I was at a summer camp and my parents were there visiting me. I was trying desperately to show them a music video that was really popular amongst the campers but I couldn't find the right one. It was a song about new beginnings and the entire video was short clips of the very beginnings of things (flower bloom, sunrise, etc).

Later I was with a group of friends and my old friend Jodi Z was there. She was recently divorced and as we sat and talked I decided that I was going to ask her out.

Someone had given me a tiny snake as a pet which seemed like a perfectly good idea until I noticed that the package said "mildly poisonous." I then spent the rest of the dream tying to capture it with various things as it gradually grew larger and larger and by the time it was the size of a python I was afraid I'd never be able to capture it.

I was standing outside of my apartment with Nathan M. in Brooklyn only it was in a very industrial area. Our friend Michael B. passed by on his way home and as we talked a girl from work (Paola fromWhat/When) walked by on her way to work and said a quick hello. As she walked away I noticed she was wearing really tight jeans and I never realized how nice and thick she was.

Michael said he was on his way to eat some tacos and invited us along. I knew I had to be somewhere later that afternoon but decided to join him since I never get to see him. We walked westward over to Cobble Hill (which was nothing like Cobble Hill) and I was exited to find a new good  food spot in his area. We walked past the taco place and around the corner to his apartment and you could hear West Indies music blaring from one of the apartments. He said "That's the only negative thing about living here."

When we got upstairs to the doorway of the apartment his dogs came running out to excitedly greet us (they were just like Ryan's little dogs) and when we got inside his sister was there as well. She asked if we were there to eat his tuna tarts and I realized that it was his plan all along.

We wandered around observing his place as he took biscuits out of the fridge and topped them with a tuna casserole of sorts and I couldn't wait to try them once they came out of the oven.

It was 3:30pm and I had just shown up to a Concierge event. There were stuffed smurfs everywhere and everyone was anticipating the arrival of a boy who I didn't know. It became apparent that this was a birthday party for him and when I ran into another Concierge I expressed how disappointed I was that I didn't read the invite before coming. Also, my ex Emily was there with a few of our old friends and I wanted to go over and talk to her but I didn't want to be around the people she was with. Plus, I knew it would make her uncomfortable so I kept my distance and just occasionally glanced over from afar.


Later on there was games and entertainment (an amusement park of sorts) and I played laser tag with a few other people. Eventually I became bored with the game so I was happy to discover that my gun was a laser machine gun and I just held the trigger and "killed" everyone in the room. I had never seen as many people so impressed and disappointed at the same time.


I went out into the hallway and there was this huge insect that was buzzing around on the floor. It was green and kept changing its shape from a grasshopper to what resembled a tiger lily and I decided it was a cicada. I captured it with a paper cup and set it it a nearby plant so I could protect it from harm until maintenance came to bring it outside.


At the end of the evening (or it may have been a different dream altogether) I found myself alone with my ex and we were embracing each other and smelling each others' cheeks (so as to be as intimate as we could without actually kissing) and eventually I ended up picking her up and holding her up beneath her thighs so that her legs wrapped around my torso. Our genitals were two thin pieces of material away from each other and my cock was so hard I thought it would burst through my jeans.


We stopped (she stopped) after a few lip-tingling seconds and suddenly we were both preoccupied by other things. A friend had called her and my phone kept buzzing with texts from friends and it became apparent that this would be the end of our little moment together.


Before it could get any more erotic or uncomfortable I was awoken by my cats who came running into the room meowing about the strange white phenomena falling from the sky outside the window.

It started with me on the upper deck of a huge sports bar and the employees were just starting to put a large plastic tarp over the enormous television screen, which indicated that it was probably going to rain soon. The TV must have been at least 10'x10' and with a screen that large I wondered if they had hired someone on JUST to monitor the weather.


I went inside and met a guy sitting on the couch. He was one of these shady, unattractive, unkempt bar slugs who had nothing of value to offer the world and still thought way too highly of himself which is a lethal combination.


Next I found myself in the upstairs room of a large house in the midst of a party but as I sat a the desk it occurred to me that I was at work. A woman came over to the desk and asked if I could print off something from her flash drive (which is quite common) and I explained that we could not do this as per hotel policy but that she was more than welcome to use the business center (which is true).


She proceeded to jam the card into the USB slot and said "See, it works!" and I just lost it. I started screaming as loud as I could and I didn't care what the repercussions might be. "I TOLD you I couldn't do it and yet you insist on doing it anyways? WHO does something like that?!"


I realized that she could still get me in trouble so I offered to take her to the business center in he hopes that she would say "No I'm an adult so I can do this on my own" but of course she didn't because everyone leaves their common sense at home when on vacation.


I walked her through a huge mall full of people and down into the basement and just before we stepped into the business center room I saw Kasia follow us down. The woman and I went into the room and I closed the door behind me and as we started setting the computer up I remembered Kasia was still outside. When I opened the door she was stripped down to her underwear and I was taken back by this. When I turned around the woman was now on a bed with the creepy bar slug and before I knew it Kasia was crawling up near him assuming she had just walked into a pre-planned foursome.


The girl had now taken off her panties and was lying on her stomach giving me a perfect view of her extremely hairy ass (almost werewolf like) and as much as I wanted to bury my face in it I was much too focused on keeping Kasia from handing her goods over to a man who I (and she too if she had spoken even a word to him) had zero respect for.


The party switched to an upper level area that hovered high above a lake and there must have been at least 100 people up there drinking and getting loosened up. Kasia went downstairs to get something so I threw her my pants and the keys fell out and almost fell into the water. Kasia removed all of her clothes before coming back up and I was so happy to see this side of her again as it seems I never do anymore.


I was worried about not having enough booze and then remembered I had a small bottle of rum that Kasia had brought along. This was going to be a good night.

I dreamt about a young boy who walks around his house drawing over the same line he had been doing for years. He was beaten by the police and when I went to interview him he pointed out all of the different layers. "At first I would just cut the walls and then I used chalk and then I used marijuana and now I use blood."


The mom said She was going to clean it up but decided against it.

I was on a road trip with Kasia and my phone constantly running out of power. Early one morning we had stopped on the side of the road and I ran across the street to the supermarket while Kasia waited in the car. I had a coupon for a free carton of cigarettes with the purchase of a carton and the lady helping me seemed confused about how to handle it. I scanned the various brands and decided it best to go with Marlboro reds since they would be the easiest to resell. The saleswoman disappeared and I was left standing there for around (what seemed like) ten minutes before becoming impatient and asking someone else to assist me.

Moments later an old school friend Craig L. approached me wearing the supermarkets uniform and I could tell he recognized me but was too busy to say hello. He looked annoyed and must have felt bad for my situation because he grabbed a large box of cigarettes off the shelf and handed them to me, saying "here, just
take these."

I could immediately tell there were more than 20 packs inside and I blurted out "Are you sure?" but he was gone before I could get an answer. On my way out I noticed that some of the packs were in rough shape and some were even opened with cigarettes falling out of them and I figured this was supposed to be a return box. Plus they were Marlboro Lights (which looked more like Benson & Hedges) so I was worried they would be harder to resell.

Next, we were riding on a little train that ran along a track about 20 feet off the ground. It ran through a forest and along the way we passed some amusement parks and I mentioned how awesome it would be if they were open 24 hours a day. Then it occurred to me that this wouldn't be possible since the animals needed to sleep and then I thought of them trying unsuccessfully to sleep as our train shamelessly roared by.

Eventually I figured out that we were on our way to a Packers game being held at Lambeau Field. I had an extra ticket so I decided to give it to my old workmate Mike C. since he's a big fan and I haven't seen him in ages.

 Before we arrived at the game my entire family stopped off at a shopping mall which had to be accessed by going through an abandoned amusement park and I thought it might be fun to come back and take pics of all the run down amusement parks I had seen that night.

My parents went into the store while my sister and I stayed near the entrance and played vintage arcade games. One of them involved a wheel that spun around with paint stir sticks attached to it. Each stick had
a number written on it and the object was to punch off the sticks with matching numbers until all pairs were knocked off the wheel. When we got into the store I saw dad chasing around a giant squid and he was so annoyed that he couldn't catch it. It was twice the size of him but it didn't seem to deter him. Finally, one of the workers caught it and brought it over to a large pool where he seemed to enjoy
himself. He was making noises like a dolphin and his eyes were wide and smiling and no one had the heart to tell him that this pool would eventually heat up to a boiling point where he would be cooked and
eaten.

It was beautifully sad and the store employee and I stood filming it on our iphones until my phone went dead.

I was living in a huge house that was set up in a hotel fashion where each floor consisted of a long hallway full of rooms with stairs on each end that lead all the way downstairs. I was living with a few other people who had survived the zombie attacks and by now we were all pros at protecting ourselves.

The house lay on a few hundred acres of land with a run down set of carnival rides at the bottom of the hill that the previous owners had built and never took down.

At one point we had placed an ad for a handyman and since the entire town knew about our zombie issue it wasn't long before we had a line of people outside of our door all looking to become the newest member of the freak show house. I had to address them all and explain that we were looking for someone who not only could protect themselves against the zombies bit who actually had maintenance experience.

I explained that they would begin with a test: they had to go up one set of stairs and come down the other without being bitten by the zombies and only then would they be considered for the job.

Outside me and another kid (an effeminate teenager with blonde hair named Clint) had discovered an old Greek plaque that showed two slaves at the ends of two ropes that were attached to a cart, and this gave Clint the idea that we could chain both of the zombies up in the yard and use them to do something for us, but I woke up before he told me what it was they would do.

I was living with my cousin JJ and I had awoke in the middle of the night to go to bathroom. I knew I was starting a new job in the morning but I wasn't sure what time I started so I called the number on the employment contract. My old co-worker Rob Johnson answered the phone and he  reassured me all teachers start at 10am. I hung up the phone and started cleaning the counter, content with knowing that I was a clean person to live with.

I went into the kitchen to look over the employment contract again and at the top of the page it displayed my fate: Youth Gym Teacher. On the line below it showed three different salaries that totaled $31,500. Suddenly it occurred to me that this was only 1/3 of my current income and I started freaking out. I started to wonder if It was too late to get my job back at the hotel but I knew it wouldn't be the same because now I'd be at the bottom of seniority and I'd be working nights, weekends, etc. I also realized I was going to school and wondered if I would be reimbursed now that I quit halfway through the year to become a teacher there.

When I woke up the next morning I was living with my old friend John Milton and his girlfriend. I was changing into a new pair of shorts and my pockets were full of random junk. John had offered to lend me a duffel bag so I had a place to store all of the things in my pockets I wouldn't need.

As I left for work I said goodbye to to another old friend Joe Ruskiewicz and I promised him we'd hang out after I got out of work.

When I got outside I headed up the hill to go to school and all of Kasia's coworkers were walking amongst me as this was the same route to the museum. On the other side of the hill there was a city called Janel or Tracy and the entire city was a small model (much like a toy train village) and I felt like Godzilla as I walked through, trying my hardest not to crush the homes and businesses beneath me. The last thing I recall thinking is how I wished I knew about this town when my parents were here because I knew they'd get a kick out of it.
 

I was living at my parents' house in Appleton and although it was early in the morning I remembered staying up making mixed taped all night. I was running late for work and when I caught a bus from the Kwik Trip down the street from their house I realized that it was the wrong bus. Luckily I had my skateboard with me so I figured even if I had to switch buses I could still skate part of the way.

As we approached the mall I knew I was nowhere near work (which is funny because I don't know where "work" was anyways) so when we pulled into the parking lot I decided to get out and skate as fast as I could. Just then I noticed my friends Hilary and Jason pulling up in a small red car (VW Bug posssibly?) with 2 of their kids in the backseat. I ran over to say hello and after some small talk Jason offered to give me a ride to work and I was so relieved. Hilary and one of the kids had run into the store and suddenly Jason, realizing that the other child was still in the car, ran over to check on him.  The bus driver was standing amongst us for some reason and he laughed and said "Wow! You can tell I don't have children because I never would have thought to check on the other kid!"

By the time Hilary had returned to the car the bus driver was in the store and I realized I left all of my mixed tapes in the bus. As Jason drove me over to see if I could pry the doors open we discussed getting together after I was out of work so we could make mixed tapes together with all of his CDs.

I was traveling through Switzerland with my friends Dave, Nathan and my cousin Christian to meet up with my friend Anoushka and her family who live in Lausanne. The dream began with Christian and I entering a
shopping mall and Christian had snuck into a secluded area beneath the stairs to hide our shoes and jacket so we wouldn't have to carry them around. As soon as he was inside I could tell the mall security cops had found out he was in a restricted area so I discreetly walked away as they started looking for him. I found myself in the back of the mall where a conference was in progress and I waited there until my cousin was able to elude the security and meet back up with me.

In the next segment I had met Anoushka's mom on the side of a deserted country road. Somehow we both knew that my main reason for this trip was to see Rachel but we hugged each other and spoke happily about how nice it was to see each other again. The sun had just begun to set and in the distance a girl around ten years of age appeared on the road. Anouschka's mom had called for her and as she slowly walked towards us I began taking pics of her bathed in the sun's orange glow with the silhouette of a large old barn in the background.

Next I found myself eating hamburgers with Anouschka and Kasia. We were taking pictures of the food and trying to come up with some ideas for what to do that evening. I walked over to Nathan and he gave me a passcode to use with my phone so that I could text my friends back home for free.

That night we all ended up at a party in someone's house down the street from where Anouschka lived, and my cousin and I were still in our socks because our shoes were still at the mall. When no one was looking I snuck away from the party and decided to walk past Anouschka's house in the hopes that Rachel would be home. I was carrying a large bouquet of flowers which I thought would be a nice gesture but as I approached the house I saw a light on upstairs and the gravity of the situation had fallen upon me. I knew it was Rachel in that room and suddenly all of my doubts and insecurites has risen to the surface. What would she think of me?  Would she be upset that I was there? The sidewalk lead me into the backyards of the rest of the neighborhood, and I continued to walk until I finally had the courage to turn around. I passed by her house again, more slowly and deliberately, but this time all of the lights were out and I was a bit sad that I may have lost my only opportunity to see her.