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Category: January 2006

I was on a trip with my church choir. We'd traveled to another city. There were supposed to be bad storms there in the afternoon. I was outside, and it was sunny and beautiful. There was a waterway across the road, but no water in it. Then they opened a dam, and I saw muddy water flowing into it. I watched the water rise and thought it would keep rising over the banks, but then it didn't. Then I saw cars driving in the water.

I wanted to take pictures of the beautiful buildings on the campus. There was one that looked like a cathedral from Paris. I decided to go back into the hotel because I needed something else for my camera. I couldn't find my room at first. There were people with no arms and legs sliding down some staircases, but they didn't seem to be having trouble.

I found my room, and called my brother. He said a bad storm was coming and to be careful. I looked out the window, and saw Mammatus Clouds covering the sky. Giant drops of water were forming in patches in the clouds. Then they started falling. When they hit the ground, it sounded like an explosion. I asked my brother if he could hear the sounds. He said, "Yes." I told him those were the raindrops hitting the ground.

He told me to be careful because people with automatic weapons would be coming out. Then something was happening, and a boy was flying through the air. He came right through the glass of my window and landed on the floor. He got up and went out the door.

I gathered my camera and decided to go find the rest of my group. I thought they were probably rehearsing now and that I'd be in trouble for not being there yet. There was something about another couple who had left their stuff in my room. I got the lady's purse and took some of her things out (keys, wallet), and put them in my purse so she would have them.

Then I was in the accounting room. I saw that the group from Norway had cancelled their trip. They were highlighted in a ledger. I wasn't surprised they'd cancelled.

Then I was taking an exam. A coworker, Brian, was talking to me out loud and showing me his exam. I told him people would think I was cheating, but he didn't care. He was trying to help me.

Then I was doing a large load of laundry. Wet clothes were in a rectangular bin. To dry them, I had to spray them with a cool mist and hang them up to dry, so I started doing that.

I dreamed that I looked up at the ceiling fan in my living room, and it had a light on it.

I had my laptop and my desktop on. I was using my desktop to chat with a friend. My laptop had a screensaver on it that was pretty elaborate. I think it had a beach background. There were four characters on it. One was Snoopy. Another was Anthony Keidis from Red Hot Chili Peppers. Anthony kept singing songs. Sometimes Snoopy would howl.

I realized that I hadn't installed the screen saver and thought it must be spyware or a virus. I was trying to chat and work on my laptop at the same time. I tried to start Adaware or Spyware S&D on the laptop, but got big red warnings on the screen.

At work, I had accidently made meeting appointments with two different small groups of people at the same time. One was lead by the acting director of the Texas Legislative Budget Board. I was sitting at my desk, trying to decide which to cancel and trying to think of an excuse. I even considered cancelling both and going home sick.

Sitting at my desk, I looked into the mirror on my overhead bin. I had colored my hair recently, and noticed I did a poor job—that my roots were still the old color (brown and gray). I also noticed skin flakes in my hair. I started pulling them out of my hair and started finding some big flakes. I must have burned my scalp because it was peeling.

I got up and went somewhere. When I came back, I noticed a monitor right outside my cubicle that showed everything that was on my monitor at my desk. I started to dismantle it, when I noticed that both my meeting appointments were at my desk. I had to admit to them that I'd double-booked the meetings.

I decided to try to stand between the groups and attend both meetings at once. Of course, I wasn't able to pay attention to either when I tried to pay attention to both.

Later, I was at the beach in the ocean. I found out that the company who rents beach umbrellas was now renting sailboards. I didn't rent one, but I had something in my hand that would catch the wind. I was sailing for a minute on my feet. There were many people out with the rented sailboards. The sails were beige with a light blue design on them. I kept getting tangled in strings that were holding inner tubes full of kids together. I think the kids were yelling at me. I got tangled in some string underwater, and was afraid I would drown.

I was traveling for business with people from work. It was dinner time, so I went with a few people to a chicken restaurant. I think it was called "Johnson's" but that doesn't sound quite right.

I had some things to do before I could eat, so I sat in the car. I thought it would only take a few minutes. When I was done, I went inside. They were almost finished eating. I went to the counter to order, but I'd never been there, and didn't know how to order. I couldn't find the chicken menu. The menu looked like it was all drinks.

I told the person behind the counter that it was my first time there, and I didn't know how to order. She laughed at me, took off her apron and started doing a song and dance. Apparently, they like to embarrass new people.

They served me some food in a to go container, and for some reason I ended up with 4-5 big to go containers. I went to the booth where my coworkers were sitting and had to ask one to scoot over to make room.

Later in the dream, my supervisor asked me if I had the key to my hotel room. I realized I didn't have one, but was confused because I'd been in my room already. I couldn't remember the room number, so I needed to go back to the room to find that out before I went to the front desk.

I went up there and found out there were two doors to my room, both unlocked. They had different numbers on them. I wrote them both down because I knew I wouldn't remember them.

I put my laptop in the closet on the shelf next to some Christmas decorations. My laptop's backpack had Santa on it, so it fit right in. I figured if anyone came in there to rob me, they wouldn't take it because it just looked like Christmas stuff.

My supervisor said they were going to drive around town that evening and asked if I wanted to go. I told him I didn't have time.

Back at work another day, everyone was crowded around the window looking across the street at the top of a building. People were on the rooftop practicing speeches.