I was at lab, and Steve told me that I had only "21 days" left to mate some mice to save one of my lines. I said "only 21 days?" which for some reason got a laugh from Tim. Anyways, Tim started to help me out, getting together the mice and mating them. However, they were clearly too young, and I said we should probably wean them first. My sister appeared in Tim's place and I said I'd go get some new cages. I couldn't find them anywhere on the floor, and didn't want to ask around since I really should know. So instead I got in the elevator to the mouse facility on the third floor.

In the elevator, even though I hit the 3 button, it went to the first floor. I was upset, but kept hitting the button. I felt something on my leg, as though someone had flicked me. I brushed it off, but started to wonder if the elevator was haunted as it shot up to the 10th floor. By then I had given up going to 3, so my mind wandered. I started to see a vision of the cosmos, a beautifully colored pantheon of planets and galaxies stretching away towards the doors. I said "that's so cool." But a sudden movement to my left distracted me. I saw that two coats had appeared in the corner, so I was sure there was a ghost now. It didn't seem to bother me though; instead of being scared, I was just upset at the delay and kicked the coats.

Then I was at a party at a nice little ranch home which my family owned. Just a few folks, including a large red-haired woman holding her newborn baby. As I ate some chicken wings, I hallucinated that she was stripping the meat off her baby with her teeth. I thought to myself "doesn't the kid need energy? That won't work if she's eating his meat." But then I snapped out of it (still in the dream) and saw the baby was okay.

I went to a bedroom and looked out the window. There were rotting branches or roots extending out from the house, and I could see little black mice running in and out of the roots in the snow. I had no idea they could survive in such temperatures. Then some golden squirrels came over and started eating the mice, head first. I called my sister over, and she watched with me in fascination. A baboon wandered over and broke one of the larger "roots." Several bear cubs came out, and I thought they were going to get killed, but then their mom followed after. Immediately behind her were dozens of wolves flowing out like a stream. They immediately attacked the baboon, who kept getting away despite being bitten all over. A swarm of gorillas followed by lions swept in from the right, clashing with the growing crowd of wolves. I thought "ah, so this is why we never explored our backyard." As the animals were all fighting, there was a sudden stampede from over the hill of bulls and longhorn steer that easily swept over the others. They seemed to be led by our cowboy neighbor. We suddenly realized they weren't going to stop, so we ran out of the room just before the house shook with the impact. We went again only to see another wave coming again (and again we ran). The third time, there was a row of large stuffed animal lions set up, that were knocked over by the stampede, bursting into feathers.

Finally, I dreamt that my cousin Daniel's church gave out fliers with a number on one of the panels. If you called it between 8am and 2:30pm on Saturday, you could make free calls to anywhere in the world. It was mainly used by the predominantly Chinese church crowd to call China for prayers. I recalled my sister mentioning (not in real life) that one time, Daniel needed to make a call and stopped in downtown Chicago to ask a cop for the flier. He did and had made the call for free. So I was finally looking at this flier. It was yellow and Daniel had cut out the little coupon-type card that came with all the info.

posted by Larry at 5:36 AM