Dream Log for the night of January 3, 2005 This dream was incredibly short because I had just

fallen into a very short deep sleep after my dad woke me up this morning at 6:00 a.m. The dream took place in my bedroom and I dont know if my dad actually coming into my room to wake me up actually happened or it was part of my dream. In my dream, the bedroom light is on and it is shining really brightly behind me. I am lying on my stomach on my bed, with my face looking at my closet. My arms are stretched above my head and I have three pillows directly in front of my face. In my dream, I am dozing and my dad comes in for the third time to wake me up. He is wearing white boxers, tan socks that come up to mid-calf and a gray shirt. He kind of shakes me until my dream-self is awake and then he goes over to my closet. Suddenly, hanging about midway down my closet is a goodsize whiteboard. About six columns were drawn in with a red whiteboard pen. The very last column at the bottom of the whiteboard had computer numbers written in three of the boxes. These numbers were:

F2

F3

F5

I dont know what else what written in the other boxes because I didnt get a good look at them and the only reason that I saw those three numbers was because my dream-self was somehow lying really close to my dads feet (on the carpet) and I was peering up at the whiteboard. Then my dad left the room and I woke up (This time for real.) Like my dream, my light was on, shining brightly behind me and I was lying flat on my stomach on the bed. My bedroom door was open about an inch, however no whiteboard rested on my closet.

Dream Log for the night of January 2, 2005 This dream was really short and I was a participant the whole way through. In my dream, I was at some sort of college prep conference meeting with a bunch of students from Northgate as well as students from other Mt. Diablo Unified High Schools. (I recognized a lot of the students.) In the dream, wooden art tables were set out in four columns with about two feet walking space in between each of the columns of tables. There was no walking space for the tables behind tables in each column. (See below)

In front of the tables was another table, the teachers desk. In this dream, our professor was Mr. Boyd, the old art teacher at Northgate High School. I remember that my dream-self was sitting in the front table in the second column on the left. I think that the person sitting next to me was a friend of mine named Nicole. Anyway, I turned to look at who was at the seminar and in the third column of tables, front row desk, I found an old crush of mine by the name of Travis. (At this point, everyone was milling about and talking really loudly.) I glanced over my right shoulder and sitting behind him was my good friend, Allen. He was sitting in a chair with his arms crossed on the table and his chin was resting on his crossed arms. He didnt look too pleased. I tossed him a nod of my head but he didnt respond. Suddenly, my dream-self found myself in the back of the kind of small room with about 500 people in it and I heard a familiar voice talking about me with about six other people (Im assuming that they were his friends.). It was Travis and he was sitting on my table about ten feet away from me and he said: God, I wonder if Ashleigh Best still likes me?

I heard that statement and I remember looking him dead in the eye and scowling at him. He looked back at me and saw my expression and for a moment, it seemed that the emotion in his eyes went from scorn to fear. It was a really intense moment for me because I actually experienced anger at that point and it was all directed at Travis. Then I woke up and the song Dont Speak by No Doubt was running through my head.

Dream Log for January 1, 2005 This dream was really bizarre and I actually felt like I was there, participating in the activities. My dream was set in my old elementary school playground (background note: I attended Bianchi Elementary on Cowell Rd.). The first half of the dream, I was on crutches and I was playing on the monkey bars. Directly behind the bars were parallel bars and behind the parallel bars were the uneven bars. Off to the left of the monkey bars was a metal play structure complete with firemen poles and slides. Anyway, there were little kids everywhere and if I looked close enough, I could discern high-school students in the distance. Near the playground was a set of wooden buildings. (see below).

Teachers were wandering around the playground and supervising the kids; making sure that no one got hurt and punishing the students that misbehaved. Suddenly, my dream-self gets off of the monkey bars and starts running through the cedar chips to the metal play structure, only when I get there, I apparently started shrinking to a childs body (so everything looked really big.) and I felt really frightened. My panic further raged when a little girl came up to me and asked where my crutches were and that I should not be walking just yet. I looked over my shoulders but my crutches had disappeared. Suddenly, I was yanked out of the playground and into one of the wooden buildings bordering the playground. It was really dark inside, with no windows and two guys were sitting on chairs by a table of computers. There, next to them, was my crutches. Then I woke up.

Dream Log for December 30, 2004 This dream was a repeat of the last 5 nights (the Highlander one.) Same people, same plot, same setting, same ending.

Dream Log for the night of December 29, 2004 This dream was the same dream for the past 4 nights (the Highlander dream). Same people, same plot, same setting, same ending.

Dream Log for the night of December 28, 2004 This dream was the same dream that I have been dreaming about for the past three days. Same people, same setting, same plot, same ending.

Dream Log for the night of December 27, 2004 (Happy Birthday, Sasha!) This is the Highlander dream that I had last night as well. The characters were the exact same, the same place, the same ending. Very trippy.

Dream Log for the night of December 26, 2004 I probably dreamed this dream because right before I went to bed, I watched the TV series THE HIGHLANDER: Season 1. This dream took place in Mrs. Tjemslands Art Room (room 72) at Northgate High School. All of the main characters from the show were in the room with myself and the other students in that class. There was Tessa Noel (played by Alexandra Vandernoot), Duncan MacLeod (played by Adrian Paul), Connor MacLeod (played by Christopher Lambert) and Richie Ryan (played by Stan Kirsche). In the dream, we were all standing by the double paned glass doors that is another entrance/exit into the art room. Myself, Duncan and Connor were all immortals and Tessa and Richie were trying to help us figure out a problem that had to do with another immortal. I remember Tessa asking us, Have you sensed the presence of another immortal yet? but I dont remember exactly when she asked us that. Duncan shook his head no as did Connor but I pointed to Duncan and said: nope, just him. The scene abruptly switches to re-enact a scene from the movie The Highlander: The Gathering. I am standing in between Connor and Duncan and Tessa is off to the side. Richie was not in this one. Suddenly, another immortal by the name of Slan jumps through the panels in the ceiling, with his sword in his hand, and falls on top of the table. Duncan grabs his Dragonhead Katana and slowly advances on Slan. Slan backs off and holds up his hands, saying: Chill, I only wanted to meet the lady of the house. Then everyone turns and looks at me and then I wake up.

Dream Log for the night of December 25, 2004 This was more of a daydream than an actual dream because I had it right before I got into bed. In my dream, I was in Mrs. Tjemslands Art Room at NG and I was telling my group of friends (who were with me in the room) how I had this crazy dream the night before. My dream self was sitting on the table right next to the door and I remember going back and forth between being a participant in the dream and an observer of myself. Anyway, I started telling my friends my dream and I remember asking any of them if they owned a silver/white Toyota Four Runner with the license plate of 5HNK190 (In reality that is one of my good friends license plate for his car.) All of a sudden, I was standing outside where my friend parks his car and I was staring at the back of the Four Runner. I remember seeing the middle numbers of the license plate blur and repeatedly fade in and out. The 5 and the 0 remained in place. Then I woke up and went to bed.

Dream Log for the night of December 24, 2004 This was a strange dream and I know that it happened in two different segments but I cant really remember the second segment. I only remember feeling anxious and nervous in the second segment of the dream. Anyway, the dream took place in my shower and I was standing (NOT NAKED!!!!) in the tub with the guy that I like. He was wearing a black jacket, which was over a green ATHLETICS shirt, blue jeans and converse. I was wearing a green fluffy towel. He had his arms around me and we were both facing in the direction of the shower-head. It was odd because I remember looking over his right shoulder and noticing that my green shower curtain is missing. Then my dream-self and he started kissing and I was rudely woken up by my dad.

Dream Log for the night of December 23, 2004 (Happy Birthday to me!) This dream was really short and the only reason why I remember it was because it happened right before I woke up. In this dream, my dream-self was practicing my signature because I apparently wanted to change it. (see below)

All of a sudden, I am an observer of my dream-self and we were both standing in the checkout stand (nearest the door) of the Longs right next to Mervyns in Pleasant Hill/Concord. I (observer-self) am standing behind and to the right of my dream-self, who appears to be wearing a light brown (tan) trench coat. My dream-self is signing a check. Then the scenery changes and I find myself at the Concord DMV, sitting in my car with a DMV employee. This time I was the participant and it looked like I had just finished with my drivers test. The DMV employee was male, pudgy, brown hair and wore thick glasses. He appeared to be reviewing his notes about my driving as well as checking out my permit. The camera view changed then and I got a nice close-up shot of the edge of a piece of paper on a clipboard in the DMV employees hand. Some numbers were written on it: 05972 I never got a chance to see if I had passed or failed because the scenery changed again and myself and my car found ourselves in the middle of the Nevada desert. We had been pulled over by a CHP officer (yes, CHP not NHP.) There was someone sitting in my passenger seat but I had no idea who it was. The cop leaned in through my open window but I was sitting far back and the part of the seat belt that attaches to the side of the car was blocking part of his face. He wore the uniform of the CHP officer, a helmet, extremely tinted bomber sunglasses and dark brown leather gloves. It was kind of scary because the officer looked exactly like my dad when he was in his twenties. I have no idea if the officer drove a squad car or a motorcycle because my dad woke me up by tapping my face.

Dream Log for the night of December 19, 2004 I had multiple dreams last night and all three were vivid and somewhat graphic. The first dream started when I first fell asleep and I remember, as I was falling asleep, feeling nauseous and restless. The dream took place in Mrs. Tjemslands Art Room at NG and I was standing off to one side and observing myself having a conversation with my friends Allen, Neil, Alex and Kiona. (I dont remember what we were talking about.) All of a sudden, Andrew Byrns walked into the room and over to where I sat on one of the tables. He and I began speaking rapid-fire Russian and then he walked out of the room. It gets really fuzzy and I suddenly find my observer-self in my own body! I look over my left shoulder and see Alex, Neil and Allen standing closely behind me (I have no idea where Kiona was.) At the moment, the scenery shifted so that instead of being by the glass doors, all 4 of us found ourselves in another corner of the classroom. I was straddling Allens lap and he was sitting in a chair with his arms tightly wrapped around my waist. Neil was off to my right and Alex was a few feet away, drawing in his sketchbook. Right then, I got butterflies in my stomach and the word girlfriend popped into my head and didnt go away. After that, Im still sitting on his lap and hes kissing my cheek when his friend Justin walks out of Mrs. Ts office and says to him: Hey man, I need you to do me a favor. Allen responds back to him: Im busy with my girlfriend. Go away! It got incredibly fuzzy right then and thats when my second/third dream starts. My second/third dream is connected because when one ended, another one began but when that dream ended, the original dream started all over again. So, the second dream started with finding myself on the Castle Rock Soccer Fields (right next to the NG football stadium). The NG womens JV soccer team was there and it looked to me as if they were practicing. It must have been late in the day because the sun was setting (this time I was a participant.) Coach June Kirske, Paige, Nelle, Kelly, Julie, Julia and Kate were the only members of the team that were on the soccer fields with me. The goal was set up so that whoever was Keeper had their back to the sun. In the blink of an eye, I was in the goal, deflecting shots from the other girls. My crutches were gone and I was hobbling on one foot. I managed to catch a few of the soccer balls but the majority of them went into the net. I managed to hop over to the left goal post and hang on. Suddenly, a snap of thunder sounded in the air and everyone except me and the goal disappeared. A sky-blue inflatable obstacle course blew up all around me, locking both myself and the goal inside the center of it. It had no artificial floor and no visible means of escape but a bright light was filling the room. I remember being absolutely terrified and calling out to the girls to come and help me get out. For a

while, no one responded until Paige stuck her hands in via a small gap in the side of the obstacle course and helped me out. Then everything went black. This is the start of the third dream. When I woke up, I was lying in a massive bed with the sheets tangled all around my body. I had a bit of a struggle trying to get out of them but I did and realized that I was naked. I looked over my right shoulder and saw a sleeping male body (waist down was covered but he had no shirt on.) next to me. I thought to myself Oh, my God. Did I just sleep with this person? over and over again and it really scared me because I felt like I had just committed that act with him. It gets blurry right there, but I find myself straddling the guy (he was awake now) and suffice to say that a series of x-rated pictures flash through my head. I was a little bit afraid and really surprised because we started a conversation while we were engaging in the sexual act. Somehow via someway, the conversation turned towards whom we were going to murder at NG and I dont remember whom it was. We argued over whether bombs or machine guns were better weapons to kill with. Then I woke up to the sound of my phone ringing. I felt ashamed, embarrassed, and thoroughly violated even though my dream-self thoroughly enjoyed it.

Dream Log for the night of December 18, 2004 The only part of the dream that I can really remember was the part right before I woke up. In this dream, I bounced back and forth between observer and participant. The dream started out at some sort of pool party and I recognized a lot of the students there because they were almost all seniors. This is the part where I am observing myself. I saw myself wearing a black bikini and I was sitting on towels laid out beneath a giant palm tree. My friends Kittie, Dinah and Lola were sitting with me. The pool was off to my left, a giant slide on the side next to the pool and the half of the pool water that I could see was not clear. (see below)

Out of the blue, my observer self snaps back into my body and I see my friend Allen and his friends (some of whom I know) make their way towards myself and my friends. Allens group stops about three feet away from our towels but Allen keeps on walking until hes behind me. Then he sits down and wraps his arms around my waist and pulls me against him. He proceeds to give me a massage and rubs suntan lotion into my back as he massages. I remember that it was really hot in the dream and everyone was sweating but hardly anybody was in the pool. It gets really fuzzy and as I look over my right shoulder, a teacher appears next to me. We start talking about bugs of all things and its at that moment when Allen leans up next to me and tells me that there is a flea in my hair. He stands up abruptly and tells me that he has to go because his mother doesnt like fleas. He walked over to where his friends were but turns back around and gives me a sweet smile. Then the scenery changes and all of us find ourselves in the Lunch area of Waterworld. Two characters from CHARMED are there and I start helping them solve what Demon killed what human and so on. Then everything went black.

DAYS THAT I DO NOT REMEMBER MY DREAMS DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER DECEMBER 17, 20, 21, 22, 31, 2004 2004 2004 2004 2004

JANUARY 4, 2005 JANUARY 9, 2005 JANUARY 15, 2005

Dream Log for the nights of January 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 16, 2005 I dont know if I should write this down for every single one of these nights on a separate sheet of paper for each but they were all dreams about HIGHLANDER again. Pretty much the same characters except this time, instead of Duncan, Tessa and Richie being in Room 72 at NG, my dream-self, Duncan, Tessa and Richie were all in Paris, France. Connor (I presume) was off head-hunting. The dream was pretty much a repeat of what happened in the last HIGHLANDER dream(s). Duncan protected Tessa and Richie from whatever Immortal was coming and a new character was introduced. Darius was a priest in the church in Paris. In a couple of the dreams, I was actually chasing my prey and going head-hunting but in the very last dream, I adopted the manner of the Immortal Grace Chandel, whos a healer. She doesnt fight and only wishes to be left alone so she can help those in need. I remember saying to Duncan that he shouldnt kill and take the head of whoevers stalking me because I dont want their death to be on my conscious. (I spoke to him about this in Room 72, not Paris.) The dream had a black hole in the middle of it and it ended with Duncan taking the guys head and receiving the Quickening.

Written Report I have always believed that I have bizarre dreams and the majority of the time (when I can actually remember them!) I have proved that theory correct. The main themes in all of my dreams are DEATH, REBIRTH and LIFE in general and how bitter-sweet it really is. Romance is also a big part of my dreams because apparently my brain likes to unwind with showing me clips from romance novels that I have read in the past. This dream log featured a lot of HIGHLANDER because I got season one on DVD for Christmas and I was watching it over winter break as well as when I didnt have homework to do when break was over. The majority of the people featured in my dreams were people that I either know of or are good friends of mine. Characters like the HIGHLANDER people and from books also made cameo appearances. The funny thing is, almost all of my dreams have taken place in or around Room 72 at NG. The majority of my dreams are also about death and usually I am the one who dies but I come back to life about five minutes later, like the Immortals on HIGHLANDER. (Im obsessed with the show, cant you tell?) I also noticed that regardless of whether I was on break or back at school, my dreams took place at NG.

I learned that I have a very active imagination, one that doesnt diminish even when Im sleeping and that I am very school oriented (at least I am subconsciously) because people who I see on a day to day basis at NG are generally in my dreams. I also dream about falling off the roof of NG a lot.

Dream Analysis My most vivid dream was the HIGHLANDER dream that I had for multiple nights in a row (the first one, not the second one.) It actually felt like I was there in the classroom talking to these characters from the story and experiencing what their lives were like as Immortals. This dream was definitely about Death because Duncan, myself and Connor all had ancient swords/katanas in our possession to defend our lives with against other Immortals. These weapons could represent our will to fight and to win because we need the weapon in order to survive with our head still attached to our neck. Another symbol was the classroom in which the dream was being played out in. I feel the most comfortable in Room 72 and I believe that is why my brain and subconscious chose to set the dream in that room. Also, all of my good friends are in that room with me during third period in a normal day. I dont really remember what happened to me during the day that I dreamed this particular dream but I probably watched a few episodes of the HIGHLANDER series and thats probably why my brain decided to dream about it. (It was probably the most recent thing that I had done before going to sleep.)