Dream

Dec 02, 2010 10:26

I had a really long and somewhat epic dream last night. In it, I was in some gathering in some very large, indoor room...and there was something going on that had safety netting underneath it, to catch people if they fell. I remember climbing around on the edge of the netting...it was a bit scary because it was so high up, but it was solidly constructed.

Everyone started leaving, and it was very busy and crowded. People had to walk down many, many flights of stars (perhaps 50 or so?) to exit the building because we were so high up. Someone I knew took me aside and said that they knew a quicker way out. They took me to a small tower that had a spiral staircase, and it went up. I started climbing, but after a couple flights of stairs up I asked where we were going.

The person said: "When we get to the top of this tower, there is a lamb, and if you stand on the lamb, you will be teleported to the lobby of the building. It's a lot quicker than climbing down." And then I said: "But it's harder, we're having to climb up so many flights of stairs. How many are left anyway?" and he said: "I'm not sure, I think about 13." It seemed like a lot, and it honestly didn't sound much easier than just going down and out like everyone else, but I was very curious about the teleportation, so I decided to climb anyway. The stairs were somewhat narrow and a little slippery, and there was just an empty area in the middle of the tower, which was quite treacherous...and that alone would have made me nervous, but there was a solid railing around the edge of the room, and that made me feel secure in climbing.

After going up for quite some time, I noticed that under each step was a drawer that could be pulled out. I started opening them, out of curiosity. Many were empty, but some contained all varieties of strange and mysterious objects. My friend Mickey was there, and he found a small vial in one of the drawers. The person I was with advised him to drink it, but warned that it might taste strange. I told Mickey that I did not think he should drink it. He drank it, and he said it tasted horrible. He then said he felt ill, and decided to go down the stairs and go out with everyone else, instead of continue onward.

We got to the top and were almost at the top, and the steps spaced out farther, making the drawers in them much larger. My friend continued to the top but I was fascinated by what I had found in one of the drawers: two broken violins. Both were made of a strange wood that had a sort of marbled pattern, and both were broken off, and had only the half from the bridge up: one had an intact bridge, and the other was missing the bridge, but neither had a bottom. There was also a bow, which had the top half (the half farther from where you hold the bow) broken off. The bow had half its hair, and was frayed openly, but there were no strings on the violins. I found this very strange and fascinating. I examined them...but both violins seemed really cheaply made. But I didn't think to examine the bow closely. I placed everything back in the drawer and closed it.

The order of events is a bit fuzzy in this part of the dream, so it may be out of order.

I then went to the top. "The lamb" was not a live lamb, but rather, a painted pattern of a lamb in a circle in the interior of the room, at the very center of the top of the tower. My friend stood to the side. To the other side, there was an older woman dressed in interesting robes. She took a tape measure, and began measuring me. She said that she was going to make an article of clothing for me, but did not tell me what it was. She measured my left arm and some measurements around my head and neck. I then stood on the lamb and appeared at the entrance of the building, and walked out.

In the dream, I woke up. But I was still dreaming. I realized that I wanted to go back to sleep to continue the dream because I realized that I had missed something; I had closely examined the violins, but not the bow. So I went back to sleep, and I found myself climbing up the tower again. This time I got to the drawer, and I opened it, and the half-violins and half-bow were there, just like before...but this time I looked closely at the bow. It had an unusual construction, with two seams in the wood. I noticed that the wood between the seams looked somehow special, and then I realized that this section of the bow could be separated from the rest. I took it out, and it was a magic wand. I knew it contained immense power, but I didn't know what or why, so I placed it in my pocket, and placed the violins and the remainder of the bow back in the door. Then I went to the top and stood on the lamb and was teleported again.

But now I was in a room with a bunch of people, having some sort of lively party. It was a group of people I was familiar and close with. Suddenly, a group of people burst in the door and were threatening us. They started to use some sort of magical powers. I realized that I had the wand, and wanted to protect us against them. I wasn't quite sure what to do. I pointed the wand at the people and tried to zap them, but it didn't do much of anything. I then realized that maybe the wand was meant to be used in a defensive way. I then waved the wand in a circle around the group of people, and out of the wand a strange fabric appeared, glowing bluish white, and surrounded us all, but there was a hole in it and the people threatening us could get through the hole...and at the edge of the fabric I saw a place to wrap my arms in, and I realized why the person had taken my measurements, that this was the piece of clothing I was supposed to wear...so I wrapped my arms in it and was able to close the hole in the fabric, with my head being the last thing visible, and then, we were all safe.

And then I woke up for real.
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