

Graduation

I was with my Liz and my dad at someone’s house, because the daughter was graduating from high school and there was a big ceremony. The house we were visiting had yellow walls and wrought iron decorations, and it was homey and nice. It was in a place that was supposed to be North Raleigh, but wasnt. Outside it was very green and sunny. I kept wishing I had grown up there. Then I was...

May 13th

Chainsaw

I was in an old warehouse with two male friends. We weren’t supposed to be in there, but we thought it would be cool to break in and hang out. Then we were attacked by some other guy. He threw my friends to the floor. When he attacked me I fought back, but then he picked up a chainsaw and used it to cut me into three pieces. My friends got up and killed him as soon as that happened, and...

May 12th

Work Scandal

I was working at a big corporation that may have been a drug company. Leanne from my old job worked there too. I was her boss. My bosses had some weird scandal going on. Based on some information I gave them, they decided Leanne knew too much about the scandal and that she had to go. I felt really terrible about causing her to lose her job, and I insisted that they help her get a new job making...

May 11th

Enslaved Golden Girls

I was going to get an HIV test. The entrance to the building was a roller coaster. I had to put a special board on the track and then ride the board down the roller coaster into the entrance of the building. People had annoyingly parked their cars so that the front end of their cars hung over the start of the track, so I had to get on the roller coaster further down. I rode the roller coaster...

May 10th

Batman: The Musical

I was stressed about money, so my mom was helping me look for jobs. I applied for a job she found for me and I went to interview for it. Another girl was applying too, and we were both sitting at the table with our mothers as we were being interviewed. The girl was a mix of my old friend Becky and my old co-worker Mir. The man interviewing us gave the other girl an extremely harsh critique of...

May 10th

Embryo Salad

I was in a surgical room waiting to have an abortion. I was really afraid. There was a cat running through the surgical room, and I made a mental note about how unsanitary that was. The nurses were discussing how to give me the abortion and none of them seemed to know what they were doing. I said I was going to go get the doctor myself, but they told me he was very busy and that he...

May 9th