Bare-allels (Seriously, please don't hate me)

The spring musical at school is Peter Pan. I consider auditioning, but ultimately decide not to because I don't know my vocal range. Lara gets a decent part despite sucking.

Janet gets the part of Misty as A Villain (I kid you not. That's what the playbill said. "Janet as Misty as A Villain"). She gets a solo which is part almost-Christmas-song, part vaudeville-ish (she's dancing with a cane). I remember thinking that the set sucked because it was basically a porch, with posts and rails in the way of the performance. I see Misty sitting across the auditorium and we exchange O_o faces.

Will is the only boy that auditioned or something because he is cast as every boy in the play (I'd love to see that Captain Hook v. Peter Pan, wouldn't you?). He is explaining this to me as we walk to his house. We rode the school bus to somewhere nearish my elementary school (and nowhere near where he actually lives). I was a little confused about why we were disembarking so far away from his house, but didn't question it.

Apparently my subconscious goes for quantity over quality

1. Silk Market in Beijing with Kitty, Sunny, and Sunny's grandmother. I see something I want to buy, but the latter insists on bargaining for me. Later, she is buying a bracelet for me that I wanted to give as a present. I wonder out loud what the official bracelet of China is (wtf, self?) and she and the store keeper go find it for me. Later again (at Sunny's house?), I insist on paying back the five dollars I, apparently accounting for the rate of exchange, owe her.

2. My brother wants me to please wake him up at 7:15 AM.

3. Brother's girlfriend has left several pairs of her shoes in my room. I know they aren't mine because I do not wear flip-flops. (She does this IRL. Not in my room, but she has like six pairs of shoes at my mother's house.)

4. First day of school, sitting in English class. I have not written the several essays I was supposed to write. We're turning them in online. The structure is basically "On this page, type an introduction. On the next page, upload your paper." I am trying to fake it and write a bunch of essays really fast, when the teacher sits at the computer next to me. Also, we seem to be at my elementary school.

5. The back wall and corners of my panda guinea pig's cage are collapsing. She jumps down and runs straight into a pigloo, sitting on the floor. I suggest getting a new cage.

Pardon me while I remove this layer of dust...

I don't think this was the same place as that first pair of sequel dreams, but I am somewhere with my brother and someone else and we are trying to escape. I'm not sure how I knew that, though, as we were not together. I'm crawling through a very familiar, very large room, trying to avoid mostly unseen guards. Something happened (I think I collapsed or something. Pretty sure I didn't just get caught.) and scene change! Infirmary or something like that. Doctor comments on my bruised knees, Brother teases me, saying I must have been crawling wrong. I tell him my crawling was perfectly fine, thanks. Fin.

1. Jaclynn has apparently been playing Dungeons and Dragons with my brother. A minotaur has come to life and is chasing her throughout a strange combination of my mother and father's respective houses. As she runs, I stand off to the side and casually encourage her to go to the garage, get in the car, and drive away, getting frustrated when she does not heed my advice. When she finally listens, the minotaur gets into the car before she can drive off. Suddenly, they look all happy together. I shrug and close the garage door as they drive off.

2. I'm at a movie with Ashton. An actress looks like her. I tell her that, followed by something like "or maybe you look like her, since she's older." We ponder this.

3. I was clicking my pen (I think I was nervous about something) and someone found it annoying. They snatched it out of my hand and threw it away.

The mustangs of my subconscious

At the park shelter where Emily's birthday party was held, with her, but in the dark. Soon, someone appears and is scary and menacing and creepy and all that. Later, at school with another friend, Jaclynn. We are ranting about the scary person because that person upset Emily and that is not okay. Later again, walking into the aforementioned park shelter with Will. I suppose I was nervous, because he gives me a hug. Before I go in, he says something like "Hey, you know this is completely platonic and will never be anything more, right?" Even though I did know that and have pretty much gotten over it, it kinda felt like I had been verbally slapped in the face. Fin.

These are about a week apart

1. This one is strange and goes a little something like this: My father has just died. Naturally, my entire family is very upset (including my mother. I think they might not have divorced in this dream). Mom has a camera of some sort that, through some convoluted process, can make his ghost appear. Soon, she dies. I teach myself to use the camera thing to talk to them.

2. In the airport in China, headed home. For some reason, a boy who will not be going on the trip (and didn't go on the last one) is there and everyone has a musical instrument case. There are three tour guides escorting us all to our gate. Waiting for the flight, we're all playing (as in, goofing off, not music) around a fountain. It is just some jets spraying water up from the ground in two opposite-facing rows, if that makes any sense. Anyway, it's kind of close to a wall, but there is a thin (a foot or so wide) walkway between fountain and wall. As we stand on opposing sides, Will does something funny and it is decided that he doesn't need to be told what it was he did.

I think I might have battled some gangsters for some magic toothpaste or something. In the car on the way back from that battle, I am with a dog that switches back and forth from being my dog (large) to being a dog that my dad sometimes dogsits (small). He and I are competing a little over the tube of magical toothpaste (I don't remember why it was important. I think it changed flavor, but that was not why it was important). When we arrive at my house, we go inside. He goes to his kennel to rest and I go say hello to my mother. She sends me back out to the car because I did not bring in the toothpaste. After looking to make sure the dog is still where he was, I go back out. I get the toothpaste out and notice that the dog, as my dog, has followed me. For some reason, he wants to go into the trunk of the car (which is big and open to the rest of the car and where he usually sits). I help him in because he is old. Around the side of the car, I pause to do something. The dog, as the other dog, appears and I decide to set him on top of the car because he is small and I can. He moves to the edge and I jokingly put my head against the car, like a platform on which he can stand. The dog defies the laws of physics to use me as a staircase somehow.