Met you on the quad

My friend and I were playing around and he gave me a key to a room at Duke, and I don't remember why, but I ended up spending the night there. I woke up, and the people who lived in the room came in. They were surprised to find me there but they didn't mind. Then, either they were helping me move my stuff or I was helping them; either way, we started to move some objects out of the room. I couldn't carry all the stuff I was trying to move, and it was frankly sort of embarassing. Dropping stuff everywhere. I remember distinctly having a lot of trouble with two orange tubes of lip balm.

On one of these back and forth trips we walk past a group of guys - kind of fratty, not my type, no one I actually know in real life - who are talking about a pickup trick: accidentally touch a girl somewhere (shoulder, knee) and apologize, see how she reacts. Anyway, so this one guy tries to pull this on me, and I tell him: oh hey, can you get off, you're accidentally touching me and it's kind of annoying. He laughs, I've bruised his ego a little, but nothing he can't recover from. I'm not sure what he says next, but he gets me to laugh. And after that, we flirt a little, poke fun at each other, and next thing I know he's put his arm around me and he's asking for my name, which I tell him, and he tells me his (no recollection of what it was). So we're taking this stroll along some path on the quad, and then we pause to cross some street. He pulls out a cell phone and he's texted someone about me, and she's calling him. I can hear her say something like "well is she cute or something" and then he replies and hangs up. I ask him if that was a friend or something and he gets this sheepish look on his face. He then proceeds to tell me that him and his ex-girlfriend are still sort of seeing each other, and that he apologizes but isn't in a position where he can really pursue our connection any further. He says he can't even give me his number. Disappointed, but not terribly, I tell him no worries, I get it, I've been there. Why do we get so hung up on these quasi commitments? So I brush it off and tell him to say hi next time we see each other, no hard feelings, and I walk away, feeling pretty hot and confident about the whole event in general.

Next event I remember is that I accidentally end up at some reunion event that a girl I know from school is putting together. Problem is, I'm not part of the reunion. Trapped, however, I find out they are short-staffed so I find a spot behind a table where we're distributing donuts and pastries to guests. At one point, I'm putting a donut on a paper plate and a man who's reaching for one has long blonde hairs shedding from his sweatshirt. I begin to point this out to him. He gets offended, and grabs the donut right from under me, gripping it with excessive force and essentially squashing it.

Remembered the other day I dreamt my hair was gradually falling out. Had a bald spot.

the future?

I don't remember a lot about the dream other than I lived on my own and I had my own place. Then I was planning to have people over in my apartment and I may have posted an ad for friends in the newspaper, or maybe online. Lol

Alien theater

My friend Brendan was directing a play he'd written about an alien invasion, and I was part of the cast. It was a short, funny, audience-gets-involved kind of play, and I played an alien queen who was part of a group of people who surprised the audience by coming out of nowhere and shooting at them with fake lasers. People enjoyed it. I remember at some point, my one line was to say "Oh no, I think we're out of ammo," at which point some selected members of the audience were equipped with fake weapons and shot at us.

Sitting in a cafe

It was a combined setting of Duke and high school, I went from hanging out with some people, getting ready to see a Duke basketball game, to ending up going to a football stadium to see some other game. Taylor King was in the audience, standing by himself. As I was getting ready, I couldn't find a Duke shirt first, and then I accidentally grabbed red instead of Duke blue shorts.

Afterwards, I found myself heading to a cafe by myself, talking on my cell phone. I was randomly talking to an old high school teacher, one of my favorites, about life in general. I went into the cafe and ordered a variety of small cookies and a coffee, and sat by myself. Somehow, being on the phone wasn't rude in this place. Next to me, there was a lady, her mother, and possibly an aunt, waiting for another guest. They were eating breakfast food, one lady had two eggs and black beans. We made eye contact a few times, they smiled. Then the 4th guest showed up - the youngest's fiance, and he had brought everyone jewelry. He pulls a little jewelry bag out of nowhere and just turns it over on the table, letting it fall out, with this grin on his face. He gave his fiance a necklace I saw in Austin, the aunt some sun medallion, and the future mother in law, some other thing I can't remember. I remember the women looked at me funny, possibly embarassed by the way he just pulled the jewelry out like that.

My teacher asked me about my boyfriend, and I acted like my reception was bad because I didn't want to discuss the long story and details. The waiter tried to take my food away before I was done, and I had to tell him twice that I still wanted to eat the chocolate cookie still on my napkin.

State fair

In this odd dream, I am flipping between present and past (both imagined). I remember going to the state fair with my boyfriend and taking home a piglet. It was adorable at first, and clung to me like a puppy. Not long after, however, it becomes a nuisance in my home. It is super annoying and won't stop annoying me. It's obsessed with me and won't even let me go down the stairs without giving it attention. So I try to lock it in a contraption under the breakfast table, but it fails. Then on another occassion I go back to the state fair, and consider returning it. While I'm there, once more with my boyfriend, a little girl runs up to him and offers to trade him a t-shirt for his hat, which is a cap from my father's company. She is thrilled, and tells us her town doesn't have any big company plants in it, so she will be really cool now that she has a hat.

We also run into an old friend from high school, who I never really liked and haven't heard from in ages. She is working as a waitress for a restaurant portion of the fair. Each time we pass her, she tries to ignores us, or gives us an insincere smile.

While at the fair, I am texting an old friend. He's at the fair while we are, but never in the same place, so I don't see him. He texts me about what he's seeing at the fair, stuff he is finding and buying.

Apparently, the only reason the pig couldn't follow me to the fair on this trip is because we rode a carriage there and carriages scare the pigs because they are hazardous to them.

confusing reality

Set my alarm for 8 am.Woke up at 7:15, went back to sleep. In my sleep, shut off the 8 am alarm and unfortunately remained asleep.

I dreamt that I woke up and my friend picked me up from my house to go on the trip (which is exactly what was supposed to happen in real life, but I was actually dreaming...but believing it was reality). We even got to our destination and he was helping me take stuff out of his car. How crazy is that??

Dreaming of greater dreams

working on my lucid dreaming skills with LaBerge's methods.

Managed to have ~ 5 short dreams last night. I remembered them upon waking, but I was too lazy to write them down.

I only remember one where I went to the store and bought custom-packaged steaks. Friendly butcher.