Sleep Paralysis

I suffer from sleep paralysis sometimes. I had it got it a lot as a child and mostly grew out of it, but sometimes it pops up again.

For those who don't know: Normally when you go to sleep your brain shuts down your body (for the most part) this is normal. People who's bodies don't shut down during sleep suffer from sleep walking/talking. Sometimes the opposite of that happens, where the body is shut down while the mind is still awake. Usually this happens just as you are about to fall asleep or just as you're waking up. Episodes of sleep paralysis can be accompanied by auditory or visual hallucinations that are a little like mini-dreams. These hallucinations can be terrifying, and my last one was.

I was laying in bed and there was a shadow outside my window. It was trying to seep in around the edges of the window plane, and something bad was going to happen to me if it got in. I knew what was going on, but that didn't stop the choking horror at this thing.

I did eventually snap out of it, but damn I hate when that happens.

The Bad Men Outside

This was a real nightmare, haven't been this scared in a dream in a long time.

I was sitting in my bed reading when I looked out the window (which in real life is covered with many sheets) and saw several men in my backyard. They all carried heavy tools like pipe wrenches or steel mallets. They hadn't seen me (somehow, my window isn't small and there was nothing between me and them to block their view, they just weren't looking at me) I knew these men would want to hurt me if they knew I was there. I rolled off my bed and hid between it and the floor.

Then I heard a tapping on my window. I wasn't looking but I knew one of the men had seen me and was using the pipe wrench to tap on my window to get my attention. He would want me to open the window to let him in. I ran from my room towards the garage. I keep my keys in my nightstand and they were within easy reach but for some reason I didn't grab them. I was thinking I should grab them and as I ran I was cursing myself for not getting them, because without them I wouldn't be able to start my car and drive away. But I knew in my mind it was to late to go back and grab them because soon the men would brake the window and come for me.

I woke up before reaching my car.

A side note, my room was mostly the same as how it is in real life, except at the foot of my bed where my tv is there was a really long alcove that added a strange 8ft long 2ft wide extension to room.


Real Room:
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|tv    bed   |
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Dream Room:
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|     bed  |
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Mirror Cat

I had this dream before we got Itty but after I knew we were going to get her. I was in the bathroom standing at the sink. In the mirror in front of me was a small black kitten, that is, there was a reflection of a cat, but no real cat to cast the reflection. She stood between the mirror and the sink faucet, so it wasn't as if she was behind me and I just just couldn't see her from where I was standing.

This didn't freak me out. I was happy because I knew the real kitten would be there soon (in a few seconds apparently). I closed my eyes for a second and turned my head to face the shower. When I opened my eyes the black kitten came out from behind the cabinet and rubbed up against my legs.

Then I woke up.

The Least Magical Place On Earth

I was going on a trip to DisneyLand. I was flying up with a group of people. We kinda had to rush out the door, because of this I forgot my boarding pass on the coffee table (the house in my dream was mine, but it was not my waking house). The pass was a normal sized piece of paper printed off from the computer with my info on it that I had folding into fourths. Without my pass I wouldn't be able to do anything, it had my hotel reservations, but tickets to the park and my airplane ticket.

I probably wouldn't have time to drive back and get it myself, it was almost time to get on the plane.

Someone I was with at the airport that wasn't going with us offered to go get it. I wanted to go with her, because I knew right where it was, but she took off without me. I chased after her van for a few feet, but there was no way to catch up to her. I had the feeling she wasn't coming back.

I called my mom and told her what I had done and asked her to bring the pass to me. Instead she just started lecturing me on how I always pull shit like this and what I needed to do to fix it, ie buy everything all over again. I couldn't get through to her that I just needed her to bring me the damn piece of paper but she wouldn't stop talking long enough to listen. Then I woke up.

Legos and Hair Removal

I had three separate dreams today, one while napping and two in the morning.

In the first one, I was looking at a lego chess set. Or half of one. There was only one side represented. They were little guys done up like the castle figures, with shields and swords and what not. The were still in the packaging and the picture on the front showed them defending a castle (that was not included), there were two carved pieces that weren't people too. A tower and a volcano, which were about the same size. I remember thinking that the tower was the rook and that the volcano was 'the other building chess piece'. I was disappointed that there was only one of each in the package, because you needed two to play. Chess set makers are always skimming on the volcanoes pieces, making you buy extra.

That's how they get you.

My other dream was something about interviewing a guy. I remembered it okay when I got up but as of writing this, I just can't remember. Sorry. It was kinda like the interviews that I've been reading in World War Z, in style if not content.

As for the dream I had while napping.

I was taking a shower when I absently started shaving my bikini zone. I was about half way done when I realized what I was doing and got pissed off. I wanted to wax this area of my body for my trip to Vegas, however the hair has to be long enough for the wax to grab or it won't work. Now that I've shaved it, the hair won't have enough time to grow to the needed length. Having done this I leave my shower and go to my room and grab I bottle that Adora has given me of a caustic hair removal cream. I haven't tried it yet for the same reason I haven't shaved. But with that option gone I figure I might as well give it a shot. Then I wake up.

Interesting note: Adora has given me a caustic hair removal cream that I have yet to try for this exact reason.

Patron Goddess of Balloon Jumping

This dream was: Fully Interactive

I could fly viva large balloon thing. You know those balloon towers that they have at car lots? I had one of those. I also stayed inside the whole time. Okay, I couldn't really 'fly' but I could jump like a mo-fo. Also, I traveled or directed myself viva internet, somehow. I never went into cyberspace or anything, but the internet was important for some reason.

The dream started off with me in... I have no idea what kind of room it was, but there where a lot of people there setting up something. People were impressed and it seems like I was setting some sort of record with my jumping.

Then the dream took a hard left at reality and I took an elevator down to a huge palace structure that was very Greek pantheon in nature. There was a lot of political intrigue going on, but I didn't understand or participate in a lot of it. I remember one of the last things people were talking about before I woke up was complaining that the internet connection was slowing down.

Another Day, Another Pink Slip

The dream starts with me getting a call from Joe, my supervisor for Monument- which is the company that has me posted at B&N. Anyway I get a call from him telling me that I need to go in early and that I have new job duties. B&N has bought and is going to open a donut shop that is across the street. I am supposed to get the place open, also I am supposed to take a shower there. Only in dreams does something like that make sense.

Well, I get there and I don't have the keys, or any way to do any of the things I need to do. Strangely not being able to open the door does nothing to prevent anyone from entering or leaving the place, but it isn't 'open' because it is still locked. This is where my dream gets a little hazy. A bunch of stuff happens, but I really can't remember what...

I remember the shower I was supposed to use, a huge glass room that was hidden from the street but clearly visible to anyone in the building. I can't use the shower for some reason, maybe it is locked too. I take a partial shower at B&N, enough to get wet but not enough to soap up. I don't get dressed all the way, I don't want to put on my uniform before being able to clean up, so I'm just wearing my back turtle neck. Strangely I never feel naked at any point in the dream. Also as a side note, the uniform I am trying to wear in my dream is NOT the uniform I wear at B&N but my night job uniform. That's just kinda funny to me.

People start coming in the donut shop before I've been able to get anything done. One of the guys that works at the cafe is at the counter (a real guy who really works at the cafe, but he is new and I don't even know his name), but he can't ring anybody up because he doesn't have a cash drawer and I haven't brought any merchandise out. I still want to take that shower, even though there are people in the building now that would be able to clearly see me. I am concerned about being watched, but not because of any nudity, but because I think that people watching me tuck in my shirt and buckle my belt would make me look unprofessional.

So I have pretty much failed to do everything I was supposed to do. This is when Julie comes in. Julie is the lead manager at B&N. She fires me. Hands me my last paycheck and everything. Dream-Julie looked nothing like her real-life counter part interestingly. Also real-life Julie is not my boss, does not pay me and as no authority to fire me (I guess she could cancel the account with my employers or simply demand I be replaced, but she can't outright fire me herself). I know that any one of the things I've done wrong would not have been enough to fire me, so I ask what the final straw was, she looked like she was going to tell me but I never got that answer.

But it's not done yet! I get to talk to Joe in his office. I have never meet Joe in person and his office, if he has one, would be in LA. He is going to try and find somewhere else to send me. I find this very gratifying and a great big relief. Even though I got the company in trouble with B&N they are going to stand behind me and help me find more work. =)

And then I wake up.