(I realize these are hardly ever interesting for anyone except the dreamer. I'm not exactly sure why I'm jotting them down here instead of a proper dream journal.)

* Whelk restaurant. A whole bunch of estranged friends and I went to a seafood restaurant that only served whelks. They were about thirty times bigger than real whelks, big rubbery white things. It was very Eraserhead "manmade chicken" in there. At some point I went outside to meet up with my father (who died in 1986, and never showed up in the dream either), and nobody would let me back into the restaurant.

* I found myself wandering lost around a college dorm. This happens a lot in my dreams. I find myself trapped inside someone else's house, embarrassed and afraid I'll have to explain what I'm doing there, and the building just sprawls on and on into the next person's dwelling, with no outside to be seen. I remember seeing a 20' wide TV screen and a bunch of happy social groups sitting in front of them, and being really envious that my dorms at Case Western weren't remotely this nice. There was a lot of hardwood, too. >_<

* They had started G5 of My Little Pony. In this version, all the dragons in the world had been brainwashed and enslaved by the same evil wizard. I found this hot but irksome.