(Dream+Journal)

Apparently, dreams about nightmare scenarios for next year's dorm have been a theme this summer. This time, the dream was that I had, for some reason, been put in a different dorm than I signed up for, and it was located in a crazy mix of the library where I work and one of the old biology buildings with about seventy floors added; basically just a brutalist skyscraper lol.
Anyway, I don't think I particularly minded the change because I was still supposed to get a single room. The only problem was, when I got there, I was met with a tiny little pod thing that fit a bed and basically nothing else lined up with dozens of other pods where other girls were living. Apparently the single room I had signed up for was actually a single pod. I was very concerned by this because I had an entire little mini armchair and a bookshelf that I had nowhere to put now.
The weirdest thing about it was that this was still the functioning library, so all these little no-privacy pods were set up where everyone using the library could see them. I think some of them were also literally put in the stairwell (I remember visiting someone with a pod in the stairwell). I think I remember mine also being the "emergency" pod, which meant I had responsibility over the fire extinguisher or defibrilator or something. I don't think anything happened with that, but I did have a really ugly sign on the outside of my pod.

I had been reading the crime part of Crime and Punishment before going to bed, and so I had a nightmare that I had done the same thing as Raskolnikov (murder and robbery) and that one of my real-life necklaces was a stolen antique (it's not; I got it for eight dollars from a little consignment store lol) and, like Raskolnikov, I was plagued by guilt for what I had done. It was terrifying and it took a few moments after waking up to realize that I, in fact, was not a criminal being tracked down by the police.
According to a Reddit post I saw, I am not the only person to have had a dream like that after reading Crime and Punishment. Good work, Dostoevsky; you gave me nightmares. I hope you're happy lol.

The dorm I'm going to be living in starting this fall is a ground-floor single room that has an outside entrance and a little patio thing (kind of like a one-story townhouse) and I had a dream that I was moving in. The dream version of the dorm had like a fully landscaped rock garden-esque front yard with solar lights that was really really cool. All was well and good until I actually went into the room and I saw a table next to the window (that was a lot larger than in reality) covered in pots of nearly-dead plants (mostly basil). The plants aren't relevant to the rest of the story but I mention them because that whole bit was just weird.
Anyway, the real problems started when I realized that I had two roomates instead of having the single room I signed up for. This last year in real life I had a roomate for several months who ended up being the closest thing to a mortal enemy I have ever had, so I was freaking out that I had to share a room with people again. Anyway, all I remember about these surprise roomates was that they were jerks just like my real life ex-roomate. They also had a pet racoon, meaning I had to share a room with two people and a racoon.
The only thing that dream gave me, besides confusion, was the idea to put solar lights on my patio. The only problem there is that it's brick and doesn't have any grass, so I need to find something that doesn't need to be staked into the ground.

This dream was about a new constellation that was food themed, being a product sold by a popular eatery at my university and named after the eatery that sells the product. That was all I remembered from the dream lol.

My parents had, for some reason, bought an entire island in Hawaii (I think it might have been Oahu but I don't remember; it was probably an imaginary one) and they had stripped it bare of everything to start a massive cauliflower farm. I think we had a cute little cottage on one side of the island. At one point I got a new baby sister for some reason, and she was a walking talking cauliflower.
Honestly the weirdest part of that dream was that my parents were still together haha.

This is a dream that I only remembered because of the text I sent my friends about it afterwards. In the text I mentioned a princess castle with Monument Valley physics, and two cats fighting on one of the upside-down bits. I don't remember that part at all, but I do remember the weird polar bear on a fishing boat. Basically there was a fishing boat (functioning as a fishing boat) that had been mostly gutted and turned into a polar bear exhibit with a giant tank and everything. The polar bear was happily swimming around and defying gravity a lot.
Admittedly, that was one of my weirder dreams.

For the six or so months that I had a roomate, I had my bed lofted so that my side of the room could fit all my stuff. The ceiling of this dorm was really low and so I was laying about a foot and a half below the ceiling and I couldn't even sit up on the bed. Anyway, I had a dream that I was lying in bed exactly like I was in real life, but that the gap between my bed and the ceiling was tall enough that my roomate was watching a movie that she was projecting onto the blank wall beside me.

This was the time that I dreamed about eating Lemonheads, so I woke up wanting Lemonheads. I looked in the little grocery store near my dorm to see if they had Lemonheads, but they didn't, and that made me sad for that whole day.
Anyway, I think Big Candy might be doing trial runs of dream advertising lol.

This is a dream that I don't remember particularly well (because it was over two years ago at the time of writing) where one of the buildings on my community college campus (it was kind of an amalgamation of many other buildings and far larger than any of them actually were in real life) had a series of long Dr. Suess-style megaphone thingies that broadcasted your words all around. The building itself was brick and encased in a larger greenhouse thing so only the people in the bounds of the larger structure could actually hear what was being said.
Anyway, in the brick building there was a cute little corner room where you could speak into all the megaphones through separate little holes in the wall. I think I was eating a sandwich in there and there were some guys being jerks at some point but idk. I just remember the setting being really gorgeous.