Tom Brady want you to play Bioshock

Night of November 29th, 2009
Tampa, FL
Non-Lucid

I was working at Target at the cashier station in the electronics department. Person after person was buying Modern Warfare 2. Sometimes people would buy 2 -3 copies. I had the totals memorized after an hour or two and not a single other game was being bought. I decided that I was done with this and moved to a computer help desk. There I helped someone get signed up for a baby registry and also helped someone find a baby toy. Then someone asked where they could find Modern Warfare 2. Again I helped them and then got out of there too. That night I called up Tom Brady and had him come in for a photo shoot to advertise that we actually sell other games. I made standees of him throwing catching and holding other games such as Bioshock and Beatles Rock Band.

I honestly believe Modern Warfare 2 is just an elaborate game of whack-a-mole.

He might also want you to pick up his game too.

Long Day Equals Randomness

It was a long crazy day so a lot of details got lost and also this post is late. I do remember these following things:
-A film called "The Double Man" starring Robert de Niro and Sean Bean. The poster was the two actors faces crossing over each other suggesting the actors were playing the same perosn in the film.
- A video game that was like Super Mario Galaxy but with a witch final boss.
-One of the characters you can play as was a cross between Donald Duck and Iron Man.

This is interesting because both Sean Bean and Robert de Niro were in "Ronin", and Disney bought Marvel.

Close Enough.

I want a Batman Discount Card!

Night of November 26th, 2009
Palm Harbor, FL
Non-Lucid

The night started with a Twilight Zone-like episode where a man gets a second chance at life after dying but he immediately sacrifices it for his grandson. Coming back as a different person the grandson does not recognize him at first. I feel like this dream was given to me to make a short film out of it was so intriguing.

After that my next dream was about how I was teaming up with a crime scene investigator to learn how to solve crimes for some reason. I would try and figure things out using what I had seen in movies. It honestly sounds like the idea for a bad TV show. We are a great team until this hot shot from the DA shows up and has a different idea on one of his cases. My partner is at a loss but I step in and prove him wrong using evidence from a terrible disaster movie called "Elevator Shaft 6". How there was more than one I don't know. Also why is it the same girl in all 6; how does she keep getting stuck in elevators? She was REALLY hot though.

In a final segment, Batman was buying Cheerios for 5 cents with a special discount card. Not fair.

Damn you Zac Efron, or How I Write a Blog and Accidentally Set Off the Bomb

Superstitious people should not read the following because my dream told by writing this article I set about the end of the world. Or at least the nuclear apocalypse.

Night of November 25th, 2009
Palm Harbor, FL
Non-Lucid

I was going to a class at USC and it happened to be set below ground. I take the steps to the classroom recessed into the ground and strike up a conversation with the two fellows next to me. One of them used to be in the Navy and the other the Army. They were talking about the two types of bombs used in their former line of work and the differences between them. All of sudden the ground shakes, all the lights went out except for the sunlight coming from above. I stack a chair on a table and look up through the window. The nuclear apocalypse had stuck and we were only alive because we were below ground; the recessed classroom had worked like a bunker. We began discussing how we couldn't go outside due to radiation but we could not survive inside with no food. I got back on the chair and saw that the room above us had fruit trees. What a convenient place for an arbor fruit farm.

Now the next thing I was wondering was what caused all this. I don't know how I figured this out in the end but it turns out this all stems from the fact that I had written a blog article about how I wanted to see the upcoming Zac Efron movie. (It happens to be true. "Me and Orson Wells", despite all odds, actually looks good.)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Tobey Maguire is scared of my powers

Night of November 22, 2009
Orlando, FL
Non-lucid

The twins and I were at Barnes and Noble eagerly awaiting the release of Adam Lambert's new CD. When I go inside I see my friend John there and I don't know exactly what we were discussing but I think it had to do with the new Batman film. When I get back in the car Tobey Maguire is riding shotgun in his Spiderman suit. After some confused greetings the twins say they have heard James Franco will still be in Spiderman 4; despite his death in the third movie he will still be a villainous Green Goblin. Tobey says he is not at liberty to say but I chime in saying my sources have revealed that not only will he return but they will introduce Carnage to continue the symbiote saga and also include Black Cat so the series can counter the strong female villain of Catwoman that DC has. Tobey looks stunned and says "I am not allowed to say... damn it how do you know these things?!"

Are you happy now?

Alicia was wondering why she never showed up in my dreams. Now it's two nights in a row so she should be happy now :)

Night of November 18th, 2009
Palm Harbor, FL
Non-lucid

Alicia and I were attending a party at my friend Ashley's house. For some reason all of Alicia's DVD's (mostly "The Simpsons" collections?) were there too and every time she left the room I would rearrange them in the middle of the room to make some shape. This was really starting to annoy her but I did it anyway. Later in the party Star Wars: Episode 1 was playing in the background. I made sure everyone knew when it was Natalie Portman and when it was Keira Knightley. Ashley gave me a hug as we were leaving and thanked me for coming. I think we left Alicia's DVD's there...


Can you tell which one is which?

Alicia, we should own a bar!

Night of Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Palm Harbor, FL
Non-lucid

Alicia and I were cleaning up a bar we apparently ran and operated back in the East Lake area. I was cleaning the glasses and noticed that we had placed business cards in the bottom of them. You know how places will do that under the glass in tables, well we did it in our glasses. One of the last customers asked who Cory Davidson was noticing a card in his glass saying "In Memory of Cory Davidson". I told him he was a high school friend of mine who played football in the area. He unfortunately died while still in college- too young. The customer, feeling he was rude, looked solemn paid and left.

(It should be noted that again my dream doesn't make sense. It was Cory's twin brother, Sean, who has sadly passed on.)

Worst Night Ever

Did I have a dream last? Yes I did but it was more like a memory. A terrible memory of a real event from last night. I was forced to live it over and over again ALL NIGHT. That's why I am not going into much detail and using my usual format. I will just give a quick overview and post a video. I watched the Patriots/ Colts game last night and my team was dominating the whole game. Then the coach I respected so highly goes and makes the bonehead call of going for it on 4th down on their own 28 with 2 minutes left.

Larry King impressions have no place in Arkham Asylum

Night of November 9th, 2009
Tampa, FL
Non-Lucid

I'm Batman. Well, I did have a dream in which I was playing Arkham Asylum (but I was actually the Dark Knight- it was real not a game), and let me tell you, a dream in which you are the Caped Crusader and you fly around kicking ass is incredibly cathartic. You wake up brimming with energy.

Earlier that night another dream. I was on a cruise with two friends. One was my friend Steve, and the other friend was my fencing instructor in high school. As good as I am with names and faces I was never able to remember her name. This is odd because I always had a thing for her. Anyway we get off the cruise and she tells me that she met a guy on the cruise but didn't get his number. So I go and somehow get it for her and program it into her Iphone for her. After that for some reason I do a Larry King impression. Steve pipes up saying that it was a very good impression and was very funny.
A Google Image search for Larry King revealed this gem.

I have a film print of Lola Rennt?

The first movie reference to appear twice: Lola Rennt

Night of November 9th, 2009
Palm Harbor, FL
Non-Lucid

Will brought over an old 35mm projector and we were going to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark on it. I also brought out a film print of Run Lola Run. It wasn't fitting in the projector. I don't know if it was supposed to be IMAX or CinemaScope, the thing is it looked really distorted in my dream (dreams do that) but I am going to lean toward CinemaScope. The whole dream was kinda trippy and technically inaccurate. For example the projector was actually an 8mm projector but it was taking 35. Figure that one out.

Later in a second dream I was in Target and I am brought into the security room with another lady. They accuse me of stealing things, things which I obviously had not stolen because they had them on the table right there in front of them. Then to find out if I did it they make me swab my mouth (the procedure for bone marrow identification) multiple times. I need to stop watching so much House M.D.

One Last Halloween Party

Night of November 6th, 2009
Palm Harbor, FL
Non-Lucid

I was going up to visit George in Orlando and when I arrived at his new apartment complex I overheard two friends in an adjacent apartment. The conversation started out friendly but started to get violent. I started trying to figure out which apartment was George's and ended up opening doors to many empty rooms after I hid my stuff. George then showed up dressed up as Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid 4, with the exception of several Gears of War 2 icons on his jumpsuit. He told me he had been invited to a Halloween party back in Tampa. Turns out it's one being held by my USF friends. I go back to John's room to get my Run Lola Run costume on. Brynn is there and before I head back out to the party I show her my recent DVD acquisitions. I just got The 5th Element and Angel-A on Blu-ray in preparation for Luc Besson Fest '09

I head to the main room and it has turned into a huge theatrical auditorium with a lavish set and Mozart music is playing. I hear that it's a musical interpretation of Amadeus and the opening number is 20 minutes. I say that is great because a masterpiece like Amadeus can have numbers as long as they want.
Take note USF friends, we need to have a badass party like this.

Shattered Dreams

I have been waiting to use this title for a while. I remember pieces from a couple different dreams last night but not enough to be able to piece together a story. It is really a shame this night because the second one had some real depth to it. If anything though, this night shows my overly media induced life as there are references galore in these pieces. The picture above was a great find as my dreams this evening are like the remnants of Zechs' mask.

Night of November 5th, 2009
Palm Harbor, FL
Non-lucid

In the first piece I picked up a Pokemon cards (again) and saw one of them wasn't for battling but had a trivia piece on it. It said that my friend Gina was in the movie Drag Me to Hell. I rent the movie and see that she is clearly in the opening scene. Later I picked up a Trivial Pursuit card and saw that Lisa was in a major film too. This card told me she was an extra in the warehouse scene of Serenity. Putting the film in I see that she is in focus for a few seconds before the camera racked focus to Malcolm and River. After that all I remember is talking to the twins and asking why they didn't tell me they were in those movies.

The second shard of broken glass here is about deep issues like war, peace, love and death. I was talking to Zechs Marquis about these issues. I am sure we also got to the topic of why we as human beings feel the need to compete and fight. It's a natural instinct. This could have also stemmed into the issue of human selfishness but I honestly don't remember , but I wish I did. I have tried really hard to rack my brain and all I came up with a small third sliver of glass from last night.

Third dream: I theorized on why I can get away with walking into people's homes in Oblivion to talk them and not have to knock on the door and how this is no way reflects on real life therefore taking me out of the immersive real-life experience Oblivion is supposed to give. I thought about this as I walked down my street trying both techniques. Oddly enough I didn't freak out the person who I walked in on but it didn't feel right.
I am pretty sure I remember Keira Knightley showing up at some point too so here's a picture.

Dog Food is Hazardous to your Health

Night of November 3rd, 2009
Palm Harbor, FL
Non-Lucid

My brother, Ryan and I were all on the art department crew for an episode of House being shot in the middle of Russia. I just noticed that meant we were in the middle of Siberia, but none of us were dressed accordingly and were not dying of hypothermia. Oh well. So the film crew was finishing the last scene of the day with Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard (being shot on a RED ONE with Nikon lenses), and while they were wrapping up we decided to start taking the file cabinets out to where we were storing them for the next day's scene. Paul comes back in and tells me the art director just chewed him out for having the wrong color-coded wallpaper on one of the filing cabinets. We were color coding all the cabinets because some were in the first couple shots and others were in the later shots. Very strange system of continuity.

Once we had everything packed up we drove them out to our field where we were storing everything. It was a giant snow covered field and the only things in sight were the zeppelin we arrived in which looked like a long snaky red dragon and a large apartment complex that looked more like a warehouse. I helped my buddy Max break down his D90 off a tripod and remove the matte-box. Ryan put the tripod legs away. It looked like we were set to go when a bag of dog food fell off something near the complex. A bunch of Pomeranian sled dogs (?) started making a bunch of noise as they charged over to get the food. We could hear an angry lady leave her apartment to come see what happened. She was yelling "Whoever knocked over that bag, you had better pick it up." We didn't want to get in a fight so we headed toward my Mustang. Good thing we did because it got more frightening. She started sounding livid. "Pick it up you bastard!" Once we got to the car we saw her round the corner- she had a shotgun! We got in and gunned it. She blew a whole in my back window and I started dodging film equipment while trying to keep her off target. I finally got behind some stuff and drove as fast as I could to get out of there.
See the middle finger? That's what Dr. House thinks of people who put holes in my Mustang.

Old Dream: Flight of the Rolex

Another old classic dream of mine, this time from circa March 2004.

I am at a hotel in Tampa where one of my chess tournaments once took place. I have tracked down a kid from my high school Bio II class here. He has stolen my Rolex. I ask the receptionist where he is staying and then pay for the room above his. I wait until night falls and then open the air vent in my room. I crawl through the ducts until I find his room. I sneak in but he wakes up and calls the cops. I quickly crawl back through the ducts and return to my room. Once I am back the cops arrive soon after and bust in the door. I think I am trapped but when I turn around a door magically appears on the wall behind me. I open it and it's the Loony Toon effect: a mile high drop off. It's either the cops or I fall to my death. I am rational and jump. The result...

...The Matrix effect of course! I land gracefully just on the other side of a barbwire fence and in front of high speed traffic. I look to my right and there is absolutely nothing. On my left is an old man with a shotgun to my face. I raise my arms showing I am unarmed. He lowers his gun and says "Oh, it's you!" in a surprised tone. I have no idea who this old man is but he apparently thinks he knows who I am. He hands me a bike and tells me to hurry. I get on the bike and start pedaling away and to my surprise the bike begins to go all E.T. on me.

I fly over the highway for a along time. I follow the path the highway takes me for miles and eventually veer off and land in a basketball court. The court is unique however as it has a BMW insignia on the center of the court and has a gymnast safety net connecting the two rims. A orange pickup truck pull up and the old man gets out with the kid who took my watch. He hands over my Rolex and apologizes. Then the old man comes up and pats my shoulder as he explains that he has paid off my debt to BMW.

I don't own a Rolex and have never had any business with BMW...