Weird Dream

Alright. I'm not much of one to put stock in dreams. Other people get to have the fun flying dreams or the scary falling dreams (neither of which I've ever had), but I always have dreams that are long, complicated stories with numerous characters, plot development, and unfortunately, virtually no resolution. Damn you, alarm clock. Damn you.

Now, I'm not saying that the stories end up being realistic. For instance, in one dream I had in college, I was the hero of the story and was crusading against an evil fairy king who was turning people to stone with an enchanted bag of barbeque potato chips. It was a powerful and moving story, because my friends, one by one, were succumbing to the delicious curse. I woke up just as I challenged the fairy king to a duel in his mushroom-covered cave-lair.

In another I had a few months ago, the books on my library's shelf in my den started jumping off the bookcases and hopping around on the floor. I couldn't step on any of them (because it would have killed them), so I had to use my lasso to move furniture around in my flat. Yes, I had a lasso. Who doesn't? Anyway, then I had to jump from furniture to furniture to get to the door to leave. But when I reached the door, I realized that I had left my keys on my bed and had to return to get them (of course, the furniture had moved itself back to its original position while I was at the front door).

Well, last night, my dream topped all of them. I was back at KU, only with all of my new law school friends there, in a class on Ornithology. Mrs. Marcia Dentist was arrested by two police officers who were walking somewhat strangely. As they escorted her out of the room, I noticed that they had tails. Then I realized that they weren't police officers at all, but were dinosaurs dressed up like police officers (funny that I wouldn't have noticed that earlier, I suppose). So the rest of us all underwent a strange quest to break into the dinosaurs' police headquarters to bust MMD out of the pokey. Kansasgirl was our getaway driver and hung out in the semi trailer truck we'd brought along while Mindspewer and I tried to find MMD inside the building. Once inside, we were ambushed by the dinosaurs and got separated while we fled down the suddenly labyrinthine hallways. As I wandered through the maze of walls, I suddenly found myself in the Labyrinth from the movie Labyrinth. Hoggle was there. And so were the creepy red muppets that could take their heads off. When I realized where I was, I discovered that I was the Goblin King, turned myself into an owl, and flew back to class (Ornithology class was still going, apparently). When I got there, all of you were back in your seats as if nothing had happened, and as I asked you about how MMD had gotten free, I woke up.

So if you want to have really bizarre dreams, apparently the right combination of foods to have for dinner is: a handful of dried apricots, a jar of maraschino cherries, and a slice of cheese.