Temple in Thailand (night of 28/11/2014)

I am with my friend James at a temple in Thailand. There is a ritual at the temple: light a stick of incense then place the lighted incense in a 'box' for the god you wish to contact / appease/ give thanks to. The boxes are all placed vertically taking up the whole side of a wall - rather like a display case. I wish to light a stick for a 'god of prosperity', but there is nothing in his box - no icon, no picture, just a few scraps of rubbish.

Work Stress (morning of 25/11/2014)

At work.
I am sat at my desk in room 3. I have to leave for some reason, and when I return one of the new managers is angry with me because of the state of my desk. She is very patronizing and I have to remind her that I have been working there for a year. This makes no difference to her attitude. She rants about the cleaners, and I feel I am being treated as a new member of staff.
I run into another of the new managers from work. He is speaking to me about a new campaign that I will be put on, even though I do not want to go on a new campaign and am happier where I am. He says that with '6 years of experience' I will be good for the campaign. 6 years? I have only been working in this company a year! I am puzzled, but then realize that he is referring to my years working in various call centres. It soon become apparent that I know this man from somewhere - or rather that he knows me. I do not recognize him. his features then change from that of a white man into a black man with a trilby hat.
I have to get to a band rehearsal / gig. There will be a lot of people in this band - ten of us are to be onstage, which someone points out will be 'total chaos'. We will be playing some kind of heavy doom metal. I have bought my guitar along with me - my old guitar that I got for my Christmas of 1992. I am unhappy with work, and am unsure where we are to rehearse. We have a room at work to rehearse in but I am not sure where - there is a notice on a board. Room 4 or 5? Everyone else is there. Andy comes to look for me, but because I am in a bad mood I ignore him and pretend I have not seen him. Cutting off my nose to spite my face. Now I am in a room with Nat and Karen - possibly their flat. I start whinging about something - perhaps what has happened at work, perhaps that I do not know where the rehearsal is, perhaps I am just being self pitying - the last seems extremely likely. Nat says she is sick of me complaining and then leaves the room.
I am trying to find my boots,
If I find my boots I will be able to get to the rehearsal. I am reaching under Nat and Karen's sofa for the boots. I find one but not the other. Then I find another boot but not of the same pair. They are both covered in mud. This is ridiculous. The rehearsal, by the time I get there will be all but over! Not only will I have had a shit day at work, and made people angry because I have been whinging, I also will not be part of a heavy doom band any more!
I go to put on some deodorant. Karen asks of I can go into the other room to do it. I do so. The other room had the feel of a much not used room in a middle-class house, all neat and tidy. There are ornaments on the windowsill.
I wake from this dream - about an hour ago as I write - feeling unhappy and angry!

Is Stephanie Gay? (night of 24/11/2014)

I am spending a lot of time with Stephanie. We may well be sharing a flat. I cannot work out if she is gay or not. I am convinced she is gay, yet she seems to act around me if she is attracted to me. We curl up naked in bed together, yet I am still unsure. I go to videos of her on Youtube, where she is with her housemate - an older man in a beard. They seem very tactile with each other. They say that they will try to act 'more like a couple'. Are they then seeing each other? Is he still living in the flat in a room I have not yet seen? Are they only trying to 'act like a couple' because she wants to seem straight, and not as gay as she obviously is?

Night Insect (night of 08/11/2014)

I am lying on my mattress. It is night, I open my eyes, and see on the wall a few inches away from me, a strange insect a couple of inches long. This unnerves me, I watch it crawl into a crack in the wall, and hope that I never see it again.

The Curse (night of 07/11/2014)

I am with Vicky whom I used to go to college with twenty years ago. We are outside and in an alcove in an embankment, I find a book called 'Undead Mania' which has a picture on the front of the monster off of 'Scottish Ghost Stories' - the first ghost book I had when I was a kid.
Something about babies and artwork.
With someone else. They give me a book. Badly illegible writing. It is a list of of facts about me - at least this I can work out. There is a lot of history about me here. I give the book back, disturbed, and say that it is very easy to intimidate me as I am always so anxious anyway. It turns out that the book is curse placed on me.
I am furious with a genuine outrage.

A Bend in the River (morning of 5/11/2014)

A bend in the river. There is something very familiar about the river - I have been here before. I am with other people. White drizzly day, It has been raining recently. Passing by manhole covers in the river - now covered intermittently by the waters. Saying to whoever I am with that that beneath those covers are entrances to subterranean chambers the size of a local park (I think I said St Annes Well Park).

Pub Toilet and Mugger (Night of 4(?)/11/2014

A city street with people. It is night, A group of us. A black man begins talking to us. He takes out a large instrument which ends in a kind of blade. He intends to mug us with it. No-one takes his threat very seriously. Going in and out of the pub to use the toilet. I become suddenly afraid that I will be attacked - possibly by the black man with a strange instrument that ends in an inneffectual looking blade.

A Big Bang Haunting (night of ?/10/2014)

I am with Raj and Howard, characters from the TV show Big Bang Theory, in my flat. The flat is dark and atmospheric. We decide to hold a seance / play with a ouija board. The atmosphere intensifies. I go to the toilet, knowing this to be an error. I turn and see a huge shadow ascend the stairs. It is that of Paul (a waking-life friend who is schizophrenic). The Paul-shadow enters the living room. Raj and Howard are terrified.

Radioactive Flowers (night of ?/10/2014)

Walking down Cromwell Road near Andy's old flat. Suddenly noticing a new building set far back from the road and surrounded by trees. I look at the windows wondering which one I would like to look out of. Wishing the trees were slightly more clustered. The house - I am sure - was not there previously. Discussing (with Andy?) the possibility that the house may be a haunting. Roses growing over the walls that surround the house. The Andy character says that 'the roses will take a long time to grow from scratch' as they have been affected by the radiation - as has the house, and ultimately the haunting itself.