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    <copyright>Gordon Mei</copyright>
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	  <title>20/21 January 2006 night/actual</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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	  <description><![CDATA[Two dirty bombs (small nuclear bombs) had detonated in an unidentifiable city with tall office buildings.  Two tall but small mushroom clouds of uneven sizes ascended from the heart of the city towards the sky.  I had prior knowledge about these bombs near the last hour, and I had pushed my family to move and drive us as far away as possible before the blasts.  When the mushroom clouds rose above the city, I was watching them from the rear window of our car out of blast range, far outside the limits of the city.  At that moment, I was seated in a dark green all-wheel-drive station wagon on a dirt road to a forest visitor lodge.  Earthquakes followed the blast, and a wise supernatural man showed me what the tremors had done to the underground world.  The ground had split open and revealed blue soil marking the underground world.  The size of the split allowed me room to see the cross section of this underground world.  It looked like a blue dirt version of the submerged part of an iceberg, and bottom of tip continued as a part of the next submerged "iceberg", only that the next section would be upside down relative to the last.  Angry-looking (maybe because of the quake) creatures dwelled in the cracks of these dirt structures, and they too were various shades of blue, but possibly only because of the blue lighting underground, especially when considering that I saw a white sugar-cube textured creature shaped like a two-dimensional horse.  Meanwhile, an assistant to the wise man chanted for a reason I cannot remember.  Someone (who I can't remember) and I rode a dark purple flying dragon out of the underground cave system and into the sky.]]></description>
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	  <title>15/16 January 2006 night/actual</title>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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	  <description><![CDATA[I awoke in my bedroom and pulled the curtains aside to view the San Francisco Bay, but I was immediately drawn to the sight of a wizard, with his back facing me, standing on a grayish white cloud in the sky, about halfway between the ground and the lowest cloud cover.  The wizard had his arms outstretched like a Christ figure, and his white-bearded aging appearance and gray cloak gave him the look that he was struggling to keep his arms extended.  (He looked somewhat like Gandalf the Gray, minus the hat and with a larger beard.)  I can't remember if he had a staff in his hands, but I knew that he was using dark magic to bring forth the end of the world.  The sky was completely red, and the dark clouds were being summoned to clump together by the wizard.  The sun disappeared for the last time in eternity behind the clouds and probably below the horizon.  I hurriedly scampered down the stairs to a basement (which doesn't exist in my real house) and discovered a girl model with dark black hair apathetically thumbing away at a video game controller and fixating her gaze on the television set.  I continued to look at her sitting on the couch and ignoring me.  After a few seconds, I figured that I wasn't going to get any eye contact from her, so I continued running into the next room.  The end.
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Later, in an unrelated time and event, I was standing in a line against the wall of a ballroom, or a room as ornate as one.  I somehow knew that we were in The Mirage, and I, and the other twenty-something CCS students in this line, faced a CCS teacher, possibly Mr. Tom.  The teacher was dressed up in formal attire, just as we were, and either he or another CCS staff member drew a row of box frames on a wide chunk of white cardboard, and then proceeded to sketch each person in line in the same sequence as the boxes.]]></description>
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	  <title>14/15 January 2006 night/actual</title>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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	  <description><![CDATA[I stood inside a large building-like tent in a camp in Iraq, presumably associated with the military based on the brown, khaki, and earth green colors in the tent canvas.  At least a couple people were standing beside me in the tent, and I somehow knew that we were in The South Camp, which was populated by San Franciscans.  Opposite this camp was The North Camp, which consisted of people from the Carolinas, and possibly from other areas from the East Coast.  The tents of The South Camp, including the one in which I stood, had square "windows" made out of thick transparent plastic attached to the rest of the tent canvas.  The tents of The North Camp had square openings like those of The South Camp, but they were not covered with anything.  Inside the tent in which I stood, I noticed that the wall by the bed was covered by 4 in. x 6 in. photos.]]></description>
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	  <title>11/12 January 2006 night/actual</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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	  <description><![CDATA[I stood on an indoor train station platform sandwiched between two tracks, one on each side.  Each track was multidirectional because both tracks ended at this station.  As I tilted my head towards the ceiling and upper wall areas, I noticed they had a translucent yellowish papyrus-paper-like texture with ebony wood trims on the ceiling and every light fixture, including a large bowl shaped ceiling light and a large dark spiral coil ceiling light.  I was about to take a train to embark on a new life, but I missed the first train.  For some reason involving Pinnochio (the details of which I can't recall), the grandfather I had been expecting to arrive had missed the train.  Yet I boarded the second train anyway and gazed back towards the station platform, with the hope that maybe he would appear at the last second.  He did not.  As the train moved out from under the station roof and onto the elevated tracks towards the next city, I watched the passing lights of buildings, seemingly fighting for my attention among the nighttime darkness and the reflection of the indoor train lights on my window.  I soon met two circus folks on the train.  I soon discovered that there was an entire circus aboard this train.  As the train began to curve with the track around a tall building and a parking structure, I was told that we were in Las Vegas, and that there was a trick involving the airport about accessing something.  It was never clear to me what that "something" was.  Later, I was in a casino, on a floor other than the ground level.  I walked into a small hallway connecting to the restrooms, but I instead walked to an end of the hallway right before the entrance of an empty employee lunch area, and I approached a snack/ice vending machine.  The end.]]></description>
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	  <title>9/10 January 2006 night/actual</title>
	  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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	  <description><![CDATA[Down the street I ran, barely getting enough air as my sister tried to keep up as she was tugged along with her hand tightly gripped within my own. A huge shadow at least several blocks wide loomed overhead, and while it lagged about two blocks behind us, it cast a long, offset shadow ahead of itself over where we ran. Being able to see only the head of its shadow at a speed matching our own only added panic to my already stressful state. Fleeing crowds of people scattered evenly left and right at the moment the shadow hit their point of the block, but I continued to run in a straight line, as did the airborne shadow-casting object. A quick glance over my left shoulder revealed to me that it was a large metallic saucer-shaped aircraft, about half the size of the city, speeding at a seemingly incredible speed, even though it was only covering about half a block every two seconds - faster than the dispersing crowd, but only fast enough to keep up with my sister and me. (This implies that I too was fleeing at half a block every two seconds.) After about half a mile of running (quickly but with slow, long graceful strides) with the shadow neither gaining on us or falling behind, I banked sharply right and continued at full speed and long strides along an Alaskan-like oil pipeline down the very gradual grassy slope of the lush green fields. The craft continued in its straight direction instead of following us, but I maintained my graceful, long-strided sprint across the undulate curves of the field, even with the sudden uphill slopes and steep downhill slopes. At the other side of the large grass field, I stopped at a campfire around which many people stood. I could only spot moments of glimpses of their fire-lit faces among the dark silhouettes because dusk was quickly settling all around us. A man near the outdoor fire brought out a sheet of thick, oxidizing paper with ripped edges, and he asked me to sign my name and some other names as he stretched the sheet before himself. Almost immediately afterwards, I deeply regretted it, and the man began stalking us. An unknown amount of time later, I found myself on the edge of a plateau cliff overlooking a valley and the silhouettes of a few dark skyscrapers far in the distance. The tip of the obelisk-shaped skyscraper beamed a ray of yellow light into the otherwise entirely dark gray sky. My mother's voice told me from behind me that none of us [humans] had been able to shut off anything in the city since they [the robots] took over. Suddenly, I found myself accusing a sheet of seaweed in high court. The sheet of seaweed looked like a hybrid between sushi wrappings and live, wet seaweed. Nobody else in the court believed that the seaweed was guilty of the alleged violent act, and one of the officials in court suggested that I try to imagine if this seaweed could possibly be anything but peaceful and harmless. I closed my eyes and had a widescreen image of a landscape similar to the dark valley with the distant city, along with the seaweed to the side, but this image quickly faded into a post-sunset panorama of purples and oranges and the whites of the glimmering evening city lights.]]></description>
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	  <title>28/29 December 2005 night/actual</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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	  <description><![CDATA[There was a well-decorated Christmas tree standing about five to six feet tall near the corner of the room.  A pile of blue jeans lay all over the base of the tree, and kids jumped and thrashed around for the very bluest pairs of jeans.  I stood near the window by the tree, opposite the side of the tree facing the room corner.  I thought that I had no gifts, but then I received a pair of jeans, gift wrapped, but very obviously jeans nevertheless.  A velvet blue gift card attached to the wrapping read, "S O P H I A T E P E R" in fading/appearing engraving.  I then found a half-a-fist-sized wrapped box, in rich velvet blue, from Tania.  I opened it and saw a diamond ring.  The end.
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I suddenly found myself with Eddie right outside a room, and we were peaking into this small press room, much like the one in The White House, with presidential candidates dressed in orange, lavender, and red button-up shirts, and contrasting ties to match.]]></description>
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	  <title>25/26 December 2005 night/actual</title>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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	  <description><![CDATA[I walked down the one street of a town tucked in narrow, high-altitude valley between two peaks of a high mountain range.  The street was empty, and the dry earth-colored valley walls only augmented this feel.  My eyes followed the buildings lined along the right side of this settlement's one road.  I turned towards a doorless entry of a building and walked in.  On the second floor, I entered a gray-carpeted room about the size of two average-sized classrooms.  It was officially a gym room, but it looked like a giant classroom that could be divided by a slidable plastic screen.  There were chairs with attached desks and chrome legs aligned in a grid in the forward facing direction.  A few seats were occupied at scattered locations by waiting students who fixated their gaze on any inanimate object to pass the time before the hour.  More and more students trickled into the room, and when the room was full, they began busily bubbling in the letters of their names on PSAT exam booklets with their pencils.  Mrs. Gingery was present in the room, proctoring the students and strolling down each aisle.  Somehow, I deduced that she had respect for me.  But then I realized that I had forgotten to pay for the exam.  I discussed my issue with the proctor, but there was nothing she could do.  I can't remember what happened during the rest of that session.  All I knew was that I would have class in that same room later that day.  At some point later in the day, I walked uphill to an isolated plateau that rose so high above the surrounding elevation that it seemed to rise out of a bottomless pit.  The main part of the plateau was a nearly circular area higher in elevation than the town from which I had just traveled.  In this circular area stood an apartment in which Ryan R. and his roommates lived.  I told roommate Trent that I came looking for someone named "Christine".  He returned to his bedroom to ask one of his roommates if they knew about her whereabouts.  Meanwhile, I wandered around the kitchen island counter separating the living room with the rest of the kitchen.  I glanced at the refrigerator, and then out the window, where I saw the plateau's steep cliff and the desolate rocky desert formations below.  Trent returned from the room to tell me that they didn't have an answer for me.  Suddenly, I found myself at a house across the street from my own.  Miranda was there too.  The end.]]></description>
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	  <title>22/23 December 2005 night/actual</title>
	  <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
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	  <description><![CDATA[I was running among a scattered group of people in medieval garb (colors of earth brown and dirty orange), and from the anxious looks on their faces and the distant approaching sound of hooves, I somehow deduced that we were being chased by a relatively small, elite army consisting mostly of people on horseback. I could not see them though, but I guessed that they weren't far behind the right-turning bend we had just taken on this narrow, sand-colored dirt road. (The dirt road seemed to have been carved out from the steep slope of the rocky hill.) Right after making the turn around the bend, the entire scattered group of people simultaneously banked left, off the road and immediately down the steep lush-green, grassy slopes below. Someone running behind me with a high-toned voice (possibly a child's) queried our sudden collective decision to flee down the hill slopes. Without establishing eye contact, an older man, running at my right side, replied that we were hoping the trees (about ten feet from each next one) would provide us some cover. The chasing group began pouring down the slope behind us, and I hid in an eroded bowl-like lower section of the leaf-blanketed ground by the exposed roots of a tree. A few hooded people abruptly stopped on their way downhill and lay behind some boulders. They began to fire at us with what I thought were short arrows. The hiding place quickly turned chaotic as everyone tried to move away from the line of sight of those firing at us. I made a vain attempt to pull an arrow out of a neighboring person, but then the firing seemed to stop. Or I simply stopped noticing it. I saw the gaze of one of the red-hooded people, and it was a girl with beautiful brown eyes and brown hair. She looked directly back at me, and her facial expression almost suggested defeat or sadness. I wasn't sure. She then pulled back, along with the others who were attacking us moments earlier. We took this opportunity to run away from the advancing knights. We ran up the hill, but away from sight. At the place where the top of the slope met the dirt road stood a cave within a house-sized boulder. We slipped along this other side of the boulder unnoticed, and then they all fled down the dirt road in the full sights of the army. Yet the army did not run after them. I reached the dirt road last, and by that time, I could not catch up with the carriages and carts of my fleeing people. So I turned around and walked into a spot not very deep in the cave, and I looked up at a hole in the limestone ceiling. By doing this, I exposed myself to lightning, somehow of the magical kind, and I fell unconscious on the wet limestone cave floor.
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(At some point, I discovered that the short arrows were HB pencils whose lead broke easily on impact.)
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	  <title>21/22 December 2005 night/actual</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
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	  <description><![CDATA[I don't remember how it started, but people were being zapped by white rays from above the cloud cover, which could only be seen when patches of the cloud blanket became momentarily visible from a flash of bright light in the black overcast night sky. The cloud cover obscured everything above it, but whatever it was that fired these rays of energy, it was airborne. I observed this event from aboard a yacht-sized boat (not a yacht though) a great distance away in the middle of the harbor. A cyborg who looked a lot like the Terminator character "Sarah O'Connor", blonde hair and all the same details, sat facing me with a stern facial expression. I didn't trust her. After all, she wasn't human, and neither were the attackers from the sky. We sat on cushions on the ground, with a table very low above the ground between us. I stepped away for a while, and once I had stepped away from sight, she began studying my sensitive information papers. She also tweaked the electronic chips in the toys I had sitting on the table. At that point, I lost all my trust in her, but when the invaders released electric signals that turned the chip-powered toys worldwide against their human owners (except mine, which she had fixed), I regained her trust.
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Suddenly, I found myself in daylight on the deck of a ship overlooking some narrow, floating walkway platforms beside the gray, metallic hull of a large ship. Some people were walking along the platforms to reach my side, when suddenly several sharks began circling around the platforms in anticipation of getting a bite of anyone who might slip into the water. The stranded people began to reveal panic in their voices as they desperately tried to extend their arms to balance on the rocking platforms. But that didn't matter because an enormous eyeless worm (that looked like one of those toys that easily slip out of your hands because they're filled with gel) thrashed out of the water and swallowed everyone on the platform.
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Then I found myself indoors in a home that seemed to be my own. All the lights upstairs had been switched off to evade some form of secret police or humanoid invaders. We were also trying to avoid any attention from our neighbors, who, like everyone else in the world, was a potential spy. Since the beginning of the invasion, nobody could trust anyone because both humans and invaders in the form of humans had been reporting people to the invading authorities. At a makeshift table setup downstairs by the washer and dryer, three or four people sat along one of the long sides of the table. All of them looked like men from The Lord of the Rings films, with one distinctly looking like the character Boromir and the leader looking like Aragorn. They all held their swords up and stared intensely at the blades. The blades gave them imagery of their immediate futures. All of theirs ended with imminent death, except for that of the leader. The other two or three looked towards their leader, who was just beginning to break his gaze away from his sword blade. The followers asked their leaders what they should do. He said something I can't remember, and then he took an elevator to another level. Meanwhile, I looked into the downstairs den and looked at the dim lights at the house across the street, and I wondered if we had been discovered.
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Suddenly, I stood in a dormitory hallway (that I had seen in a previous unrelated dream, by the way), and I entered a perpendicular hallway forming a "T" with the original hallway. I turned into the first room on my right, and I discovered a gray-walled cafeteria with no food being served. Almost immediately after I had entered the room, a man in a dark police officer uniform entered. He told everyone that he would take the freshmen outside with him, and that everyone else was to remain where they stood. I somehow interpreted this as the routine words preceding a slaughter of everyone in the room, and I made an unnoticed slip through the door past the cop. When I reached the "T" of the intersection, I hesitated in my sprint and looked both ways to check which side to use as an exit. A nonhuman invader that looked like character Agent Smith from "The Matrix" spotted me from the opposite side of the hallway on my right. At the same time, we both broke into a sprint towards the exit doors of the hallway at my left. I slammed the doors open and nearly tripped on my way down the few concrete steps. I soon reached a teal mid-90's Ford Mercury in a parking lot and took the car with three other people my age. We burned tire marks on the asphalt as we rapidly backed, turned, and floored the gas pedal while swerving the car around incoming traffic. Eventually, we felt that we had lost the agent in the chase, and we pulled the car over on a street near my actual home called Chadbourne Avenue, except that it was labeled as Crestmont Avenue. But the second we stopped the car, the man unexpectedly appeared and ordered everyone except the driver to leave the car. This included me, as I was no longer the driver. The three of us stepped out of the car and closed the doors behind us, while the man dragged the driver by the neck out of the vehicle.]]></description>
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	  <title>20/21 December 2005 night/actual</title>
	  <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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	  <description><![CDATA[I rode a motorbike on a highway, while following a line of men on motorcycles in rush hour traffic. But then my motorbike fell over and my belongings scattered across the shoulder of the highway. Among these items was a black rubbery balloon, in the shape of a whoopie cushion. It had some text printed at the center of the balloon, but the black text was difficult to read on the black background. By the time I had gotten back onto my feet, traffic had moved, and the line of men on motorcycles had disappeared. So I joined a passing line of girls (mainly middle schoolers and high schoolers) on motorcycles, with the leading motorcycle in pink. Later in a building, I entered an elevator with all of them, but the elevator lost power before reaching the desired floor. Nobody panicked. I looked at the emergency buttons, and I pressed to button designed to continue one level to the next floor. It didn't work. I pressed another button to stop the elevator. We were already stopped, so that obviously didn't work either. I decided against using any more buttons, not that there were many buttons remaining to try, and one of us pried open the elevator doors. The elevator car happened to be nearly aligned with that current level's floor. I spoke with oldest of the group, who happened to be the leader. I stepped outside of the car and began helping girls across and out of elevator. The leader then came out of elevator, and I walked back into the elevator to switch places with her. We both began helping girls quickly across the door opening and out of the elevator, all while not knowing whether the elevator might begin moving again. When everyone had been taken out of the elevator car, I helped bring belongings (bags, papers,...) outside too.
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I made one final trip into the car to gather any missed belongings. It was still very dark inside, with the only light source being whatever sunlight could trickle through the elevator door opening. Still, I found things in the hidden pockets of the elevator walls, including a white pencil, a tiny black purse (trapezoidal, rigid strap, glossy surface), and some various other small items. I made a second "final" trip back into the car, and I happened to find three sets of gold-color-wrapped chocolate (looked like miniature plates of gold bars) in the largest pockets of the elevator walls.
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I moved back out into the sunlit level, and with the elevator off my mind, I noticed that we had entered a museum with white marble floors enhanced by white lighting from the sunlight filtered through the frosted ceiling windows. At the center of the floor stood three vases, each approximately four feet tall, with a marble texture (or possibly granite). Each had a distinct color - dark red, dark orange, and dark green. Then Uncle Ed passed by. He probably had some authority over this museum, or if not the museum, at least those three artifacts.]]></description>
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	  <title>13/14 November 2005 night/actual</title>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
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	  <description><![CDATA[A girl facing away from me was on the pay phone. She talked rapidly and enthusiastically, making wild facial expressions towards nobody into empty space. Then... she turned to me, with her still being on the phone. She began to look directly at me while continuing her uninterrupted talking and facial expressions. She THEN began to squeeze my jaw and cheeks playfully with her free hand, all while still talking ecstatically. In a blink, she was gone, but a written phone number remained. Soon afterward, I spotted a man sitting alone on a public indoor backless bench while trying to recite a poem I wrote, but stuttering.]]></description>
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	  <title>14 October 2005 Evening</title>
	  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#agate</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I don't remember where I started, but I found myself wandering in tiny circles on the paved ground near The Campanile. Others waited there too, although they were clustered directly beside the tower. A girl stood out among them. Dirty blond locks. Eyes, hazel or brown, it seemed. A light-colored striped tee. But then I found myself seated in a wide open air amphibious craft much like a hovercraft in appearance, except that it was probably four times in area. Unlike a hovercraft, it was capable of flight and had an open top like a convertible. This seemingly bulky vehicle sped across the air directly beside the moving blur of the cables of the Golden Gate Bridge. The craft descended into the water immediately before reaching the shores of the green Marin Headlands. A glass cover emerged just in time to seal the open top from the water. The craft entered a narrow underwater cave just wide enough for the craft to tightly fit. Throughout the journey in the pathways of the cave, the craft underwent a series of technologically impressive transformations occurring at smoothly-transitioned, precisely-timed intervals. At the end, the craft opened up its top in a ballroom, still underwater, except that I could breathe in the heavily bubbled water. The sounds of clubbing music filled the grand halls. And I joined the dance floor.]]></description>
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	  <title>23/24 September 2005 Night</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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	  <description><![CDATA[A woman who looked like Kate Beckinsale stood over the bathtub as it filled. The low-pitched splashes reverberated as the only sounds in the quiet, desolate-sounding apartment. But a deceptively faint sound from outside the bathroom changed that. She cautiously muted the splashes by turning the flow down, and stood waiting with her hand still on the faucet and her head facing away towards the door. She remained posed like this, motionless. Then she carefully wrapped herself in a towel, trying not to make any noise. And she slowly approached the door to listen to sounds from the other side of the door. She pushed the button lock on the brass door knob and pressed herself against the door, as though the door locks alone wouldn't hold the door back against an intruder from the other side. At the other side of the door was the rest of her apartment, with the bedroom just outside the door. The faint shuffle of feet sounded again, this time right outside the bathroom door. She held the door in place more firmly. Then the door knob began to violently shake and turn back and forth in incomplete circles, and the rattling door lock sounded as though it could give any moment. She pushed herself against the door the entire time to keep the door in place. And right when the door locks finally began to fail, the shaking stopped. Silence, from the other side. Then came even more aggressive shaking of the door knob from the other side, as well as the first words from the intruder through the door. It was a male, and he revealed that he desperately wanted her. Wanted everything. Wanted what was underneath that towel. By this time, the attempts to enter had been completely replaced by his yearnful plea. Kate backed away from the door to the other end of the sink counter. She had both hands grasping her towel tightly around her chest, and she continued to stare at the door. But at some point soon afterwards, she was able to open the door slightly to peek out into her bedroom where the intruder stood. There he was, poorly dressed, with unkempt black hair, and the nighttime city lights through the bedroom window behind him. By now, the intruder stood defeated by the bed and made no attempt to charge towards her. Then he moaned in agony and pleasured himself.]]></description>
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	  <title>August 19, 2005 Night, August 20, 2005 Morning</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#yucca</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[A group of people my age, including Griffin and Christine, played a short song that consisted of a slightly varying group of notes repeated over and over by different joining and exiting real and makeshift instruments.  A marching rhythm on the snare drum was handled by Christine.  There was a tambourine somewhere towards the end, and in my attempt to join the music, I eyed the tambourine.  The song, while having a very limited range of notes probably all within the same octave, had a very easygoing feel to it.
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Two students of at least upper high school age stood with beakers in a nuclear lab that somehow looked like an ordinary classroom chemistry lab.  The lab was a room within a room, a large portion of the corner sectioned off from the larger classroom with walls covered in closed Venetian blinds.  Meanwhile, two distinguished professors spoke to students in the larger, well-lit part of the room.  Things were being sent down the drain from the lab straight to Monterey Bay, where a light brown haired boy stood wading in water to his knees.  He held the end of a long hose, presumably coming all the way from the lab, with a football-sized yellow sponge blocking the end of the hose for the purpose of filtering.  The guy momentarily detached the sponge and took out a tennis ball.  Things like this, he explained, were the reason he was doing this.  Suddenly at the lab, a hazardous accident was occurring.  At that point, I saw a news report showing the pictures of the two distinguished professors and a mention of the names of the twin labs - something along the lines of Skurge and Skyge.]]></description>
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	  <title>August 17, 2005 Night, August 18, 2005 Morning</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#willow</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[In a luxurious underground hotel lobby with shops and yellowish lighting, a large paper advertisement that started with "free submarine" caught my eye.  It rotated under the glass (or clear plastic) of a six to eight feet high cylindrical structure that slowly rotated a number of advertisements.  I pulled my dad over to show him the ad, but I could no longer find it once we were facing the rotating display of different ads.  Not one ad I saw matched the one I saw, as though the ad was gone.  Of course, I didn't bother to check all around the cylindrical structure.  Then the adult crowd began gathering around an open area of the lobby where one girl and two boys stood.  They were somewhere within age nine and twelve, and like most people in this lobby, they dressed in somewhat formal attire and appeared very professional.  These kids stood in a row, more or less, preparing for some sort of competition or event.  I then somehow discovered the random fact that if the underground lobby flooded, only one trip up on a single elevator could be made to during the flooding to save a small group of people.  It turned out that the lobby began to flood, and the three kids were the ones who made it in the elevator.  As the closing doors drowned out the screams and roar of rushing water, the kids, or at least the one girl, realized that they would be the only survivors.
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There was a dog who disliked oranges and a cat who I can't remember anything about.  The only thing I remember is that a woman standing in a kitchen could see them right outside running along the dirt road in the vast, dry grassy field.  These animals were competition animals, until very recently anyway.
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Three of us kept low among the somewhat rocky desert landscape under the cover of the dark blue evening sky.  We made stop-and-run dashes from behind one mound of sand-colored rocks to the next, towards a lone house just ahead of us.  During one of our abrupt stops behind a mound, I gazed up at the sky and remarked excitedly that I saw two full moons and two unusually bright stars that looked like daytime suns dimmed down heavily for the evening.  I said a never mind when I spotted a fifth celestial body, but I don't remember what it was.  One us pushed open the door slowly, and we felt surprised that it wasn't locked.  The girl and the third person (don't remember the gender) hid in the living room among the white couches.  I, on the other hand, dashed across the entrance of the hallway connecting to the living room to avoid being seen.  A voice came from the other end of the hallway, but the person wasn't aware of our presence.  I walked into the kitchen, parallel to the hallway, but I made an rapid 180 degree turn when I thought I heard footsteps heading for the kitchen.  I made another rapid 180 degree turn from the hallway view when I saw a shadow moving down the hallway towards the living room.  I hastily chose the kitchen closet (pantry?) as a hiding place, but I began to panic when I realized that the door wouldn't close all the way.  I was making to much noise and decided to hold the door in place the moment I heard her step into the living room.  She had discovered the other two in the living room, and they were now conversing with no tone of hostility whatsoever.  Still, I remained standing in the closet.  A light bulb in the closet was on, and it lit scattered words scribbled in blue and black ballpoint pen ink on the inside of the white closet door.  There were names of people, phone numbers, notes...  They were all relevant to Dhahran.  I  opened the door and walked out to join the three in the living room.  The woman didn't seem surprised to see me at all.  She was an Asian American woman from the Dhahran community.  And she spoke to us about our fear of a man stalking us for hostile purposes.]]></description>
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	  <title>August 16, 2005 Night; August 17, 2005 Morning</title>
	  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#voila</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[My dad asked me if I wanted to purchase any new shoes as we wandered into the store's section of shoes and video games.  I glanced at the wall shelf towards the few remaining products.  I wasn't interested.  Normally I wouldn't be interested in video games consoles either, but a Super Nintendo three-in-one game caught my attention.  I ended up purchasing it.  At home, I ran the game and saw that the first of the three games was a Super Mario World game that I'd played many times.  This was not the game in which I was interested, and I felt unusually frustrated that I couldn't reach the second two games.  I flipped hastily through the instructions manual to find out how to skip to the next two games, the ones in which I was truly interested, but I couldn't find out how.  So I continued playing, half hoping that maybe I could play my way into the next game.  From time to time, various clips of The Gilmore Girls appeared between the Mario game's segments.  I took notes in an Indian language for decoding the second game.  For the third game, I had notes in what might have been Arabic, but I can't remember for sure.  I can't remember how the second two games went anymore, but they resulted in real things happening to real people.  They were not merely games, and I found myself in an underground household level (with a cylindrical glass elevator shaft) while being in the middle of a huge legal fight involving many people in dull-colored suits and a blonde female victim.  This woman looked rather unpleasant, but she won whatever it was that was being fought over with the other victims.  Suddenly, I found myself with Karen on a moon covered in gray-blue cheese.  The moon was somehow a threat to life on a neighboring celestial body, and in order to save lives, Karen and I turned into red pinballs that bounced around wiping out certain threatening substances on the moon surface.  Karen ran out of lives before me, making her attempt a real sacrifice for humanity (or whatever species were saving).  I continued on with the last of my lives, while I ignored cries from familiar voices from above to stop.]]></description>
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	  <title>August 9, 2005 Night; August 10, 2005 Morning</title>
	  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#tulip</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[My family and I stood on the southern two lanes of the Bay Bridge's upper deck, while traffic passed around us.  We were standing by a large gap in the road where a section of the two most southern lanes were missing, so cars were forced to drive around instead of otherwise hitting us.  I tightly gripped a vertical cable as though I was holding on for dear life.  As I stood at the edge, two cars and a cell phone gradually fell off the bridge and into the bay, at separate times.  Karen told me that she also saw some cars fall off the bridge, and they might not have been the same cars.  Later, my family and I were in a vehicle driving towards the East Bay.  I suddenly found myself alone in a long, black sedan being chauffeured into a camp in the forest.  The entrance immediately forked into a left entrance and a right entrance, both of which led to girl's camps.  I walked up the grassy hill of the camp on the right, and I saw girls about my age in leotards and one-piece swimsuits running past me.  At least one girl running past me was bare naked, and it seemed that all the girls were former CCS students.  At the top of the hill, I saw an older version of Christopher Lee, from elementary school, guiding the running girls with hand motions like a traffic director.  Suddenly I found myself in a control room much like one of NASA's.  There was an harsh director barking instructions to the staff of the control room.  One young, white-button shirt man with dark hair furtively wrote the numbers of the director's ID on a sheet of paper by disguising it as notetaking.  Surprisingly, I had trouble reading his pencil numbers upside-down, especially at the beginning numbers of 196...]]></description>
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		  <title>August 7, 2005 Night; August 8, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Mon, 8 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#sunflower</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[The subject of kissing was brought up, and I admitted to the girl that I had never kissed anyone before.  She was sitting on the other side of the dark room, with the light from the windows behind her revealed her silhouette.  Through only her eyes, she told me to approach.  And we kissed.
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There was a mention of a show about beautiful people by a female television show host, and then I saw an image of three people from Stevenson.  Then I walked by Melissa Mewborn sitting on an indoor bench, while Andrew Lawrence passed by and walked towards the exit doors.
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A boy and a teacher both said that they were Jewish, and then started eating this tree-log-sized cylindrical food floating in the water, just off the rocky waterfront of a city.
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Suddenly, there was an aerial view of the eastern part of San Francisco, sans all the buildings, trees, and roads.  My dad told me that something was at Hyde Street.]]></description>
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		  <title>August 5, 2005 Night; August 6, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Fri, 5 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#spruce</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[There was a huge adventure underwater ultimately involving Ariel from The Little Mermaid, but I don't remember this part.  Then I returned to my summer work, and as I exited the subway station, a Black youth introduced himself as O.J. 1 and introduced his colleague, a plump Black boy of maybe age ten, O.J. 2.  Later, my three workmates and I stood at the garage door entrance of a warehouse to get a drink of water on this hot, windless day.  We awaited our turns to drink water from the drinking fountain near the ground, also waiting for every group of several kids to take their turns between each of our own turns.  A line of the kids formed into the warehouse, while we waited right outside the warehouse.  A large number of kids kept taking their turns as I stood next as the last of us workers waiting to drink.  I had no complaints about waiting so long, but another one of my workmates decided to politely interrupt the flow of kids to allow me my turn.  My workmates and I later entered an open-air facility with many silver pipes.  The facility sat below ground level, and it was a large facility held back by deep concrete retaining walls (although, the word "retaining wall" never came to mind during the dream itself).  I was concerned about what the supervisors would think now that I was returning after making an official goodbye.  In an office building that I had never seen before, I rode the elevator to the ninth floor and made two immediate rights into a long, white hallway with dim white lighting, perhaps from fluorescent lights or perhaps from sunlight leaking from the various open doors across the hallway.  I stepped up to one of the doors down on the right visualizing a brightly-lit waiting room, the kind you'd see in a dentists' place.  But my hand paused in midair before reaching the doorknob upon the realization that this somehow wasn't the right room.  I made for the elevator again, and this time, there were two men in the elevator car.  I don't know who pressed which buttons, but by the time the elevator car was descending, the buttons for floors nine, seven, five, two, and one were lit.  When the doors opened again, we were still on the ninth floor, but the floor looked different.  Now it looked like a floor related to bridal-planning.  Two women busily spoke to each other among bridal decorations.  They slowly disappeared from view as the elevator doors closed.  Then the elevator doors opened again, this time for floor seven.  Right before the doors opened, one of the men mentioned that I might be interested in their grazing field of grass on that floor, and the word "Andalite" came to mind.  The doors closed again, and we descended.]]></description>
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		  <title>August 3, 2005 Night; August 4, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Thu, 4 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#sequoia</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[I saw the presentation that Amy and Renee had created for the street acceptance project, and I felt disappointed that they had removed the logo I had designed and placed the photos in a scattered manner on every slide.
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Everyone of us students were cadets in a prep military school.  Suddenly, I found myself in an armed helicopter pursuing a military truck chasing another across the desert sand.  I radioed the second truck and offered to fire at the driver section of the first vehicle.  I maneuvered the helicopter close to the first vehicle, and then I don't remember what happened.  I only remember a news report mentioning an unidentified helicopter appearing and disappearing over a chase scene.
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I sat in a classroom-sized room with rows of folding chairs set up in a semicircle around a slide projector and a person speaking.  Beside me on the left was an Arabic-speaking companion of mine who I probably knew through my years in Dhahran.  To the left of him was another companion of mine who only spoke English.  Suddenly, Samir appeared, and I waved at him and motioned for him to sit with us.  He motioned with his hands that he desired to sit where I was sitting - to the right of my Dhahran companion.  So I reluctantly stood up and walked over to the left of my English-only-speaking friend and sat beside him.]]></description>
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		  <title>July 25, 2005 Night, July 26, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#sage</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[I stood in our living room, with the afternoon sunlight reflecting off the creamy-colored hardwood floor.  Amy and Renee were there, and there was a dartboard on the north wall at the opposite side of the room, where the crystals and glassware were stored.  Then I stood at the top of the stairs.]]></description>
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		  <title>July 18, 2005 Night, July 19, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#saffron</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[A crowd of vampires spilled out from a single underground source, most likely a subway system of some sort.  I fled ahead and in the same direction as these scattering, but unidirectional, vampires.  This entire part of the city was empty of any vehicles and people, save the vampires.  Right before an intersection at this broad road was a cafe, where I stopped momentarily now that I was a good distance ahead of the scattering crowd.  Besides, the crowd had split up by now and were disseminating into every street of the city.  They didn't have any typical Halloween vampire kind of look.  Rather, they looked and sounded just like any healthy human being.  At the cafe, I witnessed an unaware man become the victim of a male vampire with dark features (black hair and slightly unshaven).  He was dressed like a Spanish? dancer and wore tight-fitting clothes.  This man slowly approached the back of the victim's neck without the victim even realizing that the vampire was there.  And then he bit.  The entire cafe grew hysterical upon noticing what was happening.  Much of my own apprehension came from the uncertainty of who could potentially bite me next, especially with the difficulty of distinguishing between vampires and those who were not.  As I recall, someone then tried to bite me in the back of the neck.  I somehow prevented this someone from following through with the act, and then I darted out onto the sidewalk of the street intersecting the original broad road.  A vampire-hunting police girl in a blue dress who looked like Jennifer Love Hewitt (maybe she was) called me from behind to wait.  She hurried clumsily on her heels and ran straight into a street lamp.  The end.]]></description>
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		  <title>July 15, 2005 Night; July 16, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#poppy</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[A father scolded an elementary school daughter for failing something.  It was something written, it seemed.  Then he turned to his pre-teen boy, who stabbed a teenaged boy in the upper left cheek with a pencil.  Unlike the last person this pre-teen boy had stabbed earlier, the teenaged boy did not scream or make any large movements.  He instead he slowly touched his face's wound, which looked like a dark black circle with a red ring tightly around it.  But just like the last person the pre-teen boy had stabbed earlier, the teenaged boy began seeing a headless horse standing on his hind legs such that it looked like a headless cooked chicken.  The headless horse faced the teenaged boy at an uncomfortably close distance, and then it turned into various other things every other second, like a woman with curly blonde hair and a man.  The teenaged boy began to freak out from this phenomenon, almost to the degree of the first stabbed victim.  There was an older third son who was supposed to be reprimanded by the father too, but he seemed to escape his because of the unexpected new stabbing by the pre-teen boy.  This oldest third son might have been the teenaged boy, but I don't know that for sure.]]></description>
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		  <title>July 3, 2005 Night, July 4, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Mon, 4 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#petunia</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[The man sitting beside me at this bar table was growing suspicious of my behavior in such proximity to him.  I had to cover up my notes every time he came within reading distance, and it was slowing my reconnaissance of him.  There was no bartender on the other side of this long bar table.  There was only a wall adjacent to the bar table.  The bar-tended bar table was on the other side of the cafe, next to the open door.  There, three young women laughed and conversed behind the cashier, but they did establish eye contact with me subtly for a fraction of a second.  They too were checking things out in this place, most likely with me.  The subject I was checking out came within reading distance, and I fumbled with my papers to cover up my notes of observations about him.  I mistakenly used my list of informants' names as a cover sheet.  He stopped over my left shoulder, spoke with me casually about what I was doing, and lowered his head closer to the page with the list of informants.  It was a list of Dr. So-and-So's and Dr. What's-His-Face's, but the only name I remember is a Dr. Ambrose.  I couldn't tell whether the man behind me knew what he was looking at, and I hoped it would remain that way.  He abruptly excused himself after perusing my names list and disappeared into a room behind this wall.  I used this time to walk outside the cafe and check out the name of this place.  Noah's Bagels, except that it was spelled Noah's Bagels.  A-ha!  But hey, that didn't mean anything.  It looked more like a bar on the inside.  I stepped back inside.]]></description>
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		  <title>July 2, 2005 Night, July 3, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Sun, 3 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#oak</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[An enraged man pointed his shotgun at a male deer whose hind leg had been broken.  This was happening in our backyard, but this backyard was wider, and the deck had been replaced with a tiny wooden platform at the top of a concrete terrace.  The female deer fled from the buck's side and headed up the terrace and leftward to a dead end.  The doe panicked at the dead end and turned around to face the man with the shotgun.  Standing about ten to fifteen feet away, the man tossed a heavy honey-colored glass ball that resembled a mini bowling ball.  I no longer remember what it did, but it was supposed to bring pain (but not the sharp kind).]]></description>
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		  <title>June 25, 2005 Night, June 26, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#marigold</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[A lovely black-haired, dark-skinned girl was speaking with an older white man with graying hair that added to his distinguished look.  I discovered that the girl's name was Otto through her conversations with her colleagues.  And the man was a dear mentor of Otto's.  He was someone she looked up to and loved as a father.  They were both officers of a large futuristic police force, and the headquarters in which they currently stood had the look of a grand train terminal.  There was also a lovely blonde girl, also an officer of the futuristic police force, but I knew nothing about her.
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Then I was airborne with a team that included Otto and her mentor (a senior officer).  The aircraft interior was a lot like that of a modern helicopter with both doors wide open for parachuting from the cabin, except that the cabin was wider than a helicopter's.  The aircraft's body was a large, flat rectangular prism, with the flat sides being the upward and downward faces.  In other words, it was shaped much like a book with its covers facing upward and downward, except that the aircraft was much more streamlined.  In a row directly behind the two open side doors were two jump seats, with me strapped to the left seat and Otto strapped to the right seat.
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Two senior officers, one being the dear mentor of Otto, used one high-tension metallic rope to lower themselves hundreds of feet down towards the city grounds below.  Judging by the little (cumulus?) clouds that rapidly passed by beside our aircraft, we were a significant distance above the city.
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The two senior officers were still lowering themselves far below when the rope's attachment to the helicopter-like ceiling began to crack off and break.  The attachment was on my side of the ceiling, but I was so slow to react that I didn't have time to start reaching for the attachment.  Otto began to plunge for the rope, screaming  "no!"  And the rope broke off before my eyes.  Looking out my window, I saw the two men plummet to their deaths.  And all I could remember from this point was that Otto was extremely upset.
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At night on the ground, next to what was probably the headquarters of the police, I saw the blonde girl with an older man who seemed to be her long-lost father.  She walked closely beside him, affectionately leaning on his shoulder for comfort as she walked.  Otto spotted them, and she look very surprised to see her, as though she thought the blonde girl was supposed to be long dead.  Otto secretly followed her.  I secretly followed Otto.  We walked down a wide carpeted hallway of the living quarters, which was basically a hallway of spacious bedrooms.
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Otto disappeared into either another room or another hallway.  I couldn't tell, but it was certainly a different direction than the blonde girl's.  I found this fairly strange, considering that I thought Otto intended to follow the blonde girl.  The blonde girl's father was nowhere in sight when I looked back towards the blonde girl's path.  I followed the blonde girl into her room.  She didn't look surprised to see me.  She stood leaning on the wall near the area behind the door.  My hand bumped into my belt as I walked around the open door, and she then said, "Just to let you know, I'm gay.".  I then wondered if she timed her statement that way because she misinterpreted my touching my belt, which was completely innocent.  Then she began to tell me what was bothering her, but I can't remember what she said because the dream ended.
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<a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dream_jun27_05.gif">Tablet PC drawing of scenes</a>]]></description>
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		  <title>June 15, 2005 Night, June 16, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#maple</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[The dream involved me sitting in a city jail for something no reason other than to keep me from something, as a form of torture, or so I was told by this older man.  I no longer remember what got me into that city jail, but I do remember that it was most likely not an official city jail, but more like a privately owned and built cell as part of this man's estate.  There was also a scene where I sat in a conference room with lighting such that it looked like only source of light was the bright concentration of lights of an overhead projector, except that there was not a projector.  At the conference room table sat many men in their twenties, all wearing white shirts and dark ties as part of their business attire.  Meanwhile, I was the only one at the table too casually dressed.  I was also the only one not absorbed in their loud conversation, and I was seated at the side of the table that faced one of the room's side walls, as opposed to the wall onto which the projection was displayed.  There was a lot more to that dream, but I forgot most of it by the time I started eating breakfast.]]></description>
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		  <title>June 8, 2005 Night, June 9, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Thu, 9 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#magnolia</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[Two or three middle-aged white men were sitting in deep holes in our backyard lawn as though the lawn were a huge jacuzzi (elbows rested on the sides, drinks resting on the sides).  A woman, also middle-aged as I recall, also sat in a deep in hole, located at the center of the lawn.  She seemed to be the alpha male of the group.  I think that I approached her, but I don't remember whether either of us initiated a conversation.]]></description>
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		  <title>March 20, 2005 Night, March 21, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#lotus</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[A girl (most likely Karen) and I arrived in a coastal nation among a multitude of tiny coastal nations on the coast of a much larger continental island.  We met up with a girl who headed this peninsula nation, and I think I already knew her.  She alerted me that there had been attacks somewhere along the coastal route I was taking.  She pointed out as suspects the archipelago nation from which I had just come, as well as the peninsula nation to which I would head next.  However, she pointed out to the opposite side of the continental island, where a massive dormant volcano hosted a massive nation.  This was the home of the continent's central government, which no other tiny nation would dare resist.  Then came word that a group of government officials were closing in on me, so I hid in a master bedroom bathroom, exactly like the one in my parents' room.  I shut the door and crouched on the floor to watch the slit under the door.  I held a somewhat translucent yellow plastic disk against the area directly above the slit between the door and the floor, and the yellow disk emitted a certain gas to trick the officials into thinking that this bathroom had become too toxic for anyone to be hiding in here.  Then the government officials reached the other side of the door.  They didn't bother trying to open the door, even though I didn't think it would take very long for them to bypass the lock.  Instead, I saw the shadows of the hands of at least three officials through the now somewhat translucent sunlit door.  I saw these shadows at the bottom of the door, of course, because that was all I could see at this face level.  To my surprise, the government officials held translucent blue plastic disks (exactly the same shape and size as mine) to the area of the door directly above the slit under the door.  I feared for my life now because I knew that these disks were meant for overcoming the smell of the supposedly toxic gas I was trying to use to trick their detectors.  As they moved their blue disks from side to side to try to sense any signs of living beings in the bathroom, I followed my yellow disk to try to overpower their sensors.
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Suddenly, I found myself being chased by a man and many of his agents inside a complex of beige buildings that looked like belonged in a sunny, arid region.  The agents were scattered across the complex, but the man who led this group found me and chased me up the outdoor stairs.  The stairs led us to the top of one of the buildings, where there stood an entrance to a rollercoaster ride.  I stopped my running short at a long table, where an employee sold tickets.  It was a two-step process, and as I walked to the end of the table to wait for step 2, the man chasing me reached the beginning of the long table to wait for step 1.  At this point, the employee excused himself and said that he'd be right back with more of the needed supplies to sell tickets.  So there I stood by one end of the table, anxiously looking at the man by the other end of the table.  He looked just as anxious to resume the chase.  His hands pressed against the table, and his legs looked restless.  He made a very short dash and stopped abruptly when I moved the same distance around to the opposite side of the short end of the table.  He then made a short burst around to the other side of his short end of the table, and I reversed the same distance back to the other side of my short end of the table.  Then he sprinted towards my side of the table at full speed, and I fled the table area and headed towards the waiting line of the rollercoaster ride.
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Suddenly, I found myself running up a slope of an enormous pile of either garbage or junkyard junk.  I stopped when I found that the man chasing me had been severely injured somehow.  He lay upon the slope of the enormous pile, and while he still looked like he wanted to hurt me if he wasn't so distracted by his ill condition, he seemed to be wanting my help.  When I approached him, he held up a set of diagrams and charts that displayed some supposedly medical information about his condition, but it looked more like a beige blueprint of a house with each room being a bar graph.  I admitted that I didn't understand the "chart", and a passerby overheard me and offered to help decipher the map.  She said that the chart showed that some parts of his body's bone structure were fine, but that most of the crucial areas had been broken.  He would die soon.  And soon after she mentioned that, the man lying down on the slope tried to do or say something, but he died before he could complete the task.
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I found myself in a line in front of a table for an internship.  The lady at the table reminded everyone to turn in a transcript.]]></description>
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		  <title>March 17, 2005 Night, March 18, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#lily</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[From the lobby of a tall office building, I entered an elevator with two other people, possibly Karen and my mom.  However, I split from their group and stopped at the sixth floor to check out what looked like a maintenance room, full of storage boxes, ladders, mops, and buckets.  The room was lit with white fluorescent lighting, and there wasn't a single person in the room.  So I stepped back into the elevator (this time, an elevator car empty and different from the one that I arrived in earlier), and I began ascending to one of the highest floors in the building.  But the elevator unexpectedly stopped, and the buttons and light indicators showed that I had stopped on the 17th floor, on the way to the higher floor.  I held a thick closed magazine (with a gold bar behind the title, and probably a style magazine) up to my face to prevent myself from being recognized.  Four young adult girls entered the elevator, and although I didn't know them, I still feared that my face from the past would spark suspicion among these girls in the future.  (This moment somehow proved that I was in the future, even though nobody had said anything and no clues showed that this was true.)   The elevator doors opened at the highest floor of this skyscraper, which happened to be a sky lounge that served as a luxury waiting lounge at an airport.  The lounge looked very spacious because of the large, open spaces of only carpet between the couches, seats, and seat end tables.  The wall with elevator doors had two sets of elevator doors, surrounded by shiny wall with a chrome look.  By one of the doors sat a large indoor plant that might have been a large fern.  All the other walls were basically a large panoramic window with nearly no wall on each "wall".  Through each panoramic window, I could see numerous passenger jets, some parked and some taxiing to and from the runway. The airport seemed to be located by a large body of water, and at the outskirts of a large city.  This large city seemed to be New York, but this future airport didn't seem to be in the right location to match La Guardia.  I somehow realized that there was one man who owned this entire sky lounge, which by the way looked as though it was at ground level with the rest of the airport (even though I had taken an elevator many floors up from another ground level).  I never actually saw this man, but apparently, he had become a powerful figure in London and had made the entire island an unpleasant place to live in (even though the weather was sunny and everything looked clean and modern).  Then I suddenly found myself on a highway curving gradually rightward into the Chunnel, in the direction bound for France.  However, I don't know if the Chunnel is really like this.  This highway road led into a tunnel that began above the ground and either went into a mountain or underground.  There were no cars on the highway though.  Instead, there was a scattered crowd of people jogging France-bound into the tunnel.  (It was nice and sunny with some scattered clouds, by the way.)  Then some not-intimidating-looking police officers in beige uniforms (possibly on bicycles) came and tried stopping the people who hadn't yet entered the tunnel.  Some of these people heading permanently for France were going on rollerblades, and others were wearing hats with rotor blades.  One guy had a light brown fro.  Further down the route to France, there was a bridge (that looked like a simpler, smaller version of the east span of the Bay Bridge) that spanned over a narrow river among an oak forest.  Only pedestrians seemed to be crossing this bridge, and a drill sergeant was harassing anyone 80 years old or older.  One man mentioned something about 60 years and the military.]]></description>
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		  <title>March 16, 2005 Night, March 17, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#lavender</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[A lone pirate, the kind we see in movies and books, maneuvered between narrow passages between bookshelves in what was either a library or a bookstore.  The person chasing after him wasn't running, and there wasn't any animosity between the chaser and the pirate.  In fact, the pirate seemed to be avoiding the chaser out of annoyance rather than fleeing out of fear.  In an open area of the library, a group of adults were attempting to play the roles of people I know (future adult versions), and this group included a male whose job was to play the role of future adult Trent.  A conversation began between one couple, and in that couple, the role of someone I know was being played.  (But I don't remember who it was.)  Then the conversation moved to the woman playing the role of Trent's future girlfriend, and then the guy playing future adult Trent began talking.  He greatly exaggerated what he thought to be an accurate imitation of Trent's voice, but it sounded more like a mixture Marlon Brando and current Trent.]]></description>
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		  <title>February 28, 2005 Night, March 1, 2005 Morning</title>
		  <pubDate>Tue, 1 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
		  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
		  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#laurel</guid>
		  <description><![CDATA[It was night time, and I was in a car that was pulling into the driveway of Miranda's house, just down the street from our house.  Suddenly, a flash  lit the entire night sky, and I couldn't see the source of the flash because the houses were blocking the view of the bay.  I soon discovered from  the TV news broadcasts back in my own home that there had been a nuclear bomb set off in presumably San Francisco, and when I looked out the  window at the bay, I saw that there were no lights coming from most of San Francisco and downtown Oakland.  I don't remember seeing any  flames whatsoever though.  I felt sick at the idea that my favorite city had been wiped out.  I began worrying about how the radiation was  affecting me as I stood here.  I then saw a map, perhaps on TV, showing the precise location of the blast, and the map showed a highlighted  building on the southeastern part of the Berkeley campus.  That meant that even more people I knew had probably died from the blast.  And then I  awoke, and I was glad that it was merely a dream.  I then checked the online news, and it reported that there had been a nuclear blast that had  wiped out large portions of the Bay Area, and that the weapon had been planted by terrorists, not another nation.  I freaked out when I saw that it  wasn't really a dream.  And then I truly awoke.]]></description>
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	  <title>February 27, 2005 Night, February 28, 2005 Morning</title>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#jasmine</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[A handsome Indian man, on a sidewalk in an urban part of India, was trying to reach this Indian girl with whom he was in love.  But then she disappeared, and the man suddenly found himself trapped inside a torch-lit, golden-walled room with a dark-facial-feature brunette giving him an intense can't-stop-me facial expression as she blocked him from leaving the closed room.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of February 19, 2005, Morning of February 20, 2005</title>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#jacinta</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was among a group of friends sitting around some wooden picnic benches when Glendan asked Christine out to the dance.  She said that she would accompany him to the dance.
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I found myself in Antarctica, just a bit inland from the coast across the straight from South America's southern tip.  I was with my parents, and we had been taking an around-the-world trip.  However, at this point, we stood outside in the mild snowstorm in our thick Arctic outfits, discussing our shortage of supplies at this point in the trip, as well as how I would return to the Caribbean.  I would either take the Pacific route to San Francisco and take a following rail trip across the United States towards the Gulf of Mexico, or the Atlantic route to New York and somehow take a trip south to the Caribbean.  For some unknown reason, I could not directly sail to the Caribbean.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of February 16, 2005, technically February 17, 2005</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#ivy</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA["Don't you have Spanish class?" a college colleague asked me.  At that moment, I realized that I had enrolled in a college Spanish class in the first week, forgotten that I had done so, and subsequently did not attend for these first five weeks.  Later, I found myself outside on the Stevenson School campus, but it wasn't anything like the actual campus of today.  The entire campus landscape was now entirely flat and paved, and the woods around the campus were now replaced with an urban environment.  The buildings of the campus were all at least ten stories high, and they were all seemingly new buildings of classic European style.  In fact, I stood in an inner part of the campus that looked like a narrow black street in a European town.  In front of me, there was a large open area (probably a square or plaza) that allowed me to clearly see the edge of the campus, which bordered a car road and the rest of the city.  To my far left lay a soccer field that looked more like the type of soccer fields I had seen in Dhahran.  A little to the right of the soccer field was a multiple-story building, also of European style.  It stood awkwardly close to the soccer field.  Across the square/plaza and to my right were three buildings, each being multiple-story  buildings of European style.  From where I stood, two of the buildings stood in full view, while the third and tallest rose out from behind these two buildings.  This third building had a very dark gray color, and the building looked somewhat like the Shell building in Amsterdam.   Then I looked behind me, and I saw Tessa.  Her hair was done very nicely (I don't know how to describe it, but I it's a mix of straight and wavy hair?).  She saw me too and gave me a friendly smile.  Then she commented that the red jacket I wore was the one I wore as a freshman, but she said it a friendly, inoffensive tone.  I somehow knew that it was genuinely friendly and innocent.  (I was never attended Stevenson as a freshman, and I never had a red jacket while I was attending Stevenson.)]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of February 6, 2005, technically February 7, 2005</title>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 7 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#iris</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was in front of a building whose entrance looked like that of a museum with stone columns and classical architecture.  Outside in the front courtyard were two elders who stood at the top of one of two grand stone stairways.  A young female adult stood halfway up the stairs.  The stairway had been donated by the girl's parents, who seemed to be admiring the stairway from the top of one of the stairways.
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Later in the museum, a girl (not necessarily the same as the last one) and I in black mission outfits while suspended by cables from the museum ceiling.  About five to ten feet below the ceiling was a glass layer that seemed to act as another ceiling below the main stone ceiling above.  Below and through the glass, I could see the main entrance area (perhaps a lobby) of the museum.  In the center of the marble floor stood a pedestal-like table, also made of marble.  There was also a guard wandering by the pedestal-like table.  The girl and I both held and moved devices around just above the surface of the glass below us, as though we were trying to find a suitable place to aim these weapons.  These devices could cause a fire or an small explosion below the glass ceiling without harming the glass at all.
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Suddenly, I was on the ground of this lobby, and was running further indoors into an another room that looked like a bank teller counter.  The person behind the counter looked up and saw me, and he looked back down to phone security.  Guards immediately came out from behind the counters, and I immediately ran the other direction and into a vault.  The guards pinned me down just as I entered the vault, and I crashed down the ground.
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Later, I sat inside a wooden lodge, and a woman sitting next to me whispered a warning about how the country had become a police state where people's rights no longer existed.  Just moments after I had exited the lodge and walked a distance from the front door, I saw a government official in a suit walking up the few wooden stairs leading to the front door of the lodge.  It was the same door through which I had just exited.  The official's back faced me, so he didn't see me among the evergreen trees.  As for the woman indoors, I had no idea whether she was still in there.
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Suddenly, I found myself being chased up the hill by men in gray suits.  I ran uphill to the left of the front face of the lodge, and I turned left into a parking lot further up the slope.  When I looked downhill, I could see that the men were approaching me from lower on the slope.  I entered a parked car, and as I did this, so did several other henchmen/agents...in sync.  When I closed my car's door, so did they...in sync.  It was as though they were waiting for my next move.  Maybe they saw that I was trapped.  I backed the car quickly out, with the tail turning right.  The officials began backing their cars to turn in my direction to face me.  As they continued to back their cars, I floored the gas petal and sped towards them, but right before nearing them, I swerved the car to the left so that the car spun 180 degrees and faced the opposite direction.  I floored the gas petal again and made a sudden left turn at the other end of the parking lot.  I turned into another aisle of the parking lot and swerved into a perfect parking position in an open parking spot.  The cars behind me accidentally passed by me, with the men not expecting me to suddenly turn and park into the parking spot.
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I don't remember what happens afterwards.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of February 4, 2005, technically February 5, 2005</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 5 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#hyacinth</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I walked sleepily, but quietly, out the door of a rectangularly long and narrow bedroom.  Presumably, it was a room in which I had been sleeping because I walked out in pajamas.  Although the dresser mirror lights from the bathroom down the hall were the only source of light at this early hour of the morning, the scattered moonlight coming into the bedroom reflected off the dormant faces of the other people asleep in the room.  At this point, my view switched from first person to third person (viewing myself walk).  I continued my quiet walk down the hall and turned left into an open area with a dresser with lights over the mirror.  There was no wall or door separating this area from the hallway.  Rather, it seemed more like a perpendicular extension of the hallway.  Then my view of myself switched to my backside.  I could see that I had long, straight, wet, silky-looking black hair.  My long hair reached the center of my back, and at the end of my hair at this point was not cut in a straight line.  Instead, the ends of the hair had been cut in a U-shape/smiley-mouth-shape.  My hair also looked very thick, but it could've been a light effect in conjunction with the wetness of the hair.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of January 29, 2005, technically January 30, 2005</title>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#ginger</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[In a large room full of college students and a college dean, I donned a two-person chicken suit with one of my friends and danced across the room towards the dean.  The dean became furious, and he said that, by university rules, I had to spend a little over a week of my current term traveling in East Asia to meet each of the three instructors who would lecture me on what a bad thing I had done.  The three locations were Hong Kong, (maybe) Singapore, and (maybe) Korea.  I can't remember the second two for sure.  I felt tortured about the idea of missing the crucial week of school near final exams, but more importantly, I felt terrible about the idea of having to foot the travel expenses for this punishment imposed on me by the dean.  And I had a feeling that I wouldn't have any time to stop and do some vacationing at any of these places since I was likely required to arrive, meet the respective instructor, and immediately depart.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of January 28, 2005, technically January 29, 2005</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#fern</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[One afternoon, we suddenly found a black Porsche and a beige BMW station wagon in our backyard.  I don't know how someone managed to get them there because the only two access points to the backyard were too narrow for any vehicles to pass through.  A delivery man stood on the driveway at the front of the house, and he was busily looking down at his clipboard and ready to leave, now that his work was completed.  We approached him for an explanation of why these cars were here.
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I heard a TV announcer advertise a new "Oz" movie remake, and he emphasized that it was in color in order to maintain the younger generation's interest in "The Wizard of Oz" legacy.  He spoke of this as though the original movie was made entirely in black and white, (and it was certainly not).
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On a 2-dimensional grid of spheres (on a plane much like a sheet of paper standing straight up on a surface) stood various tiny, sphere-sized people, who were all trying to build up these spheres like some sort of puzzle or game.  To us, these spheres were half our size, but the dreamer's view of the whole event was as though these spheres and people were fingernail-sized.  At the bottom of the 2D grid was red lava with plenty of movement.  As one of the people on the life-sized puzzle, I did my part to try to solve the sphere puzzle.  Suddenly, the lava became very unstable, and it burst upwards to engulf all the people and spheres.  I dashed upwards and brought one person with me as I did.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of January 19, 2005, technically January 20, 2005</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#daisy</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was with my family traveling in a modern high speed train.  The train stopped in a highly modern train station with a curvy metallic design, and through our train door windows, I could see a subway tube (with evenly-spaced glass windows) across the narrow platform.  In that tube, I saw the tail of the last car of a subway-like train disappearing from my view.  Then our train began to move away from the platform, but from inside the train, it was the train station that appeared to slowly move in the reverse direction and speed up.  Later, as our train ascended at an angle from the underground subway tubes to an elevated track, I could see an elevated highway, some medium-rise buildings, and the top of an out-of-place Sather Tower sticking out from behind the buildings.  The view of all of this was tilted when I saw this through the train window because the train tracks were still at an angle to gradually reach the full height of the elevated tracks.  Later on, my family and I rode by train from one place to another, and then to another, as though every place at which we arrived was not the place we intended to reach.  We were attempting to go somewhere that met certain conditions, but I didn't know what those conditions were.  Each next location we reached did not fit these conditions, and this move from one location to the next reached the point where the train stopped in a snow-covered landscape with the starless, dark blue, late evening sky overhead.  White smoke continued to rise gradually and gracefully from the stack on the front of the train, and this gave the appearance that the train had been abruptly stopped in the snowy landscape.  The headlights on the train continued to shine brightly across the evening darkness and onto the tiny, scattered snowflakes that fell into the headlight rays.  Light of warm yellow color shined from each of the passenger windows on the side of the train cars.  Outside and a distance away from the halted train were two men speaking to each other while standing almost knee-deep in snow.  They argued about where we were headed.  Meanwhile, I gazed from the right side of the train towards the distant snow-blanketed hills against the dark, dark blue sky.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of January 18, 2005, technically January 19, 2005</title>
	  <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#dahlia</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I could see Alcatraz and Yerba Buena Island under the bright, but overcast, sky as I stood near the Oakland landing of the Bay Bridge's east span.  The place where I was standing looked like an open area with scattered crates among port warehouses.  A crowd of light-skinned Chicanos (if that's an okay term to use) stood scattered evenly across this open area, and they all faced me while standing with their feet apart and their arms rigidly stretched downward at angles to their sides.  It seemed as though they were in a pose for getting ready to fight.  And then they began dancing in sync, as though it was some sort of musical or music video.  And they danced very well, with intense facial expressions to match their dance.  Suddenly, I found myself running after one of these young men because he apparently had taken something that belonged to me.  We were no longer in the warehouse area near the ports in Oakland.  Instead, I was running up the stairs from an underground subway station, through a greenish-blue glass-tube that stuck out of the ground and served as a connection between the sidewalk at the ground level and the underground station.  I ran after him down the sidewalk by a row of stores.  He ran into a store and hid, and (because I didn't record this dream until a month and a half later) I only remember something about soccer, a box of board games, and rain for the rest of the dream.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of January 9, 2005, technically January 10, 2005</title>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#daffodil</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[The entire island nation had been taken over devil spirits, although the only form in which we could see this happening was through the military.  Everyone stayed indoors as though the entire civilian population was under house arrest.  Military convoy trucks and jeeps were parked on the streets, including my own street downsloping to the beach.  From probably a third or fourth story window, I could see down this street and all the way to the shore.  I suddenly found myself in a scene where I was on that beach at the end of my street, and everyone was fleeing in various directions as the military seemed to chase these people, including me.  The beach had aloe-vera-like plants bordering the sand and the green plants inland.  Suddenly, I found myself as viewer, but not a participant, overlooking a young woman hiding on a high support beam near the ceiling.  It must've been at least thirty feet above the floor.  Below was a dark red carpet and walls in the style of a medieval castle.  The door opened, and something evil entered, and the woman on the beam threw a wooden something at that evil entity.  I don't remember what the evil entity looked like, or whether there was even something visible.  I then found myself, still as only a viewer, heading through those doors and through the hallways and hallway steps, where I passed many people murmuring.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of January 8, 2005, technically January 9, 2005</title>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 9 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#coralbell</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[There was a tall leafless tree trunk that suddenly opened two bark lids to reveal orange-colored eyes that looked as though they were made of sap.  The eyes hinted a mix of anger and impatience.  Then the camera/view zoomed out and upward into the air, with the tree's eyes still fixed on the camera.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of January 6, 2005, technically January 7, 2005 (possible recurring dream)</title>
	  <pubDate>Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#coral</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[As I was returning from a large grassy sports field on a forest hill trail overlooking that field behind me, I passed by the Stevenson cross-country team in their green warm-up uniforms.  Some were standing around and stretching, and the others were running in the direction opposite to me.  I established eye contact with some of the stretching runners as I passed by, and the look in their eyes seemed to suggest that maybe I was no longer welcome.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of January 5, 2005, technically January 6, 2005</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#cedar</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was skiing on the ocean water surface, and I was heading towards a large closely-packed group of tall glaciers jutting high out of the water.  Beside me were a few other fellow skiers, and we were all skiing rapidly towards the glaciers and away from a large wave (or an abnormally high swell) about 100 feet high.  By the time I was skiing between the glaciers, the swell had reached us, and the water level had risen to 100 feet high.  That height was about the same height as the top of the glaciers, and my fellow skiers and I ended up stopping on the top of the glaciers.  The water then retreated back to its original levels, so we were all stranded on the top of the 100 feet high glaciers.  Because the glaciers' sides sloped very steeply down, there was no way to safely get down to the bottom of the glacier, unless I didn't mind plummeting 100 feet into the water.  One of my fellow skiers told me that it was okay, and that I had nothing to worry about.  Suddenly I was in a classroom where many other skiers (but in regular everyday clothes) were preparing to present their ski-loop-track projects.  It was a lot like the rollercoaster version for skiers.  Upon realizing that I didn't have a project ready to present, I panicked.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of December 30, 2004, technically December 31, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#camellia</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was looking over a city constructed entirely out of Lego pieces, and this city was built on a square shaped area.  At the edge of one side, there was just enough empty space for a second main road to parallel the existing main road (also parallel to that edge).  Someone told me to build that second road and turn it into a boulevard.  I then tried to fit an arc over the road, but it was too low for any cars to pass underneath.  Then I spent an unnecessarily long time trying to make the street lamps symmetrically placed while being spaced out evenly.
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All the U.S. state flags stood in a line before me, but then I noticed that all the flags were solid tan colored with no designs or patterns.  Then someone beside me told me that one of the flags was not solid tan, but instead was in its original form, and that was Nevada's.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of December 18, 2004, technically December 19, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#birch</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[Large horse-drawn carriages (but without the horses) were scattered across the city.  A yellowish light came from the four large windows of each of these twenty-people, four-wheeled things.  Each of these carriages was arc-shaped on the tops, and they had a rather lavish European carving style on the body.  The front and back looked the same because they were horizontally symmetrical.  The one I remember the most was the one disappearing over the start of the downsloping paved asphalt road, just before passing under the yellow light of a street lamp.  It was a quiet night, and these carriages were the only things on the empty streets.  This seemed to be a residential community.  And it seemed as though these carriages were rushing and competing against each other to find something.  A treasure hunt, perhaps?  Then I found myself by a wall on a railroad station platform.  A train was passing by the platform, but it was moving extremely slowly.  At the same time, metallic non-humanoid robots (on the platform) were firing heavy iron pellets, bullets, and artillery shells at the passing armored passenger train cars, especially the last car.  I could see three of these robots/machines around me (two were on my right, and one was in front of me between the train and me).  In front of me to my left was a girl, who stood closer to the wall.  She was also in the same dilemma as me - confused about being caught in the crossfire.  Of the two robots on my right, one looked like some type of artillery vehicle with a long, narrow, cylindrical gun sticking out at an angle in the direction of its target, and the other looked partially humanoid (in that it had two legs, but no clearly defined separation between the head and torso).  This second one had arms too, and with those arms, it held a strange looking rifle that looked like two black metallic bars connected at a joint in the center (no trigger).  One of these bars had uniformly spread out holes the size of a half-dollar coin by design.  Suddenly, another robot identical to this second partially humanoid robot began malfunctioning and started firing counterclockwise from the train to me.  Bits of wall debris flew off the wall as holes were made on the wall at points increasingly closer to me.  The girl saved me from these bullets right before they reached me, but I can't remember how.  I grabbed one of these strange weapons from one of the partially humanoid robots, and I aimed at a window on the last car of the train.  From where I stood (maybe twenty feet away from the side of the train), I could see two male adult military scientists through the windows of the last car.  I aimed through the second to the last window, and fired a pellet through the window.  It hit one of the men's chest (but didn't penetrate anything), and he fell backwards onto the floor and out of view from the window.  The other man immediately hid from the windows.  The girl then picked up one of the rifles too.  That's all I remember.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of December 12, 2004, technically December 13, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#basil</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[Daddy and Karen relaxed on either a futon or a very contemporary couch with very tilted backing.  It was either lime-colored or orange-colored, and beside the love seat portion of the couch set was a glossy white half-egg-shaped chair that you would think came from the 1970's.  (Think of the top third of the "egg shell" as cut off, and then one side of the "egg shell" looks as though it has been sliced from the top center at an angle (with concave up curvature) to the bottom of that one side.  Below the egg portion of the chair was a metallic-looking pole with a short, wide cone (also metallic-looking) as the base.)  This egg chair and the love seat portion of the couch set were perpendicular to the long part of the couch on which Daddy and Karen were sitting.  A low contemporary coffee table of translucent white color and rectangular tabletop dimensions stood inside the L shape that the couches and egg chair created.  To the right of the L shape (when looking at the L from above such that the L is upright), there was a counter that was part of a rectangular opening in the white wall.  I think that the room on the other side of this opening in the wall was a kitchen, also of contemporary design.
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<a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dream_dec12_04.gif">Microsoft Paint drawing of furniture</a>]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of December 10, 2004, technically December 11, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#aurora</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was sitting on a sleek, smooth black couch beside this girl about my age.  She had lovely red hair and fair skin, and she had this look on her face that made me feel very comfortable and sad at the same time, as though some wonderful memory coming back to me from the past was causing pain.  Although nothing really happened in this dream, the thing that really captured my attention was the feel, the theme,...the mood of the place - the room, the girl softly speaking soothing words to me...  The room itself had a very soft, soothing feel.  It had only whites and blacks and dark, dark browns inside.  The walls were white, the couch was black, and the frames along the walls were black.  The couch lay against the wall, and on that portion of the wall above the couch was a wide, narrow rectangular window that let soft white sunlight into the room (emphasis on white, not yellowish, sunlight).  Fifteen to twenty-five feet away from the couch (in the direction that the couch was facing) was an indoor balcony (about eight to ten feet above the solid floor).  The balcony was mostly black, and like everything else in the room, there was no obvious texture to the material.  Then again, the entire room was not brightly lit by sunlight.  A late, late afternoon type of sunlight was coming through the windows, and everywhere else in the room - the corners, the other walls far from the sunlight - were in shadows.  Around the balcony area were at least a couple bookshelves with seemingly old books with dark colors (dark red, dark yellow, dark brown...even darker because they were in shadows too).  That gave the balcony area (and only the balcony area...not the rest of the room below) an old, rare books library section kind of feel.  Back down in the rest of the room below, there were some black stairs (just stairs and support, no rails, no walls, almost nothing underneath the stairs) leading down along the wall (the one with the window) to a point several feet away from the side of the couch.
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Oh, and I think that the girl with red hair might have been someone I know, but now I can't remember for sure who.
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<a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dream_dec10_04.gif">Microsoft Paint drawing of room</a> 
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Edit: Eddie pointed out something very important that I overlooked.  The white sunlight I saw in the dream would actually be more accurately described by mid-morning sunlight.  The large contrast between the shadowy areas of the room and the brightly lit areas of the room, however, remains.]]></description>
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	  <title>December 9, 2004 (Late Morning)</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#aspen</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I saw the view from inside a moving car at night.  The car's headlights lit up every next thing in front of it as it drove through dark roads in the more sparse residential areas of the tree-dense hills.  Suddenly, I was seeing a boy, maybe in his late teens, skateboarding in a lit room (still at nighttime).  He skateboarded indoors from room to room, hallway to hallway, and always seeming to almost start a dangerous trick (but choosing not to every time).  At this point where the room turned into a narrow hallway, he finally decided to do a skateboard trick.  But during the part of the trick where he tried to push the bottom of the skateboard against the wall in mid-air, he suddenly lost balance in mid-air and slammed his leg and knee into the wall before immediately bouncing back and down to the ground.  The boy screamed in pain as the skateboard still rattled on the ground from the fall.  A younger boy, likely a brother, watched from several feet away while giving him this look that seemed to say, "I told you so."]]></description>
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	  <title>November 23, 2004 Late Morning</title>
	  <pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#anemone</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[Daddy, Mommy, Karen, and I were driving to a BART station in one of the Bay Area cities further from the East Bay, and we drove in some industrial-looking area with railroad crossings.  Apparently, we were driving to a farther station, instead of a local one, because of some sort of advantage for the bay ferry we wanted to board, (or was it a cable car?).
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I entered a classroom for my Physics 7B discussion, but the classroom was one from C.C.S.  It had the wall of windows on one side and the chalkboard on the opposite side, while a third wall also had a chalkboard.  The session had not begun yet, and I was one of the first several people to trickle into the classroom in the few minutes before the start of class.  I did not recognize either the students or the T.A.  I left the room before the session started, and I immediately saw my actual Physics 7B discussion T.A. walking from around the corner (from the right-side corner in my perspective) and down the hallway toward me.  In another room nearby, we discussed the learning of Physics through homeworks, labs, and worksheets.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of November 20, 2004, technically November 21, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#alyssum</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[Daddy, Mommy, Karen, and I were told to step aside at the customs/security area in an airport somewhere in the United Kingdom (either one of the airports in London or Scotland).  A second family had been brought aside too, and both that family and our family had our bags checked.  The staff was quickly done checking through our bags, but by some strange rule or law, we were forced to wait where we were until the second family's bags had been completely checked.  (And they had four or five times as much luggage as us.)  So we waited and waited and waited.
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The airport terminal had a feeling of dark marble and dark stone to it.  It seemed to have a rather nice, new design, the kind you'd see in a museum.
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Suddenly, I found myself in a bedroom.  Sharon was sitting on the bed by the wall, and I sat beside her and rested my head on her shoulder.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of November 19, 2004, technically November 20, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld3.html#acacia</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was in a tub having a bath, and suddenly one girl my age joined me on the other side of the tub.  But she seemed to do so without making eye contact, and she entered the water slowly and without uttering a word to me.  Even after she was entirely in the water, she did not establish eye contact with me, and she instead had her head tilted slight downward in a seemingly sad or modest way.  And then another two girls joined in, but I don't remember actually seeing that part, probably because I was so distracted and curious about that first girl's behavior.  I just somehow knew that they came.  It seemed physically impossible for four people to be in one bath tub, but somehow it worked.
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I was in Hearst Field Annex on the left side (to the student's perspective) of a lab room, with a layout like that of D33 or D37.  I was sitting at a table by the window, and Sharon was sitting beside me.  We were in a CS class, and the class was reviewing recursion.  (As far as I know, Sharon doesn't take CS.  Or even if she does, I haven't taken a CS class with her before.)
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I was in a lecture room that had a layout very similar to LeConte's lecture rooms.  I was a bit late for some sort of review for a Physics 7 course.  In the fourth or fifth to the last of the rows from the top, I sat with Karen and her roommates from Cal.  (Karen and her roommates either aren't in Physics 7, or haven't taken it yet.)]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of November 9, 2004, technically November 10, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#polaris</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was in a room for three, and it looked like the type of small living quarters you'd see in a submarine, with a very metallic look to everything in the room.  I shared the room with two other people, one of them being Christine.  I left the room for a moment and briefly went to another room down the hall, and when I came back, there were all these FBI-like agents scattered all over the room and using devices to sniff and detect who-knows-what in the room.  The head agent spoke to me to explain what was going on.  I don't remember what he said.  Suddenly, they began flooding the room from the floor upward, with everyone still standing inside.  Water slowly rose upward, and then they stopped after about 1 feet deep of water because they realized that "it might cause water damage to the equipment and desk items in the room".  I figured that all my clothes in my bed drawers were water-damaged already.  And then I suddenly found myself in what looked like a department store, although I had a strong feeling that the original room had merely magically expanded and turned into some nice clothing section with warm, soft lighting.  They were giving out clothes in a pile on the floor, and the clothes seemed to be from the "lost and found".  They actually looked stolen to me.  I found my Dhahran gym shorts in that pile.  Some of the nicer "lost and found" clothes were being sold on clothes racks with hangers, and all my closet clothes (which were not for sale, and which they weren't selling) were hanging on a clothes rack among these clothes racks.  Not surprisingly, customers started looking at my not-for-sale clothes, which looked much nicer than the lost and found clothes on the adjacent clothes racks.  So I stood desperately by that clothes rack to prevent any customers from making that mistake.  I tried to wave to someone at the other side of the room to help me out, since I didn't want to leave the clothes rack.  When a department store staff member finally came, I turned around to point out the problem, but all the clothes racks were gone.  Instead, the entire department store had been rearranged.  I could only see new products.  And I awoke.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of October 24, 2004, technically October 25, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#scorpius</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I forgot most of my dream, but it involved a setting of beige-cream colored european buildings (French or Dutch perhaps?) with outdoor tables and people playing cards...sections of sunlit areas in the narrow areas between buildings...a conversation within one of the houses, and this house was a modest-looking one indoors...and then another setting of a cold, seemingly overcast sky over a skyscraper-height diving board over a large empty pool below...and someone stood still at the top, looking down, pondering.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of October 22, 2004, technically October 23, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#virgo</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was either the driver or the passenger of a tour bus speeding across a long empty bridge in dark stormy weather.  With every flash of lightning, the entire dark gray cloud-filled sky lit into view.  And upon every flash of lightning, I could take a one-second glimpse of the towers of the suspension bridge, which otherwise looked merely like a black silhouette.  The suspension bridge had at least four towers, but it probably had a number closer to ten.  Each tower had several thin vertical cylindrical beams ending just a short height above the road section at each tower.  Something was chasing us, and my vehicle was making surprisingly great speed as it made sports car engine sounds instead of the usual tour bus engine sounds.  At the end of the bridge where the road finally connected to land, I suddenly found myself outside of the bus and being walked into someone's car.  I was captured.  (And then I don't remember what happened here.)  Suddenly, I found myself in a food line for the needy, and once my turn in line came, the lady asked me for my identification to prove that I was of the needy.  I wasn't, and I consequently didn't have identification.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of October 17, 2004, technically October 18, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#littledipper</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[Setting: Downstairs in my old house in Oakland, near the open doorway of the bedroom (near the living room), with a wall and a short hallway where the bedroom closet would normally be.
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A team of men in their 20s to 30s stood around, scattered and waiting for something or someone.  Many of the men had dark facial hair, but the short kind that has only been given one day to grow.  A man with a similar facial appearance description returned to the team from somewhere else, and he furiously complained to the rest of the team about his recent discovery that they were not being paid for their mission.  This quickly turned into an argument among the most powerful few people in the group, to the point where the leader drew a handgun and pointed it at the second-in-command man.  Other handguns were immediately drawn by the others at each other, and the arguments grew louder and tenser until the leader fired the first shot.  Shots were exchanged, and the head doctor on the team, who was with the other doctors in the hallway, pulled out a handgun unexpectedly and began firing at his companions in the hallway.
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Suddenly, I was in a completely white mall with snowy winter sunlight falling through the large glass windows on the ceiling.  The entire mall gave me the feeling of an ice theme.  Instead of escalators, there were grooved, black moving walkways slanted at angles upwards, and these walkways had low ice ceilings (from walkways directly overhead).  On one of the floors, tall, thin windows let some light in on the marble walls and marble floors.  In the center of the large open area stood a line of nervous female and male senators dressed up in business suits.  A couple of men walked down the line of senators and picked numerous of them from the line.  They were being picked to involuntarily test some sort of fruit juices (especially orange juice) that were known to do terrible things to a person.  Somehow, Karen and I ended up involuntarily testing the juices too.  We were all strapped to dentist chairs, where each of us writhed as we were fed the juices.  After only a few minutes, I somehow came out of my chair, went to the sales counter, and told them that I wanted to leave.  The lady behind the counter agreed, but she immediately demanded a 15 dollar payment for leaving early.  Later outside, I joined Karen, who came out later than me.  When I asked her if she had been charged 15 dollars too, she said that she had been charged too.  Seemingly out of nowhere, Julie Wu and her brother appeared, and we walked with them up a moving walkway as I talked about what the horrible juice testing that I had just experienced.  They said that they had done the testing before too, and they agreed about the experience being horrible.  Suddenly, I found myself walking into the front entrance of the mall from outside the mall.  There were large, tall glass windows amidst white frames.  Then there was a second wall, also white, where that led into the mall, and I entered.]]></description>
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	  <title>October 12, 2004, Late Morning (Right Before Noon)</title>
	  <pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#bigdipper</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was in my house in Oakland, and there was this SF Chronicle subscription letter that I turned down.  The next day, that subscription ad became a physical entity that haunted me by following me everywhere like some huge burden and threatening my life as I walked outside between classrooms on a grassy field.  Later that night, I tried in vain to escape and get rid of that subscription ghost, which was still trying to take my life.  It finally followed me down the stairs and out the door into the backyard, where I slammed the door and shut it outside.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of October 7, 2004, technically October 8, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Fri, 8 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#leo</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I came out of an E77 discussion in an underground classroom with fluorescent lighting, and rose to the ground level, where I found myself in a dreamy blurred quiet suburb environment with narrow asphalt roads lined by foliage-abundant trees that seemed to form a canopy over the narrow road from both sides of that road.  Light, refreshing droplets from a light rain shower, more like condensation instead of a shower, were slowly and quietly blurring the calm environment as though everything from the trees to the road were merely a splash of colors on a canvas.  And then I lightly ran/skipped across the cool, moist road in bare feet.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of September 11, 2004, technically September 12, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#taurus</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was biking up a hill with Karen.  We were on a trail on the edge of a cliff over the rocky beach below and to the right of us, and we could see the completely orange/red sunset sky all around us as we biked up the trail.  Over the top of the trail and in the distance over the horizon of the ocean, we could see the setting sun about two thumbnails away from the horizon.  When I was almost at the top, I saw a large house directly to the left of me.  It was bordering the trail.  The house had large glass windows that provided a great panoramic view of the water, and the splash of orange and red colors from the sunset sky reflected a little off the windows.  Then I noticed Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey in the house.  It sounded like they just had a light argument.  Jessica was changing, and she was nude.  Then another woman in the household appeared in my view, and when Nick came out, suddenly the three began arguing over something.  After a while, Jessica was trying to fend off two pairs of female leather boots in midair trying to kick her to death.  She screamed and thrashed her arms to keep the kicking boots away.  She kept backing and backing up until she was stuck in either a changing room or a bathroom stall.  She tried holding the door shut as the boots were trying to kick their way in.  The boots seemed to be able to only hover and move at the same height - about the neck level.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of September 5, 2004, technically September 6, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 6 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#gemini</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was downstairs in my old house (next to the laundry machines), and, in a hurry to join my family outside the garage to move somewhere else, I stuffed socks in my old baby Fisher Price plastic dresser.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of September 4, 2004; technically September 5, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#auriga</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was in my old house in Oakland, except that the layout of the rooms and stairs inside the house was different.  There were large windows by the stairs (the stairs being in the top-half/bottom-half opposite-direction layout).  Through those windows, I could see our lawn, and the remaining scattered grass was dry and grayish green.  From the dirt I saw all over the uneven lawn, I could see that people had been doing some digging with the dirt, as though they were going to replace the grass.  Suddenly, I saw Professor Harley, a civil engineering professor, and I can't remember if I spoke to him on the stairs about the digging/landscaping project on our lawn.  I don't think that the digging was authorized.  As the sky grew darker as sunset approached, I kept wanting to follow all the people who left my house to the nearby fast food place because it was going to close at 8 pm.  But I was continuously held back in my house by civil engineering people.  At 8 pm, I was finally able to leave the house and head quickly over to the food place.  But by the time I entered the fast food place, it was closed.  So I wandered around the edge of the adjacent suburb community.  Someone joined me in my wandering, but I can't remember who.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of July 13, 2004, technically July 14, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#centaurus</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[Ms. Grogan called me for photography.  I found myself on a C.C.S. rooftop, but it was a brick-red roof of Mediterranean style, and the building had Dhahran-style creamy beige walls.  I could see the crowd below in the courtyard, and then I walked into a booth hidden on the roof.  Griffin was there, and the place suddenly seemed like a radio station booth.
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In my head, I was comparing the black Canon Powershot G5 with a silver Nikon Coolpix 4300.  I had a strong preference toward the Canon because of instant shots and the sleek black look.  (And in reality (outside the dream), I didn't actually know much about the Canon Powershot G5.)]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of July 12, 2004, technically July 13, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#dorado</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[A substitute teacher fired rounds into the classroom's ceiling (the kind with white-beige styrofoam tiles with little holes in them) every time after asking each student a question.  He was actually trying to fire at the students, or at least make it look like he was, but he was missing by quite a bit.
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People were trying to hunt and capture an intellectual Big Brother Bear, and a female bear adversary was being led by two male humans in this hunt for the male bear.  The second male human followed behind the other.  The hunt moved on further into the forest, and the male bear hid behind a log, and they slowly closed in.
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It was a dark night, and there was a grassy field by the road.  There was a resistance to people who wanted to make kitchen products out of us people.
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In a kitchen, by a refrigerator, a lady told me that she was made of salt and pepper shaker tops that were made of the tops of my and my sister's heads.  I said, "Whatever", or something that showed that I no longer cared.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of July 6, 2004, technically July 7, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#andromeda</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I approached a big guy (large build, black hair) who was a friend of mine (reminds me of Bo) in the locker room.  We began talking about something that seemed to be about one of my current problems.  Then he told me to try on his green XXL fleece and began to put over my shoulders.  I refused, but finally gave in.  Afterwards, I gave him a hug (he was much taller than me at this point).  And then I walked into some gym (or maybe it was still part of the locker room) that had a narrow walkway area by a line of windows.  Sun beams gently fell through the windows, and from the view from these windows, I could tell that I was on the 2nd or 3rd story.  Suddenly, I was outside at the start of a gradual downsloping dirt field.  The sky was bleakly dark with dark gray clouds, and I stood near the end of a line of (presumably) soldiers facing the enemy's line of (presumably) soldiers.  The other side was supposedly evil, or at least that's the impression people felt from their appearance.  Lines of rails (similar to those for trains) ran between and perpendicular to both lines of armies.  Because we were slightly uphill, we had an advantage, and I found myself launching the first cart of hidden explosives down the rail and down the slope.  The enemies at the other side (about 100 to 200 feet away) were grunting defiantly as the cart rolled towards them.  When the cart neared them, it ignited.  And other carts began to follow down the hill on other rails from our side.  Suddenly, I was in a girl's dorm.  She had black hair; she seemed to be Asian.  Somehow, I realized that I was at Stanford (I've never actually seen much of Stanford, but the dream seems to have told me that it was indeed that place).  I couldn't tell if it was a single room or double room, because I thought I saw a second bed in my peripheral vision, but I wasn't entirely sure.  By one wall stood the bed (not large enough to be a queen sized, but definitely larger than a single bed), and by the other wall stood the desk.  A lamp on the desk was lit, but it was still daytime.  There were some plastic organizer drawer thingers by her bed (right side, if you're facing the bed from the desk side).  And she had lots of belongings in the room, but they were neatly organized against the wall by her bed (in organizers and the night stand) or under her bed.  The door was on the left (on the desk side) when facing the bed from the desk side.  And that door led to a hallway.  Opposite the wall with the door was a window that some daylight into the room, but most of the daylight was blocked by Venetian blinds.  Yet, the room had soothing soft lighting by her lamps, and her room had a comfy feel to it.  So we spoke, and I ended up discovering that she was my cousin.  But I'd never seen her before.  It also turned out that she had gone to the same high school as me too, for a very short while anyway, and I had never known.  She withdrew from the school early in her first year there because she was having some trouble with being mistreated there.  Somewhere in her room, I spotted a photo of a small grassy hill/field with a profile going up and down and up down and evenly scattered cross country runners wearing my high school's green uniform running across the field (right to left in the photo).  A girl passing by in the hallway glanced at both of us and gave me a disapproving glare and walked on.  Then i found out that she was from my mom's side of the family.  And then there was speculation that perhaps she was not a cousin, but a quasi-sister from some second family that i didn't know about.  Ooo...what drama.  Then I bid her farewell and walked through the hallways of (supposedly) stanford.  (I saw Ms. Meranze in the hallway.  She ended up working here after leaving my high school, in this dream anyway.)  The lighting of all the rooms made everything look golden.  There seemed to be a lot of beautiful Spanish style architecture around, and there was this round room with a golden-color design on the floor, with a marble table (one leg in the center) with large plate of fruits on the tabletop.  Hallways branched out from this circular room, and to my left, through a hallway branching out from this room (and across a perpendicular hallway), I saw another room with prep-school-looking boys dressed very nicely with a mix of formal and casual.  They seemed to be enjoying themselves on a couch in another golden-color lit room.  I exited onto the steps leaving the whole building complex.  I found myself in a desert urban environment that reminded me of some of the large empty sand lots with surrounding white buildings in Khobar.  Two white taxis by the steps were entered by two separate customers, and both taxis departed.  I looked toward the large empty avenue on my right.  There seemed to be a few palm trees lining a small section of the avenue, about fifty feet away from me.  Then a voice that sounded like my dad's told me that it was better to wait for taxis by those trees on the avenue.  So I began walking towards that area.  Halfway there, I heard gunfire, and I realized that I was being shot at.  So I began running (still in the same direction towards the trees), and I was hit a couple times.  I slowed down and slowed down...]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of July 2, 2004, technically July 3, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 3 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#orion</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[Karen and I were somewhere in India on a green grassy field (with a line of higher grassy ground stretching before me by my left).  There were people scattered all over the field and having picnics or flying kites or playing soccer.  Suddenly, as I looked into the air, volleyballs of all sorts of colors were being kicked high into the air at random intervals from random parts of the park.  I watched each volleyball lingering high in the air and watched fearfully as each volleyball came down to crush me.  Either the volleyballs were truly of deadly weight, or I was merely thinking it.  Still, I dodged each falling volleyball as they slammed into the grass all around me and elsewhere across the park.  Then, I took out my camera and asked Karen to stand on the higher ground.  I told her to get ready to catch the volleyball I was going to throw high into the air, presumably so that I could take a photo of the ball before she caught it.  But I kept missing.  The ball went to far.  Too close.  Too low.  Towards my feet.  The volleyballs were extremely heavy.  It felt as though I was trying to get bowling balls airborne.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of June 30, 2004, technically July 1, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 1 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#pegasus</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I dreamt about shining a flashlight in Casper the Friendly Ghost's face, along with the faces of all his other friends circling overhead.  I also dreamt about a war between Lego people in Lego fortresses (colorful ones, I might add).]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of June 25, 2004, technically June 26, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#aquarius</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[An man with evil intent had gone into the lower level of some tiny petrol/chemical plant (about the size of two to four large lifeguard towers together) upon the top of one of the green, grassy mountain tops in Austria.  A girl was trying to stop this man, and it soon became apparent that she was Maria from The Sound of Music, especially when she gave up on trying to stop the man and began frolicking and singing over every hilltop in the mountain range valley below (also green and grassy).  Suddenly, Maria was in Germany.  I simply knew that it was Germany.  There was no proof.  The town's name started with a T and had "j" as the third letter.  In this town, she came upon a man (probably in his 20's), and it turned out that he and Maria had known each other since their early childhoods.  They both boarded a train to Austria and climbed back to the tiny isolated chemical plant atop that green, grassy hill overlooking the valley in the mountain range.  There, Maria, now with a companion, once again challenged the evil man upon the hill.  The evil man upon the hill seemed well-dressed and intelligent...in fact...he was...Captain Von Trapp!  (End of story.)]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of June 23, 2004, technically June 24, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#chi</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[Oh, and I had various dreams again, but I suppose I'll finally spare one from eternal oblivion.  (Think of the newest Peter Pan movie, not the cartoon version.)  Young Peter Pan departed his cottage and began battling large frogs (or were they toads?) the size of full grown humans.  After a series of frog fights, he encountered a large lazy frog with a smooth chin (or whatever that part is called on a frog).  Both Peter and the frog stood facing each other, but at a distance.  They were both waist-deep in water (pretend that frogs have waists).  Faded out / or Gordon's memory failure.  It's night time, and suddenly, Peter was stopping and rolling under a series of large incandescent-lit theater curtains with the American flag printed on them.  But he was rolling as if those curtains were a line of rising and falling axes.  After a few of these rising and falling "axes", Peter bumped into Wendy.  As usual, she had brown hair and a blue dress, but she was a cartoon drawn in Super Mario 1985 style (no white in the eyes and all...almost like Bambi eyes though).  Peter seemed surprised, and Wendy pushed Peter backwards until he fell off a cliff...to save his life?  End of dream.  (Nice going, Wendy.  Jeez.)]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of June 17, 2004, technically June 18, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#omega</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was walking with Griffin towards some large building housing an acting organization/school.  We had some place in there in mind that we wanted to visit, but instead we were both distracted by a glimpse of a large group of silent actors (not mimes) looking as though they were doing interpretive dances on the auditorium stage.  I approached the large red curtain (stage right of the stage) and gently parted a sliver between the heavy curtains to take a look.  Then Griffin began joking about how he'd really like to see me acting, and he nudged me.  As I began falling between the curtain opening, I wildly tried to put both of my feet back on the ground, and by the time I did, I found myself several feet away from the curtain and on the stage.  The acting instructor, whose watch over her students I had interrupted, turned and looked at me.  She made me perform a two-minute act, freestyle, at the corner by the stage and the curtain, slightly away from her other students, who were still busily performing quiet dances/stretches independently of each other.  So I pretended to be an archer, but doing that for two minutes proved to look extremely stupid to me, and long before my two minutes were over, the instructor's gaze had already fallen away from me from a lack of interest.  After my two minutes were over, I told her I was an archer, and she impatiently replied saying, "Yes, yes.  I know.  Plenty of people have done that one."  I walked away ashamed and incompetent, but I rejoined Griffin and felt better again.]]></description>
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	  <title>Some Night Between June 7, 2004 and June 17, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#psi</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[Nobody remembered me when I entered through the front entrance of my high school cafeteria (RLS cafeteria).  Nikko and Bryan Weimer remembered though.  I ate churros from a churros machine placed where the salad bar used to be.  One by one, I took and ate a churro until the staff finally wheeled the churros machine away from me.  I walked behind the fireplace where the two single-person bathrooms used to be.  Instead of the familiar wall and bathroom doors, however, I came before a large and long hallway with tiny rectangular windows across the top of the wall to my right.  Sunlight came in through those windows, and I continued down the hall until I could make a left.  At this left turn lay a restroom/changing room designed for locker rooms by any swimming pool.  I suddenly heard footsteps behind me, and I did a lousy job of hiding myself and turned around.  (End of dream).]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of March 31, 2004, technically April 1, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#phi</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[From a house on a slope at the edge of a city, I suddenly saw a strange cloud begin to form from the horizon. Within seconds, the cloud formed a mushroom shape cloud, and my fear of nuclear bombs took over me. I lost control and panicked, and into the house I ran. I uselessly ran from room to room, trying to avoid further exposure to radiation while finding some necessities to pack for the trip away from the blast. The blast was far away enough so that no damage was brought upon this part of the city, aside from the radiation.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of March 27, 2004, technically March 28, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#upsilon</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[It was night time, and I stood on a road by a three-story building complex on the slope of a hill.  It was a wooden building with wooden columns. In fact, it looked like a three-story, zig-zagging version of Talbott Hall in Stevenson School. At the base of the slope was a valley, which was bordered on both sides by slopes.  Down in the valley, a battle was occurring, and as I walked down the outside hall at the edge of the building complex, I approached the edge of the flat top part of the hill before the start of the downhill slope.  At this edge, I approached a small group of troops in uniforms that looked black and gold in the night.  I had approached them with their backs to me, and as I drew near, they all slowly turned to face me. The group of troops was led by Emily Su, who had more gold color on her uniform than the rest of the troops.  They all had swords on their belts, and they all seemed ready to head down the slope and join the battle in the valley.  Emily Su said some wise words and gave me one of her swords.  Then away they went, likely down the hill.  I wandered down the outside walkways of the building complex and looked inside the empty classrooms as I walked by.  Then I approached a few rooms with lights on.  Inside one of these rooms were a few students sitting at the desks, which were lined up along the walls and facing inward.  There were bags here and there, and the bags seemed large enough to serve as overnight bags.  The majority of the students in the room were asleep, and the rest lay very still.  I had been in that room earlier, and I was sitting at the desk at the center of the wall opposite the windows.  I walked on.  Suddenly, I was in the valley, but I was outside the edge of the battle.  Poon was in a uniform that looked somewhat like that of a samurai.  However, he held a foil for fencing.  A small group of people stood behind us, and they must've been ready to join the battle as well.  Then Poon and I began walking briskly while swordfighting slightly for practice as we walked (him with his foil and me with my sword).  Then we broke into a charge, made a battle cry, and accelerated towards the battle scene.  People to the side of us (on our slope) watched as we charged.  We charged and charged, and the dream ended there.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of March 26, 2004, technically March 27, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#tau</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I'm in this plaza or square that reminds me of Trafalgar Square. The sky is overcast, and almost everywhere I look, it's gray or white. There's a lake or canal (can't remember which) and the cement plaza borders it in a straight line. There's also a gray stone column, medium height, near me in the plaza. There are people here and there in the background, and pigeons are scattered across the plaza. I'm walking with Christine up the steps, and we're waiting for Griffin to come out of an old gray library, with columns along the sides, bordering the plaza. Suddenly it's night time. I've just fallen off the pier into harbor, but I'm inside a big styrofoam cup that extends from the surface of the water (where the rim sticks out of the water and doesn't let water in) into water and towards the sea floor. I'm panicking, and I fear drowning. There's a crack that goes straight down the cup that I'm in, and I know that it can easily open. If it does open, water would rush in and drown me in no time. Then a girl's voice (likely my sister's) yells down to me and tells me to simply use the two flaps coming out of the crack (think of the crack as a crease) to climb out...comma, stupid, she adds at the end. So I do, and she helps me out.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of Feb 15, 2004, technically Feb 16, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#sigma</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[There was a man in a seminar room behind a podium.  He held an empty wet martini glass and a fencing foil in one hand.  With his other hand, he gestured at the audience and back towards his other hand.  He pointed to a metallic object on the left rear side of the room (from the perspective of the audience).  The object might have been a silver metallic chair of futuristic design.  I can't remember.  Next to the metallic chair was another large object, which was a hollow metallic object, as far as I recall.  Beside these two objects was a rectangular window with a greater height than width.  The presenter then somehow made a ringing sound with the objects in his hand, and this ringing sound's frequency had the same, or a close, frequency as the metallic objects.  We observed the effects of resonance on the objects.  Then the presenter adjusted the frequency of the sounds he made with the foil and the martini glass, and the two metallic objects in the back of the room vibrated and rippled violently.  Suddenly, the window began rattling, and a crack in the center of the window formed and immediately spread outward in a circle for a second.  And then it stopped.  Everyone in the audience gasped.  "Haha," the presenter said.  And he held his fencing foil vertically with the tip upward.  "I have a foil."  Right after this moment, several people scattered among the audience stood up one by one with fencing foils in their hands too, and they also faced their tips upward with the foils before their own faces.  These were people who happened to be part of a theater group ready for some event after this seminar.  "I challenge you!" the presenter exclaimed, and the people in the audience who had foils approached him one at a time to challenge him.]]></description>
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	  <title>Feb 12, 2004; Noon</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#rho</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[My granddad drove me down the SF peninsula to a rehab. hospital.  There, I visited an older relative or family member.  I don't remember which.  Then came this event inside or outside near the hospital, and I vaguely remember what happened.  Suddenly, I found myself charged with assault from that event that I didn't remember very well.  I was in the hallway perpendicular to the hallway of my relative's room, and it was close to where the elevators were.  A security guard with a large build in a dark navy uniform spoke to me.  He did not seem intimidating at all.  In fact, he seemed very friendly, and he showed great concern for my charge.  He assured me that people faced these situations once every three years (which isn't true, of course, but this was a dream).  I also found out around this time that I was near Monterey.  After some comforting words about what was involved with the charge, a clock tower bell rang in the distance.  I looked towards setting sun out the window, and there was the Berkeley campus, although it looked more touched up and Spanish-mission-y / Rivendale (Elvish land) to me.  I turned back to look at the police officer, but he was gone.  And I realized that I was no longer south of the SF peninsula, but instead back on the Berkeley campus within a campus housing facility.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of Feb 9, 2004, technically Feb 10, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#pi</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[There was a volcano that was about to erupt at the edge of the city I was in.  We were all in danger of the "heat convection", which is a very odd way of putting it.  It turned out that I was the only one who planned to evacuate my several story condo or apartment.  I suddenly remembered this fact (this is not a true fact, seeing that this was a dream), that if I saw deer running away, that meant that an eruption was near.  And then, surprise...I saw a deer running away from the volcano towards the hill.  I packed, and I still felt awkward about the fact that nobody else was packing.  I never saw the volcano erupt.  Suddenly, I was in a boarding school dorm hallway that looked a lot like that of Day Hall.  I walked across the second story towards an old door to a familiar room upstairs.  It was around a quad.  Suddenly, I found myself outside the dorm on a grassy field.  It was a reunion party on a picnic field.  There were plenty of people doing the usual outdoor food-picnic-on-the-grass thing.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of Jan 30, technically Jan 31, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#omicron</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[My Gung Gung was in the process of moving out of the condo.  It was nearly empty, and whatever was still left inside were boxes.  He has lost his will to live.  I was also asked to take a photo for him from a bird's eye view of a little area of tiny trees on a tiny landscape (a model of a real landscape, I suppose).  <em>Explanation: A comment the evening before that the movie Lost In Translation dampened one's will to live; thoughts afterwards about Gung Gung.</em>]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of Jan 27, technically Jan 28, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#xi</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[Three assassins broke into three different windows in a tiny room while a woman protecting a guy victim by a wall of mirror got ready to fight and defend the guy.  Throwing knives and a few bullets flew all over the place.  I couldn't tell if I was either the victim or an invisible viewer, but it didn't matter because i sort of felt every knife that pierced anyone.  Oh, and there was this banquet beforehand where someone quietly asked someone else to leave the room.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of Jan 26, technically Jan 27, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#nu</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[Last night, I dreamt that I was on Wheel of Fortune, and then I was playing in a band with a haven't-played-for-awhile Alice Cooper.  I have NO idea why Alice Cooper.  I don't even listen to his music.  The mind works in strange ways.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of January 23, 2004, technically January 24, 2004</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 3000 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#mu</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[Dad was taking the family (I only actually remember seeing my dad and myself) to an obscure place in Europe with beautiful ice-capped mountains.  When I asked him about where we were, I had trouble understanding what he said.  He said something about Orlando (and an image of a map of Orlando, Florida popped up before my eyes (or in my head).  So I began thinking of this dotted lined diamond slope land within a small nation-state that was square shaped.  I kept mentioning well-known countries like Switzerland, France, and Monaco (to my dad?, or to myself?) to figure out where we were.  Suddenly, I was seeing this projected image of San Francisco on the wall, and Dad and I were standing before it.  The image of San Francisco, however was just a creation of San Francisco in the game SimCity 3000, with a viewing mode where we could only see landmarks and special buildings (no zoned buildings).  But there were some random zoned buildings that weren't hidden here and there, such as high-rise apartments.  I asked about Nob Hill on the map, and Dad pointed to it.  Among the buildings shown on the SimCity 3000 creation of S.F. was Coit Tower.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of December 26, technically December 27</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#lambda</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I sneaked between two stone walls outside a castle.  I could hear footsteps and distant commands coming from elsewhere in the castle.  Then I dashed out across the castle garden, across the grass and over the little bridge over the stream.  At the corner of the garden, I reached a dead end.  When I turned around to look behind me, I saw a king in red robes with white where his buttons and collar were.  Behind him were some royal guards and troops.  My escape seemed hopeless as they marched slowly towards me.  Suddenly, I was sitting on a folding chair among other folding chairs, and I watched a television screen with some other people I didn't know.  I have no recollection of what happened after that.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of December 20, 2003, December 21, 2003</title>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#kappa</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was an independent kid, wandering the canals of the city in my long, slim boat, which looked a lot like an old gondola worn down over the years.  The appearance of the city from the river was grim with an overall tone of grayish brown.  As I pulled my gondola towards the land on one side of the canal, I stepped off onto the raised cement platform and onto the city street.  Later in one of the stories of a several-story office building by the canal, I waited in a wide hallway with many anxious job interviewees waiting for their turn.  The hallway was perpendicular to a second short hallway that led into the office room of the boss, who was interviewing.  We could see the inside of the office through the hallway windows and the boss's office windows.  On one side, the hallway continued into another hallway, and on the other, the hallway led directly into an open area with waiting chairs and a counter.  When I was called, I entered and began the job interview.  The boss wasn't interested, and I became desperate.  I suddenly activated superpowers I did not know I had, and I began scaring the boss with a show of dangerously quick reflexes and great destructive ability.  I suddenly found myself wearing Wolverine's yellow suit, and I impressed the boss with the release of some claws out of my hands.  He asked if I could retract them, so I did.  Suddenly, I found myself walking in a garden-like environment between white columns toward a white car that looked like an old model of a Volkswagen Golf car.  When I opened the right-side backdoor, I was greeted by the parents in the front seats.  They apologized for the tight space in the back seats.  Two blonde girls in white Sunday (church or picnic) dresses were sitting on the left and middle back seats.  It WAS tight in the back, and I uncomfortably entered the car.  Later, the car stopped, and the girls exited the car.  I didn't see where they went, but I exited the car and suddenly found myself on a platform, supported by white columns, that was high above the ground.  An old lady saw me frighteningly looking down at the ground below.  "This is what civil engineers do," she said, as I looked towards her.  I don't remember what happened after that.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of Aug 8, 2003, Aug 9, 2003</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 9 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#iota</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I descended up the wide white-marble stairs and turned right to see a large lobby-looking area with a large opening in the center.  The opening in the floor showed the level below, and a continuous handrail surrounded the perimeter of the opening.  The room I was in was made in a retro architectural style.  It seemed very 1920's or 1940's.  White marble seemed to dominate the features of the room, and so did the black old-style telephones.  The booths had gold tinted iron cages through which the customer communicated with the teller or sales rep.  With the phones rining and the papers rustling and the people in 40's office suits walking around, I was figuring out that this place was a large, open office.  I crossed over to the other side of the room by going along the handrails.  A large office, probably the largest, lay at this side of the lobby-office room.  I opened the heavy black door and walked in.  An old white man with white hairs wherever he hadn't begun balding was sitting behind the desk.  He gave an impression of being an instantly respectable father-like figure, and he reminded me of my high school chaplain Dr. Woudenbourg.  Two chairs were right in front of his desk.  As I sat in the chair on the right, and my mother on the chair on my left, he examined my resume or my transcript or some type of papers that showed my academic and work progress.  I tensely watched.  He removed his spectacles (Dr. Woudenbourg doesn't wear those), placed the papers down on the table, and folded his hands while looking at me in the eyes.  He told me that there were many qualified applicants, and he seemed to imply that I was not one of them.  I felt a terrible sinking feeling.  The end.
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<a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dream_aug8_03.jpg">Computer Drawing</a>]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of Aug 7, 2003, Aug 8, 2003</title>
	  <pubDate>Fri, 8 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#theta</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[A wide, futuristic jet, in which I presume I was in, was speeding across a violent sea of lava and away from a tailing tidal wave of fiery lava.  The jet must have picked up speed because we finally lost the chasing orange wave.  Our jet approached a tropical island with a stretch of towns in ruins.  The intense heat from the lava engulfing the island had taken a heavy toll upon the buildings and plant life on the island.  Charred halves of walls of structures remained, thus giving the town areas a desolate splash of gray, tan, and black.  Few palm trees remained alive and standing, and only scattered clusters of them remained.  Sunken boats stuck partly above the water off the coast.  We were returning to our home island, and it was a heartbreaking sight to see our once-flourishing island heading towards its messy end.  The jet slowly hovered near a large building at the summit of a still-green hill.  The building was my home.  The intense heat of from the lava surrounding the island was melting parts of the house.  Creaking sounds throughout the estate reminded us that the building had very little time before the walls would cave in and cause the structure to collapse.  The building might have been made of a material other than wood, for there were no fires starting in the house.  I suddenly found myself stuck inside my bedroom when the lava flowed either under our level or under the foundation itself.  Regardless of which one it was, the floor became extremely hot, and orange showed wherever there were cracks on the floor.  In panic, a friend/family member and I stood on the desk chair and the desk surface itself.  We suddenly remembered that the desk was made of wood.  The desk began to melt, and we began to climb onto the desk's bookshelf.  The end.]]></description>
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	  <title>Night of Aug 6, 2003, Aug 7, 2003</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 7 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#eta</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[The first image I saw was the inside of a high gray cave.  No sunlight reached the inside, and there was no sunlight.
	There was word about several T-Rex's heading our way.  I suddenly found myself in a room, or a single level house.  It seemed like a condo because the front door led to a public hallway with lines of other doors like ours.  Our front door was aligned at the top of the T-intersection of perpendicular hallways.  In the hallways, people were panicking and running up and down the hallways trying to pack things and to prepare to leave.  Most people seemed to have found no way out of the condo complex, and they were desperately finding hiding areas.  We locked our condo door, which was made of shiny bulletproof glass.  The glass was immune to the weight of any prying T-Rex, and the locked door would promise our security as long as it was locked.  Dad was the one who designed and built the door.  It was an ingenious design, and looking out through the glass, we could see people in the hallway fleeing aimlessly.  Inside in our dining room, Mom was calmly reading a book while sitting at the dining table.  People outside in the hallway were now screaming.  The several T-Rex's had arrived somewhere in the condo complex.  We felt safe.  Several people in the hallway, seeing through our glass door that we were safe behind our secure door, tried to charge through our door and into our condo by dashing down the hallway and slamming unsuccessfully onto the glass door surface.  A few people persistently kept trying this.  Suddenly, the door was loose.  Actually, the door would not lock.  Dad tried to fix it quickly.  Meanwhile, more and more people were running around screaming in our hallway.  Dad continued trying to fix the door.  In the wild pushing and shoving in the hallway, Dad found himself pushed into the hallway, right when I managed to shut, but not lock, the door.  Dad made a dash towards the glass at the door and slammed into it.  He made a second dash and made it through the glass without shattering it, as if the glass was some force field that was momentarily switched off.  Two boys sat on the top of the door, totally disrupting Dad's attempt.  Then the crowd in the hallway, gazing in one direction, was silent.  There was at least one T-Rex right outside our door.  It was not moving, but it was ready to attack and examining its prey selection.  I knew that we were no longer safe, with the door lock rendered useless.  A person, probably the leader of the crowd, simply walked right into our condo now that there was no preventing of unwanted entry.  My family and I felt utter defeat.  We backed into our living room and into the dining room where Mom was.  The crowd seemed angered that we had selfishly decided to save ourselves with our security technology.  As for the T-Rex, everyone had seemed to have forgotten about the whole screaming and running deal.  Apparently, the T-Rex seemed to have silently disappeared in the background while the crowd of people, who were our neighbors and companions, slowly surrounded my family and forced them to sit down at our dining table.  I managed to sneak back into the kitchen unnoticed.  From where I was in the kitchen, I could see my family at the dining table, and they could see me.  Nobody else could see me.  I entered the garage, and through hand gestures, I motioned for them to make a dash towards our parked car on my cue.  After seeing the keys on the dashboard, I planned to back the car and drive it hurriedly away.  Then the dream ended.
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<a href="http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dream_aug6_03.jpg">Computer Drawing</a>]]></description>
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	  <title>July 9, 2003, Night of July 8, 2003</title>
	  <pubDate>Wed, 9 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#zeta</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[This part of the dream was very vague.  All I remember is a possible a lecture, and then a large model of a planet with sprouting crystals that glowed green in the radius where I slammed my hand.  And then the next dream...
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I was in the bedroom hallway of a house.  There was some commotion happening in the master bedroom.  I'm guessing that it was an argument.  Worried friends of the arguers were in the hallway, trying to mend the problem.  I walked into another room.  Karen was in there.  So was Tania.  She was relaxing and staring up at the ceiling on the higher bed of beds of different levels.  They weren't bunks.  The lower bunk was empty.  For some reason, I knew that the lower bed of the two belonged to Bri.  I queried where she was.  I don't remember the answer.  Suddenly I was in a different room, although I hadn't actually walked outside the room I was just in.  Bri was there.  It seemed that we spoke very little, but agreed to go somewhere.  Suddenly, I was walking outside on dry grass area between people's backyards.  There were a few people walking with me, and one of them was probably Bri.  Karen might have been there too.  But as we walked, everyone who was walking with me seemed to fade away without anybody noticing.  I walked by a fence, and behind that fence were the highest seats of the California Memorial Stadium.  A person in a smiling Cal bear suit in mostly yellow looked at me.  A Cal football game was in play, and there were school spirit colors of (mostly) yellow and blue.  Brass wind instruments were blaring out with joy.  Distant cheers could be heard.  They were distant because the upper seats were not entirely filled, so nobody near me was cheering.  I continued my walk.  Suddenly I found myself in what looked like the front of some grand hotel where the cars pull in.  It had a parking garage feel, and there was a marquee above us covering the entire area from direct sunlight.  A white lady who I found sort of attractive was in a black showgirl/Vegas costume greeting high-profile guests as they exited their black Cadillacs or black limos.  Observing all of this from the other side of the road was me.  I stood next to a glass elevator within an indoor area surrounded by glass windows.  In that indoor area, inside of which I was not, was a metallic, carpeted boardwalk/walkway.  It was angled slightly upsloping and turned after ten to fifteen feet at almost a right angle.  There was a podium with a control panel at the first fork of the walkway.  One walkway probably led to the Cal football game, although the entire hotel feel sure did not help me make that conclusion.  The other walkway probably led to a pool surrounded by fake tropical trees on a level below ground level.  When I turned around, the lady in the costume somehow got me to do her a favor by dressing up in her costume (even though I'm a guy) to give her a break.  (Hey, now I'm possibly an involuntary cross-dresser. Yay...)  Some people glanced at me with looks that gave a feeling of humiliation.  But surprisingly, most people minded their own business.  I found a poster showing the lady in the outfit.  I told her I couldn't do this, and that she looked much better in the outfit.  She refused.  So I was stuck with the outfit.  Upon seeing my reflection in a glass window, I saw that the outfit was now a blue outfit that Whistler's mother would wear, or maybe instead something from the late 1800's.  (And I forgot the next segment of the dream.)]]></description>
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	  <title>July 6, Night of July 5, 2003</title>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 6 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#epsilon</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[There was a sauna where a bunch of guys my age were.  My jean shorts were loose and therefore hung low, showing some underwear.  Suddenly for unknown reasons, I was wearing a "Simone" cheerleading outfit, green, or at least the shirt part.  On our way out of the locker room, attached to the sauna room, some football guys came in and started speaking aggressively to the guys i was with.  Then they overheard that Simone was here, and they perked up, saying that they wanted to see her, wanted to see her tits.  And they laughed.  I was hiding behind my friends.  Someone had mistaken me for a hot girl just because of the green cheerleading outfit I was wearing with Simone written across it.  But when they finally saw me, they were disgusted and started getting ready to beat people.
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Bri was running away.  I didn't see it.  I dreamt it. (dream within a dream)  In my dream, there were images of her vehicle (I think a Jeep sort of vehicle) packed with luggage.  It rode down the highway right after a bridge crossing and towards a downtown area (with no skyscrapers).  There was no mention of why she was running away...just some faint words by her in the dream about the experiences of different kinds of people roaming within in the city by themselves.  Tourists "rotated".  Locals/others had something to do with a one-time thing?  Those words made sense within the dream, at least.  Within the downtown area, where the highway ended and became a broad major road (but with hardly any traffic at all), nighttime came.  In that area there was no longer any image of the vehicle, and there was a beautifully lit museum.  The museum looked yellowish on the outside because of the night lighting, but it was obvious that in daylight it was white stone.  Its exterior design was based on that of the US Supreme Court, columns and all.  The museum was on the right side of the main road, and there was a large lawn before the entrance of the museum.  Bright lights, the same kind at night games at stadiums, lit up the lawn.  So Bri disappeared, and the dream ended.  So I used the information from the dream and found the area where the museum was.  She was nowhere in sight.  There was a saddening feeling.  Then I saw an Asian girl walking onto the lit lawn of the museum.  She did not see me.  She walked up onto the platform on the lawn, sat down on a chair, and opened an instrument case.  It was either a string instrument or a wind instrument.  I walked onto the lawn, with her still not seeing me.  Now I was facing her on the platform from afar as an audience.  She was standing up behind a podium, and she began to play a little music.  But the music faded out, and when I looked again, she was calling out and talking loudly as though there was a large, responsive audience.  I began to cheer and scream as any enthusiastic audience would, and she then noticed me and responded to my response by smiling and screaming some more words.  It was a lot like a spirit rally.  I responded two more times, the third time with an attempt to do a high-pitched female scream that's often heard in an audience.  My voice didn't crack, but the scream was weak and inaudible over a decent distance.  Afterwards, we were in a conversation.  I told her about Bri's running away and my trying to find her based on a dream.  She offered her own response to the situation.  I don't remember what she said, but it was comforting to be able to talk about it with someone.  As night was getting ready to turn into a sun-dominated morning, we got ready to part and head our own ways.  We walked around the outside of the museum, and suddenly I saw Bri, who didn't see either of us, walk right in front of us and into a large museum garage.  We opened the upward sliding door, and there she was, hunched over and crouching in the back of the room.  She looked very tired.
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Tania drove us back in her white minivan.  Although the interior, for unknown reasons, was that of a sedan.  Anyway, I sat in the backseat.  I don't remember where anyone else sat.  Bri was still quiet and tired-looking.  Tania commented on what Bri must have gone through.  I queried about what the response at home from her parents would be.  Tania said that they were still asleep.  So they wouldn't have to know.  There was a choice.  We drove onward.
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And then I woke up to Mommy calling my name.]]></description>
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	  <title>July 3, 2003</title>
	  <pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#gamma</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I should've written this dream down immediately after waking up because i've forgotten most of the details.  I was sitting among civil engineers, or at least a committee of city planners.  In a part of the room, very likely the center, there was a huge model of a city and its neighboring hill and rivers.  As the city planners (all male, as I recall) chattered away at the other side of the room, one guy crouched with his back to a wall at my side of the room.  He looked down at the floor and looked at me when I looked at him.  The guy looked like Nedjo.  He had the same smirk that was a futile attempt at a smile, if it was even an attempt.  He gave a look and an impression that he was above everyone else, that his way of thinking was far beyond that of anyone else.  So he sat alone in the corner and isolated himself.  I turned my head and looked at the model, and Nedjo was still within my peripheral vision.  Upon my seeing the mountain, a river appeared at the summit of the mountain and split into two large rivers, each flowing down the slope symmetrically.  The event caught the attention of all in the room.  And then Nedjo took credit for the miracle, although looking back, I don't know why the appearing river was such a brilliant idea.  Nobody even seemed to be bothered by the miracle of appearing water on a model.
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	  <title>July 2, 2003</title>
	  <pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#delta</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I had just hung out with Tommy.  I believe that we had just watched a movie, and we were waiting outside on a wide sidewalk beside a huge, grand train station, waiting for Tommy's ride to pick him up.  Beside the sidewalk was a wide major road with many lanes.  An early 1990's white economy car passed by, and for a moment I thought I thought it was Tommy's parents in the car, but in a brief slow motion mode as the car passed right next to me, I realized that they weren't them.  A second car followed right behind, about ten or fifteen feet behind, and it was a brand new sparkling silver luxury car.  I think it was a Mercedes.  Inside was Tommy's parents in the front, and Daniella and Michael in the back.  The car stopped by the sidewalk, and Tommy entered the back on the right side.  The car then pulled away.  The entire car scene has just happened in slow motion.  Afterwards, a huge crowd of pedestrians began crossing the road in both directions across the pedestrian crossing zone.  It was a lot like the largest crowd you'd find in a large downtown area like Manhattan.  People walked by me, around me, or into my shoulder and continued on.  Everywhere I looked in the crowd, there was someone I knew...friends, schoolmates, friends of friends, Karen and her friends (busy walking and talking to each other and absorbed in their own conversations)...who I knew walking in the opposite direction towards me and by me.  Once in a while, one of these friends and I would establish eye contact for a fraction of a second and continue walking by me almost immediately without disrupting their own pedestrian movement.  There were more like quick glances without any thought or feeling.  But almost everybody ignored me as they walked by in the opposite direction.  The crowd moving in my direction continued to sift through the crowd moving towards us.  When I reached the sidewalk at the other side of the road, I looked at an escalator that disappeared from view, below the ground and into the subway station.  Above the escalator was a ceiling sign reading something street station.  The crowd of people in the subway station area on the ground was still as dense as the crowd crossing the street.  I turned my head to look behind me, back at the train station.  It was just as busy there.  I turned around and began crossing the street to head back to the train station side.  Suddenly, I heard Karen's voice above all other sounds.  It was loud and clear.  She called my name, "Gordon, Gordon, Gordon...".  Then I woke up from my dream, and I found my mom calling my name to answer the phone.
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	  <title>June 22, 2003</title>
	  <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#beta</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was in a room below ground level in a stone castle.  Even though the room was below ground level, the wilderness grounds immediately outside the room was at the same level as the room's floor level.  It was a doorless entry, or whatever you would call those.  There was a seemingly abandoned or unused canopy bed with a skeleton nearby.  It might have been on the bed.  The skeleton didn't stand out in the environment of the room.  It was gray colored, almost camouflaged with the bland color of the sheets.  The room itself held a bland look, and the fact that it was not a well lit room did not help either.  Suddenly, I noticed a light saber with a golden handle on the stairway.  The stairway was made of cold, dark concrete with no handrails.  The light saber was off, so it was merely a dirty gold colored handle with no light beam, and the saber lay on the square platform between the perpendicular flights of steps.  I picked up the light saber, rotated the handle until I found the power switch, and turned it on.  Was it a light bluish white or a light red?  I honestly don't remember the color of the blade.  I think it was red, which in the movies meant aggression.  And that's all I remember.]]></description>
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	  <title>June 21, 2003</title>
	  <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html</link>
	  <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld2.html#alpha</guid>
	  <description><![CDATA[I was given a homework assignment that required me to play a piano piece and record it for a college professor.  I was in a room with an entry way with no door.  The walls and floor were made of white marble with a pattern of gray swirls.  Beside the doorway and wall corners were small semi-columns that served no real purpose other than appearance.  The hallways had the same look.  In fact, now that I think of it, it had a similar look to the hallway of the post office in Oakland.  Diagonally across the hall was another doorless opening to another room, in which the professor sat at a desk in darkness, save the dim desklamp.  Focusing back into the room I was in, I began to think about my assignment, and then I decided to learn a song.  I have no memory of how I chose a song, but it was one of which I had never heard.  The title at the top of the sheet music was something "Leary", as in Macon Leary from The Accidental Tourist.  The first word must have been "Vonnegut" as in Kurt Vonnegut.  So if what I remember about the title is correct, the title was likely somewhere along the lines of "Vonnegut Leary", as strange as it seems.  It doesn't surprise me though, given that I had been reading these works of literature recently.  Although I don't recall how I chose this piece, I do remember looking up the name in the library in a music book.  So I played the piece while recording my audio performance, and I turned in the assignment.  Then I was suddenly on a slightly sloping grassy field at night.  The moon was out and shining brightly, and there was a bonfire around which a bunch of kids my age (around seventeen/eighteen, more or less) were sitting.  The orange glow of the fire illuminated the faces of all the kids around me.  We were all college kids, and somehow I knew that we were at Cal, although I don't remember ever seeing such a large grassy field on the campus before.  I doubt that one that size even exists.  So perhaps we weren't on campus, but instead in the woods.  I wasn't a part of the bonfire gathering, however.  I was only watching.  I wasn't sure if I had a feeling of sorrow or disappointment.  I suddenly found myself back inside one of the college buildings with marble walls and floors.  I was not in Chem 1A, and I realized that I was late.  The class started at 2 pm, but regardless of my not knowing what time it was, I still knew that I was late.  A feeling of failure rushed me.  And the dream ended.
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      <title>July 21, 2002</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#25</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[There had been an accident. Among the victims of the accident were several friends or classmates that I knew and me.  The room that we victims were in seemed to be a laundry room of some sort. Some of us were dying; others were already dead. The dying complained whenever any of their friends tried to move their bodies in any way. I had lost my entire body except for my head, it seemed. When I was brought to the hospital, my dead body was replaced with a metallic, electronic robot-skeleton. It attached at my neck and to my knees. (The doctors had discovered that my lower legs were somehow still alive and useable, so those parts did not have to be replaced.) I was able to hide my new metallic body with clothing, even with shorts to my knees, which helped me hide the metallic body when I returned to school in the fall and showed up to the first cross-country practice. My teammates enthusiastically welcomed me back and had high expectations for me after my previous year of outstanding improvement. However, when we began our practice run across the dunes (we usually run along trails through the woods...dunes? odd.), I was unable to catch up with the slowest person on the team. I was panting as I used all of my energy to move myself. I was humiliated, and I decided to show one of my teammates my metallic limbs and body, but it did not seem to disturb the teammate at all. In fact, despite my poor performance during the practice, my teammates still had just as much enthusiasm and held a party that night to celebrate the reunion of the entire team and the start of a new season. On my way to the party, I heard their cheerful shouting and laughing, and I decided not to enter the room and join the party. I don't remember what happened after this point, but another dream began, and I had my normal body again.  I had been mistakenly chosen to play on a college basketball team playing against another. These were elite players, and I was both shorter and less skilled than they were. There were high bleachers on the two long sides of the gym, and as they called my name, people watched me descend down the bleachers without ceasing their loud, continued applaud. I joined a circle of basketball players who were going to be my teammates. After the teams' members had been chosen, the basketball players and I sat at the lower bleachers opposite the side I was sitting at when I was still a spectator. A concert had begun on one of the short sides of the gym room, where there was an elevated stage. The concert was going to precede the basketball game, and everyone watched, everyone except me. I had sneaked out into an outside hallway, and walked through one of the entrances along the hallway. I found myself at...the back of the stage! I crawled underneath along the floor of the stage behind the trumpet players and large percussion instruments. I could see part of the audience from where I was, but they probably could not see me because they were not staring at my direction. There was a row of seated people at the back of the stage watching me in confusion as I crawled across the floor. I looked at the back wall of the stage where the row of seated people were sitting against, and I found some exit doors, but none of them worked. I didn't even have to try opening them. Somehow, I just knew that would not work. That's all I remember.]]></description>
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      <title>July 19, 2002</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#24</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I saw myself inside an underground area with stone walls, and then...I don't remember. My memory of this portion of the dream is vague. Afterwards, I was betrayed by a friend close to me because he was in love with the same girl that I was either yearning for or already with. Blur of images and colors... Then, I found myself on a speeding train with no people aboard, the train had been set to speed towards the broken tracks at the steep cliff and crash onto the grounds of the valley below. I moved to the top of the train and leaped onto a nearby building when one passed nearby. I escaped back into the city and found him with the girl he had been pining over at an outdoor cafe table. The cafe or restaurant's outdoor tables looked like ones you'd find in France or Italy. It was sunny, so the beige-pink walls of the outside of the restaurant looked lovely and cheerful. For a second, I was contemplating avenging my friend's betrayal, but I decided not to. After I had said goodbye to both of them and gone elsewhere in the city, the friend betrayed me again, but I do not remember what was done or what happened at all from that point.]]></description>
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      <title>July 17, 2002</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#23</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I was on Rahimah Drive. Where it intersected with Arabian Gulf Road, I was with my sister and a Black girl. The three of us were standing on the sidewalk corner at the intersecting part of the two roads, right underneath the street signs that read Rahimah and Arabian Gulf. The Black girl was the most verbose of all of us, and for no reason at all, her verbosity was irritating me, then infuriating me. When I reached the point where I could no longer tolerate her, I angrily tossed something across the road onto the larger of the two roads.  As I saw it tumbling across the street, I saw that it was an enormous, beige computer mouse with a long, dirty cord of the same hue.  Immediately, I sprinted far away from the spot and dashed into a cold, white hallway with white ceramic tiles and fluorescent lighting. Before I realized what I was doing, I found myself in an office, hiding in the dark. I could hear distant sirens and the movement of the heavy vans and cars moving towards the area I had just fled. I must have had done something horrible and  illegal. I guess that flinging a computer mouse across the road had severe penalties.
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In the next dream, I found myself in a small room, approximately 20 meters by 15 meters. There were two rows of people at opposite ends of the room, facing each other. Every person in the room held looks of determination and hostility. Among the people I saw was Jose Fernandez, pumped and ready for anything and ready to sprint. He was at my left, facing the opponents at the opposite side of the room. I realized that this was a dodgeball game, but it didn't look as though the game was going to be for leisure. The room had a dark, gloomy feel and look to it. The walls were cold, rusting metal with black rust and a bit of red rust as well. We all charged at each other at the exact same moment without any voice or whistle telling us to do so. Suddenly, I noticed that everyone was not or no longer a human anymore. Whether they were all humans to begin with or not, I do not know. Everyone was a dark-colored creature of some sort, probably not even real Earth-native ones, each having a special power. Most of the players, however, had powers related to spider abilities. I seemed to be away from the whole event; I was no longer a part of it. I saw a female in the vague form of a huge black widow (or something like it), paralyze an opponent and knock him over off the wall in a mess of spider web. I saw others devouring their opponents. I began to phase out of all of this though. I don't remember any details beyond this point, but I know for sure that it was a brutal game where opponents were tortured painfully throughout the game.]]></description>
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      <title>July 15, 2002</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#22</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[This dream is the vaguest in my memory now.  It's a shame because this was my favorite one, probably because of the imagery and emotions I sensed in the dream.  It's going to be difficult to try to show all that imagery and emotion here, but I'll give it my best try in at least describing the plot.  There was a planet, and I had good feeling it was Earth.  There's never a hint in the dream of what time era it is, and I don't think that there's any importance because the Earth I'm seeing has never had any past involving anything from the past of Earth that we know.  There is a female, and she is able to transform into animals and other different creatures not native to Earth.  She is calm, quiet, and graceful, and this almost makes her seem rather sad.  I've lost many good details here, but I remember that she was kidnapped onto some metallic or stone kingdom in space far from Earth.  The kidnapper seemed to be the devil, but I wasn't exactly sure.  Again, I lost many details here.  I remember a group of people in a spaceship or time travel aircraft on lofty stony plateau on Earth, ready to take off towards the devil's kingdom.  Oh, and I forgot to mention that the devil's kingdom was not red hot and burning, and there were no monstrous creatures there either.  The devil himself was not ugly at all.  He was well-mannered and looked clean and proper.  He was the kind of person or creature that a child would be likely to feel comfortable speaking with.  He was large though, like the beast in Beauty and the Beast, or at least that's what I think I remember.  I don't remember very many details at this point again, but I do remember that the female was in distress.  She might have been homesick.  She was longing for something that she no longer had.  It might have been the beauty of nature.  I don't know exactly what it was.  The devil tried to comfort her, but he could not.  For some reason that I did not know, the devil was frustrated by his inability to transform into an animal as she could.  There were both standing in a hallway with large windows on both sides showing space behind each one.  Let's see...I remember that the spaceship was about to leave for the kingdom, but one person did not want to go.  I think that that person was the female who was kidnapped, so I wasn't sure about the chronological order of events in this dream.  Um, that's all I remember.  Oh, if only I could remember...  That's what happens when I have four dreams in one night.  I forget one of them.
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I drive an SUV slowly into a parking spot.  There are other SUVs all over the parking lot, and there are people in all of them.  It's hard to see the people, however, because of the translucent curtains.  I immediately realize by the movement in the SUVs that every SUV had a guy and a girl inside, behind those curtains, making love with each other.  The guy in the SUV in front of me presses his face near his curtain and glances at me for a moment.  I look away immediately.  Through my peripheral vision, I see that he has retreated back deep into the inside of his large SUV, and movement of the curtains resumes.  I feel awkward being in this parking lot, having to see every SUV around me serving as a love motel room, while I am just waiting for someone or something to pick up.  I don't really know what or who I'm waiting for, but I know that I'm supposed to wait in this place of the parking lot.
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Tall water tank with enormous tank, with a hint of Star Wars, oddly, bursts on one side
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Pure golden coins...shiny...pouring out in huge volume onto highway...looks like a highway in the East Bay...perhaps, Oakland?
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Six lane freeway.  Traffic caused.  People dashing out of cars to grab their own share of coins.
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I'm riding with a guy that I guess I'm supposed to know, but I don't really know him.  
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Convertible.  Red?  Black?  I'm in the front passenger seat.
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Guy stops the car because of the stopped cars.  Jumps out of car.  Says to stay in car.  Runs out to see what's causing trouble.  I get out of the car and follow him.  We both see the money pouring out and the burst tank on the water tower.  We don't seem to be interested in the money at all.  We just seem anxious to get to our destination.  I suggest to him to find an offramp and take the roads the rest of the way there.  He doesn't seem to be listening, or establishing eye contact, but after a hesitated response, we decide to return to the car.  I don't know if he has accepted my suggestion, but he seems to have some plan in mind, regardless of whether it's mine or not.
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As we reach our car, he suddenly realizes that he has dropped his car keys somewhere back there while running towards the car.  His keys had a very long string as a keychain, and it must've been caught somewhere back there among the bumper-to-bumper pileup.
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He shouts out behind his back to me to stay in the car as he returns to the retrieve his keys.
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Suddenly, the traffic has begun to move again.  I can see some mass of black cars and vans, some with white roofs, at the front of the highway.  They are some sort of police team.  Then, the guy who was the driver our car returns with the keys, running.  So much for our plan.  The traffic is moving again.
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Padme Amidala.  She's lying sideways on a bed with a light, white bathrobe, but it's like a long, silk scarf that wrapped loosely around her body, hiding only her private areas.  She's very exposed.  The front is slightly open, but her breasts aren't revealed.  A man that looks like Anakin comes.  He looks lustfully at Amidala as he stands next to the bed she lies on.  Amidala summons Anakin to approach her.  Anakin gets nearer to her, and she slowly removes his garments.  He stands there entirely nude, with his muscular body exposed.  Suddenly, everything turns into 1950's style color cartoon, and it shows a frame showing Amidala extending her arm and out towards him with her hand reaching out, and her hand happens to cover his private area perfectly in this frame.  Then it returns to non-cartoon mode, and Amidala seems to starting to have intercourse with Anakin.  But wait, she stops.  And Anakin confusedly watches as she continues the intercourse into an animal that seemed to appear from nowhere.  It might've been a snake, but I wasn't sure.  Amidala seemed to be close to having orgasms through this process, but each one failed, and she continued trying again.  Anakin, still just as lustful for Amidala as ever, is confused and angered at this awkwardness of the situation.  She seems to be doing this to the animal for a purpose, to carry out a task in a mission.  If that's not odd enough for you, listen to this. Suddenly, a third person in the room appears and warns that mother of the creature was coming, and that it would be dangerously furious if it saw what was happening.  Oh wait, the animal has never been moving.  It's in some inactive state that's characteristic of the early stages of this animal's life.  It's not a snake.  The dream ends.  I'm awaken.
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<small>*No, I did not watch Star Wars or any other movies recently.</small>]]></description>
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      <title>July 12, 2002</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#21</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I've traveled back in time.  I'm not alone though, but at the moment, I do not seem to know who the other people are.  The ground is composed of dry dirt, with very little vegetation growing in the area.  The area has such a dull color of dry, light brown that it seems as if someone had thrown hot cocoa powder all over the place.  There are no animals or people around.  The ground is flat for miles around.  I walk to the nearest area of civilization, which happens to be a dusty, dry town that looks as if it had been the set of a Western movie, only that it is not a set.  It is a real town.  I end up sitting on an old chair, or something that can be sat on, by a gray stone wall.  One of the people who has traveled back in time with me is sitting on a dirt-covered, white toilet located outside and right by a wall.  I am on his right, sitting on a chair or something that can be sat on.  I wasn't really paying much attention to it.  To the left of the man on the toilet seat is an old local man, either sitting on the ground and leaning on the wall or sitting on very low stool and leaning on the wall.  He's staring forward and at an angle at the ground, unaware of the awkwardness of our modern apparel.  He also wears a hat that covers enough of his face so that I cannot see his eyes.  As far as I am concerned, he may be dozing off.  In front of me, about ten meters away, at least two other people from the group that arrived here with me are moving about a tent.  One is coming in and out of it as time passes.  I assume that the tent is theirs.  It seems dusty and dirty, much like pretty much everything in this town and part of the country, but beneath that dirt on the tent, I can tell that it's made of synthetic material.  Still, the locals don't seem to notice that little detail, which does not surprise me at all, considering the fact that we are near or at the edge of whatever town or city this is.  Suddenly, I remember my arrival differently.  I see images of myself in a white futuristic airplane of some sort, or a spacecraft.  It's rather small, being about the size of a minivan.  In fact, it looks a lot like a fat, round minivan, fitting a crew of about five to ten.  We have traveled through time in this vehicle/aircraft/whatever-it-is by traveling through some type of void space and void time.  Hyperspace?  Well, if it's called "hyperspace", then this "hyperspace" was white with so much sand swirling all over the place that it looked like a light-colored tornado...from the inside of it, that is.  But my little epiphany ends abruptly when the wife of the local old man near me comes over and points out to the old man that the man on the toilet seat and I do not look like locals of the area, much less locals of the time era. She yells at him for not noticing even while being next to the two out-of-towners, but the man seems unstirred. In fact, I doubt that he's even listening. He hasn't moved his head or made any gesture that proved that he was even awake. Suddenly, I know that the town is on alert. How do I know? I'm omniscient for two seconds, and then I return swiftly to being a limited observer. Before the town has time to physically react to our team's presence in their establishment, I also discover that one of our team members has been caught stealing something in the center of the town. The next thing I realize is that our entire crew is dashing back to the aircraft. All of the members except the one stuck in town and me are on the aircraft, and the captain has begun leaving without me. However, the aircraft stops in its vertical liftoff and remains hovering two feet above the air. The co-captain, the only female crew member (minor detail?), has asked the captain to wait for me. As I board, I am suddenly infatuated with the co-captain. The craft begins to leave the area, and while we ascend, I notice that the city or town is separated into two rectangles, side-by-side on the long sides, with tall stone walls at the perimeters of each of the two sectors. The toilet seat man and I weren't sitting next to a wall of a house; we were sitting next to a city wall. One of the segments has an unsettled area on one side, which is the barren place where we landed. The unsettled side of the city segment is the side that borders an ocean or sea, though I must admit that it looks rather unnatural because of the perfectly straight coastline.  Outside the city walls, the ground was entirely concrete with large, gray tiles at the surface of the concrete ground. It looked like the entire city was built on a floating stone, concrete barge, but it wasn't actually a barge.  It also looked like a huge, flat concrete brick floating in the water. Suddenly, my point of view shifts to the crew member who was abandoned in center of the town. He has escaped the townspeople to the city wall (on the long side of the rectangle and not facing the wall of the other segment). Suddenly, I have the point of view of the people on the aircraft. Something has attacked the aircraft in the sky, and the aircraft is now severely damaged. The end of the craft is fuming dark gray smoke, and the crew no longer has much control over the craft. It makes a huge arc of smoke in the air as it makes a wide, unstable U-turn in the sky away from the city and back. As it returns in the direction of the city, it creates another arc of gray smoke, but the arc is smaller as it is descending.  My point of view shifts back to the crew member in the town. He's on a tree or something somewhat high. Well, it was high enough so that he could climb over the wall away from the townspeople trying to pull him back down. As he lands on the ground on the outer side of the wall, he can hear the hordes of feet moving in the opposite direction, probably towards a known exit. He knows that he doesn't have much time to escape the crowd. He heads in the direction away from the ocean and makes a right angle turn to his left. It's like a maze because the entire two segments are surrounded by another stone wall. He is about to enter the narrow area between the two segments' walls, but he decides not to and immediately turns around and heads the other way, retracing his right-angle turn and heading straight for the ocean using the concrete tiles as a guide. He reaches the ocean, and there is a narrow concrete section of the ground jutting out into the ocean, almost like a pier, but it's definitely not a pier. He looks up at the sky, where his crew's spacecraft is preparing to make a mayday crash landing. It's headed straight for him. He backs up several meters and watches in horror as the aircraft bounces on and scrapes the surface of the concrete pier, or whatever it is, and it knocks several pier lights before bouncing back several meters into the air. But the aircraft is heavy, and it only stays in the air after this bounce for a couple seconds before plummeting into the water. Part of the craft still sticks out of the water, but it is sinking rapidly. Somehow, the crew member on the pier knows that his entire crew is dead. He is almost entirely correct, but one person is alive. He sees the captain approaching him on the dock. He can't tell if he's very wet at all, but he's certainly not drenched. The captain slowly continues to walk towards him and then halts once he's within close conversation distance. "They're all dead," the captain said, but he didn't show any sign of grief. Rather, he seemed calm. The captain had done something terribly wrong. The man could feel it. Suddenly, he knew. How he knew, he did not know. It must have been another two-second omniscient point of view. The captain had killed his entire crew deliberately in that crash, and he had survived. The crew member that had escaped the town suddenly felt as though all the blood in his body had turned cold and been drained at the same time. End of the dream.
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      <title>July 11?,2002</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#20</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I don't remember exactly which day in July I dreamt this dream, but it was certainly within the 9th/10th/11th week. There wasn't much of a plot. I ran from a hallway into what looked like a large elementary school room, judging from how low the green chalkboard was hanging on the opposite wall.  The room was about the size of two or three living rooms placed together.  When I ran into the room, there was a teacher. My sister was there too. The teacher told my sister something just barely out of my earshot range, and immediately exited the room through the brown emergency door behind her desk.  This was opposite the door I had just entered.]]></description>
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      <title>July 2, 2002</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jul 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#19</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[There was a man driving along the highway across the United States in an eighteen-wheel truck. Everyday, there would be another woman sitting in the passenger seat with him in the truck. Each of these women irritated him with their rambling of things he couldn't care less about. They were all wearing truck driver uniforms or overalls with plaid shirts. They were also all noticeably obese and very heavy, so when they each started kissing him on the cheek, it would be a violent falling motion that hurt his face every single time. So the man driving the truck began holding up rectangular blocks of pure jade with dragons embossed on each of the short ends. On the long sides, the heavy weight of each of the women's lips would leave deep imprints in the jade surface. One day, as the man was driving under a highway overpass while holding the jade to divert the kissing, he suddenly felt like leaving that entire part of the country. So he did. In the next scene, the man is by himself in his own vehicle. As he glances at his map, I, the omniscient dreamer and narrator, noticed that the geography of the nation and the continent was different on the map. The west coast was now in the north, and the east coast was now in the south. As he drove further and further towards the west coast, he was trying to decide where to go. He looked at Berkeley and Oakland on the map, which were no longer anywhere near the former Pacific Ocean, or any body of water for that matter. He chose to go to Oakland and drove on. The next scene shows a car that had stopped in a desert area, but not with huge amounts of sand. There were yellow rocky walls, like the walls of the Grand Canyon, but think of these walls as forming a U shape. The area enclosed by these rocky walls was about the size of three tennis courts lined up side by side. The ground of the area was not flat. It was rocky and uneven, much like the walls it was surrounded by. The man that was driving this car may not have been the same man that I saw in the truck earlier. I wasn't sure if he was the same person. Nevertheless, this man was not alone in this mini-canyon. There was a large, brown bear with a height of almost twice that of the man. It looked like a Grizzly, but I wasn't sure what it was. This bear was coming out of a car of its own. Whether it had been driving that car or not, I don't know. But what I did know was that this man was no match for the bear. Because the bear was blocking the way between the man and the exit (the side without a wall), the man dashed towards the other side, which had a wall and was, needless to say, a dead end. The man leaped into a crevice and hid there. Quite suddenly, I knew why there was a bear with a car chasing a man with a car in a mini-canyon in the middle of the desert. The bear had been chasing this man for a long time because he felt that the man was inferior. Why did he feel like the man was inferior? Oddly enough, the bear and the man had been comparing grade point averages, of all things. (Lord help us all.) The man had a lower grade point average than the bear; the man's 3.56 was nowhere close to that of the bear. So THAT was the reason why the bear was after this man. As the bear approached the crevice that the man was hiding in, the man began a pathetic whimper about his 3.56 grade point average. Odd, I tell you. So very odd. But then, I found out that the mini-canyon was actually a disguise placed on one side of a set of glass windows. The mini-canyon was actually part of an entrance to an underground, five-star hotel right below them underground. The moment the bear made contact with the man in its attack, the glass windows beneath them gave way and both fell through those shattered windows and plummeted towards the hotel carpet of one of the hallways. A hotel staff member in a dark red suit turned around to see what just made a crash landing on the floor. This man had shiny black hair, perhaps with the help of hair gel, and he looked very clean and proper, the way you'd expect any staff member in a classy hotel to be. He was carrying a silver tray with a few wine glasses on it. I think that he was delivering them to a room. The bear and the man stared at the hotel staff member. He stared at the man and the bear and all the fragments and bits of glass around them on the dark red and white carpet. That is all I that I remember.]]></description>
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      <title>June 21, 2002</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#18</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I'm witnessing this event in the third person. Because I am in it too, I'm seeing myself in third person, but I did not know which of the characters represented me. I see a cut-away view of an underground tunnel, but it's not deep. Inside the tunnel, the diameter of the narrow space is about four feet. It's a symmetrical curve-shaped tunnel with the two ends leading to the surface. There's a man with a woman that I assume is his wife, but they look cartoony and harmless. The man is holding something the size of a large watermelon. It seemed to be glowing either a white or green, and I immediately realized that that substance was radioactive. Suddenly, there were children entering the tunnel, about two or three of them. The woman, who was on the right-side of the cut-away view of the tunnel, was immediately beside the entrance of the tunnel that the children had entered through. She welcomed them with open arms. They were her children. The mother spoke to the father, but I could not hear any sounds at all in this dream. Still, I could tell from the looks on their faces that the mother was trying to get the father, who was located on the right side of the tunnel, to allow the children to enter further into the tunnel and closer to him. He refused by shrinking into himself and tightening his embracing of the radioactive substance in his arms. He was obsessed with the radioactive object. I could see his hunger for destruction in his eyes, and the mother could see it too. She protectively used her arms to pull back and shield her children from the crazy father on the opposite side of the tunnel. She stared directly at the father with eyes full of terror. The man was about to begin his nuclear destruction of the world, when suddenly I shifted into another dream. The world was different in this dream. I wasn't sure if this dream was related to the first dream in any way, but my memory of this dream is a big hazy. I could not tell if the characters were human or not, but I could feel that I was in the first person now.]]></description>
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      <title>June 19, 2002</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#17</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[This dream starts off in Hell. For some reason, I'm in a new member in it, and there are about ten of us in a line facing one direction, much like athletes at the beginning of a race. As I glanced to my left, I saw the rest of the newest members of Hell. This group consisted entirely of men, and we were all shirtless and glistening on the skin with sweat. The air seemed rather hot and steamy and VERY red. Behind us, ten demonic creatures were assigned to each one of us, and they were released. The creatures were black and seemed to be a mix between reptile and human. Their eyes were revealed a desperation of hunger of hunting us down. I didn't get a good look at the eyes, but I thought I saw yellow eyes.  All of us men dashed toward the other end of the solid rock plateau or room or whatever it was, and we were all panting in panic. I was close behind the fastest three or four men. But when I turned my head around to see how much distance I had put between the creature and me, they seemed close enough to grab my legs and bring me down. They must have been three feet away. They were not gaining, but if I lost any speed for a second, I knew I would be a goner. As I was thinking this, I lost a tiny bit of speed for a fraction of a second and nearly fell victim to the creature in pursuit of me. But I immediately began pushing my exhausted body faster and faster towards the safe end, though I could not see any safe end.  Still, I somehow knew it was there. Everything suddenly blanked out in my memory and vision, and I was in a room. In that room, I could still feel the red, evil atmosphere of Hell. In fact, one side of the room may have been like a cave near the inside of an active volcano - red hot and rocky. I don't remember this part clearly. What I do remember very clearly is that I saw a patio door, a screen door without the screen, a huge sliding glass door, whatever you call it. Outside, I could see the lush, cut grass with light gray paths of either polished stone or cement cutting through the grass in an L rotated ninety degrees clockwise. The path stretched beyond the view through the sliding glass door. There was no direct sunlight on the ground I saw. It seemed like the area I saw outside was shaded, cool, soothing. I wanted to return to the world I had just come from. I didn't like Hell. I feared it. I loathed it. And who could blame me? Who wouldn't? I reached for the sliding door and slid it open. As I dashed through those doors and back towards the living world that I had just come from, all of Hell was alerted, and whichever people or species was in charge of Hell began mobilizing and heading towards me. They were far away though, and I reached Earth. Again, I witnessed a blanking out. Suddenly, I was in the kitchen of a home.  The temperature was cool and comfortable, and I felt the refreshing coolness of water running over my hands under the kitchen sink faucet. A person I knew came over to me, and from what I remember it was a woman older than me. I couldn't remember who it was, but I was glad to see someone I knew from my old life. Oddly, nobody I met that day that knew me was surprised at my return from the afterlife. It was like I had never gone, but it only concerned me a little. I went over to the kitchen sink to brush my teeth, but for some reason, I feared the toothpaste. I feared that it may have something in it that might cause my death and bring me back to the Hell that I dreaded so much. Outside on the grassy sloping field in the bright sunshine, I could not enjoy myself. All I could concentrate on was my fear that I might lose my life somehow no matter where I was. And now that I had escaped from Hell once, I feared that the inhabitants of Hell had a punishment much worse waiting for me when my unfortunate turn came around to leave the world. It was then that I realized that even though I was back in the living world and life that I had enjoyed while I had originally lived it, I could only live in fear until my end came again.]]></description>
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      <title>June 18, 2002</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#16</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I was running from a dark cave that led to an underground world, and hideous creatures with dark green and black leathery skin were chasing close behind me at amazing speeds with their four legs. I was heading towards a city with two identical clusters of skyscrapers, all of which were black. The sky was red, and the yellow lights from the windows added to the evil feeling in the atmosphere. As I approached the city center, I saw a black, muscular creature with hard skin with the texture of a gator. It looked humanoid, however, and it swung the club end of its tail slowly and threateningly. The moment it would swing it, I would duck and several skyscrapers would shatter and crumble behind me.]]></description>
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      <title>June 17, 2002</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#15</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I was in an enormous train station. There was grid or matrix, or whatever you call it, of towering columns of marbles holding the ceiling up. There were huge windows that were exactly like stained-glass windows, only that they were a rusty beige color. Suddenly, to my awe, I saw a magnified image of Yoda's head on the glass windows speaking into the air like a news anchorman convicting me of something. His ears wiggled threateningly, and that's about as descriptive as I can get. I sprinted towards the opposite end of the station, and my footsteps on the marble floors echoed. I leaped into the ocean and dove slowly to the bottom of the ocean. It suddenly seemed like a fish tank, and I swam into an underwater shelter made of coral. It was shaped like a tiny anthill with numerous holes for entry and exit. It delighted me that Yoda wasn't able to use his powerful brain waves to search for me underwater. Quite suddenly, I WAS in a fish tank, and to my dismay, Yoda found me by looking through, not glass, but window blinds holding the water in the fish tank. Weird.]]></description>
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      <title>July 5, 2001</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Jul 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#14</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I was walking down the marble floors of the dull cafeteria halls where we picked food off long tables onto our plates. The school was one of strict rules and discipline, and the uniforms added to the conservative environment. The school interior was no splash of colors. Brown and white were the colors of just about everything seen. I didn't know how much longer I could stand this. It was the same thing every lunchtime, dinnertime, and any other meal, with the same routine and the same uniforms and the same dull colors of the same building. I don't remember how it all started, but I was running and running out of the buildings, through the asphalt and concrete, and off the campus through the dirty snow, which generally was the color of the sky as well. Looking behind myself confirmed that they were after me. One, two, maybe a dozen. Into the icy water I dived, and an unshaven man suddenly hopped into the water with me and gave me scuba gear.  The people chasing me were close. He glanced at them and glanced at me, nodding to me to go underwater. I demanded that I needed a mask, so he promptly gave me his mask. As I slowly submerged below the surface facing him, he glanced one more time behind him at the people were chasing me in a rather sad way. Underwater, I sank fairly rapidly, and I nearly smashed into the bottom. The lake was about ten or fifteen feet deep, and it looked a bit dark, just like on land. But the crystal clear water revealed the many sea critters underwater with me. They were all tiny. Tiny, translucent-blue jellyfish slowly swam upwards. Tiny yellow, blue, and orange corals danced on the lake floor. I didn't feel any chill underwater, amazingly. It was beautiful around me in this tiny lake, but the fact that they were these tiny creatures in every direction made me shiver a little. I glanced at my left and saw a metallic wall abruptly dividing part of the tiny lake from everything else. Some man-made room stood on the other side. I don't really recall how I got in. It might've been through a ventilation shaft or something like a fan. But I was immediately sucked into this dry room with very fine, gray sand flying all around me in a tornado. And I was also weightless and suspended in the air as if I was still underwater. I could hardly breathe. Every breath I took was mostly sand, which was very uncomfortable, needless to say. Suddenly, a red-haired lady in a tight, white labcoat with a clipboard in her hand looked directly at me through the window from outside the chamber. This was some kind of research facility underground. Through an echoing microphone, she told me that this facility was designed for the research of human breathing when there was this much sand in the air, more like air in sand to me. I was barely breathing, feeling like I could choke any coming moment. She glanced down at her clipboard and then left the floor, ascending upstairs.  For a fraction of a second, I saw a glimpse of the white labcoat lady making out with a young man somewhere above my floor. They started kissing more and more intensely until they started unbuttoning each other's clothes and then and then...  Damn, I suddenly couldn't see them anymore. This part I couldn't see, but somehow I knew that the two were so busy moving backwards and backwards and kissing each other like never before that they accidentally hit a lever and both fell into the chamber I was in. Still, they continued getting all over each other as if they didn't notice they were in a sand-tornado in a research chamber with me already beginning to choke inside it. But I was free! And I left those two lovebirds in the chamber and escaped through a city sewer lid on a sidewalk of a busy area of a major American city, probably not far from a downtown area. It was nighttime out here, and I could see the flashes and streaks of the red tail lights before my eyes.  People walked along the sidewalk as if they didn't notice my presence. I vaguely remember a loud, big mother screaming at her even bigger son. And somehow, someone began to make this large son grow and grow like an enormous balloon until he was the size of King Kong. Then he began chasing someone in very large, heavy steps trying to crush this little person with his feet. And as if I had omnivision, I could see this chase with a bird-eye view even though I wasn't anywhere near it. It was the same case for the beginning part of the lovebirds making out. Sudden moments of omnivision. Strange... But back to the chase scene, the little person who was running desperately away from the gigantic man, exhausted from dodging the foot fell over on the street in pain, looking up and being at the mercy of the large man. The giant man stared at the little person below. And then, and then...I awoke. Figures.]]></description>
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      <title>May 2, 2001</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 2 May 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#13</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Someone is trying to kill me, or something. People I know begin to die all mysteriously, but no big deal is made of it. I try to warn others while I go about my day indoors following my daily routine that an assassin is after me, but nobody responds to my cries of agony. Then one day, I see that person, that creature, that...thing..., with its eyes staring straight at me. I know what this soul is thinking. It wants me dead. I can't recall if he/she/it had a gun or not. All I remember was that it tried to kill me and failed. The frightening part was that it seemed so real. No matter where I was or what time of the day it was, I was in a constant state of fear, never knowing when it was safe to sleep or whether the assassin would try to kill me again.]]></description>
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      <title>April 30, 2001</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#12</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I don't really remember much of this, but I remember that there was a girl who, in this dream, I liked. We did many fun things together, but because of my lack of memory with this dream, I have no details to offer. I remember that we grew very close in this relationship, and then there was a war. It was unexpected. I had just spent the evening with this friend, and as I was riding along a narrow, straight road between the steep hills on my right and the harbor on my left, I suddenly saw this dark shadow dropping from the sky down towards the metropolis downtown skyline on the other side of the harbor. Suddenly, I saw five or six nuclear mushroom-shaped blasts, all fiery golden, appearing behind the skyscrapers. From what I remember, the girl that I had become such great friends with died in the first attack of the war. She was in the city, in her apartment or condo, I think. Maybe it was more like romance than friendship. I'll stop there.]]></description>
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      <title>February 4, 2001</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 4 Feb 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#11</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[All I remember of the beginning is my being chased by a man, or a male the same age as I was. I was a secret agent, and he seemed to be the henchman of a villain that showed up later in the dream. He chased me through a caves with all those stalagmites and stalactites, and with all those different paths and dead ends. Somehow, I had finally gotten out of the cave and gotten into a chase in a five-story luxury hotel. He had finally cornered me in a hallway on one of the high floors, like the fourth floor, and he was searching the hallway slowly, room by room, now with another man dressed in a black or dark blue uniform behind him. It might've been a hotel security guard, but I didn't care. All I cared about was finding a way out of this hallway without getting shot at. Yes, the henchman had a handgun. After making a quick peak around the corner from the end, I saw a point in the hallway where the hallway split into the top of a "T", I quickly scurried into a room with an open door just when the henchman was looking behind himself. I looked left and right in panic, looking for a place to escape in time. The footsteps grew louder. I ran to the window and began to open it. It was about thirty feet down, which would be a fatal fall. I swung myself around held on to one of those golden window frames around the outside of the windows. To my left, there was an emergency ladder. I could now hear footsteps moving into the hotel room that I had just left. I moved quickly down the ladder and ran. But the dream wasn't done yet. I remember suddenly having my team of agents with me in a special four-wheel drive of some sort. It had many features. We drove up and down the highways by a coast, searching for the location of our villain's building because we knew that he was in this immediate area. But we didn't know which building it was. But the highway rails were too high and blocked our view, so one of us suggested that we take that roller coaster track in the nearby, recently abandoned theme park. So we took ourselves to the beginning of the roller coaster track, turned the thing on, and got into the roller coaster. To get a better view, we had to ascend to the highest point of the track, so we sped along on the rollercoaster tracks. When we were at the peak, there was a rectangular, red symbol with yellow pictures and text on it on a skyscraper about half a mile away on the coast side of the highway with an off ramp connecting the highway to the entrance of the building. The entrance of the building had two booths with a couple guards with rifles moving around. One of us suddenly recalled remembered seeing this symbol before, and soon searching in our database in the vehicle that it was the symbol seen on earlier secret military complexes of this villain elsewhere. When we drove up to the building, sure enough, it was that symbol of our villain. We drove onto the offramp and stopped when the guards signaled us to stop. I can't remember if we got in through forcefully or furtively, but we passed through and made in pretty far into the complex, now using a golf cart kind of vehicle. Just as we were getting off, we were caught, evidently, because there was an ambush. But being badly outnumbered, I, being the leader, had to watch in agony as all of my fellow agents were soon tranquilized with those little black guns in "Goldfinger", and after killing the agent second in command, a good friend of mine, I was then put to sleep too. I don't remember what happened after this, but we were later invited to a dinner with our villain at the long table with a couple of his men and his lady. I'm not sure if they were married or not, but I was actually sitting at the end of a long side of the table with his mistress on my left and the villain at the head of the table to my right. The room was only lighted with a couple candlelights and the bright light of the full moon above through the enormous, round glass ceiling. It was more like a glass dome. The stars twinkling in the night sky could be seen among the moon. Behind me stood a large glass window with a beautiful black frame, much like that of the dome. To ridicule us, the villain gave us splendid food, but no eating utensils, or sometimes just the wrong ones for the dish. And when we were just finally getting a reasonable amount of the delicious food into our mouths, he would call the waiters to take away the dishes and bring in the next dishes. He laughed and began talking to people on the other long side of the table. Meanwhile, I glanced at the lady on my left. She was quiet, not saying a word. She looked so innocent, so gentle. I glanced up at the stars. In the midst of all the excitement in my career, I hadn't stopped to take a look at the stars in a very long time. They were indeed beautiful. But I didn't know the constellations. I asked the girl about the names of the constellations, and she began pointing out constellations like Sirius and Orion's Belt, and we talked about how beautiful the night sky was. We were beginning to like each other, with the villain totally unaware of this. I'm not sure what happened after this, or would have happened after this, because I woke up. Maybe she turns against the villain and secretly helps me, and I get my revenge on the villain. Maybe we all end up dying. Who knows? I should've gone back to sleep and found out how it ends.]]></description>
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      <title>January 14, 2001</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#10</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I was in a tiny apartment room on the bottom floor. It was more like a bedroom and nothing else. Suddenly there was a knocking on the door. I opened the door, only to see the manager begin saying, "Mornin'. My parents wanted me to make sure that you were awake.", as he casually pointed a rifle at my head. We talked for a bit and then he left and I don't remember much of the part afterwards except that somehow a girl with either a handgun or a rifle, (I don't remember which.), was running after me ready to fire at me. I saw my friend, the manager, with a knife, or was it an envelope opener? Anyway, I began rolling on the ground moving left and right down the sidewalk to dodge bullets when finally I turned over by a bush for protection. I heard a scream. Looking up, I saw the manager chasing the psycho girl with the gun down the sidewalk with an envelope opener, or was it a knife? Strange. It ended with the manager returning while I saw HIS rifle on the sidewalk, which the girl had dropped. Again, strange.]]></description>
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      <title>August 18, 2000</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2000 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#9</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[This was one of those more vague dreams. There was a person, a lady actually, but I wasn't sure if she was an extraterrestrial glowing white or just a girl in white. But this figure was humanoid. That's for sure. Her name was something like Adria or something close to Adrian. I don't really remember. And then there was a part where I was following her down a subway hall with lots of people walking all over the place. Then I'm suddenly with her at a snack bar or just a bar, and she asks me if I'd like a drink. For some reason, I think I chose pink lemonade. After I finished my drink, she told me to follow her. And at the end, I was interrupted my two adults and lost her. Weird.]]></description>
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      <title>Piranha Man</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 2 Apr 2000 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#6</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[This dream also occurred in April 2000 when I was on vacation. I was with this nice man and he decided to go to the swimming pool in the recreational area. He convinced lots of people to go swimming. Then he dove into the water and turned into his real self - a piranha. He began to attack everyone in the pool and there was panic and chaos. Everybody was eventually eaten. Then I fled. How courageous of me!]]></description>
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      <title>The Chameleon Cosmos Textbook</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 1 Apr 2000 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#5</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[This dream took place in April 2000 when I was on vacation, oversleeping everyday. :) It was pretty strange. It was the year 2000. I remember being in a classroom with many subjects including "social ?????." Again, I couldn't remember much. There was a textbook called "The Leo Guidebook to Social ?????" with a black cover and stars all over. After school, something strange happened. A flash or something. Anyway, next thing I knew I was in the year 2XXX. I can't remember the year. But it was several years or a couple decades after 2000. The textbook had changed to "The Gemini Guidebook to Social ?????" and the place that showed the previous owners of the book was blank except for two entries. April 1992 for the earliest student user and April 2XXX for the latest student, me. This was a weird dream. I tried writing a story about it but ended up sounding like the plot of "The Matrix," so I stopped writing the story.]]></description>
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      <title>Hallowed in the Haunted House of Halloween</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 1997 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#4</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[This dream actually had a plot but I can't remember it too well. I remember the basic plot and a lot of the images I saw in it. It a rainy, dark October night and I needed a place to stay for the night. I saw this large building which looked very enormous, tall, and kind of like a castle. I wasn't sure because it was dark, so I assumed that it was a hotel of some sort. Anyway, I entered and there was the lobby where you could see the floors above with circular walkways. It's difficult to explain, but this detail isn't important. Well, I couldn't get a room. Why? I can't remember. But I was able to stay in rooms here and there. After a few days and nights, I was getting curious why I hadn't seen anybody in this hotel since my arrival. Seeing a room that looked like a lab, I entered in bewildered at the thought of a lab being in a hotel. This was a lab all right but there were some odd-looking objects that reminded me of witchcraft. Ooh. Creepy. I saw this other room that seemed to be a place where folders and folders of information were stored. I walked in and the door behind me suddenly shut on me. Nothing happened afterwards so I thought that may have been the wind. I looked at the files and I discovered...that I was in a castle of an evil witch and innocent people in the rooms who also thought it was a hotel were put under her spell. It was a good thing that her hotel was full and closed. I decided to save those people. (Yes, I aimed to be heroic.) I wouldn't have the guts to in real life. Well, I'll just keep the rest brief. Basically, I walked up to the door to what was supposedly the place where the witch was. When I opened the door, I saw a long hall with many doors. I opened one, pitch dark. Next door. Abyss in the dark night. I almost fell over! Next door. A city of lava. Trusting my instinct, I entered. I can't remember what happened but I know I was victorious after many struggles. So I was the hero.]]></description>
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      <title>You angered me in my dream. Now I'm just mad at you.</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jan 1997 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#7</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[This dream was one of those dreams where people you see everyday are involved and the dream seems like a normal day. I think this was in the 7th grade - 1997 or 1998. Anyway, I found a toy that I haven't seen in an extremely long time, and I wanted it back badly. Just then, my sister comes in, takes it, and destroys it. I grew furious. Then I awoke. I ran over to my sister's bedroom door, burst into the room, and began to scream at her in anger. She just woke up bewildered and said "Huh?" Then I realized that it was just a dream. Oops!]]></description>
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      <title>Apocalyptic Vines Arose from the Earthquake</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Sep 1996 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#2</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I think this dream was when I was in the sixth grade and this dream didn't really have a plot. Basically, I was in my house doing whatever when I hear some noise. I listen again and the next thing I know, the floor is beginning to tremble. At first I thought it was an earthquake being in California and all. However it was not. Cracks began to appear on the hardwood floor and suddenly all these stems with leaves began to climb out of the cracks. The plants grew at amazing speeds and this reminded me so much of the movie "Jumanji." It pretty scary because the plants began to grow in such ways that they blocked the exits. I was trapped. I didn't know what to do. And then suddenly my mom saved me by waking me up.]]></description>
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      <title>Drowning in a Sea of Ladybugs</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Sep 1994 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#3</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I can't remember when this was. I think either the fourth grade or fifth grade. Anyway, there's almost no plot or details to this one. I saw a swarm of lady bugs so dense that it was like a thick sea of red. The ladybugs began covering my feet like a blanket, covering more and more of me. I couldn't see my legs because of the sheer number of ladybugs. They moved quickly and made high-pitched insect sounds. More and more came moving up and enshrouding my legs and up and up and up... This was freaky but I don't remember the rest, fortunately for me.]]></description>
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      <title>Enchantress of Neptune</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jan 1990 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#8</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[This is probably one of the most vaguely remembered dreams out of all my not-too-abstract dreams. I recall being brought to Neptune or Uranus. The planet was green, so it must have been Uranus, but there weren't any rings around the planet. There was also a goddess there, or was it an enchantress? She was wearing a long white dress, something like an evening gown. She was very tall, very thin, and very blonde. These details aren't too important to the overall plot, but I'm only recalling what I remember. I think there was a unicorn, white of course, that had some powers. Anyway, the planet had many strange lakes and plant life, kind of like a fantasy world. This is where my mind goes blank. The plot could have went two ways. One is the one I do not remember. The other could be that I was stuck on the planet for a very long time, and because the planet took so long for each revolution around the sun, my body aged at that same speed making each year seem very, very long. But this ending might have been another dream.]]></description>
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      <title>The earliest dream I recall</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 1 Jan 1990 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~gordeon/dreamworld.html#1</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The oldest dream I remember was when I was in the first grade or the second grade. Anyway, I was in my house when I suddenly heard something in the kitchen. And there was a skeleton there. I was confused and then this skeleton came to life and saw me. I was nearly paralyzed in trepidation. I ran all over the house as fast I could scouring for an escape. To my surprise, all the exits were inaccessible because all the doors and windows were locked. He chased my until I was exhausted. And right before the moment he was about to kill me, I awoke.]]></description>
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	  <title>A note about the dream book</title>
	  <pubDate>Mon, 1 Aug 1985 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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	  <description><![CDATA[You are viewing my dream book, originally a more select collection that evolved into a log of dreams online because it was the only convenient way to archive them given that I seemed to log from so many places, without a consistent available paper journal, from Dhahran in Saudi Arabia, to Guangzhou and Hong Kong in China, to Pebble Beach, Berkeley, and Oakland in California...  I've preserved each dream as I had written them at the time, but keep in mind that I had written nearly all of these hastily to save as much as possible as the dream rapidly slipped from my mind.  I try to string something coherent, but dreams often don't work that way.
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I long contemplated whether to keep these private, but ultimately, I decided to make most of my dreams publicly available for my friends to see. These are still my dreams, and they hold high sentimental value to me, so please be respectful by not reproducing any of this anywhere else in any form without speaking to me first. Thanks, and please enjoy!
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-Gordon Mei]]></description>
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