Garote's
Dream Asylum
I don't pretend to understand them.
17-apr-92
I was in a strange store. I looked around and saw a terminal, with a bunch of CD's next to it. It was like the one at the library, but the CD's were smaller. I looked in the stack and found "Ultima I". Wondering why Ultima I was on a CD, I stuck it in the drive. In doing so I had to remove Shadowgate. It seemed to contain instead some kind of documentary or tutorial about sex. ...
15-feb-93
Matt was driving his car like a crazy fool, like he likes to do. I was in the car with him. He crashed through into the wrong lane and dodged the oncoming cars. Later, the police caught up with him and who should come out but Bill Clinton in an officers' uniform. ...
13-oct-93
I stopped my car and walked through the woods to a farmhouse, and went inside. A long rectangular patch of light brown dirt had been cleared, and on it were chickens of all shapes and colors and sizes, some wearing clothes, all sitting down- a sign said "place your babies here",...
15-apr-94
The world was secretly being taken over by some alien force. It operated by planting suggestions in the minds of the people, telling them that the thing they most desired was in a certain direction. I knew this, and was following my particular path to see where we were all being led- because I had given up hope in rescuing the human race. ...
2-jul-95
She was my lover, my mate, or some other concept similar to that. We were the few survivors of a space station that was critically damaged. There was an insane man who was racing to complete an experiment that would enable him to teleport to a world, light years away. ...
3-nov-95
I had a dream where it was night and I entered a huge enclosed pavillion with dark trees glinting from dew in the distance. There was a "wizard" with me who called out to a demon/dragon thing. ...
20-mar-96
I had a dream that I was driving a monster truck, then a three-wheeled dune buggy thing, down a patchwork freeway at night, with all these curves and intersections. I got it up to 80mph and went up a ramp and crashed through a window into some girl's room. ...
14-apr-96
One of my dreams last night involved an island resort where students went to enjoy themselves. The island was actually a gigantic rock poking up from the ocean. Somewhere inside there was a large room with that hard high-school flavor carpeting, where all sorts of people I mostly want to forget about were kicking back. ...
16-apr-96
THis morning I dreamt that I was a spellcaster trying to learn magic, but that didn't last long. Then I was in my (now deceased) grandfthers apartment complex. I was riding in the back of the big red truck my dad used to have, with a group of my relatives sitting on the makeshift wooden benches over the wheelwells. The whole area was filled with five feet of water, ...
24-may-96
The two of us were on the side of a temple made of a curving mosaic of stones. The temple was in the shape of a crude skull, buried halfway in the earth. The nose-hole of the skull was the entrance to the temple. ...
22-apr-97
My sister and I were sharing a bed at my parent's house in Scotts Valley. I was sitting up looking at something, while she gave me a back massage. I noticed that there was a name written on the foot of the bed in large red letters. ...
10-nov-97
I was in the room as Brent handed a stack of math assignments to his teacher. Examining the papers closely, I noticed that they were all the assignments I'd done last year, and Brent was re-using the papers. I noticed bits of his own writing mixed in, where he'd corrected the mistakes I'd originally made. ...
17-nov-97
Being chased by police, I escape into the side of a building by climbing into the air duct. It widens out into a maze of pyramid-shaped rooms, linked by parts of walls. The sloping floors and ceilings, and the cross-beams, are all made of light, polished wood. ...
18-nov-97
I am scrolling a character around on an overland map of the ruins of a town, block icons and square little people, like Ultima II. Then I am the character, and I go down some steps to an underground room. There I meet a person who advances my character levels for extremely reasonable fees in gold. ...
22-nov-97
I am dancing in the winter courtyard with all the other teenagers, dressed in upper-caste victorian finery. My friend and I are competing for the attention of one girl, and near the end of the dance we even engage in fisticuffs, demonstrating our bitter love rivalry. Funny, since in other matters, we are good friends. ...
31-dec-97
My old room has been merged with part of the maze in a level of a computer game like gauntlet or dungeon keeper. A sporadic gang of lilliputian wizards gradually filters into my room from the depths of the maze, ...
11-apr-98
I woke up from this one feeling horrified, I didn't know my brain could come up with something so wholly disturbing. The part I remember starts suddenly. ...
21-may-98
We are carving and assembling a giant sandstone statue in a secret underground chamber in the middle of the desert. The supervisor, an insane genius, conducts his workers as they fit an arm onto one of the figures in the statue. ...
1-jun-98
Two spacemen were descending from orbit in my Dad's van. They had completed their mission, and just finished the long journey back through space to their home. Everything was running according to plan, ...
8-oct-98
Sigourney Weaver starred as the money-hungry consumer. She and my friend and I were all standing inside a place encircled by one round, sloping wall. ...
18-oct-98
I was traveling through eight levels of an adventure game much like Alice in Wonderland. The levels were sequential in that you could only travel up, from 1 to 2 and 2 to 3, but each level was a different universe, ...
22-dec-98
Dreamed that I was involved in some kind of live role-playing game, and the stakes were my sanity. It was played on a floating square divided into checkerboard with ramps leading up to a central pyramid-shaped structure. ...
1-jan-99
I was down in a cavern. Soft brown rock, round walls lit by flickering torchlight. I was part of a crew overseeing the vigorous operation of a machine made up of wooden gears, and sticks tied together with twine in a latticework. ...
15-jul-99
I was traveling on the coast. The surf was dangerous, the air misty, and the mountainside close. There was a woman with me, my fellow explorer, but I do not remember who she was. I knew that we were hiking through a landscape on a planet far from Earth. ...
15-sep-99
I dreamed that I was part of a gang on the Vine Hill elementary school campus. It was night-time, and school wasn't in session, but something else was. Parents and suburban cars milled about in the parking lot. We were superheroes, and in the lower playground we beat up a crew of evil aliens. ...
20-sep-99
Two beings get on a rocketship they find poised at the center of a green valley in the middle of a forest. They sit side-by-side in the cockpit and press a few buttons to test it and the hatch closes. The rocketship powers up. ...
28-feb-2000
The main character in the miniseries, a late-teenage boy in casual american clothes, gets wounded in a gunfight in the alternate dimension. There are two perfectly round, symmetrical holes right through his legs, ...
12-mar-2000
It is the aftermath of an interdimensional accident. Reality has been shredded like noodles and scraped hapless against the countertop of time. ...
13-mar-2000
Carolyn and I escape from the house party, driving in midwestern springtime hills along a winding one-lane ribbon of pavement. I'm at the wheel of a white miata, with the top down. ...
06-sep-2000
The king and his captain of the guard are talking on the balcony, overlooking the busy town. The captain is reporting that he's had no luck trapping Count Dracula. He wears a big bullet-shaped helmet, and is shorter than the king, who looks regal with his white beard and thick red cape. The director is going for a passionate, sweaty, over-dressed kind of middle ages ...
18-sep-2000
I remember exploring in the back rooms of a museum, where the works-in-progress are kept. I touched something unfinished, and had to sit picking pins out of my hand. Later I wander into a dark, carpeted room and behold a glowing structure on a workbench. Plastic pieces in neon colors, assembled to represent a DNA molecule. About a foot tall, it rotates in front of my curious face. I pick it up, and find it sticky. A young femenine voice sounds behind me. "Careful - it's not dry yet!" ...
27-oct-2000
Everything is in high-contrast pastels, and all the hills are the same height, so that if you stand at the top of one, you can see forever. The sky is spackled with clouds, and feels low, like a ceiling I could bump my head on. The twins walk the dirt path, in matching dresses. ...
