Snakes on the brain
Good g-d damn the last dream I had was absolutely all over the place... so its explanation will undoubtedly be poor...
It was like trying to cross the extra large merry go round at the park with an inner ear imbalance and a low tolerance for the motion of the thing...
Everything in the dream swirled around me and the only stability and constant were the snakes.
Throughout the whole dream my entire function, my purpose aside from the single wrinkle in time lapse reality of falling into the oblivious black hole was to get the snakes into a safe environment, a containment of some sort... and even that is what brought me back from the excursion anyway...
So..
I guess it starts out at night in my room... my apt room that for some reason happens to be attached to a house that my parents happen to be staying in... Kind of like their house... but not really their house... like a rented house or something.. Anyway...
my room is elevated somehow... like... on the second floor... but there are no stairs... and I am in this room... and someone I am acquainted with... a girl possibly... but I don't see her face, and hardly notice her presence... she comes and drops off a snake with me... he is to become my snake because she can't care for him any longer... he is a very large snake... not like mine but similar... He is a red tail boa... but much larger than boa's actually become.... as well, my snakes were much larger than they are in life... she set him right down in the tank with the others... and left.... and I soon realized that could not be... and that also... I only had one tank... so I opened the tank to let them separate... and the boa just crawled right out and began searching the room I couldn't stop him... But they all had a great deal more personality suddenly than you would usually see in a reptile... instead of acting completely on instinct... they in fact had something of a reptilian cat attitude in my dream... completely self indulgent but not completely out of control, and for the most part for want of your attention. The boa hid under the bed and waited for its turn for attentive affection from me while I put my arms in the tank and my other two snakes slid themselves up upon me and um...cuddled.... I know... it was weird.... I mean... I have snakes who do occasionally cuddle... but not like cats... and these snakes cuddled like... snake cats.... ANd they had big huge weird faces like dinosaur faces or turtle faces... but still somehow managed to look like snakes... ok...
Weird choppiness in the recollection of this dream follows....
I remember many different versions of snakes who were representing only three that I knew... One was supposed to be representing something like Ghost and Yuri and from what I can deduce, a person or two I know as well as my cat... and he stopped looking so much like a snake and looked more like a little half dragon... He was a dusty red blackish color and he seemed to be smiling... he was very docile and gentle.. and he was the smallest in length of the snakes but he was still a large snake... for a snake. He was the most unusual of the snakes I was currently surrounded by because he seemed to have no snake instincts and he floated like he was flying, he had hardly any weight to him when I held him and he was completely calm and not seeking anything... not even attention though he did enjoy it when it was given to him. He had no arms or legs so he still qualified as snake in my book... but His face, was not like a turtle or a dinosaur ish snake face, it was literally like an old world Chinese dragons... like the whole sail 'fin' down his back in bright red, an extravagant tail... catfish looking whiskers and everything.... he seemed so sweet and contented and simply docile that I wasn't worried about encapsulating him at all... I just sent him out into the living room to curl up in the family room. It was weird....
Anyhow... another snake that came to my attention was definitely supposed to rep my little Noyoka and was by far the smallest of the current snakes but still much larger than he usually is. I was very concerned about him because somehow he had acquired bruising? Don't ask me how a snake acquires bruising I don't know I could just see bruising on him when I checked his scales...as well as a scratch or cut of some kind. He was very snake like... and a great deal more bright yellow and green than I remembered him.... I took these all as signs of illness and had him rushed to the hospital immediately by way of some kind of assistant I did not see but passed the snake on to...reassuring him as I did that he would be fine and would be seeing a good doctor... I wrote out the symptoms as he was put in a little box to be taken in for Dr mills.... then I focused back on the snakes at hand... I had two on me at the moment... both very big both very heavy... I took the smaller of the two in length, the younger one.. Obviously some manifestation of my Ghost... and I put him back into the only tank there was, I pet him... I have never pet a snake in my life... and I actually pet him... it was weird... he smiled at me and settled in happily to his cage... I closed the lid and set out after the boa... I let the other large snake get comfortable on me and leave me a free hand to board another... then I bent down to coax the boa out... like a cat who does not know you well it was hard to get him out but he did eventually come out.... I had to grab him pretty firmly like picking up a wily kitten by the scruff... accept that this one was aprox 5 & 1/2 feet long and much much heavier... eventually he slid up my arm and rested on my shoulder and arm... I had to keep the two I had from becoming too interested in each other so they didn't start problems with my head in between them... but things were otherwise going smoothly.
How this next part happened... I'm not sure... and I don't even remember the whole thing.... Some guy I knew came in from the rest of the house and brought this massive energy field with him....that energy field mixed with mine into a literal conversation like... talking without words and instead of just speaking of ideas actually thinking simultaneously together while those thoughts manifest themselves in actuality around you... it's hard to explain...dreams are bizarre...
So anyway... the only thing I remember from that was that it was actually quite a long and extensive conversation and it began with a black hole opening up underneath my bed that sucked us both into oblivion and in the middle there were two very long white ribbons which became huge and we both held onto one while falling and they ended on some kind of white platform and the whole thing was a huge HUGE swing and we just held onto each other and the huge ribbon sides and I'm pretty sure the snakes too... I just couldn't see them and we were cast back and fourth across a massive expanse of oblivion occasionally dotted by stars toward the end as we came toward a glowing blue sphere that grew ever larger... but we were traveling at such sickening perverse speeds and across such massive distances that the vertigo was too much to deal with and we had to duck down crouched together with our eyes closed as we approached the thing and when we opened them and felt that the huge cosmic inversion black hole white silk platform swing of doom had ceased and was not moving at all... We opened our eyes and were in some dusk black expanse that seemed to be inside of some cavern... and as we peered over the side of the platform we saw the soft reflection of some unknown light dancing over a moving black form... it was an extensive body of black water....We both laughed for some reason... it was like... we knew very well that we were creating this with our minds... and I put my hand to my face still laughing and gasping a little after all that falling through the air... I explained that I had to go and that I had snakes to attend to, and then I put out my arm as if to pull them from thin air even though I had been carrying them the whole time they appeared and their weight returned. The white platform was now moving with the water and sailing lightly in an unknown direction... I said to him simply thanks, but I had to go... He smiled and nodded and waved goodbye thanking me as well and made mention of seeing me later...
then I stepped into that place in thin air where I had taken the snake from, crawling into it like a children’s play tunnel out from under my bed and headed back into the house which, as it turned out had been cleaved in half and no one seemed to care... whatever...
My family was watching TV and I waved and they waved and the snakes shifted periodically... I could feel their weight... I walked out of the cleaved opening in the house out into a half grand bizarre kind of Arabic market and a half white boy new Orleans jazz fest celebrity celebration I ignored all the people around me gawking at the huge snakes I was carrying and looked desperately for the right kind of coil basket for each of the pair I was carrying. I had to go back stage because that was where all the baskets were held and people didn't know whether to stop me or let me through... they decided I must be part of the show and so just let me waltz on back while a brass band warmed up on the stage in their tuxedo shirts and sparkly decor... I walked past all the noise comforting my snakes and looking for the right baskets...
I walked into the quietist parts of the open air shop where no one was around and there was a soft glow... I picked out a basket and then put it back and then picked another one and this went on for a while until the weight of the two of them was getting to be too much and I finally made a decision.
I put one inside and was making ready to set the boa in his new basket when the phone rang and woke me up.
It was like trying to cross the extra large merry go round at the park with an inner ear imbalance and a low tolerance for the motion of the thing...
Everything in the dream swirled around me and the only stability and constant were the snakes.
Throughout the whole dream my entire function, my purpose aside from the single wrinkle in time lapse reality of falling into the oblivious black hole was to get the snakes into a safe environment, a containment of some sort... and even that is what brought me back from the excursion anyway...
So..
I guess it starts out at night in my room... my apt room that for some reason happens to be attached to a house that my parents happen to be staying in... Kind of like their house... but not really their house... like a rented house or something.. Anyway...
my room is elevated somehow... like... on the second floor... but there are no stairs... and I am in this room... and someone I am acquainted with... a girl possibly... but I don't see her face, and hardly notice her presence... she comes and drops off a snake with me... he is to become my snake because she can't care for him any longer... he is a very large snake... not like mine but similar... He is a red tail boa... but much larger than boa's actually become.... as well, my snakes were much larger than they are in life... she set him right down in the tank with the others... and left.... and I soon realized that could not be... and that also... I only had one tank... so I opened the tank to let them separate... and the boa just crawled right out and began searching the room I couldn't stop him... But they all had a great deal more personality suddenly than you would usually see in a reptile... instead of acting completely on instinct... they in fact had something of a reptilian cat attitude in my dream... completely self indulgent but not completely out of control, and for the most part for want of your attention. The boa hid under the bed and waited for its turn for attentive affection from me while I put my arms in the tank and my other two snakes slid themselves up upon me and um...cuddled.... I know... it was weird.... I mean... I have snakes who do occasionally cuddle... but not like cats... and these snakes cuddled like... snake cats.... ANd they had big huge weird faces like dinosaur faces or turtle faces... but still somehow managed to look like snakes... ok...
Weird choppiness in the recollection of this dream follows....
I remember many different versions of snakes who were representing only three that I knew... One was supposed to be representing something like Ghost and Yuri and from what I can deduce, a person or two I know as well as my cat... and he stopped looking so much like a snake and looked more like a little half dragon... He was a dusty red blackish color and he seemed to be smiling... he was very docile and gentle.. and he was the smallest in length of the snakes but he was still a large snake... for a snake. He was the most unusual of the snakes I was currently surrounded by because he seemed to have no snake instincts and he floated like he was flying, he had hardly any weight to him when I held him and he was completely calm and not seeking anything... not even attention though he did enjoy it when it was given to him. He had no arms or legs so he still qualified as snake in my book... but His face, was not like a turtle or a dinosaur ish snake face, it was literally like an old world Chinese dragons... like the whole sail 'fin' down his back in bright red, an extravagant tail... catfish looking whiskers and everything.... he seemed so sweet and contented and simply docile that I wasn't worried about encapsulating him at all... I just sent him out into the living room to curl up in the family room. It was weird....
Anyhow... another snake that came to my attention was definitely supposed to rep my little Noyoka and was by far the smallest of the current snakes but still much larger than he usually is. I was very concerned about him because somehow he had acquired bruising? Don't ask me how a snake acquires bruising I don't know I could just see bruising on him when I checked his scales...as well as a scratch or cut of some kind. He was very snake like... and a great deal more bright yellow and green than I remembered him.... I took these all as signs of illness and had him rushed to the hospital immediately by way of some kind of assistant I did not see but passed the snake on to...reassuring him as I did that he would be fine and would be seeing a good doctor... I wrote out the symptoms as he was put in a little box to be taken in for Dr mills.... then I focused back on the snakes at hand... I had two on me at the moment... both very big both very heavy... I took the smaller of the two in length, the younger one.. Obviously some manifestation of my Ghost... and I put him back into the only tank there was, I pet him... I have never pet a snake in my life... and I actually pet him... it was weird... he smiled at me and settled in happily to his cage... I closed the lid and set out after the boa... I let the other large snake get comfortable on me and leave me a free hand to board another... then I bent down to coax the boa out... like a cat who does not know you well it was hard to get him out but he did eventually come out.... I had to grab him pretty firmly like picking up a wily kitten by the scruff... accept that this one was aprox 5 & 1/2 feet long and much much heavier... eventually he slid up my arm and rested on my shoulder and arm... I had to keep the two I had from becoming too interested in each other so they didn't start problems with my head in between them... but things were otherwise going smoothly.
How this next part happened... I'm not sure... and I don't even remember the whole thing.... Some guy I knew came in from the rest of the house and brought this massive energy field with him....that energy field mixed with mine into a literal conversation like... talking without words and instead of just speaking of ideas actually thinking simultaneously together while those thoughts manifest themselves in actuality around you... it's hard to explain...dreams are bizarre...
So anyway... the only thing I remember from that was that it was actually quite a long and extensive conversation and it began with a black hole opening up underneath my bed that sucked us both into oblivion and in the middle there were two very long white ribbons which became huge and we both held onto one while falling and they ended on some kind of white platform and the whole thing was a huge HUGE swing and we just held onto each other and the huge ribbon sides and I'm pretty sure the snakes too... I just couldn't see them and we were cast back and fourth across a massive expanse of oblivion occasionally dotted by stars toward the end as we came toward a glowing blue sphere that grew ever larger... but we were traveling at such sickening perverse speeds and across such massive distances that the vertigo was too much to deal with and we had to duck down crouched together with our eyes closed as we approached the thing and when we opened them and felt that the huge cosmic inversion black hole white silk platform swing of doom had ceased and was not moving at all... We opened our eyes and were in some dusk black expanse that seemed to be inside of some cavern... and as we peered over the side of the platform we saw the soft reflection of some unknown light dancing over a moving black form... it was an extensive body of black water....We both laughed for some reason... it was like... we knew very well that we were creating this with our minds... and I put my hand to my face still laughing and gasping a little after all that falling through the air... I explained that I had to go and that I had snakes to attend to, and then I put out my arm as if to pull them from thin air even though I had been carrying them the whole time they appeared and their weight returned. The white platform was now moving with the water and sailing lightly in an unknown direction... I said to him simply thanks, but I had to go... He smiled and nodded and waved goodbye thanking me as well and made mention of seeing me later...
then I stepped into that place in thin air where I had taken the snake from, crawling into it like a children’s play tunnel out from under my bed and headed back into the house which, as it turned out had been cleaved in half and no one seemed to care... whatever...
My family was watching TV and I waved and they waved and the snakes shifted periodically... I could feel their weight... I walked out of the cleaved opening in the house out into a half grand bizarre kind of Arabic market and a half white boy new Orleans jazz fest celebrity celebration I ignored all the people around me gawking at the huge snakes I was carrying and looked desperately for the right kind of coil basket for each of the pair I was carrying. I had to go back stage because that was where all the baskets were held and people didn't know whether to stop me or let me through... they decided I must be part of the show and so just let me waltz on back while a brass band warmed up on the stage in their tuxedo shirts and sparkly decor... I walked past all the noise comforting my snakes and looking for the right baskets...
I walked into the quietist parts of the open air shop where no one was around and there was a soft glow... I picked out a basket and then put it back and then picked another one and this went on for a while until the weight of the two of them was getting to be too much and I finally made a decision.
I put one inside and was making ready to set the boa in his new basket when the phone rang and woke me up.