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.