Dreams – 7/23

7/23/25 #1: I was at a resort hotel and couldn’t find my room. I walked around the resort counter-clockwise and then reversed course and realized the hotel was round. I tried to look out windows for landmarks, but everything was green. I came to a hall that was straight and realized my room was here. I blinked and I was in my room. I turned around and Jody K. was there in a ‘little black dress’ and she put her arms around me. She gave me a long kiss and said “Surprise!” I noticed her eyes were blue and answered, “My grandmother always preferred brown eyes.” 7/23/25 #2: I was in a tunnel and we were at war with whoever was on the other side of a hatch. I couldn’t get my men through because they’d get killed. I went back to my commanding officer (a woman) and asked “Let’s go around instead” and she agreed, so I found a different room that had previously been sealed off and emptied barrels of yellow-green goop. Those caused a hole to appear and we were happy because we gained five rooms of space. I then went barefoot into a new area and realized it was unguarded and went back to my officer (who was now in a black bathrobe) and told her that if we got men down there immediately, we could take an entire flank. She ordered me to take a squad and do so. When we got there, I wondered “Maybe there isn’t an enemy on the other side?” and I woke up.

7/23/23 #1: I was looking through big windows at night and ducked just as automatic weapons fire hit the wall. The wall was ‘porous’ so plaster dust kicked up in the room. I looked towards the room’s door and realized I was in the Reichstag. I saw Nazis outside the door and reached for a grenade because I heard someone coming in. I rolled my grenade so it would reach the person just as they turned on the light. It turned out I’d grabbed a penlight instead of a grenade and the Nazi who entered was Hitler. He jumped on the penlight as if it was a grenade and then it exploded just like it was a grenade.

7/23/23 #2: I was in an apartment watching the news about a serial arsonist/killer with other people. That’s when I realized someone was drilling a hole in the ceiling. I pointed at it and it disappeared but when everyone else went back to the news, it reappeared much bigger and I saw the arsonist lowering bottles and stuff into the room on a cable. I stuck my head up through the hole and asked where he got the flame accelerants and he said “They are from the Tombstone Pizza National Corporation.”

7/23/23 #3: I was sitting on top of some bleachers which were closed/up against the wall. I was talking with a former student (Tom Dust, I think–may have been Aaron Weber) discussing the value of MREs and that it was a shame that the USAF had special meals they didn’t share with anyone else–and that all military personnel ought to have the same food.

7/23/22: I was helping Michael get dressed. He was in all black and his suit/jacket buttoned at the shoulder. It looked like something Nehru would wear or the Star Trek uniforms from Wrath of Khan. He was going out with a friend. We were hiding under bleachers in the friend’s living room when the friend’s dad came in. He was dressed in brown and had a red armband. Neither Michael nor I had realized his friend’s dad was a Nazi. The dad went over to a wall and started banging his head against it.

7/23/21: [no dream memory again but the song “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” was an immediate earworm upon waking]