Hey dreamflyer!
I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping deeply lately, which sucks, but at least it's great for vivid dreams. Last night I very intense dreams all night, they changed slightly every time I woke up but were all related. I remember the last one quite well. Me and my girlfriend (who was at various times mostly my actual girlfriend but a little my ex-wife, and at other times mostly my ex-wife and a little my girlfriend) were scheduled to take a plane to Illinois to visit my parents. We were in a snowy town that strangely was this dream compilation town of the town I grew up in (that we were supposedly going to go visit on the plane). For some reason the airport was in this giant mall reminiscent of the mall I grew up near (which is one of the largest in the country). We waited in line and everything and right before we got to the front, I realized I didn't have my ID, and it was sitting at home. It stressed me out because we only had an hour until the flight started boarding and it was a 40 minute round trip to the house and back, and we still had to walk out of the mall and get to the car.
Well we started walking, and got outside, and it was dark, and we both realized we couldn't remember where we parked. It was my girlfriend's car, which doesn't have an automatic unlock or a panic button or anything, so we had to walk all over the place to try to visually find it in the dark. There were SO many parking lots, and it started to feel hopeless. Time went on as we kept looking and eventually it got so late that we missed the last flight out for the day. There was a surprisingly consistent and detailed layout to the mall, I was planning routes to cover areas we hadn't yet been, and it was always consistent (unusual for my dreams). As time went on, my girlfriend started to turn more and more into my ex-wife, and she started to be really, really slow, wanting to stop and shop at places and so on. I was feeling really frustrated about it (one of the things that I always hated about her was how incredibly slowly she moved, especially when we had a deadline to meet, when she felt rushed she would purposely dig in her heels and move more slowly). Eventually I got exasperated and told her I felt exasperated, and she gave me this creepy look that she gave me in real life before when she was going crazy and pulled a fire alarm. Then the rest of the dream was spent running and trying to evade cops and fire marshalls who figured out someone pulled the alarm and were trying to find whoever did it.
Oh I remember the earlier dream now... it was much more pleasant. I was in this dream world I can't ever recall being in before, which is highly unusual. It was also snowy. In it, I was with various friends including my oldest friend, and we were at some festival or something, and it was night time. We were going all around, the whole thing took place in this forest where I had a map of all the trails in my mind, and when you came out of the forest it was a wintery, barren cornfield where people had tents set up. I don't remember all the details but we were going all around on various missions, to find people, to get beer, to do drugs, generally just having a great time, festival-style.
At one point I met up with some people and we jammed. That's all I really remember but it lasted a long time and it was really fun.
Whenever I've dreamt that I was trying to find a bathroom I always woke up having to go.
