This was a long dream, lasting through a snooze button push. This is rare. It was tri-part, as if there was a complete circle finished in each part.

I know we were after a murderer, and we knew where he lived. I believe the dream took place on a DS9/Phantom of the Opera hybrid, but it was a closed community—people couldn’t just come from all over without proper documentation and authorization.

At any rate, a little girl had vanished, and we were pretty sure it was this particular person but we didn’t have enough evidence to even detain the dude. At some point, I was in a room with Quark and Major Kira and they started to use a Spanish word so I wouldn’t know what they were talking about, but it was one of those words that’s the same in English and Spanish. Conf---dammit I knew it earlier.

At some point I was at a playground and this girl who spoke a language I didn’t understand ran up and hugged me around the waist and pulled me toward a wooden jungle gym-type structure. There were other kids, but she was happy I was there, and the other people I was with seemed glad to have the break to play.

There was another part where we were in this huge ballroom, and a party was going on, but the host was some how in favor of protecting the guilty dude. There was a chase, over these bluish staircases that seemed to glow. Some of the time I could see the chase from overhead.

At the end of the dream, we caught the guy, in his quarters just like we thought he’d be, and we were all together, standing there in the corridor outside his room, and I said “we could have saved that little girl.” I started to cry, and many others also did. It reminded me of the day I cried in class because one of my closest classmates had been arrested for driving the car for his brother and some other kids who were robbing people at gunpoint. It was that kind of tears, for the senseless loss.

It seemed like that was the end of the dream, and I had to wake up anyway. I wish I knew what made it a three part dream, but in my grasping for memories all I remember was that it was three-part.

But yay for remembering dreams during the week! All it really takes is for me to think about it, and I can do it.

Yesterday I dreamed I was with my mom and I kept running into Dr. Sautter and her husband.