26 April 1997

#1

Erotic but frustrating dream in which J and I were attending a family reunion on my father's side. All the devoutly Mormon relatives were there. Because of the huge numbers of people involved, it was being held in a hotel convention center. At the same place and time, there was a secret convention of sex industry entertainers being held. It wasn't advertised but J and I could tell. Fortunately, none of my relatives could. So these two different women-- one a Penthouse Pet, the other a porn film star-- started hitting on J and I at various times. Every time we turned around one or the other of them was catching one or both of us in a compromising situation, but it always got interrupted by the family reunion events and so nothing serious ever happened. There was skinny-dipping in the pool at night, the double footjob under the table at dinner, lounging around the hotel room in skimpy silk until my grandmother calls the room, etc. As I said, erotic but frustrating.

#2

Traveling around the countryside of some foreign land (planet?) on some kind of dangerous expedition. A lot of the countryside looked like Mendocino, except that it was peppered with old wood and stone construction that more resembled the ruins in various parts of Ireland. At one point, my companion and I (and I unfortunately cannot recall who I was traveling with) were investigating a grain silo-like building that had a really nasty whirling blade trap installed in it and left active for centuries. We evaded the trap and headed to the top of the tower. At the top, there was some kind of sentry robot with a camera. I disabled the robot and threw the camera down the silo, smashing it. Beyond the robot was a single window with the most beautiful view I've ever seen in my life-- one of the ancient, ruined castles sat on a distant hill, surrounded by beautiful and exotic vegetation. There was no way to see the castle in its hidden valley except from this one window in this one deadly tower. "I wish I had a camera," I lamented to my companion. "Wasn't that a camera you just smashed at the bottom of the stairs?" they responded.