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  • Dream: Stress on Many Levels

    I had another dream where I showed up for Commencement sans cap and gown. But before that, our school got some new add-ons to their buildings; the most noticeable being the “arch” (a…bridge) that connected the Art Complex to another building (our school does have a bridge, but it leads from the new library to the Town Center). Today was also the day that my group and I were supposed to give a presentation in our interdisciplinary art class (which is supposed to happen in real life as well…). We met up together on the loading dock of one of the buildings, so we could all go to class together.

    Some people were setting up for Commencement nearby. They had rows of long dining tables set out, with color-alternating place mats and utensils. We decided to head over to see how things were going. And we decided to sit at the tables. Once we were all seated, we found out that our art class would be giving presentations here, which was…convenient. At the front was a model building of the Art Complex with the “arch” (bridge) attached. A lady, who was in charge of the ceremony explained that the Art Complex getting its new “arch” had been all over the news. She also explained that arches weren’t a new thing, and that buildings had arches for year. There was also another model building, which resembled the office building of my old elementary school. There was a sign above the door that read “Cal Poly“, and I thought ‘:O I was there!‘ The lady noticed my reaction, and asked if I’ve been there. I nodded eagerly (and for some reason, thought of Mocha). And I thought ‘It’s also much larger than that…it’s more like a small city…’ (which was my initial reaction as we were going through the streets. My own college has some streets intersecting it, but they’re really small and two cars heading in opposite directions on the same street have to be very careful when driving by each other).

    And that was the end.

  • Dream: Disney Channel Islands

    In the real life CSU Channel Islands, people can get around the campus by either walking, ECVs or those miniature bus-looking vehicles. In Disney Channel Islands, people can either get around by walking OR by roller coaster (should’ve been the monorail, I tell you!). 8D;

    And there was a moment where Jeidai was with me, and I needed to go to my Art & Mass Media class. So we boarded an orange roller coaster with fiery-looking decals and took off. :3

    In other school dream news, it was time for Commencement. :O Apparently, I must be carrying a lot more Commencement stress than I thought, because:

    • I forgot to bathe. I really didn’t need to actually, but since this is Commencement (a.k.a. THE actual college graduation ceremony), my mom thought it would be a good idea that I be clean. And because CSUCI doesn’t have any public bath houses like in anime (not like I would use one :3), she suggested I take one in one of the abandoned buildings. Ehe, no thanks.
    • I forgot my cap and gown. I noticed this after I got out of having to take a bath at school. When I told my mom this, it was too late. Commencement was going to start in about five minutes, and my mom told me to just go ahead anyway. I freaked out, saying “They’ll kick me out if I don’t show up in one!”

  • Dream: What a Night of Stress Will Bring You

    (Ehe, Jeidai knows what I mean by “stress”. T_T)

    There were three small dreams actually:

    Dream #1

    I was at some sort of cafe/restaurant, when a horde of goblins/trolls came in clubs and started causing trouble. I freaked out and tried to hide, but they found me anyway and started to come after me…

    Dream #2

    I was in a forest where elves lived. Their houses were made from bedsheets draped over the trees. When I was with this little elf girl (who I drew in my sketchbook some time ago), a goblin came and tried to kidnap me (I was randomly chosen). He noticed that I was a human, and therefore hohoho! I would be easy to grab, because I had hair! I looked over the elf girl, thinking ‘Umm…doesn’t she have hair too?’ (hair longer than mine XP). And I wondered why I was being attacked by all these goblins. XO

    Both the elf girl and goblin were identified with Pokemon. The elf girl was a Poliwag (incorrectly labeled as a Poliwhirl in this dream) and the goblin was a Fearow. :3

    Dream #3

    Adam was a studio art major at my school. He also played the saxophone. 😛 After he finished his painting of a saxophone made from a Japanese-style quilt on a shaped canvas, he and the art tech had a pretend lightsaber duel.

    The end. XP

  • Me Multitasking Between Two Dreams

    I was watching Doug*. There was one scene where Doug’s sister (who didn’t look much like Judy, his actual sister) was driving down a road, with their mom in the front seat and their dad in the back (oddly enough, she was driving on the right side of the car), when both parents were hit with an epidemic that turns them into giant, vampiric spiders. That freaked me out, since I hate spiders, so I paused this scene for a little while, while trying to gather the courage to continue, since I was also really curious as to what would happen next.

    *8D; Some of those voice actors look familiar. Billy West?? (Futurama) Roxanne Beck?? (Revolutionary Girl Utena, 2nd Urusei Yatsura movie)

    Then I decided that now would be a good time to call Doug’s superhero alter-ego, umm…what was his name again? I could only think of the name “He-Man”, but I also kept thinking ‘hey wait, isn’t that the name of that cheesy superhero guy with the iron cross?’ (and multiple instances of He-Man’s line “I HAVE THE POWER” from the Funimation Channel’s commercial kept playing in my head, yargh). But “He-Man” was the only thing I could think of. As cheesy as it sounds, I remember reading from somewhere that it was a random, spur-of-the-moment name Doug thought of, and while it did sound cheesy at first, it eventually grew on the population of Bluffington, and it stuck.

    (Actually, his alter-ego is Quailman.)

    I took out my USB drive, uncapped it and flung out in front of me, yelling for Quailman’s help (looks like I got his name right after all). If you’re wondering why I would use a computer storage device to summon a superhero, my reasoning was, if you need a file with you most of the time, where would you keep it? In a USB drive. (No, that doesn’t make sense, but shhh, dream logic.) When he didn’t appear, I became confused and attempted to throw it again, when I realized ‘hey wait. This is how they summon Pokemon.’ Since Quailman’s not a Pokemon, I couldn’t call him out in the same way. 😛 I tried several more times, while just holding the drive out in front of me, but nothing happened. I became fed up and decided to call him like anyone would call for help from a superhero, and yelled “QUAILMAN!!!!!!”, knowing he would hear me, since he was just in the next room over.

    Switch to another dream

    I was at my late grandma’s house, with L (sister) when I spotted some anime books on the shelf, under the TV. They mainly had character bios for series like Ranma ½ and other series by Rumiko Takahashi. I was about to look at one, but L wouldn’t let me for some reason. When I started to look anyway, she asked my mom if we were allowed to read the books under the TV. When my mom asked what kind of books they were, she replied “anime”. Mom was unsure, since they might have been there long before we were born (i.e. they weren’t for us). I didn’t think so. The only way my grandma would have kids’ books in her house is if they were leftover from when she was still raising her kids (Mom and her sisters). And they couldn’t have been, since Ranma 1/2 came out in the 80s, after all the kids moved out. So, I was convinced she had gotten them for us to read (and I was sure L was going to physically break me in half ._.;). Then I realized I had another dream to attend to (Doug).

    Back to the Doug dream

    Once Quailman came over, the scene with the vampiric spiders was allowed to continue. But since they were Doug’s parents, we didn’t want to hurt them, so we decided to go after the head vampire. (We were all in the entry area of my house at these time.) Quailman was about grab him by the neck, when the vampire’s head easily fell off his neck.

    Quailman was surprised. He didn’t think it would be so easy. And I was surprised, until I realized that the vampire could probably move without his head (making him more like a zombie).

    And it pretty much ended there.