While I have many dreams that are worth sharing, the ones that change me the most are the ones based on excessive food eating in the dream. When I was a teenager I had this dream about Kit Kats and Reeses sodas, and I drank so much of them in my dream. By morning the taste in my mouth and just the thought of any candy was no way, I am NEVER eating cheap chocolate candy again. This dream was so real to me and I recall believing that these sodas really existed after I woke up.

Months later I was finally better about eating other chocolate bars except Kit Kat and Reeses. Years, no, I am serious, it took me years to eat both candy bars... I would have to say it was about 6 years after when I finally ate a Kit Kat candy bar, but I recall it taking longer for the Reeses for some reason.

When I was out of high school I had another similar dream about broccoli and eating tons of it, so much they came on vines like grapes, they grew on the walls; it was the ONLY thing that was availble to eat in my dream. I didn't eat Brocolli for about 6 months.

The reason why I bring up these old dreams is because I had another one that now is making me sick to my stomach. Butter.

The latest dream:

I am in some kind of English cottage and there are people of royalty of some sort that I really want to impress. They are all sitting around a rectangle shaped table and thrilled that I am going to serve them dessert. I go to the fridge, that looked different than traditional American refrigerators and see this neat looking tub with what looks like a type of Praline's and Cream ice cream. I take my spoon into the tub without them noticing and taste to see if it's something I would serve these special guests I would like to impress. It tastes pretty good!

So... I recall having someone help me add the ice cream to plates and we pass around the ice cream. After a while I noticed my stomach turning but couldn't tell what it was about. I continue to talk to these awesome people. Then.. I realize that my mouth feels more oily than desired.. you know? Eating lots of oil kind of sensation, but thicker than desired (not like olive oil dressing). The ending of the dream before I wake up is this...

I go to the fridge, open it, an check for a label all over this tub and find that it is a sweet butter that seemed like ice cream because it was frozen. I look at everyone at the table and think they are going to be sick.. and then I wake up.

I haven't had any butter since this dream. When I had a bagel with cream cheese today my stomach felt awful....

Question to you all.. have you had a dream about food so much that you no longer wished to eat again?

You may not believe this but just about every item you all received was thanks to the GS editorial and GS Live Production staff. While the last 5 blogs are deleted to clean up my profile, majority of the items you may recall seeing came from them.

Feel free to use this blog to check in with a huge thanks to them! All of them have contributed in some way, and obviously we wouldn't have had some of them items if it wasn't for publishers and developers continuing to make awesome schwag for their partners and fans. While I might have done the grunt work to packaging, here is our awesome crew worth applauding for their donations!

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One of the things I enjoy doing outside PC & video games is making videos and going hiking. In October I traveled to the boonies in Washington to visit a friend who recently moved out there; she is originally from Texas. I sometimes take video and pictures of the hike trails so naturally I took footage there.

This was my first hike trail in Washington, but what made this visit special was how my friend continued to cook home-made meals morning, day and night. I went back to California with a love for cooking again thanks to her.

This tale shares the hike trail we took when we ended up getting stranded out there. You see, I was astonished how prepared she was with a nifty device that I had never seen before.

The funny part about this day was how we went on the hike trail the day I was headed back to California that evening. While we were stranded she was upset because she wanted to cook dinner and desert before we headed to the airport that night. Since this place was over an hour away from the airport to drive she wanted to start cooking early. Anyways, here is the video. I hope you enjoy my first tale. Hopefully there will be more to come!