I dreamed that I was a worker, maybe an engineer, or the equivalent of a civil engineer, in an orbital facility. the faility was round, and produced something unimportant to the dream-plot, other than the point that it was high-tech and profitable.

there was a problem with the habitat, and since I was involved with putting it together, I was trying to help troubleshoot. I was working with Samuel and Barry (two engineers at my work in Reality) on solving some integrity problem. I think they were on the ground although they came up to inspect the problem.

the facility was sort of spherical, with red metal like the golden gate bridge. lots of struts and supports etc etc like you would expect. in one section there was room for an auditorium. I am not sure if it was intended to be recreational or more to provide a space for everyone to gather and hear announcements or such like. anyhow Barry had this bright idea of basically plugging the hole with a small missile. before Samuel or I could stop him he has somehow gotten a missile punched through the hull, nose cone outward, through the auditorium part. I am not clear on how he got it to be outward. the nose cone stopped about a foot in from the outer shell of the hull.

I was in a bookstore of sorts. it was sectioned off and has reading rooms
with pale veneered benches and standalone closets. there were either
whiteboards or chalkboards near or around the benches. the closets opened
up and they had shallow drawers in the lower part. there were beige
carepets and not many people.

I was there with three other people. we were looking at one of the closets.
a blind man came through. he had this funky device that was like a cane
except it was telescoping to about 20 feet. it had two handles and at the
end that telescoped a flexible disk. he used it to scope out the entire
layout of the room in short order. the cane thing was noisy and annoying.
he moved around the room quickly and had many near misses with the benches
and whiteboards. and us. finally we started talking to him. he had only
recently gone blind and was looking for a closet space.

we looked in the closet space and although it appeared empty examining the
drawers showed it to be in use. a couple other closet spaces were the same.
not knowing what to do, we left.

I dreamed that I was on a waterfront, on the ocean, a blue blue pacific ocean, the blue of cold water. the buildings went right up to the water and although it looked like open sea beyond there were no waves to mention. the buildings were at cockeyed angles, all concrete, New Brutalism architecture, separated by all-concrete spaces that went right up to the water, and were about 10-12' above the water. there were also these sort of raised concrete thingies with seats on them. the whole area was relatively devoid of people.

I sat in the sun on one of the benches, sort of facing so that a direct line to the water was roughly two o'clock from straight ahead of me, and a building was at 11 o'clock. I turned to my right and next to me was Jenn. she had gained some weight and didn't seem to be generally happy. I started talking to her and told her that position she had been unable to get at my work, Lopez got. that's a hard thing to tell someone. but she didn't mind terribly.

the CEO of my company came out of the building, and we started talking. I introduced him to Jenn, but while I told him who she was etc, I only introduced him as Enrique, and didn't bother telling her he was my CEO. Jenn wandered off somewhere up the waterfront.

I was dreaming that we were in some caravan or other temporary tent environment, but not like burning man, rather something a bit more permament and commerce-related. Karine and I were there, and we ran into Carrie. she was looking for her dogs? or maybe she was looking for people to adopt these other dogs.

anyhow Karine and I made our way to a merchant or someone on the other end of the encampment and he had two dogs he was tring to get rid of. they were young, as in not-filled-out; one was blond/beige and one was black. they each stood with their shoulders at my own shoulder height.

holy cow, that's a big dog.

so when the alarm went off at 7am, the dream was very clear. I started envisioning how I would type it up. then when the snooze went off, I lost a piece of it. then the puppy fussed, and I lost more. finally, by the time I was fully awake, several 'snoozes' later, I could only remember the last image of the dream.

in my dream it was fully dark, with a line of red at the horizon. you know, like if the sun is setting with a stormy sky? there is a line of light near the horizon that is jagged and bulges where the sun is. now run that image through an Adobe posterize filter, so the blacks get really black and the number of bits per colour is decreased. I ended up with a line of really jaggedy red. when I looked closer, it started to spin around the sun, counter clockwise.

I wish I could remember what led up to that, but by itself it's still a pretty cool memory.

this morning I dreamed that I was going to the dentist to have my teeth cleaned. but the tooth two in front of my upper right first molar had gone very bad. I could look in the mirror and pull my lip back with my finger and see it was black and rotten. I could push it with my tongue and the crown would separate from the root.

I went to the dentist and managed to get 15 minutes of his time (as opposed to the hygenist's) and he looked at it. he said it was no problem to fix in 15 minutes. I was worried he would break it off and then do a root canal, but he did something and the crown and root were reattached, no problem. then I went to get my teeth cleaned.

maybe I should make a teeth cleaning appointment sometime soon. hmmm.