I slept after I came back from my classes today. I had slept through my classes mostly, too, so I sort of wished I had just stayed in my room.

The first dream I remember having: I was playing a beta of this game that was supposed to be a clone of the good old Sonic games. It felt very much like them, but it was very buggy. I had the feeling that this guy had taken a lot of stuff out of the ROMs, including some of the executable code. I thought the level I was in was based on the labyrinth zone, though now that I'm awake I realize it wasn't much like it except that it was a bit mazy. The level I was in was dark, like it was inside, but the walls and floors were grassy. I kept fallind down into this little dead end when I started and I'd have to get out by walking on some purple (!) spring pads.

I woke up and I was back in Madison. I was talking to Fizz on my front porch about the game that I had had a dream of (though, since it had been so clear, I wasn't sure I had dreamed it). Finally I woke up in my dorm room bed (it was probably about noon, by now) and realized that that had been a dream, too. I thought about the dream for a while to make sure I'd remember it later when I would write it down, and fell back to sleep, shortly.

In the second dream, my family was going to Great America. Or something. The place we were going was actually one county north of us. There were a couple of different ways we could go - we could go around east, or west. We were going the west way. When we were approaching the county border I spotted a couple of tall, black tornados forming to the west. We were going to turn west on the freeway that we were approaching, but because of the tornados we decided we'd turn right and follow that highway to the eastern route. So we did that.

We stopped for the night at some house that I guess maybe we were renting. The wind was blowing east, and we thought the tornados might be coming. Mom and Dad told me to take Heather downstairs if we were getting tornadoed (this house we were in was just like our house, except it was in a different place - looking out the back window you see a big field, then maybe a road and a forest, rather than out back yard). Later, I could see tornados forming to the south, but the wind was still blowing east so I figured they'd just blow past us and we were safe.

I woke up in the middle of the night hearing this terribly loud groaning noise. I went upstairs to see that there was a tornado right out behind our house. So I grabbed Heather and took her downstairs. But it left, and nothing was damaged.

The next day, still going east on some little country roads leading the the eastern route, we stopped by Boo's house. Boo from 8th grade lived there, and so did Boo Radley. We liked Boo Radley, but we didn't like Boo from 8th grade. They were all having a picnic in te back yard, and I was back there with Fizz. We were trying not to let crappy Boo see us, byt we wanted cool Boo to come with us. So we were sort of hiding behind some people at an adjacent picnic table, trying to wave him over.

We drove north over the hill...

Then everything was different. I was walking around, and there were these people having some sort of party. Maybe there was food, and that's why I stayed there. I was telling people about the video game I was working on. I think there was some weird stuff going on at that party. I don't remember what it was, though, or how I was involved. Eventually I walked off along some other road. Maybe there was another party over there. But then I was walking back home. Some little girl saw me as I was walking along the sidewalk on this diagonal road and thought I was some kind of dangerous person so ran in and told her mommy. But her mom came out and saw me and she remembered me from the party and said to her kid that I was cool.

In the last dream there was stuff about drivin down Hammersley and looking at all the colored leaves on the trees. I got home and I think I was going to have to go somewhere. Shanie was going to go to this stupid show. There were cookies and Jello. Mom and I were joking about eating strawberry cookies with lime Jello. I might have said "ugh", because Andy says he heard me say that. I woke up at about 15:30. It is now 16:48. I was reading about Longhorn for a while, there.