January 8th, 2006: Dream 2

I am filming dragons with a man and a woman. The egg shaped man in the white panama suite wants us to return to his apartment.
...The eggman is powerfull and dangerous...
He wants to see the footage we have taken so far. We go to the woman's apartment to retrieve the footage. Her little girl wants to come with us.
"No."
It is hard to stop her because she is a shapeshifter. She turns into a flea and hides in my collar. I, with the man and woman, arrive at the egg shaped man's apartment. His midget assistant opens the door. The little girl bounces into the apartment. We do not notice. We hand the footage to the midget and he hands us a bag filled with something. We do not know what.

January 8th, 2006: Dream 1

...A man has bonded with darkness...
...Darkness flies to the man like bats and black dots...
...Darkness of shadows, caves, and night. Not darkness as evil...
...He is also bonded with technology, but not as much as darkness...

January 5th, 2006

I am wandering the ground floor of Mall X. I notice the discount store is closing. Everything has been marked down for liquidation. I check out what they have left but find nothing I desire. I leave.
...As I walk out the doors the scene shifts from the discount store to the Theatre...
I am just in time to catch the last movie of the day. Suzanne and her friend Jenny join me. We start to climb to the balcony to find our seats.
...As we climb the stairs the scene shifts. We are now in my car, with myself driving...
We are trying to decide where to eat. Schaumberg and Lemont lay in front of us. Which town do we choose. Then Suzanne tells us about a restaurant in Lemont. It sounds cool and her relatives own it. I drive across a giant arcing bridge to enter Lemont.
"Turn on 87th street," Suzanne says.
I am unable to see the street in time to turn. Suzanne yells at me. I turn on 81st street. Amazingly the restaurant was on this street. Cool.
"See, it worked out," I say to Suzanne.
The restaurant was built in one of Lemont's historical buildings. It is decorated as if a nineteenth century parlor. This theme even extends to the menu, which is a nineteenth century buffet. The customers sit in booths shaped like carriage cars.
"This place is cool," I think.
We are the only customers in the restaurant. Additionally no employees have come out to greet us.
"Maybe we're here to early," I say.
We pass through a set of double doors into a crowded hall.
"So this is the restaurant."
When we go to purchase our meal, Suzanne tries to get a family discount. She fails for her aunt and uncle are not working today. Fifty dollars a person says the cashier.
"I don't know about this," I say to Suzanne.
"Let's do it," Suzanne says to me.
"You can do better on the price," says Jenny to the cashier.
After we pay the cashier tells us Suzanne's Uncle has left.
"Your uncle had a vision. He left to wander the four holy hills of the Bible. He even wanders the Hill of Jericho...the cursed hill."

January 4th, 2006

I am converting a passenger bus for my use. I am attaching shells, gold, and large slabs of jade and turquise to the sides of the bus. Soon it will be ready as to carry me through my life. But not yet, for the materials are very expensive.
...Whenever I need more money I turn to a nearby floating computer screen. It gives me jobs when I need them...

January 2nd, 2006

Suzanne has asked my for my help. She wants me to assist her with her superhero story. She has lost all joy in the creating of the story. The story concerns a character I created that was like a beanpole version of Daniel Boone. He is running around Venture's cashiers.

January 1st, 2006

Suzanne tells me to leave that dog alone. I can not. I am drawn to it. The dog appears to be a corgi. I love corgis. The dog comes over to sniff me and I pick it up. I flip it over to rub it's belly and see two bandages on it's lower abdomen. The bandages are places so as to create an X.
"Oh no. You've been neutered," I think.
Then I notice there are additional bandages on the dog's belly. A square bandage with a cartoon dog printed on it and an additional two bandages forming an X.
"Why would you cut a dog this much to neuter it?"

December 30th, 2005

I am waiting at IOA for Program 4 to finish its lunch. When they leave I will pull down a wall of stone.
...The wall of stone was made of cardboard boxes...
...The wall connected to another reality. A dimension filled with toy robots...
The Program 4 staff is yelling at the students. Yelling vehemently.
...The IOA cafeteria changes into the gravel road by my parent's house in Momence...
"Man, am I glad I stopped hanging out with my old friends," I think.
Then I notice Charles Morris, all of 23 years old, is one of the students in Program 4.

December 28th, 2005

I graduate to the University. It is surrounded by fields and swamps.
...The university is secretly using fey creatures to work the fields...
...The university alternates between being in the nineteenth century and a post-apocalytic future...
I move into my room. My room has no walls but merely purple curtains separating it from the other rooms. It is the central third of the boarding house. The headmistresses live in the last third and the female students the first third. I have to pee. I can find no bathroom in my room. I walk out to the patio and pee off the side. The patio was built of flagstone and glass. I look over at the neighboring house and am fascinated. I see, through a window, an older student studying. I fall in love.
...I realize this is a movie. I know the plot. She is in love with a bookish bore played by Kyle McLaughlin...
...The end of the movie is we end up together...
I can not figure out how to get from my building to hers. I pee on the deck again when I notice that my mother and the headmistresses can see me. Uh-oh. Then I wonder how I ended up naked. I rush to my room to find a pair of pants. Instead I find my insignia card. My mother and the headmistresses leave. I sneak out for the big party. I find my love intrest at the party. I talk to her a little bit then start to dance. A pretend dance as if I was a native chief.
...I hear drums and feel another world the more I dance...
She laughs. The bookish bore is studying instead of partying. I try to get him to join in. He refuses.
"I prefer the company of more mature people," he snaps.
She leaves with him.
"Damn."
I walk to a nearby window to watch her walk away. Instead I see a group of the fey field workers storming the university. The dwarves, then the other workers, throw their implements and tools onto the campus lawn. They are shouting. Then they riot. The campus is being torn apart. A fire starts. The leader of the fey folk rides through the flames. I can make out his mohawk haircut, but not what he is riding.
"I hope he is a centaur," I think.
He moves closer and I see he is riding a giant bug.
...The bug exists in the post-apocalyptic future...
"Maybe they are not fey," I think.
He leads the fey folk through the a wall of vines and plants in the swamps.
..My awareness leaves my body and moves to see the University Elders in their meeting room...
A university elder tells the others not to worry. We have our own defenses.
...My awareness moves again to see the plants in the swamp grow giant mouths. Cannibal plants! The plants then start to spit at the fey folk...

December 25th, 2005

I have just stepped of a bus into a park. I sit on a nearby bench feeling the bright sunshine warm my face. Through the gaps in the trees I can see the town built around the park. Every building is old-style brick. Cool.
"It is so peaceful and beautiful here," I think.
The bus driver announces it is time to go. I start to walk to the bus, but stop when I see Jim Krumdick. He is talking to a Burger King employee. The worker hands Jim something then leaves.
"What was that," I wonder.
Jim sees me and calls me over.
"You ever eat at Burger King Jason," he asks.
After thinking for a moment I answer, "yes, last night."
"Where's your receipt," he asks.
I search my pockets but can not find it. I can not find my debit card either. Did I lose my receipt I wonder. I find a receipt but the signature looks like a twelve year olds. All sloppy and misshappen.
...The signature changes to my signature when I blink...
I show the receipt to Jim. He looks it over, nods approval, then throws it away.
"Did you hear Jason. Adam Carrolla's and Adam Sandberg's production company have joined together. They were both at that Burger King and got horrible service. It was what got them to first start talking to each other."
It is time to get on the bus. I sit in the front seat. The bus drives down South River Road in Momence. I see out the window a golden statue. It is an overweight balding man in his fifties looking into a mirror. The statue was built in honor of the producer from the Jack-a-bilmore production company.
...I hear the producer's speech in my mind...
..."I never went to college for what I did. Nor do I fundamentally understand why you have to. Anybody can make a movie. People make it so complicated. My secretary comes to me and says you should make a movie about this and bam I do."...
South River road is starting to flood. A lot of new construction is underway.
"Wow, things are changing," I think.
I see a giant flame shoot up into the sky. It is a special effect from the nearby movie set. Cool. I see a construction foreman talking to the other workers. I hear him shout concerns over the flooding.
"Why worry, the movie has insurance to cover flood damage," I think.

December 22nd, 2005

I am working at a school in Momence. It is a rehabilitation center for teen addicts.
...The school used to be Farm and Fleet...
I lead my class to the music room. Mrs. Schafer, the principal, has placed a sign on the door. "Your pain is the price you pay for choosing to be an addict." A new student joins us in the music room. She is a black teen female. She speaks about how she wants to change. As she takes her seat a pain shoots through my right heal. I lift my foot to investigate the pain. I can not find anything wrong or the cause of the pain. Hmmm. I then notice the class is watching "Everybody Hates Chris" on the television.
...In the corner of my eyes I can see a reality where the show is real right next to our reality...
I take my free time to write down what art supplies I need. Two stones. Work on TMUMH and a second story about a knight-superhero.
"When will I have time to do two stories," I wonder.
Someone cries out. It is the television show. The mother has fallen onto a waterbed and is stuck. Regular slapstick comedy. Then the waterbed breaks. Water begins to fill the room.
"Why do my feet feel wet," I think.
Water is coming into the music room from the hallway outside. Brittany P. tells me the water fountain is broken. I go out to check on it. The fountain head will not allow water through, so water shoots out the sides. I quickly glance into the music room to check on the students when I see the music room is filling with water. I am not alarmed at this and even enter the room. I look for my favorite dictionary. I do not want it ruined so I place it through the television screen into another reality. There it will be safe from the flooding.
"When this flooding ends I'll retrieve it," I think.

December 15th, 2005

I walk through the series of rooms. I enter a room darker than the rest. Strands of cooked spaghetti lie on the floor. Each strand is in the shape of a spiral made by right angles.

December 14th, 2005

As I stand out in the snow I see a line of mice. They lie under a gate.
"I'll kill them by dropping a large wrench on them," I think.
....You have already tried that a voice whispers to me...

December 13th, 2005

I find a Tarot card in a room in the Antique House. It is the card of the Mutant Children. The image is of a woman with two razor-toothed mouths wearing a royal dress and crown.
...The Queen of the Caves waits...

December 12th, 2005

I am wandering through a forest preserve in southern Illinois. I am hoping the trail I am following will take me back to my hotel. Looking up, I see that a fog has rolled across the tops of the trees. The sky is no longer visible. The forest is dark like late dusk.
"This isn't good," I think.
A screech breaks my train of thought. I look up to see a pterodactyl flying through the fog.
"Holy shit, a pterodactyl!"
Then I remember I have been here before. I continue walking down the trail. Now there are hundreds of pterodactyle circling over me. They are so much larger than me. I am nervous because to a pterodactyl I look like food.
...I am driving through the darkness in my car...
The pterodactyls are swooping down at my car. I am swerving to avoid being hit.
...My car is floating six feet above the ground...
"If only I was driving on the ground, they would ignore me," I think.
I finally escape the dinosaur zone. I am out of my car and the fog has lifted. I look around the forest to find landmarks. I want to be able to take people back here to prove I saw pterodactyls. I only see giant powerlines. I can not determine which direction is north, south, east, or west.

December 8th, 2005

I am walking through downtown Momence.
...The street is shorter than it should be...
...All of Momence is actually in a display in the Museum. It is one of the exhibits...
The main characters from the television show Three's Company walk down the street. Mr. Furley, followed by Jack and the two woman, enter a building. Will Farrell drives by dressed as a police officer.
...Will Farrell is doing a cameo as the police officer...
"Man, that guy is everywhere," I think.
I walk up to the building Mr. Furley entered to look inside.
"What is he up to," I wonder.
The building is a combination restaurant and laundromat. The Suds and Supper. The place is being robbed. Masked men have Mr. Furley at gunpoint. I run to find the police officer. Down the next street I find Will Farrell talking to an elderly couple.
"Sir, we had a report of domestic abuse at this residence," Will says.
"No sir," says the old man.
"Officer, Officer there is a robbery," I say.
"Wait your turn. Now sir you are covered in bruises and contusions. Obviously something happened. Is your wife beating you?"
"No. I am just...clumsy," says the old man.
I am looking at the old woman and her face disappears for a moment. I try again to get Will Farrell to come to stop the robbery.
"If you do not stop interrupting me sir, I will arrest you for interfering with a police investigation," he shouts at me.
I sit down and wait for him to finnish. The old couple leaves. I begin to get up when I see the bandits run past. Cop cars follow. The sirens catch Will Farrell's attention.
"Hey, there was a robbery," he says.
I am pissed off and start to kick Will Farrell in the but as hard as I can.
I go down the street to find the arresting officers talking.
"We knew by following Mr. Furley we could capture the crooks. For Mr. Furley was hiding the prize."
...My awareness leaves my body and travels to a bathroom Mr. Furley has just entered...
Mr. Furley stands before the mirror groaning. He pulls a long cylindrical object from his anus. It is a packaged rose.

December 5th, 2005

I am in the game Culdcept. I am walking a track through a castle with the kids from the movie The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. I am quickly approaching a land square that has been raised to maximum level conferring a +100 bonus to the occupying monster. My youngest child, a daughter, draws her sword. She faces the monster. I know she will defeat it.

November 30th, 2005: Dream #2

I turn on the television.
...My awareness enters the television show...
A woman has written a book about her twin teenage daughters. These twins are child prodigies. Hollywood approaches the mother about turning the book into a movie. She agrees. They film the movie and bring the mother to the preview. She is aghast when the title of the movie rolls across the screen. "The Spirit". A plane has crashed into the ocean and a masked man saves one of the passengers. This is merely one chapter in the book about the twins, yet it is the focus of the movie. The mother is outraged that her twins are being misrepresented. After the movie she is introduced to the actresses playing her twins. They were Norwegian. The mother falls in love with the oldest actress.

November 30th, 2005: Dream #1

...A group of six is hunting for the remaining magical cards....
...The six are a male child, a female child, an adult man, an adult woman, an elderly male and an elderly female...
...They are following that reveals itself as they travel...
...The map has finished unfolding leading the group to the Brick Building. Inside they find the remaining cards...
...Now that all the cards have been found the Centaur appears...
...He is of dual worlds and will lead the armies created by the cards...
...I believe the Centaur to be good and just...

November 29th, 2005

I enter the Old Red Barn discovering an ongoing story.
...The knight travels across a game board...
...He, and his opponents, summon monsters from cards. Then the monsters fight each other...
...The knight is unable to summon creatures powerfull enough to defeat his opponent's monsters. He is frustrated because he has more cards than anyone else...
...The wise man, who is also a barber, told the knight to focus not to focus on all his cards. Focus on only one card...
...The knight focuses solely on one card. The Carnivorous Plant is summoned and it is level 5...
...Level 5 monsters pour from the knight...
...The Carnivorous Plant destroys all the other monsters. It even destroys the Elemental Gods...

November 26th, 2005

I walk up to the Old Red Barn. A sign hangs by the doorway announcing there is property for sale inside. I walk through the barn hoping to see what property is for sale. I walk past many pairs of teens. Each pair consists of a teenage male and teenage female, both in letterman jackets.

November 22nd, 2005

I am waiting in the IOA gym between classes. A lady, who looks like Maggie Gyllenhall, enters the gym. She is a higher-up in the Nexus organasion. I find her very attractive. She feels the same.
...My bed was in the gym...
We lay on the bed naked and hold each other. I can feel the energy between us starting to connect. It is wonderful. My next class arrives and she leaves. The students play kickball while I work the scoreboard. Once the game is underway, she returns. She stands next to me. I can feel electricity moving between us.
"There is no way you can meet with my husband," she says, "he will know about us."

November 14th, 2005

I am walking through IOA. Everyone I encounter is surprised to see me. They are all congratulating me. I rub my head in surprise. I feel thick hair.
"What?"
I head into the bathroom and look in the mirror. My hair has grown back. I have a head of long, full, coppery hair.
"Awesome. My hair must of grown back beacause I changed my diet."

November 13th, 2005

I enter my apartment's bedroom to find my teenage son. He is tall, athletic, handsome and blonde. He is also wearing a letterman's jacket with a blue J on it. He is doing my hand exercises. I watch him then realize he has my actual hand. He is exercising my broken hand.

November 5th, 2005

I walk around my building to find four guardians. Each is a large statue placed facing one of the cardinal directions: north, south, east, and west.
..."The most powerfull gaurdians were created at the spot irrational energy flows through," says a voice...
"What is irrational energy," I wonder. "Irrational sounds dangerous and chaotic, but the way the voice spoke it sounded benevolent. Additionally if there is an irrational energy, is there a rational energy?"

November 12th, 2005

I find a comic book on a lower shelf of a bookcase in my bedroom. The cover is an image of floating eyeballs moving across rolling farm fields. The title lettering is done in silvery ink. I am surprised to find a picture of myself when I open the comic book. I am standing in a hallway looking depressed.
...Artists infuse the lines with magic, then have senior citizens model it...
...The council has placed in the comic special objects because it has become too sad...
...In a workshop, where the special objects were made, is a dragon made from bent wire clips. Each wire clip was bent into the shape of the letter L...

October 28th, 2005

I am walking down a highway in the darkness before dawn. Large green fields spread to both sides of the highway. I can see pretty far, for the highway is higher than the rest of the landscape. I come to a plaza located off the side of the road. It takes me a moment for me to make out what is in the plaza. It is far away and lower than myself. Additionally the sun has not fully dawned over there yet. On the highway dawn is well under way, but in the plaza it is merely starting. The plaza contains a Micheal's, an Ikea, then another Micheal's store. I turn and walk down the exit ramp to enter one of the Micheal's. I do not know which of the two to enter, so I enter the nearest one. The one to my left.
"I wonder where the clay is," I think.
I try to find the clay to build characters for my stop-motion comics. I can not find any. I search the entire store, but still find none.
...The Micheal's changes into large shipping warehouse combined with a grocery store...
A man drives by on a forklift. Something about him reminds me I work at this store. I do not want to work retail. I run to the auditorium to hide from my job.
...When I enter the auditorium my awareness leaves my body...
...I float up into the sky to have a bird's eye view of the plaza...
Zombies, hundreds of zombies, run across the parking lot. The zombie plague has begun. The zombies enter the store and begin to slaughter the employees and customers. They are almost to the auditorium.
..."Wait a minute. This is just like that board game," I think...
...My awareness re-enters my body...
The zombies are pouring into the auditorium. I am not scared for I know the rules to the game. The zombies can only move through the aisles. They can not climb onto the chairs or the stage. I jump onto a chair. The zombies run past me.They are frustrated and angry they can not reach me. I feel safe.
...I realize the zombies are changing...
They are growing past the rules of the game. They will eventually be able to attack me. Fear grows in my stomach. I look around and jump across chairs to make it to the stage. I pull back the red velvet curtain of the stage. The backstage looks unimpressive. The backstage workers look at me in surprise.
"What are you doping here," one asks me.
"I am escaping the zombie plague, and you better too."
I see a slide coming down from the ceiling. I do not know where it goes, but I know it is away from the zombies. The slide is encased in a frame made from wooden boards. It is dark and covered in cobwebs. I crawl up the slide as the zombies rush onstage. I hear the backstage crew scream as the zombies kill them.
...When I emerge through the roof I find myself on the gravel road running past my parent's house...
The bright sunlight warms my flesh. There is no trace of the slide or how I got here. I do not care. I am free of the zombies. I walk up the road and encounter two children. A young teen bother and sister. They are also traveling down the road.
"Are we safe," they ask me.
"Sure," I say as I look out across the corn fields.
Corn plants grow before my eyes. Odd, they are yellow like dead plants. I look to the soil and see hundreds of things crawling out. Insects, grass clippings, animal corpses, and garbage all emerging.
...The zombie plague is actually a giant cloud of particles that settles on the earth...
...The particles animate any dead material in the soil...
We are surrounded are by dead things, zombie things. The twins scream, adding to my growing fear. I quickly turn. A muscular human torso has crawled from the sand. A red iron mask covers his lower face. Eyes black with hatred look at us. With his one remaining arm he pulls himself forward. He reaches a blue fourteen inch chop-saw and wedges it onto the stump of his other arm. He then maneuvers to a horse corpse that is emerging from the soil. He chops of the horse's head and crawls on top of the fresh wound. All the different pieces, man, horse, and machine, fuse into one. Now he is a zombie centaur galloping down the road at us.

October 24th, 2005

I am sliding through the Momence Junior High School on a scooter board. I leave the scooter board in the gym. Then I leave the Junior High.
"I no longer need to fake I am taking classes."

October 22nd, 2005

Suzanne and I are in the bedroom of our apartment. She is telling me her sexual desires.
"I desire sex with you Jason, but sex open to my many desires. I want threeways."
Hearing her talk about sex has aroused me. I am instantly rigid. I am absolutely aware of my penis and can only think of sex. I pounce onto Suzanne. I growl like an animal.

October 19th, 2005

I am attending college with all my coworkers. It suddenly dawns on me everyone is wearing yellow. I find this odd considering there is no required yellow dress code at work.
"This must be a dream," I think.
"I wonder what this dream is trying to tell me. Lets see. I really dislike the color yellow. Everyone from work is wearing yellow. This dream is telling me that subconsciously I hate my job."
A blonde woman wearing all blue walks past.
...I start to wake up...
...NO! I will not wake up! I will follow this dream out past its boundaries!...
I follow the blonde through a series of dark rooms. Eventually we enter the Grand Library.
...The Grand Library is a cathedral size stone flagstone library...
The blonde quickly turns and kisses me. All tension leaves me, replaced by excitement. I am in love.

October 13th, 2005

A large crowd has gathered in the IOA gym.
"What's going on," I ask.
"Lex Luthor festival," answers someone.
The crowd begins to discuss Gene Hackman's work portraying Lex Luthor.
"There was a reason he was called LEX STINKER," I shout.
The whole crowd goes silent. Everyone turns to stare at me.
"Uh-oh," I think.
"No person of flesh and blood can adequetly portray a character made of ideas. If we take that truth into consideration, then Gene Hackman is the best portrayl of Lex Luthor."

October 9th, 2005

I am holding a cell phone. It has been combined with a calculator. The display reads "10".

October 3rd, 2005

I am walking through the Museum, now located in Chicago. I come to a banquet hall. Roger Ebert is giving a speech. The person currently at the podium is explaining he went to high school here. He has come back to offer advice to the students. I decide to sit down and listen.
"When I went to school here, all the teachers would tell me what to do. Roger study this, study that. Don't watch so many movies. And so on. I am here to tell you every teacher is an idiot. They will tell you what to do, but they don't know shit. I never once listened to a teacher and I turned out great. My advice to you is to ignore every instruction teachers give you."

October 1st, 2005

I am part of a group wandering through the Theatre. We are trying to find our movie. We end up on the second floor. There is no theatre up here, but there is a video game arcade. The Arcade is very crowded. Teens and kids every where. Only three games are open for play. I choose the third game because it reminds me of the Nintendo games from my childhood. In the game, I play a big mustached commando, in fatigues, shooting ninjas with a machinegun.
...My awareness enters the game. I become the commando...
I run around the jungle level shooting Ninjas.
...I realize I can change the form I have. I merely have to will it...

September 30th, 2005

...The extra energy is getting turned into earth energy...
I wander through the Series of Rooms and find a teddy bear. His body is large but his head and limbs are small. Mary Lou, my mother's teacher assistant, laughs at the mis-proportioned teddy bear.
"Do not laugh at him," I yell.
Then I see Adrian and Candace from IOA Program 7 go into the bathroom together. I tell them not to both be in the bathroom. Only one at a time. Having solved that situation, I leave. I walk down the Highway Street.
...The Highway Street is a highway and the main street of a town...
I pass a Twinkleland fast food restaurant. It looks like a McDonalds and a giant citadel combined into one. It had three stories.

September 29th, 2005

I walk onto my parent's front lawn and find a group of my female students wandering around. All the girls are from Program 5.
...The front lawn turns into a store in Mall X. The store is on the ground floor, near a central hub...
The girls are arranging themselves into a pattern.
...Molly S. represents the number eight in the pattern...
...I need to change the equation...
I rearrange the girls into a new pattern hoping to change the equation. I look over to my laptop. Normally I could read if the equation had changed on it, but a warning window has popped up on the screen. The warning window says my laptop needs a new device plugged into it. I am not familiar with the device it needs. I look around and see the device. Thank goodness. I go to plug it in but my laptop has three available ports: two smaller and one larger.
"Which one do I plug it into," I wonder. "Guess I'll just have to try each one until I find the correct one."

September 23rd, 2005: Dream 2

A creature is infecting my IOA students and myself. It has a spheroid body with three long legs and one eye made of two concentric rings.
...I somehow know that the creature does not want to possess us. It only wants to go home...
I am talking to Robert from Program 4 when a cure is revealed. We are to enter changing booths.
...The creature was a sub-atomic lifeform...
...It was exploring the sub-atomic space of a person...
...The person received a power boost, raising him from power level four to power level sixteen...
...The creature was knocked out of synch with it's sub-atomic dimension...
...It grew large and spread hyper-dimensionally through people...
...The changing booth would re-align us...
...The booths would also find the power boosted person and reduce them back to power level four...
...The creature would then fall out of synch with us and back in synch with the sub-atomic dimension...

September 23rd, 2005: Dream 1

...Two groups of people need to complete the Pythagorean Equation...
...Each group is part of the equation...
...One group is side A...
...The other group is side B...

September 18th, 2005

My family and I are walking through the Museum. My entire family is there: parents, brother, grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins. We approach the largest tree I have ever seen. There is an elevator in the base of the tree. The elevator will take us to the Amusement Park.
...The elevator and the Giant Tree are one organism...
...As we ascend the levels I remember I have been on this elevator before...
"Jeff, you remember when we were kids and rode this elevator," I ask my bother.
"Yeah," he says.
The elevator stops. The door opens on the Amusement Park. It has a dinosaur theme. An animatronic hadrosaur lays in the mud next to the entrance turnstile. It asks for everyone's ticket. We give it our tickets and enter the park. On our way to the main area we pass a lava pool and another mud pool. Inside the mud is a pink animatronic hadrosaur laying on it's side. She was half submerged in the mud. I feel uneasy looking at the hadrosaur. It looked to be in pain. We finally enter the main area of the Amusement Park. A large rolling field spreads out in front of us. Once my eyes adjust to the dusk level light, I see that the rides are spread out across the fields. I am about to tell my family this when I realize we have become separated. I am alone. I keep moving hoping to run into them. I see a Bozo the Clown ride off to my right. I walk over to check it out. Bozo the Clown was working at his ride.
"I wish I could go over and hug Bozo the Clown. Then I would feel comforted instead of scared and alone."

September 14th, 2005

I am walking through a college town. It has the appearance of a large city in a small space. As if the town has been compressed. The Compressed Town. I walk past a Home Depot's garden shop. They have full grown plants that need to be put into water to survive. I buy them all, since many are vegetables and herbs I have been unsuccessful at growing. Two of the plants were red lettuce. My brother sees me buying the plants.
"Why you buying plants," he laughs.
I ignore him.

September 12th, 2005

I am driving through the country in an RV. I am not alone, but I am not sure who else is with me. Over the radio I hear of a country man and his plight. His wife dies, so now he and his children preform a traveling religious show to get by. I drive past the religious show's tent and decide to check it out. Once stopped Phil Dipasqualli exits from the RV.
"I didn't know you were in there Phil," I say.
Phil ways hi, then walks over to talk to the father. Phil is speaking different than I remember. He is speaking in the same rural dialect as the father. The father is impressed. I go to say hi.
"I don't like you," says the father, "too city."
The father then introduces his seven children. Three late teen blonde daughters, a teen blonde daughter, a preteen redhead daughter, a brunette preteen son, and a brunette little child. The father then tells us the oldest son has taken over the wifely duties. The oldest son starts to cry at mention of this.
"Hold on," I think. "Is he saying he has sex with the oldest son?"
Then he tells us the redheaded daughter and youngest son play fiddle in the show.
...My awareness leaves my body and floats around the grounds. I spy the traveling salesman...
...The traveling salesman is spending all his time with the youngest blonde girl....
...The father discovers them, but the salesman claims he was studying religion with the blonde...
...The father goes hunting in the deep woods in the back arena...
...He is a horrible shot and accidentally shoots one of the three horses living in the woods...
...He leaves the woods and meets one of the blonde daughter. They hug, but it too much like a lover's embrace...
...My awareness reenters my body...
"Is everybody sick or what," I scream in my thoughts.
Rain begins to pour from the skies. I take shelter under an awning. I find a pop machine under the awning with me. It is filled with Pepsi's new flavor: two flavors in one bottle. The wind increases to a gale level. I run from the shelter. I run down a hallway to a room containing the Mother and all the children.
"Isn't she dead," I wonder.
The oldest blonde sisters act as if they know about the youngest blonde and the traveling salesman.

September 11th, 2005

I am playing a video game.
...my awareness enters the game...
I am traveling through a canalled city with a group of children. Small winged faeries fly through out the city. Every time a feary approaches, one of the kids needs to hit the L1 button on his controller. Doing so will cause it to be hit by a magic stone. Whenever a faery is hit by a magic stone it turns into a creature made of living shadows. As we move through the city I find a pattern on the brick walls. It is a spiral with an elongated tail. The spiral has 3 quarter-circles under the tail. Each quarter-circle smaller than the last. One of the kids announces we need to head to the opposite side of town.
"Okay."
We travel over bridges and through back alleys on our way to the other side of town. Eventually our trail stops at a ledge. To continue forward, we would have to jump off the ledge and land on the sidewalk down below. I do not want to jump but must continue on. I decide to try backtracking. I manage to find a different way to the ground. Unfortunately the way is guarded by a vicious dog.

September 6th, 2005

A demon, who has taken a dragon's and man's form, has kidnapped Suzanne and my daughter. He bound them to the center square of an energy grid. An energy grid located on the first floor of the Antique House.

September 2nd, 2005

I am walking through Mall X. I notice blood flowing through the mall. Not across the whole floor, but like many rivers of blood.
...A sorcerer prince from another dimension switches place with me...
...He moved through the Place of Purification to the blood flow...
...The blood flow is the energy flow of the Mall...
...Now on this side, he wants to summon the rest of his men...

Agust 24th, 2005

I find myself married to Suzanne but also dating another woman. My girlfriend was an asian woman somewhere between eighteen and twenty. My wife and girlfriend know of each other. They are fine sharing me. I do not understand that. My girlfriend approaches me with a list of things to do. Buy her groceries, wash her clothes,...etc. Really basic chores.
"You can do all these things for yourself. It's not like back in Asia where you come from. You do not have to have a man's blessing."

August 23rd, 2005

I am watching a movie at the Movie Theatre.
...My awarenesss enters the movie...
...I do not become a character in the movie but merely watch the events unfold...
A young female witch uses her magic to clean the forest floor. She has a link to ants and can command them. She tells them her plan. The ants leave their nests and spread out across the forest floor.
...My awareness follows one group of the ants...
A group of the ants encounter a scorpion. It is larger then them. Dangerous with it's stinger. They swarm over the scorpion. Soon it is completely covered in ants. It then dies. The ants have tore it apart. They are now removing the pieces from the forest.

August 20th, 2005

...I am Jamie Oliver, the naked chef...
I have just arrived at the boatyard where my yacht is moored. The boatyard is in an exclusive French resort town. I climb the ladder to the top deck. Then I slide down the slide to the front pool. I hit the water making a large splash. As I sink I realize I can not feel any water in the pool. I am floating in something, yet nothing is there. Once I reach the pool bottom I stand up. Now I feel water. A young boy , at the side of the pool, yells at me.
"Hey you! You almost bumped into my sister."
A thought occurs to me as I look around.
"Hmm. I bet those people on the beach are wondering why I went into a private pool to get wet when the ocean is right nearby. Come to think of it, why did I?"
I decide to leave the boat. I enter the exit slide and slide to a fancy mansion. The mansion is in my parent's backyard. I land in the pool, again making a big splash. Coming out of the water I see that a reality show is being filmed here. Greg Brady is discussing with the cast and crew what to do if a bear shows up.
"That's an odd thing to discuss," I think.
Then a large male brown bear enters the scene. Everyone runs. I am transfixed by the beauty of the bear. His fur is so beautiful. He has so mush power. Then I realize that I am in danger and run. We all hide in the haybales in the barn.
"Wait a minute. If I can climb up here, then a bear definitely can. Uh-oh"
Before I can find a new hiding spot the bear enters the barn. He moves with such a slow deliberate pace. He notices a man and woman couple. He walks towards them. Each faints in fear. The bear loses interest and continues on. He passes by me. He turns his head to look at me. Our eyes meet, then he continues on.

August 17th, 2005

My brother Jeff accompanies me as I run some errands in town. We stop for lunch at an ethnic-themed restaurant. I could not discern what nationality of food the restaurant was trying to serve. We order lunch. We eat the lunch. We are amazed by how good the lunch is. I walk to the counter to tell the owner how good the food was. He is an Indian male in his late thirties, early fourties.
"Thank you," he says. "You make drawings right?"
"Yes."
"Is it easy to draw a foot?"
I am about to answer but he turns around and leaves.
"That's cool if he doe not want to know or show respect for Brighid," I think. "She'll deal with him."
Jeff and I leave to finish our errands. My car is covered in snow. Damn, I don't have a snow brush in my car to clear the snow. I put the window down and up many times to shake the snow loose from the window. It finally works. I leave the restaurant's parking lot and drive down the road.
"Oh man," I think. "I am driving the wrong way. I can not get where I want to go by taking the route I am now."
I think a minute then realize I can reach my destination still but I have to go a different way.
Jeff turns to me and says," Reba's ratings are slipping so they are planning one of those special event episodes."

August 16th, 2005

I come across a square. A horizontal line and vertical line divided the square into four sections. Two opposite corners were white, while the other corners were deep blue. Someone comes with a loaf of sourdough bread. The person cuts the bread in half. Each half is placed on one of the deep blue corners.

August 9th, 2005

I am standing in an office. Four figures in business suits enter the room. Three neanderthals and a monkey. They take no notice of me and move to stand around the round table in the center of the room. A golden chalice, encrusted with jewels of all colors stands in the center of the table. The neanderthals and monkey throw a hand forward casting magic onto the chalice.
...Their magic is purifying the chalice and its contents....
...My awareness fills with a vision...
I am seeing the past. The neanderthals used to be gorillas in the forest. They travel to the chalice, with the monkey, to purify it.
...The magic is changing them...
...They are evolving...
...The forest is turning into the office as time progresses...
Everything is evolving I realize. This dream is a good sign about my life I think.

August 2nd, 2005: Dream 2

I am staying at John Ruane's house. I need to use the bathroom, but I do not like to crap at someone else's house. I leave the house and wander the neighborhood. A public bathroom must be around here somewhere. On the other side of the neighborhood I find a toilet. It is inside a black Ford F-350, with oversized wheels. I pull myself into the cab and sit on the toilet. The truck's front passenger seat was replaced with a toilet. As I go, a couple on a harley pull up. The man is one of those bald muscle-man types. The woman is a lived-life too hard, trashy, bar floozy types. They stop next to the truck and begin to argue. Soon they are yelling so loud I am sure they are going to punch each other. Then they stop. Start to kiss and make-out. Something then occurs to me.
"What if that guy owns this truck. Uh-oh. I am taking a crap in some guy's truck. He is going to kill me."
The man gets off the motorcycle and enters the truck. He sees me on the toilet. I am sure he is going to attack me in anger.
"Using the toilet," he says. "No rush man. Finish when you finish. I don't have to be to work for hours."
I am still nervous so I skip wiping myself. I can do that at the Ruane's. I leave the truck and walk back towards John's house.
...Somehow I end up at the Amusement Park and Carnival with Suzanne...
...Suzanne is pregnant...
As we walk to a newer ride, everyone is telling Suzanne she should take it easy. On account of being pregnant. We arrive at the ride and walk up it's giant ramp. Everyone on the ride is yelling at Suzanne for walking up the ramp. You should be taking it easy! You'll hurt the baby!
"Shut the fuck up all of you," I shout.
We reach the top of the ramp. There is a slide you slide down. Cool. I like slides. I slide down the slide. It twists and turns backtracking on itself often. As I descend I realize there is symbolism in the ride.
"The up is straight , and filled with people yelling at you. The down is all curved and twisted. Climbing higher in your life is full of people telling you what to do. Climbing down in your life is where the true bumps and changes occur."
I reach the bottom and walk around the Amusement Park and Carnival. I see recruitment ads for soldiers all over the park. They are done in a turn of the century British style. Odd. Then I come to a tent.
...A voice whispers to me. The lost ones have been helped. Would you like to see them? Then enter...
I go into the tent and find a conveyor belt in a glass and plastic room. It is a large one like those used in moving packages. It is not contained inside this room, but merely passes through.
...They have been returned to their true natures...
The Siamese Twins move past on the conveyor belt. They have been gentically altered into Turtle boys. They may have been physically altered but still retain their personalities. They are writing higher math on each other's bodies. The move out of the room. Then my little black boy buddy moves out. Now he is a skunk. I want to hug him but I can't because of his musk. Instead I lean close and tell him how special he is to me. How much I will miss him. He smiles. Then he is out of the room. A magazine comes by on the belt. It is from the same company that made the recruitment ads around the park. The cover has a curvy N on the cover. The n is repeated infinitely, growing smaller and smaller, on the cover. Each n is inside the previous n, flipped.

August 2nd, 2005: Dream 1

Suzanne and I are traveling through the Haunted House ride with the demon who built it. He used nursery rhymes as his theme for the ride. Each room is a different nursery rhyme. We enter one room to find a man and woman walking down a dark corridor. They are talking to each other about how they are not real. They do not truly exist.
"Ah-ha. They are the Lost Travelers," I say.
The demon says good job and we head to the next room. There are no lights in this room. We turn on our flashlights and see a small mouse in the middle of the room. Hmm. Next to him is a larger mouse. Then an even larger mouse sits next to him in a long line of increasingly larger mice. Odd. The line of mice wraps around the corner. The mouse at the corner was the size of a large house cat.
"Fuck. This is the Wee Willey Winkey room. The nursery rhyme about the larger and larger mouse till one bigger than a man shows up and kills the people," I exclaim.
We run from the room. While between rooms I decided I was tired of running I am tired of being scared. I am going back and I WILL kill those mice.
"Lost Travellers, you want to help me fight Wee Willey Winkey," I ask.
"Yes," says the man. He looks like Cary Elwes.
We run into the Wee Willey Winkey room but find the threat has passed.
...The demon turned into a wolf and ate the mice...

July 25th, 2005

A group of animals were waiting for me to finish my play. They want to help me preform it. I am almost finished, but can't decide how to do the final part. I have written two equally good parts. The animals grow tired of waiting and leave to go to James Caan's party. Frustrated I walk around ISU.
...I am enrolled in Illinois State University...
I think about the play as I wander the campus. Maybe all monologues. Maybe more action. I don't know. I realize I am near my dorms, so I go to my room.
...Momence High School was converted into the dormitories...
My roommate is there with his friends: Ross, Chandler, and Joey from the Friends television show. I ask if I can hang out with them. They say yes. I sit on the couch when they leave to get some beer.
Enrique, the foreign exchange student, turns to me ands asks, "Are you safe?"
"I am safe."
We sit on the couch a while. Bored I decide to leave.
"Enrique, you want to come with me while I get my mail?"
"Yes."
We leave the dorm room and head to the mailboxes.
...The mailboxes were flattened cardboard boxes on the front lawn...
Almost everyone else is at their mailbox. Odd. Then I see everyone has received the same blue form letter.
...The letter was from the city of Chicago. They were informing everyone for their benefit the dormitories were being shut down to allow the students a chance to explore new options. Everyone knew that the city was really evicting everyone to save money...
Everyone is pissed so I decide waiting in the dorm room may be better. Enrique and I walk back upstairs.
"Damn. I locked my keys in the room. We have to go see the RA."
We head downstairs and stand in line. Eventually my turn comes. I tell the middle-age heavy-set black woman behind the counter locked my keys in my room.
"Which room," she asks.
"532"
I wait and wait. She finally returns with my keys. I go back to my room. What the hell. The door is unlocked. My roommate and his friends have returned. They are sitting on the couch drinking beer. Seeing them reminds me I still have not done anything. I still have not decided anything. Frustrated I run from the room. I run from the dormitory to nearby Momence Junior High. I have two sweatshirts but I can not decide what to do with them. One is black, the other red. I resolve to place one sweatshirt in each hand. Now I can run full speed. Only I can not. I am pushing as hard as I can but I am barely moving. I feel like I am running through water. Other students run past me. They are moving at fast speed. Why can't I move fast too.
"When my dreams are like running in water, I must use my will power to push myself. When my body is slow I must use my brain to make myself fast."
I will myself to be faster. Through intense concentration I am able to move faster.

July 21st, 2005

...A giant grid made from glowing golden lines hovers before me...
...A holy guru sits in the center of the grid. He is Indian, dark skinned and dressed only in a loincloth...
...He is cutting ostrich eggs in half with a sword...
...The guru places the top half to the side...
...The bottom half is filled by a pair of human legs...
...The legs move out of the egg, stand up, then grow into a whole human...
...The new born human walks off and the guru cuts another egg...

July 19th, 2005

...A giant grid made from golden glowing lines hovers before me...
...It is like a giant calendar...
...In the center square sits a group of monkeys and apes...
...They appeared as orcs and goblins in the sides of my vision...
...They were smashing rocks allowing the liquid gold inside to pour out...

July 12th, 2005

I am riding on a bus with Program 5 from IOA. Molly S. accuses me of being in love with Jessica S..
...who she calls Jessica Jessica...
I do not respond to her comments, so everyone thinks it is true. The bus arrives at Mall X. I exit the bus to find Jessica in a nearby car. She waves but I ignore her. I do find her attractive. Yet she is 16.
"Hopefully by ignoring her I can avoid my feelings," I think.
I enter Mall X and remark how I know all the shops. I need to use the bathroom. Looking for the bathroom, I pass by the Ramones. Each Ramone was wearing a Spider-man shirt. Cool. I finally find the bathroom but have to squeeze through a tight passage to enter. Once done in the bathroom I want to head upstairs. The only way up is a tight rope. I start to get on the tight rope, but am stopped by an employee.
"You need to wear this."
He hands me a giant backpack. I put it on and walk up the tight rope. A blonde man and his daughter are coming down the tight rope. We both can't fit.
"The top is closed," says the blonde man.
"But you were up there," I say.
"I have a ticket from the Mall cops."
I don't believe him and continue forward. He backtracks to allow me to the top. I reach the top and it is all boarded up. Everything is roped off. Damn. He was right I think. Disappointed I go back downstairs.

July 7th, 2005

I am traveling down the gravel road. A dark haired woman places two needles in the soil to the side of the road. She tells us that I, and the jocks on the road with me, need to go through the eyes of the needle. We are sucked through the needles. All our skin gets pulled off. I expect to find use damaged and bloody. Instead we are fine. Brighter even. Then the woman explains the world to me.
"There are levels to the here and now. Levels stacked directly behind each other. First the Fire layer, then the air layer, earth layer, water layer, and lastly the mental layer. The going through the needle pulled off the pieces of you that were too heavy."

June 30th, 2005

I am watching a movie.
...my awareness enters the movie...
An elderly spy couple are sitting on the beach. It is midday at the tropical beach. Burt Lancaster played the gentleman spy. The couple are enjoying some drinks, when they sense something. They then hide in the sand. A group of Desperadoes, straight from a Old West movie, are approaching on horseback. They want to kill the spies. The Desperadoes ride up to the beech but can not find the couple. They sit and look. Nothing. Then the elderly gentleman leaps from his sandy hiding spot. A quick shot from his rifle and one desperado is dead. He shouts at the others to surrender. They do.
"My wife and I are traveling the Grand Pass. Any one of you is welcome to join us."
Only one of the desperadoes agrees to join the couple. He gets off his horse. He discards his knife and two pistols. Free of his weapons he needs to cross a chasm in the sand. The couple are on the other side of the divide.
"I'll be back," he says to his two horses.
The desperado drops to a ledge in the chasm and crosses to the other side. He joins the spy couple.
...my awareness leaves the movie...
...the scene shifts from the theater to my parent's backyard...
I am walking around the edge of my parent's property. There are no longer fencing marking the edges. Instead towering pine trees border the edges. I am eating my breakfast as I walk. A breakfast of popcorn. Once finished eating, I notice I am only partially dressed.
"It is time fro me to get ready," I think.
I turn and walk along the front of the property to get back home. As I near the mailbox I see a giant envelope in the crab apple tree across the gravel road. It is the size of a door. I check the mailbox for other mail. There were four mailboxes. Two on the ground and two up on a post. Odd. There was no mail in any of the mailboxes. Only the giant envelope across the road. My daughter approaches me from the house.
...My daughter is Zoe Saldana...
She is mad at me.
"Why did you tell her that," she asks.
I told one of her friends who Zoe is dating right now. Zoe and her friend are attracted to the same boy but he likes Zoe.
"Because I had to send her away," I say.
"Why? She was your friend too."
"Yes, but I found her attractive. I can not have that temptation around me."

June 14th, 2005

I go into work at Farm and Fleet early in the morning. A group of people are standing next to stacks of music CDs. The stacks of CDs arranged in an orderly fashion. I ask a teen girl what is going on.
"I don't know," she says.
I start to look at the CDs in the stacks when I find an album by Teegan and Sara.
"Cool."
Then I look over the stack and see Teegan and Sara are in the crowd of people. So is all the Lollapalooza bands. I really want to say hello to them, but I am afraid.
"Why would they want to talk to me. They are professional musicians and I am merely a Mini-comic Artist."
I turn and wander around Farm and Fleet. The more I wander, the more hyperactive I become. Soon I am bouncing around and laughing like a maniac. I keep yelling for my skateboard. Between screams I notice a regular customer at the Front Desk. He is a middle aged Mexican Immigrant. He wants to leave with his oil purchase but no one trusts him. They are doing everything in their power to make him stay.
"I hate their bigotry," I think.
A customer approaches me.
"How many 3/4 drive ratchets does the computer say the store has," he asks me.
"Why," I ask.
"The 1/2 and 3/4 ratchets are mixed up on the shelf. I need 14 for a friend and want to know how many to order."
I go to check to computer and pass by the ratchets. I notice that the 1/2 drive and 3/4 drive ratchets are switched on the shelf. Once at the front desk, I look up the inventory in the computer. It says we have 11 3/4 ratchets in stock.
"Damn, he's right. he will need to order some."
I make a sarcastic comment about one of the Managers being a long distance runner to Anne Blanchette. She laughs then tells me she spends more time at the Front Desk than in her own department. How sad I think. I look over and see the stacks of CDs.
"No. I will not be afraid anymore! I will go and talk to Teegan and Sara. I will even ask them their address so I can send then a mini-comic."
I walk to where they were before, but they are gone. The show has started.
"Darn."
I leave the store to walk to the show. The concert is being held in the back of Momence Junior High. I am refused entrance because I do not have a ticket.
"Double darn."
I need to use the bathroom, but Geoff Trudeau's bathroom is the only one left. I reluctantly use it. It is very creepy. Dimly lit, cave-like, and filled with boxes of old clothes. I piss as quickly as I can then leave. Exiting the bathroom I spy a television. It is playing footage of the Pixies warming up for their performance. The footage was all in black and white. A teen male comes up to watch the footage with me.
He asks me," Is your chance over."
"No."
Steve Buscemi comes onto the stage. Apparently he has become a member of the Pixies. Cool. Once their instruments are tuned, they grab bottles of condiments from a nearby table. Each signs his or her name on the wall with the condiments. I leave the house confused by the Pixies signing their names in mustard and ketchup. To my surprise Teegan and Sara are outside also. They are dressed in chicken suits and chasing a shopping cart. The shopping cart was stuck on a run-away lawnmower. I run after them.
"Teegan and Sara, can I send you one of my mini-comic?"
"Sure."
"What's your address?"
A car horn prevents them from answering. Their mother has arrived and demands they leave now. I stand in the street watching them drive off. A freckly redhead teen approaches me.
"Did you get their address," she asks.
"No."
"I am sorry. I manipulated events just so you could meet them and get their contact info."
I am touched she would do all that for me. I hug her in thanks.

June 31st, 2005: Dream 2

I am traveling across a giant calendar.
...It is also a gameboard for a boardgame...
Trees cover the landscape. I step on the center square.
...The center square is the home to the god Indus...
I land in my parent's backyard. Indus approaches.
...Indus takes the form of Suzanne, only taller and thinner...
Suzanne needs to take a shower. We enter the nearby Antique House.
...The Antique House was located in my parent's backyard, between my parent's house and the back arena...
Suzanne showers with the bathroom door open. I sit on the couch watching television. I strain my neck to see past the television into the shower. I would really like to see Suzanne naked. The shower turns off and I grab a pink towel. It has been used, but is still clean. I hand it to Suzanne through the shower door. She dries off and joins me. After a moment of awkward conversation we kiss. I run my hands across her body. My mind races with arousal and joy. My cock is so hard it hurts. I press my body into Suzanne's hoping she will feel my erection. She does and smiles. Then the real Suzanne enters the house. Indus is gone. I kiss the real Suzanne and think how it does not compare to kissing a god.
...I need to travel to the Land of the 99 demons...
I start to travel down an immense stone staircase that leads underground. The stairs would alternate between descending and scending. If I travel far enough I will enter the Demon realm and then the Land of the the 99 Demons.

June 31st, 2005: Dream 1

I am in the lower levels of the Museum. A large party is being thrown in my honor. I have been elected president of the Museum. Everyone is celebrating. I step up to the podium to a round of applause.
"Thank you everyone. It is my honor to be your President. And if you did not vote for me, tough! I am here now and I am not going away."
I step down from the stage and leave the celebration. I want to talk to the Historical Society's President. I find him and bring up two improvement ideas I had for the museum. One, Put the mummies on display while simultaneously putting the Roman statues into protective display cases. Second, increase his budget. He has no idea who I am.
"He does not know I am president," I think. "Darn, I was hoping to do this without having to brag about my position."
"I am Jason, the newly elected Museum president," I say.

June 29th, 2005

I am on the center square of a giant calendar.
...With me is a dark haired woman of a shifting form, who becomes Suzanne...
We each own three cards.
...each card is an aspect of our art. They are similar to Monopoly deed cards...
Suzanne starts to wander around the calendar. She tells me, as she passes by, that we are overextended.
"What," I ask.
As she passes by again she says not to worry.
"I solved it by selling one of the cards," she says.
"Okay," I say hesitantly.
Suzanne passes by and informs me we are now making money. Apparently having only two art aspects allowed us to start to earn money. Soon we have enough money to buy back the aspect card we sold.

June 28th, 2005

...a voice whispers to me. It tells me I am to call my story's world Camaara instead of Zorica...

June 28th, 2005: Dream 1

I am walking along Je-neir's playground at night. I am a giant. Cars drive past wanting to park on the playground, but can't. I am walking toward the Bank One at the end of the playground. Customer and manager complaints drift through the air like smoke. They want the bank investigated, which is why I am there. I enter the bank.
...the bank shifts between the playground and bank interior in the corner of my eyes...
The bank has recently changed their focus to "one customer at a time, one day at a time". The new focus works, but the bank's income has slowed. I enter the Manager's office. The council of women that run BankOne greet me. I ask them to explain the changes made. They tell me that after doing things one way for thirteen years, they wish to try a new way of doing things.
"Time for a change."

June 21st, 2005

I enter the damp cave and emerge in the forest clearing. The smell of pine and dampness enters my nostrils. Brighid is waiting for me.
"Happy solstice," I say.
She smiles back to me.
"Brighid, am I doing things right with my art," I ask.
"Yes. You are travelling the right path."
Then the Wolf walks out of the forest.
"Are you here to guide me or tell me something," I ask.
"No," he says. "Would you like to fly around the stars with me?"
I say yes and climb onto his back. I get a good grip in the fur at the scruff of his neck. I notice how his fur is coarser than a dogs. He starts to run and soon we are flying through the sky. We break through the clouds and climb higher.
"Brother Wolf, what is keeping me from being rich," I ask.
"That is not a wolf's concern," he replies.
We are now traveling through the starry sky. A pelican, grey in color, flies up next to us.
"Brother Pelican, are you here to teach me how to be rich," I ask.
The Pelican nods its head. I say goodbye to the Wolf and climb onto the Pelican's back. I am surprised at how smooth his feathers feel. We change direction and fly to a devastated landscape. The fields are barren and cities in ruins. Fires burn across landscape. We land in a clearing. The Pelican nudges me towards a black stone block. On top I find a hand print made out of jade. I place my right hand on the hand print. Blue light shoots up my arm. Electricity wracks my body. It hurts! I want to let go.
"You must continue," says the Pelican.
I place my left hand on top of the right to hold it in place. My entire body is electrified. My brain starts to twist and pulsate. My thoughts begin to twist and pulsate. Time and space begins to twist and pulsate. Then suddenly it all stops. I shake from the pain. Then I puke up a yellowish green liquid. Black maggots swim in the vomit. I feel a release and can now cry.

June 20th, 2005

I am wandering through the ground floor of Mall X.
...this is all part of a video game...
...the world is divided into three realms in this game.
...the middle realm is the here and now. The present world where we all live...
...behind the first realm is the undead realm. It is like the extra weight on a person. That which is too heavy to let go, even upon death...
...in front of the first realm is the heavenly realm. Here reality is like a faerie kingdom...
...I am two people at once, so my sword will be enhanced...
...My sword is +3 damage versus the undead realm and +24 versus the middle realm...

June 19th, 2005

I sit in my college class with Rosalind. Rosalind looks like Laini from the Gilmore Girls television show. The class breaks for lunch. Rosalind and I stay in the classroom talking.
"I want sex," she says.
"You can always masturbate," I say.
"Not good enough. I want to hear the noises that come from someone's mouth when they make love."
"I'll have sex with you."
She looks me over then agrees.
"I have always had a little crush on you," she says.
We leave class and walk to her house. It is in a gated community in Frankfurt, Illinois. Her father can afford a house in this neighborhood because he is the King of Siam.
"Damn, my parents are home."
No sex for us I think.
...now I find myself standing in my underwear holding four containers of vegetables. Each container held a different type of vegetable...
I mix up the vegetables to occupy my time. Now that I am not going to have sex, I have some free time. I mix up the vegetables and want to set the containers down. I need to slip past two females to do so. One of the females is a tall, lithe, strawberry-blond. The other was a freckly redhead with deep red curly hair. For some reason both are wearing bikinis. They stun me with their beauty. The hallway is too tight. I rub against the two redheads as I pass by. The freckly redhead slyly smiles at me as I rub against her. She starts to talk to me.
"Are those vegetables. I love vegetables, being a vegetarian."
I don't respond, for I am concentrating on not getting an erection. We head out to the back of the house for a barbecue. My vegetables are cooked on the grill. When it came time to eat, I looked for silverware. The only ones I could find were attached to the grill. They were the wrong size, so I ate with my hands. Once finished, we all head inside. I sit with Rosalind across from her parents. I look around the room. I notice a sign reading "NORSCA".
"Rosalind's family must have Norse in it," I think.
I see the time and tell Rosalind we need to leave. The lunch break is almost over. The King of Siam does not want us to leave. He confronts us in the garage. He is carried in on his throne by his royal guard. Reminded me of Polynesian royalty. He commands the royal guard to shut the garage door. It was made up of interlocked clear plastic panels. I want to leave so I decide to leave even if the King of Siam told me no. I punch the garage door opener lose from the ceiling. I then kick and break lose the locks on the sides of the garage door. I lift the door and call for Rosalind to come with. We run. The king sends the royal guard after us.
...I suddenly have a wooden staff in my hand. The tip of the staff glows with white light...
We run into a banquet hall to escape the royal guard. I use my staff to help see in the darkness. We slip out of the banquet hall and enter the merchandise parking lot. I touch my staff to the objects in the parking lot. The objects burst into flame. I even set a miniature temple on fire. Fires burn around us. We run. The parking lot connected to a K-mart. We run in through the backdoors. We run through the K-mart into the Bazaar. It was set up inside the K-mart. The royal guards have found us. They nearly catch us when I set some fires to distract them. I set fire to every temple and synagogue we pass in the Bazaar. The majority of the royal guard are stopped by the fires. A few do manage to catch us. I stab my staff through their chests. I continue on. Any Dick tries to stop me . He wants to show me this pallet. A pallet stacked twice as tall as a man with boxes of cherub dolls.
"They have pubes," he stresses.
I ignore him and keep running. I soon escape the Bazaar with Rosalind. I see my friend, a chubby freckled boy wearing a horizontally striped shirt of red and black.
"Get me across to American soil," I shout.
...the K-mart was built apon the border between America and Siam. The cash registers marked where Siam ended and America began...
"I've killed a man and burned all of Siam's temples. I need to escape."
"I've found a doll with pubes," yells Andy Dick to my friend.

June 8th, 2005

I am in my apartment's bedroom with Suzanne and her twin. I do not remember Suzanne having a twin. The twin is naked, with a lean athletic build. She pulls her long hair back into a ponytail as she goes through my closet. Suzanne has lost weight. She is the short and curvy woman she desires to be. We undress and lay on the bed holding each other. I am so aroused.
...the scene shifts from my apartment's bedroom to a meadow...
I am walking the trails in a meadow near the sea. I am trying to find a back way into Kankakee, for these trails lead anywhere if walked correctly. I pass a treehouse. Rachel, JoAnna, Shante and Lumeki from IOA Program 6 call out to me from the treehouse. They leave it and join me on my journey.
...the trail we are walking slowly turns into Dixie Highway in Momence...
Rachel bumps into me sending me sideways. I bump her back. We continue down the street as I try to wrap up an extension cord. She goes into the Clipper for her haircut appointment.
"About time I also got a haircut," I think.
Randy Whiskers is cutting a young girl's hair. He cuts it like a fox, where the sides are styled into fox ears. Randy tells her she needs to watch the dye on the tips.
"I'm going to lunch," he tells me as he walks past.

June 6th, 2005

I am part of a scavenger hunt in Mall X. The mall contains all my dream locations instead of it's normal shops. Haunted ride, museum, train station, Antique House,...etc. I am teamed up with a college fraternity and sorority. The frat and sorority are brother sister chapters to each other. We are searching all over the mall for the one hundred golden coins. The fist to find them wins. The only problem is the coins appear then disappear. We manage to only find eighty-four of the golden coins. Then the scavenger hunt is over and we have lost.
"Fuck losing," I think.
...I slide my awareness backwards along an unknown direction. I have travelled back in time to the beginning of the scavenger hunt...
We search through Mall X only finding eighty-four golden coins. I enter the Haunted Ride, a carnival haunted house ride that looks like a castle on the outside. Time is almost up when I decide to try something different. I rip open the paper covering over the holes in the bottom of my ride. Inside I find a severed head of a zombie woman. She then shrieks at an inhuman volume. The head floats out of the hole and stairs at all of us. It is still shrieking. My teammates flee.
"I make my own choices not some severed head. I choose not to be afraid," I think.
I rip the paper of the other holes in the ride's floor. Four more zombie heads shriek and float out. One has no lower jaw. Scully and Mulder, from the X-files, are ridding in the car behind mine.
...My awareness leaves my body and moves to Scully's voice...
"The contest has chosen to write clues for the location of the other golden coins in each line of the scavenger hunt. The mother is the water."
...my awareness returns to my body...
The mother is the water. I realize the line is referring to the stream of water running through the ride. It is a deep and dark circle of water. The coins are hidden under the surface of the water. No wonder we could never find them.

June 2nd, 2005: Dream

I am wandering far north of my home. I encounter a smaller version of Mall X. I enter and look around. The mall is nearly all juice stands.
"Odd," I think.
It gets to be near closing time and I decide to leave. But first I want something to eat. Specifically a fruit smoothie made with yogurt. The first stand does not have any. The second juice stand does not have any either.
"Screw it," I think.
I am about to leave when my hunger convinces me to try again. I race to the Jamba Juice located on the half level between the first and second floor. It is located in the center of the mall. As I run to the center, I start to run through water. Once the water is waist deep, it takes on the nature of a golden light. I begin to move with stealth.
...my body changes as I move though the water. I am not alarmed by the change...
I am a monkey-man clad in gold armor. I begin to move with an inhuman agility and fluidity.
I think, "Lets show those college kids real grace."
I dance from brick to brick, column to column, all in slow motion.

June 2nd, 2005: Dream 1

Mike Enzenberger, John Ruane, Jeff Young, Rosalind, Suzanne, and I are traveling in John's car. John is driving. I am riding in the front passenger seat with everyone else in the back seat. My legs bump against something and I investigate. It is a seventeen inch monitor. Before leaving, John tells me it is hooked up to the storage disk in his car's computer. He has placed all his downloads on the disk. I look at the screen and notice it is filled with icons. Each icon was fro a pornographic picture or movie. I really wanted to look at the porn. It was like an burning itch. I had to get rid of this temptation. I eject the disk. It comes out the CD player.
"Uh-oh," I say.
The disk is warped as if overheated. John returns to see the mangled disk in my hand. He is pissed. He yells at me for messing with his stuff. I try to jam the disk back in and finally succeed. To my surprise it still plays fine. John is calmed and drives us to Bradley. We pull up to Micky's Adult Bookstore. We all enter the store. I am confused by the store's new layout. It is almost maze like. Additionally they have changed products. Instead of porn, the shelves are lined with comic books. The coffee bar is gone, along with the stench of cigarettes.

May 31st, 2005

As I wander through the forest I come across a deer and a squid in the clearing. I can see into the deer and squid like an X-ray. I marvel at all the bones in their bodies. Even the squid had bones. His tentacles were made up of vertebrae. Fascinating.
...the scene changes from the forest to a banquet...
I get into an argument with Mrs. Schafer.
"You've lost a day of pay," she says.
"No way. I am allowed five personal days."
"No. You are allowed four. You have used five, so you are one day over."
Seething, I travel to the Manteno Middle School to find a copy of the employee's handbook. I will prove my claim, I think. The building has been remodeled. A descending staircase replaces the entrance hallway. I walk down the stairs and find an old door. I enter the door and talk to the secretaries.
"I need a copy of the Employee's Manual," I say.
"We don't have a manual for high school employees. In fact we have no manuals here. Call Mrs. Hiser and she'll explain the rules to you."
I leave the Middle school and walk over grassy hills. I reach the High School. I head straight to the basement, for this is where the office is located. As I walk through the basement I think that Mrs. Schafer is probably right. Yet I have no intention of stopping my quest.
"I will finish what I started," I think.

May 24th, 2005

I travel up the stairs to the top floor of Mall X. I encounter a large gameboard. It is divided into squares like a checkerboard and fills the hallway. A snake is traveling a path across the gameboard. It comes too close to the edge and almost falls off the top floor. It recovers and avoids falling.

May 20th, 2005

I find myself a contestant on a combination game show and reality show. The show consists of a high school class reunion where everyone wears the world's worst swimsuits. We stand in a swimming pool center ready to dive into the water. The host tells us we will dive into the water, swim to the rack at the bottom of the pool, grab a swimsuit, then put it on. While everyone else is picking a swimsuit, I am in the water holding the rack in place. I get to pick my swimsuit last. Only two are left, both being short jean shorts.
"Fuck," I think, "my penis will stick out."
I start to leave the contest, then change my mind.
"Fuck it. They see my junk, they see my junk."
Having so mush skin exposed, I know I will need sunblock. I leave the pool to find some sunscream lotion. I climb to the top of the nearby hill where the show placed all our stuff. I walk past a metal shack. I my presence startles the scientist inside.
"What are you doing here," he shouts at me.
"I need sunblock," I say.
I then notice the scientist has a black crystal embedded into his palm. Odd, I think. I slide down the hill to get to my stuff. I grab a bottle that was laying out. The scientist has followed me.
"How did you do that," he asks me.
"That is just me. You'll never know what I'll do next."
He walks off disappointed. I look at the sunblock and see it is SPF 8. That will not do. I look around for more sunblock but only find black crystals. Crystals like the one in the scientist's palm.
...I remember every contestant on the show had a crystal in his or her palm...
...I also remember that the scientist was also the producer of the show...
One of the crystals starts to vibrate. I watch trying to figure out what was happening. Then the crystal splits open. A black onyx like beetle crawls out.
"They are eggs," I scream.
...the crystals will hatch and eat the person it is implanted into. They grow when the person uses his or her implanted hand. Soon they will take control...
I look over my shoulder and see the scientist. Shit he knows I know I think. I run. I run across sand dunes eventually entering Chicago. I climb onto the elevated train platform. I encounter John Goodman while waiting for the train.
...John Goodman is my father...
We sit down on the train next to Lou Reed. John tells me his plan for my escape from the scientist. The plan involves going to a hotel in the Jewish part of town. The hotel doors are special in that part of town, for they only open one way. All other hotel doors open doth ways. This will slow down the scientist. The crystal in my palm starts to hurt as he talks. I look and see the scientist is on the train. He sees me. Uh-oh I think. The scientist holds out his palm with the crystal in it. The crystal shimmers and chages, becoming a very long green snake. We run for it. The scientist follows. We run into the hotel and go through the doors.
...my awareness detatches from my character. I see myself run off through the doors. I turn to look around the lobby of the hotel...
A dumpy midddle-aged man is fascinated by a flyer. It is triangular and promotes the hotel he is in. The scientist enters and can not see anyone. Anyone but the man looking at the flyer. The man sees the scientist and cowers in fear. The scientist approaches and raises the snake. It is about to bite the man when Lou Reed appears. Lou Reed prevents the scientist from implanting something in the middle-aged man's crystal. Lou touches the green snake and it glows golden yellow. Like electrical gold. The scientist is rendered powerless.
...Lou reed is an from a race of aliens that watch and supervise the black crystal aliens...
...my awareness shifts and I am watching an episode of Amazing Stories...
The golden snake then goes on to defeat the dog who's voice would end the world, a nuclear missle, and the bunny who shed blood.
"Man, this would make a good idea for a superpowered animal comic book," I think.
Then I remember that Amazing Stories already did an episode about a superpowered dog.

May 19th, 2005: Dream 2

I enter a room in the series of rooms and find Jessica S., from IOA Program 5. She is sitting on the bottom bed of a bunk bed. I notice she is sad, then am shocked to find her naked as I approach. I notice how streamlined and lithe her body is. I also notice how muscular her legs are.
"Like a rabbit," I think.
She reaches out from the bed and caresses my testicles. Somehow I am naked now.
"Love me," she says.
I both enjoy and don't enjoy it. I tell her to stop.
"This is not right," I say. "You may be twenty, but you are still too young."

May 19th, 2005: Dream 1

I am sitting in an art class. The teacher, a blonde woman, walks by. She looks at my art. She loves it. Then she hates it. I am confused by her sudden flip-flop
"You are lazy Jason," she says. "You will only rise so high because you hate to work."
I leave the classroom.
...the scene changes as I step out the doors...
I am standing on a beach on an island in Lake Michigan. The island is home to a hotel and spa retreat combo.
...a zombie plague has broken out. The survivors fled to this island for safety. Once here, they slowly turned on each other. Now the survivors are divided into four groups: Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, and Easterners. Each tribe is fighting to have sole possession of the island...
I stand guard at the door with two others. A man and woman try to enter the hotel. We stop them because they are suspicious looking. They look like neanderthals dressed in stereotypical redneck outfits. Stray hats, overalls, shotguns,...etc. I smash the man's gun barrel into his face. His head splits open like hot pie filling. Brains ooze onto his overalls. I come to my senses and freak out. I run into the bathroom. I lock the door and decide never to leave. Unfortunately, the hotel is then invaded by the zombies. I remain quiet hoping they will not discover me in the bathroom. None ever do.
...the scene changes as I listen at the door...
Through the green van's window I can see the zombies walking everywhere. I watch as all the islanders are captured by the zombies, eaten by the zombies, then rise as zombies. People are being torn apart. Even the trees of the island are being attacked. It is the scariest thing I have ever seen. I am rendered mute from the horror. Soon the island is crawling with hundreds of zombies. The island has been stripped of all life when the zombies begin to mutate. They start to take on the forms of different animals. Yet they still looked like zombies. A hover boat appears at the side of island. The survivors on the boat are waving to me. The zombies are distracted by their mutations, so I run for it. I and another jump into the boat.
...a voice whispers he is the leader that rallies the people against the zombies...
As the boat turns to leave the island, all the zombies emerge from the soil. They scream in anger at their failure to grab us. Then they start to knock the dead trees over onto the boat.
"Faster," I yell to the pilot of the hover boat.

May 10th, 2005

I am watching the Rocketeer movie.
...my awareness enters the movie...
A blond haired young man hands me the jetpack. I strap it on and start to fly. Something goes wrong with the jetpack as I move through the clouds. It explodes. I am flung through the air, crashing into a carnival. I land face first.
"Oww," I think as pain explodes across my body.
I go limp and roll across the ground. I pass out.
...my awareness leaves the character so I can see what happens to him...
My body was broken to pieces when I crashed. The carnival workers find me. They then rebuild me. I lay on a medical bed in the middle of a small circus tent recuperating.
...I can see my character is about to wake up so I reenter him...
I awaken to a kiss from a blonde woman. She works at the carnival and feels terrible about what happened to me. I liked it. But before I could even talk to her, a reporter enters the tent. The reporter looks like one of the actors from the Square One television show, airing when I was in seventh grade. I am pissed he interrupted the blonde woman and me. I lie to all his questions. Justin L., from IOA's Program 1, agrees with every lie I make. The reporter is truly believing everything we say. It becomes a game to the two of us. How far can we take the lies before the reporter catches on. A special event is about to happen at the carnival. We all move to the main tent. The tent did not have bleachers like most carnivals. It had sofa's, recliner chairs, and haybales to sit on. I sit and fell pity for the reporter.
"He's only doing his job. It is not right fro Justin and I to lie to him like that."
I confess to the reporter about the lies. Then I tell him the real story of how I crashed and came to be at the carnival. Then the blonde woman leaves.
...her name is Jennifer I think...
I chase after her. I catch her in the bathroom. It was built where the carnival tent transitions to the brick building. I back her into a corner and kiss her. She kisses me back. As we passionately kiss she fades from view, like the cheshire cat. Only her blonde hair and lips are visible. I know everyone can see us, but I do not care.
"I want to make love to you," I whisper.
"It is not time yet," she replies.

May 8th, 2005

I am working in a Dentist's office in downtown Momence. Monica Miller enters for her appointment. As she sits in the dentist's chair, I am struck by her beauty.
"She would make an awesome painting," I think.
I reach for a nearby placemat, for the Dentist's office was also a restaurant. I sketch the most beautiful drawing ever. When I finish I notice the sketch does not look like Monica. The sketched Monica has a black mark below her lower lip, flaming red hair, abundant freckles, and a larger nose.
"Hmmm, what does this mean," I think.
Then the dental assistant, a brunette woman, tells me Monica would date me. Only she's never talked to me.
...I turn to look at the dental assistant when I notice I am not in the dental office anymore...
I am walking down the gravel road, near my parent's house, that runs past the Haut's. It is a clear sunny day. As I walk the road I think about Suzanne and Monica. I can not decide who I like better. Suzanne is beautiful on the inside, blah on the outside. Monica is beautifull on the outside, but blah on the inside. Two blimps fly across a nearby field. I watch them fly across the sky. The blimps are shaped like round discs on their sides.
"Just like nautilis shells," I think.
Winds begin to blow. One of the blimps crashes to the ground. The other blimp's pilot jumps from the blimp. He changes his mind last minute, but the winds take hold of the blimp. As he falls, I can see him scramble to grab the rope attached to the blimp.

May 6th, 2005

A rocketship sits in the middle of a room in the series of rooms.
...It will launch in November...

May 5th, 2005

I am looking at a calendar on the wall of my apartment's bedroom. I turn the page and the Bear Spirit leaves the calendar and flies into me.

May 4th, 2005

...There was a POWER. One POWER out of many POWERS...
...A piece of the POWER was broken into two...
...One piece became a name on a sheet of paper...
...The name was broken into two words...
...The sheet of paper was in a dark storeroom, lit by a sole candle...
...The other part became a knight in golden plate mail armor...

May 3rd, 2005

A zombie plague has filled Momence. I flee the zombies with my friends: a blonde man, a blonde woman, and a dark haired lanky man. We decide to climb to the fourth floor of the High School. Once we reach the fourth floor, I see it is the High School's roof. Zombies followed us. We are now trapped, because zombies filled the first and second floors. I race down the stairs locking a gate. Now the zombies can not reach the third floor. On my way back to the roof, I pass through the attic. I hear a noise in the corner. I look and watch as zombie children emerge from the darkness. They cry. I am scared but also sympathetic.
'They most likely mean no harm and are lonely," I think.
But I decide not to risk it and attack the zombie children. As I am crushing a child's rotten head under my foot, a giant crow flies in through a broken window. The crow is taller than me. It lands and stares at me.
"Oh-no, the zombie plague has mutated so as to now infect crows," I think.
Yet the crow only watches me. I moves neither closer to nor further from me. It being a zombie doesn't feel right to me.
"It must be here only to watch," I realize
The path to the roof is blocked. My friends and I decide to reach the roof by climbing onto the ledge outside Mrs. Kruse's room.

April 30th, 2005

Inside a temple, I enter a room made from golden bricks. Two torches blaze on each wall. In the center of the room stands a large cube. It looks like a giant-size green children's play block. On top of the cube is a sculpture of an abstract bird. Four columns stand near each corner of the block. I feel a real sense of awe and reverence as I walk through the room.

May 5th, 2005

I am helping young kids escape a school that is on fire. I am trying to keep them calm. Then I spy some other kids using a fire hose. They are trying to hold the flames back till the firemen arrive. I go over to take over the fire hose, so they can escape. The hose is knotted and tangled. I untangle it. I take the fire hose, send away the kids, and begin to spray the fire. I can feel the heat across my face. I manage to put out the flames in the living room. I can not reach the side bedroom with the spray. I look to the front windows trying to figure out another way at the fire. The aquarium, which was the front window, cracks from the heat of the fire. A giant roaring wave flows through the house. I run away. I want to avoid being caught in the wave. The aquarium water put out the fire. I walk through the building to see the level of destruction firsthand. Only the concrete shell of the building remains. I see the principal walking towards me.
"I'm so sorry for your loss," I say.
"What do you mean," he says. "I have not lost so much. I have a lot remaining."
I leave the school and pass by an Italian restaurant in the school's playground. My family is eating in the outdoor cafe. I join them. Then the principal joins us. He's talking about all the ways he can rebuild the school. Lots of giant windows to let the light in he says. An Italian woman with a large sausage draped across her neck approaches the table. I assume she works at the restaurant.
"Vino," she asks.
The principal agrees and takes the wine bottle from the woman. He pours some onto the floor. I am amazed as the tiles on the floor regrow. Soon the floor looks brand new.
...the wine has the ability to regenerate...