Wednesday, July 15, 2009

I dream of Nazis

Sometimes I have bizarre and vivid dreams. Last night I was an exchange student in Nazi Germany. I'm not sure what my dream parents were thinking sending me to Nazi Germany, or how they got me to the early 1940's. I was in line to enter the school on the first day of class and two guys grabbed me and told me to come with them. They informed me that if I went to this cottage on the same property as the castle-like Nazi school, the family that lived there would take us in and we wouldn't have to be brain washed by the Nazi's. The only hitch was we could only speak German and we had to help them cook brats and sauerkraut. It sounded like a good trade-off so I accepted. We didn't have to wear the same matching heavy green overcoats that the kids at the Nazi school had to wear either. That was another bonus.

The only other part of this dream that I remember is that I snuck into the Nazi school to use their gym to work out. I got there only to realize that their gym was just a giant room with a floor that slanted downward from the entrance at more than a 45 degree angle. That seemed totally normal to me in the dream. There were a bunch of women in the room working out. And by working out, I mean they were laying on the ground at the top of the hill and then rolling to the bottom. In my dream, it was a totally acceptable way to work out. Maybe the theory behind that mode of exercise was the same as what was behind that machine my friend's mom had when we were little. It was that machine that you stand on and wrap a belt around your butt/hips and it shakes them. I tried to use google image to find a picture but I have no idea what that thing was called. Does anybody else remember those? Help me out. Was I just dreaming?

Once, when I was at BYU, I had a dream that I was riding in a car with my humanities professor and two other students. I was occupying the seat directly behind my professor and he was passing CD's back to me which I would then eat. I enjoyed the class and liked the professor a lot...so much, apparently, that I subconsciously wanted to eat his CD's.

Several months back I had a series of dreams that involved many famous, middle-aged liberal women, with one exception. The exception was the dream I had that I was an aide to Barack Obama. The other dreams? In one I was hanging out with Joy Behar, one of the co-hosts from The View. I think we were having lunch or something and laughing hysterically. I think I even woke myself up laughing. I had a series of dreams that involved Whoopi Goldberg. In one, Ruth Bader Ginsberg retired from the Supreme Court and I, of course, was appointed to take her place. No senate confirmation hearings needed (suck on that, Sotomayor). The first day on the job, I couldn't find my office, so Whoopi was helping me. Some people have celebrity sex dreams. Not me.

5 comments:

  1. i dont often dream because i have so many seizures in my sleep, but when i do i have dreams that come true. not all of them come true though, so when i dream it kind of freaks me out. like a gamble or something.

    on a side note, i totally know that weird exersize machine you're talking about, but i dont know what its called either.

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  2. of course whoopi was helping you find your office-because why wouldn't she? i'm still trying to figure out why you were giving birth in my dream...again i ask--what does it all mean???

    p.s. so glad that you had to schprecken zee deutch (kevin would be so mad at me right now)

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  3. I once dreamed that I worked for the FBI and discovered that my roommate was the one who shot JFK. However, as the blame already laid solidly with Lee Harvey Oswald and I didn't want to burden the American people with this shocking discovery I came up with an alternate and very secret alternative - leaving her in downtown Chicago with a cow liver. However, I first had to show her a video, so we broke into an old lady's house along the way to use her VCR and were nearly caught when my guilty roommate felt the need to pop some microwave popcorn for a movie snack.

    Strangely, that one was NOT while I was on medication of any kind.

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  4. It's only logical that you would leave your roommate in downtown Chicago with a cow liver. What other option did you have?

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