The Beginning

Between 23 July, 2006 and 23 April, 2007 I decided to record my dreams every morning after I woke up. Some of the dreams were rather short, while other were quite long. Some were meaningful, some were downright bizarre. All of them will be posted here. I will try to post the dreams exactly as they are written in my journal, though last names will be changed. Various grammatical changes are also necessary due to the dreams having been written a few minutes after I woke up each day.

(It should be noted that at the time I was nearing the end of a two-year mission for my church, and thus several of the dreams may have a religious slant.)

Dream #4

I was at BYU and it was the first day of classes. My mom was taking me around shopping at first and she asked if I needed anything. I said I could use some money for books and she gave me $100. I didn't have time to get all the books at once so I was scrambling before every class to get the books for that class. I had a class in the morning and I bought the book. Then in the afternoon/evening I had a Spanish class and the teacher wanted us to buy a book from 1975. There were a couple copies in the bookstore and they all had the date on the side but none were from 1975. I was running out of time and there several other people getting books, so the stack diminished rapidly. I eventually grabbed one from 1979 and went to pay for it when I saw Amy Hardman, Angela Solomon, and another girl come in. Angela saw me and rolled her eyes then avoided me like the plague. Amy came over and talked to me a bit. I was going to tell her that she had been in a few of my dreams recently but I didn't. I came up with a couplet that went something like "If I am so horrible that I am impossible to forgive; then let me know and I'll stop asking for forgiveness." I told her to tell it to Angela because I could tell she still hated me. I eventually paid for the book. It said $1.50 on it but it ended up being $17. It was still a lot less than most textbooks so I was happy. When I finally left the bookstore on my way to class it was 6:15 pm. Class started at 6:00 and I was really worried about being late my first day.

Dream #1

We were staying at a large hotel in New York City with a huge suite. Mom was in a room adjoining mine, and my room was gigantic. As I was about to go to bed, a young woman opened my door and came in. She said she was a merchant, and asked if I wanted to buy anything. We went outside on the huge patio and talked about random stuff.

Dream #2

Elder Brown and I were talking about dreams we had had the night before and we realized we both had the same dream (dream #1 about the girl in New York City). We went about our proselyting duties and we were contacting a lot of people. I was driving a red Mazda minivan which had one headlight out, and the other headlight was fading. We then drove through a town in a canyon at night and it was really hard to see, due to the lack of headlights.

Dream #3

I was home, but we were living in Las Vegas. It was really cold and it started snowing, but it all melted as soon as it touched the ground.

I was home from my mission, and I was sitting in the living room with my family, just talking ad hanging out. A girl I had been dating was also there, and I was preparing to ask her to marry me. I had three rings, but they all had 'handles' and looked like small mugs with no bottoms. She preferred one of them, and I gave it to her. We showed it to my mom, who didn't like it at all, and she insisted I get a new one. I promised my now-fiancée I would get her something unusual.

Dream #1

We were in a small house, and when we went outside there was a huge snake. It kept striking at me, and it eventually bit me on the left thumb. I started freaking out, but no one else was worried. I put a bag of ice on it, and I called the medical supervisor. She told me not to worry about it. It started hurting, and as soon as I knew the poison was really working, I woke up.

Dream #2

We went to the store, and I was the only one that went in. I only needed something quick, but I ended up looking at all the ipods, and a salesman was telling me about how one really nice one was normally $749, but was on sale for $200. It had tv and everything on it, but I didn't buy it. I ended up going to the toy section and stealing a bright orange AK-47 airsoft gun. I left and went to the car, and we (me, Elder White, and some girl) drove to a mountain. (We were in a red Corvette.) We climbed up a hill and I started trying to hit a target through a hole in some branches with the airsoft gun. I was leaning on a tree since we were on a steep hill, and the tree ripped out of the ground. It rolled down the hill and slammed into the Corvette, but it didn't damage it.

We were in the apartment and we saw a big car go past which looked like it was being driven by a little girl. It stopped in the field behind the apartment so I went to check it out. It turned out to be full of girls aged 8-11, and the girl driving kept saying she was 16 or 18. I asked to see her license, but she wouldn't let me see it. (she obviously didn't have one.) I put the parking brake on and went back inside. I came out a little later and they were still there, trying to get the car going. I took off the parking brake and decided to drive them myself wherever they were going. They were just going home, so I drove them there. On the way we saw a bunch of accidents and police cars driving by. I told the girls that they could have easily gotten in an accident, and to drive the point home, I told them we could've had to swerve, (as I swerved) but when I did there was an accident right in front of us and I really did have to swerve. Unfortunately, the accident took up most of the road, and I hit a truck, but not very hard. We were all fine and we kept going. We got to their house, (actually it was their brother's house, and it was huge) and I parked in the backyard. I told them to start looking for the car's registration, as I figured the police would be coming soon. After much looking, we didn't find it. One of the girls (a bigger 13 year old) tried to flirt with me but I pushed her away. The police never came, so we didn't need the registration.

We were hiking along a trail in the mountain, and we kept seeing really cool rocks, so a couple of us decided to try and sell them at a rock shop. Elder Jordan and his "assistant" kept taking all the good ones for themselves, but I found a huge one buried in the trail and I was excited.

I went into a store with some friends, and the lady running the store started telling us about her home, and asking us if we wanted to go there. She was from a town in Italy near Rome called Miercoles. I asked her some questions about Italian pronunciation, and she gave everyone a paper with proper Italian pronunciation on it. she put on a video of her town, and it ended up being of a study abroad. At first I thought I recognized some people, then I realized it was the program I went on in 2005. All of a sudden I was there, back on the study abroad, and we were walking around looking at a monument. It was on/in a big hill, and we all started running up it, trying to be the first to the top. When we arrived, a couple kids said something to be the first to say anything from the top. I was following a girl that had "Paige Anderson" written on some tape on her back, but it wasn't really Paige - it was only an actress. It started raining hard when we were up there, and I stood in the rain, wearing shorts and a jacket. It was a very cold rain however, and soon we all went inside. We were in a big room with lots of games/video games/computers. I went to one to play Super Mario World, but all of a sudden, I knew I was working for a rich guy who had hundreds of employees. He came and got me to work in another part of the house. He had me wait for a bit, and there were computers there with a game of Starcraft going on, so I played for awhile. (I was terran, there were five other zerg players, some were on my team, some weren't.) The game ended with a cinematic, and I was trying to exit out of all the screens when he came back. He gave me a wax glove/towel thing and a magazine, and he asked me to wax the pages of the magazine so they wouldn't get ruined. At first I didn't know how, but eventually I got the hang of it. He kept asking me to put more wax on each page - to "pile it on thick." He left, and a random lady started talking to me while I waxed.

I was at some small-town convenience store, cashing a check or something, and I accidentally left a letter from a girl. When I came back, the girl behind the counter (the girl who lives upstairs) handed it to me, along with a note of her own encouraging me to keep going. A little later we went to the house of Brother Scott, but he was acting really weird. We talked with him for awhile, then left and tracted into the Pope. We had a good conversation, and actually hung out with the Pope for a while. We started talking about Adam and Eve, and I brought up something that would be blasphemous to the Pope, but he had left by then. We all became good friends, and we hung out with him often.

We were at transfer calls, and the Zone Leaders said I was staying in Yeringon, (but somehow it was in Vegas) and I was getting a different Elder Adams as my companion.

We were meeting together to go on a big preparation-day activity. Bishop Green was there, and Brother Mitchell, along with several other members, and they all had their RVs. Brother Cooper kept backing up his RV really fast trying to get it ready. I ended up outside when they started, and I started walking through town with another Elder who was riding his bike. We went through a big tunnel-like place, where there was a parade going on. We passed a bunch of Safeway employees marching in the parade, and one of the girls in a grey polo shirt looked at us and, thinking we were something other than missionaries, said, "Hey, I want some candy." I looked at her and said, "Hey, me too!" and we kept walking. We passed some cheerleaders going the wrong way, and then we came out of the other side. We were looking for all the RVs,because I wanted to go on the activity (whatever it was). The Elder I was walking with was really apathetic and he didn't care about anything. We were at a junction in the desert, and we started down the road to Fallon, NV, hoping to see them in the distance. When we didn't, I assumed they hadn't gotten that far yet, (they had to go around the tunnel) so we started back.

Me, Brother Nelson, and another missionary were driving a black Escalade through the mountains. The other missionary started driving, but started driving stupidly, (trying to show off) so we yelled at him and I took over. We went over a high mountain pass and there was a ton of snow everywhere - it was a very dangerous drive. We got down in a big valley, and by this time it was just Brother Nelson and me. There were a bunch of cabins, and at first it looked deserted, but then we started to see other people going to ski. I got put in a cabin with an old guy who had been there for 18 months.

I was a little kid again, and I was playing a lot with my best friend. At the start we were jumping on the trampoline with some other kids, playing a game. Whoever was left standing won. I launched my friend and he landed on the bars, but he couldn't get hurt. My family then went to a nice restaurant where a lot of people didn't like us because we were Mormons. I asked to get an extra place mat and I ended up talking to the manager. He told me he used to prefer non-Mormons but now he liked the Mormons. His whole staff still didn't like us though. He asked me how much restaurant experience I had, then offered me a job right there when I said "a lot." I told him we were moving in a few days (I didn't know where) so I had to turn it down. We then went to a big dance where I found out we were moving to Sweden. We got there to our house on the beach in the summer, and it was so nice we thought it'd be nice all year, but the winter hit and it was freezing. Our family consisted of me, Mom, an older sister (17-ish) and brother (15-ish), and a younger sister (11-ish). I was about 13 at the end of the dream. My little sister, who turned into Paige, got a package from a friend in the military, and it had some pictures and a medal of honor in it.

Me and Ashley were in the same mission district, and when we went to transfers to get her new greenie, I turned around in the van, (I was sitting in the front) and it was Julia. I tried to hug her but I was caught in the seatbelt and it took a while to get out. We hugged, and we were excited to all be in the same district. Later on, we all ate lunch together and she told us about what had happened to her since we saw her last on the study abroad.

Elder Carter and I had just been transferred back to the San Miguel and Goldcrest wards in North Las Vegas, where there was no work going on at the time. We were excited though to be back there. I was driving down to Vegas in my van, but the headlights were really dim, and I was trying to find somebody that could fix them. We ended up in a small out-of-the-way valley, where I couldn't drive the van. We were going to take a handcart through, but then I didn't know what I'd do with my van, so we turned back.

We had been invited to a huge concert/get-together in the Event Center (in Casper, WY) but it was actually in Las Vegas. We had just gotten a bunch of supplies, and I was sorting them and checking out the new pass-along cards. There were some about Family Home Evening, (I gave one to Brother Lee) and some about other churches, as well as a bunch about how great dads are. We had to be at the get-together at 6:45p so the mission president could give us tickets, but Elder Adams had put in a movie with Natalie Wood in it, and we didn't turn it off until 6:46. I told him "that's why missionaries can't watch movies!" Elder Turner & his companion showed up, and my Dad was going to drive us all there. (My younger sisters were coming too.) I was wearing shorts, but decided to put on pants because Elder Turner said it was cold out. I came back out to the van, but I had forgotten my shoes. I went back in, got them, and we finally left at 7:00p.

I was with Scott in a little house, and he was holding me hostage. We both had guns, but he kept threatening to shoot me. The guns needed two AA batteries and mine fell out once. I waited until I had an opportunity, then when he was at the fridge I shot him many times. The guns didn't shoot bullets like I thought they would, but they shot green stringy 'shocker pulses.' I shot him enough so I could escape, but then I called 911 because I was worried about him. He turned out to be fine, but I wasn't his hostage anymore.

Dream #1

We were watching a play/debate/show in a huge opera house with tons of people and a bunch of missionaries too. I was in a wheelchair but I didn't really need it. I was wearing my blue Billabong shirt, my khaki cargo pants, and a black suit jacket. I kept moving around the theater and I ended up near the stage where a young girl kept looking at me and eventually came over and kissed me on the cheek. Other girls tried, but I refused, telling them I was a missionary and couldn't kiss. President Wilson's daughter showed up and was glad I wasn't kissing anyone. I wheeled out, got an usher to find me the elevator, and somehow I ended up in the basement. There was huge machinery around, which was screwing up and throwing big stuff around. I had to get to the other side, but some guys came over and wanted to fight. I got out of the wheelchair and beat them up.

Dream #2

We were getting ready for school, and our ride showed up. I was in a hurry because I couldn't remember what classes I was taking and when. I knew I had a math class that day which I hadn't attended yet and I had a backlog of homework to do. I also couldn't remember my locker combination, so I had to use a computer at the school to figure it out. Mr. and Mrs. Miller were driving us, and they were driving pretty crazy because they were in a hurry too. We accidentally left Elder White, so we turned around but we were in front of a tank which was being fired upon by a bunch of army guys at a checkpoint. We picked up Elder white and we went on our way.

Dream #3

I was in a group of church members who went to the house/museum of a fellow member. One of our group told the member (a woman) that we were there to stop something, and proceeded to tell others in the group to start breaking things. I thought that wasn't right, and I said so. He took a vote and only three of us (including the bishop) said we didn't want to do it. The guy swore us to secrecy and we left, but when we looked back almost everyone had left with us.

We were in Reno, but it was actually Paris - It was me and three other missionaries. One of the elders had to use the bathroom so we went in the Galleries Lafayette at closing time and used the bathrooms in the giant changing room. A store clerk was helping an older Mexican couple try on a new red brad, and they were discussing where they could get it cheapest.

Dream #1

We were watching the Reno airport (although it wasn't really in Reno) a couple miles north of it, and we saw a Southwest Airlines 737 take off, stall, and crash. It was followed by two 747s that also crashed, nose-first. The nose of the planes didn't break though, the planes just kind of bounced around and the people were fine. (Except on the 737, which blew up.)

Dream #2

I was doing a small landscape project, putting some dirt and then a bunch of water behind a bunch of rocks, and to the right of a computer. I was worried that the water might ruin the computer, so I turned it off, but I had to go through a 'primary' screen first and then one about my family.

Dream #3

My mom was worried about an email I had received from Amy Jackson, but it turned out to be a giant picture with a bunch of Disney-esque characters on a winter-themed background. I was thinking she was going to tell me she had gotten married, but she didn't.

Dream #1

I was seeing the trial of an air marshal who was on a flight that got hijacked. It was going from London to the US, and a hijacker got up and told everybody he was going to blow up the plane. The marshal, a slightly heavyset guy, immediately drew his gun and shot the hijacker. there was another hijacker, who asked if anyone was in the 'Make-A-Wish' program, and a girl from Cincinnati raised her hand. she got up to follow him like he asked, but when he was turned around she took the gun from the marshal and shot the hijacker. the plane landed safely, but there was a huge trial going on. The prosecutor had the marshal on the stand, and he kept bringing up a 'prophecy' the marshal had made to the girl. He was trying to prove the marshal thought he was a prophet.

Dream #2

We were in Hawthorne, NV and it was snowing pretty badly. My mom was driving the Concorde, and a bunch of people were sliding all over - we narrowly missed hitting an old Mustang by half an inch once. We got to the church, and I was showing my Mom a certain place in the chapel, but we ran into a family we knew that asked if I stayed there for the summer.

Dream #3

I was painting a big room and a fence, but the paint started drying quickly so I couldn't get more on the brush.

We were in a game of Jeopardy, and Alex Trebeck was actually playing in the game. He was beating everybody by a lot of points, because he had hosted the game for so long.

We were in Gardnerville, NV, but it was a big crater valley. We could see people all along the rims of the crater, and there began to be big rockslides. We could see a bunch of people getting crushed, but we couldn't do anything about it.

Dream #1

We were missionaries, and we were checking up on a referral. As we were going through the yard, we saw the lady get in her house quickly. We knocked, and a stern old lady came to the door and said she didn't want to talk to us. (She spoke in a British accent.) I asked where she was from, and she said England. I asked what part and told her I was born in High Wycombe and had lived in Gerrards Cross. She became much more pleasant and told me she was from Staffordshire. I told her how I felt I belonged in England, and how I want to live there, and she completely understood.

Dream #2

We were in a big school/church type place, and my family was staying in a room like a hotel room. It was late at night, and I couldn't sleep, so I was watching a DVD of :Family Guy" episodes. My Dad came in, and he actual thought it was funny. There were a bunch of guys and girls sitting i the 'chapel,' separated by gender. I didn't know what they were doing, but I went through them and got something from up on the stand, then left.

Me and another guy were putting on a show for a bunch of people. We were indoors, and there was a big tree that we performed around, and all the people sat around it. He was an army cavalryman from the 1800s, and I was an Indian chief. I had to wear fake teeth over mine, but the fake ones looked better than my real ones. I was walking around the tree looking solemn and sullen, and then the other guy shot me. I pretended to die, and laid on the floor for awhile until I got up when the show was over.

I wasn't a missionary at all, and me & a friend had got some motorcycles, which we were riding around. We were running away from something, but I don't know what.

Dream #1

We were going to/in a new movie by M. Night Shyamalan taking place in the woods, (there was a creepy guy with a bunch of deer tied up in ropes above his camp) then in a cave, then in some huge underground complex. It was a horror movie, and I was afraid to use the bathroom there, because I knew the girl behind me would lock me in the stairwell with the 'creatures'...

Dream #2

We were making/in a new horror movie about an intelligent ball of orangutan hair. I remember saying "There may be 100,000 of us, but there are 1,000,000 hairs in the ball of hair, and so it is 10 times more intelligent than all of us together!"

Dream #3

Me and Elder White were at a store looking at models and stuff, when he found some Warhammer 40k. He bought the starter box, and I bought an Eldar Vyper. Then I found out he wanted to be Eldar, so I had to be Space Marines. We were also telling some kid that if he bought a certain toy, he would die, but he didn't believe us. We told him to remember what we said in a few days when he does die.

Dream #1

I was swimming in a large pool while Courtnee Williams was talking to my Dad about why her parents didn't want her writing me. They said she was too young to write me.

Dream #2

We were being interviewed by the Mission President, and while I was waiting, (I was one of the first ones there but other missionaries kept going in front of me) I was eating a huge plate of pasta. Other missionaries were listening to a Christmas CD of mine, which had some unapproved music on it. (I was rather embarrassed about that.) When I got interviewed it was by President Wilson and President Moore, and I was talking too much. After a few minutes, the interview turned into a council with some other missionaries as well. I also had a soda that no one else did, and another missionary kept asking where I got it.

Me, Elder White, and some girl were at her house, but we weren't really missionaries. We heard Charlotte Church practicing her songs two houses over - the houses were huge with big lawns and no fences. I snuck over, only to see her start crying because everything in her life was so difficult. We (not Charlotte) started discussing where she lived, and I was very sure it was in Lethbridge, Alberta. Charlotte was singing "The Water is Wide'" and she messed up in a part, which really surprised us. The place we were in was full of green trees, huge yards, and gigantic houses with lots of windows.

We drove to Gerlach, NV to have a missionary lesson there; the church member's house was far out of town. (It turned out to be the Thompsons, who made really good brownies.) The Taylors were there too, as well as my Mom and Mr. Lewis. We passed by some houses with straw roofs which I thought were where the 'natives' lived. When we got to the house, we all signed our names on a sheet of paper. I thought my Mom had signed my name for me, but it turned out to be someone else, so I just signed my name under it. Some girl commented on my sloppy signature... Meanwhile, we were waiting for a huge storm to hit.