Weird Dream Channel
My family and I were visiting a carnival owned and operated by Caprine in a landscape of Lovecraftian horror -- a marshy wasteland on a dark and overcast night. The carnival looked rickety and makeshift, as if Caprine had to put it together out of stuff she had lying around the house, but it was full of sudden and terrifying surprises and traps. Inside the haunted house, there was a "ride" that was nothing but a hallway with a slippery floor that you could slide across in your socks, or glide along on an office chair. But at the far end was a thing like a combination of a Venus flytrap and an Alien egg, which would turn inside out and engulf you with a loud snap as soon as you got there. I thought it was mechanical, until it started complaining because I wouldn't let Autumn go down the hallway. There was also a path cut into the side of a steep mountain made out of several million tons of modeling clay that Autumn and I climbed. When we were halfway up and couldn't go anywhere except up or down the path because the cliff was too steep on both sides, a horde of small Lovecraftian monsters attacked. Each one was only the size of a miniature Dachshund. I was stuck defending the path with one hand because the other was wrapped around Autumn to keep her safe behind me. As each little monster came up -- fortunately one at at time -- I grabbed it by the neck, shook it hard and threw it over the cliff.
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Possibly as a follow-up to the dream in which I was forcibly recruited into an army fighting an intergalactic war -- I was in an army fighting an intergalactic war against some lizard-like aliens. Apparently we were losing, but this seemed odd to me, because I was armed with a machine gun and the lizards had no weapons at all. I ran around, took cover, and shot lizards efficiently -- they died after three or four bullets, with no blood, mess, or screaming as if it were a computer game. Then word came down that we were surrendering, so I shrugged and handed my gun to the nearest lizard, eager to see what would happen next. Oddly, I was taken into a classroom and given a seat in the back. A lizard teacher was giving a lecture to lizard students on a subject I felt curious about. However, I was also very tired and wanted to take a nap, so I asked the teacher -- "Excuse me, could you tell me why I'm here? Am I supposed to be learning something, or am I going to be an object lesson, or is this just a convenient place to put me for awhile? I just need to know if I should be paying attention." I woke up without getting an answer.
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Possibly as a follow-up to the dream in which I was forcibly recruited into an army fighting an intergalactic war -- I was in an army fighting an intergalactic war against some lizard-like aliens. Apparently we were losing, but this seemed odd to me, because I was armed with a machine gun and the lizards had no weapons at all. I ran around, took cover, and shot lizards efficiently -- they died after three or four bullets, with no blood, mess, or screaming as if it were a computer game. Then word came down that we were surrendering, so I shrugged and handed my gun to the nearest lizard, eager to see what would happen next. Oddly, I was taken into a classroom and given a seat in the back. A lizard teacher was giving a lecture to lizard students on a subject I felt curious about. However, I was also very tired and wanted to take a nap, so I asked the teacher -- "Excuse me, could you tell me why I'm here? Am I supposed to be learning something, or am I going to be an object lesson, or is this just a convenient place to put me for awhile? I just need to know if I should be paying attention." I woke up without getting an answer.