Dreams – 3/14

3/14/24: I was in a big white room with folding tables because I wanted to learn how to play bass guitar. I was randomly strumming on a 20-string (literally, they were pieces if string/yarn) instrument but it was playing melodies. Then I was sitting at a table because class was starting and we would learn to play via boardgames. The boardgame had a Matrushka doll of a piece of poo–with smaller pieces of poo inside, all looking like fingers. There was a severed human pointer-finger that I thought was plastic until it started moving itself around the gameboard like an inchworm. I KNEW I was going to leave the class an expert bass player.

3/14/23: I was hired by Tom Cruise to keep him company on a flight to Europe because he wanted company but didn’t want to have his face seen on the flight, so I was in a Star Wars stormtrooper outfit without a helmet while he was in a similar costume but kept his helmet on. He was left alone, then went to the bathroom and while there, the pilot came on and talked about the coolest person on the flight and it wasn’t Cruise and Cruise got mad he hadn’t been recognized as “short for a stormtrooper.” Then I was in a bed in a room and Cruise was spooning me(!!) and I told him “I am happily married and straight, but I won’t tell anyone about your urges.” He cried but invited me to a party at his house where a bunch of Academy Award winners were bungie-jumping into an underground lake Cruise built with coral and tropical fish. When it was my turn, Cruise jumped with me and held me underwater, trying to drown me, telling me “The experience is good for you, Jimmy.”

3/14/22: I was standing around a building with classrooms. I saw they were playing games in one class and walked in and realized it was a class for athletes and they looked at me funny. Most knew me and were upset because I wasn’t a coach. One kid was Jessica S. (student from when I taught high school) and she had a game that looked like Twilight Struggle but she said she invented it. Other people had games I recognized and got angry when I called them by what they were–they all said the invented them. Kate V. called me a jerk so I left. Outside the room again, I saw Jenna T. dressed in pink going into the class. She said she’d come back because I was gone. That made me sad, so I walked outside. Apparently I was in the second HS building of my youth and needed to go over to the main building. I was in socks and I tried hopping to keep at least one sock dry butI couldn’t hop more than a few times before my leg gave out and I had to switch.

When I got there, they were preparing for tennis practice by lining balls up on the endline, straightening them with a pole vault pole. They were hurrying because there was a track meet going on and they needed the pole. Coaches were discussing whether to hold the jumping events in the baseball infield or outfield to screw up opposing jumpers but they stopped talking when they saw me.

3/14/21: I was in the LLCC Fitness center with my team. I was coaching and I was also an official–so I had to penalize three of my athletes (Katie G. and Kate V. from the 20-21 team and Hollie S. from 11-12) for “holding” and that would be enforced on the opening serve. As coach–because they were penalized–I also “punished” them by making them be the first to run out of the tunnel before the game started.