got a job

I was hired at some big company. The big boss which at one point was a woman I worked with in a previous job and sometimes this sporty guy. She/he was showing me around the place and then was showing me some sports clothes and asked what I thought. I said nice and tres 90s. And she said good eye, and that was the new thing that was coming out this season. She picked out a handful of pieces and handed them to me and yelled to a person at a desk to put them on the account. They were welcome tokens for me to the company. Then we continued to walk around and they were showing me some of my duties and that even though some of them seemed scary or dangerous, I would get used to them. One was getting on my line and sliding across and down some equipment to check it and see if it is ok. The guy was showing me how to do this. I was partly excited to be working, to be working for such an exciting company and to be treated so well by the people, like was now the company. We took care of each other.

rewards

I had a dream I was at a crowded restaurant. I couldn't really turn around well, but could see people. I saw a friend from college and another fellow student and waved. They were both in their 60s.

Then my mind was spinning with ideas and I was stressing then the idea "Reward is my motivation" came into my head. And reward in my dream meant hmm... enlightenment/love. And it made all bad feelings go away and it was like it revved my internal "engine." Then all of these ideas popped in my head, designs of clothes, travel, pictures, all felt good, all happy all felt enlightened. Then I could grasp the idea of not having a body but just having that enlightenment feeling. In reality the idea of giving up humanness kind of disturbs me, but in this dream it felt ok and I was ready for it.

race track

I dreamed I was at some film location. They were in the midst of filming a scene. I didn't quite feel like I belonged there or that maybe I was supposed to be doing a job I didn't like so was skirting my duties. There was an open empty building, sheets or fabric hanging from the ceiling. Not sure if this was to make small rooms to work in or if it was part of the scene. I walked by the snack bar, the makeup station,etc. etc. I started talking to one of the stars. He was kind of a big guy, chubby and tall, with a nice face. He was chatting to me for a bit. I had a feeling of neat and then... he doesn't know who I am not... as in not really with the film. I thought if he knew, he wouldn't be chatting to me. Then I remember a bus or...??? Then I was at a track (as in track and field). I was dressed up in a cheerleader uniform, but not a cute one. It was wide and made out of unattractive fabric. I saw a reflection of us. There were three of us walking around the track doing our cheer. I looked horrible. They were cute and thin and I just looked big. I wanted to hide but then I thought... everyone has been seeing you like this. Just because it was a shock to you doesn't mean it is to everyone else. So I kept to my duty and cheered.

weight loss program, blue robots, and a tree house

I was in a room with a bunch of girls from highschool. The naturally thin, perfectly cute ones etc......
At first I thought I was just hanging out with them then I realized that I was being paid for a study to see if a product would work on me so I wouldn't be so fat and could look more like them (I'm not fat, but I think I always thought they were perfect at the time and because I wasn't thin... etc. etc.). They were the "control" in the study who would eat the same way I ate. I had to live with them etc. :P  They were all in bikinis looking perfect and I hadn't seen a real perfect body up that close before etc. I was just thinking...wow.. how nice to not have extra slabs of skin etc. A friend of mine was there, he was kind of like their Charlie (Charlie's Angels), and he was kind of shaking his head at me. He was saying ... yeah... she might be able to lose the weight, but she still won't be like you guys.... she'll still look big and he was taking his hands and blocking out my shoulders from his vision to see what I might look like if i wasn't so big. J Lo was the manager of the project.


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had another dream ... there were these small blue computer type chips. I was kidnapped by this motorcycle type guy (but sporty, blue and white bike and he was clean and not kidnapper type). He was working with this women. They were agents of sorts and they wanted something from me. I was surprised though because they put me in a room where I could easily get out. They also walked in and out of the room and talked to me as if a peer. There was a bowl on the table that had tiny blue stones, some with wires. I realized they were little robot things that could get under your skin. Eek.... Then I saw a woman.. she was Mrs. Coulter from Golden Compass. She was riding away on a motorcycle with a swami. I was thinking to yell for her but didn't understand why she was with the swami (in my dream the bad guy). She was a good guy initially in my dream. Then the kidnappers where saying... Yeah... I knew it... there she goes. So in actuality, they were saving me from her.... not kidnapping me. 


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another dream.. some sort of giant tree house, family there, some formal function, but it was sort of ornate and ?? fantasy version. Preparing in a room or something....?? isn't clear. 

two songs

Woke up with just one line from some old country or 50s/60s song

"are are we two...."  Can't think of the singer

Then

Try a Little Tenderness (The Commitments version)

stealing money and beer

I dreamed I was in someone's home. Someone from my childhood. My brother was in there too and I think he was doing something bad. I was scared of him and didn't want to be a part of it. I also felt like if i tried to go, he would be mad. While he was busy doing what he was doing, I went in another room and found some money. There was a hologram video of sting much older. He wasn't peaceful Sting though, he was still with The Police, and they were an angry band. Wore leather, punked up hair and so on. I went ahead and picked up the coins I found in drawers trying to get only silver and large ones since I didn't have enough pockets for all of it. My brother saw me in the hall and I acted nonchalant. I asked if he wanted to take a break and get a beer. The fridge was at the edge of the kitchen, but the back opened up to a large industrial fridge/cooler. We couldn't find the right beers, so went in the back for one. There were also coke colas, but the label was green and yellow. It was supposed to be some "greener" version of coke. We went outside....

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I was somewhere else, looking for a room or apartment or... I felt like a student starting new again.

Cameras and tattoos

Had a dream last night that I got a job. I arrived and it was a little high end camera shop. The owner was nice and showed me what I would be doing.... I would be selling this one particular camera. He gave me the manual and said study this and become an expert on it. I asked if it was a popular camera. He said no, this is the only one I have that I need to sell. I said... but you are hiring me as a full time person just to sell this camera?? He said yes. I said don't you think that is a waste of money? He mentioned that is what the last guy thought and quit. I went for a walk to think about it and ran into a friend. We stopped in an art gallery, had a glass of wine then walked into a tattoo booth. When they were done I had a 2 to 4 stranded "necklace" tattoo around my neck. The hooks in the back were large and red and didn't meet. When I looked down I had an ornate, very yellow and very large tattoo of an elephant god - Ganesh - covering my whole front torso. I was a bit panicked because I realized I didn't want a tattoo... what about my v-neck sweaters? Everyone agreed that the necklace tattoo should go, but Ganesh should stay.  


I left to find my way back home... I was barefoot but thought I had enough tickets to take the bus. Then a man came across the loud speaker saying the bus was now coming to the tracks and it would now go downtown (kind of cool actually, he was the bus driver, but when it came tot he tracks, he could jump off and it worked on auto pilot).


I arrived "home" and there were all of these people staying there. Not sure if it was an event, conference, etc.etc... it wasn't my house so I didn't care. I went upstairs to sleep where I had been sleeping, on a couch, but someone was under some covers there.. I went to find an empty spot on the floor, and a guy (someone I knew in the dream) popped out. Something in me was happy to see him because he was familiar, but also not happy... I didn't like him.


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I had another dream where I was in this house that I grew up in (although altered). There were lots of babies/toddlers there. I think first they were kittens and then they were kids. They were milling about and not allowed to go outside. I think the "house" was also selling candy... money was tucked here and there from the sales. A woman came over and I could feel she was wrong. I started grabbing the money to hide somewhere. I knew she either wanted to take the money, the kids or something...