Dream Diary - Special Entry, "The Shared Drawer"

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Dream Diary     Want to read this in a different language ? Change the TO field to your own country and click the TRANSLATE button after going HERE. Press CTRL = (equals) to increase the page size and CTRL - (minus) to decrease the page size THE DREAM DIARY © April 2014 Written by David Wicker Please do not reprint without permission This will be my new main Tuesday writing and I will add a new listing of 10 of my dreams every week as long as I can remember or am reminded to do so. Occasionally there will be individual dreams that cover the week, like this one. [ CHOOSE A DIFFERENT SET ] * * * This entry is Rated: EVERYONE THE SHARED DRAWER I had this dream that I was at Dad's house, but the house was a little different than normal. For one, the back bedroom was all locked up and there was no way to get to it. The closest I could find was a secret passage in the refrigerator. But Dad was there and the freezer part opened and out stepped this immensely tall security guard going by the name of, "Vanbee." He said that he was going to punch me so hard it would knock me out. I asked why. He said by doing so, he could put me to bed and I wouldn't believe that I met him thinking it was instead a dream. He took a punch at me and I ducked and then Vanbee fell over to show two guys, one standing on the others shoulders. I realized then the name of the first was Van while the other was Bee. Then the scene changed. I was in Dad's bedroom. Dad said he was going to be gone for the weekend. There's plenty of food in the refrigerator, make myself at home. Well - I did. That is until I heard a sound in Dad's bedroom. I finally isolated and found it was coming from one of the drawers. It was an unusual drawer. It had a flap on the front of it that you had to raise in order to pull out the drawer. I thought maybe it was a mouse or something making the noise. I opened up the drawer to look. Inside were two of Dad's science magazines but nothing more. I closed the drawer, went to bed. Woke early to hear sounds in there again. Went to check and found =3= magazines ! How did the third one get in there ? As part of a test I took all 3 magazines out and set them on the chair nearby. I didn't have to wait long, I heard a sound again but this time I could make it out. It was someone older than me, muffled, speaking angrily, "Where are my magazines ?" I lifted up the flap to reach the drawer but the drawer was gone ! Instead I was looking at the back of a piece of wood flushed in the wall, receded a little ways. I watched curiously as the wood suddenly approached me and then I had the drawer to myself again. I puzzled on this for a moment. Then I hit on it. This drawer is being shared by someone else in a different location ! I proved this by picking up the 3-magazines, locking the front door, leaving Dad's house, going around the side and saw this absolutely beautiful house that had glass windows all the way to the sides. Two kids came to the front door. The glass doors slid open and let them in. I hurried in with them. Inside it was like a beautiful library, with books and magazines in all directions. Based on my bearings I started to work my way towards where Dad's drawer would be, but I had to climb these metal rings and duck this mechanism that was replacing books back on the shelf. And there he was. A large fellow in an overstuffed orange and brown chair wearing a fez. He was fingering around the slot in the drawer trying to find his missing magazines. I saw him turn and handed him the magazines. Then I explained that whoever built his house did so in such a way that his drawer was connected to Dad's. He smiled at me and said that's an odd arrangement, but perhaps it's for the best so we can share items of interest ? He then reached around and had some magazines on videogames. He said, go return to your house and I'll send these to you. I got back to Dad's, went in the bedroom, opened the drawer, and sure enough there were the 2-magazines he promised me. I started to read one of them about the history of Strider, and about that point I woke up. Return back HOME   You are Earth Visitor #

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[RealistMe]

It seems like you have a lot of dreams about your father.

Meanwhile, I've said several times within the past few months, that I don't frequent Writers Cafe as much as I did in the beginning. This site is good for workshopping and posting Creative Writing. Otherwise, me being on here is pointless. There's no actual social community; This place is a ghost town. Writers Cafe consists of always begging for writers to read each others work rather than writers simply visiting our pages and posting comments.

I can't help reiterating, that people have a much easier chance of reaching me on my website than anything. I blog regularly on It's Not All Gumdrops & Unicorns. I occasionally post on here, Blogster, and Horror-Punks.com. I don't want to sound insensitive but I don't always have the time, energy, and patience to be spammed to death with Read Requests, when I've been gone for WEEKS. This especially applies to writers, who barely comment on my work but always want theirs critiqued.

Aside from all that, I hope you're doing well! :)

[dw817]

That's quite a brainweave there, Realist. I really do enjoy the community in Writer's Cafe, the open honesty others have shown towards me and others, and the good variety of writings in it.

I know I don't comment as often as I should and spend more time reading rather than reflecting - much like watching a movie from Netflix. I don't always post a review - and perhaps I should.

Now as for WEBS, the site you are using, I can't get the Site Builder to load properly in Firefox. I tried it in Google Chrome and - there's another problem, which is specifically me.

In WEBS I can't add raw HTML code to a page - at all. This greatly limits my ability to make truly custom pages, and to have the ability to cut/paste them from templates I build.

No, I really like it here in Writer's Cafe and it's ability to insert Flash, Music, Videos, borders, and unique tables and tabulation - all at the touch of raw HTML coding.

I'll meet you on your Gumdrop page, And yes, I'm doing well. :7

[RealistMe]

Webs does have HTML coding. The disadvantage to using Webs as your website builder is that it gets buggy at times. I've bookmarked the site's YouTube channel.

http://www.youtube.com/user/websvideos/videos

[dw817]

WEBS requires a premium account to have HTML coding in your blog, Realist. I just tried it. It's actually pretty hard to find a blogging site that allows free raw HTML anymore. I think Writer's Cafe was not expecting it, so I just took advantage of an open door. :)

I checked out the WEB videos too. I'm just not into modular blogging which is what they are doing. Lifting sections up and creating and moving them around with your mouse. Now - imagine, suppose you made a template page that has your own custom buttons on it. That would be pretty difficult to copy to the clipboard from WEBS since you are limited to the clipboard from text entry only. In WC, you just select a region and copy it straight over into a HTML editor like Google's Seamonkey. Save that off to your hard-drive if you like for further revisions.

Then when you want to, copy it from there and paste directly into a new WC post. That would be impossible in WEBS. That and I still can't get the WEBS page editor to work in my version of Firefox.

But - I did make a page, a simple one in Google Chrome for WEBS.
http://dw817.webs.com/

For raw blogging, WEBS may be a good way to go. But I'm a bit of a power user and like to have total control over my posts and raw HTML coding and don't like to be restricted by modular building.

[RealistMe]

I don't know much about HTML coding. I'm only utilizing all my free resources, that Webs has to offer. I've learned a lot about how to create my own website by watching their tutorials and reading them. I didn't go to college for Computers or Graphic Design and I think I've done quite well. Most websites have drag and drop features nowadays, including facebook.

[RealistMe]

LOL! I have viewed your Webs page. I started out using that exact scenery. I'm constantly changing my website's layout.

[dw817]

I'm not planning on updating it. It's just a link to go to my homepage. BTW, here are a few examples of advanced page design. I imagine this would be impossible to do in WEBS,
http://bit.ly/1uH07Cw
http://bit.ly/1qmL0HQ

The first is generated from a program I wrote in GFA which in turn reads a notepad file for the position, image, and links.

The 2nd was prepared and written up in Seamonkey. From there, I pasted it direct into WC, that includes the starry background scene.

If a blogging site can't handle either of these, then it's not powerful enough for me. :)

[RealistMe]

Oh okay. Do whatever works best for you. :)

[dw817]

No problem, I'm always looking for blogging sites that permit raw HTML entries. take care ...

[RealistMe]

I just posted a blog on my website about writing short stories.