there was more to the dream before this, but i can't remember it anymore.
we were in some sort of motel in the middle of some sort of desert. there was a group of us. one of the men in the group was dead. the motel seemed to be deserted, but all of the rooms were locked except for one. another guy and me went into it, and we were excited that we found a room, but then i noticed there were still things there. i told him that the person hadn't checked out yet. i pointed out all of the things, and the guy said that the person probably just left them there. i argued and said that there was too much important stuff for it to just have been left. i left the room, but he stayed.

i guess he ended up dying or disappearing or something. there was something about a dress made from aluminum cans.
the dead guy that was with us.. i don't know if anyone else knew he was there. he was trying to make me go to that room. i think it had been his room. and there was something in the dream or about him that led me to believe he wanted me to go in there so i would die, too. i also remember seeing some shattered glass.

i was in this giant church. we were performing some sort of revue. we did that. it was great. everyone loved it. it was right before halloween. it might have been the afternoon of that day. i saw a man trying to hurt a woman, and i made him stop. i killed him. there was a .22 involved.. i think i somehow managed to kill him with that. i think he would rip the arms off of his victims. there was something about ripping arms off. and he was wearing a white, button-up shirt. and he was in a truck.

i went to ihop or denny's. with scott i think. i was telling him all about how i killed a serial killer. i was very proud of myself i think. randy hayes and some other guy that i knew a long time ago saw us at the restaurant. we said hi and talked for a bit. i told them about how i'd just killed a serial killer.

it was evening. i was in some sort of strange loft/room. there were stairs. like fire-escape stairs, except on the inside. and bunks. right under the stairs. i was there with another woman that i might have been related to. there was a man, too. we started to worry about that whole slaying of the serial killer. maybe he wasn't the real one, or he was going to somehow come back and get me. we were very afraid something bad would happen. the man was trying to comfort us. at some point, the woman burned her hand. she wanted butter to put on it. i used the stairs to get into this kitchen.. the loft was some sort of basement/extension of the main house i guess. i got the butter.

i came back, i put the butter on her. at some point, the man brought us something to eat or drink or something. then the woman and i realized that the man was going to try to kill us. i think i managed to hurt him somehow, and then we started to run. we got to the door, and there were two directions we could go in.

one way looked extremely perilous, and if we tried to do it, we would die in the process. the other way was down a dark street. toward the university campus. we started running that way. we ran and ran, and we knew he was coming after us. we kept trying to get people to stop and help us or drive us away from him, but nobody would. there was a woman that was unloading groceries from a large truck of some sort (may have been a hummer??) into a golf cart. we asked her to help us, and she kept shaking her head and saying no. we ran more, and there were some mexican men driving some strange sort of tractor type thing behind two city busses. he said he was the co-pilot of the bus, but he could drive us behind the busses until they stopped again. they were very nice to us, but we didn't tell them what was going on.

after they stopped, we ran into this building. it was some sort of giant office building or mall. nobody was there. there was a fortune teller's place there that i'd been to before. we ran through her place, and i pointed out a door that was hard to see and said that behind that were some rooms that maybe we could hide in and the man couldn't find us. we went through the door and several rooms. there was a fat kid in a chair with a knife in his belly. it was fake, though. he woke up and asked us what we were doing there. we told him what was going on, and he said we could stay. but then we heard the man coming. he told us to go through this secret exit, and that he would stay there. we ran, and i don't know what happened to kid.

we came to this mostly glass type place. it was feng shui gardens or something. there was an asian woman there that was very pretty and didn't pay attention to us. she was working on a miniature garden. they had fountains, too. at some point, we were supposed to start helping her with the gardens, but then we heard the man coming again. the woman had left, so we left, too. i think the woman went back and was very irritated that we left without finishing what we were supposed to do.

we ran and ran. we found a staircase, and started going down it. it was very strange. there was glass all around us. the staircase ended, but not on the first level. we didn't know how to get to that level, but we heard the man coming. outside the window was a very dangerous looking landscape.

we found the secret stairs and got to the bottom level. there was a fountain there. it was very deep. we jumped in it to start swimming away. the woman couldn't swim as fast as me. the man caught up to her. i tried to help. he was drowning her. i was trying to kill him, but i couldn't keep her afloat in the process. i think he may have succeeded in killing her and me, too.

at some point during all of that, we decided that the man had maybe given us some sort of hallucinogen or other type of drug in that food. i suspected it was even in the butter.

somehow i was able to reset. without the woman. i was back at the beginning of running away from the man. i wanted to see what was the other way. if it was the other way that i really should've gone. so i just jumped through these mountains and things. things that should've killed me, but didn't. maybe because i was already dead.

there were strange beings there, but i don't know what they were. there was a maze in one of the mountain places. there were rivers and things. it was rough-going, but the man wasn't chasing me in this one. i just had to get to the end.

when i got to the end there were two giant, slim beings leaning against a rail or something. maybe a large box. the one on the right was wearing rainbow-colored pants. i knew that they were Evil. not that they were evil beings, but that they were evil itself. i asked them who they were. the one on the left said, "i am unchanging order." the one on the right said, "i am destruction." they spoke with me for a while. i thought back to the gardens i had passed on my way to find them. somehow i realized that there were no mutations ever occurring in the plants or the creatures that live there. there was no change. no chaos. just stagnant sameness.

then i woke up.

two dreams.
first one:
my niece amy had some sort of autism. she was perfectly functional, except she'd hurt herself a lot and was really trusting. we went to the mall to pick up some snacks for the rest of the family to munch on while they worked on my mom's car. it was night time, and it was raining. we got to the mall and were looking for snacks, but we weren't going to find anything, and the mall was about to close. then some blonde woman grabbed amy's hand and started walking off with her. i went to get amy back, and the woman started fighting with me. i punched her a few times, and then i had to bite her hand really hard to make her let go of amy. we ran out to my car, and the door was open. someone had stolen all of my cd's but left all the money in the car. we were driving away trying to find the cops, and i couldn't get the brakes to work because of the kind of shoes i was wearing. then we drove back to the mall and were looking for the mall cops there.

second one:
susan and i decided that we were going to be ghosts and haunt people. we had it all worked out. i don't know how we were going to fool people, but our plan was excellent. we went to the grocery store to get some chocolate covered strawberry candy. we found it. it was made by sanrio. they also had some for dogs, so she got some for winston. there were people arguing in the cake area. someone asked us what the town mascot was, and i told them it was "the boston sabers." we weren't in boston, though. we were in some sort of mid-sized suburb. i remember really hating the flourescent lights while we were in the cake section. at some point, we were back in a house. we were going to sleep in sleeping bags. we had eaten almost all of the strawberry candy, and susan reminded me to leave some out for buddha.