Dream pieces:
I remember it started with a neighbor's van somehow backing all the way across the street, into our yard, and into the side(!) of the house I grew up in McKinney. Also, we had dug a HUGE hole which was full of water for some reason or other, which he narrowly avoided. There was somehow no damage, but I had to stop the kid driving from backing up any more. And get the van away from the side of the house.
Then I was with a group of people running through a series of rooms that were like an adventure game where random bits of inventory were useful. For example, there small cubes of colored plastic in each room that matched the carpet. One room needed two flashes of white light to open a door, so I needed all the colors in the spectrum to cast white light.
We also watched Girl Genius, the animated series. The designs weren't bad, just simplified of Agatha's green dress and Gil's current outfit. The casting of the voices wasn't bad, but I remember being put out that even when they were sparking out, they were very calm and understated. :( The part of that show that I remember was Gil and Agatha going on a walk, and Gil's umbrella attracted lightening bolts, which were then used to power a force field so they wouldn't get wet. And Gil grinning like an idiot. n_n
Also, something about early Mickey mouse being made out of sock puppets. But that was frankly too weird to make sense even in dream context.
The important part of all this? I actually remembered a dream about something I actually read,
tingirl!