Since I've started doing this, my dreams have become these Epic Adventures which would even make Homer jealous. I decided to write them down because 1) I don't want to forget them and 2) I'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience with Copaxone before bed... also these are ridiculous and hilarious and I thought maybe you would be entertained.
These are two dreams that I've had the past two nights.
Epic Movie Adventure
My family and I went to The Olive Garden for dinner following the suggestion of the Front Desk clerk at the hotel we were staying at. My friend Sara apparantlly used to work at this Olive Garden and the bar tender mistook my girlfriend for Sara and said "Uh oh, everybody! Sara is in the house!" My mother took this the wrong way and thought the bar tender recognized me and assumed I was cheating on Cassy with some girl named Sara who I had gone out with to that restaurant earlier. This started a big fight between my mother and I at which point I got frustrated, threw my water on her, and walked out. I decided to just go for a walk to calm down.
As it would turn out, we were staying at Universal Studios. I happened to leave the restaurant at exactly the right moment to wind up as the star in a Movie Action Effects demonstration. As I walked down the street, cars were crashing into busses, buildings were exploding all around me, groups of people running away from rooftop snipers... I realized this was all just an effect demonstration so it didn't seem to bother me. I ended up playing along and helping the would-be sniper victims find a place to hide in a bank only to realize the bank was being robbed and I just brought everyone in to a building which was rigged to explode. I was able to make my escape through the bank vault and down a Chuck E. Cheese style spiral slide... Classy, I know.
I continued walking through this Epic Effects City where I crossed paths with James Valentine - The guitar player for Maroon 5. He asked me if I needed a lift and offered me a ride in his Limo... because clearly he just takes a Limosine everywhere he needs to go. Clearly I wasn't going to turn down this opportunity so I hopped in and we drove around for a while. During our conversation, he asked me if I wanted to come jam with his band on the other side of town. Again, I wasn't going to turn down the opportunity to play music with Maroon 5, so we drove over to their practice studio where I was happily greeted by all memebers of the band. All members that is, except for Jesse Carmichael - Their keyboard player. He was not happy that I was there at all. In fact, he did everything he could to make my experience there hell. I decided I didn't wanna pull a Yoko Ono and be the reason that the band fights and breaks up so I decided to leave that studio and cary on with my adventures around the City of Chaos.
After some more wandering, I found myself at a screening for the second episode of HBO's "The Newsroom." Of course I wanted a sneek peek at the upcoming episode so I walked in where I found the rest of my family, my girlfriend, and her twin sister Suze. Since I was no longer frustrated and angry with my Mother, we all decided to walk in and watch the screening together.
The entire cast and crew of the show was there - Jeff Daniels, Aaron Sorkin, all the producers, actors, camera people... everyone. I was really excited to have this opportunity! Strange Opportunites seemed to be the theme of the night. Everything was going well except that Suze - not having seen the first episode - didn't understand what was going on and wouldn't stop asking questions. Everyone in the theater was getting very annoyed and I kept telling her to be quiet but she wouldn't stop talking. Again, I got very upset and embarassed so I walked out. Cassy followed me out and kept appologizing. I explained to her how rude and embarassing that was and why I left. At that point, my friend Jack called and woke me up.
The End of the World
I was enjoying my night watching the stars when a Meteor Shower started. I watched for a while but quickly noticed that the chunks of rock falling from the sky were getting bigger and bigger. I quickly decided to run down to the basement and take shelter just in case one of the falling pieces of firey death decided to land on my house. It was lucky I made this decision because immediately after entering my basement, the house started to fall apart. I first took shelter under a table saw but decided that would be too risky incase it collapsed. The only other sturdy structure in the basement was the tank of heating oil standing against the wall. I crouched down under that as my entire house crumbled to the ground around me.
After realizing that I was not injured, I got out of the demolished wreckage to make sure my friends and familiy were alright. I enountered Suze and her boyfriend Raleigh. Raleigh is in the Army Reserves and his deployment was changed to helping and rebuilding from this small disaster. I'm not sure why, but for some reason he was expected to walk across the state to help people in need rather than being driven/flown by the military. I decided to walk with him since I needed to get across to see my family anyway. While we were walking, he got a text message saying that there was a much larger meteor coming and it was expected to impact just outside of Portland. I figured this would be a perfect photo op so I drove to Portland to take photos of the meteor as it entered our atmosphere. I, along with everyone else, was expecting it to impact on land just North of Portland. However, it ened up moving out to see and impacting somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean beyond the horizon.
I quickly realized this would cause a Tsunami and drove to my parents' house to warn them. I found my parents at their house completely unaware of the earlier shower or the impact off the coast. I warned them about the incoming Tsunami and told them to stay at their house as they are at the top of a hill in a Coastal Town in Maine. I assumed she lives at the highest point in the area and would be safest at her house. I also remembered that my college friend, Colin, lives in a treehouse through the woods. I thought I should walk through the forest and find him to warn him.
I knew it would be a long journey to his house so I tried to move as fast as possible. I didn't know how much time I would have before the flood arrived. As I made the trek through the woods, I came through a wide open field where I saw a man sitting on a bench. The field was packed full of wildlife - African wildlife for some reason... this is a dream, ok? I decided that the man wasn't important and continued through the field and back into the woods. As I continued through the woods, I noticed monkeys hanging from the trees. Only, these monkeys weren't hanging by their tails and feet like one might expect. No, these monkeys were tied up at the tops of the trees with rope as if someone trapped them there.
This started to make me worried as I didn't know if I was to be trapped next. Just as I said this, a really tall Jamacian guy and his entrourage came walking through the path with rope. I assumed they were the one's tying up the monkeys so I ran off the trail to evade him.
I was able to make it through and arrived at Colin's treehouse. He wasn't home. I climbed up in it and figured since it was such a long trip back, I'd just sleep in his treehouse that night and leave the next morning. For some reason I lost the urgency of the approaching Tsunami.
The next morning, I went back to my parents' house just as the flood was arriving. The water flooded the entire area. At this point, I was asked to create a map of the east coast and highlight all coastal areas with an elevation less than 100 feet so that the Disaster Recovery Team and Army Reserves could easily see the areas affected by the flooding. About half way through creating the map, my cat woke me up so I will never know if they were able to repair the damage.
Sorry for the anticlimactic endings...
But then I found $5!
HAHAHA....classic ending right there. : ) I remember Mike saying that the first time!
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