Dorms, Computers, Wanderlust and a Skull.
I often have odd dreams, apparently... I just don't usually manage to remember them in much detail. Except for last night.
Starts out with me moving in to my college dorm for the semester.
The dorm "room" is a big..hall-like area, with a lot of beds and desks but no dressers (shelves over the beds?) Possibly a few closets. Not necessarily as many desks as beds (first come - first choice)...
I recall getting my computer on/plugging in only to find that apparently there was a problem with my cord (a whole part of it missing.. I assumed a mouse chewed the cord?) so used computer for as long as the battery lasted, talked to Gilead/mentioned I might go offline suddenly/didn't know when I'd have a replacement cord to use. Come battery dying time, I happen to look at the cord.. realize there's some kind of unnecessary extra part on the cord and that, in fact, the cord still worked just fine and just part of it wasn't connected (since cord is two parts) so proceeded to plug laptop back in and get back online, explained the false alarm.
Looked around dorm..room more, noticed it had a living room area in one corner. tv, couches. Not really separated from the beds, etc. Room itself is kind of a .. [ shape, or a blocky C. I explored the rest of the building. I was on the 2nd floor. There was another room similar to the one I was in, but it had some double beds and some single. Nicer? Desks were bigger and tilted like an art table, also apparently shared 'cause I saw at least one desk with 3 laptops sitting side-by-side on it.
The building also had more normal rooms, somewhere. First floor or something, I think.
At some point I check out the bathroom. The stalls were combination shower/toilet. So I guess you sorta have to sit on the toilet while you shower. Or risk showering when you use the toilet? Randomly saw girl from skating come out of one of the stalls.. wet, wearing clothes that were wet. Said girl just turned 13. O.o wonder what she was doing at a college dorm? XD
I believe I took a shower/changed into.. sleep clothes? (I assume because I know I was in sleep-clothes in a later part of the dream). I think I left without some of the showerstuff I'd taken in with me.
Uhhm .. Later. I.. wander off with someone else I just recently met, I guess. Run into Cathy (one of the adults in the homeschool group, really like her..) Apparently Cathy is some kind of authority figure here, and the dorm has some kind of nighttime curfew (for some reason I wanna say it was 10 pm, or at least before midnight that we were caught) where you're not supposed to be wandering out of your hall or room or whatever. But... she was taking the other girl somewhere and not me. I tried to tag along 'cause I wanted to talk to Cathy but she was busy and told me to go back to my room. I wandered off, but not back to my room.
Next thing I remember is its the next day and I'm walking back towards my dorm. Apparently I'd wandered around town all night. On my way back I ran into some guy I had met the day before. (I think said meeting occurred in the dream and I've just forgotten that bit). .. I wanna say the guy reminds me in looks of the pictures I've seen of Neil Gaiman? O.o Also guy seemed.. intelligent and stuff. A bit older than me (IE more like mid-twenties). Anyway, he asks me where I've been/what I've been up to and holds out his arm to motion for me to sit down beside him. I do, leaning against him and he puts his arm 'round my shoulders and we watch some people a little distance away playing cricket. I tell him I don't know where I've been, that I guess I'd been wandering around all night but I didn't really remember much of it. I seem to also wonder what Gilead must be thinking 'cause I didn't think I'd had my cellphone with me so I didn't think I'd spoken to him at all the night before, and may not have given an indication of what I'd be doing. Guy randomly has a cricket bat and sticks a ball on top of my head and proceeds to hit the ball off without hitting me. .. The cricket players stop playing and watch us. Then he does the same with the ball on some weird... horse/dog like animal? ... And then renders the animal unconscious on purpose, sticks his hand in its mouth and pulls the animal's skull out that way. It was an amazingly clean looking skull. He holds out his hand to me, to walk me back to my dorm, I refuse to take his hand "..its dirty!" so we hook elbows and walk back.
And thus the dream ends.
Starts out with me moving in to my college dorm for the semester.
The dorm "room" is a big..hall-like area, with a lot of beds and desks but no dressers (shelves over the beds?) Possibly a few closets. Not necessarily as many desks as beds (first come - first choice)...
I recall getting my computer on/plugging in only to find that apparently there was a problem with my cord (a whole part of it missing.. I assumed a mouse chewed the cord?) so used computer for as long as the battery lasted, talked to Gilead/mentioned I might go offline suddenly/didn't know when I'd have a replacement cord to use. Come battery dying time, I happen to look at the cord.. realize there's some kind of unnecessary extra part on the cord and that, in fact, the cord still worked just fine and just part of it wasn't connected (since cord is two parts) so proceeded to plug laptop back in and get back online, explained the false alarm.
Looked around dorm..room more, noticed it had a living room area in one corner. tv, couches. Not really separated from the beds, etc. Room itself is kind of a .. [ shape, or a blocky C. I explored the rest of the building. I was on the 2nd floor. There was another room similar to the one I was in, but it had some double beds and some single. Nicer? Desks were bigger and tilted like an art table, also apparently shared 'cause I saw at least one desk with 3 laptops sitting side-by-side on it.
The building also had more normal rooms, somewhere. First floor or something, I think.
At some point I check out the bathroom. The stalls were combination shower/toilet. So I guess you sorta have to sit on the toilet while you shower. Or risk showering when you use the toilet? Randomly saw girl from skating come out of one of the stalls.. wet, wearing clothes that were wet. Said girl just turned 13. O.o wonder what she was doing at a college dorm? XD
I believe I took a shower/changed into.. sleep clothes? (I assume because I know I was in sleep-clothes in a later part of the dream). I think I left without some of the showerstuff I'd taken in with me.
Uhhm .. Later. I.. wander off with someone else I just recently met, I guess. Run into Cathy (one of the adults in the homeschool group, really like her..) Apparently Cathy is some kind of authority figure here, and the dorm has some kind of nighttime curfew (for some reason I wanna say it was 10 pm, or at least before midnight that we were caught) where you're not supposed to be wandering out of your hall or room or whatever. But... she was taking the other girl somewhere and not me. I tried to tag along 'cause I wanted to talk to Cathy but she was busy and told me to go back to my room. I wandered off, but not back to my room.
Next thing I remember is its the next day and I'm walking back towards my dorm. Apparently I'd wandered around town all night. On my way back I ran into some guy I had met the day before. (I think said meeting occurred in the dream and I've just forgotten that bit). .. I wanna say the guy reminds me in looks of the pictures I've seen of Neil Gaiman? O.o Also guy seemed.. intelligent and stuff. A bit older than me (IE more like mid-twenties). Anyway, he asks me where I've been/what I've been up to and holds out his arm to motion for me to sit down beside him. I do, leaning against him and he puts his arm 'round my shoulders and we watch some people a little distance away playing cricket. I tell him I don't know where I've been, that I guess I'd been wandering around all night but I didn't really remember much of it. I seem to also wonder what Gilead must be thinking 'cause I didn't think I'd had my cellphone with me so I didn't think I'd spoken to him at all the night before, and may not have given an indication of what I'd be doing. Guy randomly has a cricket bat and sticks a ball on top of my head and proceeds to hit the ball off without hitting me. .. The cricket players stop playing and watch us. Then he does the same with the ball on some weird... horse/dog like animal? ... And then renders the animal unconscious on purpose, sticks his hand in its mouth and pulls the animal's skull out that way. It was an amazingly clean looking skull. He holds out his hand to me, to walk me back to my dorm, I refuse to take his hand "..its dirty!" so we hook elbows and walk back.
And thus the dream ends.