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midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I can't really remember but all I know is that we were on a camping trip and all my friends were there plus a fine boy at my school. All I know is it was pleasant because I got to look at him. I also remember that we went to the restaurant where I work.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
Me and my friends were in track running in our swimming suits. My friends were about my age. We were running during the winter time. When we're at the end of the track we ran into a huge playground with huge slides. After that the teacher gave us junk food to eat.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
The dream was very familiar. I was walking down the road and then the road disappeared and I fell off a cliff. I was the only person and I could never be saved by any one. I felt like someone was watching me but no one was there. The dream was very unpleasant.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I play b-ball. My dream was like real life like. It didn't feel like a dream. It started that me and a friend (I forget which one) went to the grocery store. At the store we got a lot of liquor. We brought it back to school for some reason - to put in our b-ball lockers. It wasn't our real locker room, but in my dream ...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
That day my friend and I met some guys on vacation in the hot tubs. We had to leave then. But in my dream she and I woke up the following morning to one of the guys calling, who said he was going to ski with us. So I told him to make breakfast and he did. But I never let him into my condo. He was just there. The place ...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I remember it starting with me running down the street, the freeway. It was probably traffic hour because there were tons of cars with people in them just kind of sitting there. I was running away from a big red dot. It was the circle on the 7-up can. I remember being really scared, but I also thought it was somewhat f...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
It was at school and my boy friend who's 17 was in it and I was too. We were holding hands and walking down the hall and he kept looking at me and smiling. I was happy.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was at a party at my friends' house and they all turned into vampires and they all attacked me and made me a vampire. Then the head guy vampire liked me and he made me do this weird test and then I became head vampire and I got to boss everyone around and they told me all the people in my school that were vampires.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was standing at my mailbox in front of my house and I saw my neighbor Cindy walking down the street toward me. For the first time in a while she looked healthy and young (in real life she has cancer) and I looked at her and she was coming right at me and I was very scared.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was working at a Dairy Queen (where my boy friend's ex-girl friend works) and we have never gotten along, but for some reason we made peace and became friends after I beat her up for going out with my boy friend.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
My brother and I were in a big dome that was a court room. It seemed familiar. The dome was huge - 10,000 seats. There were old judges around us, male and middle-aged people. I didn't know them. They were just authority figures to me. The old men were making fun of my brother and me because we were out of place and we ...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was dreaming that I was going to Savannah, Georgia, and about to go to see the Olympics with some of my close friends. We all walked in together and ate and it was nice and sunny but not like a normal day. We sat in bleachers that looked like the Metrodome seats. We also were up really high but could still see really...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was at some mall with some friends (guys and girls). We were walking around. Throughout the whole dream I was in a good mood. The only thing that really happened was one of my friends bought something.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I can only remember part of my dream, but I dreamt that I had two pairs of contacts on and didn't realize it until one of them fell out. I was in school. The people I don't remember, but it was probably my classmates. My feelings were just kind of like "this is really strange."
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
My dream took place at school in the lunch room. Me, my best friend, and the boy my friend liked were sitting at the table and I leaned over her to take his hat and we fell off the table and my friend got mad at me for it.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was at a friend's house, there were 15-19 people there, ages 16-21, male and female, all but four friends of mine. There was one black and white dog. I felt fine during the dream. One girl (my best friend) got in a fight with another girl. She beat the other girl up and she (my friend) fell like three times and kept ...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
Setting: On the floor of my living room in front of my couch. Myself with a man, a big tall man with black hair. I was scared, he was my boy friend, but for some reason I was scared. He held me on the floor and raped me while I was screaming, "Nooo - - - stop!" He was hurting me, and I was crying.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
My dream was set in what appeared to be another planet. The coloring was all brown, except for a few neon lights. This place was not familiar to me in real life, but it seemed to be in my dream. My best friend was in the dream - and she was in search of her meaning in life. She was 16 in my dream, as she is now, and he...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was an exchange student in Slovakia, visiting someone who had been an exchange student here. The start of the dream was when I had just arrived at their house. Her family was very happy to see me, as well as excited to hear about my life in America. They asked me if I could make them a traditional American dessert to...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
My dream is set in a familiar setting, like school or home (either present or past), only it doesn't look the same. I just know that's where I am. There were double spiral staircases that went up to a bridge. The building was made of glass plates. There are people, not really any age, just a mass of men and women, comi...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was pregnant and my baby was Asian, but the dad was white and so am I.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was at my friend's house, and it was nighttime. I was walking around outside trying to find something to drink and I found a bunch of pop machines, but all the pop was cold. I was really scared because it was a bad neighborhood and I was with one other person but I was still scared.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was at some sort of school activity, some sort of game, basketball or volleyball. I was walking up to the very top of the bleachers and sat next to my ex-boy friend. He told me about himself and his new girl friend, and I felt happy for him. Then he told me he cheated on her. I was surprised. The bad thing is, he tol...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I had a dream about reliving a day at school. The people I remember in it are my boy friend and his/my friend and a good friend of mine who's a girl. We were at my locker and I was talking to my boy friend and our other two friends. I don't really remember what we were talking about, but it was a pleasant dream and I w...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
Driving past a huge dark very modern building that someone told me was a church. From the outside it was very huge and foreboding. When I went inside after driving by several times it was beautiful and very traditional, like a large cathedral that you would find in Europe. The music was very strong but wonderful to lis...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
In the dream I found a friend that moved away last year and we got married and then he died. He was the same age as me and we were the only people in the dream. I don't remember where it took place.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was sitting on a chair in my living room, watching TV. A man I had never seen before came in and threw a rock at my TV. It broke and the characters from "Beverly Hills 90210" came out.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
My boy friend and I were at a baseball game (not a familiar place) and for some reason I started beating up a child. The police came and I tried to get away. I was very scared. But I was caught. Then my boy friend told the police his last name and we got to leave and I was very relieved.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was in the middle of a forest on the edge of a river that was rushing very quickly. I was walking along the river skipping and stumbling over rocks, when through the trees, I saw a very small, one-room house. This setting was not familiar to me. The weather wasn't sunny but it wasn't gloomy either. It was just in bet...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
My dream was at my house and a big giant was chasing me and my brother and sister. My brother is 14 and my sister is 10. My dog bit the giant in the butt. My feelings were unpleasant. I was very scared and wherever we would run he would be there, but he got into our house and I shot him with my 30 odd 6.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I dreamt that my parents had died, and that when I went to tell people, nobody cared. Nobody showed up at the funeral or burial either. Just me and my sisters showed up. I was sad, very mad, upset that nobody showed up, or that nobody seemed to care that my parents died.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was walking to the bus stop and I was running late. I saw the bus coming and I tried to run, but I couldn't run. It was like no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't move, all I could go was in slow motion. I remember my neighbors yelling come on, you're gonna miss it, but I couldn't move. I was leaving my house in my ...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
It was in the street in the middle of the day, but it was dark. And me and all the people in my grade that I hang out with - boys and girls - were fighting like boxing in the streets. Then we would go back to school. Then the next minute everyone was at my house eating chicken and it kept switching off like that. All t...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
It was at my friends house in their downstairs party room and in their upstairs rooms as well. I remember four people Becca, Kelly, Paul and me. They are all 16 and we hang out together. Becca and Paul were watching the carebears movie in the party room. They were sitting on a Futon. I was upstairs helping Kelly find c...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was at my cousin's house (she is a female and she is 14). She was having a birthday party for her little brother turning seven. Our family was there and all the teenagers were downstairs. It was getting hot so I went to the bathroom to wash my face. When I came out my crush was there. He's also 16. We both sat down ...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I went to the library and I saw my friend Dave with another girl. They were just leaving. I thought Dave was mad at me, but he wasn't. We went back inside the library. I felt like I was annoying him. I was jealous of the other girl. They were both older than me and I felt like just a little kid to them. The other girl ...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I'm in our family's station wagon and it started driving down a hill towards a busy street and the brakes don't work and neither does the steering wheel. But just before I hit the busy street I reappeared in my house. I headed toward the kitchen which is down a hallway. As I leave a long dark mink-like animal came out ...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was at school in gym class and we were playing volleyball. I was playing a very good game. The guy I liked was on my team. We were unstoppable. One of my friends was on my team too, but she wasn't as good as me. I was asking the guy I liked out. Then my friend came by and asked him right before me. I was so mad at he...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
The setting began in a hotel like place. We went into our room (me, my sister, dad, stepmom). I walked into the bathroom, dropped my clothes to take a shower. The bathroom continued on and sort of turned into what I thought was the Mall of America except I was naked. Sometime later, I had clothes on and found one of my...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
It was in a neighborhood on the steps of someone's house. I think I met a friend's father who looked really tall and scary looking and I saw my friend and I said hi.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
My mom called me at home (she was at work) and asked if I want to go visit her at work and we'd have a day together, so I went to where she works and her ex-boyfriend was standing there and she told me she forgot to mention he'd be coming with us. So we went on a picnic in some park and they skipped off into this fores...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was in a house with my boyfriend and my sister walked in with a bunch of people and said, "We're going to a party. Want to come?" so we got up and left, but we never went to a party. We went to Florida and were on that elevator ride and halfway down I woke up.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was at my friend Justin's with a bunch of my closest friends, and the girl my fiance is cheating on me with called over there and I answered the phone and she asked for Justin. Then I was like "Justin, telephone." He told her to come over. My group of friends and me waited outside for her. When she got there I jumped...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was at school and this guy that I've had a crush on for about eight years wouldn't talk to me. I was walking down a hall where I see him everyday. I said "hello" to him. He just turned his back and started walking away. I shouted at him down the hall asking, "What happened? What did I do." He just looked at me and sa...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
Me and a bunch of my church friends were at an ice rink (outdoors) except it was pretty melted so we are standing in about two inches of water. All of a sudden lightening struck the rink and a surge of energy (little sparks) started going around the rink and we had to jump over it so we wouldn't get electrocuted. Now I...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
It was in my yard at my house. There were two of my friends and three people I didn't know. We are all about the same age. The people I didn't know faces kept changing what they looked like. Then it switched to my friend in a garden with yellow flowers playing with a dog. It was a pleasant dream then everyone went insi...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I had a dream I went to the grocery store and there were all these cute guys around me and as I was walking to the store they were all looking at me and the finest guy ever came up to me and gave me his name, number, and address and his name was Bin--, because I didn't understand what he was trying to tell me and his n...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
It was really early in the morning and my house was on snowy mountains. I was driving a conversion van and I went to pick up my two friends, one boy and one girl. I let the boy drive the van. It was really icy and snowy. He drove off the mountain. We were spinning and hitting trees when we finally stopped. We got out a...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I met an angel at a party. I was really tipsy and he basically came to my rescue, acting as my boyfriend. I had to be home early the next morning. He took me to his house and gave me a comfortable bed. When I woke up I told him I had to be home. He then told me he was an angel sent to help me last night so I didn't get...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
It takes place in the future, summer of '98. I was to leave in the middle of July to go spend a year in Germany as an exchange student. Some of my friends, all around the age of 17 or 18, more than half of them were guys. Other half girls of course. We all got together to spend a week together. First stop, Valleyfair o...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was staying at my grandmother's house for some reason and my grampa told us that later on some business partners of his were coming over and to be sure they don't see you or your face. I laid in my bed and could see across the hallway to an empty bedroom with a green bedspread on the double bed and tan carpeting. I g...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
The dream was of my best guy friend and I getting married, each owning the vehicle of our dreams and owning a huge mansion next door to Brad Pitt. I cheated on Jeff with Brad, but Jeff didn't care because he still loved me and was happy I told him about it. Then a giant monkey killed Jeff and Brad and I became a drunke...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
It is a repetitive dream I've had since I was small. I'm in my backyard. The way it is set up is there is my house then a small hill leading down to a large area of land. I'm in the large area playing around and my mom comes running out, saying there is a tornado coming. Then all of a sudden a tornado appears. My mom s...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
The setting seemed familiar at the time, but I guess I didn't really know where I was. I was with my boyfriend who is also 17 and a few other males, all similar in age. I am pretty sure I was the only girl in the dream. I remember my boyfriend was sitting on the floor, and another boy, who was black, was sitting on the...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
The setting of my dream was in someone's house. There were some of my friends and some people I had never seen before. They were my age, different genders. My feeling during my dream was unpleasant. I was very angry. I got in a fight with one of my old friends, Rachel, and pushed her down some stairs and then got in my...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was flying an airplane around the playground because for some reason there was a war there. After that I somehow started to shoot basketballs off the playground equipment into shoes. The basketballs turned into little black balls in mid-flight so they would fit into the shoes. This was some kind of contest that I won...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was in school but not the school I go to and we were studying serial killers. One of the serial killers killed over a 100 people in less than a month. This guy had a really gross long beard and wasn't clean at all. I remembered that one day me and one of my friends were in a park and there was a hole in the ground an...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was being chased by giant gorillas in the ___ zoo with my mom and family members. We were visiting the zoo when giant gorillas escaped from their cages and chased us. I ran down a waterfall in an innertube and was lost from my family. I then went back for my house and no one was to be found. The Gorillas were there i...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
First I was at school in the cafeteria at hip-hop union (after school activity) and I was practicing breakdancing and battling the other people that were there (battling is just going back and forth dancing). I don't remember that much after that but then suddenly I was fighting a real battle against the Germans in the...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was at home with one of my friends same age as me. She is my best friend. We were watching the rain come down and saw that the streets were flooding so we couldn't go to school. The only other person that appeared in my dream would be my mom wondering why we weren't going to school. We were happy since we couldn't go...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
It was on the street in my neighborhood. I was screaming and yelling because I decided I couldn't take it any more and I was yelling at my mom and my friends. I just ended up on a plane going to Iran.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
Highway 36 right when the freeway going into 280. Yes it was familiar to me. I was driving. I was driving so fast like I was trying to get away from someone. I didn't know who it was that was after me but I would be on the same highway all the time.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was at work with my friend that I work with and my car would not start, and the building was locked so I couldn't call for a ride. Then Dale the dishwasher came out and my friend and I asked him for a ride. So we were driving to my house but my house turned into a bar and we stop there and we went to the bar and he l...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was playing a qualifying round of golf when I drove the ball behind a pine tree. I couldn't go around the tree to get to the green, so I pitched it, hopefully up and over the tree, but it hit the tree and came back and hit me in the face.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was at home by myself, and I was hearing things. I saw a man appear and he started chasing me. I ran outside and started screaming. Then my sister came and started beating the crap out of this guy. Then he was screaming and all of a sudden he was on fire.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
The setting was not familiar. I was in some sort of sports stadium and it was empty except for myself and some of my friends. I was with my good friend from school. She is 17. I was also with my other friend who is 17. Suddenly the guy I liked appeared sitting with his parents in the stadium. He came over and talked to...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was in my school walking down the B-wing hallway, crying. I had just found out that my dad was having an affair (which would never happen). I heard a plane flying in the air, looked out the window, and saw it trying to land. But there were too many cars in the parking lot, so it crashed into the A-wing side of the sc...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was in Mexico walking around and my feet were all full of mud and I went to wash them off, but they wouldn't get clean. One minute I was washing my feet off, the next I'm sitting in a boat in the middle of the bay without a paddle, trying to get to my new boyfriend, Mike--he's in a boat also. We finally meet. I blink...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was at my cabin up north with my mom, dad, brother (22), me (19), and a friend (18). My parents decided they didn't like my friend. So they threw her on the fire and chopped off her head. I'd say my dream was very unpleasant. Then my parents decided to chase me and my brother around the island. Then the scene switche...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I don't know where it took place but in my dream I think I knew somewhat where I was. There was a friend of mine. We are friends but don't ever do anything outside of school. I was walking by the pool when I saw my friend at the bottom laying face down. I freaked out and it turned out she had died there. She had gotten...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
It was in school in my second hour class with my teacher. I had a really big test and I had no idea what I was doing. So I turned it in mostly blank. Then he got in my face and started yelling at me and I failed the class and couldn't graduate.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
My dream was at my work. The people who were in my dream were a co-worker, her boyfriend, me, and my boyfriend. My co-worker is 23 and her boyfriend was about the same age. I am 18 and my boyfriend is 20. My dream was about my co-worker's boyfriend cheating on her. He was in California for the navy and she was really s...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
It was in my house. In my bedroom. I was asleep and then awoke with the rumbling sound. The house was shaking and things were breaking. It was a tornado. I quickly went under my bed because it was in the basement. The house was taken off the foundation and strewn about. My family was in the house. My two brothers, two ...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
The dream was about how I played soccer. I was playing soccer on the highway. It was really strange.
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I had a dream that two cars full with gangsters (guys) were chasing me. I ran and called 911 but the phone didn't work. I was going to jump out of the window of my back house but then two gangsters were out there. A couple of minutes later someone told me (in the dream) that they really like me and they were chasing m...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
My dream took place during school, at a place in the hallway where many people meet between classes. There is this girl I know who has been flirting with my boyfriend (in real life), and that day I had gotten very mad at her for that reason. I may have been thinking about it before I fell asleep. But in my dream, Natal...
female
1998
midwest_teens-f
Midwest teenagers (F)
I was at my friend's house in her bedroom trying on prom dresses. She was allowing me to borrow her last year's dress. I took it home to show my mom, but we decided it was way too big. Together we took it to a tailor shop to try and see how much I needed to reduce the size. My friend had told me when I was at her house...
female
1998
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
I dreamed that a tiger named Shirkan got in the house. We came back and got him out. There was a radio with a microphone and I yelled Shirkan get out of my house.
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
Me and Molly were playing in the street in [a vacation state] and her mom was there and we were asking strangers some questions and then a stranger asked us to get in a car. We got in the car, and then he drove us somewhere. I was in a car--mommy's--and he drove us to a house that looked like ours, but with different t...
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
I went to someone's house. We were going to a little park. We saw dogs doing tricks, a carousel and some bugs. There was more before this but I can't remember it. I think I saw a bunny too.
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
My reading buddy was blind. We were on some rocks and she was on the same rock and she was wearing these glasses and she couldn't see. She said is that you Melissa? And I said, " yeah it's me," and she said "oh."
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
I dreamed my tooth was loose and I hit it on something and I tried to pull it out. All my front teeth except two fell out.
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
I was in a restaurant and it was time to go--that's what my mom and dad said--so my chair had wheels, so on accident it started to roll really fast outside the restaurant and there was a big huge porch, really high, and my chair hit part of the fence along the porch and I was in the high sky and I said, "Close your eye...
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
I was out on the playground and I found a cricket and I kept it and it had a little baby and then we went on a boat ride, a submarine, and we had animals in it, like it was a veterinarian care center and then the submarine started to shake and I said what's happening. The cricket was inside my lunch pail and then the v...
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
I was in the classroom with the other kids and then two giants stepped into the room and I hugged Mike [a classmate] like so tight and I said to him "I'm scared."
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
I was walking in the park and it was really dark. No one was there and then a big giant appeared with this big giant dog and he said "Who are you?'" and I ran all the way home.
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
Nancy was my best friend and we rode our bikes together with our other friends. She crashed into our house so she had to go to the hospital and her mom called 911 and told the address and then they came and I don't know, but some people came over to clean everything up and then a lady said "why don't you come park your...
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
We went on a plane. Then it landed and there were a bunch of poor people not having fun on the plane except us and they wanted to learn about animals (the poor people) and we found some beavers in a pond, so we jumped in attracting their attention so they could see them and they all came over and said "wow" and then th...
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
We lived in a log home and we were gonna leave to move somewhere. Then E.T. came up. He just stood there. [This was a nightmare. Melissa came running in the middle of the night crying about E.T.]
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
One day I was invited to a party and if you brought a dog you had to put it in a cage in a pen and there were other dogs there. I took my dog [Bonnie] and I put her in the pen but the other dogs were really mean and fierce, so when I got back from the party to get my dog I saw all the other dogs wrestling with her, so ...
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
One day I was with [our family friend] Lynne [four years older than Melissa] and we went out to the park, just me and Lynne, and we brought Bonnie [Melissa's dog] with us and I let go of Bonnie so she went down the sidewalk and I caught her. Then me and Lynne by ourselves went to the toy store with Bonnie and Lynne fou...
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
One day I was on a ship and we were in a storm. We pulled the strings we were on a big ship, you know, very big, but then when we got to the other side of the ocean I got to see my friends. My friend Molly said, "it's a great place here" and my friend Kathy said," there's lots of stores here".
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
I was a dinosaur and a T.Rex came to the place we were living in and all the dinosaurs. So we had to go to a different land but the T.Rex followed us. So when we got there I was running so fast because I was trying to get away from the T.Rex that I left my mom behind. So I went with my friends so I could get help Well ...
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
I found a whale that was a toy and it was floppy like Jell-O, so on accident I let it go and it broke a lamp.
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
I had three walruses and we went somewhere to get across the river to get to the other side where the place was we had to swim. Well there was crocodiles in the river so when we swam across the crocodile ate the mother and the baby. And so all I had was the father and I got bit on the finger and then we went through a ...
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
My chest was hurting real, real bad in school so Mrs. Smith [ her teacher] just said " I have something for your chest" I said "what is it, what is it, what is it?". "It's a needle and a safety pin" she said "Needles for sticking the needle where it hurts in your chest. Then putting the safety on the needle".
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
One day I was climbing a tree and then I fell down and then I went to the river and found an egg. I took it home. I put it in a safe place and soon it hatched. And then I said, "what came out of it". It was a baby crocodile. One day I went to [adult babysitter] Rosa's house with the crocodile and I lost the crocodile f...
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
One day a lot of dogs came into our backyard and one of the dogs wasn't nice. So one of the little dogs came up to the fence and sniffed his nose, and the big dog bit his little nose, so I took the little dog inside and I put a little bandage on his nose. Then the big dog bit another one on the eye. Then it was night t...
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
One day I was in the store with my friends and then something was gonna happen. So we ran out the door, got back in the car and got back home. Well then my friend Kathy she had little tiny bird eggs like canaries. We all got to keep 3 and I put it in something-a little box-a teeny tiny one and then I put warm water in ...
female
1998-2000
melissa
Melissa: a young girl
One day I went camping and I went to the bookstore and my mom and dad were waiting in the car. When I came back out with my book my mom and dad weren't there. So I went down the streets looking for them. Then police came driving their police cars and they started saying, "homeless child, homeless child," and then I cam...
female
1998-2000