12014 August 06
I walked down the large open area, which seemed like the corridor of a mall. I had been talking to some other people, who seemed like $G3. I stopped near a crowd of people, who were waiting to order food from the counter on the northeastern wall of the room. I chatted with someone to the east of me. Several people around me seemed like $G3, but i was only chatting with the person that i had come with. As we chatted, i noticed that some young men had walked from the west and gotten in queue at the back of the crowd that was waiting to order. One of them motioned to where they were standing, asking if we were in the queue. We had not really gotten in queue because we had been talking. I shook my head to let them know that they would be fine, but i thought that we really should get in the queue so that we could get our food. I continued talking to the other person as i moved to the north. I realized that i was at the counter very quickly. Because we had waited, we were able to avoid the long queues. I had my food, so i backed away from the counter and headed to the west, into the center of the eastern end of the wide room. I felt that i had to get back to work, which seemed to be to the north of me. I headed toward the wide set of steps that led up to the north, just to the west of the restaurant area that we had been served at. The stairs seemed gray. I had my bag over my left arm as i climbed the stairs. $A37 was then on the stairs with me. He had paused at the landing on the top to speak to me. He seemed to be heading to get lunch, but he was really on his way back to the office. I chatted with him as we headed to the west, toward the lower end of the second flight of stairs, which ascended to the south. As we climbed, i noticed that $A37 was wearing a bright light-green shirt and dark pants. He was still very skinny. I then noticed my reflection in the glass doors at the top of the stairs. I was wearing a bright white and blue vertically striped shirt. It seem old, and i wondered if i should find clothes more like what $A37 was wearing. I then looked at $A37’s pants, noticing that they were very baggy. They looked like wrinkled cotton, and i thought that they were actually very casual, even though they looked like something from the 1990s. I wondered if that was the current style. We walked through the doors and into the main corridor on the second floor. I thought about how i could dress more modern. $A37 walked to the south, into a lounge area that was just off the corridor. Several people were clustered near some black cushioned couches. A few were sitting, facing south, and a few were standing, facing the couches. $A37 started talking to a woman with shoulder-length black hair who was standing in front of the couches. I noticed that her black pants only came to her upper calf, just below her knee. The style seemed strange, but i thought that it must be the modern style. I stood to the north of them, waiting for $A37.
12014 August 07
I opened the door of the freezer and reached into the back lower left side to find something. A pile of things was dumped in the corner. I lifted several of the plastic bags, looking at the things. I thought that i should take out a bagel to have for breakfast. I then notice that a bag of cookies was in the corner. I felt annoyed that they were there. I lifted the bag and looked at them. The large plastic bag was full of small brown cookies, which looked like snickerdoodles. I put the bag of cookies back and pulled out a second bag, which seemed to be filled with blueberry pancakes. I would eventually have to take out the pancakes to thaw them for breakfast. I did not want them at the moment, though. I piled the three large bags of things back into the corner and closed the freezer door. I had to continue to get things ready.
$A682 was driving the car to the north. I had seemed to be in the back seat of the car, but now i was standing to the southeast of the car, watching $A682 pull the car forward into the parking space. $F45 was in the passenger’s seat. The car moved to the north, but bumped into the bumper of the car that was already parked to the northwest of it. The other car had rounded fenders and looked dull green. $A682 backed up the car he was driving and tried again, again lightly hitting the fender of the other car. He tried it a third time and hit the bumper again. He then turned a little to the east and pulled into the parking spot. $F1 got out of the passenger’s door of the car and walked to the house, which was to the north of us. He walked into the western side of the pale-green house. Someone seemed to be in the eastern side of the house. The man with us stopped in a corridor just inside the house and knocked on a door between the two sections of the house. I stopped outside the house, wondering if anyone was really in the eastern side of the building. I felt exhausted, and i wanted to go somewhere. I would have to get my things together. I woke up suddenly from the large bed that was on the southern wall of the room. I sat up and pushed the covers to the north, off the foot of the bed. $F45 was downstairs, and the stairs were to the north of me. I was surprised that i had sleeped so late. I had to get going. The sheets were still pulled up on the bed to the east of me. I started to roll out of the western side of the bed, but i noticed that the upper edge of the tan covers seemed to be glowing. I pushed the sheets to the side, but the glow persisted. I wondered if it was infrared heat from me in the bed. I was surprised that i as able to see it. I moved the sheets, trying to figure out where the glow was coming from. The glow seemed strange, but i could not figure out where it was coming from. I shifted position, realizing that i had something over one of my eyes. I must have been seeding the sunlight on the sheets from only one eye, which made the sheets look like they were glowing. I removed the thing from my right eye and got out of bed. I had to get my things together so that i could leave. I started picking up things along the northern side of the room. $F45 was in the room to the south of me. I grabbed several of my things and headed up the stairs to the south, coming into the room where $F45 was. I felt upset. My things were on the floor of the room to west. I crouched down on the northern side of the room trying to gather some of my things together. A dog had trotted into the room to the west. I called to the dog, asking it to bring me something. The dog did not respond. I stood back up and walked to the east. A bed was against the eastern end of the northern wall of the room. The old mattress on the large bed was mostly white with a dull red floral pattern. I pulled on the southern end of the mattress, thinking that it looked dirty. I felt anxious, not wanting to do something with the mattress. $F45 was on the southern side of the room. I moved around the bed, heading east. I stopped near the southeastern corner of the bed, feeling an itch on the inside of my left foot. I sat down on the edge of the bed to scratch my foot. I had shoes on, so i took the white shoe off. $F45 was leaving the room to the north.
12014 August 08
I carried something to the north. As i reached the northern end of the room, i noticed that $A718 was lying on the floor to the north, facing east. His head was to the north. He had layed down there the previous night, and i was surprised to see that he was still here. I started to carry my things to the east when i noticed that $A718 seemed to be partly within the floor. Only the upper part of his face and the right side of this body were above the level of the floor. This seemed very strange. I wondered if he had melted into the floor. I felt concerned about this, but realized that he could not have merged with the floor. It did not make any sense. I must have seen the image incorrectly. I backed up a little to get a second look.
I was in the hallway, talking to the tall man. He seemed muscular, and i started to wrestle with him. Someone else was to the west. I grabbed the man, turning him to the south as we moved into the small room to the south. I slipped my hands under his arms, pinning his arms to his back. He was under me, but he slipped out and moved his arm around my neck. I focused on his arm. His skin was very pale and smooth. He did not have big muscles, but he seemed rather strong. I turned around so that the man did not pin me. He grabbed me from behind. I thought about this. Someone was to the north of me. I turned to the south and jogged across the darkened street. It had been raining, and a large muddy puddle ran along the edge of the curb on the southern side of the street. I stepped over it, aware of the house to the south of me. I started walking to the east. This house seemed to be on the northern side of the block near my grandmother’s house. I had planned to walk around the eastern side of the block, but realized that i could simply walk around the eastern side of the house and cross the back yard to get to the southern side of the block, where my grandmother’s house was. I looked at the green grass around the northeastern corner of the house, starting to walk toward it. I got caught in something, though. I looked down, trying to figure out what i was caught on. I saw a thin metal wire in front of me. It ran between two tall metal cages, which must have been around tall plants in the garden. The thin flower garden ran from the house to the north, along the eastern side of walkway to the house. I stepped back from the fence, thinking that i would have to go around it. The garden had something to do with the rain. The scene then changed. I knew that someone would be blamed for the rain, and i thought that it would be the police officers. They had actually done something that was not good. The two officers were now standing on the eastern end of the room, in front of a white wall. They smiled at the camera as an announcer introduced them. I remembered this scene from before. The couple was not aware that they were being convicted of something, and they were being tricked into the interview on the television that they were now being filmed for. I wondered how this scene had happened before.
12014 August 09
$A643 told me what i would need to do. I was on the western side of the office. I looked to the east, noticing the cash registers on the eastern side of the office. Someone had told me that the packages would be shipped, adding something about airplanes. I knew that the truck would take the packages that we had, but i was not sure what the airplanes would be used for. $A643 was on the eastern side of the room now, and she said that the airplanes would not be needed. I started to feel that someone had made a mistake in ordering the airplanes. I worried that i had done something wrong. The truck would be enough to deliver the papers. I moved around near the desk on the western side of the office. The other person moved around to the east. We had to figure out what we were doing. I started to the west, noticing the large open room with cement walls around me. Several rows of shelfs were to the west of me. They were filled with merchandise. On the western side of the shelfs, a white truck pulled up from the south. It was a white FedEx truck, with green and red lettering. It must have been here to pick up the packages. I spoke to the man to the south, pointing out the truck to him. I was not sure what we should be doing.
I said something to $A643 about the papers as we headed back to the western side of the office, where the desk was. I had been doing something with the papers. I grabbed the stack from the desk and removed the top set of papers from it. The papers on the top of the stack had a thick orange section along the top of it. I pulled the top set of papers off and tossed them into the trash to the north of me. $A643 was to the east of me, and she said something about the papers. I felt unsure about throwing away the papers, thinking that i probably should not have tossed the papers in the trash. I looked at the remained of the stack of papers on the desk to the northwest of me. A woman was standing near the desk, looking at the papers. I pulled the papers back out of the trash and put them back on the top of the pile. I referred $A643 to the papers, asking whether we should use them. I took the stack from the woman at the desk, who seemed East Asian, with long straight black hair. I noticed a thick horizontal black stain on the left side of the paper in the upper half. It crossed from the white part of the center of the page into the orange part near the top. I told $A643 that the pages were ruined by the stains. I flipped through several more, going down to the section of pages that had blue trim. All of the pages had the same black smudge on them. I felt upset about them, thinking that i had not noticed the printing error when i should have. $A643 let me to the south, showing me where i should file the papers. I looked at the metal shelfs to the south, against the southern wall of the office. I wondered where we should put the papers, as I looked at the others things on the shelfs. $A643 looked over the shelfs, trying to figure out where we could put the books. I noticed that the top two shelfs were filled with paperback fiction books. I told $A643 that we could clear out some of the books and put them together on the same shelf. They were all small books, so i thought that they could be packed onto a single shelf, making room for the papers that we were trying to file. We then turned and walked back to the north. $A643 made a joke about the papers, saying something positive about me. Others were walking with us. I turned around as i continued walking, and i joked with the others, comically saying that $A643 was so mean to me. The others laughed at the joke, and i felt good here.
12014 August 10
I had been driving on the country road, heading home. I recognized this area, but was not that familiar with the road that i was on. I turned to the south, thinking that the road would lead me home. It was a long straight road. It seemed to be heading in the correct direction. I did not recognize any of the features of the road, however. I leaned forward a little, noticing that the sun was just to the southeast of me. This make it seem that i was traveling to the south, because i knew that it was around noon and the sun would still be in the southern sky. I wondered where this road would lead. I looked ahead, now finding myself traveling to the northeast. A few other cars were in front of me, but one of them was turning off to the east. The road became suddenly narrow, and i thought that it was turning to a dirt road. I wondered if it would fade out. I was driving a car, so i was not sure that the car would be able to travel easily over the dirt road. The vehicle in front of me was a truck, and i seemed to be traveling very close to it. I thought that i might be able to follow the truck closely through the mud. It would clear the way so that i could more easily travel on the narrow road. I hoped that the road came out somewhere i recognized. I was very close to the truck now, and i seemed to be leaning forward into the rear of the truck’s cab. I could hear the male driver talking to the woman with him. I felt anxious, and started not to like him. I wanted to get off of this road. I started to feel angry and uptight. I then looked to the north, noticing that i had come to the end of the road. The road ended at a narrow angle with another road, which approached from the southwest. Both roads ended on an east-to-west road to the north of us. I recognized this new road. It was just to the west of the town. I would have to turn to the east and drive past the town to get home. This place looked more developed, and the sides of the roads had curbs on them. I turned east.
12014 August 11
I had been talking to the others, but i was starting to walk to the south. The others were now sitting on the eastern end of a large field of dry grass. The field sloped down to the east, west, and south. I walked backward on a dirt trail along the eastern side of the field as i spoke to the others, who seemed to be sitting in a small circle to the north of me. I looked out over the field to the west. Something seemed wrong. A dirt trail crossed over the shallow hill in the center of the field to the west of me. I paused, noticing something in the sky to the west-southwest. The sky seemed to have changed, and i thought that something like a meteor strike must have happened. It was darker now. I told the others that a catastrophe had occurred. I motioned to the west, where a large round green and red circle appeared in the sky. It was an auroral effect, signifying that something terrible had happened. The sky was getting darker. I turned to the east and ran into the cement corridor that was part of the basement. The corridor ran to the west, but i headed through the doorway to the south. I had to get some of my things together so that we could leave. $F45 was in the room. He seemed angry and upset about something. I asked him what he was doing, and he said that he had to get ready for something. I realized that he might have been unaware of the disaster, so i asked him if he had seen the news lately. He was too frustrated with what he was trying to do to answer me.
I talked to my mother as we headed to the south. She brought me to this area, which seemed to be somewhere in New England. She said that she had talked to the people at the college and that i had an interview with some of the college people. I was interested in talking to the college people, but it seemed strange to come here so quickly. I looked down at my shirt, realizing that i was wearing an old white long-sleeve T-shirt and tan shorts. I should be wearing something more formal to a college interview. I told my mother that i was not dressed appropriately, adding that i should have worn my blue dress shirt. I remembered having my long-sleeve dress shirt with me at my parents’ house near the river, where we had come from. We drove to this area this day. We stood in the corridor of the college building. The corridor ran northeast to southwest, and a small alcove was on the northwestern side. I stood in front of a doorway at the back of the alcove, waiting for the college official to come for me. I felt nervous, thinking that i was not ready for the interview. This college seemed like an old Ivy League school, like Harvard or Yale. I asked my mother about it, and she told me that the college had already interviewed her. I felt a little more comfortable hearing this, but i was still not sure what i should do. I was interested in attending this university, but i did not think that i was ready for an interview. The offices in the building seemed closed. I thought that it must be either late in the day or on a weekend. My mother must have made special arrangements to come here at this time. I looked at my white shirt again, feeling nervous. My mother paced down the other corridor, heading to the east. I looked across the street to the south, noticing the tall stone wall on the opposite side of the street. It had archways under it, which were filled in. The surface of the filled-in space had vertical dark columns that looked like iron gates. A woman walked down the sidewalk in front of the wall. The wall seemed to be five or six meters tall, but the woman seemed to be two-thirds to three-quarters of the height of the wall. She wore a tan skirt with dark trimming and a matching short coat and hat. I moved around a little in front of the door, not sure what i should do. I still felt very uncomfortable and nervous here. My mother started walking to the east down the corridor, saying that she wanted to visit the wall. I knew that it was the same one i had seen across the street and told her that it was across the street from us. She said that she wanted to see the famous tall section. This college town was near the ocean, and i knew that the wall ran along the coast, keeping the ocean out. My mother mentioned that the wall was supposed to be better constructed that the ones in Holland and New Orleans. I thought that this one did not have to keep the ocean out, but then thought that part of the land here was probably below sea level, just like in New Orleans. I looked at the map on the wall to the north of me. It showed a shore running north to south. The roads were on the right side of the map, and the ocean or bay was to the left. A long yellow line ran down along the shore, representing the wall. I thought that we must be somewhere near the upper part of the map, but i noticed that the wall was drawn in more detail near the center of the map. A yellow image with the archway and the vertical details represented the older part of the wall that my mother wanted to see. My mother then mentioned the name of the boulevard that she wanted to be on. I knew that it was the long yellow road running down the coast. I tried to figure out where the college was. I looked to the upper part of the map, noticing a short yellow road extending to the east-northeast from the main boulevard. The word “Mayfair” was printed in black letters near the road. I knew that this was where the university was. I looked up from the map and started walking back to the east, realizing that i had wandered from the college building. My mother had left to go see something, but i was supposed to be waiting for my interview. I could see the street where i had been waiting for the office. A woman opened the office door, which was on the western side of the narrow street, and peered out. I wondered if she was looking for me. I had to get back to the office. I was walking down a street to the south of the office. The street i was on ended on an east-to-west street. The office where the woman had opened the door was across the east-to-west street on a street that ran to the north. It met the main street just a little to the west of where the street i was on ended. The streets seemed plain white, with very few details. I headed to the door, noticing others now gathering around it. The woman talked to another woman in the doorway. I hoped that i was not too late for the interview. I felt bad for wandering away when i was supposed to be here for a special interview. Several young men were gathered around the woman now. Several of them seemed East Asian. The men laughed about something as they chatted. I moved toward the group, feeling a little out of place because i was obviously older that the other college students. The woman then asked one of the men what he wanted to major in. The East Asian man on the southeastern side of the group paused, looking uneasy with the question. He lowered his jaw as he thought, finally saying that he did not know what he wanted to major in. I thought it was a strange question. I then thought about what i would study in school. It had been quite a while since i had been in college, and it seemed as though i should have an answer to the question, but i did not. I thought that i should study astronomy, but felt unsure about it. There were so many things that i wanted to study, but i thought that none of them would actually relate to anything that i was currently doing with my life. Nothing i could study would help me with the job i had. I could not decide what to do.
12014 August 13
I turned the car to the west, heading across the college campus. I seemed to be at $P52, but this was a place that i had not been to in a while. I was trying to get to the large stadium, but i had to park my car somewhere. I was heading down a narrow corridor, which seemed to be within a large structure. I wondered if this was the parking garage. It now seemed dark, and i could only see the pale gray cement walls of buildings to the south of me. Dark pine shrubs ran along the road in front of the walls. I headed down the long alley, looking for a parking spot. I thought that i would be able to exit the road at the western end, but, as i approached the end of the road, i noticed two stone slabs standing upright at the end of the street. They prevented me from driving onto the road beyond. I slowed near the blocks, hitting them with my front bumper. The stones fell over into the north-to-south road beyond. I thought that i could simply drive over the stones to get to the road, but i felt worried that someone might be watching me. I did not want to get arrested for breaking through the barrier. I backed up, thinking that i was in a parking structure. I would have to get out to head to the east, where the large stadium seemed to be. I then wondered whether the eastern end of the road had a gate on it. I might have to pay a parking fee for being in this place. The buildings around me seemed to be administrative structures. I walked to the east, thinking that i had to get back to my car so that i could leave this place. I wanted to ask someone where the stadium was, but i felt that they might not tell me. As i headed down the corridor to the east, i thought that a police car was near mine, which seemed just out of view to the east.
12014 August 14
I spoke to $A253 as i turned back to the north to look at the thing that we had been printing on the machine. We were in the small office on the western side of the building. The office had desks around us. This did not seem to be our office, but we had come here to use the printer. Our office was to the east, in another building on the college campus. We spoke for a moment, but then i heard the sirens outside. I started to feel unsafe, thinking that we were doing something that was now illegal. $A253 said that we would have to head back to our office separately so that we would not attract attention. We would not be able to tell the authorities that we had printed here. $A253 headed back to the west, and i waited a moment before heading out of the room. I was in a hallway now to the north of the room. The halls led to the east and west, and a short corridor ran to the north. It seemed to lead outside, so i walked in that direction. It would take me longer to get back to the office, but it would not seem as though i was trying to escape. As i approached the glass doors on the northern end of the corridor, i saw military vehicles pass by, heading to the east. The troops had arrived, and i thought that i would be questioned. I thought that i would tell them that i was a member of the human ecology department, which was true. I had an editing position here. I then thought again that i had to get back to my office, where it was safer. I pictured the cement walkway outside of the building to the north. The doorway led to a landing that had two sets of steps, one to the east and one to the west. I would have to go to the west. I wondered if i could get out before the soldiers came up the eastern set. I looked at the pavement outside the building as i walked through the doorway, and i headed to the northeast, across campus. I thought that i would have to go through the building to the north to get back to my office. I remembered that the hallway i had been in was in the building to the north. As i crossed the small grassy quadrangle, i looked at the old stone buildings on the northern side of the grass. They were old college buildings, with peaked roofs. The main part of the university hall was to the northwest of me. Directly ahead of me seemed to be a stone wall that extended to the east from the side of the building. I looked at the old stone building, thinking that it was the old economics hall. I then remembered that the building should have tall narrow windows on one side of it. I looked around the building to see if i could spot the windows. The windows were part of an old lecture room. I then noticed that the tall windows i was looking for were on the large tan stone building to the northeast of me. The building i had been looking at must be the modern chapel. It had large carved wooden doors in the center of the southern face. The doors seemed to have a peaked top. The doors were darkly stained and carved with intricate floral and diorama scenes.
I was in the room, which seemed like an office. The carpet below me was pale tan, and i noticed a wet spot to the west of me. $F45 had been sitting on a couch to the northwest, watching a television, which was to the south. A bag of groceries was near his feet, and i a plastic gallon jug of milk was tipped over. It must have been leaking. I told $F45 that he was spilling the milk. He looked down at the milk in surprise, but did nothing to pick it up. I became frustrated and upset with him. I quickly grabbed the jug of milk and lifted it from the floor. $F45 sat watching me, not saying anything. I complained to him that he had been careless, but he did not seem to care. I started to feel more upset, so i spoke angrily to him. I then slapped him with my left hand across the side of his head as i pulled the towel from the counter and walked past him. I felt very upset, but i quickly felt bad that i had hit him. I walked to the western end of the counter, which ran across the southern end of the room, and gathered some rolls of paper towels. I headed back to clean up the milk, wondering what i should say to $F45. I was still angry with him, but i should tell him that i felt bad for hitting him. I was again to the east of the water. A blue duffel bag was on the floor. I picked it up and dropped it on the puddle, thinking that it would soak up some of the water. The bag belonged to $F45, and i did not care that we would be angry if his gym clothes were wet. I then moved some of the things around on the floor to get to the puddle. $F45 was to the north of me. He was ready to leave the room. I told him that $A719 was outside. I did not know this for sure, but i knew that $F45 would be running away to his boyfriend to avoid dealing with the mess in the house. An old tan American car drove past the window. Yellow plain curtains hung on the ends of the brown rod. The window of the apartment looked very old and worn. The tan car looked like something from the seventies. I thought that $F45 would be heading out to have sex anyway, so it did not matter if he left the house. He then told me that $A719 wanted to come in, and he added that he was not sure what he should tell $A719. He was angry with me and was trying to imply that i did not want $A719 in the house. I told him that i did not care whether $A719 came in the house. I was annoyed with $F45. I picked up something from the floor as $F45 complained. He was being overly dramatic in an attempt to make me feel guilty. I walked to the northwest and hung the white object on the green pine tree, which seemed like a holiday tree. I felt bad for hitting $F45, and i wondered what i should do about it. I wanted to say i was sorry, but i did not want to talk to him at the moment.
12014 August 15
I stopped running and walked a bit, still heading to the north. I had been out running with several other people, who seemed to be from $G4. The main road that i was on turned sharply to the west, but a narrower street continued to the north. A few people walked north, up the narrow drive. I thought that they were heading to the meatball restaurant where we had been before. The restaurant seemed to be directly to the north of me, in a row of shops and buildings between the street to the north and another main street that was to the west of it. The restaurant seemed to face west. I turned to the west, but realized that few other people were around me. I wondered if $G4 actually followed trail to the restaurant. I came into the area, which seemed like part of a house. Most of the other people were not here. The apartment to the north seemed empty. I sat down on a chair on the porch, facing east. Someone was sitting just to the east of me, and i was aware of a few other people to the west. I spoke to the person to the west, but i wanted to be doing something else. I felt anxious. The man to the east of me then mentioned the wig i was wearing. I had forgotten that i was wearing the wig as part of a costume. The costume seemed to be for a special run. I told the man that i was going to wear a red wig for the red-dress run, but i had worn the blond wig instead. I suddenly felt uncomfortable wearing the wig now, thinking that it would seem strange when i was not in costume. As i spoke to the person, i pulled the wig from my head. The man then told me to put it back on. I was not sure what to do. The people to the west of me then joked that i should put the wig on. I felt uneasy. I put the wig back on my head, but still did not feel comfortable wearing it.
12014 August 18
I was walking through the large building with $F4. This building seemed to be a dormitory for the college. The white walls of the main hallway ran north to south. I then heard the sound of sirens somewhere nearby. I looked out the windows to the west. The land of the small city sloped steeply down to the southwest. I thought that the police cars were coming up the hill, which seemed like $P36. The police must be arresting the students who were protesting the injustice. I told $F4 that something must be happening downtown. I then looked to the north, out the window at the intersection that was just to the northwest of the building. I could see students sitting in the middle of the street with signs and placards. Some of the white signs had red paint drawn on them. I felt uneasy, realizing that the police would violently arrest the students. This place seemed like $P30. I started to move to the north, to get a better view of the students, but i suddenly realized that other students would be watching the protest. The police would come and arrest everyone in the area. I knew that the students would be on the balcony of the second floor of the building, which seemed to be above us, to the north. The police would come into this building to arrest the students and break up the protest. The students were sitting in the crosswalk outside. I told $F4 that we would not be safe here, and i said that we should leave. I turned to the southeast and headed down the hallway. A door was in the eastern wall, and it seemed to lead outside into an alley. We had to escape here before the police surrounded the area.
12014 August 19
I was standing near the small building, which was to the south of me. It was a bright summer day. Someone near us said that a tornado was coming. I could see dark clouds around the sides of the building, but i could not see a tornado. The people around me said that we should get into the hot tub, which was to the east of us, next to the building. I thought that it would be fairly stable because it was set into the ground and fairly heavy. I moved closely to the tub, imagining how we could get inside and close the lid. I was not quite sure how to seal the lid of the tub, though. I looked around the edges of the brown tub, noticing the air holes just under the lid. I thought that the wind would be able to get under the lid and lift it off. I imagined the tub from several angles, wondering if there was a way to make it more secure. This would not be a good place for us to stay. I told the other people that we should leave this area. Others from the party were hiding in the small white cement building to the west of the patio. I backed away from the house, walking backward to the north. I was trying to get a look at where the tornado was. I looked for the dark clouds, but i could not see a funnel cloud. I then saw a funnel forming to the southwest of us. It stretched from the dark clouds to the ground, landing to the south of us. I turned and ran to the north with the others. I was then in the car with my relatives. My father was driving the car to the north. I told him to drive perpendicular to the path of the tornado. I watched the tornado to the south of us as we drove. It did not seem to be getting any bigger. I then noticed that it was moving to the southeast. I told my father that it was moving away from us, and i felt a little relieved. We turned to the west and started driving down another road. I then realized that another tornado was coming from the west of us. I felt upset, and i told my father to turn around. He turned the car to the northeast and started driving across the field toward the other road. I felt nervous about the storm. I could see dark clouds all over the sky now. We would have to watch for funnel clouds.
I was at the event in the pub, and many people were gathered around me. I moved slowly through the crowd, looking at the people here. I then recognized $A716 to the northwest of me. He crouched down to pick some things up from the floor. I wondered if he would recognize me. I then noticed other people i recognized in the room to the north and northeast of me. They were all from $P7. It felt nice to see them and to be here at the event. I then spotted someone i knew who was from $G4. I remembered that they had been setting trail for a large event. I realized that this must be a red-dress run, and i thought that they were gathering to the north of the building. I felt happy to have both groups of people here. Other people from $G4 came into the pub. They were starting to gather for the run. I wanted to talk to them, so i moved outside to chat. I knew that my parents were inside at the formal event for $P7 people. I thought that i would get back to them in a moment. I talked with some of the people from $G4. Several runners then came from the east to join the group. I was glad to have people from both $P7 and $G4 gathering at the same bar. I hen saw $A608 to the southwest of me. I had not been friends with him lately, but i thought that i should talk to him. He was heading into the bar. I would have to find him when i went back into the building. I then saw $F4 walking toward the bar as well. $A608 turned to say something to him. It was good to see them together again. $A608 then grabbed $F4 roughly, laughing as if joking. I thought that it must have been something from when they were in wrestling together. $F4 smiled at him, but i thought that he was probably annoyed with the move. I could not quite see $F4’s face. A tree near the side of the building blocked my view as he moved toward the door on the western side of the building. I then walked to the east to head back into the pub. Once i was inside, i realized that the meeting had ended. My parents were just leaving. I felt upset and disappointed that i had missed everyone that was there. I could see the chairs in a large circle on the northern side of the room. A few people were still lingering in the event, but most of them had gone. I then looked outside to the west. Cars were pulling away. I felt upset that i had missed everyone.
12014 August 22
I was running across the cement area with some other runners. Several short walls ran along the perimeters of the cement ground, and i was near the eastern wall. A green patch of grass ran along the eastern wall, to the east of the wall. The wall was very tall here, and i thought that i could try to climb over it to get to the road at the top. I could see a bridge crossing the cement channel to the north of me. We seemed to be on the outskirts of a city, and the cement area was recessed in the ground. I looked up the eastern wall, wondering if we could climb it. A small house seemed to be at the top of the wall, but a fence ran along the top of the eastern wall and continued over the bridge on the north. We would not easily be able to get up the wall here. I looked around on the ground for the trail marks. I was running with $G4, so the trail should have been marked. I moved to the west a little, seeing the large culvert tunnel along the northern cement wall. The culvert turned to the west with the wall. This place seemed to be part of a factory. I climbed up on the steel culvert pipe and ran to the west, following the tunnel. I thought that the trail went into the tunnel, but we would not be able to enter the culvert from the eastern side, where it went into the northern wall. I jumped down from the western end of the pipe, expecting to see trail marks heading back into the tunnel. Others were running out of the tunnel toward me. I wondered suddenly how they had gotten there. I was on trail again. I ran to the west across the open cement yard with the others. Large factory buildings seemed to be to the south of us.
12014 August 25
I was entering the theater to see the show. Several people were with me. The show was being held somewhere to the east of us, and we entered through a door in the western end of the northern wall of the theater. We had just gotten into the building when a man said that we would have to evacuate. I knew that something was wrong, and i told the person with me to leave. I then noticed men with guns in the theater to the south of us. We ran to the east, leaving the building. As we came outside, i saw soldiers in green uniforms with large guns. I was not sure if they were looking for the other gunmen or if they were part of the gunmen. The men were on top of a structure to the north of us, and the other person and i sneaked under the soldiers to get away. I felt nervous, thinking that they might shoot us. I talked to the other person as we headed west down the sidewalk. We stood up, and i walked down the sidewalk on the southern side of the street as i headed west. I was now alone. The area to the south of me was no longer covered with buildings. I could see over a grassy lot to the ocean. I was not far from the water now. I then noticed the beach house to the north of the cement sidewalk. I looked at the modern structure of the house. It had large widows on the southern face of the building. I thought that the house was quite nice, and i thought that this area seemed very beautiful. The sun seemed to be somewhere in the western part of the sky, but it was not near sunset yet. $A379 then seemed to be near me. I could hear his voice, but i was not sure where he was. I continued to the west, straying from the sidewalk and walking on the sands of the beach. I thought that $A379 might see me as i walked over the sand dunes of the beach. Everything here seemed very nice. I noticed a small child watching the ocean water to the southwest of me. I could hear the boy talking about the tide coming in. He was partially silhouetted against the bright sky beyond. I watched the water flowing in over the sand. I then noticed the water channel to the west of me. A wave of water suddenly flowed to the north from the ocean into the channel. To the north of me, the channel entered a culvert that passed under a walkway or narrow road. The water poured into the culvert. I could no longer hop across the channel because the water had made it too wide, so i turned around and headed back to the east, across the dunes. $A379 was to the north of me now. He had seen me, and he welcomed me to this area. I was standing in front of the beach house now as i talked to him. It was good to see him again. I looked at the house as we talked. It was a very nice place. I was then in a crowd of people. Something had changed, and i was in the large room on the southern side of the corridor. The northern wall of the room was the northern wall of the corridor. A dog barked to the east of me, and some of the people in the room were scared of it. They all seemed anxious, and i thought that the troops had been watching us here. Men were standing near the dog, and they seemed to be soldiers or guards. They acted aggressive, enforcing the dog’s attitude. I did not like the dog, and i thought that it should be disciplined. It seemed to be a small animal, and i though that i would hit it when it got bad. I knew that this was not the traditional way of dealing with the guard dogs, but i did not care. The guards around the room should be taking care of the dogs better. I wandered to the east, across the room, and then back to the west. The dogs were running freely around the room, and i was nervous about where they were. One of the dogs then ran up to me from the west and snapped at me. I knew that we were not supposed to discipline the dogs because we were considered lower class. It was tradition for us to be subservient and do as the guards tell us. We were supposed to be afraid of the dogs. I felt annoyed, and i hit the dog to the west of me. I did not care about the traditions of this place. I was outside of the building now, standing on the sidewalk. I spoke to the other person about the dogs. $F43 was then with me. She said that she had been to the beach house, and she described the dream for me. I was surprised that she had the same dream as i did. I remembered the beach house, and i told her that i had the same dream, though i told her that $A379 was in my dream. I felt interested in the dream she had, and i felt surprised that our two dreams were so similar. $F43 left and headed back to the east. I still thought about the dream that we shared. It seemed to be something special. I told $F45 about the dream after $F43 left.
12014 August 26
I had just finished doing something in this room, which seemed like the living room of a low-rent apartment. I felt frustrated here, as though i had something to do that i could not get done. The apartment building seemed old and large. This family had adopted me, and i was living in their house, but i did not really feel comfortable here. I headed into the kitchen of the apartment. I wanted to do something, and i did not want to stay here. I felt somewhat trapped. The other children were in the apartment as well. They were doing something to the north of me, in the middle of the living room. They were all dark skinned, and they dressed simply. I looked out the window in the northern wall, seeing the large buildings of the city apartments. They were housing projects. I turned to the west. A smaller window was in the narrow western wall. I walked over to it, fining myself in the kitchen area now. I was closer to the ground looking out this window, and i could see people walking around on the cement pavement. A man in a dark suit was standing near the apartment building, holding his left had across his chest. Another man was motioning him away from the building. The man in the dark suit looked upset that he was being asked to leave. I then realized that the man actually had a broken wrist. He had dark skin, and he dressed as though he were from the seventies. He had a thick mustache and a short afro, and his dark suit seemed to have wide collars and a seventies style. I felt bad about the man, and i pointed him to the others. I was looking south out the window now. I said “poor man” in empathy as i watched the man get motioned away. The other man grabbed the injured man by the wrists and started removing the injured man’s bracelets. The bracelets were thin and metal, looking something like handcuffs. I realized that the man’s wrist was separated. The bones had been disjointed. The other man then turned the injured man to the west and put his had on the man’s back as he led him down the street to the east. They had been to the southwest of us, but they were now walking directly to the south of me as i watched them. They were walking, but they seemed to be motionless. We were now on a bus, and i was looking out the southern window of the bus at the injured man. I suddenly realized that the injured man was missing his legs as well. I looked more closely at the skin just below his knees, noticing that it was a grayish yellow. It seemed to have a strange rubbery texture to it. I thought that i would find it disgusting to look at, but it just seemed very normal. I told the others with me that the injured man would not survive. I thought that he would die from an infection. He was looking down now, and i could not see his face. I thought that he had looked down in surprise at realizing that his legs were missing. I then realized that he could not actually look down because his head was now missing. I felt sad for him, thinking that he would die soon. I turned to the west, looking down the central corridor of the bus that i was on. The bus was traveling to the west, and i could see the large front window ahead of me. Two other busses were moving slowly on either side of me: one to the north and one to the south. They seemed to be on the same bus that i was on. I walked between them. The one to the north was gray, and the one to the south was a dark color. I stopped at the front of the bus to look out the window. We were driving down the central street of a large city. I felt very uncomfortable here. Behind me, a man was talking to a blond woman, saying that he was clumsy when he was young. He added that he had gotten a lot better now. He then suggested that he go look out the window to the west to see where we were. They had just gotten off the bus to the north of me. Others were getting off the other two busses, collecting in the aisle of the bus that we were traveling in.
I walked to the east with the others, heading through the lobby of the doctor’s office. The walls of the hallway were brown, but they were made out of a material that looked like polished stone, so they reflected light from farther down the hall. $A419 and $F6 were walking with me as we continued down the hall to the east of the lobby. $A419 said that he wanted to go to the stores to shop. I thought that he wanted to go to the old record store in the building. This place seemed to be a remodeled old factory or other large old building. $A419 motioned to the east, but i knew that it would be easier to get to the shops if he went south. I told him to go to the south, down one of the side corridors. The corridor to the south was actually an alley, and i could see the large white building to the south of us. The building looked like an old brick building, and i knew that it was the back side of the old main street, where all of the stores were located. I pictured the downtown part of the city and the street of buildings with stores on the lower floors. I opened a doorway to the east, seeing a narrow corridor beyond. I then realized that $F6 was not with me. I wondered where he had gone. I thought that he must have turned to the north and headed into the other stores in the building. I let $A419 head to the south, and went back to the north to look for $F6. I walked into a small shop. $F6 was to the northwest of me, sitting on a chair and talking to $A330. I called his name and headed for him. After a few steps, however, i realized that what i was looking at was not actually $F6. It was actually a complex pattern on the wall that looked like him. Disappointed, i headed back into the main room of the shopping area to the south. Something had changed. The shop seemed very empty, with mostly empty shelfs and few people. $F6 was not here, so i headed out to the south, crossing the main corridor of the mall. The corridor now did not look familiar. I was not sure that this is where i had been. A set of stairs ascended to the east along the eastern side of the hall. I started up it, wondering if i was simply on the wrong floor of the mall. As i started up, i looked up and to the north. I could see a large wooden chest to the northeast of me, and i realized that the upstairs area was a storage area for the store. It looked like an attic, with rafters exposed. It was not the main corridor that i was looking for. Confused, i headed back down the stairs and looked around. I then wondered where $A419 had gone. I had not been in the store to the south anymore. I then noticed a square hole in the floor to the west of me. I thought that a ladder must lead down to a lower level of the building. I could not see in the darkness below, but i called out for $A419 to see if he would answer. I wondered how i could have lost the people i came with. This did not make sense to me.
I was lying on the couch in the apartment. My head was to the west, and the surface of the couch was wide enough to be a bed. I felt a cat walking on the mattress near my right arm, to the south of me. I had started falling asleep, but i focused on the feeling of the mattress being depressed by light feet. I knew that there should be no cat in the apartment, and i could now no longer feel the movement on the bed. I realized and focused on the feeling. Again, i felt something moving on the surface of the bed. Something had jumped on the pillow near me, walking over my right arm, and curled up next to my right hip, on the southern side of me. There should have been no cats in the house. I tried grabbing for the cat, but there was nothing there. I wondered if it was a ghost of one of my cats. I then wondered if it was $X14. I looked across the bed, but i could not see anything. I then lay still and waited for the feeling again. The cat came back and curled up near me again. I pet it, this time feeling it near me. I did not look at the cat thought. Instead, i imagined it. I could see the black cat in a vision now. I realized that, as long as i did not look directly at it, i would be able to interact with it. I just had to avoid letting my eyes verify that it was not really there. The cat started to purr. I felt calm and very happy to have the cat near me again.
12014 August 27
I moved around in the darkened rooms of the small house, which seemed to have something to do with the wrestlers who were in the room to the north of me. They seemed to be staying in this house, and i seemed to be visiting. I crouched down to do something on the floor in the center of the room. A pale tan couch was against the eastern wall of the room, and a matching love seat was on the northern wall. A small wooden table with a lamp seemed to be to the west of me against the wall. The room was small enough that the furnishings seemed to take up most of the room. The lights did not seem to be on in the room, and it seemed to be very early in the morning. The room was illuminated mostly from the light coming in through the doorway to the north, which was in end of the northern wall. As i did something on the ground, i was aware that someone was sleeping on the couch to the east of me. A red comforter was pulled over the center of the couch, but i could see the back of someone’s head on the northern end of the couch. I thought that it was Kyle Dake. I finished what i was doing quietly so that i did not wake the man on the couch. I then backed out of the room slowly to the south, thinking that i would have to leave so that i did not wake anyone up. I came into another small room of the house, which was on a lower level. Other wrestlers were there, and they greeted me. I had been here for a party the evening before, but most of the people had left. I now felt a little out of place, because i was not part of the team, so i felt that i should leave. The wrestlers were sitting on chairs on the western and northern sides of the room. I wondered if they wondered why i was here. I was not comfortable, so i headed to the south. A man then started chatting with me. I spoke for a little while with him, feeling more comfortable with the conversation. I liked these men, but i was still not sure if they would want me to stay. The man then asked if i was going downstairs. I felt uncomfortable, and i said no, but i that he was actually inviting me to something more intimate downstairs. I walked to the south, leaving the building. I was careful to close the door behind me as i exited the building. I had to make sure not to let the cat out. The ground to the south of the narrow building was paved with asphalt. Green grassy hills sloped up slightly to the east and west. A blond labrador retriever was lying on the grass to the east of the paved area. I bent over to pet it, thinking that it was probably Kyle’s dog. $F45 was then there. I chatted with him for a moment, telling him about the room downstairs. I said that i was unsure what i should have done. I thought that people were invited there for sex. I was not sure if the men were interested in me. I felt flattered if there were, but it seemed odd that they would be, because i was so much older than they were. I then remembered that the wrestlers had a tournament in a week, and i wondered if they just wanted to copulate to adjust their hormones.
$A66 was standing to the east of me, and i was chatting with here in the open area. She was interested in me, and she told me that she had been interested in me for a while. We were on the eastern side of the room, near the eastern wall. She looked at me earnestly and said that she would kiss me. I felt good about this, and i turned to her and kissed her, pulling on her lip with my lips as we slowly moved apart. I thought that it was nice. I asked her if she remembers things from when we were young. I then mentioned what i remembered. She seemed surprised by what i could recall. I joked about her poem. It was nice to see her, but i knew that she was really dead and should not have been here. She would not be able to stay. I told her that i never wrote the poem to her, but i added that i always liked her. I moved to the north, heading outside and thinking of the poem. I walked down the eastern side of the narrow country road. I thought of the line from the poem: “Eyes the color of crayons”. It sounded like a nice line. I thought that it could be in a poem or a song. I contemplated how i could use it. I was driving up the road to the north, heading from $P4 toward $P27. I then realized that i was not in the driver’s seat of the car. I started to feel worried. I did not have my seat belt on. I thought that i should get in the seat and put by seatbelt on. I quickly moved to the driver’s seat. I felt uncomfortable, thinking that i did not have control of the car. It was hard to steer the vehicle. Something orange was also on the windshield, making it hard to see the road ahead of me. I worried about getting into an accident. The car then turned to the east, riding up onto the curb and over the grass. I wondered if the others thought that something was wrong. I quickly switched seats so that i was properly in the driver’s seat. I had more control of the car now, and i continued to drive to the north. I saw the large grocery store on the western side of the road now. It was green, and it was different that it had been. I thought that it was an A&P. I remembered that my mother had said that it was here now. I thought that it had taken over the store at $P27.
12014 August 29
The man seemed Indian, and he was somewhere to the east of me. I was at his house, and we seemed to be at a small party. Most of the people had left. I knew that the man’s mother had also left. I felt uneasy here. The man wanted me to do something, but i was not sure what. I moved to the east along the side of the house. I wanted to get to a room, but i was not quite sure where the room was. I thought about the man’s mother. I thought that she had not actually left. She had really moved out. The outer wall of the building, which was to the west of me, was covered with white siding. I looked up the side of the building to the north and started to ascend. I easily scaled the outside wall as if walking along it. I stopped near the top and looked back down. A broken car was in the driveway to the southeast of me. It was old and seemed to have shattered glass and a dented body.
12014 August 31
I was lying in the bed in the small bedroom of the apartment. $K2 was sleeping just to the south of me. He was very young, and i was sharing the bed with him. The bed was against the western wall of the room. It seemed to have dull-yellow sheets on it. I stood up and moved to the east. I then noticed that someone was standing in front of the door to the south of me. I could see the man through the screen door. He stood outside the house, staring in. I felt nervous about him, and i walked over to ask him why he was here. He said that he wanted something. Feeling weary, i told him that i was not interested in giving it to him. He said something, and his dog ran through the screen door. I felt angry with the man, and i yelled at him and the dog. I grabbed the dog and led him out of the house. I then realized that the man had moved to the other door on the eastern side of the house. I could hear him pulling at the door. The other door seemed to be in the kitchen. I told $K3 that the man was trying the doors on the house to see if they were open. My mother then told me that the man was a tenant here and that i should not be so suspicious of him. I still felt uneasy. I did not trust him, and i thought that he was trying to do something malevolent.