I had a dream. I woke up at 7:00 a.m. today, and immediately fell back to sleep. Between falling back to sleep and my alarm waking me at 7:45 a.m., I had an incredibly lucid dream. It was quite possibly the most random, nonsensical dream I've ever had. The details are of course slowly fading away, so I figured I'd note some of the things I remember here.

So I'm walking into the lobby of the Wine Valley Inn in Solvang, CA. By my side, is my girlfriend. I don't know what we were doing there again (we were there last year), but I suppose that doesn't matter. Instead of walking into an actual lobby, we walk directly into a grocery store whose interior resembles that of Bristol Farms. My girlfriend turns towards me and says "what happened to the lobby?" I replied with "dunno." As we walked, I turned to my left and saw a huge grill that looked like the grills at places like Benihana. Behind the grill, Mario...the Nintendo Mario...was standing there cooking what I can only describe as "Pizza Pie."

I'd never seen anything like what he was cooking. The grill was filled with large pizza slice shaped glass cookware. He would place one slice of pizza in the glass container, then start layering lasagna noodles, fucilli noodles, mozzarella cheese, romano cheese, pasta sauce, and every other type of italian cheese, sauce, and noodle you can think of. Each of these dishes was like 6 inches deep. These "pizza pies" were fucking huge.

Now here's the truly weird part. On the grill there was a huge piece of pasta. I mean...it was like 2 feet wide and 4 feet long. It was wavy, like the egdes of lasagna noodles. In the front of this piece of pasta, I noticed that there was an opening, and there was a noticeable bulge directly behind the opening...as if the huge noodle had been stuffed with something. I leaned down to inspect the noodle, and out of nowhere a cat started to crawl out of the opening. The cat peeked its head out and looked up at me. The cat's head was covered in pasta sauce and cheese. I reached towards it to pet it, and it seemed to rather enjoy my stroking its head. After a few seconds, I stopped petting it and continued looking through the store with my girlfriend.

For like the next 10 minutes my dream was just about me and my girlfriend walking around the store while this cat closely followed behind. The cat was following us incessantly, dragging the huge noodle behind it. In my dream I was completely frightened by this cat noodle thing. I even tried running away from it...but every time I'd run the cat would just appear right in front of me again.

I woke up, and the first words out of my mouth were "what the fuck?"

I suppose I've been playing too much Wii. I guess I've also been depriving myself of greasy food for too long. Maybe I should just go out and buy a cat. Or maybe I should drive to Solvang to buy a cat, eat some pasta, and buy some groceries.