Dreams, a very long one

The very long dream I had last night:

First I was with some sort of group, maybe a team because it was full of young women my age.. I think that we came out of a movie theatre and went to the building direcly on the left side, which was an old fashioned restuarant. I can remember the double glass doors going in and the U shaped main room, with booths around the sides. The entrance was more on the left side and directly beyond that at the far wall was a door leading to the bathrooms. I think that there were some tables in the middle. I can't remember much... sitting down with different people... going outside behind it, it was a green field and doing something with other people.. maybe running around to different classes in the late evening (it was dark). I remember a hot air balloon being set up or maybe being set down? The balloon part was in the air... and I remember trees off to the right side in some sort of area and something was over there, maybe a class, and some big building in the back of the field, really far away.

And then I remember being at a community pool. Maybe. I'm a little confused. I can remember being at some strange type mall place, one story with a group of people. I think that I was with an Asian gitl who I either knew or just met. We were friends butI didn't really know this girl. I think we split up with the group.. I can remember looking through this one shop, it had like white curtains as walls and maybe furnityre on low display stages, maybe metal shelves.. I think that they sold big lamps or pillows. The air in the room felt like it came outside, it was a cool summer day, maybe a cool spring, very comfortable temperature. I remmeber some woman working there in a beige business suit came up to us and asked if we need help but I think that I was anxious about something... I remember we walked away and I think I bought a chinese yoyo or maybe a wooden stick? I think my brother was supposed to be with me but he wasn't, maybe he left? So my friend and I walked around, I think we were trying to use a cellphone to find a ride? We exited the shop through the left back and ended up in some large hallway, it was a utilitarian hallway like it was mostly used for moving goods. It was dark but light came in like maybe from a door that was open... I remember we went left down the hall way, turned left at the bend and I think maybe we met some people we knew or maybe she knew?

I can remember getting into some large and crowded van filled with young adults (I think that they were all Asian, Korean I think) and trying to fit this very long wooden pole in it somehow without hitting anybody. I can remember the outside of the shopping center, maybe we walked outside and got in and out of the van there? I think we got in the van to visit but declined a ride home and then stood outside waiting for someone and stressed out because no one came to get us. I didn't even know the girl I was with but she was very in charge type person, maybe bossy. It was very weird.

I remember being at the community pool along the left side. It was a cloudy morning, maybe darkened early-mid morning and kind of hot. I can remember the towels and lawn chairs laying open on the grass. I think that I was wandering around either by myself or following some people. I remember going through the opened building behind the grass, it was a dark wood thing...

And then I think the dream changed to have some sort of contests going on. I remember being on some kind of fear factor extreme stunts type family thing. It was sunny, and I remember wearing a bright yellow bathing suit and I was very tan and I was harnessed to some sort of rope rigging thing, this big rope thing was over the pool and four or five members of your family would be hooked at the bottom of this rigging and when the whistle or loud noise went off you would try to climb to the top... and this yellow hook thing would be chasing you up it. For every two rungs you went up it would follow you too and try to catch the rop that connected you to the rigging... you had to cut it off in a way that you got your rigging free and didn't cut the important part and then the hook would fall, but come back after you... I remember that I was one of the last people on the rigging and I got to the top without any problems, maybe not even with the hook getting me and I was almost done, one more rung and I could cut myself off and get free and win. The time was counting down and then the hook got me and I was trying to cut it off with a knife, to find the part thatI could cut without cutting my rigging, trying to search through the jumble of rope, and I started to cut and almost had it but the whistle or kaxon sounded and I was out of time and I was lowered to the ground. My family was a little upset that I was so close. They asked what happened and I said that I was so close.

I think that I might have been on a family where I had a twin and we were both blond, or a family with twin blond girls went after us and my family went first but "I" was with the other girl. I'm not sure. Anyways, another family went after us and I went back to the twoel and chair area to sit and wait. Another family that was going to go next or something was nearby and the young girl had I think soiled herself maybe or maybe needed to get dressed into some diving suit harness thing and so she and someone else and maybe my little sister, a little girl who just appeared but was young too, started to get up to go to the bathroom/changing room and i think I followed because I wanted to help or maybe spy and see what was going on. I think I was concerned but I was acting all spy like, trying not to be seen or spotted.

Then the last family went on the rope harness thing and as I understood it, the little girl I was following was a member of one of the first families, and THE family in the lead and they were going to start the next competition so I was trying to watch and learn to see what it was or something. Some tv host guy was there and getting them all settled by the side of the pool. There was this big airplane faceing sideways away, I think that it was in the water maybe and the father was placed inside it somewhere. Four members of the family were placed around it and the front propellor of this plane started.. It was a big plane like a commercial one but the wings were low and it wasn't THAT big, I think the tail also was low. And I think the water turned into cement or soemthing because I know that it had wheels and now a water landing type thing. The little girl was at the rear right of the plane, someone was before her. The TV announcer guy explained the challenge, that every member of the family would have to get onto the plane and the plane would have to stop. I think that there was someone else poileting the plane so the father would have to attack him or something to slow it down and stop it.

Something marked the beginning of the challenge and the plane started to move forwards and everyone yelled at the family members to run. The little girl started chasing after the plane, trying to catch up to the low right wing but it was obvious that she wouldn't be able to do it. I remember figuring it out that the father would have to slow the plane down soon so that she could actually cath up to it before they could stop it.

We all started running, surrounding the plane and runnign with the little girl with a pack of horses. I remember someone going "Keep going sweetheart" to the little girl when she started to lag and looked like she was going to give up. All she had to do was keep going at the pace of the plane. It was going pretty fast, maybe too fast for her but i think that she could do it. I remmber running along and we were all running and we were going really fast but it felt "easy", an "easy" pace that you can hold on to for along time and I was escatic that I could run like that. We ran and ran and ran and I was getting worried that somethign was going wrong, they had to slow the plane down soon the girl wasn't making it, I think someone picked up the girl and carried her or something as they ran and we kept running and running. We ran on some grass fields I think, then maybe some different ground. it was soft, I can't remember if I was barefoot or wearing my running shoes. Bit we kept going. I think that we went for at least 40 minutes at this killer pace, and it was like we couldn't stop.

And I think that the plane was in water then, and suddenly we came up to this dead end, a cliff. Only it was more like a waterfall and we couldn't stop. I felt the resolve decision to keep going. follow it off the cliff and I felt other people do it around me. I think someone nodded and voice our thoughts and as we ran they went "Yes, it is possible [to survive] you just have to hit the water at the right time of the air craft." But then i was running and jumping off of the cliff/waterfall and the plane was falling and we were falling and falling and i think I jumped too soon and I hoped I wouldn't die, but I turned down and dove into the water and i was okay and I came back up for air. All around me were other people too, and the plane was stopped in the water.

I remember heading back towards the edge or maybe a ledge surrounding the pool. I swam towards the direction we had come from and people started following me. We got out of the pool and no one really knew what to do. I think I always knew that this was a test and that we would have to find our way back. I remember there was a little boy, maybe a baby who had come with us and was floating kind of on a cloud next to the ledge. I think that I was very worried about him, he had very pale yellow hair and I remember pulling his cloud up after me as I figure out the best way to climb up this wall with a strange pattern of ledges sticking out. People followed me example, some followed the way I went or found their own. We came near the top and turned right towards the opening of the dam/waterfall. It was inside now, the opening was there and very big but you could go in it. Only there was something blocking the walking are, any area that you could walk and the water area was moving very swiftly. We seemed stuck.

I remember finding a way up, maybe moving a ledge that was on the side up and over to the left and climbing up on it. There were some small ufo shaped things, white, floating around the corner. They were sectioned like a pizza only 6 slices and some people were on them already. I remember handing the baby boy up to some people who I knew would make sure he was safe and then I got ready to jump on the ufo thing. It was moving around and I waited for it to come closer and it came closer than I had hoped. I think I jumped on it and landed on my belly but the top stopped spinning. The side I was on didn't have any people on it. I think we used it as a type of stepping stone.

I remember getting on the side again, higher. And it was made up of bleachers, tall wooden bleachers that seemed to go on forever. We climed and walked along then, back in the direction we had come to. I think that I was some sort of leader, unofficial but in this dream I knew it.

I think we had to go through traveling ouzzles, like find ways to get through things.

The next part I remember was getting into some sort of building. It seemed that things kept popping up in our pather that weren't there before and we had to get through the building to get back. It was bright, like it was daytime. I remember that as we traveled to the back, this room was filled with food. Dry food like boxes of cereal and microwavable popcorn only in huge puches and stuff like that. There were three open doorways that looke dlike they lead to different worlds. There was a door on the side back that was small, like it was a little room/closet that they used to have in older buildings, and I opened it, searching for a way out. There was what looked like a electricity box on the side wall and two small black things that looked like walkie talking only they had red digital count down faces. I thought that they were bombs and i think that I took a risk and hit them together to see if that would set the bomb off. Nothing happened and realizing how stupid that was, I put the things down and exited, calling someone by name who I knew was an electrician or expert to see what he thought of it.

Meanwhile, I started going through the supplies while the people behind me just looked. The doorway on the left lead to a green field with an apartment building behind it. The one on the right lead to what looked like the inside of a building that looked like a home-turned church classroom area. I don't remember that the middle dorrway lead to. I started to throw food supplies through the doorways, splitting them up with the intention of splitting the group up. i had no idea what would happen in the doorways, I wanted to send the babyboy/little girl through the left door but I was afriad that there would be monsters or dangerous dinosaurs waiting out of sight. It couldn't be completely safe and that made me anxious.

I think that maybe I sent everyone through and that I went through the middle doorway.

Next thing I can remember (I think the dream just changed) I was on a high speed bus. I think that it was a school bus and an older man was driving it. There was a spot at the back that was sort of like a second driving area like the way some trains are set up.

Something was going on, I think that we were maybe trying to get away from something. There was this really scary neon pink monkey thing with very sharp teeth clattering all over the outside of the bus trying to get in. It freaked me out in a scary way. I think that it got in once or twice but it was pushed out. I remember that near the back there was a type of door with a latch that was loose, like it could open. There was a middle aged, deaf black man in the back (diagonal fronm the front's seat) drivers seat doing something necessary, I don't know what, maybe making the bus ride out the big bumps so that we don't fall apart? He was doing something important and difficult, but anyways he gave me a look like he knew that that latch had to remain closed.

I was terrified that the monkey would come in. I went down to hold it closed and I realized that I would have to use something to hold it for me, anything. I racked my brain trying to come up with something when I noticed that I was chewing a large piece of gum. I knew that the lady/girl next and behind me would get upset if I used the gum, thinking that the only reason why I was taking it out was to make it seem like I needed it to svae the day when I really just wanted gum and I was breaking rules. Well I took the gum out of my mouth and placed it over the latch, it held it but it didn't look like it would hold it indefinitely and the monkey thing was tricky and could jiggle it until it opened. So I held out my hand for the snotty young woman to place her gum in it. I think that the fact that I was serious to let someone put their gum in my hand proved the point that I wasn't breaking the bus rules for no reason at all. And I really needed that gum. With both pieces, the latch held.

I got up and walked towards the front of the bus and on the way I noticed that I girl on the right was sleeping and had her window wide open! Stupid! Grrr. I was terrified that the monkey would get in. But I think that I just gave in since I couldn't smack the girl and demand that she close her window because I didn't have the right.

Anyways, next thing I know, the driver is incapacitated or something and we needed the black, deaf man to drive, so he did, which left a necessary driving seat at the back which we needed to fill. And the monkey was there, concentrating as it handled the jarring controls. Well whatever, we really needed someone to take care of it and the monkey was so I let him/it be. I remember that there was a woman near the back on the right sitting, maybe talking, In front of her was a pair of twins. There were other people, not a lot but the bus wasn't empty. In the front left there was a little boy, he was injured and lying down in the space that took up two seats. He was at waist height and had very light yellow hair and light eyes. A very special, nice smart boy. I think that he was about 7 years old. There was a woman with blond hair sitting behind him, kind of pushy and someone who I would not normally like. I think that she was his aunt, but she and the boy and the boy's mother (the woman sitting in the back) had done something to try and get off the bus (I thin kmaybe we were trying to get the bus to stop?) or do something... anyways, the boy was dying and I felt a sense of emotional friendship and fondness for the woman and she smiled and she wasn't that bad since she had actually done that and they were about to die.

I remember sitting next to the boy and saying how brave he was.. I think that maybe he had a broken right leg or was pierced with some malevolant magical energy or something. He was lying with his head to the front of the bus. I remember petting his hair.

I think that I became Harry then, and the boy was dying, such a wonderful biy and I was so sad. The boy said "Harry, I want you to have all mylands and buildings and stuff when i die becaus eyou deserve them." and he was such a nice boy but I, Harry, told him that I thought that they would legally have to go to members of his family.

So the boy quietly pulled out two dolls (I think that they were lying on him or maybe they were in a box to under him kind of in the aisle covered in legal papers, and the boy said "Then I want you to have my favourite dolls. You''ll take good care of them." They were maybe 6-7 inches tall and beige Bert and Ernie and Harry(me) felt his eyes water a little as he placed his hand over the hand of the little boy which was holding the dolls. "Okay, Teddy." he choked out and gently placed his other hand on the boy's forehead.

I think that I just lay there, emotionally thinking about the little boy, Teddy was his name, and his aunt, fondly and sadly, loving them.

(It took me over an hour to write this dream out)