i had an awesome dream last night
it started off pretty weird. i got a phone call at two in the morning from my old job, drug emporium. i called them back the next day, even though i hadn't worked there in years and asked why they called. apparently i was still on file and the new manager called me to work because they needed help. in reality, they had closed over 2 years ago and are becoming a huge asian food market, but in my dream they were still around but still not doing as well. so i showed up and went to work.
later on i went to some family party at a house that was very familiar. at first i thought it was the bruce house in haddon heights, because a lot of the rooms looked pretty similar, but repainted and stuff. but then looking outside it was completely different. so who knows where it was. i never got to find out who lived there to ask them. but at one point i found a video in the vcr that i had made before. will repholz was there with me and i asked him if it was one we had made when we were 13. even though neither of us had a video camera back then. it obviously wasn't, and then greg gaul (i think it may have been his family's party) put it on the tv and it was this really weird video of me and a bunch of people at some other party in the same house. for some reason my memories of the dream make it seem like all this stuff at the party was happening at the same time as the drug emporium part. but i can't remember it vividly. i do also remember parts at this family party where i was playing with a bunch of little kids in a yard, which also was the drug emporium parking lot. at one point this little kid was on a bike and he accidentally rode it down a hill and got really scared and started crying. and when i ran to go make sure he was ok, he looked exactly like me when i was a kid and i told him not to worry, because when he grows up, he's going to like going down hills like that on sleds. weird.
now after this was all over, i decided to watch the video i had found. it looks as though it was filmed around 2001 or 2002. i had really long hair and a black hat, but not the one i currently have. at one point in the video i'm like wrestling around with this really hot milf and then we make out in front of everyone. and then i get up and run into another room and there are like 20 people in there in their underwear. after a few other things i don't remember happens, somehow the video becomes a website and i am able to show it to chris to try to figure out more about it. i find a bunch of pictures of people i barely know at the party but it still doesn't explain much.
now i don't know how exactly i ended up at the next part of the dream, but it was by far the best part of it. first it seems like i'm back at the family party house. and i'm either trying to re-enact the video i watched, or it was actually during the time the video was made. i'm going into a lot more rooms at this point, and the house seems a lot bigger. there are a bunch of rooms in the attic area now. and it's very easy to get lost. there are people everywhere. some familiar faces, but mostly just faceless strangers. and i'm interacting with most of them. i end up in the huge entrance area, with a really big stairwell in the middle. it kind of reminds me of the house in the addams family as well as scary movie and the money pit. it's really dilapidated in some parts, but really nice in others. i see some filipino girl i barely knew from high school walk in, and i go up to her and show her around. and then i came back to the stairwell and notice there is a bunch of huge glass disklike things in the middle of it. i try to fix it up, because they are all over the place. and then i see an older woman there and i tell her about it and she tells me not to worry. she's the only non kid at the party i've seen so far.
once i saw her, things start getting weirder. i start going into a lot of the other rooms, each one seems to be very different from the each. each having a weird subtle theme to it. in one room there was this kid who was being very annoying and doing something with scratch off lottery tickets. another adult showed up and yelled at him about it. i think it was his dad. and then there was a really dark room attached to it. kind of looked like an abandoned warehouse, like the one at the pickle farm in southampton. there were a few kids walking through it and then an alarm went off. the adult looked pissed about it. then one of the kids in the room ran over to what was making the alarm noise and then picked it up and threw it. the alarm stopped and so did that scene.
then things started to come together... kind of. i found out that the woman i spoke to on the stairwell was the mother of the girl who was throwing the party. i later ran into her outside when i noticed there were train tracks on the side of the house. a train went by and she told me it goes all around the house and anyone can ride on it. we followed it to the back yard and there was a huge pool. not like a swimming pool, but the kind of pool at the zoo. and surely enough there was a hippo in it. and then an alligator. and a polar bear. some kid came up to me and handed me sunflower seeds and told me to throw them in the pool. i did and the large hippo jumped up and caught them. then some guy came along and got into the pool. he was dressed like the croc hunter and was playing with all the animals. the woman got in the pool tool but started getting attacked. then a huge turtle got in front of her and shielded her and drove back all the attacking animals. she was underwater this whole time, i have no idea how she survived. but yeah, it is a dream. finally i found out that the man in the pool was the owner of the house. he was a lonely man who loved animals and trains and somehow got rich. he was a kid at heart but also had a lot of love to give. the recurring woman in my dream was his girlfriend, and because he liked her so much, he told her she could throw a party there. and even though the party seemed to have been getting out of hand at some points, the man didn't mind because he was happy. it didn't seem like the woman was taking advantage of his kindness though, she seemed pretty happy with him as well. i never got to meet the daughter who invited everyone, though.
after all this was somehow explained, i took a walk with camille who randomly showed up in the backyard. we walked down the train tracks into a small garden area. we stood there waiting for the train to come. it looked like it was going to, but it never did. after this, i don't really remember much else. either more of the same happened and it was just becoming more vague, or i woke up. morgan slept with me last night so i remember being woken up during the dream by her walking on my head. but i woke up a decent amount of times during the dream and was able to pick up where i left off. that's not something that happens often. i ended up finally waking up at around 3pm. i felt really weird when i woke up. both because of the dream and the fact that i slept for 12 hours. all in all, it was an amazing dream. not only was it fun, but it was so lifelike that i know i'm not going to forget about it. but just in case i do, i have this to go back and remind me.
later on i went to some family party at a house that was very familiar. at first i thought it was the bruce house in haddon heights, because a lot of the rooms looked pretty similar, but repainted and stuff. but then looking outside it was completely different. so who knows where it was. i never got to find out who lived there to ask them. but at one point i found a video in the vcr that i had made before. will repholz was there with me and i asked him if it was one we had made when we were 13. even though neither of us had a video camera back then. it obviously wasn't, and then greg gaul (i think it may have been his family's party) put it on the tv and it was this really weird video of me and a bunch of people at some other party in the same house. for some reason my memories of the dream make it seem like all this stuff at the party was happening at the same time as the drug emporium part. but i can't remember it vividly. i do also remember parts at this family party where i was playing with a bunch of little kids in a yard, which also was the drug emporium parking lot. at one point this little kid was on a bike and he accidentally rode it down a hill and got really scared and started crying. and when i ran to go make sure he was ok, he looked exactly like me when i was a kid and i told him not to worry, because when he grows up, he's going to like going down hills like that on sleds. weird.
now after this was all over, i decided to watch the video i had found. it looks as though it was filmed around 2001 or 2002. i had really long hair and a black hat, but not the one i currently have. at one point in the video i'm like wrestling around with this really hot milf and then we make out in front of everyone. and then i get up and run into another room and there are like 20 people in there in their underwear. after a few other things i don't remember happens, somehow the video becomes a website and i am able to show it to chris to try to figure out more about it. i find a bunch of pictures of people i barely know at the party but it still doesn't explain much.
now i don't know how exactly i ended up at the next part of the dream, but it was by far the best part of it. first it seems like i'm back at the family party house. and i'm either trying to re-enact the video i watched, or it was actually during the time the video was made. i'm going into a lot more rooms at this point, and the house seems a lot bigger. there are a bunch of rooms in the attic area now. and it's very easy to get lost. there are people everywhere. some familiar faces, but mostly just faceless strangers. and i'm interacting with most of them. i end up in the huge entrance area, with a really big stairwell in the middle. it kind of reminds me of the house in the addams family as well as scary movie and the money pit. it's really dilapidated in some parts, but really nice in others. i see some filipino girl i barely knew from high school walk in, and i go up to her and show her around. and then i came back to the stairwell and notice there is a bunch of huge glass disklike things in the middle of it. i try to fix it up, because they are all over the place. and then i see an older woman there and i tell her about it and she tells me not to worry. she's the only non kid at the party i've seen so far.
once i saw her, things start getting weirder. i start going into a lot of the other rooms, each one seems to be very different from the each. each having a weird subtle theme to it. in one room there was this kid who was being very annoying and doing something with scratch off lottery tickets. another adult showed up and yelled at him about it. i think it was his dad. and then there was a really dark room attached to it. kind of looked like an abandoned warehouse, like the one at the pickle farm in southampton. there were a few kids walking through it and then an alarm went off. the adult looked pissed about it. then one of the kids in the room ran over to what was making the alarm noise and then picked it up and threw it. the alarm stopped and so did that scene.
then things started to come together... kind of. i found out that the woman i spoke to on the stairwell was the mother of the girl who was throwing the party. i later ran into her outside when i noticed there were train tracks on the side of the house. a train went by and she told me it goes all around the house and anyone can ride on it. we followed it to the back yard and there was a huge pool. not like a swimming pool, but the kind of pool at the zoo. and surely enough there was a hippo in it. and then an alligator. and a polar bear. some kid came up to me and handed me sunflower seeds and told me to throw them in the pool. i did and the large hippo jumped up and caught them. then some guy came along and got into the pool. he was dressed like the croc hunter and was playing with all the animals. the woman got in the pool tool but started getting attacked. then a huge turtle got in front of her and shielded her and drove back all the attacking animals. she was underwater this whole time, i have no idea how she survived. but yeah, it is a dream. finally i found out that the man in the pool was the owner of the house. he was a lonely man who loved animals and trains and somehow got rich. he was a kid at heart but also had a lot of love to give. the recurring woman in my dream was his girlfriend, and because he liked her so much, he told her she could throw a party there. and even though the party seemed to have been getting out of hand at some points, the man didn't mind because he was happy. it didn't seem like the woman was taking advantage of his kindness though, she seemed pretty happy with him as well. i never got to meet the daughter who invited everyone, though.
after all this was somehow explained, i took a walk with camille who randomly showed up in the backyard. we walked down the train tracks into a small garden area. we stood there waiting for the train to come. it looked like it was going to, but it never did. after this, i don't really remember much else. either more of the same happened and it was just becoming more vague, or i woke up. morgan slept with me last night so i remember being woken up during the dream by her walking on my head. but i woke up a decent amount of times during the dream and was able to pick up where i left off. that's not something that happens often. i ended up finally waking up at around 3pm. i felt really weird when i woke up. both because of the dream and the fact that i slept for 12 hours. all in all, it was an amazing dream. not only was it fun, but it was so lifelike that i know i'm not going to forget about it. but just in case i do, i have this to go back and remind me.