Barack Obama dresses up for his inauguration

Well, another dream that becomes a reality. I keep dreaming daily -- nightly --- but just don't find the time to note them down more frequently on my blog. Now if a dream appears that just has to make it, then I do write it down like this one.

On thursday night, I dreamed a skinny black professor. I am his student. In the classroom, he started doing a dressing session. He went in and tried on suit after suit. All of us students were his judge.

We saw him in excellent suits and gave him feedback. We told him that he has to dress-up reall good all the time. That will fetch him respect from the public.

When I woke up the next morning, I thought that this professor resembled Barack Obama a lot.

Then I went to read the bbc website. I came upon an article about the dressing of the President-elect and his wife for the inauguration. Article said "There might be speculation about what Mrs Obama is picking for inauguration day, but it seems husband Barack has already made up his mind. He is thought to have opted for a suit and tuxedo from designers Hart Schaffner Marx."

I guess this is what I was dreaming about during the night!

Laughing at a joke, not at a person

This is not a dream. This thing happened today and it hit me hard. But it tickled me too. Nowadays I am above getting hurt at a personal level by another person. I have baked myself so well into the emotional oven, that I am as hard as a brick, and I don't take comments, behavior or feelings personally.

Everyone has faults. Most people have their own accents. Others find them funny. I find lot of funny accents. I make fun of them, laugh at them. But I have no malice in that. I laugh at the joke, the fun in that accent, not at that person.

Today a person took my laughter personally.

The story goes like this:

My friend has his own accent. He was speaking with me. He said "Do a vold and see the result.". It sounded like "Do a wall-d and see the result".

So I said "Are you saying I do a w-a-l-l-d ?".

He said "No, I said v-o-l-d".

Then I spontaneously burst out laughing. I never laughed at him. I just laughed at the joke that this confusion had turned into, and enjoyed the laughter.

But my friend took it personally.

Later the same day, I was talking about some topic. Now I forgot what it was about. But for some reason, I said "It is all fucKKED-up". With an intended stress on KKED. I know how to pronounce the word properly, but I just wanted to say it the way I did.

My friend caught me right there and made fun of my pronunciation. He made it a point to expose my lack of proper accent.

I want to clarify to my conscience that I had not laughed at him. When I spoke, I knew how to pronounce my word properly.

I feel sad that he took my laughter in the negative sense, while I had laughed whole heartedly -- looking at only the joke in the event. My laughter put poison into his brain cells. Alas, he would have also laughed with me at his simple and harmless lack of pronunciation, instead of trying to find fault in my pronunciation and getting back at me at the first chance.

This is not a court case. There is no winner, no loser. May he find peace.

My friend brought two houses and made a cool profit on one

My friend from NJ is celebrating the birthday of his daughter on Saturday the 26th of July. I guess that has been on my mind because yesterday night he was in my dreams.

But the dream had nothing to do with his daughter. In the dream, he told me that he had brought two houses at good prices. I asked him where did he get all this money for the down payment of two houses???

He said, "I took loan money from you and a few other guys, and used that to get a bigger loan from the bank. With that loan, I paid you guys back and also paid for the house down payment. I already sold one house when the price was high; and made a cool profit on it. And I use the other house to live-in. So I am saving on rent!".

I said, "That was a cool idea man!".

He said, "I am surprised none of you guys did anything like it."

Premonition about what is gonna happen tomorrow

This is an amazing premonition that I had on the night of Tuesday 15th going into Wednesday.

I go to work in Flushing, NY. We have an office in Woodside, NY where I have never had to go to work yet.

On Tuesday night, I dreamed that I was in the Woodside office. I was standing outside the building and then one of my co-workers from Flushing showed up. I saw him and greeted him.

Now in reality, I woke up on Wednesday morning and another co-worker called me up and told me that our boss had requested that me and him be in Woodside that day! So I actually did go to Woodside that day! And guess what, the co-worker who showed up later in Woodside did show up later in Woodside, just like I had dreamed about.

I call this a premonition.

Cousin's New house, renovating an old house

The whole of last week I was not able to sleep soundly. I was woken up by some or the other sound through every night during this week. By Friday, I was totally exhausted for lack of a nice night's sleep and you know what -- I had been not dreaming my full quota the whole week.

So Friday night I was very very tired and fell asleep really fast. The whole night was one complicated roller coaster ride of dreams. None were very disturbing, but they were just crowding into the night and I was overwhelmed because of the sheer non-stop occurrence of the dreams.

My brother had told me a week ago that our cousin brought a new house in the neighboring town. This dream looks like an offspring of that news. In the dream I went to this cousin's house and it was a twin house. We realized that he had brought 2 adjacent houses, just like we have. I entered one house and there was a connection into the next house from inside. This was quite a surprise and the combined two houses made the living space really huge. The floors were red and they had a nice front yard and a nice back yard.

Now the next dream crowded-in. Here I go to my neighbor's home in my hometown. They had recently done some renovation and I wanted to see how it came out. Turned out that they had increased the living space amazingly. They had combined the living room and the kitchen into one huge living area. They had laid some exquisite and never-before-seen tiles. Their design looked like mosaic tiles of the past, but they had a gloss as if they were laminated from the top. Also, the chunks of stones inside the design were heavenly beautiful colors and combinations. The tiles were not even the same size. They were all different sizes.

Then I went further in. They had used the earlier backyard and made it into a dining area. And there was another alcove where they had set-up the kitchen cooking area. This was kind of a combo spot that saved lot of space and gave you a small cooking area. They said that it was my Father-in-law's idea. I was surprised he even knew them.

Then I went further into the backyard. The backyard was a horrible mess. They were using it as a garbage dump. Literally garbage was strewn all over. I don't know where that came from :-)

Bizzare photo shoot

I was not posting stuff for more than 2 months. I was dreaming for sure, but just could not find the time to post any new dreams. yesterday night was such an interesting dream, I had to get it down on the blog.

This was one scary dream. Ok, i am going to be as discreet as I can, because I don't even want to think about this dream. But it is so bizarre, I want to write about it and get it out of my system!

There is this guy and a woman who are having sex right on the road. I am a cameraman and I am shooting this pair alongside a busy road. The woman asked him to show her his organ. He said "ok, wait a moment" and he walks towards me and goes past me.

Meanwhile, the public is passing by and having a free peep show at the woman.

I turned around my camera and saw this guy coming back. He had a small chainsaw in his right hand and although he was wearing a jeans, I could see his erection. He pulled his organ out and held it with one hand and cut it with the chainsaw. There was no blood. Just some white viscose substance came out and he took it in his hand and gulped it. Then he threw away his organ!

I head it land on the ground a few feet away from him. And at the same time I woke up! Boy, I felt so good this was just a dream!

Now here is the shocker:
I dreamed on 27th night. Now today I read this news that came in the paper on 29th April. It is like my dream come true!!!! Click the link below to check out the news:
Undertrial chops off his testicles

In the woods with an Elephant that smokes weed

I been watching the movie Blood Diamond for the last few nights. I was watching it in parts. There was lot of jungle, wild animals, cruelty, killing and drug & alcohol abuse in the movie. I think this dream was a result of watching the movie.

Now this is one crazy dream. We own a huge house that is in the woods. My mother is cooking in the kitchen. My son told me "Dad, I think if we walk over here into the woods, we will find a good spot. It is supposed to be very thick woods in here!". I said "Ok, let's go".

We started walking into the woods, but my son along a path. Not into the thicket. It was easily visible from outside. My wife found us in the thicket, and said, "You are crazy both of you! You cannot find a better spot?"

We came out and went into another room.

There were two guys in that room. Both were smoking weed. They were high! They had a miniature elephant with them. The elephant was about 6 inches tall. He was white in color. I asked them "Is this a real elephant?".

Dude one asked dude two "Do you know if he is real?"

Dude two "Lemme check."

Dude two them lifted the elephant and examined him. Then he said "Look, he is breathing and moving. He is real and alive. You know, he is our maintenance-free pet."

I asked "What do you mean maintenance-free?"

Dude two "Well, we never feed him. All we do is that if we are not smoking, we use him as a holder. We shove the weed into his mouth and he holds it for us. We been doing this for so long, and he has been alive. No problems on that one."

I was shocked at their lack of emotions.

Room for rent

Again, this dream seems to be a result of daytime events.

On Sunday we went to our old neighborhood in Briarwood, Queens. We were driving by our old building when I saw our building maintenance worker. We stopped our car and spoke to him. He told me that our old apartment was still nor rented out. It was more than 3 months now! We were shocked to find that.

Now yesterday night, I dreamed that I am walking along a strip mall, and I see a sign on a store front -- "FOR RENT". It was some restaurant that was renting out a room for a single person. I was surprised that how come a restaurant can do that. I kept driving, and then saw another store with the "FOR RENT" sign. I wondered who in their right senses would rent a room in a restaurant and want to live there?

Area rug has worn out

This dream was late in the night. I mean early in the morning. Our area rug has worn out totally. The outer edges are intact and the center part is totally worn out. I looked at it and told my wife that we will soon need to buy a new one.

Again, during the day we had been to Home Depot and looked at new area rugs and had checked out their prices. This one too seemed to be related to the events during the day.

Chinese man getting too close at Home depot

Now this dream is again related to the events during the day.

Yesterday we went to the Home Depot to buy some paint. We were totally lost on what to get and what we need. We spent a lot of time trying to figure out what exactly was our need. Eventually, we did choose a shade and a paint. We got a gallon of the red crimson Behr brand paint. We were gonna paint out built-in wall cabinet/headboard with this paint.

I went to the check-out counter. The line was short. As luck would have it, the cashier was a fat and obnoxious loser. She was purposefully slow and sedentary. She cared a damn for the impatient people on the line. I was getting impatient, but I was trying to keep my cool.

There was a Chinese man on the line, standing right behind me. His knuckles were bloody from exposure to the cold. His face was dry with not even a hint of moisture on it. He was wearing a huge parka Coat. It was extremely dirty. He was standing very close to me and his Coat kept hitting on my butts. Sometimes he got so close, he was leaning against me. This started getting on my nerves. I kept moving ahead, and he immediately made up by moving ahead himself. I realized this was not gonna help, so I then stood with my hands on my waist, so the elbow poked out and kept this guy at bay! Nothing against him, but I just don't like to be touched by the impatient person next on line behind me. It has always been this way!

Eventually I paid and we went home with our new paint.

Now I went to bed and I started dreaming!

This is kinda weird, but it is a dream and I can't control it! I was traveling on a Bus. Somehow my seat in the bus was just like my bed. Well, this family of four got onto the bus and started to get comfortable around me. Next thing I know, all of them are sitting on my seat/bed! The guy and his wife are big and fat. I told them to get off my seat and give me some space. They were sitting my seat. They slid down onto the next seat/bed. And then the woman had the nerve to lie on her /bed and rest her feet in my lap :-) The feet were fat and heavy. Dirty and with no pedicure.

I looked at her feet and said "Lady, get your feet off my lap!". She replied "Hey, I will put my feet wherever I like to!"

I woke with a jolt, sweating and scared.

Do I look like a young boy??

My boss spoke to me yesterday night. There is this guy whom we will call Rosewood in our office. My boss instructed me to speak about some issue with Rosewood on Monday. I said yes, I will do that.

Now I slept in the night and see this Rosewood guy in the dream. He was walking down the isles in the office and stopped by my cubicle. I was talking to someone and Rosewood came and started talking to us. Said "Guys, I had a haircut yesterday. I am very happy with the cut! Don't I look like a young boy now?".

I looked at him and said, "You might, but only if you had gotten rid of that stubble growing out of your chin!".

Bus encounter, numbers swapped

I was traveling in a BEST bus in Mumbai and sitting across from some unknown girl. This girl became friendly and we were talking throughout the journey. My stop came earlier. It was the stop for Anushakti Nagar. I got up to get down, and said BYE to her.

As an afterthought, I said, "Listen, if you really enjoyed talking to me, do you mind swapping phone numbers? We could be good friends!". She agreed and I was walking towards the Bus exit and she was shouting the number at me. I could not manage to get it down and told her "I will give you my number instead, that would be easier!".

By then the bus was about to move. Somehow I managed to tell her my number and got down from the bus.

Then I realized that I had forgotten my bag in the Bus. I starting running beside the bus and asked for the people to throw down my bag. I had to run until the next stop of Telecom Factory to get the bag. I was tired!

Road trip to Hudson Valley and falling debris

This was a dream on the night of 28th January 2008. We had planned to drive to Hudson Valley on the following morning.

In the dream, we were on the highway. There were construction debris like pebbles falling out of a truck driving ahead of us. All this debris was sticking to the windshield of out car and we could not see anything at all. We were very very scared and used the wiper to remove the debris. The wiper removed very little of the debris. Then we saw that the debris were to all the cars driving along with us.

Next day, we went on this road trip as planned. I told my friends about this dream and said we better be careful driving, because you never know what the dream was telling me.

We had to drive through Manhattan and were going to take the Queensboro Bridge. The friend who was driving wanted to take the lower level. I said "take the upper level, that is faster because you will avoid the lights". We argued for a while, and then she agreed to take the Upper Level.

While driving on the Upper Level, we came across chunks of blue Styrofoam on the road. The chunks kept increasing as we drove on, and we had to be careful not to drive over any chunk and get the car into any trouble. It looked like some truck had dropped a lot of it's load of Styrofoam on the bridge.

The point to note is that just the previous night, I had the dream about falling debris from a truck, and now in reality we did come across fallen debris from a truck. Yes, the debris were different in nature. Also, while my friend wanted to take the Lower Level, I kept insisting to take the Upper Level, and that is where we came across this debris!!

Sood Uncle's Home Construction

I entered a home and it turned out to be Sood Uncle's new home being constructed. He, his daughter and his wife were present there.

They greeted me and Mrs Sood said "Good thing we did this. It all came along perfectly!". The house was huge with 3 floors. It had marble floors on the stairs and the foyers. Mrs Sood looked very much like Uncle Sood.

Killing Someone

I don't remember this very clearly. All I remember that I have a trident that I am using to puncture someone's body. The forks of the trident are puffy as if they are filled with fluid.

PS: I had watched "Scary Movie 4" the previous night.