It involved a bunch of soda and a lot of walking around in a big hotel (like the one with the photo competition earlier) with a movie theater playing a very odd Disney computer-animated movie and a LOT of walking past resteraunts and stuff. The only thing I remember clearly would be the fact that we were sleeping in our sleeping bags in the parking garage for some reason, and there was a lot of vibrating, and I said, "Oh, so that's what an earthquake is." and my mom nodded.

There is a high tide warning for some part of the area, and a fog warning for the east bay =3

current mood: sleepy
current music: Do As Infinity - WADACHI (True Song)

I woke up at about seven (whether it was in the morning or night, I'm not sure, but I'm inclined to believe night as there was very little light up, and I think the sun comes up at like.. 6:30 or something), and could remember very little about the dream I had just had, except that it drove me to an almost fanatical state of mind where I HAD to buy fairy-starlight dot net oO; Needless to say I did not get up, either to buy it or to write down as much (incidentally, I just checked to see whether it was free and untaken, and it isn't, so all you people who have no idea what to domainize, there's an idea oO;)

The second dream I had after I fell asleep again is equally vague, but I'm inclined to believe I was six inches taller in relation to things, because as I was walking through the dark living room to go find something to eat after I woke up etc, I literally wondered (out loud, scaring my cat ^^;) what they had done to my dad's chair, as it seemed a lot shorter than normal. Everything seems shorter, in fact, except the stuff in my room oO; Odd.

All I can remember is watching a movie or something play out that was sort of like Men In Black... people were taking samples of people like they take samples of trees, and then they'd plug up the hole with this odd silicon stuff, and would flash a bright light in their face so they'd go temporarily blind while they could make their escape.

Trés trés oddness.

current mood: confused
current music: Do As Infinity - SUMMER DAYS (New World)

I had two seperate dreams last night which had to do with the same subject matter, and I'm sure I would be more clear about what they were if I had actually posted when I woke up instead of making food and being bored watching the first LotR extended edition with the parents instead ^^;

The first one I was in a sort of glider, gliding around above the mountains and things with Happousai (not the guy from Ranma, mind, but a boy named Gu from 'Tino who earned the name a while back oO), and we were going along, and then Happousai went off to school and I lazed around flying, because I didn't have to be at De Anza for a good extra bit of hours yet, so I found an updraft and flew around, trying to reach the top of this INCREDIBLY tall building that doesn't exist in the Steven's Creek area, but did in my dream.. I'd say it was.. *thinks* Maybe 50-100 stories tall. And I glided to the top and waved to the homeless man sitting on the roof, and started slowly gliding down by Steven's creek, and at about De Anza (boulevard, not the school), I was getting pretty close to the ground and I couldn't seem to go up again. About 50 feet up was this bit of black track that I used to bounce off of, and another set of track which was yellow and lilac-purple that I also used to bounce myself off of. I decided it would be okay to walk the rest of the distance, but I realized I was going to be in some deep trouble if I didn't clear Great America's fence (because the black track was part of Top Gun, and the yellow-and-lilac track was a bit of Vortex oO;;), so I did my best to get over the fence, and just barely made it, and continued down Steven's Creek walking (after packing up my glider, mind), and off we (read: I) went. Only I was walking AWAY from De Anza (school) and towards my house Oo; But I got there going that way anyway... hm.

When I got to the school, I was hanging around with Julia (she is never Yuliya in my dreams since I've known her so long as Julia). I decided I should call my dad, so I did, and he wanted to know when I got out, and I told him that I got out at 2:40 and didn't have to be back until 6:00 (which is true for my new schedule this quarter, except that Middle College class ends at 2:20, not 2:40. Hm oO; Oh well, I'm always making that mistake, so nevermind), and he asked when I started class, and I said "em.. 10.." and I looked at my watch and it was 10:07 and it was the FIRST day of the new quarter so I was going to be dropped from the class and I ran towards my class in a PANIC Oo;

The second dream, which happened probably about an hour of REM-less sleep later, involved me running through a cave and chopping up zombies with a sword, using a specific set of moves from a game that I'm positive Julia and I have played. Sword did a top chop, then diagonal back up from left to right, then MAYBE across (I can't remember), then back again. I'm pretty sure it's a console game, too, but I don't think it was Ocarina of Time, because the zombies didn't freeze you in your tracks and hump you Oo; I wish I could remember it more clearly than I do, but mom woke me up about going to Fry's after dad came home for dinner, and did I want to go, and they ended up not going anyway XP

current mood: bouncy
current music: SPLASH - XXX [Kiss-Kiss-Kiss] (Adventures of Chibi Goddess)

This morning was verra oddness oO;

I was having a dream about being at the mall I mentioned earlier (the Vallco/Valley Fair cross that was bazillions of times bigger), and outside of Sears and across the (gigantic) parking lot was where we had parked, in front of a store called "Hydaen" (as some of you may or may not know, Hydaen is a character of mine, as well as my current AIM screenname). Mom was returning dad's pants (they were a couple sizes too big, this is true) to Sears (which is not true, we got them from JC Penny's) and so I said I'd go wait by the car. Got there, set up my folding chair in between two cars (in like a parking space) and started drawing. Some guy in the store appeared into view via the window that was there, and caught my attention. He either didn't see me or didn't realize I was looking at him and not still engrossed in my sketchbook, took a look around, and put down a box and ran away (okay, walked quickly away, so as not to draw attention to himself). The box looked suspicious, and it clicked in my mind that it was a bomb Oo; So off I went into the mall via the entrance by Sears and walked (quickly) over to the security office. My dad was inside oO; God knows why. Anyway, after a while of pacing around, the security guy was going to talk to this one guy in his office, and he said "My Yahoo shop is right here" and apparently he had to watch it in case of customers/thieves" so the security guy said "Oh, alright" and went out there to talk to him about whatever. Then I got called in and I tried to stress the importance of going to get this bomb and stuff, and described the guy, and the security guy I was talking to didn't seem very impressed. The guy (with the bomb) was moderately dark-skinned (sort of like a middle-easterner), but I didn't want to say that in fear of being considered a racist crackpot oO; Either that or exciting a racist crackpot rally Oo; So I ran back to Hydaen (following the construction. Hm.) and stood there watching it and thinking about what to do when I woke up.

God knows oO;

current mood: calm
current music: Chad Kroeger & Josey Scott - Hero (Spiderman)

Why is it every dream I've had recently is reucrring? I don't understand, it's like as soon as I want to write these things down, and do it seriously, they're all ones I've had before... nothing new.

Maybe that's just the way my mind's been working.

This.. morning, I guess, I was having a dream about a bunch of small people... they were kind of like Happousai in Ranma in stature, but they weren't "midgets" (ooh, I am so politically incorrect XP). They had huge eyes 'n such, and we were either trying to solve a mystery, work a video game, or choreograph a play. It involved going through an elaborate set of sequences in this wooded area around a little field (I say little even though it wasn't very.. when I ran across it myself I realized how long it took to go through, but it seemed a lot quicker when they did it). There were arrows appearing on the ground, and we were trying to figure out why. Towards the end of the dream, I realized that it was what this one woman should be doing to avoid being shot by the guy pursuing her, but by that point they didn't want to do it anymore, so we packed up (after me being charigned by their lack of enthusiasm) and boarded the elevator to go down to the main area.

The guy on the elevator was... someone I've seen before, in some movie or something about Native Americans. He was narrating what was happening, and was asking people to please put away their autograph books. The elevator was white, and you could see through it to see the elevator shaft, which was also white. Everything was wooden, and it wasn't like there was glass seperating us from the shaft, but there was something. A force-field, perhaps? It was a shaft built for two elevators, and we were on what I traditionally have to call the right-hand elevator. I assume this is because I grew up in America where people drive on the right-hand side of the road, and this elevator was going down, so I had to assume the left-hand one was for going up and stuff, and it went in a box pattern, switching at the top/bottom in an endless loop. Anyway, it (the elevator) was bigger than normal, and we stopped partway (this shaft was HUGE... like... 50-100 floors, I think), and the guy said that some staff members probably wanted to get on, etc. and that it wasn't a step. The doors opened (vanished), and a bunch of REALLY large people got on. Now again, I am not calling them large like the midgets (oh my political incorrectness!) were small, because first of all the first bunch weren't midgets, just small like Happousai, and these people weren't large like.. what's the term, I dunno, so we'll call 'em giants, like Andre the, but they were just versions of us only with another us on top. Like we had been blown up 2x reality, only not QUITE that tall. And they were all women wearing dresses, and they were singing this song:

"We are women who are large
Larger than most are we
We don't usually fit on a barge
But we sure as hell know how to party!"

And some other verses I can't remember. And so I got a peek into the hallway that these women were coming from, and this woman was shepherding them on, and was like "Come on, ladies." and when the elevator was filled (the regular passengers and six of these women), the doors closed (reappeared) and we continued down.

When we got to the bottom floor, the doors actually opened (didn't vanish), the women waved and thanked us and lumbered out, and we did a moment later. We entered into like.. a very well-lit version of the exit ramp by the Grizzly in Great America, after you get off the ramp and onto the ground, but before you get back into the flow of the park. And I looked back at the elevator and it was in a lighthouse, and so Julia(? Someone.) and I started walking casually out, and the guy from before was there, and I said, "You're _____, aren't you?" And he blinked at me and said, "how did you know?" and I told him that I had had him autograph my book some time before, and he shrugged and told me (and Juliaetc.) not to tell anyone who he was. We then reached the end of the exit ramp thing (the grass was a lot more yellow-green in the good way than the Grizzly grass was, and it was generally a very pleasant area) and the guy got a call or something so he had to rush off to fix a medical emergency, and we followed him part of the way into the Great America-by-Logger's-Run-slash-DisneyWorld-in-my-head-from-when-I-was-five theme park, then we hoped that it wasn't any of our friends injured.

We then went to play Skee-ball X);;

current mood: complacent
current music: Do As Infinity - Welcome! (Break of Dawn)

Hoorah! It's finally done! X)

Well, it fits better than the free one from OUYM did, anyway Oo;

current mood: accomplished
current music: Various Artists - Do You Hear The People Sing? (Les Misérables)

There are days when the world just likes to hit you with the classics oO;

I fell asleep at around six today, and had a dream I've had fairly often about being in a house that "belonged to my family for generations" (whether that was me that said that or someone else, I'm not sure). We were stopping something from happening, and Data was injured (Oo; you'd think I was Lisa from the way this played out, but I'm not XP) and we climbed up to the elevator with the flash button to send us back to our time and.. it was odd. I wish I could remember more, though.

What was odd is that that dream ended and another one begun where I was sitting in my Middle College class, and Judy was talking about how we had this week-long camp thing we had to do for a "big portion of your grade" which got me FLIPPING out, and when Julia asked why I could only tell her "because we had that one in seventh grade that RUINED my grade" and she said "yeah, because you only did one assignment" and I was on the verge of strangling her and my parents' did their imitation of the dude who isn't dubbed on Iron Chef in the other room and were like "MIYAMOTO-SAN!!" So I woke up oO;

It was odd, and has left me unsettled Oo;

current mood: uncomfortable
current music: Cowboy Bebop - Space Lion (Cowboy Bebop)

Mmm, stew~

Still have a few kinks to get out of this layout ¬¬; like WHY IS IT CENTERING MY TIME CARDS? *die*

...yeah, anyway Oo; Mom's napping because she's got a three-hour movie coming up (joy xx) and she's teaching the little third graders a couple hours after.

Ooh, ow x_X; Stomach is like XPP now. I knew that meat tasted weird oO (then WHY did you eat it, dumbass?)

Style is going to Punquin for a momento while I create the new one ^^ Flux~uation~

current mood: ditzy
current music: Ken Davis - To Be With You (Pan Flutes By The Ocean)

I woke up this morning and all I could think about was "I failed them, I failed them"

I guess I was thinking Middle College was like.. a sleepaway private school or something. There were these three people, whose names I don't think I ever learned. The female we'll call Fyr, her hair was sort of a reddish-brown, wavy and long. She was also the shortest. The middle-sized guy we'll call Earth, he had darkish skin and dark hair, and was generally very pretty. The tallest guy was.. taller than me, so well over six feet, and we'll call him Water because his eyes were that deep blue you can only get from a hundred feet of the clearest water... he was a sexy beast, I have to say ^_~

I think I should stop here and explain something about my dreams, to those of you who never checked Yumegokochi. I have four distinct classes of dreams: I dream in an anime style, third person, I dream in an anime style, first person, I dream in a combination of anime and real life, black and white and third person, and I'll dream rarely, but I do do it, in abstractions. Rare is the occasion where I don't dream in any one of these four styles, and usually when I do some part of the dream has happened later on (though this might just be because I'm mildly subconcious like that ^^;).

This dream was a dream in full-colour, totally real-life. This might be why it freaked me out so much when I woke up. In any case...

Fyr, Earth, and Water (I'm regretting these names, now oO;) were photographers for something. They went around to events and took pictures of our big hotel-like thing (this whole dream was taking place in this GIANT mall I had used in a previous dream. For those familiar with the Cupertino, CA area, it looked in layout something like Valley Fair and Vallco combined (in that it was kind of kinked in the middle), but it was HUGE. I mean... well, the center part had various floating platforms, and there really wasn't any sort of logic to it, but it was probably about ten stories tall. There were stores at every sort of height in the walls, with escalator/stairways/people-movers connecting everything everywhere in a giant spiderweb of technology. This was in a part of it that was a Macy's-like shop the last time I was there... think where Sears or JC Penny's is now in Vallco. It was a large, lavish hotel-like area, with a LARGE outdoor pool area, and all sorts of back stairways and really neat things and stuff. And they wanted me to help them because they with their photography, and there was a contest, and the janitor was talking about how they didn't allow our kids to enter but they did anyway and how he wished we would win.. and I got so involved I forgot to take the pictures and let them down and I felt really bad about it...

*sigh* Eh.

current mood: discontent
current music: Alkaline Trio - Stupid Kid (From Here to Infirmary)

This is a test to see if I successfully entered stuff with Phoenix to post over here.

So, if you are not me and you can see this, all is well with the world!

I'm thinking of actually USING this journal (gasp!) which means that I'mma gonna have to redo the layout (as this one is general-use for OUYM Oo; That is a WEIRD Acronym. Jeebus oO;

It's not permanent-accountage, so it's not like I'm going to go over and ditch my LJ, but I could use it for Yumegokochii's purpose: storing and holding dreams and fears.

Yes, I think I'll do that.

current mood: contemplative
current music: Mustin - Seymour's Theme (Project Majestic Mix: Silver)

I decided that, since I can, it would be a good idea to showcase one of the free layouts people can download. So, that's what this is:

Dragon Slave Preview
+ Image: Lina, Gourry, and Rezo from Slayers (manga)
+ Type: DIV layers (2)
+ Created: December 10, 2002
+ Download: Not availiable for download from Blurty, go to Open Up Your Mind for the Terms, Conditions, and ZIP file
+ Comments: The preview has very washed out colours (from saving the JPG like.. five times over ^^;) but the real version does not. A lot of editing was done on Lina and the bottom portion of Rezo to remove the japanese text (as this is a scan from the front of a japanese-release Slayers graphic novel). I then.. ended up covering it up again with more japanese (and english) text. Ehe ^^; There are three and a half pages of Slayers user icons to match this layout on the icons page. The japanese version of the dragon slave, along with a combination of the Software Sculptors and ADV versions of the dubbed/subtitled chant in english, which WOULD have been just one or the other if they actually FIT with the japanese lines XP

current mood: contemplative
current music: 3 Doors Down - Kryptonite (The Better Life)

Another one. Well, ParaJournal seems to be gone, so all is well.

Gotten so I can familiarize myself with Blurty for Open Up Your Mind which, if you didn't know, is (not up yet but will be) my tribute to online journaling.

Pity you have to be over 18 to join here, though. I wonder how many people actually pay attention to that...

current mood: apathetic
current music: Do As Infinity - Enrai (Deep Forest)