I Have Powers - February 15th, 2008

I normally don't use LJ as a dream journal, but last night I had an extremely odd and vivid dream.

I was in a bar/restaurant, similar but definitely not the same as the one at the hotel we stayed at for Dreamation 2008: all multi-elevation platforms and dark wood. And I had the definite sense that it was in the DC Metro area, not NJ.

For some bizarre reason, there was some sort of reunion of sorts of people from my high school, mostly from my graduating class. I recall seeing Jeff Carpenter, Kenny Lawrence, Dan Wagner, and Rob Sumney (actually haven't seen Rob since our 5 year reunion, but he works with my brother-in-law), as well as Jeff Livolsi (not my year, though he, Scott Adams/

placesinmypast, and I hung out together our senior year a lot).

I was sitting on the middle level of this restaurant, at a six-top table, in the center seat facing away from the entrance and toward the bar. Directly across from me was

geekchick, to her left (my right), sat Jonathan Coulton (and I had the impression they were on a date).

Suddenly, I feel someone plunk down in the chair to my left, a hand grab the back of my head, and my face being pulled into another face. I hear "Kiss me now!" and do so -- I am nothing but if accomodating. After a very nice but not overlong osculation, lips separate, and I lean back to see who I've just bussed.

It was Piper Nearing.

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After all that, I woke up this morning, and the feeling of "Piper is really sad, for reals, and she's thinking about me (for some reason)" was still there, front and center, in my brain. It's probably crazyhead talk, but it sincerely feels real, and I am both worried and curious.

So I make this post for two reasons:

1. In case Piper Nearing or someone who knows her Googles for her name, with luck this page will pop up in their searchlist. If so, and this gets to her: please drop me an email -- my email addy is on my profile page here -- to let me know that either you're okay or that I'm just crazy. Either would be fine.

2. Assuming this dream is just a dream (and not evidence of my vast, impressive, and minty-fresh mental powers), I'd like folks who go in for that sort of thing to take a crack at interpreting it. Because I'm pretty hornswoggled by it -- by the vividness and oddness of it. (And this is an odd dream for me: I take dreams with monsters, superpowers, dead Presidents, and being transformed into a alphabetic character and getting lost in the maze of sentences on a page in stride. The relative "mundanity" of this dream is NOT NORMAL for my dreams.)

Thank you in advance.

Tags: mental health, mumbo jumbo