Thursday, December 30, 2010

This is what happens when I pass out on the couch with music on after watching reruns of Glee

I was on a beach of sorts but it wound around the outside of a cylindrical building. I was on a plastic chaise lounge chair when I saw the actress who plays Brittany on Glee and a girl I went to college with but wasn't exactly friends with, Heather. Heather walked right by me and I pretended to be asleep - she went over to talk with Brittany*. Then they turned to me and I asked Brittany if I could see the photo album she'd been looking at. It was stuffed full of not just photos but little trinkets and other things to remember what the pictures were of. She said I could and handed it over to me - Heather recognized me then and said hello - and I rolled over onto my stomach and began flipping through all the pictures and memorabilia in the book, trying to keep everything in its proper order. I called over to Brittany an apology because I thought I might have been putting things back in the wrong order, but she told me not to worry about it.

Then, I was on the deck of an apartment building that had a view of Brittany's apartment but she couldn't see me. In the reflection of the glass siding, I could see her and Heather talking but I saw a menacing-looking old man - he was maybe about 65-year-old, although he could have been younger and just haggard-looking - approaching them. I wanted to call out to them to warn them, but they turned around and saw him then embraced him - I guessed that he was family.

I proceeded to think about how pretty both of them are and got excited, so I went home to have some "alone time" but found Amy waiting for me, asking me where my luggage for our trip to Israel was. I told her I had to pack my Nintendo 64 and all the games, then I would be ready. We were in some sort of student union type of building then, walking around an enormous entertainment system that had three LCD TVs mounted together around a column, with all sorts of video games attached to them. I had to untangle the wires of my N64 console, the controllers, and grab all the games. We noticed that the concert going on in another area of the building - Chicago - was just ending so I told Amy to meet me outside to avoid the rush of people, that I would be right out. She left and I scrambled to find all my cartridges. I finally stuffed all the games into a tray holder and was about to leave when I realized that I needed the AC cord and the AV cord, so I had to backtrack to pull those out of one of the TVs. Then I realized I was holding a yellow controller, not a red one, so I had to find my red one in addition to the gray SuperPad64 controller (those are the types I have in real life). FINALLY I had everything of mine and as I turned to leave, I bumped into the older man from Brittany's porch. He freaked the heck out of me and I sprinted outside, past W.G. from work and his girlfriend, who were dancing to Chicago's finale of "25 or 6 to 4**." As soon as the concert finished, there was a mad rush to the front and Kings of Leon's "Sex on Fire" came on over the speakers as the lights were turned up.

I got outside and down the front steps of the building after what seemed like forever and the crowd had very quickly dispersed but Amy was nowhere in sight. I saw Melissa, though, and jogged over to her. She was talking to an extremely cute guy who I know I've met before in real life but can't place him - and also didn't know he knew Melissa - and I asked her to dial Amy's number from my Blackberry because I just couldn't hit the right keys to do so with all my N64 gear in my hands. I was looking for Amy in her mom's old green car that she had in real life, but there was a carpool line so as I waited, I talked to the cute guy. Melissa had walked a few feet away to talk to some other mutual friend of ours, and she was still calling Amy from my Blackberry but not getting any answer.

*The actress' name in real life is Heather Morris, so maybe that's why a Heather that I know appeared? Also, I now can't stop watching Heather Morris perform "Single Ladies" w/Beyonce, whom she danced with for a while before she got the acting gig on Glee.

**I had a playlist of cover songs*** on my iTunes when I fell asleep, and I immediately turned it off once I woke up so that I could type this dream as much as possible as quickly as possible before it disappeared from memory. Three songs ago, was Local H's cover of "25 or 6 to 4." The link is to the live version, but I have the studio version, just couldn't find a link to it online.

***It's kind of cool to fall asleep with a playlist on because I can calculate just how long I was asleep, using a time calculator. I was asleep for a total of 1:14:54, but "25 or 6 to 4" appeared in my dream after 1:01:22. So, I was asleep for another 0:13:32 after Local H penetrated my dream, until I woke up to the Scissor Sisters' cover of "Comfortably Numb," which is two songs after Local H; I only vaguely recall hearing that song though because I didn't fully awaken until Hall and Oates' version of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling." That's the song I paused to type this dream.

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