In Between Dreams

im not awake, im just in between dreams

[in-betweendreams]

4th february, 2013

a previously safe land (the heath near my home) had been colonised by all sorts of animals. they lived in tribes, and were mostly hostile. we had to make our way to the other side of the lake. it was getting dark out, and we knew it would be much more dangerous after sun down. there was an elephant nearby running a "taxi" of sorts. my friends were afraid of him -- they didn't trust him -- but i knew it was our best hope. we climbed on the elephant's back (there were 3 of us at the time), and he waded into the water. fully submerged, we were only just able to keep dry. he was humming a song which i recognised as the saddest landscape. with this shared interest, i came to trust him, and we talked about music as he traversed the lake.

he dropped us off on the other side: a dark forest full of tall trees. another tribe lived there, and we were very nervous. the elephant said goodbye and i told him, "keep listening to the saddest landscape." we began to move east through the forest. my friends decided to play a prank and call the elephant back. he was very annoyed to find he had walked all the way back through the forest for nothing. i apologised -- he understood. again, we set off. soon the forest opened up, and we came to a city.

it was a beautiful, white, empty city, like a giorgio de chirico painting -- all grand structures, pillars, arcs, domed rooves. along the street were some very tall, white apartments, with victorian exteriors. the sun was passing through a set of pillars. i lamented that i had not brought my camera, but it was such a dangerous journey, it probably would have got smashed anyway. i took out my phone and tried to take a picture of the setting sun, but i kept moving ever so slightly so that the sun was hidden by a pillar. eventually, i gave up.

our group had grown. we now had a leader -- a tall woman. she led us into the only populated shop in the city. they seemed to be one of those knick-knack shops you get in small towns. it was a crowded shop. the owners were a husband and wife, and they had a young man helping out. his name was derek. derek came to help us at one of the displays. they looked a little like pocky sticks, but with white cotton instead of chocolate. they could be used to summon eagle steeds. our leader wanted eagles with voice control for a few specific members of our group, but there were only 2 available. she suggested they could use elephants, or giant lizards, instead, but we all settled for eagles.

part two

i was in a huge office building with a friend, a very tall boy. we were searching for information, and trying to blend in. but the boss of the company had spotted us. he didn't want any one else to know we were in the building, but determined to catch us. twice, he cornered us, but my friend turned us invisible. the first time, our persuer was too close for us to slip away, so my friend jabbed him in the face. the second time, we managed to skirt around him and run off.

we moved round the office building, snatching up any pieces of information which looked useful. i ended up with a small stack of papers. we arrived in a long, thin computer room with a meeting room adjacent. there were connecting doors at the head and foot of the room. but our persuer had found us. we could not vanish, as there was a particular piece of information we sought, and invisibility hindered our search. so we ran from one room to another, trying to evade the man after us. we entered the meeting room at the bottom door, and as it shut behind us, i spotted what we were after: the address of a man named george. it was written on a building plan, attached to the back of the door. i ripped off the address and we raced off.

exhausted and afraid, we found a small room in which to catch our breath. it was dark, as the sun was going down. there were two beanbags in the room. the door locked, but we didn't want to draw attention to ourselves with the telltale click, so i positioned myself with my back against the door. we set in the near-darkness for a few minutes, when i spotted a set of posters on the floor -- types of birds, published by the rspca. i really wanted to take them with us, but couldn't fold them, so i placed them on the roof below us, for easy collection later.

i turned back to my friend, and we talked for a while. when i looked back out the window, i saw the wind had blown the posters into the courtyard below. i was very disappointed, as it was crawling with people, making it impossible to retrieve. my friend had an idea. i begged him to reconsider, but he wouldn't listen. he shape-shifted into an obsidian nightwing, and plummeted from the window. the air caught his wings, and as he swooped over the ground, and picked up the papers. i ran from the room, eager to find him again.

i wandered round outside the building by myself. in my hands, was a small statue of a stag, mounted on a wooden base. the office complex bordered on the beautiful, empty city. the edge of the building clearly took after the architecture of the city, almost like it was being infected. i walked into a large, pillared space, with a gold dome roof. the interior was decorated with paintings. i flew up to the top of the roof and place the statue i carried in one of the alcoves.

[in-betweendreams]

30th november, 2012

in the first part, there was a transwoman in a restaurant talking to a man. even though she had quite a masculine appearance, she had a way with words and entralled people. she had red hair in a bob style.

then i was in a wintry maze with my family and cousins. sometimes there were bags hanging on the walls. i thought i took my bag off and hung it up. i was wearing sunglasses, even though they weren't prescription.

after a while we got to a theatre and decided to watch the film. i was annoyed because i didn't have my glasses so couldn't see it properly, but then i realised i had my bag all along.

then i was on some sort of battleground. me and a few others were standing at a vantage point, picking off enemies. i used a sniper rifle. then the difficulty level stepped up. our team had more players, but the enemies had missile launchers and other powerful weapons. our vantage point converted into a bunker with a small window. missiles were being fired at us. a few of our allies were down in the field, including the sniper character from tf2 (i've never played tf2 so no idea why). at first, he made far more kills than me, but soon i had stepped up my game and was managing to keep up.

after the battleground was clear, we headed down to an entrance to another maze. there were black machines, possibly servers, lining the walls. this maze was more dangerous, and had enemies in it. it was not wintry like the first maze. with our weapons at the ready, we entered the maze. it was the sniper at front (not a good idea for a sniper?). then some extremely hyperactive person who continually ran from the front to the back, mostly hanging around in 2nd, then myself. we got pretty far through the maze, then came to a series of rooms, and eventually toilets. since i was so far ahead, i was ready to move on before the others even caught up.

there was a door to the outside. i went out. adjacent was a graveyard, except there were only a few gravestones and they were all arranged in a circle, facing inwards. i was standing in what seemed to be a parking lot, but it was very overgrown, and had something like an orchard growing to my right. there were 2 other people out there with me. i walked over to the trees and spotted a snake. i watched it for a bit, before it got nervous and tried to strike me. i headed back indoors.

everyone was in the toilets. i was getting impatient. i told them: "at this rate i'm going to be dead before obama's baby is born" (?).

after this there was some sort of exchange with someone who i didn't want to talk to. they were trying to reason with me, but i was adament to avoid them. for some reason, worf from star trek was there (i've never watched star trek). he kept changing shape, slightly, and then colour (he ended up yellow). i was running further and further away to avoid this person, whilst worf tried to reason with me. i ran and was suddenly in my garden from back home. i climbed up onto the shed. worf tried to warn me, but i vanished, to who knows where.

then there was the transwoman again. it was like a movie. i don't know where i went or what happened to me; i wasn't in this part of the dream.

[in-betweendreams]

14th june, 2012

in the first bit of the dream, i was an actor on a film set. i think we must have been doing a stunt thing or something, because we were in a huge, white room, where the walls were covered with this bouncy soft material. the floor dipped inwards, and there was loads of this soft material. in the material were hundreds of tiny model people. i joked that they were all models of people in the film.

after that i went through into one of the other rooms. there were many of those huge white rooms, and at the end was a sports hall. there were some people learning to play tennis. the floor was really slippery, but i just managed to slide past them. i did a lot of spinning.

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in the second bit of the dream, i was with my family and cousins in this beautiful valley. it was quite shallow, and dipped towards the centre. the ground was covered with beautiful flowers and plants, especially gorse. i remember it being predominantly purple. it was night time, but the stars and moon were so bright that we could easily see. we could see all the colours of space: purple, blue, orange, and i took an amazing photo.

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12th march, 2012

i had this dream through the eyes of a boy i don't know. i was going on holiday with my dream-family. we were at the airport, when i flipped out. i couldn't control myself. i started attacking people, and when i finally calmed down, i was so ashamed that i ran off. i was running down the road through town. the sky was grey and dark, and people stopped to watch as i ran past. there were no cars on the roads; everything seemed to be still.

i turned into a monster, a big black demon of immeasureable strength. i had been cursed. i would live as this demon, completely out of myself, killing everyone i came across. if i ever stopped killing, and let a single person live, the curse would be undone and i would return to myself.

i don't know how long i remained a demon, but whilst walking through a forest i came across a huge web. there was an old woman walking past it; she didn't see me. for some reason, it did not cross my (or the demon's, or whatever) mind to attack her. it was instinct to just leave her and walk past.

actually, i think it was years that i had been trapped, because my dream-parents told me so when i returned. they didn't seem to think i had died, more like they knew i would return one day, and that it was just a matter of time. as a demon, the soul of my dream-younger brother had been trapped with me. when i changed back, his soul was released and we came home together.

afterwards (not sure if it was the same dream or something else), i was walking through some damp tunnels dug out of rock. we were searching for something. i had a lantern, and was leading a group towards some rooms. we looked in the left room and found an adversary. i quickly dispatched of them, but the noise attracted several others from the right-hand room. our group hid, then, once we were able to, we slipped away and continued down the tunnel.

[in-betweendreams]

14th march, 2012

i was going on holiday with my (real) family. before i went to join them, however, i was staying in what looked like a youth hostel, except it felt like i was a prisoner there or something. in the loft were rooms where we slept. there were no furnishings -- we were expected to sleep on the floor -- and the rooms were windowless. my room was in the centre of the loft against the roof, so it had a sloping ceiling.

when i was sleeping my (dream, ahah) boyfriend came to me, except i did not recognise him because he was a werewolf. i was scared at first, but i realised that although he had lost some of his mind in the transition, he didn't want to hurt me. in fact, when i lay down on the floor to sleep, he lay down beside me so as to protect me. i felt him scratch me in my sleep and i was worried he might have made me a werewolf too.

the next morning, i was downstairs in the food hall. it was a large room with wooden walls. there were many tables at which sat people the same age as me and younger. to the left side of the room was a balcony, which i assumed lead up to the loft. the room was packed with people. i sat down with a few friends, and we talked over breakfast. towards the end, a girl at the table opposite me (who was sat alone) turned to talk to me.

a few days earlier, i had made a tumblog with a username relating to mlp:fim. i don't watch the show, i just thought it would be funny for some reason. the girl who spoke to me was a brony, i guess, and she was quite keen on making me give up the url. she told me it was their right to have the url. before she said that, i had been considering giving it up, but she regarded herself as so entitled that i refused.

i was kind of light-hearted about it, which annoyed her. she wasn't exactly asking for a fight herself, but she was annoying me and i was being very aggressive. i leapt over the table and dragged her to the floor. she was wearing a long necklace; i pulled it off and started to choke her with it. everyone was crowded round to watch the fight, so our jailers (presumably) couldn't get through to break it up. i revelled in the violence.

later, i was up in the loft. the girl was there too. we were on okay terms, considering the fight (which was kinda one-sided). she approached me about the url again, though i was determined not to give it to her. she also wanted her necklace back, which i had taken from her in the fight. it had a large, golden cross on it. i told her if she gave up on the url, i would give it back to her, but she wanted something else, too.

it was then that i met up with my parents. we were supposed to be in a holiday house, but it looked like just a regular terrace. i stayed for a while and we later had dinner. my dad said we would have curry the next day. we then walked to a nearby car park. it was empty except for a large, tile mural. i was tasked with checking the tiles were secure, but i thought it was a stupid thing to do, so i went off in search of the girl's mystery item.

i walked a long way, down to the sea. it was low tide when i arrived, so i could climb down to the gravel shore. i got into the water and swam round for a bit, but there was an automatic machine gun floating about which shot at me. i had to keep ducking under the water. when i finally made it back to the shore, the machine gun was turned round at an awkward angle, so when it fired, the shots ricocheted back at it, disabling it.

i got back into the water to look for the mystery item, but there had been a small polar bear sitting on the gun which was now very angry. it jumped off, and the gun sank, i tried to swim after it in case the mystery item was a part of the gun, but the polar bear attacked me and scratched my leg pretty badly.

i got out of the water, but it was now high tide, and there was no easy way up the rocks. i was bleeding quite badly. the sky was now grey and it was getting dark. i climbed up onto the rocks, but they were wet and slimy, and i kept slipping and hurting myself more. eventually, i got back up onto the path. i jogged some of the way -- absolutely exhausted, but still in a rush for some reason -- but didn't recognise the path back to the house. i remembered it being flat, but it sloped. it was surrounded by trees.

seeing no other way, i ran up the path. i was so tired and in pain, but i didn't stop. i realised it was the right path when i saw the terraced houses at the top. i was standing in an open spot which was gravelled. to my left, there was a man working on his car. i ran into the centre of the open spot, but i was so tired that i knew i was going to pass out.

i came to quite quickly, but i was too tired to move. i waited for the man to come help me, but he carried on working on his car. i hurt so much, especially since i fell onto the gravel. after a few minutes, i heard the man come over to me (i still couldn't see). he helped me up and i went back home. my parents were eating curry out of hats.

[in-betweendreams]

4th february 2012

in the first part of the dream, i was this guy called steven in a british heavy metal band (like in the 70s) with long blonde hair. we were going to a pub by the docks. i got really really drunk, and everyone decided to go out on a boat for a bit. there were two other guys sat at the front of the boat. i was sat right on the back, and i was so drunk i passed out and fell into the sea.

(there was another bit in the first part where the two other guys in the band had met up with these girls, but the girl in our band wouldn't give them any privacy. also, there were loads of crates in the room. i'm not sure when this bit actually happened.)

in the second bit, i was going on holiday with my family. i kept remembering things to pack at the last minute, and was determined to take my laptop with me so i could write. i finally got everything packed, but when we got there, i realised i'd forgotten my flipflops. fortunately, i had sebastian, the demon butler from kuroshitsuji with me, so i sent him home to get my flipflops.

in the last part i was sitting a physics mock, but half the questions involved designing things and drawing pictures. i kept complaining to my teacher because they had nothing to do with physics.

(inspired by a bbc4 docu about british heavy metal bands in america)

[in-betweendreams]

20th december, 2011

in the first part of the dream i was in a huge underground cavern filled with lava. there was a large obsidian platform jutting out from the wall, which led into a small room. this room had a ledge leading through, and below it were all kinds of monsters: spiders and skeletons and mummies and such. i felt as if i had been there before, and when i woke up i realised i'd once had a similar dream which was also in a cavern.

in the second part of the dream, there were two evil characters, and they were destroyed a city for some kind of reward from a higher being. when they finally demolished the last building, the being betrayed them and began to attack them. i think possibly i was in this part of the dream, but as someone running away from the two villains.

either way, i was still running in the last part of the dream, where i was a boy. i was in my street, and it was night-time. there were many people out looking for me, and i did not know who to trust. one person pulled up and told me to get into the car. i looked down and saw he had a gun stashed down by the seat, and he told me he needed it to protect himself. since i had nowhere else to go, i got into the car.

at this point i became a different person -- still a boy -- although my previous identity was still there in my mind. before i had changed, i'd had the power to see important things as i drifted off to sleep, and this power was still available to me. i curled up in the seat and started to drift off. i can't remember if i saw anything, but when i woke up (in the dream), i realised that doc brown from bttf was in the car with us, and from that moment i knew i wasn't in trouble any more.

[in-betweendreams]

18th december, 2011

i was travelling through a forest with some other people when we came to a dusty clearing where there was a large warehouse. we couldn't stay long, as we were trying to get away from something. fortunately, inside the warehouse were several cars, including a delorean. i wasn't going to leave without taking the delorean with me, but the engine was kaput. we used a hack saw to cut the entire engine out of the car, and swapped it with the engine from an old, rusty, but working car.

when we got back to the house, my mum was pleased i had brought the delorean, because she said we could give it to my cousin for his birthday. i was outraged, but somehow he ended up with it anyway, despite knowing nothing about it.

i guess i then woke up a stage, or something, because although i was still dreaming, i was aware that the previous events had been a dream. i told my mum about my delorean dream, and we then sat down to watch the third series of the killing. strange was back on the police force, despite being very dead at the end of series 2, and i was hoping that everything would be explained as to why he had been allowed back, but i woke up before then.

[in-betweendreams]

10th december, 2011

i was this tall woman with long, curly red hair named kimberly. i was working on this quite sparse farm. the sky was red and the ground was dusty. i remember one bit stood next to one of those portacabins. i was actually watching in third person, but i knew in the dream that i was kimberly. i went into a barn and something happened which changed me into a man, also named kim. it didn't bother me.

in the barn there was a kid looking for someone, and i offered to help. we found the person he was looking for outside, walking through one of the fields. he was with another person, and both of them were wearing blue jumpers. we were going to a cave on mars, and we had a quick way to travel there. it was a kind of interdimensional thing that put us in space and showed us various locations as pages in a book.

we almost dove down into the wrong page. it became very very bright very quickly, but we pulled back up and dove back down into the correct page. it did seem like mars, but had obviously been collonised. it was quite similar to where we had been before, but the ground was red, not just dusty. we walked to the cave. on the way was a big flat rock, and i was feeling quite energetic so i ran off from the group and jumped up onto it.

in the next part of the dream i am not sure i was even there, as it was in third person and i was able to see different characters separately. at the beginning, i was there, and i could view in first person. i'd bought a huge roll of yellow paper and thought it would be funny to set it on the ground and push it away, to let the wind trail the paper all through the town. then i got nervous about getting caught and punished, so i ran off. i ran past the tennis courts, and saw a short girl i recognised from college on the way.

i then seemed to have disappeared. there were several people walking through the town. they were stood on a traffic island, and were quite thirsty. there was a sign pointing to a fountain for thirsty dogs. underneath, it said that thirsty humans should turn around, but the only thing there was a lamp post.

the group had been called to fight some things which were called "sea witches" and lived in a cave at some kind of weird zoo. to the left of the cave there was a man in an encloser filled with what looked like cartoon clouds with legs. he came over to talk to us but we couldn't understand him as he was speaking in a foreign language and seemed to be drunk or at least out of it. the group started using hand signals, like charades, to try and communicate with him, and eventually he regained his ability to talk and invited the group into this big hammock net thing in front of the enclosure. he told us that he had been drunk on ideas, or something.

it was suspended above a big drop. in fact, the whole area was very rocky, and the road was carved into rock which went at least three stories high, like a cliff. we all sat down, and one girl asked if there was a double bed in the corner. after a while of talking, everyone came back outside, but saw that the sea witches were outside the gave.

the sea witches began firing spells at the group, so everyone jumped back into the car. they drove down the slanted road, but the sea witches could keep up with them. one of the group noticed a bunch of balloons next to the road, so she grabbed hold of them and the car floated up into the air, away from the sea witches.

unfortunately, car had been damaged, and broke apart. the group all held onto the balloons, and, once they were safe, everyone peeled away form the group with their own balloons. they floated towards a kind of steampunky town, where several flying machines were leaving. still holding on to their balloons, a few of the group grabbed hold of the underside of the machines and flew off with them.

there were two members of the group who had grown attached to each other: the man from the "zoo" and a girl who was kind of uptight and nervous. the other members of the group flew off to explore the canyon, but they had found a kind of waterslide carved into rock, and were just hanging round on it. they'd turned into stereotypical teenagers and were just gossiping.

no one had noticed that the youngest member of the group (who looked like ed from cowboy bebop) was being fired at by these humongiously tall creatures with really long legs. she was hiding behind a rock to try and keep away from them.

[in-betweendreams]

6th december, 2011

i was walking the dogs with my mum when i realised there were some vampires waiting down the back path. i made her promise not to follow me and to stay by the garages with the dogs. i then put little fake fangs into my mouth so that i looked like a vampire.

i fought with them, but they forced me back towards the garages. i tried to keep my mum and the dogs safe, and eventually managed to overpower the vampires. the dogs had turned into little wooden animals like in board games, and they had been knocked over, though they were trying to get up. my two dogs plus another dog with us were okay, but my cousin's dog (who has a tumour) wasn't moving. i was really upset because i wasn't ready to say goodbye to her.

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14th november, 2011

i took the dogs on the bus with me to go walk them down at the hill near my hometown.

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13th november, 2011

i was on a quest where i had to solve a puzzle. it was to do with a horse in a barn, where a family had been trapped and were being tortured. i got the clue wrong, and was stood in a shed whilst everyone else was rushing over to the barn. eventually i realised, but when i arrived the family was already leaving the barn.

i was then at the train station, and got into a digger to go to the park. the park was kind of magical, and the part i went to overlooked loads of other places. there was a strange cult of people i knew, led by a girl from my old school. they were all dressed in red. one thing i remember, is that they had an umbrella stand with about a dozen umbrellas, even though there were only about five of them. i was sat on a swing in a tree and wanted to ask them about a book that was related to my quest, as they were the only group who knew much about it. i was swinging further and further as they told me about the book. they then got up to do a dance which was to raise money for their cult, and i joined in. when we started dancing, it was raining, and when it stopped we all took off our coats, which seemed to be part of the dance.

i then left because i was going to see joel hodgson rehearsing for his show. he was only about thirty, and he'd gone back to doing prop comedy, so he had to make sure he had the entire routine correct. i was really excited because i knew him from mystery science theater. he was also doing some songs, and i sang along. i had a really great time, but soon joel had to leave to go do his show so i decided to go to the cafe. i left my things in the room and joel said i could pick them up from his dressing room which was room 150, however when i wrote it down on my arm i wasn't sure if he'd said 150 or 160.

some of my friends were in the cafe, and they were still discussing the book and the cult, although i wasn't really interested anymore. it was a really big cafe, but quiet empty. an hour or two passed, and i realised i didn't know when the show finished, so i went into the reception and looked round for someone to ask. there were two women at the reception, but they were both speaking to people. a woman behind me said "can i help anyone?" in a really small voice. at first i thought she was just a bit weird, but i then realised she was a member of staff. she was a little chinese woman sat on a stool. she didn't have very good english but she was very helpful to me.

i asked when joel's show was going to finish, and she said she didn't know, so she took me to the admin office so we could find out. another woman came out to help me, and she got me to fill in a form so they could search the database, even though i kept trying to point out that i needed to know about the show that was going on right then. i kept filling in the wrong boxes, too, and i was really annoyed with myself.

i then saw people coming out from the theatre, so i knew the show was over. one of the people i saw coming out was ed byrne. i was quite impressed because i didn't expect such famous guests. i tried to tell the woman that i knew the show was over, and she finally brought me a printed sheet that told me the show was due to finish soon, although it might be in august(?).

after that, i went to find joel. i was a bit nervous because i wasn't 100% sure which room it was. i walked down a corridor. the first door i passed was a kind of network room, completely white and very clean looking that was full of cables and computers. at the end of the corridor was a large, dark meeting room, but between these two rooms was room 150. it was really cosy inside, like someone's living room. i talked to joel for a bit and then realised i didn't have any photos, so i set up my camera on timer and balanced it on the back of the sofa. it was a great photo, but when i went back to find it, it was gone. my camera battery was running out, too, so the flash would not work.

i then tried to take a second picture. at that point, an old friend was in the room with me, and would have ended up being in the picture, but when the camera flash went off (even though it shouldn't have), i woke up.

other bits that i dreamt about:

i was walking in this mysterious, quiet field in the night, down some tracks. the field was full of corn and it was really peaceful. there was a friend with me, but i don't know who. they pointed out a house just off the track amongst the corn and said they'd hate to live there, but i thought it would be wonderful. we walked along further until the ground was just dust and all the crops were behind us. popeye was there, only he looked cartoon, even though the world was real. we were going to take a photo, so we asked a rock monster from the mountains to take the photo for us. he was huge, and very clumsy. he didn't take the photo, but began to fall apart instead.

i was watching jackass where this man put his hand into a tank with just one, very angry piranha in it. it bit him. for some reason, i got bitten by a piranha at home, too, and my mum wanted me to go to the doctor because the guy from jackass had an adverse reaction to the bite, though i pointed out that there was a bit of metal in his wound.

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11th november, 2011

i was in a store with shelves around the walls and a swimming pool in the centre. some people were shopping, and others swimming. a guy i knew from college, called hugh, was there. he was a nice guy, and i decided to get to know him a little better. i said hi, and we wandered around the shopping centre together. hugh wanted to buy a specific t-shirt.

hugh wanted a drink, so we went to waitrose and wandered around the aisles for a bit. there was a pot of curry sauce on sale, and i joked that he should drink that. when we were done, we headed to the checkouts. i had a bunch of sketches in the basket with the drink, and was embarrassed when the cashier accidentally grabbed them too. i snatched them back.

the cashier left her till. hugh was done, and was sat by the window waiting for me. i was behind a few of my peers who were in a hurry, and she was paranoid that people would get impatient and just leave the correct change at the till, which she said was illegal.

she was getting on my nerves, so asked matt smith (as the doctor) to go work the till, and the line started moving again. all the while, he was silently judging me for being with hugh. i just shrugged, and helped pack bags until the queue was gone.

me and hugh went to a meeting in one of the college computing rooms about web design. hugh gave me his business card, which was scribbled out in messy handwriting. i asked him if he knew a friend of mine, because i wanted to point out they both had terrible handwriting. we compared websites. hugh was embarrassed by his but i was pretty pleased with mine.

afterwards, i was catching up on one of my missed computing lessons. then, we headed outside to some kind of combat zone for a test to check i had caught up with the work.

other bits:

i had an idea for a tumblr which posts photos of crowds and picked out people with weird expressions.

i had taken acid at a train station and everything looked bizarre.

i was on a school trip where we were being made to play ice hockey. i gave up resisting and went and hid in a corner instead. the rink was a lake surrounded by cliff faces, to get to the ice you had to slide down a chute. i hid in a cave full of crates, and smashed most of them up. the surroundings of the lake then changed into a grassy forest and i skated to a funeral. the coffin, and the grave were a perfect square. no one was crying, but they seemed sad. they stood with their heads bowed and their hands together.

[in-betweendreams]

10th november, 2011

i was at the beach. there was a huge dinosaur walking around, looking for prey. i had behind a large sandy structure, but the dinosaur was moving toward me. i moved around the "column" to remain out of sight, and fortunately the dinosaur did not see me.

later on, the dinosaur caught sight of me in my same hiding spot, so i pushed a man out into view as a decoy. he ran away, with the dinosaur chasing him.

i decided to explore the beach. there was a small inlet off the shore where a group of people lived. i headed into a cave, and at the end was a man digging. he seemed a little unstable, and did not acknowledge me, but there was a nice woman at the opening of the cave that i chatted to.

later, i was on a tour led by joanna from green wing, but she was friendly and polite (unlike in the tv show). i already knew the area so i was a little bored. she told us that people traveled by entering precise measurements into a computer. if the measurements were slightly off, they would overshoot. there were tracks in a field from a tractor which had done just this. she told us people resorted to walking if the found their measurements incorrect.

[in-betweendreams]

i went down to the beach with my mum for a special day when all the shrimps came onto the shore. loads of people had gathered to watch them. i overheard one person complain about how boring they were, and was annoyed because shrimps are cool.

[in-betweendreams]

8th november, 2011

i was in a shop with some friends. we were trying to steal things. we weren't too nervous because the staff wouldn't prosecute you once you got down the street. i grabbed something and ran outside with it. a woman ran after me. i figured she would give up once i was in the street, but she had a hose and sprayed me with it.

i headed home. all the roads were replaced with canals, and the cars floated on the water. the canals were infested with sharks, so i couldn't get into my car until they'd swum away. i also had a giant pencil case with me, with dozens of pencils inside.

i decided i wanted to buy some clothes, so my mum gave me a catalogue which had come through the door. it was from the bbc, and the only clothes inside were hiking gear. the catalogue itself was very fancy, like an expensive fashion magazine.

later, i was in a dungeon built into the front room of a store. we were trying to interrogate someone, but they refused to cooperate, so we gave them a truth drug.

[in-betweendreams]

5th november, 2011

i was helping a desert community to save their family members from a house full of monsters. outside the house was a corrupted object which was supposed to be a random encounter. it was a meteorite, but i couldn't do anything with it so i went into the cheat console and deleted it.

i went inside the house and came to a small, dark, wooden room. there was a large shelf to my right. i checked every door to make sure nothing hid behind them. the nearest door was by the shelves -- it was a cupboard with a mop and bucket in it. i then moved through the house, killing monsters and freeing people.

i came to a platform in the main hall. there was a baby behind one of the largest monsters (a deathclaw or super mutant from the fallout series). i killed it easily. i also accidentally killed the baby, so took a fly back to the desert people (who were now tiny).

i was unsatisfied, and decided to "reload the quest" and try it again. i got the super mutant's attention and ran all the way back to the ground floor of the hall. another monster had spotted me on the way down and i panicked. like the boss fight in bioshock, i threw all my grenades, then toasted them with a flamethrower. i beat them, then fetched the baby and took it back to its mother.

the desert people were free to leave for an important meeting in another country. they left on horses and carts, surrounded by a ring of hired guns they had employed to protect them.

later, i recalled that my mum's orchids were drying. i was also writing up a new story based on an idea i'd messed around with for a while (werewolves again). i decided to call it "bob! influenza is not the answer!"