Hmm..

I knew I should've started writing earlier today, when my dream was fresh in my mind. And what a weird one it was. It was amazing how fast people here ended up in my dreams. Within the first week the whole floor took a trip to "Core" Canada, searching for something that involved an encyclopedia. But last night.. It's a shame I can't really remember the beginning of it, because it was weird, and it just kept going around in circles. Another one of those bizarre too-real-feeling dreams, too. But anyway, I'll start where I remember, and go on from there. For once I know this was all one dream, because it happened between 8:45 and 10:30, because I went back to sleep after my alarm went off. Anyway, I was trying to sneak out my friend from the room across the lounge from us out of Chicago. We decided we should just head west, and I agreed, even though it was a really bizarre spur-of-the-moment-type decision, and I thought that we should tell someone where we'd gone. It was just nagging at the back of my mind, though. So we got on this bus, and headed west, and after a few minutes I told everyone that I was officially farther west than I'd ever been before. Then we got off the bus at this circus, and the bus driver wanted to see all of our IDs, and since I didn't want anyone to figure out who my friend was, I told her to use her dorm ID instead of her real one, since that didn't have any real information about her. So she flashed it at the bus driver as we got off, and then we wandered around a bit and got back on the bus. We went past this big lake (I'm assuming it must've been Michigan), and there wast thing tiny place where water was trickling out of it, and it eventually became a huge river. We got out of the bus (everyone that was on it) like we were a big tourist group, and I hopped down and climbed around on the rocks the water was going over. There was this strange art-thing with a toy airplane flying around as a tribute to another toy airplane that had crashed into the rocks some time ago, and then been hit by a ship. It had be transformed into some sort of propaganda for a political campaign, though, and on one side was this evil-looking toy boat, and on the other was a little airplane zipping around happily with some candidates name written on a sticker on a rock under it (Someone... a Democrat), and the other had a sticker that looked basically the same, but it said "Not a Democrat!" but someone had crossed that all out with a pen. I climbed up onto the bridge, and we ended up in this large mall kind of place. That transition there is where things get really screwed up, because I'm not sure if the thing that I'm going to write at the end happened here, or actually at the end. But anyway, I ended up wandering this mall, and it was dark and looked like it was probbaly underground, and I was trying to get into this undground place. I remember at one point being on top of some sort of subway platform that just jutted out over a part of the mall that was oddly pink. I was standing there with a lot of the upperclassmen from our floor (mostly the girls)... I think I jumped off at one point, and I ended up in this bizarre lab, where this person (can't describe him/her at all) gave me this strange screw with a hole down the middle, another screw that fit into it, and a piece of string. I was supposed to wrap the piece of string around the little screw, drop it in the other one, and then wind the string around the bigger one, but it was really hard, because the string was barely long enough. I was running out of time to get it done, but I did, and then suddenly I was in this glass box thing, but I was watching from the outside too, and all of a sudden there was a pop, and the screw shot through me, and I either ended up back at the mall, or I drifted away and woke up. I've got a feeling that it happened twice, and those were the two results... Absolutely bizarre. When I woke up, I just felt like it was time for me to wake up, and I wasn't tired anymore, so I just got up. Weirdest way I ever got up. I'm never not tired anymore when I wake up...

Ah, I believe I shall be off to brunch soon. Mmm, food. Even if it is from the dining hall. Another Friday defeated!