I had a rather fascinating dream, last night.  I went to see Planet Of The Apes, yesterday, and it was directed by Tim Burton.

  Something that some of you may not know is that Tim Burton is married to the model, Lisa Marie, and that she played an ape in the movie.  It was not a terribly significant role, but she got a fair amount of screen time.

  Anyway, here's what happened in the dream, as best as I can recall it.

  It started out in the living room of my house.  Tim and Lisa were there.  Time was making a movie, and Lisa was to be one of the main stars.

  I had found out that she and I had worked together once before (which was news to me), and that she liked to work opposite me.

  One of the scenes we are about to do (almost immediately after discovering all of this) involved both of us having small balloons shaped like animals.

  Both of our balloons were red and I'm not quite sure what animal they were supposed to resemble.

  We had not started shooting yet, not that there was any equipment around, and Tim was milling about in thought and preparation.

  Lisa and I were sort of fooling around with our balloons, when suddenly two pinhole leaks appeared, one at the top of each ear of the animal, and my balloon deflated.

  --side note: In most of my dreams where I have even a remotely significant interaction with a female, the female usually either does not seem to like me, for some reason, or that start out liking me, but then their attitude changes to dislike or just indifference.

  While having the dream, a part of me could sense that it would normally be at this point where the female would have the attitude change.

  I was quite pleased when she not only did NOT change her attitude, but she went and got me a new balloon from Tim.

  We both were still in friendly high spirits, and I held up the balloon to look at it.

  It seemed more like a plastic toy, because the precise shape of it is not something we can do with a balloon.

  The back of the animal looked like a thin rhinoceros, and the rest of it looked like two other animals, though I don't recall which ones.

  Also, they were not combined the way one might imagine.  The back of the balloon animal was all but the head of the rhino, the middle of the balloon, was the head of another animal, like an elephant, and the head of the balloon extended from the nose of the elephant as the neck and head of another animal like a giraffe.

  Again, I am not certain if they were an elephant an giraffe, but that was the general shape of the balloon.

  I showed her the balloon, and we both found it quite amusing.

  In the second part of the dream. We were doing what was supposed to be part of Planet Of The Apes, though it was far from anything that was in the actual movie.

  The set (in the living room; there was no set in the first part) was that of something I do not know the name of, but I can describe it.

  It was a partial enclosure created by those panels of crossed wood used to make walls for rose bushes or grapevines to climb.

  The enclosure was about 6'x6' and about 10' high.  It was attached to what was supposed to be the back door of a house, and it then led into what was supposed to be a garden.

  The walls were covered in vines that sprouted leaves and small blossoms.  I don't know which were what color, but there was white and pink and a light purple.  The growth was sparse enough to allow sufficient sunlight in.  It was rather beautiful.

  In the scene, it was me with Lisa, and she was in an ape costume, though not the one from the movie, and she was wearing a long, summer dress that looked very similar to the surroundings, as far as color and pattern go.

  We were standing in the middle of the enclosure, facing each other, holding each others hands between us, and we were supposed to kiss, I think.

  Before anything happens, I'm suddenly an observer, and I'm watching her sort of melting, from the feet up, into the ground.

  She's not moving, and it's basically as if she the figure were merely a statue.

  If there was any more to the dream beyond that, then I don't recall it.