And He showed them mercy

In my dream, I was chased by would-be arsonists, who were planning to burn my house. I got them to  follow me through some trees and into my home where I had a knife hidden. My mother was home early. She shamed me for planning to kill them and spanked me outside. She didn't take my knife away, but released me just before they arrived. I had but to stumble a few steps before they were upon me, but instead of doing me bodily harm, they began to eat the food she had set out. My would-be assailants were now no longer my attackers. Thinking it was from me, one of them placed a piece of chicken in a bowl for me, and it was only then I realized I had earned the trust of a loved one. This was emotional to me. Then I woke up.

Feeder of Hungry

A Man owned a car in my dream, who used to go over across the street to visit it in a run down neighborhood full of beggars and poor people. That man became me. These poor were very humble and distressed, and could be likely to do almost anything for food and something to eat. When they did get something to eat, it was in my bag, on this day, in my car, only one of them. It was unnannounced, and when I discovered he had breached my space, I introduced to him that he was of the fortune to help himself to the contents of my bag any time he liked. This, I sent him on his way, and another came to me. She, a lowly type as well discovered to my person that the first was set to steal, but that I upon discovering the first did dissuade his very purpose in the act, and with my kind words did neglect to notice. I told her that I did not care whether he steal or not, but that I had nothing to lose 'cept self, and that I should lose sparingly, if ever. She not convinced upon my tale, but suspecting I had something better, I gave it to her, and thus, with the bulk of my remaining victuals in her hand, I entered into a contract with her thus: "I have a house across the street. If you are ever hungry, just come knock and get some food. If I make you this promise, will you be a law abiding citizen?" "Yes," said she, and I told her, "Good, because I have just made it." I then went to the 3rd, who was standing on the side, begging, holding his placard away from me at those other ones passing, and then offered him all I had remaining.

Thus, I woke up and realized that the Lord so deals with us.

Dream Joke

I dreamed that I made up this joke:

What did the idiot say before he jumped?
        Moron-imo!

Dream: 2 Underprivileged, 1 with new Opportunity

Both the boss & the worker had a working mutual hating relationship. The worker came to know God in 3 months time, while the boss continued to love money more than anything. Both the worker & boss had been working on some project for boys/underprivileged teens where they’d get to play basketball or something-anyway the project would make millions & both would be rich. When they called to say it didn’t work out, the worker hung up the phone before they were done. Then the worker called another one, a boy, to break the bad news to him but to tell him of the good news, his plan that had been inspired to him.

At the end of the dream, both men were weeping: the boss was saying, “I hate him,” and how he wanted to rip him limb from limb, and was screaming his frustration, while the worker said the words, “I hate him no more”-thus are the words of one touched by God & the other touched by the devil.

Dream game

Made up and played a new indoor sport with a large group of kids. We made it up as we played. It’s like 4 team volleyball with no nets, but there is space between each team’s territory which is neutral zone. You try to hit the ball into another teams zone. They try not to let it hit the ground. If the first bounce after it is hit by a player hits the ground in another team’s territory then it is a point for the team who hit it there. If the first bounce hits the ground in the neutral zone then it is no point, and whichever team gets it first gets to hit it to another team to start play again. The game doesn’t stop after a point has been scored. If the team who’s scored against hits the ball before the second bounce, then the ball is still in play. Looking back, I’m not sure why they would want to do that instead of just serving it again, but let’s say that they get more points that way if they score against another team by hitting it on a recovery after a point has been scored against them. Actually, not on second thought, I think you could catch it and throw it after running if you were in your same base-I don’t remember, but maybe you had to hit it to serve.

The game was just made up as we played in my dream. It was just a mass of boys running around hitting a ball, with some of the more influential kids calling the shots as to how the game rules formed. Kids were playing all different ways and by all different rules as the game was made up, but I wrote down my list of rules and later reintroduced it to the group before I woke up.

Eternal Marriage

I dreamed that Brittany and I were proselyting to other people about the significance of our eternal marriage. Some would listen, and some would not, but I would say, "The power of God has been given to man to do this (seal us eternally so that we will be together in the next life). Without this sealing, no couple will be together in eternity." I said that we may look like a fake, happy couple, but that what we have is real. I had tears come out when I said the first part to a person on their door after their mother or sister refrained from hearing us, and the last words I said were, "listen to your ministers," so that they would ask about it and find out.

Dream about pizza

I was going to buy 3 pieces of pizza, but 2 of them were smaller than they usually are so it would have been a rip off to pay the whole slice price. The workers came up with the idea of putting it in the system as ten years ago when pizza slices were cheaper, and then it would come to a fair total. Well, they could have just done this, but they had just called a previous manager before about something that day, so they thought to call the previous manager from ten years ago about this to ask if it’s all right, because they didn’t want to ask their current manager about it because he’s unreasonable. When they called the previous manager of ten years ago, the previous manager thought they were offering him his job back. Because the manager sounded so grateful, the worker on the phone said, yes. This sets up the plot for something bigger and funnier to happen later.

Medieval Warriors

The wizard read an inscription saying that the people who'd been there before begun cloning so that their warriors could say, "been there / done that" before they started fighting. (This was a horrifying revelation for the characters to learn in my dream.)

Also while we were there, we unlocked this immortal warrior who tried to kill us, but luckily it solved a problem because it was the antithesis of this other immortal killer who caused all sorts of problems, and when we unlocked this one both would be locked in immortal combat forever, and that would distract them from doing damage to mortals.

It was a crazy spooky place. There were dungeons and cliffs and traitors, and it was dark.

I dreamed that me and Karen were making fun of each others' girlfriend/boyfriend.

Then I said, "I used to date someone who was a supermodel; now she weighs over 195 lbs."

Then someone asked, "Did she gain weight after high-school?"

I said, "No, she gained weight in her 40's."

Then, I woke up laughing.

Family feud ends

I dreamed of a family feud where one family wronged the other family publicly. then one came to the other's party to apologise. They were giving speeches. The most moving speech was one where one who had been an actor said he'd never memorized the script..and, "People say it had all been scripted. This is not scripted," and the younger more forgiving people were moved to tears as he asked their forgiveness. another, it may have been me, said, "My mom used to say not to fight with your brothers and sisters; they'll be your best friends, someday. They know each others' weakness. We're better friends because we know what to avoid..."

guy singing in my dream:
Aint got no tick?
Not a hick

new game?

I played this game with my mom in my dream. The game is basically like chess with nothing but rooks, and you try to capture other pieces. The only other differences are that there's lots of barriers/walls up so you can't just move right across the board except for in a few places. You also have a home that you try to get them to where you take the piece off the board if you get it to that spot and get a few points (2, I think). Also, you start in different varying positions where you're already intertwined with their pieces from the start to get the ball rolling. The game is set up for 2 to 4 players, and it only goes for a limited time-certain amount of turns so you don't end up going all the way till the pieces are gone. You get 1 point for each other player's piece you kill. I played with my mom and for some reason she really stressed me out trying to beat her which is ridiculous because we were only playing a game. Maybe that reflects my own life and my stress level right now..

Ivor

dream - Guy looking for lab job in a cardiovascular lab on the East coast that he can join for his PhD. Said he wants to harvest tissue from marine animals so can't be too far in. He also said he worked in Ivor Benjamin's lab during his undergraduate years, and so I caught onto that and teased him by saying:
me: Which school did you say you went to?
him: Oh, I went to the University of Utah
me: That's kind of far for you to come. I didn't think University of Utah graduates made it in college (refering to college as graduate school)

Nonrandomness

dream - Guy believes in non-randomness - looks for God.
Then one day he gets arrested by the Feds. It isn't anything he's done; he just gets caught up in the wrong thing. (The government fails him.)
While in jail he descends to the basest of friends who one day betray him and remove their friendship from him. (Friends fail him.)
Then while in jail he meets a man of God. Thinking God is not real and that this man will hate him too, the man blames all his past evils on the evil within himself. He then learns from the man of God that God is just, and even though he's been through seemingly random events that make him look evil, he still has a pure spirit, and in the end he will inherit the kingdom of God. (God doesn't fail.)

A new creative spurt

This was read by a guy in my dream:
Instructions - [before reading a Dr. Seusslike book]
We'll have to go to the flat side of the moon. There we can meet the mind who made it. The tight ones unravel. Kings and the great ones of the earth humiliate to be gently appraised.

Here's a hypothetical conversation about the meaning of this writing:
author: "...meaning we'll have to be or do something new that's never been done."
other: "or you mean that doesn't exist."
author: "not that the flat side of the moon doesn't exist..."
other: "But it's round."
author: "Yeah, but when you're far away, doesn't it look flat?"

Alarm clocks

Lately I've had this thing where I dream my phone goes off or that there's a knock at the door or something. It makes me jump and I wake up, but then I look at my phone and there's nothing. It happens right at 6:00am or around then. It happened this morning and I think it happened yesterday. Sometimes if I tell myself I'll wake up at a specific time, I'll have that happen right when I said I'd wake up. It's great-I don't need an alarm clock! I'm crazy!!

I daydreamed this and then I drew it.

Lions

I dreamed I was at the lion museum. They had you roar when you got in. I roared weakly the first time, but with the staff making fun of me (in a good way), I got progressively louder until the 3rd time I sounded like a real lion. Then I wanted to go through the exhibit. They had the life cycle of the lion broken up into 3 or 4 groups. They were food, love, fighting, and maybe something else. I am in the fighting stage of life, j/k.

Griffins

Two griffins were fighting in my dream. One was driven by a sense of justice, and the other was a wild griffin. Both would kill me & my friend griffin if they found me in my cave under the ground. We were hiding while watching the fight. They were flying and fighting by putting light on each other, trying to do damage to each other. The one with a sense of justice had a friend to heal him & give him more power, and he overcame the wild griffin in this way, so that it fell to the earth and was dead. My friend griffin arose early in the morning and stole the carcass of the wild one so the other griffin wouldn't get it, putting the carcass over himself like a cloak. Maybe my friend griffin could use it to capture his freedom by saying he killed the wild griffin, and no one would think he was bad any more.

Overalls backward

I dreamed this girl was wearing her overalls backward with it low in the front and high in the back, but we weren't sure if she'd done it on purpose as some kind of fashion statement or if she was being duped by her roommates, and we didn't want to say anything that would make her feel uncomfortable so we all decided to wear our overalls backwards too. Then we had a Hecker family cheer, but we had to do it twice because my parents weren't there the first time. (We don't all wear overalls, but for my dream it was kind of funny.)