More Cohabitation and a Road Trip

A girl Ross used to be interested in is pregnant, hormonal, and moody.

My parents come over to visit me at my apartment, which I am sharing with Ross. They don't seem to care much about this fact.

I am in the living room with Ross, and I really want him to kiss me, but I know he shouldn't because if my parents see us kissing they will be against us living together and will make me move out.

We go on a road trip with a bunch of characters from Sarah Dessen's book This Lullaby. And some little kid. And at some point we stop at a church, where there is a wedding reception and/or some sort of EFY thing going on, while the place is being remodeled.

Overaffectionate Boys and Service

I'm over at Alan's house watching TV when suddenly he leans over and starts kissing me. I'm a bit confused for a minute- like, "Who is kissing me? Do I want him to kiss me?" Then I figure out who it is and say, "Please stop." And he does, but then I feel bad for hurting his feelings and think maybe I should have just kissed him back.

Later, we go tutor at a local elementary school for FHE. We meet beforehand to carpool and I just let myself into the first car I see that is almost full. The guy I'm sitting next to tries to put his arm around me and stroke my hair, but I don't even know him. So I get out of my seat and sit on the car floor. And he's upset because I had apparently been giving him signals that I wanted him to do that. Then I notice that Alan is the one driving. And it is awkward.

We get to the school and I get a drink from the water fountain. After a few seconds someone tells me to stop drinking, and I do, but not before I get some sludge in my mouth. Apparently there is something wrong with this fountain and it spews sludge towards the end of every drink. So I've got this stuff all over my teeth for the rest of the dream.

Then we pair off and each team goes to work with a separate group of kids and I can't remember any more.

Pregnancy and an Inattentive Husband

I was very pregnant and married, but I couldn't remember ever sleeping with my husband, so I worried that I must have cheated on him and that would probably hurt the relationship. Then I realized that I couldn't remember ever sleeping with anyone. And even though I was very pregnant, I wasn't showing yet.

The time came to have my baby and for some reason I decided that it would be better to do that in a bathroom stall than at the hospital. So I tried, but someone found out what was going on and dragged me to the hospital, where I had twin baby girls.

My husband came back from some long trip and I tried to hug him, but he resisted, and I showed him our daughters and he was like, "Oh, that's cool" and then went to his other wife and they were all over each other.

The dream went on for a while longer, but I don't remember any details.

Proposals

I am Rayyan from Little Mosque on the Prairie (a Canadian television show). Amaar (another character from the show) and I are spending a lot of time together and romance is growing. Eventually, he proposes to me- using orange flowers because I said my favorite flower was the tiger lily, but the flowers he uses aren't tiger lilies.

Then I turn into myself, and Jeremy also proposes to me. He knows that purple is my favorite color, so he gets tons of bouquets of purple flowers and sets them up around this really cool ice chest he bought me in the area he proposes. Because the ice chest is so cool I accept his proposal. And I feel like since I'm going to marry him, I should tell him that I love him. So I do. But as I'm whispering this in his ear, I realize that the person who I really love and should be telling that I love him is Dane.

Hiking and Death

I am hiking across Utah with a small group of friends. Around midday, we meet up with a few other groups who are doing the same thing. It is Hike Across Utah day. We all stop for lunch. While we are eating, someone drives by and shoots and kills Derek. I start crying because my friend has just been shot and killed right in front of my eyes. But I keep trying not to cry because I am afraid that if anyone sees me crying they would assume I am in love with Derek, but I'm not.

Graduation and Cohabitation

My brother is graduating from BYU and is giving a speech at commencement, so I decide to go see him graduate. I wander down 9th North and find the ceremony, and sit down to watch on a folding chair that is set up outside the Huntsman Center, which is now in Provo and where commencement is taking place. I wander in and out for a while and come across Brett and his parents.

I find my parents, and it turns out that they and Brett's parents are old friends.

We go home, which turns out to be a Chatham apartment that I am sharing with Brett and Dave. We even appear to be sharing a room for a brief period of time. None of the parents are at all bothered by this.

Party Invitation and War

Steve was invited to my grandparent's 24th of July party and asked if he should dress to get dirty. I said it wouldn't be too bad, but he should wear a shirt that could be washed.

But before the party, the US got into some sort of conflict with Germany and he got drafted and sent over there. A while later we get word that he was killed. Now, part of me is off to the side thinking, "Oh, I bet that the message got mixed up and he's really fine"- sort of like how I might predict what will happen in a book or movie. But the me that is active in the dream is of course pretty upset.

Amanda is there at the time and when I start crying she's like, "Hey, I didn't cry when I found out that (some guy I don't know) was killed. You shouldn't be crying about this."

And then I briefly get Steve confused with my brother and am like, "Hey, it's my brother who died- oh, wait, never mind. He's not my brother. But still, you don't know what our relationship was like."

The Germans force us to go to a magic show, and it has some scary stuff going on.

At the magic show, I find Karen talking to some other girl and start sobbing in Karen's lap, then apologize to the girl she was talking to. Neither of them seems all that bothered about the crying and they don't try to find out the reason for the crying.

Name Change, Mischief, and Autographs

I can't remember how all these fit together, but they seemed connected in the dream.

May parents decided to change my sister's name to Caitlin. I was the only one who had trouble with the change- everyone else would call her Caitlin and I'd get confused, or I would accidentally call her by her birth name or some variant nickname and she would be annoyed.

I was still in high school, and I ditched school and went to some other high school for some nefarious purpose. I ran into Elaine, who was there for an innocent reason, and she gave me a ride home, suspecting nothing.

George W. Bush and some famous athlete were signing autographs in my living room and I couldn't find anything I wanted either of them to sign.

Interrupted Honeymoon, Adventure, and High School

It starts out in a room in my parents' house, between the bathroom and Mom and Dad's bedroom, with a couch against one wall and a big pile of blankets on the floor. It is my wedding night, and we will be spending it here.

So I'm in this room with my new husband, Paul, and I look at him and say, "I want to sleep with you."And he agrees to it, but looks as if this was the strangest idea he had ever heard and never would have thought of it himself.

But before we do anything, we notice Sarah in the room, and he says something like, "We can't do this with her here," and leaves. I talk to Sarah, and it turns out that she is married to both of us.

Now it jumps to the next morning. I wake up from a dream that my brother has been killed fighting in a war against Mexico. This dream upsets me so much that I go find Dad and my other brother to check with them to make sure that there is no war with Mexico and my brother is not really dead.

It gets a bit fuzzy here. There's stuff about food and flooding and a bunch of people splitting off into a couple groups, my group taking a car to go do all sorts of important dangerous stuff. Then we realize we need to head back to school, so we do so. We get to class late. This class is in a high school type classroom.

My sister and one other girl, who were in the other group, are not there yet. And then I remember that my brother was killed in the war with Mexico and get all depressed and go off and find my sister in the girls' restroom. We go back to class and I notice that I am wearing an outfit that I would never wear in real life. I don't remember exactly what it was, but I know it involved a mini-skirt, fuzziness, and the colors pink, white, and black. And I think the fuzziness may have been in some weird pattern.

Book Convention and Unwanted Affection

I was at some book fair thing with all the authors around to talk and sign books and such. And I was one of the authors- I had written some great award-winning young adult novel.

A fan came up to me and said how much he liked my book, and I asked if he'd read my other books. He was like, "What? You wrote other books?" Then I realized that the books I was thinking of were actually written by Shannon Hale. And I got to feeling depressed and unproductive since I'd only written one book. Some girl tried to cheer me up by saying that I was in a busy time of life, what with school and all, and I couldn't be expected to find the time to do much writing. And I replied that a lot of writers write during busier times in their life- they just make time for it. And then I remembered that I'm not even in school right now.

So I go wandering around, looking at the various books, when I come across this series of seven kids books. I pull a couple down and read the blurbs on the back, then see that the author is sitting at a table behind me. He is about 17 years old and already has this series of books out.

Then I end up in a school library- either elementary or junior high- and Andrew starts kissing me. It feels really gross and I try to get away, but he doesn't realize that I really don't want him kissing me. I eventually get away from him.

Heroics at the Mall

I am part of some sort of power ranger or transformer team saving the world from a threat the general population does not know about. I am able to transform into a dinosaur and then project a hologram of a car over myself so I can go around carrying people and not raise suspicion. Except I'm doing this inside of a mall, so a car going around really would draw attention.

At some point during this dream, I am doing something- playing pool?- with Ken, and I find myself thinking of him in some sort of romantic sense, only in my dream he is my brother and I keep thinking, "No, you can't think about him like that. He's your brother!"

Easter

On Easter Sunday, I went to church in the ward I grew up in. The Winstons had gotten divorced and the wife, Flora, was engaged to some man who was openly dating other women.

I went to work in the nursery after Sacrament meeting. I started setting out snacks for about 10 kids- foil wrapped chocolate eggs from my own Easter basket. But there was actually only one kid there- Peter Winston, who was about 5 and shouldn't have been there.

Katie and Annette were in the nursery with me, as well as Flora and some guy who was just like Chris only blond. And in the dream, I definitely remember thinking, "This guy is a lot like Chris."

Not-Chris guy would not believe that I'm smart, so Katie and Annette told me to show him my standardized test scores. So I went and got the score sheets from a filing cabinet in the Relief Society room, then showed him the scores.