Ghost Skillz

I was in the basement of my Grandma's house, and I was with someone that was helping me learn the tricks of being a ghost. Some other family actually lived in the house now... I think it was Tom Cruise, actually.. but the whole focus of this dream was learning to get around the house, using my ghosts skillz, but without being detected by the family that lived there.

My helper gave me a sheet of paper. This paper was required if I wanted to travel through doors and walls. I'd hold the paper, a glow would cover me, and then I could pass through solid objects without any resistance. However, I was told that I couldn't just go barging through walls at any speed that I wanted.

In order to remain unseen, ghosts have to creep through solid objects. If we tried to go through them too fast, the living would be able to detect us. I did it the right way a couple of times, to see if I could do it... and then of course I had to try to go through something fast to see what would happen.

I went through the brick wall separating the living area from the laundry area at a quick pace, and when I did I could tell that the glow around me was also visible to the people doing their laundry. Since my presence had already been detected, I backed through the wall and did it again - even faster this time.

I must have been VERY visible this time, because I rushed up to a little girl that was standing there - and whatever it was that she saw in me, it scared her so much that her face deformed. Her eyes sunk in and turned black, her skin became pale, and her face took on that look that you saw in the movie The Ring, when people are killed by the girl in the tape. :-) I win.

Melty

Dad and I drove to Atlantic City in my trusty Hyundai Elantra, and we parked in the Sands parking tower and were going to go inside and do some gambling. Something must have happened to my car during the trip though, because I was fiddling around with the wires underneath the dash.

I hooked up some sort of warming device to some wires located under the steering wheel. I'm not sure what I was trying to accomplish, but within a couple of minutes the thing heated up so much that it melted through all of the wires, leaving a jumble of frayed connections to some sort of control box.

I didn't tell dad about it, since I wanted us to enjoy our trip, but I remember thinking that I'd either have to win enough money at the slots to repair the car - or I'd have to start looking around for another car to steal so we'd have a way back home.

Flying / Skimming Carpet Ride

I was traveling down the road that goes out of Millersport, towards Thurston, sometime during the night. It was very dark out... not even the moon was providing any light. I was actually riding on a flying carpet, with some crappy-ass headlights, but it wasn't really doing much more than hovering a few inches off the ground - and usually actually skimming the pavement.

I was moving at a good rate of speed, probably close to what you'd do in a car... however it was very hard to control, and that wasn't made any easier due to the way the headlights would wave about. (Since they were attached to the front of the carpet.)

Right before I reached a somewhat sharp right hand curve, I hit a hill in the road that sent me flying about 100 feet into the air. I lost control of the carpet, and was just hoping that it would land somewhere safe - with me still on it. Before I knew it, the carpet and I had landed at the top of a very tall tree along side of the road.

It was suddenly light out now, and I could look down and see that there was a large fence going around the base of the tree. And just a few feet to the east of the tree was a big lake, with giant waves splashing up and down. My carpet was now sputtering and smoking, so I figured the only way I'd survive was if I tried to jump it out of the tree and onto one of the big waves below.

I gave it the gas and it awkwardly left the tree, spinning somewhat out of control towards the ground. I could tell I wasn't going to land in the water, so I pulled back on the front of the carpet as hard as I could - and crash landed inside the fenced in area.

I got off my carpet, and noticed that there were lots of people standing around and talking to each other inside the fence. I saw my cousin Mongo, so I went up to him to tell him what just happened. He smiled and laughed... and then started talking to me really fast in fluent Spanish. I looked at him with a surprised look on my face, and he laughed again - apparently because he already knew the secret of the fenced area.

Once you were inside the fence, you were only able to speak Spanish to people. It didn't necessarily mean you could understand Spanish... just everything that you said, even if you were trying to say it in English, would come out in Spanish. Apparently it took a while before that effect would show on the new people - because I still had to struggle to think of just a few Spanish sentences to say to Mongo. And he just laughed when I did, because he had no idea what I was saying.

Indescribable

I went to my grandma's house outside of Sugar Grove one afternoon because nobody was supposed to be there, and I told my friend Amanda that she could come over with her friends - because she was trying to get away from her boyfriend.

I was there for a couple hours waiting, when all of the sudden my grandma came from one of the back rooms, asking what was going on. I was surprised, because I thought she was gone - and then it got even worse, as a bunch of people from my showed up to check in on her as well.

As mom and dad walked in, I told them that I thought the house was going to be empty, and that it wasn't a good time for them to come because I had some friends showing up soon. They came in anyway. Later in the evening Amanda was finally able to come over.

However, as planned, she didn't come alone. She had a whole carload of people with her. Apparently not only was she trying to escape her boyfriend, but so were many of her friends and other family. All of my family started getting annoyed as they came in through the front door, some of them even bringing their pets with them - almost like they were refugees from a hurricane or something.

I told mom that I had warned them about this, and I took Amanda into one of the back rooms so I could talk to her - leaving all the other people that I didn't know out in the living room with grandma and my family. (Dogs barking, kids screaming, people wandering around everywhere... heh)

I told Amanda we wouldn't be able to stay, cuz my grandma would go nuts, and somehow we instantly turned up in Atlantic City on the boardwalk in the late afternoon. She and I were looking in storage units which were actually on the boardwalk. Perhaps there was going to be an auction? I'm not sure, but they were all open, and all filled with things of little interest to either of us.

Amanda just kinda vanished at this point, and I wandered into a "Skill Center" on the north end of the boardwalk. They didn't have slot machines or regular casino games, but they did have carnival type games which paid their prizes in cash instead of stuffed animals or something. The first game I came across was something like "Quarters" You would throw your quarters at tiny cups, each one marked with a different cash value. Get it in the cup, win that amount.

I was digging in my pocket for change, and came up with a handful of mixed silver change. I had plenty of quarters, but some of them were stuck together with a big glob of pink bubblegum. I was looking around for a place to stick this gummed wad of change, but I was aware that security was watching me and I didn't want to get in trouble.

I left the casino and headed down into the city a bit, which turned into Lancaster Ohio. I was walking underneath the Rt 33 overpass over Broad St and came upon a bunch of skids of "stuff" sitting in rows in a vacant parking lot. Most of it was construction supplies, but there was one skid of old Commodore PET computers that I saw.

I was trying to think of a way that I could load all of them into my car, but then some guy came along with a truck and started loading them up himself. I was screwed because my tiny car couldn't hold them. I'm not sure if he was allowed to take them, or if they were just there for anyone - but he told me that they were auction goods.