I can only remember fragments of my dream, but the house
we were in was really in an area bearing a remarkable resemblance
to the old Black Point Faire site. while I was at a neighbours
discussing pets and swimming, our couch migrated outside becuase
my housemates were too tired of it and wanted room for a new one.

I fussed over how weather would wreck it and we decided fuck it
and all went to catalina.

okay maybe that's more coherence than I thought I remembered but
it wass still only a tiny part

I dreamt that it was Tuesday 27 August. and I realized, wow, I had't
yet bought my ticket for burning man. I convinced Karine that she
should go but she didn't have any gear/clothes for the desert.

we ended up in Southern California driving back and forth between
these clothing/supply stores. one was in the desert but you had to go
west from where we were to get there. I spent a lot of time in the dream
looking with Karine at baby-blue and pink fleece pullovers, euw.
we were piling the the purchases into this little golf-cart that we
were driving back and forth - a considerable distance.

I dreamt that my mom was still alive - and had gone an a date
from a personal ad. for some reason this inspired her to give
wonderland accounts to both the date [who got an account name of
Pokemon] and to James [who also got a capital-letter account].
both men used the accounts to plug in these odd game ports that
looked like those tear-drop-shaped camping/raver emergency lights
and shoot lazer-tag-like guns out the window at the alley behind.

I was upset at this and made them unplug the lazer tag guns.

I dreamed I lived in a big house - you had to walk up a wide grassy
walkway, with stone stairs and grassy landings, to get to it.
Louis lived in one of the houses along the walkway. He had a housemate,
who was sort of junior/new to the whole geek thing.

I had a lot to do and I couldn't sleep. it was 4 in the morning;
I decided I would get up and go to this local but isolated watering
hole/pond/swimming place, becuase it would be secluded and peaceful
and I could study there for a class I was taking.

I went outside and it was blazing sunlight. the sun was low but not
like early or late but more like this was at a high latitude. I had
my book and a towel and was wearing a bathing suit and a robe. I walked
down the walkway towards where I was going; and a bit past Louis' house
I ran into him and Heidi on one of the landings. they were also in
swimwear and were returning from this swimming place where I was going;
they were about to go in and get some sleep. I told them where I was
going and why and Louis told me, "everyone was there." I found this
disappointing as I was hoping for solitude and study - I was behind after
all.

Heidi went on and Louis and I hung out and talked. after a while we began
to attract these butterflies that looked like small monarchs; they kept
landing on us. they covered my soda can, which was blue, and some got
stuck inside under like a bubble of soda pop. Louis showed me a trick
that made them gather in the air, from one's hands, in a sheeted pattern.
this also got them out of the soda can so they didn't die.