WTF, WDF?

I am frequently visited by the Weird Dream Fairy (WDF) and have all manner of strange dreams, some mini horror movies, some funny, some just downright bizarre. Last nights visit falls into the bizarre category.

My husband, son and I had been invited to a restaurant for a gift presentation. We did not know why we had been invited, just that we were told to be there at a certain time and to wear nice clothes. Later we found out that we were one of the poor families that were being "adopted" for the evening. It turned out that There were about a hundred people there, most of whom had donated money or gifts (and a nice meal at this expensive restaurant) for a couple of poor families.

We got there, showed the hostess our invitation and she took us to a large, round table and seated us with a few other people. They all smiled warmly at us as we were seated, then suddenly there was a man with a microphone calling out names. He said that the first gift basket was donated by the mother of a friend of ours and about ten other people and then he said that it was to be given to us. The fact that our friends' mother was one of the people who had donated the basket was just a coincidence. It was a huge basket filled to overflowing with all manner of things.

The other huge basket was given out and then we were each given smaller gift bags containing mystery items. In the dream I never got the chance to look into the bag as everything sped up right after that. Suddenly, food appeared on our tables, just like at Hogwarts, and immediately after the food appeared, the entire event was over and we were up and hugging people and thanking everyone.

Then things started to get weird.

My husband disappeared. Poof and he was gone, it was like he had never existed in the dream. The gifts we had been given were gone, too, so maybe he took them out to the car. I don't know. I went to the restroom and my face was feeling odd, so as I was washing my hands, I glanced into the mirror and noticed that somehow I had been transformed into the Human Barbie from the neck up and was so heavily Botoxed my face would not move.

After leaving the restroom, I met up with my son again and we went out the side door. This door opened into an enormous garage with a car being custom built in the middle of the floor. We came out of the door on a catwalk suspended about 30 feet in the air and we could look down onto the car and as we were standing there, I realized that a part was in the wrong place and I reached down and removed it. Now, how exactly my arms grew that long, I don't know, but they did. There were two young men standing beside us and one of them told me that I had no business messing with that car and I said "Of course I do. It's my car." And of course it was. But now, I was stuck on a catwalk, 30 feet above the garage floor and holding a bit of my car that I didn't want to just drop. I decided we would have to brave the stairs get to the floor so that I could put the part safely down.

When I say "brave the stairs" I am not joking. The staircase was made of a bunch of plastic milk crates precariously stacked on top of each other. These milk crates were filled with jumbled books. In order to reach the floor, we had to navigate our way down the rocking tower of milk crates without knocking any of them over. Of course about halfway down, my son found a book that he wanted to read, so he took it with him and we continued to fight our way down the milk crate ladder.

Once we arrived safely on the floor, we were no longer in the garage, we were outside in an alley and were being shoved into the back of a large, black car that I did not recognize. It was at that point that I woke up and realized that I had been sleeping on my face and part of my cheek was numb, explaining the bit about the botox and my face feeling weird.



I have so many vivid weird dreams I could write a lengthy novel. And most of my dreams are in full color, which I have heard is a sign of mental illness. Hmm. How about you? Do you dream in full color or black and white or something in between? Care to share a weird dream in the comments? I would like to hear about them!