Dreams – 4/17

4/17/25: I was at a soccer game and the ball was kicked towards me on the sideline. It rolled out of bounds and went under some bleachers. I tried to kick it out the other side but kicked the ball under the first row of the bleachers where it would be trouble to get out. A player said it looked like it was a big cave under the bleachers and I answered “They biggest cave in the world is under the Atlantic Ocean and it is three miles by three miles in size.”

4/17/24: I was in a giant locker room/shower. The nozzles all pointed upwards like fountains but there was limited water pressure. It was apparently my high school and I was a freshman and not wearing clothes–and I kept getting pushed closer and closer to Steve P. (who I haven’t seen since he was a freshman in HS) and Carl C. and kept trying to turn sideways so that there would be no ‘sword-crossing’.

4/17/23: I was playing a complicated boardgame–but the pieces moved automatically like a computer game. It was about world trade and making money with cargo ships from port to port, but only a certain number of ships could fit in ports and there were limited contracts at each then they’d sail to a destination where there was limited space and if they sat at a port for any reason for too long, the boats (which were circles with the contact value listed on them) would pop like a bubble and disappear. Each nation had routes of different values and I realized that while everyone else was fighting to reach Trieste, that the Americans made the most money by going San Francisco to Panama to Capetown and that onle the Dutch and American players had permission to deliver goods to Antarctica. I also saw that very quickly, the trade routes leading to India and into the Persian Gulf were filling up and that I could build “super-tankers” which were bigger pieces which would knock the others out of my way.

4/17/22: I was in college and was laying in a bed in a girl’s room–except the bed was king-size and there were no walls or ceiling, so I knew the ‘room’ was in my grandparents’ backyard in Keokuk. I was watching a movie in the bed with her and kept saying “I hope there’s nudity” whenever scenes changed not realizing the girl next to me was naked under the covers.

4/17/21 #1: I was a little kid with two other boys. We were busy playing a game of some sort in a hallway and we decided the game was more important than school, so we didn’t go into our classroom. Suddenly I was an adult in an office and I was being lectured for disciplining three kids back when I was a teacher because they skipped a class. One of the moms who was upset came in and said my punishment drove her son to give up all sports and he never played them again and that the world would’ve been a better place if Michael Jordan got to play baseball and basketball. Mrs. Jordan then stormed out, flicking a stole/wrap of some kind around her neck as she did. (Yeah, sports would be different if a guy named Jordan played basketball, especially….)

4/17/21 #2: I was in bed in college then realized my living space had big bay windows that permitted people in the restaurant next door to look in and see what I was doing, like I was in a zoo. I realized this as I stood there in my underwear.

4/17/21 #3: I was in a living room–it makes me think now of my grandparents’ front room in Keokuk. I looked out the window and saw it was a nice day. I walked over to my couch to get ready to go outside when Sean La. barged in followed by a meek USAF officer. (Sean La. is the ass-hat in real life who incompetently botched how my former company worked within the big company that purchased it) Sean was angry and demanded to know what I was doing. He then saw a model plane on the wall and demanded I explain how the plane worked to the Air Force officer. I pointed out it had a rubber band, that you twist the propeller, and then toss it in the air and it would fly until the band unwound. Sean said, “Just as I thought.” He turned to the Air Force officer and said “You should use these against the Russians.” The Air Force officer then saluted me and left.

4/17/20: I was at a match between Illinois State and Ohio State at St. John Arena. ILST had Emily Orrick playing with them and the OSU team was the 1992 squad. They were doing this so OSU could show my assistant coach how awesome they were so she would play there–in the dream she was a high school junior…but she was still my assistant coach. I watched the game from behind the ILST bench peeking out from behind shelves filled with boardgames and food. When the game was done, no one would talk to me, so I started to leave. Jim Stone went to change into red bell-bottoms and a hat with a feather in it so he could take my assistant coach/his recruit to the library with some of the team–who dressed in clubbing outfits for that. Carrie Leonard then recognized me and convinced others to help clean the concessions stand–which was actually part of the Columbus Convention Center. Also important–>my assistant wore braces which sparkled light like a disco ball. (What.The. Crap.)