Last night I had a dream about Tatum.. for some reason I am terrified of her getting away from me and getting hit by a car. At agility and obedience practice last Saturday she got away from me, but in a safe place. And she does come to me… though tentatively and only if I have treats. She doesn’t like her collar grabbed.

Anyway, I was at some sort of carnival and there was a large man who had accidentally let her out. Oh this was after we went to see some sort of play in a big auditorium. We went a few nights in a row, even. And sat in a different place each time. Now I think maybe I was a part of it… but not sure.

So the man accidentally let go of Tatum and she ran off. And I remember saying to him “I have never lost a dog and I am not going to lose Tatum now!” I was furious and I was hunting all over to find her. We kept missing her here and there. Finally, though, we saw her in the distance in a large baseball field. She was on the other side of the fence. And I’m not sure how, but someone caught her on the other side of the fence and pushed her over to me, where I caught her.

I remember, in the dream, thinking I was not going to let her get hit by a car in this dream. Or let her get hurt in any way. And fortunately I was able to get her back and she was safe. I was so relieved.

She is such a precious, amazing girl.

Super weird dreams last night.

I remember someone wanted to adopt Tony (our foster collie), someone in, go figure, Iraq. And it actually ended up being the US government. I asked if he would be loved and have a nice bed and family, and they were very elusive about telling me. I was so worried but I was going to let him go anyway… and they led him down this ramp into an airplane.

While they led him down, I started crying to one of the soldiers and he caved and said Tony was going to be used in nuclear experiments! I cracked, ran down the ramp, and jumped into the plane. I grabbed Tony and got him out with me. I was not going to let that happen! I was so scared and worried about him! Fortunately it had a good ending as I got Tony back.

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Another dream was long and twisty… I was in some sort of big house, mansion.. estate maybe. And we were planning on going somewhere and doing something. Some adventure. Not sure what. And we were preparing. Maybe it was some island… but it was dangerous. And I needed to have my underwear washed because I was running out. :p

Anyway there were these big mean Grizzly bears and they were dangerous, so one of the members of our team started to catch them in a trap. It was like a jar, and they would all go in and get trapped in the dark. I think we were in it for a while at one point, not with the bears though. So he caught like five or six of them.

The leader of the team, he was good and I respected him… might have been Chakotay from Star Trek Voyager.. not sure. After a while he realized the bears could not be kept in there and had to be let out. But once let out they had to swipe something with their claws, probably killing it. But he let them out anyway and we stood at the glass doors and watched outside as they got some people, but mostly they got fish. The fish, somehow, had gotten into the trap with them and we were glad they were getting the fish instead of the people. I said, in a whisper, that that had not been a good idea, to trap all the bears, and the leader agreed with me.

There was more to that second dream, but I don’t quite remember it all. The estate was nice, carpet everywhere, fancy furniture. I remember sleeping with a couple of men.. not sex, just sleeping in the same bed because it was cold and we needed to get some sleep. One of them was my husband.
It was an interesting night.

I hope I will remember more of this as it comes back to me. I woke up to a very lengthy and involved dream. And a pretty interesting one. Not bad at all.

I remember being in a really large house. It was our house, I think, and it was long. As long as a warehouse and I think it used to be a warehouse. It was so long that we had to take a little cart from one side to the other, because it was just too far to walk.

And I remember going to the warehouse part (as opposed to the living quarters part) though an underground tunnel. And reaching the other end there were some friends of mine. My old friend Ken, who I really want to call and just keep forgetting to do so. (My anxiety kicks in too though I know it’s silly.) And the dogs were there too, but now I don’t remember what we all were doing.

Okay and now the other part of the dream is kinda coming back.. the dream before that dream. I remember driving. Or riding in a car with someone, and getting lost. And the roads were strange and the onramp and offramp to and from the freeway was confusing.. but I don’t remember more details than that right now.

Hrmph. There was much more to the house part… there was an RV parked underneath in the underground. And.. hrmph. Well, I wish I remember more. When I woke up I tried hard to repeat the dream to myself. I should have done so aloud, that helps better. Then all day I was at a party so it faded. Maybe more will come back later!

This morning when I was driving in to work there was a big truck tailgating me for a while. Naturally, I slowed down, and fortunately he passed me.

It brought my dream from last night back into my memory. Strange how that happens.

I was going camping with my flyball club, the Thunder Paws. I was in the truck my captain and her husband own, and he was driving and pulling their big trailer behind them. We drove up some curvy canyons and to a place I swear I have been to before in my dreams. I think I was water skiing at a lake up there in my high school dreams, and I think I was going to star parties up there when I did astronomy.. in my dreams.

We drove around the camp ground and tried to find a camp spot, but they weren’t letting anyone on the grass like they used to because of all the rain. It was very wet and they were afraid the trailers would ruin the grass. Then the flyball captain’s husband remembered he had forgotten something in a city about an hour behind us, and he had to go back for it. I didn’t really want to go with but didn’t have anywhere to wait in the wet rain.

I can still picture the camp ground. Not many trees in the main area, a paved road went in a large loop around an oval center with picnic tables. Then there was another area off the road that did have trees. There were no camping spots there, per se, but there was vast green where the dogs could run and that is where we wanted to park the trailer.

Too weird, I only remember a little from my dream last night. I was out to dinner with my sister, and we were both sitting at a bar or something like a bar. And eating. And someone on my right commented that she was gaining a lot of weight. Which is strange because she is doing nothing of the kind!

Then I looked to my left and sure enough, she had probably put on about 30 pounds! Eeek! Too weird.
Oh and the night before I dreamed that there was a lady who really wanted to adopt Tatum. She wouldn’t take no for an answer! So I did a house check on this lady. Her backyard was really sloped, and the top of the fence met the grass at one point, and any dog could have gotten out. She said she would fix it but wasn’t sure when. So I was passive-aggressive with her and told her we’d consider her, but in my heart there was no way I was going to let Tatum, the smooth collie girl, get adopted! She is ours forever, now.

Okay last night I had a bathroom dream. Not sure how much detail you really want, but I’m going to describe it anyway because this is a dream diary right? LOL… so here goes.

I had two dream segments last night but now I’m only remembering the bathroom one. Well.. wait, more is coming back… I remember going to a dog trial, not sure if it was agility or obedience, but obedience comes to mind since I went to my obedience class last night. So anyway, as I write more comes back.

I remember being in a big barn and wanting to leave, but my friend who has Malinois and Shepherds, and another friend who has Vizslas, were in the stairway to get out. And my feather bed was also in the hallway. We had to move it and it was very hard to move because it was heavy. There were some straps from the ceiling and the friend with the Malinois and Shepherds cliped the feather bed onto the straps and hoisted it up. But is was precarious and was going to fall at any time.

Oh the other dream I had was I called my old friend Don and we chatted a while, and I think I went over to his house and he wasn’t very happy with his life. But he had some friends over.. and it was nice to see him again.

So back to the other dream… after I got around the feather bed I had to go do some other things so left my two friends in the stairway but they were okay with being left. I went upstairs to a little shop and was looking for something for diarrhea. I really had to go to the bathroom pretty bad, number 2. And so I bought something and ran into the bathroom. It was down a hall at the end and there were only 3 stalls in it. It was a very icky bathroom and I read or heard that the toilets kept blocking up. I had to go though so I picked the big handicapped stall and closed the door. I had not put my shoes on so I was barefoot and that was gross enough, but the floor was stained and probably had icky stuff on it.

So I started to poop and I filled the toilet up completely. Ick. More came out than I could possibly have in my body. I flushed, and, thank the gods, it all went down though slowly. Then I had to go again and I didn’t have to go too much so that was better.

Fortunately, in real life in bed, I didn’t do anything. When I was much younger if I dreamed of peeing, I would actually pee, and that was not a good thing at all!

I seem to have bathroom dreams often. I think this is the first one I have blogged about. And yes, I am embarrassed about it. But I don’t control my dreams…. errr… I don’t think so anyway.

I remember a dream from a couple of nights ago… another dog camp dream. I remember looking for my place in the barracks to sleep, but there wasn’t any room left. So I had to get a cot that was kinda set up in the hallway. It was odd.

Ooo and now a dream from last night is trying to come back to me, but I don’t quite remember it. If I do, I will post!