December 18, 2003

[Weirdest thing ever?]

A group of people and I are in some sort of large cave/tunnel network.   We are in a little side tunnel, and we want to go back to the main area, but we need to be careful because someone has just been sucked down one of the two main tunnels by the current (current of what, I'm not sure, as there's no water).  We refer to the tunnels as "trenches," and the one that just sucked the guy down it as the "Marianas Trench."  A couple people from the main area tell us to hurry out, so we do.  When we get into the main hall, there is a rumbling from the tunnel, and a bunch of water comes shooting out of it (against the supposed current) with the guy who had been sucked in being pushed at the front.  Also coming out are an enormous bowling ball and a set of bowling pins.  I look around nervously and expect one of those pin setup machines to drop, but instead some people (the organizers of whatever this is?) start talking over loudspeaker from a window in the rock.  They tell someone to choose the next activity, and this guy says, "All Tannenbaums, put your feet above your head."  Redd is suddenly there and comments on the irony that he is the only real Tannenbaum and can't do a handstand (which everyone else is doing).  He and I do somersaults instead, which apparently count.

In another dream I was in some house talking to people about either a movie or an actual event where somebody could only get an American flag with two and a half stars on it.  We make a joke about how a generic sound-alike version of the national anthem was playing too, and I wonder if he couldn't get the rights to use it.

In another one I was trying to use Google to see if a screen name that had randomly turned up on my buddy list was somehow someone I knew.  I was there with a couple other people and they were on a different computer.  I was trying to use my home computer, but Internet Explorer kept having trouble with form fields, so I was clicking around angrily to try and get the page to move.  (This is much like real life.)  At first we were talking like it might be the screen name of a movie character, but it turned out to be a real girl who I went to elementary school with.   In the dream, she went to Northwestern, but was frustrated with the inaction of the Rainbow Alliance and so transferred to Northern Illinois (her screen name had been HoffsNIU15).  We read an article in which she complains about how people view her more as male than as female just because she likes women, and how she was upset because she didn't think that made her any less of a girl.  I mention how she was kind of butch as a kid (I don't think any of this is true for the real person in question, BTW) and how she used to walk around the playground with people just hanging off her, but she could still walk around, just slowly.  I try to compare this to a scene in a movie but I can't remember which movie I'm trying to think of - I say "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" but I feel pretty sure that I mean something else.

That's about all I remember.