It's been a looooooooooooooooooooooong time since I've actually posted a DreamBlog and I've got a few minutes here at work so I figured I'd post one of my dreams from last night.

Remember: this is only a dream...

I'm pacing up and down the aisle of a bus. A family member is driving the bus and a friend is sitting near the back. Neither of my bus companions are actually real people from my waking life, and yet I recognize and understand my relation to them. They have no real identifiable facial or bodily features, yet somehow I just know that the driver is an older male family member (not a brother or a father, but something that immediate) and the other passenger is a close friend. I'm not really that confused by the fact that I know these people and yet I don't. It all just makes sense within the dream and I don't question it. I just keep pacing, looking out the windows.

The bus is traveling down a straight dirt road between a field of corn on the left side and a forest on the right.

I walk down the aisle to the front of the bus and place my hand upon the driver's shoulder and look out the windshield.

Up ahead, a giant black animal with a white stripe down its back comes sauntering out of the forest and stops at the edge of the road. As we get closer, I see that it looks like bear with a big bushy tail. Just as we are about to drive pass, the animal turns around and lifts its striped tail into the air.

SKUNK!!! I yell and dive to the floor, covering my face with my hands.

I can feel the bus still moving forward and it sounds like a blast from a firehose is straifing the side of the bus. An putrid smell washes over me.

I feel a hand on my shoulder so I open my eyes to see my friend kneeling next to me. He has no mouth or eyes, but somehow I can tell that he's smiling. My friend helps me to my feet without saying a word and walks me toward the back of the bus. I look out the back window and see the bear-skunk crossing the road into the corn field.

I walk to the front of the bus. The driver somehow smiles through his faceless head.

Up ahead of the bus, a much smaller bear-skunk emerges out of the forest. The skunk repeats the same motions as the bigger one, and I respond in the exact same way.

As I lie on the floor in a ball with my face covered. Even though the skunk is smaller and its liquid emission is audibly less than the first as it sprays the bus, the smell is much much worse.

Again I am brought to my feet by my friend and again I watch the skunk disappear into the corn field.

This cycle continues as a watch progressively smaller and yet smellier skunks emerge, spray the bus, and disappear.

The foul stench still lingered in my brain as I woke up just before the bus was sprayed by a teeny tiny bear-skunk.

Remember: this is only a dream...

I'm sitting in the passenger seat of a car, but there is a steering wheel in front of me. My friend is sitting to my left, inbetween the driver's seat and my seat, with the gearshift sticking up between his legs. My friend's girlfriend is sitting to his left in the driver's seat. There is a steering wheel in front of her as well.

My friend frantically shifts gears up and down as his girlfriend blindly turns the steering wheel back and forth. Their movements seems to have no effect to the motion of the car, which speeds straight down a dark tunnel.

A voice behind me says "Maybe you should drive." I turn around to see a faceless man sitting in the backseat. He points to the steering wheel in front of me, which is motionless in my hands.

I turn the wheel a tiny bit to the left and the car spins around and around several times.
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I woke up suddenly with the sound of screeching tires still ringing in my ears.

Remember: this is only a dream...

I'm watching TV with my dad when he says he's thirsty. I head into the kitchen to get us some water, but I find myself outside. Steve Jobs is standing beside a Jeep.

"Get in" he says, so i hop in the passenger side and he drives towards a mountain. Each time i look over at Steve and ask where we're going, he just smiles. He says nothing until we reach the foot of the mountain where there is a waterfall. "We need to go to the source," he says, and begins to drive up the steep mountain, following the river all the way to top.

At the top of the mountain, Steve stops the Jeep and gets out. I follow him to the very peak of the mountain, where water is flowing out top like lava out of the top of a volcano. Steve stoops at the water's edge, cups his hands, and takes a drink of water. He splashes his faces, gets back in the Jeep and drives away, leaving me alone on the mountain.

A dog barks behind me and i turn around to see Bill Gates holding a dog's leash. "Impressed?" he asks. "Very," I say. "Wait til you see this," Bill laughs. He walks the dog to the water's edge and the dog jumps right in. The dog disappears beneath the bubbling water and Bill begins to pull on the leash. He struggles a bit as if something very heavy is attached to the other end.

Suddenly a giant vending machine wrapped by the leash launches out of the water and lands upright on the shore. The side of the machine reads "H2O". Bill walks up the to machine and waves his hand in front of it, like a magician does just before he performs his big reveal. The vending machine blinks and flashes and steam shoots out the sides.

I'm suddenly holding a bottle of cold water and I hear the sound of my dad laughing.

I had 2 different dreams last nite about being chased. In both dreams, I was being chased by law enforcement. In the first dream, I knew I had committed a crime and deserved to be chased by the cops, but in the other dream, I had no idea why they where trying to arrest me. The major difference between the dreams is that, in the second dream, I am me, Josh Morgan, as I usually am in my dreams... I'm just in a situation very unlike my waking life. In the first dream, though, I am not ME for most of the dream. I am someone else completely. I have a twin in the dream, and I'm young, and I'm a car thief.

1) I'm watching TV. There's a news report about President Bush signing a bill that puts a federal ban on live broadcasts of police chases. On TV, Bush says, "I'm doing this so that tragedies like the one in Los Angeles involving those twin teenaged boys will never happen again." The news then rolls footage of a stolen car careening off the freeway, flipping over and over, and ejecting twin boys thru the windshield, who appear to be crushed by the car as it continues to roll over.

Suddenly, I'm no longer watching this all on TV, but instead, I am in the moment... I AM one of the twins as the car rolls over us. I feel the crushing weight of the car and scream in pain, but when the car rolls off of us, my twin and I are alive. We're hurt badly, but we can hear the sirens of the cops that had been chasing us on the freeway and we still want to get away, so we stand up, despite our broken bones and begin to run. The faster we run, the less our injuries seem to bother us. We run into a field where there is some sort of extreme motocross sporting event going on. Guys on motorcycles and ATVs are doing stunts and flips on giant ramps and halfpipes. My twin and I steal two unattended ATVs just as the copcars close in on us. We drive the ATVs around the field, up the ramps and on the halfpipes until we crash into each other mid-jump on a ramp. We're both hurt in the crash, but my twin and I manage to steal a motorcycle, and the two of us ride off, still being chased by the copcars. We ride the motorcycle away from the motocross stuff into a wide open field, but our escape route is blocked by a giant barbed-wire fence. In a very Great Escape kind of stunt, my twin tells me to jump the fence on the motorcycle, so I gun it. The bike catches major air, but not enough to clear the fence, so we crash into it and get tangled in the barbwire. The last thing I remember in the dream are the cops climbing up the fence towards us as my twin and I are dangling upside-down and bloody 50 feet in the air.

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Last nite's dreams were a series of many unrelated vignettes. Most of the dreams happened very quickly, with events passing so fast that i rarely had time to figure out what was going on. Here are some of the episodes from my dream that i remember:

1) I'm driving my mom's minivan and I'm stopped at a light when the driver of the old school VW bug in front of me gets distracted by something and he accidentally rolls back into my van with a loud CRASH. An argument, a fist fight, and an exploding gas station ensue.

2) My roommate, Kurt, grows a crazy beard that makes him look like a bum. The beard itself is very well kept, but since it's so long, and his clothes aren't the nicest, people on the street are constantly mistaking him for a bum. Fed up, he keeps the beard, but tries dressing differently. When he buys himself a snazzy blue suit, he is mistaken for some crazy artist celebrity and somehow marries into the British Royal Family, all cuz of his beard.

3) I return home to discover that my landlord has repainted my apartment without warning me ahead of time. The color is a horrible vomit hue, and the paint job itself is laughable. The painters didn't even bother to move or cover anything in my apt. They just painted around the furniture, posters, etc, so there are huge spots left unpainted on the walls, and paint splattered all over my stuff. (I was so mad i actually woke up from this dream and fumed for a bit before going back to sleep).

4) I am on a hiking trip with a beautiful women (who's not my girlfriend... sorry babe, it happens). We want to hike to the top of a volcano, but the park ranger at the bottom of the mountain won't let us on the trail cuz he says it's too dangerous. While i try to convince the ranger that we're both experienced hikers, my lady friend performs a hypnotic striptease that lulls the park ranger into a stupor. The girl suggests that we bring the ranger with us on our hike to the top of the volcano and use him as a human sacrifice. I agree and so we head up the mountain trail, her, half-naked, and me, carrying a park ranger. (Too bad this dream shifted into something else before we made it to the top of the volcano... i really liked where it was going)