Haven't a clue what my dreams were, but I think I have a recurring dream involving soup or that soup is a recurring theme in my dreams. I woke up the other day and forgot my dream, but I remember that it involved soup (I think there was soup being served in the cafeteria of where I attended junior high). It seemed familiar.

It's been a while...

Okay. I'm at a store with my mother, her fiance, Emily, and Somebody (Male, possibly nearish my age. I haven't a clue who he is, but I dream about him sometimes). The outside of the store says Petco, but the inside is more like Wal-Mart + Lowes + Generic Furniture Store. I don't see anyone else with pets, which worries me, because I have a two mechanical dogs on leashes and a cat. The dogs look and act exactly like real dogs, except they have On-Off switches on their tummies. The smaller of the two dogs has something like a miniature stroller attached to its leash, into which it keeps sitting down, though it never falls behind. I guess the stroller was motorized or something. Every once in a while, the larger dog tries to sit in the stroller, but the little dog pushes it out. I realize I've gotten separated from the rest of the group, but it doesn't worry me. That is, until Emily and Somebody come barrelling up the aisle I'm standing in. Emily is frantically screaming and Somebody has a sign (I guess he doesn't talk). Both of them are effectively communicating (written as seen on Somebody's sign) "RUN!!! HIDE IN THE FLOORING DEPARTMENT!!!". Being a trusting friend, I ran as fast as is humanly possible with two mechanical dogs and a cat in tow to the flooring department. There, I hid behind a conveniently tipped over couch. The cat had a hairball right in front of me. It was icky, so I threw up a teeny little bit (which is noteworthy because usually my stomach is not that weak). The dogs hid under an adjacent couch. We slept. We woke up, got up, and saw my mother, her fiance, and Emily. And then I woke up.

Upon further reflection, Somebody and the cat were both missing at the end.

Okay, I don't actually remember what I dreamed. I wish I did, though, because I woke up sideways on my bed. Weird.

I'm at driver's ed. Except it is not the driver's ed building, but OF COURSE IT IS WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. It is a building I think I have been to once like four years ago when my grade went on an overnight field trip to a nature camp thing. This is the sort of room with taxidermied (is that a word? I don't know. I don't think it's a word.) wildlife all over the place. Anyway. After we put on our Driver's Education Uniforms, which we have, they bring food. But it is cupcakes. And we are all "Cupcakes? We don't want no stinking cupcakes!". So Katherine (who is NOT in my driver's ed class, but was there) and I went to find CAKE. Because that is what we all wanted. And we found cake. There were like eight cakes. They were sitting on metal shelves along the walls of the kitchen, but they were frozen. For some reason we could not bring them back, but everyone was happy anyway, except this one boy who IS in my actual driver's ed class and who I had a class with during one semester of school. He was just kinda sitting there with his hands folded on his lap. Aaaaand then I woke up.

Out to dinner with someone male (My brother? My dad? Will? No idea. But he was male.). We were at a place I had been to only once before, a long time ago. My companion orders The Usual. I order something. Apparently it is exactly what I ordered the last time, same words and all because the waiter says "Of course, your usual." The restaurant's memory freaks me out a little.

Three. I think that's a personal record.

1. I was at the school I attended last year, helping Emily pack her backpack. We had agreed to meet Will when we were done. By the time we finished, it was 5:30 PM. We went to find Will, but he had taken the bus home. The scene kind of blurred into a party in my mother's basement with my friends (minus Will and possibly Katherine). We were just about to start playing video games (N64, to be precise) when Catherine commented on the games. That delayed us starting long enough for Will to show up.

2. Basically, the world disappears at 10 PM unless you are lying perfectly still. If you are, then you can wander around the empty landscape until the world reappears at 11, at which time you have to be perfectly still again. I think you also had to be back where you started at 10 when everything reappeared.

3. I swore in front of my father (something I never do while awake) and I had to cover for it. I'm pretty sure I said something lame like "I don't normally say things like that, but...".

I was at a hotel with the mother and brother of a friend of mine, Emily. Emily was not present. I was wandering around the outside of the hotel, which looked suspiciously like where I attended elementary school, with Emily's little brother. We were chatting about something I don't remember and then decided to go back inside, using a door that wasn't present at my school. We were in an elevator. Emily's mother was there, as were two other people, both of whom I know and neither of whom I talk to. All five of us were on our way to check out of the hotel, but there was no luggage in the elevator. We all had numbers. Emily's brother dropped his when the elevator suddenly tilted sideways. He nearly fell himself, but Emily's mother and I grabbed his wrists. His number fell through the door, outside the elevator. The elevator righted itself and the doors opened. There were two number card on the ground. Emily's mother said that she was number 60, so Emily's brother should take number 40. Mine was 116. We exited the elevator, stepping into what looked like the lobby of a hotel I stayed in in China. Upon thinking, the elevator was similar to one I encountered in France (I go on a lot of school trips). The hotel receptionists were calling out numbers, seemingly at random. They called 116. I was not sure if I was supposed to go to the desk at that time or wait for them to finish with 1-115.

And then I woke up.