(8/11/08) dismembered aircraft; filthy shower; lottery CEO

(Entered in paper journal at 6:16 AM on Q-train from Brooklyn to Manhattan.)

Dream #1

A group of people were all working along a forest hillside. The hillside was, or appeared to be, charred. There were three groups, all of which had a strange vehicle like the neck of a crane which flew along the hillside.

One of the men in one of the groups had gone crazy and dismembered his own vehicle. He may also have been dismembering the other groups' vehicles. I heard the man talk, as if he had been recorded after all this had happened, possibly in a psychiatric hospital or right before he killed himself.

Dream #2

I may have been visiting my mom's house or living with my mom again. I was in the bathroom. The shower looked awful. The shower head was sprawled along the tub. The drain cover was removed. It looked like there were two drain covers in the tub. Some other metallic items were in the tub. The whole thing was also coated in a slight film of dirt.

I knew I would have to take a shower the next day for work. I wondered if I would be able to. I knew my mom was planning to fix the shower. But I didn't know if she would be able to do it the next day.

Dream #3

A TV show about people who had won the lottery. A couple of them had starred in movies. The movies were basically romantic comedies, vehicles to exploit these people, and centered around the winner, who generally played a character who had undergone a similar twist of fate.

The second winner's real-life story actually began with a scene from the exploitative movie she'd been in. The  woman was in a car in the dark of night. A light played across the woman's face. The woman was on a cell phone, speaking in a somewhat frenzied tone.

I thought, Maybe this film is different, after all. Maybe it's something like a spy film. But then I heard what the woman was saying. It was basically about how she'd won something or had some good stroke of luck. I realized that this movie was also a romantic-comedy vehicle. I was disappointed.

The woman's real-life story went on. Originally the woman had worked for some company in New York, possibly in an assistant position. But when the woman won the lottery, she quit her job. After she finished up her movie (and a couple other things?), however, the woman was asked to come back to her job, except this time in a higher position.

The biography showed the woman walking into her new office, smiling, and closing the door behind her, leaving the camera crew outside, as the narrator explained that the woman had become a CEO of some division of the company.

I wondered how the woman could have the title of CEO, mainly because the nameplate on her door didn't match the title. The nameplate, which was blue plastic, with white writing, like the plate on a bathroom door, said "KO." I tried to figure out what kind of title "KO" was. The title also had the image for a wheelchair just to its left.

The camera was now inside the woman's office. I was interested to see what kind of job the woman was performing. The woman was on the phone, but all she was talking about was how great it was that she had won the lottery.