(Dream+Journal)

This wasn't a single dream, but a series of nightmares that kept waking me up about my houseplants dying because of the scale insects infesting one of the new plants I bought last week (and thankfully quarantined immediately so the infestation has not spread to any other plants but still I get worried). The plants are my babies so I was naturally horrified and needed to check every time that my plants were still alive.

I really regret not writing this one down because it was certainly interesting. I was in some sort of video game that was a kind of Stardew Valley and Minecraft hybrid where I was with a group questing for some macguffin or something. I remember that my character was a mermaid or something with like chicken nugget powers (the chicken nugget powers were never used; I just had them) and we had to do like parkour or something. Eventually at the end of the game there was a random dude who said that the entire point of the game was to teach us the importance of putting baking powder in ice cream (because apparently that is an ingredient in ice cream in my dream world).

I forgot to write this one down right after I woke up, so I don't remember too much about what happened, but I do remember that I was watching in third person as two girls (whom I have never seen in real life; my brain loves conjuring random new people) had to deal with this curse where once they ate chocolate ice cream they couldn't eat anything else but to break the curse they had to eat something that wasn't chocolate ice cream by like using a loophole where something that wasn't chocolate ice cream counted as chocolate ice cream?
I definitely know there was more to the dream and I plan to update this if anything else comes back to me.

For some reason I was living in a fancy modernist castle in the middle of a big city that looked a lot like a building you would find on a college campus, made of two separate structures connected by a skywalk. For reasons even more unknown to me, I was about to get married. I don't know who or what I was getting married to; I just remember the dream starting out with me in the wedding rehearsal panicking that I was going to get my lines wrong during the ceremony. For some reason I was the only one at the rehearsal; like literally my mystery fiance didn't even show up.
Anyway, I was walking out of the wedding rehearsal thing when I met a snowman with a plastic human head just sitting in the hallway. For some reason, I knew that, narratively, this was my future lover that I was going to run away with later, though I felt no attraction to it. It talked at me for a while and then I moved on, only to be joined by two girls about my own age that I had never seen before. They tagged along with me as I walked over to the skywalk to go to the other building, and I remember thinking that they couldn't possibly be suspicious because the only way they could have gotten in was through the secured front door.
However, when we were finally over the skywalk, one of them bolted off immediately and the other drew a sword that unfolded into a massive pair of scissors. I thought that I was done for, but she just pettily snipped at and ruined the wedding dress I was wearing (which wasn't even a wedding dress; it was literally just my green church dress) really pettily before going away. I then realized that I was in a Cinderella retelling and that had been the scene with the stepsisters.
After that, my point of view switched to a different character, who had access to the castle's security systems, and I remember all the little icons for the normal stuff like the greenhouse (that existed for some reason) were doing fine but all the emergency icons (like the one for bomb threats for some reason) were flashing red.
After that my family woke me up so I wasn't able to finish the dream which stinks because it was just getting good and now I'm never going to find out how I was going to end up running away with the ugly plastic-headed snowman.

I don't remember much about this dream, but what I do remember is that my family rented an SUV/minivan kind of vehicle for my trip back to college. For some reason; however, it was plastered all over with advertisements a lot like a racecar. These ads weren't for big corporations but little local businesses like an ice cream shop and someone's babysitting service. The weirdest thing, though, was that the five hour trip to college was apparently sponsored by a large car manufacturer (I don't remember which one) and so we had to plaster these weird patches over the logos of the car because the car we rented wasn't made by the company that was sponsoring the trip and that mattered for some reason (the patches weren't even normal bumper stickers either; they were like the weird towel-feeling ones like the letters on my high school's letterman jackets if that makes any sense; like we were putting fabric patches over the logos of a car).
The only thing I can remember about the actual drive was that at one point we tried to go over a curb into a parking lot for some reason instead of just using the road and then the curb was suddenly like three meters tall lol.

In this dream, my family and I had to drive to move to the state of Massachusetts for some reason. We live on the west coast so that would be a very long drive in real life, but in the dream it only took like twenty-four hours. When we got there it was a beautiful little town of cottages around a mirror pond populated by swans and white ducks. The house we went into was a lot like the townhouse we live in now, and just a little outside was a little pen holding a dog-sized donkey with three legs. I think we referred to the donkey as a pony, even though it was clearly a donkey. Anyway, the donkey ate the diet of a tiger and we were all afraid of it as if it were a tiger, but it was actually really friendly and acted like a dog. At one point it got into the house and ran up the stairs because it wanted the Christmas cookies that were being made upstairs (even though it was summer in the dream).
The other major thing I remember is the very strange spider thing that floated down from the rafters of a covered wooden bridge or tunnel or something that I was walking through. It had about the footprint of a round coffee table and was very flat and low to the ground. It had a body like a daddy-long-legs and its legs were long and ended in teardrop-shaped feet that were colored with red and purple swirls. It was just minding its own business, walking down the tunnel just like I was. I took a picture of it to post to iNaturalist, and I remember that the suggestions were really weird, goofy names because apparently the online eldritch-spider-identifying community was a bunch of wackos.
I think when I left the tunnel there was what I thought was some kind of frog-owl thing but when I went up to confront it I realized it was one of the little gnome men that liked to disguise themselves as frog owl things with little hoodies. Classic little gnome men, always up to their shenanigans (I guess lol).
Anyway, this whole setting was just gorgeous. It had the same energy as a Thomas Kinkade painting, if you get what I mean.

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.

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.