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Triple PlayThursday, December 7th, 2006


Play 1:

It’s nighttime and I’m outside of a home and I’m thinking of renting a place to live.  This seems to be 3 or 4 houses in one, combined in one building.  The style is Spanish, white stucko outside as well as the inside walls.  The floors are done in that cement patio style where the seems in between tiles are cruved grooves except that the colour is a very dark blue, almost black.  All of the doors are open and there are people inside all of the homes and none seem vacant so I’m not sure which one is for rent.  Inside, all of the doorways are arched and there are lots of plants hanging from the ceilings, pink vines with light green leaves.  All of the places have silver metal furniture covered with black leather and there are tons of plants.

Play 2:

I’m walking down the street, it’s nighttime and I’m in the city.  I walk toward three people sitting on benches chatting.  One is a blonde woman whom I sit next to.  She is having a conversation with John Koshi and another man sitting next to here.  I start chatting also and the woman gets up and leaves.  Then Koshi pulls out a very unusual knife.  It has fours blades connected to one handle which is a very light minty green colour.  He hands it too me and I comment that it reminds me of Wolverine’s claws.  I examine the handle and notice that it’s made of bone, somewhat porous.

Play 3:

I’m walking with another male in a field at night where there stands an enormous tree.  It looks like a very mature live oak.  Suddenly it’s struck by a lightning bolt only that the bolt doesn’t has the light.  It looks like a tree branch itself… it’s dark and very ominous looking and it latches onto the tree and starts continually pounding into the core of the tree with one end of itself until sap is excreted by the tree, as if it’s leaching it.

The PresentFriday, October 20th, 2006


I was sitting in bed with my computer on.  I was chatting with someone online who had sent me two boxes in the mail.  I unwrapped one of the boxes.  In it was some sort of leather craft piece.  I wasn’t too interested in it and decided to throw it away.  I walked into the kitchen to do so.  My mom was in the other room and I didn’t want her to know what I was doing.  I went back into my room where the packaging was lying on the bed.  I opened the other box and there was another leather craft item from this person.  I was thinking that maybe I should save them, that they’d be sentimental at some point and was thinking of fishing the other out of the trash but my mom came in and asked who the boxes were from.  I was like, oh they’re nothing, wrong address or something and brushed it off.  It was kinda like Kirby as well as my mom, it’s hard to tell the difference.  Suddenly she (they) are gone and Scot MacDonald sends me a reply to a running IM.

The Sacred RoomFriday, October 20th, 2006


Kirby and I were driving somewhere.  I was on the phone with Mel and we were talking.  He was saying that he was somewhere going to his mom’s  and we were in the country driving away from the sunset in some eastern town in the mountains.  It was really beautiful and I was looking behind me trying to see the sunset and thinking that in the eastern part of the US, it was hard to see the sunset from the top of a hill because the hills were laid out in a strange fashion.  But we were making this turn and I could slowly see the sun on the building tops in the distance behind us and it was beautiful.  We parked outside of a little church and walked in.  Mel was there and he said he wanted to show me something.  He took me through a little door into a different part of the church.  He said normally people weren’t allowed in here.  He took me to an alter.  It was a woman kneeling.  I told Mel that she was suplicating.  Kirby came in.  Mel was telling me that I could play guitar in this room all day and night because it was a special day.  No one would ask me to stop.  There was an older woman in the room and was thinking about whether or not I wanted to play.  It was a stone church and the acoustics were awesome.  I asked Kirby if my guitar was in the back of his car.  He looked out the window and said no.  I decided I was going to go look and see if there was a guitar I wanted to buy in the local shop.  I remember Mel carrying a big book that he was looking in.  I also had a book in my hand when I was leaving.  I think it was my copy of “The Occult in Art” and as I left, a minister was ushering in a couple of people.  I noticed that there were lots of expensive books in the place and as I was leaving, there were two woman that were as well.  I saw a very large book on the floor with a price tag of $149.  I made it outside and looked at this quaint town wondering if I would find a nice guitar.

Weather VeinsFriday, October 13th, 2006


I was coming out of some sort of large complex and had had a not so great experience.  Apparently, I had been visiting someone and they’d dissed me.  I got into a large white van that Kirby was driving and told him what had happened and he got really upset with these people.  As we were driving out of the complex, Kirby, rather than wait for the gate to go up, he drove right through it.  It was so out of character for him, I was perplexed.  As we drove, the sky got darker and I started to notice white objects falling out of the sky very slowly.  Suddenly I was not in the van anymore, but standing on the road.  The sky was a very dark blue like around twilight, and the things falling from the sky I proposed to be weather veins.  There were hundreds of them, just gracefully floating.  They were all different shapes and sizes and designs.  All were made from some heavy white construction paper and were simply folded like oragami.  Each one had some sort of depression that caused it to catch the wind differently and float and a different rate from the sky.  I picked one up to examine it.  It was probably 3 feet long and 8 inches wide and had the edges curled up and the center was a chamber probably 6 inches deep to catch the air.  This one was a fast moving one.

Work DreamTuesday, September 19th, 2006


I was walking through the office but it wasn’t my regular job/work office, it was the “dream” office that I’ve had a number of dreams in.  I had spilled something on my shirt and had removed it and was walking through the office shirtless.  I realized that I shouldn’t be doing this and rushed over to my desk to put on another shirt.  Next thing I know, I’ve been called into a meeting that’s taking place at a restaurant.  I’m thinking, oh great, I’m going to get fired.  Instead, I find that I’ve been called in with others, mainly Adrienne, Shane, and two girls whom I don’t know.  They’re asking us to work on a very important project though they don’t tell us what it is.

The Flying GameWednesday, July 26th, 2006


It just dawned on me that this dream switched on me. When it started, I was with Andy and I was supposed to be going somewhere with her but first she had to run an errand first which was to supply a customer/friend with some product. I was following her along this very strange trail. It seems that she lived in a remote place and shared a driveway and walkways with others and she was having me follow her to someone else’s home nearby. I thinking I was floating. The terrain was very beach like with few plants and those that were there survived in arid climates. We finally made it to this huge party where some people were having their hair done and each was wearing a cape. A few people came out and started chatting. They all seemed to be wealthy and really or pretentiously sophisticated. The person that she was to give the product to was a blonde man who was really sophisticated and I felt a little uneasy. Next…

I was playing this game with some kids and we were able to fly. TI don’t reallyl know what the rules ofe the game were… When I came into the dream, I jad just won something very good. I was able to go to different pots and collect whatever I anted out of them The pots were in different places and there were two at the moment that I was fetching items from. They were both up in the air about 20 feet and I had flown up to them and was reaching into the one on the right and gravving these egg shaped translucent, red balls. There were toys and and candy there also but in tis particular pot, I’m was more interested in these than anything else. The on on the left didn’t have these balls so I was picking ou some candies that I liked. One of hte kids was complaining that I was going to be taking everything and I replied that that wasn’t so, I was leaving plenty behind for other kids. I descended down near the ground to get some from another pot but the game wasn’t waiting for me so I hurried at this one as the game continued.

It was a sort of hide and seek cum tag thing and there was a kid that was it and he was pretty furiosly after me. I had to do something to free the other kids that had been caught by him. He pursued me into the sky and was so close to catching me but somehow I kept alluding him. At one point I blew a gust of air at him and managed to keep him just far away enough that he couldn’t tag me as we flew through the air, twisting and covorting. Finally I descended again to get closer to the the area where the game was taking place and hovered around the constructions built out of wood that created the fort-like atmosphere where we played. It seemed like at some point, we were even under water. The kid that was “it” was younger than I and we must have been between 10 – 15.

At the cabinMonday, July 17th, 2006


I was driving my truck and Kirby was in the apssenger seat. We were getting ready to enter a freeway and I was really wanting to play guitar and really wanted to ask him if he would drive but I didn’t. Next thing I know, we’ve gone to our destination separately and I’ve stopped at a cabin that we own in some remote location. I’ve stopped there to write. There’s a phone on the wall, an old phone like that one my mom has with a long spiral chord. I dial his number and I’m not sure if I ever made contact wih him when I look out the window and I see a car in the driveway. I have one neighbor next too me and I’m wondering if they’re going over to their house but it ends up stopping in front of my place. A group of people get out. They look like college students, male and female. They’re drinking beer. There are about 6 of them. I shout out the window that they need to leave but they’re just ignoring me. One of the walks up to the front door and walks in which freaks me out. Another, a girl in black walks up to the side of the house because she hears me, obviously not realizing that someone is here. I decide to call the cops and dial 0 but no one is picking up. The girl comes into the room somehow and I’m really freaked. I have a pen and mechanical pencil set, both black and silver. I put both in my other hand and am threatening the girl with them saying that I will use them to harm her if she doesn’t leave. She cowers like a crab and is slinking back away from me.

Fish PoolTuesday, July 4th, 2006


There was a very large lake with three boats in it and there were two golder retrievers.  People on the boats were playing fetch with the retrievers.  They would throw things from boat to boat and the retrievers would jump from one boat to another going after the thrown item.  They were juming incredibly far and I was worried for them because the surfaces of the boats that they were landing on were wet.  Finally, one of the dogs injured its front right paw landing on the ramp of one of the boats.

I stepped to the side of the lake and realized that is was actually an enormous swimming pool.  The water had become incredibly still and I was able to see down through the murking green water to the bottom.  What I saw were lots of fish, but they weren’t swimming,  they were just sitting at the bottom of the pool.  I saw killer whales which seemed out of place, and a very long pecostamous looking fish but with many fins and it was attached to the side of the pool and still moving.  I got some gaugles and put them on so that I could get a better look at the fish at the bottom.  I reached my hand in to stir the water and get them to move but they didn’t.  They didn’t seem dead but they didn’t seem alive either.

HorsesTuesday, July 4th, 2006


I was watching horses running in the streets.  It was a the time of the advent of cars and people who were buying them were letting their horses go so many of them were just running wild.  There was a small brown one in particular that had caught my attention so I started following it.  I was making weird little noises that would somewhat spook the horse.  I followed it to a large desert-like open area, across the street from a row of houses.  I made a final noise the horse turned around and made a cross naying sound as if iritated by me taunting it.  Then, someone from across the street shouted at me to stop teasing the horse.

HitlerThursday, June 29th, 2006


I was in what I think was high school. I was getting a nice massage from behind by this girl when she came around to the front of me and grabbed my hand and had me follow her. We went to the end of the school grounds where there was a 3 or 4 foot railing. She climbed over it and I went under it, out into a hillish green countryside. We went down a hill the descended into a sort of ampitheatre. The center was unkept and had bogs in it that she waded through to get to her destination which was a sort of hut or grotto. I followed her into it and we went back in time to the upper floor of a two story house. The house’s interior was wall papered with very elaborate prints of all different colours. As I was looking down the doubleback stairwell, I saw Adolf Hitler in a bath robe. His hair was long and unkempt but he had the distinguising mustache. I knew that this was the time before the rise of the Third Reich. I went downstairs and met up with him in the hallway. I was thinking that I was nervous because I was part Jewish but was also part Irish and thought I would appeal to him as an Irishman. I began to tell him that discrimination was bad and that his hatred for Jews was unfounded but my conversation didn’t get too far.


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