Ideas for Dream Project:

(Dream) I'm eating a sandwich at a counter with two other friends, and my roommate, Samantha comes hurriedly over to tell us all to hurry up. I try to eat the sandwich faster but each time I take a bite and put the sandwich down I look and there is just the same uneaten sandwich, which really stresses me out because I am trying to hurry up for Samantha's sake. Samantha says something like "Vamoos!" and then pauses and looks confused. She asks me if that's what she's meaning to say and I tell her that's she's trying to say "Vamos," like "let's go" in Spanish, but that I wasn't too good at spanish in high school so I don't know if that's the right translation. She's really persistent about it though so suddenly I have my computer (I guess it was sitting there while I was eating) and I tell her I'll look it up, even though I know what she was trying to say. While I'm doing this I'm also trying to eat my sandwich, which won't get any smaller, and I'm really not that hungry, and I'm pretty stressed out by the whole thing. I'm trying to tell Samantha that I can't do both of these things at once and that one of them's got to be more important to her than the other so she'll just have to choose, but before I can figure out how to get these thoughts out to her, I wake up.

(Dream) I had this dream when I was much younger but I still remember it and I think it would work well in combination with the dream I explain after this, which is also one I had (recurringly) when I was younger. I am with my sister and for some reason we are near the outskirts of the woods. They're not particularly dense woods, like they aren't really that scary or anything, but as they get deeper, there are wooden stairs going up this slowly sloping hill. The stairs are very wide and very long, and there are a lot of them, so many that I can hardly see the top. For some reason that really scares me, my sister and I have to run up them as soon as we see them, and all I know is that we can't stop. I am holding my sister's hand, pulling her along in a way behind me, and I know that it would be the absolute worst thing imaginable if I were to let go of her hand. We need to get away from someone who I don't ever see in this dream, but whose shoes I can almost hear finding the bottom of the stairs behind us and all I know is that I have to protect my younger sister, and to do that we have to get up those stairs.

(Dream) I come out of a building, I think a small museum, and onto a small stoop, down two small steps that have black iron railing on each side like in cities, and on to the side walk. In front of me is the street, which isn't particularly busy. I turn to walk in one direction and I see a man, poised with his feet and arms spread, in a position not to let me pass. Immediately I know I can't go that way and that I have to get away, but when I turn to go in the other direction, there's another man in the same position. I run in between them, neither of them touching me or trying to catch me; their purpose is just to let me not pass. I could obviously have gone across the street but for some reason in the dream I can't.

(Methods) For filming whichever dream idea I end up choosing, I don't want to film anything with straight out acting. I want to learn how to do stop motion, animation, illustration, or a combination of all of those things, and put them together to make a surreal, dream-like look to the finished product. I don't have any experience with any of these methods though, so I really need help.