Space, the Ghetto, and a Terrifying Art Exhibit

The other night I had what I call a cornucopia of abstract scenarios.  I recall three main 'dream chapters' that would keep a dream interpreter busy for weeks.  In terms of location,  I went from space to the ghetto to an art exhibit.  During which, the dream atmosphere spanned the entire spectrum of emotions.  It started out as a very intimate moment with my wife (in space remember?) and very shortly turned into a nightmare.  These types of dreams are the exact reason I decided to start this blog.  Enough intro, let me get started.

I honestly don't remember too many details about the 1st dream.  Here's what I do remember:  Katie and I were floating around in some sort of space capsule.  I felt that we were on our way somewhere. Lets say Mars.  We were about to start getting intimate when I spotted out of the corner of my eye, a condom dispenser thingy.  Ok, let me be more detailed.  It was a square compartment located above the bed extending out about 1/4".  It kinda looked like those cup holders in the backseat of cars where you pull them down and little plastic rings pop out to hold your drink.  Kinda like that except it was spring loaded and had colorful condoms inside.  I'm surprised that the colored wrapping was in NASA's budget.  Sadly, thats all I remember about that one.

 

Now jump to a poverty stricken neighborhood.  I suppose all of that space exploring didn't bring in the moolah I expected it would because Katie and I were broke.  I won't bore you concerning the details about how I was trying to build a new fence for our dogs made of scrap metal roofing.  BUT, I will bore you with the details of a real life cop and some poor kids with sweet haircuts.

So, in the waking world I knew a cop in Las Cruces named Bobby Aramillo.  In this dream he showed up to our front step in a black White Sox beanie, a blue puffy vest, and some gloves.  I'm not totally sure what he was doing there, but shorty behind him was an African American boy in his early teens.  Instantly the kid starts going off on why the neighborhood is called the NHC.  According to the boy, NHC stands for "No Hair Cut" which means people don't like to go get their hair cut professionally for some reason.  He continued to talk about the NHC and haircuts like it was the most oppressing thing ever.  He then started to brag about how he cut his own hair and showed me.  Perhaps the best way to describe it is to say that it was a combo between Cosmo Cramer's hair and Kid from Kid and Play.  This kid had a pretty gnarly do.  


Now imagine a very large white room at an art museum where the floors are made of white marble.  Matt and I are visiting this exhibit where a female statue dressed in a toga is lying on a piano.  for some reason Matt finds it interesting to take photos of my reactions to the art.  As I look at the female statue, it starts to move and slowly morph into something hideous and terrifying.  She begins to crawl off of the piano and opens her mouth.  The opening of her mouth was nothing but blackness.  It wasn't like her tongue and gums were black.  Rather, her mouth was the complete absence of light, utter blackness.  I was literally speechless from the terror that came over me.  I made a face of complete disgust and my heart was pounding out of my chest.  All the while, Matt sat there and took photos of my face.  Moving here and there to get a good angle on my grotesque face.

With the woman perpetually morphing into things progressively evil I decided it was time to get out of there.  So I ran out of the door and bumped into a girl I knew from Farmington, Amanda Cash.  The funny thing is that I never really knew her well.  Amanda was simply a friend of my stepbrother, Taylor.  When I saw her in the dream it was like she was a good buddy of mine and the dream took a sudden shift from terrifying to happy like 'that' (*snap fingers*).  Amanda, Matt, and I talked for a bit and hung out in the gift shop of the art museum until I woke up.

After waking up I tried to recall my dreams and write down some details.  When I got to the statue part I still found myself frightened by the circumstance.  In fact, the terror from my dream somewhat lingered with me for a good part of the day.  

 

Brad Pitt, my best bud

So since this is my first official dream post, I'm actually going to write about a dream I had about a week ago.  I'm hoping that I've retained most of the dream's details.  Allow me to set the scene:

I'm at some sort of lake house on the shore of a small lake.  One might even be able to say its a large pond.  In retrospect, I think it was some sort of combo between Katie's grandma's lake house in South Dakota and a scene from Weekend at Bernies 2.  

Weekend at Bernie's 2

There some some sort of party going on where some of my close friends were in attendance.  Quite frankly, at this point I only remember Jon Ashcroft, Katie, and Brad Pitt.  That's right, Brad Pitt.  We were like two peas in a pod.

I guess the party was winding down because I decided to go inside the house.  Before turning around I remember seeing some of my friends speed by the dock on a white and brown, medium-sized boat.  I walked into a very nice room in the house.  The only things I remember about the room were that it had a lot of glass/mirrors and luxurious furniture was everywhere.  

Brad Pitt joined me in the room and we just kinda talked for a minute.  The next thing I know we decided to start wrestling Fight Club style.  The first thing he did was throw me into the wall where my body caved in the sheet rock.  I stood up laughing and kicked him into a glass coffee table (so cliche' of my brain). The rest of the fight was pretty hazy except I remember us hitting each other with about 3 foot long cylinders of glass repeatedly.  Needless to say, we pretty much destroyed the house, but we had a blast.  I remember chuckling with Brad about it as he had his arm around my shoulders.

Fight Club Brad

At this point Katie runs into the room and starts yelling at me for doing all of that damage.  Apparently we were only renting the house for that day to have the party.  The property owner showed up and was furious at the damage we had done to the house.  He said that the fee he would have to charge us was too large and we had to move into the house and continue to rent it until everything was repaired.  I guess Brad ducked out and left because I don't remember seeing him again...jerk.

Katie started crying and saying how we didn't have the money to rent the house.  She was mad, I was stressed out, then I woke up. 

Why you ask? Popular demand.

I realize that once people see that I created another blog they will probably feel that I obviously think very highly of myself.  So much so, in fact, that I must think people should be interested in not only my waking life, but also my REM activities.  While this isn't entirely untrue, this blog's purpose is more to document my dreams for myself.  Hopefully, some people will find the antics of "Dream Seth" as entertaining as I often do.

These posts will be a combination of recalling my dreams and commentary.  I will try to rationalize the irrational by drawing parallels between my dreams and my real life experiences.  I will also be sure to include some pictures that I feel will help visualize who or what I'm talking about.

Welp, here goes nothing....