Dreams – 7/16

7/16/25 #1: The dream was grainy black/white. It was a baseball game with Dizzy Dean pitching but it was on the deck of an aircraft carrier with Corsairs right behind home plate. Dean was mouthing off to the catcher so the catcher wouldn’t throw him the ball–he rolled it and made Dean chase it. Eventually Dean treated everyone nice and they were able to finish the game. 7/16/25 #2: I was in a convention hall with black drapes, black concrete floor. I found my backpack but there was a sweater on top of it so I knew it wasn’t mine. I started walking towards the exit and under one table I saw a pair of Illini tennis shoes and the next table had a pile of ‘stuff’. Then I saw my orange backpack and walked over to it and a woman got mad and said it was her backpack. I said it was mine and that the toothpaste was on top. I opened it (which made her madded) and the toothpaste was there. People gathered round and I said “And there’s a troll baby at the bottom of the shaving kit” and there was and she stormed off to call 911 and an older woman next to me said “It was so much better in the old days.”

7/16/23: I was at an orgy(???) sitting on a couch with a bunch of naked women, but we were sitting posed for a photograph with people on the floor sitting in front of us and then people standing behind us. After that, someone was pushing my face to kiss a woman’s face showing on a TV screen. I didn’t want to participate because Julie would be mad but she was there nodding in my old recliner as she did a knitting project.

7/16/22 #1: I was watching the Bears play the Rams. The Rams QB took off running a long ways and then the Bears stripped the football and it bounced backwards. Another Ram picked it up but the Bears stripped that and it just kept repeating with a Ram running and a Bear causing a fumble until all the players were tired and the refs downed the ball where the initial play started from.

7/16/22 #2: I was playing NHL hockey on a big pond but my friends/teammates wouldn’t let me go in, so I kept sprinting up and down the pond’s side behind the scorer’s table to stay warm. I tried out figure and speed skates, too, to see if those would get me more playing time especially since the playing area extended out of sight. When there was a break, the team came over to a wall that suddenly appeared but they still wouldn’t let me play. Then I realized we were playing the NY Rangers and that I didn’t want to play any more. I just wanted to root for the Rangers.

7/16/22 #3: I was at an event hosted by the Marines. I got separated so I went to my dorm room and was sorting through my suitcase to make sure I had clothes for the week. I couldn’t find my paperwork though. There was a knock on the door and a woman was there–said I was late for lunch. We walked to the cafeteria and ran into Jason Kegler (was VP Student Affairs when I was at Allen CC) but he wouldn’t talk to us. I realized it was because I was wearing an Iowa State Army ROTC jacket. There was an escalator up to the food. The woman showed a ticket but I didn’t have one. Then the woman showed the cashier my ticket–it was in a passport holder. Lunch was $10. We went *down* the up escalator straight into the food lines. There were “pureed” meats inside giant eggs. The cafeteria manager from Allen was there with her husbands (plural). They were disappointed because they were Catholic and everything was red meat.

7/16/21: I don’t remember the dream–but whatever it was, I woke up with “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” as an earworm.