I am Shane Becker

  3. 3 More Weird Dreams

    1. In the first dream I was a part of a kind of horse gang thing. But we were cowboys, per se. The arrangement we had with the horses was rocky at best. They were the very least amount of domesticated to be ridden. I was kind of a wing nut outsider / new comer that still had to prove myself. So I was always using these new horses that were crazy and awesome, but very reckless and dangerous. But I figured out how to convince this one horse that would run with us, but not let anyone ride it. I raced it on another horse toward this place. While we were passing it and it was catching up to us, it was biting at my arm. (Totally weird). Just when it got a good hold on my arm and was ready to pull me off or eat me or something, we arrived at our destination: an apple orchard. It was like horse heaven. After that, we were total pals.
    2. I just launched some website. I made one announcement on some other site. Then I sat there watching analytics rack up hits, like in that old UPS commercial. That was all.
    3. It was in the future. A friend of mine worked as an intern or assistant for this up and up business man. Think Tony Stark, but not as smart / handsome / awesome. She was upset at her boss because of something (I don't remember what). At the same time, boss man was in negotiations with some rival about some new deal. My friend kept sabotaging things behind the scenes making it look like the rivals were doing it to each other. It turned into a full on company vs company battle... with spaceships shooting at each other and everything. The weird part of it was that boss man set up a temporary infirmary at his high rise office building. He was completely welcoming and hospitable to the wounded, regardless of which side they came from. Like this was some old gladiator way of settling business disputes. Just send the armada off to war, the winner gets to decide the business terms in the new contract. My friend got her revenge or whatever, because her boss went totally bat shit crazy from the whole thing.
    I'll try to chronicle my weird dreams if I can remember them when I wake up.

  4. Two Weird Waking Dreams

    This morning I woke up around 9:00 AM, fed my dog Civ, realized I was still tired and went back to sleep. But when I first awoke, my initial thought was
    Today is Valentine's Day. I'm gonna watch the Peepcode Valentine's Day screencast.
    Then I immediately thought after that
    Oh wait. Valentine's Day was a month ago. And there isn't a Peepcode Valentine's Day screencast. Weird.
    Later, around 1:00 PM I woke up for real. But I had just finished another weird dream. In my dream, I was back in junior / senior year of high school. I was with a group of honour students that I shared some classes with. We were all in these dorm rooms in Washington, DC and were a part of some special group of kids that got to take some test that was more important than the SAT/ACT. Very exclusive. We took part of the test during the day, then studied in the evening / night. BUT, there were very strict rules about everything, even how much and for how long one could study. So I'm talking to one kid late one night, then another one exclaims "Oh shit! I totally lost track of time and have been reading [some study book] until 3:00 AM. I didn't even realize." She was completely frantic. Then all the other busy bee competitive kids start freaking out and getting jealous. Some just pulled out their books and started studying more. Some were calling for telling on her to the teachers. Then walks out one of the students from his room into the common room where all the ruckus is happening. He says with stoic calm, "Who cares if she read for a few more hours? I can only study when I'm stoned." Jaws hit the floor. People throw papers in the air and start squawking about the room. Then the dreams fades to white. Then I wake up. There was another part of the dream, it was before the previous part, I think. I was exploring the building with one of the girls that was in our group, Abbie Meyer. In real life, I had a little bit of a crush on Abbie Meyer. And in real life, I never really made my move with her. But in this dream, it was clear that she wanted me to make a move. I was not the terrifed version of me that I actually was in high school. In my dream, I was like I am now, a bit more confident. So anyhow, we were exploring the basement of this building. While waiting for an elevator back up, we finally kissed. In real life, that never even came close to happening. Abbie gets filed under "ones that got away". Weird.