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from dream bitch 05.07.25

I dreamed that I was in Massachusetts at a random cafe when I ran into Samantha (my friend from college whose birthday was last week). I gave her a long long hug and wished her a happy birthday. I had just gotten my hair cut and dyed in this crazy new wave style that also reminded me of Kelly Osbourne in the early 2000s. it was blue on one side and brown on the other.

Sam told me about her kids and that they were visiting Ben's family, but instead of the 3 girls they have irl, they had two sons named Jantzen and Jod. She was alone at the cafe though, and then she confided in me that Ben had "dumped her" and that he was involved (I think) in some Republican organization.

A little while later we were sitting at a table with Rachel L. whose 2004-era zine I found irl last month. I told her I'd been so happy for her when I read in the zine how she had been happy teaching kids music, and irl she founded a songwriting school for kids a few years later. In the dream I cried telling her this and kinda couldn't stop and had to excuse myself.

The scene had sort of shifted to my childhood apartment and we were planning some kind of huge dinner with all the people around. I was helping my parents clear the tables and clean up before the dinner, even though the guests had arrived. There was a Mac Classic on one table that turned into an amp when I picked it up to put it away.

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from dream bitch 04.18.25

I dreamed I was laying out a zine or something for someone else. The font was called "Times New Roman English." It looked a lot like the font Merriweather from Google Docs.

Earlier Liam was traveling solo in a really fancy rented van. It had a toilet that looked more like a rolling art caddy. It had a little running water fountain/hole for peeing in. I peed.

Then I was talking to Mary and she was living in Europe again and told me that she had taken the train to Greece for a vacation.

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from dream bitch 04.09.25

I dreamed that I believed there was an island in Italy that never moved, like so the world would turn and the island would stay in one spot. I was telling a group of people that I knew a family who lived in Italy but had a house on Maui, and they would just go to the island and wait 12 hours, when they could board a boat and just sail over to Maui in a heartbeat.

I believed it so much that I woke up and googled if the island was real.

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from dream bitch, 02.15.25

I dreamed I was sky-floating with a group of people, on big orange floaty river tubes in the sky. It was inexplicably warm and balmy up there. Over our heads I noticed some planes criss-crossing but I didn't think to tell anyone and then suddenly, people were dropping from those planes, skydivers and skydiving assistants. It was freaky when they started whizzing by us! Luckily no one from our group got hurt. I wondered what the skydivers thought, passing our lazy tubing group.

There was another part where I was hanging out with alex ob (I haven't seen him in 15 years) and he was talking with an australian accent because he lived in australia. He was taking a shower and told me to talk to him through the shower door if I wanted him to start talking in his normal voice again. we were at my aunt and uncle's house in yuba city and it was kind of awkward because he had showed up unannounced.

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from dream bitch 10.12.24

I dreamed I was at the old knitting factory on leonard st, at least it had that vibe, but maybe it was a new club? I was mad at someone who was putting on a show there and I can't remember why. I went there and the Fools were onstage (Jen and Uchenna) and I was happy to see that but it didn't stop me from pulling a prank, which was putting bologna, provolone and avocado (?) slices on the glass window of the door to the performance room.

I then walked away and got out okay, no one suspected anything as I left. over the next little while (few hours or days?) I started to feel guilty and scared I would get caught. I thought to myself, how could I? What if Jen and Uchenna thought I was doing that to insult them? (IRL, Jen contributed $50 to my gf's fundraiser recently, and in the dream I felt like shit.) Also I remembered that it was 2024 and CCTV was a thing that was easy to check.. so I got really scared.

I went back to the venue to try and see if there was CCTV cameras but then I was scared to look in the actual location lest they see me doing so and find me out that way. I went into this ballroom and everyone in there was like, "Finally!" I was hosting an event and was late! Angela and Leslie and Toby and Phoebe and Dibs and many other NY people I knew and maybe others from my whole life, were all there. I got up on the stage and looked at the clock. It said 6:40 so I knew I was only 10 minutes late. I tested out one of the mics. I faced the audience and thanked them for coming. Then they all started singing happy birthday to me. It was mid-September in the dream and I said thank you. Someone brought out a beautiful glittery birthday card that had been added to by everyone and it made me feel so happy. The art on the front looked a bit like my springtime linocut, but glittery. Like black and purple and iridescent glitter had been added.

Earlier in the dream there was a part where I was riding the subway with Toby and Angela and Leslie. I had to run for a train without dropping all my stuff. I had been perched up on a giant art sculpture that was also a subway staircase. It had colorful necks of creatures intertwined like snakes, but I believe they were necks.

(dreamed in palm springs, ca, 1st night here)

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from dream bitch 09.16.24

I was on a rooftop in brooklyn very randomly, like something had clued me in to go there somehow. I may have been with andrew h. Suddenly there was a big spaceship passing overhead, which was sort of visible then invisible because of fog. The sky was a kind of pinkish sunset color. I could tell the spaceship was hot because the air around it looked wavy. It got closer and closer and then it was apparent that it was going to fall down onto a nearby section of brooklyn. It fell but kind of slo-mo and then took awhile to really catch fire. The impact caused one of the two residential buildings next to it to collapse. Both buildings had glass windows from floor to ceiling and from my vantage point I could see lots of hipsters in colorful indie sleaze spandex clothing in the remaining building, and they were all freaked the fuck out. Some of them started to jump out of the building. I started to document it with my phone then felt horrifically guilty at being a bystander and put my phone away.

Later I knew it had been not real. There was nothing much on the news but part of me thought it was because the media was covering up the aliens bit.

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from dream bitch 07.28.24

Dreamed that I was in a shower placed where the toilet was in the place I grew up in but as an adult. I guess I was clothed.. I was telling my dad that people said there was a band that reminded them of a dream bitches called Blue Heaven. my dad left for a moment and when he came back he had brought me a pint of blue ice cream called Blue Algorithm that was also somehow screen printing ink. In the dream it was somehow the same thing.

It had white chocolate chunks that stayed liquid until you printed them. (5:00am today)

Also, 3 nights ago or so I had a dream that the Puck building had been remodeled and what is the front door was more towards the left side of the building. They had cut out huge chunks of the left side and back. I was disturbed.

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from dream bitch 04.21.24

I dreamed that I grew up in a strict family with 2 siblings and 2 cousins, and we lived outside of New York City. There were a lot of words we weren't allowed to say such as "whatever, whenever" and some others. We were trying to ask for permission to go to the Big City, unsupervised, but every sentence we asked with, our parents and grandmother denied because it contained a word we weren't allowed to say. Finally I said, "Family... Carol (my sister), Peach (my brother) and I, along with our cousins, seek permission to do some city-going this weekend, with no adult supervision." That sentence had none of the no-go words and I felt very proud. I went on to say that as a 16-year-old it was very important for me to learn to navigate independently and that it would be for my siblings and cousins as well. It seemed to do the trick and they considered the possibility after months of shutting us down. I felt pleased.

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from dream bitch (various dates, 2024)

March 11

Perfect Coriander

I dreamed that I was walking down the street with Lila and there was a barefoot hippie girl (petite, blond, maybe with dreads) banging away at something, it sounded like a guitar or stringed instrument. I asked if she was making guitars and Lila said no, strings. She wanted to ask if the girl was making “perfect coriander “ which was a type of method where one made two strings at once, strung in opposite directions and one had the black part underneath exposed. I asked if she wanted to ask the girl but she said she didn’t want to bother her bc she knew what it was like to be interrupted In public for working on something artistic.

March 9

Dreamed that Annabelle and James were at a restaurant where there was one specialty dish made just for you. They neglected to tell the waiter about their dietary restrictions. When the food arrived it was mystery meat. They asked what kind and the waiter said they didn’t know. Annabelle said “I don’t eat beef or sugar” and in the dream James was vegetarian.

March 1

Had a dream that I took over a room that Leah had been renting. It was way out in the sticks- like the equivalent of going to Staten Island, but I think it was the east bay.

One roommate was Tyler and the apartment was owned by an older Asian guy who lived next door.

I went there to sleep for the first time and immediately realized that the two hour bus ride commute was not going to work. I dreaded having to tell the roommates.

Later in the dream I was at a hotel where most people spoke German.

At some point I was maybe even at cafe 78, telling someone about the room but as i retold it I said that the room I was renting was actually behind a coffee shop !

Jan 22

Dreamed that I was invited to be in an art show here in Portland but it was also sort of the bay because Jessica drove me and when we got there for some reason she refused to come inside. My art piece was a photo, and I put it in the frame outside the gallery right when the opening was beginning. At the last minute Jessica told me I should put a different photo in so I did. Then she refused to come inside the gallery even though it was a lot to carry (my photo was in a large frame with real glass and I also had a portfolio of other photos.) At the end of the opening I realized embarrassed that I had put the wrong photo and as I took my photo down to switch it out, I told everyone what had happened. Everyone was drinking and no one cared. It was John James from secret room here in Portland. The photo I had put was of the inside of the gallery, during the opening?? The one Jessica had told me to put was a pic of the gallery from the outside.

My dad showed up and started talking to this one guy. He said “thanks for talking to me the other day, I really prefer phone calls over text!” I don’t know why they had talked on the phone. Then the guy told us about some place with Korean “sake tacos” and they were this fusion thing that was like quesabirria and I wanted to try some but that part of the dream ended just then.

Then I was in a store with some new hipster guy friend and he was picking out clothes for his girlfriend based on sight- he said he could tell if they would fit or not. I told him I usually try stuff on since r and I are similar sizes. In the back room of the vintage store we were at was a wall with a lot of recent crewels for sale, by local artists. None were appealing for the price.

Jan 18 (NSFW)

Dreamed I was talking about a series and everyone kept indicating that there was one really disgusting episode. I got to it one day - it was about a pair of men who suddenly realized they were into necrophilia because they worked as nurses and some of their patients died. These two men just happened to be roommates upstairs from the hospital they worked at. Their apartment was strewn with corpses eventually/ each of them had a “girlfriend” but then they got “mistresses” and then eventually they were so crazed that every time someone in their care was a vegetable they squirreled them back to the room.

Then they had scrambled to get the next person but he was really lucid and one of the nurses was very confused because the guy was assigned to him and he didn’t know how he would add him to the “collection.” Luckily the lucid guy, who was wheelchair bound, noticed a sign that the guy was a sicko- he had loose skin around his elbow with a black gaping hole, which was an indication that he was s*xually involved with unalive ppl.

In the end I woke up very freaked thinking that I had to spend the night in a shelter cot but I was pleased to find it was like a Miyazaki film.

Jan 6

Just dreamed that there was a needlepoint in the store that spelled out CREMPERS Cafe

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from josh

i ran into emily carmichael, who tried to get me to donate a vacation day to someone i'd never met. i was skeptical & asked to know more about the person & why they need my vacation day donation. emily seemed unimpressed that i wasn't just ready to give up my vacation time to this person. i tried to change the subject by asking her how she's doing lately, since i know she's famous. she said she's good & has been doing "letterist" work recently

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from dream bitch, 12/16/23, 4:44am

First off, I was in my backyard at 825 in Oakland and I finally got to meet a possum! I got to play fetch with him/her/them and give treats as a reward! It was so cute. I wanted to do more, but I got pulled away and later it turns out they had bitten the next person and was being punished (no play time).

Sam (my friend from college) really didn't like this boy Austin. I found out thirdhand that he had gone to her room to ask her to marry him and she turned her face off her pillow and looked right at him, saying, "I don't know if you know this Austin, but, I hate you!"

I found this out because I woke up in a room with Austin and I think Joe? When Austin woke up I asked him how he was and he looked terrible, and Joe was the first person to tell me what had happened.

Later I heard it from Austin himself, or at least from a more reliable source. It turned out that she had really said, "I don't know if you know this Austin, but you suck!" I said I was sorry to hear that and that he didn't deserve that! (For some reason I've forgotten if it was a direct interaction with him, but by the next part I think it may have been from a reliable non-Austin source, bc I would be less likely to be so eager to gossip... right?!)

In the dream I really wanted to go tell this gossip to Laura (it wasn't the Austin she dated, but for some reason she knew him). When I got to her room she was in bed with two men and their babies. She was sitting up in bed facing the two of them, and each one in turn held out his baby for her to kiss (as anyone would kiss a baby) and at the end she told each dad how much she liked him. One of the dads was a black man named Marlon and the other was a white guy whose name I've forgotten. I wondered if it was the M I went to HS with. In any case, she told M she liked him 84% and the other guy she liked 116 (I think)%! So she got together with that guy and ended up raising his kid with him.

There was another part where I was going to miss my train. Some guy (maybe J. Reiber?) had given me too many compliments on the cleanliness of the contents of my luggage (which were in a clear trash bag) and it made me late.

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from dream bitch 09.06.23

Dreamed Julie D. landed a plane I was with her on. We were both relieved that the wheels were actually down when we touched down.

Annabelle brought up the song Effort by Phoebe Kreutz and we sang what we knew and then listened.

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from dream bitch 09.04.23, 2 am, to kate

Just woke up from a dream in which you lived in an apartment with a bunch of fire features that were all installed by the previous owner. By that I mean little fountains and funny little sculptures that all had flames involved that ignited when you flipped a switch. Erich had picked the apartment. The lighting in it was purple and it kind of seemed more like an aquarium than an apartment. 

The front door was a tiny door at the top of a vertical row of 4 square apartment doors that were about 18”x18”. The previous owner was named A. Corning and his name was still sort of scratched into the paint on the front of the door. The paint was dark red. You had given me the key and I was standing up on a ledge below the row trying to open the door. The apartment was normal inside as in regular ceiling height, but the door was tiny and I wondered how the furniture had gotten inside.

We were talking and we laughed about how the apartment was kind of weird.. We also talked about a guy you kind of had a crush on and his name was “&And.” or at least that’s what you called him as a code name when talking about him.

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from dream bitch 08.28.23 (icha-bō-bō)

I dreamed that there was a song that was part of Swedish culture that you would sing someone if they bought you ice cream.

The song went: “Icha-bō-bō-bō-bō-bō-bō-bō, icha-bō-bō-bō-bō-bō-bō” but the bo was pronounced more like a cross between bo and bong and sung in a very nasal voice.

The song basically sung the praises of the person who bought you the ice cream, it talked about their virtues and how well and tidily they ate their ice cream, all in a very Swedish accent (or so it seemed.) the song was in English other than the Icha-Bo part. The last line was, __(insert person's name)__ does! As in they do eat their ice cream well! In the dream my name was used as an example, but instead of being pronounced yoko it was more like “yochh”.

I woke up laughing hysterically and tried to sing the song to R but couldn't without dying laughing.

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from dream bitch 07.20.23

I dreamed R and I were walking around a city in Canada we had never heard of. The city was called caliber (pronounced cally-bear) and we were gasping at the beauty of every tower we passed. It seemed like every building we passed had a tower that seemed to sparkle. I said wow, this is just some random city we've never heard of, imagine all the beauty in the cities that are famous for it!

We kept walking and saw towers that were more and more beautiful on hills that were greener and greener and more fairytale-like. R told me her favorite human-made thing other than pretty towers was seeing when someone worked with some kind of natural rock deposit, like mineral or gemstone, and kept its natural beauty intact while carving it into a functional structure. In my dream-mind I imagined a church organ that had been carved out of rock that had precious metal deposits. Then I woke up.

=== There was also a more mundane part of the dream where we were in a supermarket and I accidentally put granola, quinoa and buckwheat in the same bulk bag. I had to separate them by tying a twist tie dividing the granola from the uncooked grains. Elsewhere in the store I found a Din*tte Guitars poster that looked like it was designed in the 90s when faerie shit was cool (or has it always been cool?)

The background was yellow and it had this curly-style writing that reminds me of the 90s always.

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From dream bitch 01.30.23

I dreamed that the MEW prompt for the week was “AKS” or All Known Songs. Then in the email, M kept on writing it different- All Known Songs became Zll Znown Zongz or Zll Znowz Zongz. The email she wrote was exceptional as usual. At one point I was getting ready for an event they were having and I was emptying my garbage into a donation pile which just looked like trash. Someone took my original garbage can when I wasn’t paying attention. I was outside the Valencia Whole Foods (not affiliated with Whole Foods the supermarket).

(found in my notes app today, 2/22/23)

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From dream bitch 02.17.23