I Had a Dream...

I've had some really odd dreams. I'm pretty sure all of my readers have heard about at least a few of them, but I'm going to attempt to compile some of my strangest ones. I can come up with some sort of explanation for the first three, but I have no idea if the others have any relation to reality whatsoever.

Last night, my dream involved derivatives, an academic team meet, and presidential candidates. I was at an academic team meet, and we had to compare the derivatives of the presidential candidates' stances on certain topics. When I was rudely awoken up by my alarm clock, I continued to try to solve the problem for a minute or two before I woke up enough to realize that I didn't really have to find the derivatives of their stances and that such a task was a category mistake.


In a rather recent dream, Kari Buchheim had had a nightmare in which dogs were wearing glasses (in real life, I had seen these glasses on a friend of mine I ran into this weekend for the first time in over a year). We arrived at school, and everyone was wearing the same glasses the dogs in her nightmare had worn. For the rest of the day, we ran around the school trying to hide from the people wearing glasses. Hannah Irvine kept on creeping up on us and scaring the crap out of Kari. At one point I gave up (on escaping? I'm not sure exactly what I was giving up on) and laid down on the ramp between the locker area and the English hallway. The Jeremy Bell came up to me and startled me. He wasn't wearing glasses.

This is the only dream out of this collection that counts as a nightmare, but I can think of few people other than my eleven-year-old self who would be frightened by it as I was at the time. I freaked out quite a bit in the weeks leading up to the commencement of middle school. One night, I had a dream that someone had put my schedule in my locker, but I couldn't find my locker without a schedule. I ran all over the huge building (I can't believe I used to think it was so large) searching for someone to help me, but they were all in class where they were supposed to be. I ended up running away from a teacher who I assumed was trying to give me a detention, but I kept getting lost.

Another time, I was sitting in a sunlit cottage in a clearing in a forest late one morning. There were three doors and a window. The window faced the east (thus letting in the morning sun), the door to the outside faced the west and had a small window, and the other doors led to rooms. I was in the main room. It was a light greyish color and had no source of light other than the sun. The only pieces of furniture were a table covered in a white tablecloth and I chair I was sitting in. On top of the table was a basket containing many different types of apples. I was trying to cook apple pies for my friends, but I couldn't remember which apples each one liked best.

I was standing alone in a sunlit, circular tower made of stone in a clearing in a forest. There was nothing inside the tower, and it wasn't paved. The floor was grass. There were narrow, un-paned windows arranged so that they spiraled up the tower (I'm not sure that was a clear description, but I can't think of how to describe it in words), and they let in lots of sun. I was the only person in the tower, but there were several robins and cardinals clinging to the walls and singing.

This dream came from seven or eight years ago, but I still remember it well. I know this one will sound familiar to at least one of you. I was in an expansive white room. I couldn't see any walls or windows, but it was naturally lit. Tall, white, regularly-spaced columns held up the lofty ceiling. The floor was a black and white checkered pattern. Near where I stood, there was an orange goldfish in a bowl on a pedestal and a black cat trying to catch the fish.