Well, it has been FOREVER since I've been on here, but my blog is still here.  Yay!  Glad it didn't vanish or something.

Last night I had some interesting dreams and I still remember bits and pieces so I thought I'd get on here and put those down before I forget them.  Nothing earth-shattering or anything, but still, might as well.

At one point I was in a car with several other people (no, I don't know who) and we were driving on some sort of elevated road (highway?) and I turned to look out my window (front passenger side).  I saw that though the ground had green grass so I knew it wasn't winter, there were large areas of white, like snow.  I realized after looking at it for a minute that it was all bird feathers.  It was really pretty, though strange.  I called out to the others to look at it.  Then I saw that there was a small bird flying outside the car and rolled down the window.  It flew into the car and landed in my lap.  I had a red shirt on and I looked down in time to see the bird sort of roll down into my shirt, where it had turned up a bit at the hem.  It was either trying to cuddle in or was unable to get out, but either way I picked up the shirt hem and managed to open it enough to show the little bird.  (I even remember at one point it used it's beak and made a small hole in my shirt.)  When I did that, it made a chirp that sounded just like it was saying "mama" and I said "did you guys hear that?!  It said Mama!" Then I turned it back to the window so it could fly out again, which it did.  That's pretty much all I remember of that sequence, but I just wish I could put the picture in my mind of that green grass and the large areas of white feathers on paper to show.  I'm not a good enough artist though.  (sigh)

Another part I remember is that I was in a house somewhere with relatives and we were looking at pictures (which is something we do a lot in my family).  In one there were several of us and I remember looking at myself and the fact that I had on white socks and that I wasn't happy with that and wished I hadn't been wearing those socks.  Then there was someone else in the picture and I took a red marker and wrote next to her the name "Doro" because that was what we called her (and no, there is no one by that name that I know of in our friends or family), but then decided I should write out Dorothy as that was her full name.  She had short, dark, curly hair.  I don't remember who the 3rd person was in the photo.  I just remember vaguely that we were talking about the people in it.  I don't even remember who I was talking to at the time.

I'm not sure if this was at the same house or not, but I remember at one point that there was someone at the house next door to where we were and I went to our window and looked out and realized it was the pastor from a church I went to when I was younger.  I then opened the door and went out to talk to him for a little while.  He was there to visit someone next door (wooden frame houses, multi story, with stairs on the outside of the houses - not like anything we have around here really), but they weren't home.  I'm sure there was more to it, but that's all I remember.

Then it switches to one of the dreams I have sometimes that is more like watching a movie because I'm not in it and no one I know is in it.  There was a younger couple that had been dating and the guy was going to ask the girl to marry him and she knew he was but for some reason had gone off in some tirade at him.  Then later she was sorry about it and tried to make up to him and get him to ask her to marry him after all.  I have a vivid image of him and a friend standing there while she is singing (yes, singing - a musical?) to him and then she goes back to her room to wait for his answer.  No, I don't know why.  Seems a bit melodramatic, but oh well... Anyway, I guess he eventually forgave her and they got back together because then they were planning the wedding.  Don't remember much else about that one, I think.

Another segment that I do remember, but don't think it was related to that part, is that I was again in a car with other people and driving through a countryside with some small hills and fenced areas.  This time I looked out the driver side window (I don't think I was driving, so I may have been in the back seat) and saw a huge herd of bison running down the nearest hill toward the fenced area.  I again asked the other people in the car to look out and see it, but I guess we had gone too far for them to see the bison because by the time they looked out all we could see was a large "pride" of lions.  They were darker brown than usual and there were multiple males with the large manes.  So the others said "that's not bison, those are lions" and I said "No! What I saw back there were bison!  I know the difference between a bison and a lion, thank you very much."  So, I wonder now what my thing was with large herds/flocks, etc. of animals last night.  We didn't watch anything yesterday with anything like that in it.

Then there's an odd little part in there that I have just vague memories of and it was again more like watching a movie as I don't remember myself actually in it.  I just get mainly a feeling that it was some sort of crime drama, and I remember at one point someone named Jonas coming into the room and there being a sense of surprise from the person in the room (a female possibly) that it was Jonas, so I guess maybe he was an unexpected bad guy?

Another fragment of dream that I don't know if it's from last night or is just stuck in from another night has me going around trying to get food from a particular place and the lines being long, and then deciding to go somewhere else instead and just a general sense of frustration with everyone.  I hate when I have dreams like that where everything that can go wrong does, because then I just wake up feeling frustrated and upset.  I get enough of that during the day without having it in my dreams, but really I guess I do get that feeling a lot, like arguing over the bison/lion.  Again, I just wish I could get the vivid images that I do have onto paper, like the bison running down the hill, or the lions looking at the car as we drive by.  Oh well...that's about all I can remember right now, but if any other snatches do pop up I'll try to add them.  Of course, it'd be easier to remember them and write or type them down as soon as I wake up, but I've usually got at least one little one talking to me as soon as I open my eyes.  And I usually wake up because of at least one of them poking me to wake me up.  (sigh)  Speaking of them, I'm going to go see what they are up to as it's entirely too quiet.  But it's nice to get back on my blog again after so long.  ;)