Dream 1

There were many parts to this dream, and many of them I do not have enough memory about to articulate in story form. There is actually only one that I remember enough to write about. Here we go.

A friend of my mom shows up at my dad's house in Hesperia, CA. I know which friend it is supposed to be, but she looks like a woman with whom I went to graduate school. She is parked in the middle of the street rather than at the curb or in the driveway. I'm sitting in my dad's living room doing something to my toenails (painting them? I later tell my mom's friend that that's what I was doing but I think I was lying). The phone rings and I don't pick it up. I look out the window and my mom's friend is signaling to me to pick up the phone. There's some miscommunication as we gesture through the closed window but finally she calls again and I answer. I make up some excuse for why I didn't answer the first time. She is sort of frantic and tells me that she needs someone to take care of her dog for a short time. I ask how long and she says 15 days. I am shocked and feel that that is a long time, but I don't let her see my reaction. She tells me it's an emergency. I tell her that I will have to ask my roommate, as I do not have my own house. [In this next part I talk to Annabel, my roommate. I can see this part in my head, but it's hard to put into words.] The answer is no and I am very relieved that I will not have to take care of this dog. At one point I see what the dog looks like. He is white and brown, short, and very strangely fat and lumpy. I don't remember much after this.

There are other segments of last night's dreams of which I only remember small pieces.

- There was a mountain with streams of water, but suddenly lava filled the streams. I was working with a group of people to race against the lava, but I don't remember how or why.

- I'm in a bathroom about to take a shower, when I notice that the bathroom has many creatures (mostly insects) scurrying about inside. I am absolutely terrified and manage to kill one of them. The creature looks like 10 black widows have joined hands and were standing in a circle. I know it is poisonous, as with everything else in that bathroom, so I smash it with something. I race out of the bathroom and tell someone about it (my dad, I think, though we're not in his house). I remember thinking that I was not going to go back into that bathroom, but that's where the memory ends.