Gorrillas in the Mist

I hate that when you wake up, you start to forget all the details of your dream, no matter how vivid they felt hours or even minutes before waking up.  


Last night I had a strange dream.  I remember that it was winter, it was dark and foggy.  I, along with some friends and family were at an old Spanish Mission. It didn't have a roof.  Even though it was a little foggy, we could clearly see the night sky and the bright stars.  There was a Karaoke contest.  Each contestant had to choose a friend to sing with. I remember it was my friend Brenda's turn and before she went she turned to look at me and told me she had not had any time to prepare.  She grabbed her partner and they did a Celine Deon number.  It was awful, I saw some people shaking their heads.  I didn't want to tell her it was bad so when she finished and asked me what I thought, I told her I thought it was okay.  Another couple soon started singing and they got the crowd going, the music got louder and there was no doubt they had won the competition.  


The next thing I know, the contest is over and it is just me with several cousins and aunts/uncles.  It was still dark and we were still in this old Mission.  My cousin Gerson asked me if I had any idea of anything fun we could do.  I told him that all of us could go for a walk.  He said, "Well, where would we go walking?  I don't think they want to see corn fields and dairies which is what's around this place".  I said, "Well, there is this place that I know of... it's a very long walk but it's a secret road that takes you to this amazing view of the ocean"  He looked at me and said, "How are we going to see the ocean from the valley???"  I told him that it was a secret road that would take us there.
  

Then my aunt Alicia comes over and says she knows just the place we could all go to.  She said that she doesn't have exact directions but that once she starts driving, that it will come to her.  So we all get in the cars. I ride in the front with my aunt and have about 2 other cars following us.  It is still dark and foggy.  My aunt starts driving very fast and I start to panic and ask her if she's sure she knows where she's going.  She says "Oh sure! Don't worry!"  We come to a narrow dirt road, there are a lot of tiny rocks on the ground.  It's dark, foggy and I can only see a few feet in front of me and my aunt is driving at 80 miles an hour.

I get scared as I see huge trailer trucks in the incoming traffic lane, as they pass it feels like if we are about to crash since the road is very narrow.  I yell at my aunt, "Aunt Alicia! Slow down!  Maybe I should drive!".  All of a sudden she starts to slow down and the fog starts to disappear.  I see that we are in front of a huge wall of snow.  I KNEW we'd get lost.  My aunt says "We're here!"  

I say "Aunt, we are in front of a giant snow wall".  She says, "I know... we have to drive through that".  She then starts the car again and we drive right through the wall.  I am looking in amazement as the car goes through the snow wall and then we are at a meadow.  Everyone gets out of the car.  I notice a cabin and my aunt says that we should get the Salvadorian chicken tamales ready.  I asked her where were we going to buy the ingredients.  She says all we had to do is stick our arms in the snow wall and search for tamales.  They would be wrapped in green leaves and cold but that all she had to do was put them in hot water to cook them.  So several of us start shoving our arms into the wall searching for these tamales.  I was surprised when I felt something and amazed when I pulled out my arm with a tamale in my hand! lol  My stomach started growling, even though the tamale was frozen I was already seeing it hot and ready to eat.

 All of a sudden my cousins start a soccer game (yes it is still night... all this is happening at night).  I join in as well but then out of the trees, this huge gorilla comes out.  I get scared but the others don't and act like they know him and continue playing the game like if it was just another person that joined in.  The huge gorilla starts running around and chasing the ball but I stop playing as I am too scared of him.  I start exploring the place by myself and go inside the woods a little.  Soon I discover some sort of Zoo or was it a a sanctuary?  I notice that there was an orangutang by the entrance dancing... persuading the people to go inside.  I noticed that his feet were too close together, he had some chains on his feet.  I got upset that the people would torture this orangutang, making him dance just to entertain people.  I set my mind to free him.  I get closer to him.  I stand right in front of him and I stare into his eyes trying to get him to trust me.  He stares back at me with sad eyes.  We stay staring at each other and that is when the dream ends.

 

Fireworks!

This dream is one I had very early in the morning because when I woke up it was still so fresh in my mind and I had to tell my brain to separate dream from reality.

Anyway, in my dream I was asleep in bed and I wake up because I heard some sounds in the kitchen. I went to the kitchen and then I heard my brother calling me for something. He was in the shower. I just yelled back "What?!" but noticed he didn't respond so I got closer to the bathroom and yelled again "What?!". Still nothing, I just heard the water running. Well that was weird, I thought.

I then go into the garage and notice that one of the cars is gone and I hear faint talk and music outside. The garage was halfway open and it still looked dark outside because it was probably around 3 or 4am in the morning. I saw a man's legs in the driveway and I opened the garage all the way up. What I saw next shocked me. The man was tall and he was dressed like a circus master. I went out to the front of the house and saw that there was some magical block party going on. It seemed like in each house, there was something interesting going. I looked up at the sky and saw some really interesting fireworks that I had never seen before. The designs and patterns they made in the night sky was breathtaking.

I asked the tall guy in my driveway where my car was and he said, "Oh don't worry Miss! What I have here for you are much more amazing cars! He then proceeded to show me two cars that he was trying to sell to me. One of them was a shiny green car parked on the lawn and the other one was a white Cadillac. I told him that I didn't like the green car and he said, "That's quite alright! I have many more you can choose from!" With that, he got on the green car and took off and said he would be back with another model. I was still amazed that this 'block party' was happening in the neighborhood. I noticed that my dad was talking with another man in the front lawn. My brother then comes out of the house and is as surprised as me to see everything that is going on. I told him to look at the fireworks.

I went inside the garage because I noticed that my mother was putting a bunch of clothes from the dryer into the Cadillac. I was confused and asked her what she was doing. She said, "Well, I'm putting the clothes in the Cadillac silly". lol She said, "I want to buy this car because it's spacious and a good place to put clothes once they come out of the dryer". I looked at my mom like she had grown a third head. Suddenly, I saw some men from across the street coming towards us carrying video cameras, microphones, etc. They said, "Miss! Can we interest your mother in making a music video?" My mom told me to tell them to leave, so I did.

 

When I went back outside, I noticed that the things seemed much calmer and quieter. I looked at my watch and saw it was getting closer to sunrise. As I looked around the neighborhood I saw that the entertainers were disappearing one by one. The sky was changing color and becoming brighter and the fireworks were gone as well. I looked at the garage and the Cadillac filled with clothes was gone and in its place was our regular car.

The sun came out and then, everything looked normal again. Everything and everybody was gone. It was just only me outside now. I was still in shock and confused at what I had just seen. I just said, "What... was that???"

Frogs

I was in a room that was considered mine although it didn't look like my room in real life. I was asleep in bed, wearing a long white nightgown.

It was around 5am in my dream and I was lying in bed. I turned my head and noticed that the wall was splattered with something green. I got out of the bed to look at it closely and as I did, I noticed a big....fat...huge frog, right in my room! it was the size of a basketball. I screamed because it looked hideous! I jumped up in my bed but the frog seemed to be as scared as I because it was jumping all over the place. We were both trying to get away from each other.

Finally, the frog and I were at the opposite ends of the room, staring at each other. The frog then opens it's mouth, makes a burping sound as three little green balls like rollie pollies roll out of his mouth and across the room near my feet. Then the balls open up into tiny frogs (not tadpoles) and I start to freak out as I realize that this frog is about to give birth to tiny frogs all over my room. The frog did that about 3 times and I had tiny frogs jumping all over my room. Then, the frog goes near my night table and he stands up and puts his arms on the table. I am standing behind him holding a stick and ready to smack it dead. I was about to so but then felt sorry for the frog because it looked like he was at a bar waiting for a drink. How could I kill it at such a moment? lol

Then the dream faded out.

Underwater Life

I had several different short dreams last night.
They were very vivid, it was like watching a movie.
Anyway, one of the dreams I most remember was this one:

It was very early in the morning and I was at a lake that was surrounded by really high dark rock mountains which blocked the sunlight. I was with a good friend of mine and some guy, I didn't know him. My friend was standing at the edge of this rock and the guy was telling her that she had to jump and dive down to the water. It was extremely high up and I was squatting on another rock, much lower than her, I could touch the water if I wanted to. My friend looked very small and I remember feeling scared and nervous for her. The guy kept telling my friend Johanna that she had to not only jump but perform a series of flips as she dove down.

Suddenly, the sun seemed to be moving above us and some sun rays were hitting the water. I looked at the water and saw hundreds of people under the water, they seemed to just be lying there with their eyes open, facing me. They seemed to be trying to arrange themselves to form a word that we could read from above. As more rays hit the water, I saw things more clearly. It looked like there were people living under water. I saw this little girl carrying a basket and she was climbing a ladder... this was all under water. I then shouted up at Johanna and told her she could not jump in because there were people under the water.

Rocky, Panther & Some Drugs

It was in the afternoon sometime and I was in a strange house with a bunch of family members; I could not point out who exactly, just that they were family. The room I was in had a big glass window that looked out to the backyard. I turned my head and I saw Rocky. This scared me a little because Rocky was my 12 year old Siberian Husky who passed away in 2010. So, I get up and go out and see him. I touch him and hug him tight and start crying from happiness, that he is there. 

All of a sudden, the backyard turns into a forest and Rocky keeps nudging at me with his nose wanting me to follow him. So I do, and then I discover lying on the ground sleeping, my other dog Panther! She was a 13 year old lab/shepherd mix dog that I had. She seemed healthy but was blind (Panther did lose her sight before she died). I was so happy to see her as well and I hugged her and guided her back to the house along with Rocky.

The next thing I know, I am taking them out for a walk. I am walking with someone... a male figure but I don't know who. It is night time. We get to this apartment complex and see that there are some police cars and seems like some men are on a mission. I ask a group of girls what is going on. One of them tells me that the police are looking for a girl who they fear might be overdosing on some drugs.

So, I also try and search for this girl. I'm also hiding from the police because if they catch me, they would take me as well. Finally, I climb up some metal stairs and I reach this metal balcony where I found the girl. She was sitting in the corner of the balcony and she was just wearing a white gown, her hair long and loose and a mess. She had cuts in her face, she was looking down but then heard me come up. I was frozen because she looked scary. She then looked up at me and she looked like she was possessed. I got really scared and climbed down those stairs really fast. 

Then, the dream gets confusing. I don't know what is clearly going on. I just see images of people arguing. One image was of some people arguing about the girl in the apartment. Then an image of me arguing with 2 or 3 people, because they had done something to Rocky and Panther and I was very upset, I think I mentioned that they were still delicate from waking from death and was upset that they had made my dogs race or something, I can't quite remember.

Then, I woke up. I now have a black lab, he's 10 months old. Every morning he comes up to my window and I tell him 'Good Morning'. I felt weird, after dreaming of Rocky & Panther... but I kissed Shadow's head. The loss of Rocky & Panther was tough and Shadow has filled that void so I thanked him.

Lucid Dreaming

Lately I have been having very strange dreams. 

They say that if you keep a journal of your dreams, you can eventually have lucid dreams. Dreams in which you are aware of the fact that you are dreaming and thus giving you control of the dream.

I started out posting my dreams at sawlogs.com and I admit that keeping a journal of my dreams somehow has made me keep having strange dreams.

I started this Blog so that I can continue writing down my dreams, some of which are so bizzare that I have a laugh while reading them later.  I could not make this stuff up!  The brain sure works in mysterious ways lol