I had the most bizarre dream last night...
First it started with me hosting a scrabble tournament at my old high school and being worried that nobody was going to show up. I was just about to call it off when about fifteen people show up, mostly random people from school here, some of them making their debut appearances in my dreams.
As soon as the the tournament was about to start I was magically transported to JFK airport where the Academy Awards were being held. I met up with my friend Andrew (the one from high school), who gave me an overly excited, bordering on awkward hug, and then we went to the ticketing booth. Andrew got his ticket and walked in and I was about to when I realized that the ticket they had handed me was for some ballet being held the next day. Weak sauce.
As I was walking home I saw Tom Cruise and some other famous people. I also saw a Korean restaurant inside the airport called "Dosirak." When I got home I told my parents and uncle about it and we were magically transported back to the airport and into Dosirak but not before I gave the ballet ticket to Lee.
At the beginning of our meal a family walked by with a woman clutching her newborn child. The child was actually still a fetus though but my brother found it adorable and wanted to hold it, for some strange reason the woman allowed him to fetus-sit the thing for the duration of the meal.
At first things were all good and it was almost cute. Eventually my brother just started setting it down on the table and doing other unsafe things with it. I kept yelling at him to be careful with the fetus but he didn't listen and my parents didn't do much to help either. Next thing I know the fetus is dead. It had somehow shrunk to about 20% of its size and was no longer breathing. For some reason, I was the only person freaked out by this and that's when the family returned to find get their fetus.
I was freaked out and everybody else in my family pleaded innocence. She noticed that I wasn't saying anything and had a disturbed look on my face and she singled me out and asked me where her child was. I started crying uncontrollably because I was pissed off, upset, and annoyed that all the blame was being put on me. After some crying we just abruptly got up and the dead baby's mom and I walked downstairs to some childrens museum place where I had to pee.
The bathroom there was really really weird because they didn't have urinals, instead they had sink/urinals where you pee in the sinks that are lined up like urinals, about thirty to a row. There were a bunch of little kids peeing in the sinks and I went to pee at one but had difficulty because it was so high up (The sinks must've been at least five feet in the air). It was weird though because all the little kids around me were having no problem, I was confused, I also felt like I had to pee but couldn't. I walked away disappointed at my inability to pee which might've had something to do with the fact that while I was trying to pee my friend Jefferson walked up and stood right next to me and started talking to me...
What happened after this is kinda unclear... everything I just recounted came back to me during my shower although I did remember that I had a cool dream right after I woke up, I just wasn't sure what it had been... anyway, here's what else I remember.
I was walking home with someone in a city that I think was supposed to be New York but actually looked more like Seoul. There was a guy laying in the middle of the street as cars were coming and his girlfriend was watching, I don't remember if she was excited or terrified. I was hoping that he would get hit but he didn't.
That's about all I remember of that...
I'm really enjoying remembering so much of my dream because I can piece together where all the things in my dream are coming from. Here's a bit of a rundown...
Dosirak - (The Korean restaurant I went to) There's actually a restaurant called Dosirak in the village that I walked past with Jimmy on Friday.
The Academy Awards - The nominations were recently announced.
The fetus - In my writing class we watched a semi-disturbing short film involving a woman pulling a presumably dead fetus out of the drain in her sink.
The fetus changing in size - In the short film the fetus grows to a full grown man.
Scrabble - I recently had to talk about my scrabble club in front of my Sight & Sound film class.
Peeing into sinks - I joked about this with someone in the bathroom when all the urinals were full recently.
Tom Cruise - Because he's always in my dreams... although I'd much rather dream about John Stamos *sigh*
Most of the people in my dream were people I had only recently met for the first time or had thought about but haven't seen for a long time. I don't recall anybody I see regularly in it except for Lee who I didn't see but talked to on the phone because I had to give her the ballet ticket.
I'm slowly starting to remember a tiny bit more... something about walking in the woods...
Anyway, I have to go to the dahesh museum today and sketch stuff, I'm going to try to go to the MET too while I'm up there. Tonight I have figure drawing which is fun and then I'll come back and probably work some more on my Italian Cinema paper. I started it yesterday and I'm three pages into it but I've gotten nowhere... ewww...
Oh yeah... Wilco is also confirmed for Coachella... :(
