I went to a party with some of my coworkers.  As I was about to sit down, I noticed some sort of purple goo on the cushion of the chair, so I took a different seat.  At first I thought someone had spilled raspberry jam or the like, but someone else at the table explained [...]

A friend and I went to the airport.  I had a ticket to fly to another city, but had decided not to use it.  I wanted to get the frequent flier miles without flying, so I tried to check in without boarding the aircraft.  I was told that the flight was overbooked and that I [...]

The dream was set in the present day, but my maternal grandparents were still alive.  I was in a library in Kansas City researching the business my great-grandfather and his brothers ran, Benson Manufacturing Company (unrelated to the current companies of that name).  As I was digging into newspaper archives and other sources, I discovered [...]

In a tragic accident, my baby sister was shot.  Rather than taking her to the hospital, I was just supposed to take a tissue sample.  I went outside, and found my car was being towed away.  I finally got to the hospital, but it was on fire.  Part of the hospital was still open, but [...]

Last night I dreamt that I lived in a place where the government was gradually taking away many of the people’s freedoms, in the supposed interest of protecting them. It started with relatively minor things, like losing the right to travel without showing papers, the right to privacy (for instance, in telephone conversations), and [...]

I was flying from San Jose to Denver. The plane looked like an ordinary 737. But after we were airborne, and the pilot turned off the seatbelt sign, the plane expanded quite a bit. There were multiple restaurants, a library, a garden with a fountain, and all kinds of neat stuff.
However, the [...]

My wife, son, and I were going on vacation, driving to an island just off the coast. The freeway went over a bridge, through one island, and over another bridge to our destination. (Similar to taking the Bay Bridge through Yerba Buena Island in the San Francisco Bay.)
However, once we drove into the [...]

I was visiting Cape Canaveral for the first launch of a new manned Gemini mission, as the guest of a friend who worked for NASA.  There was a failure seconds after liftoff, with an abrupt drop in rocket thrust, and the spacecraft crashed into the launch facility.  While the resulting fires were being extinguished and [...]

This morning I woke from a nightmare in which I was unable to find my Yukon after shopping at Fry’s Electronics.  At first I thought I just misremembered where I’d parked, but after a friend and I searched the entire parking lot and the surrounding area, I concluded that it was stolen.  Somehow I managed [...]

A friend was visiting from out of town, and she was bringing some of her pets.  She got bumped to a later flight, but one of the pets, a snake, was put on the earlier flight.  I went to the airport to pick it up.
The snake was just lying on the floor.  I picked it [...]