All for Nothing!

In a dream 2 years ago, I was at a newsstand in an airport, looking through magazines. I came across a magazine named "All for Nothing" with a lot of negative messages on the front like "I Worked My Ass Off for Nothing!" At first, I thought it was a sarcastic magazine, but as I leafed through it, it was really full of little articles by angry or depressed people complaining how terrible their lives are (like a twist on "Penthouse Letters" without the steamy sex parts). Who would publish such a mag and who would read such a thing? :-)

Being Ill-Prepared for Quizzes

It seems that dreams about showing up for a final exam that you haven't studied for are fairly common, and I certainly have my share of them. In one dream, I somehow got sidetracked and totally spaced out about the class. Only when I remembered to get back to the class, it was time for a test, and of course, I was totally lost. In another dream, during a test (after being away from college for many years and then somehow returning to a class I haven't been to for years), I snapped at the teaching assistant, "Excuse me, I was having a life. So I didn't have time to study for this, sue me!"

Naked Gymnast (Don't Worry -- not NSFW)

In one dream, I had waken up in my bedroom to discover that a set of parallel bars (as in men's gymnastics) had been set up right in my bedroom. A blonde fairy in a sky blue leotard sat on the top of my dresser.

"Put your hands together for Kyle," she announced, gesturing dramatically at the bars. A stark naked man swung his way on the bars. Gymnastics do not make for "good naked" (remember that Seinfeld episode?) even if the man was in perfect shape. Unfortunately, this particular man was middle-aged and sporting a paunch which made it worse, and it freaked me out that I actually woke from the dream. To this day, I'm still trying to unsee that dream. :-)

Lovesick Scientist

In this dream, I was a lab assistant to a scientist who bears a rather uncanny resemblance to Jorah Mormont on the show Game of Thrones. One day he summoned me to his office/lab which was a large room with a whiteboard full of scribbles spanning the whole width of a wall. 

Chasing Rainbows

The other night, I have a rather gay dream -- not gay as in the LGBT sense but gay in the "gay as a unicorn" sense.

Computers, Throw Pillows and Art Thieves

Here are a couple of weird dreams involving computers.

In the first dream, I discovered that my computer had a program with a very odd purpose -- it seems that it specializes in updating....throw pillows. Yep, these pillow-shaped things on your living room furniture. One day, the computer insisted that my throw pillows were out of date, and after thinking, "Oh, all right, why not?" I ran the update program. As a result, all my throw pillows got changed. My dream didn't last long enough for me to find if there were update programs for other things like clothing and dishes. :-)

Park Stroll Goes Awry

A friend and I were in a park, strolling alongside a creek somewhere near Denver when we spotted a railroad track of sorts running zigzag across the slope on the other side of the creek. Eventually, we encountered a small train lugging an open-air car of seats, like the kind you see in amusement parks. The train was empty except for a man driving it, who called out to us, "Hey, would you like a ride? There's a snack shop that I run at the end of the way."

Lemon Drop Ride

Okay, here's the dream that inspired this blog's name. A friend and I were driving through some New England-style countryside when we happened upon an amusement park. I don't know what its name was, and most likely, it doesn't exist in real life like many places in my dreams. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was called Candyland as many buildings and rides there had a candy theme. For example, the Tilt-a-Whirl ride was called Jelly Beans, and each car was done in a different bright pastel color instead of the usual red.