I’m keeping my most recent dreams to myself, but I’ll share a really weird one that I had not-so-long-ago.
My friend Catte and I were staying at a huge hotel in between Des Moines and Iowa City (this being really weird in and of itself, as one would either stay in Des Moines OR Iowa City) with her parents, who, for some reason, we addressed as “Buzz” and “Clink”, rather than by their actual names. Early on in the dream, we sat down in the hotel restaurant, which had a really strange MO…a guest had to challenge the cook for his/her dinner. If you could make your dinner faster than the cook could, you could eat, and it would be free. If the cook won the race, you didn’t get to eat at all. We won our dinners, and then left “Buzz” and “Clink” in the restaurant whilst we went on an exploration of the hotel.
We ended up sitting in this giant, high-school-cafeteria-esque room, at one of the tables, giggling and reading magazines. We were joined by some guy Catte knew, and his way-too-old-to-be-dressed-like-a-metalhead friend. I was flipping through an old issue of Rolling Stone, and I came across an old picture of Leif Garrett. After I was done swooning, I asked, “Whatever happened to Leif Garrett, anyway?” Turned out that the WTOTBDLAM guy WAS Leif Garrett. Much silliness ensued, and then the guys asked if they could join us in our hotel room. We told them that they could…if they could find it. Then we left the cafeteria and continued exploring the hotel.
We walked into a large banquet room, filled with people who were evidently having a Barbie convention. NOT trading Barbies, or selling them, or talking about how much they liked them…the people were dressed like them. And they were all really, really OLD. Even the men who were there were dressed like Ken dolls, complete with plastic hair. And they were none too happy with Catte and I for walking into their party. They all started yelling at us and some tried to chase us. So we screamed and ran away, naturally.
We didn’t know our room number…we found it by listening at doors till we heard her parents snores, which sounded like “buzzing” and “clinking”. And then I woke up.
Figger that shit out.
“I like toast.”