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I had a long and very detailed Doctor Who dream which I remember very well because it continued into my half-conscious state. As in, I actually dreamt the end of this knowing it was a dream. Which was funky
Anyway, I think it occurred on a human-colony type planet, because that would explain the odd manner in which my mind mixed invention and reality. It involved Rose and Nine and a cast of supporting characters.
Okay, they were outside an inn. Am going to include every detail I remember. The menu outside was green cardboard, laminated, and had a number of different languages offering a rather limited selection of food, including chips. After considering it for a few minutes, they go in, only to be told by the landlord that they missed the food-serving time. So they ask if they can at least use the loos, and she says sure, gents are to the right, and female/alien loos are to the left.
Which causes the Doctor to look at her in a rather amused manner, and her to point out that he’s human looking enough to use the gents, and off goes Rose. The loos are of a rather strange layout which doesn’t impact much on the story but was interesting anyway; imagine a long thin rectangle. Entrance on one of the short sides of the rectangle, little entry-way bit with sinks (I assume, but I don’t remember any specifically). Then think of a kind of… slightly more than semi-circle. A whole circle with just a bit cut off where it intersects the right-hand wall of the rectangle as you stand looking at the entrance door. And a wall from the outside edge of the circle to the other side of the rectangle, cutting the rectangle approximately in half. The circle and the other half of the rectangle ate the cubicle bits. Doors between each section - yes, even a door leading from one cubicle to the other. I think it must have been another room which was converted. There’s also lots of rather pretty decoration-y bits all over the place.
So Rose goes for the half-rectangle cubicle, closes both the doors, sits down (no seat, and the rim’s a bit bigger than earth-normal seats) and need I really discuss toilet-going activities? Anyway, much more interesting than that, the Doctor comes in, causing Rose to almost overbalance on the toilet’s edge. (Though I didn’t think this at the time, my personal theory is that he came in because he’d seen who was going to be coming in next.) Direct quote from the dream - ‘You know what people are going to think we’ve been doing when e come out of here, don’t you?’ Oh, Rose. You wish.
Anyway, this rather amusing little scene is cut short when there is suddenly A Lot Of Noise. About ten people enter the toilet room. Rose leaves the cubicle to see that they’re all aliens; and judging by their clothes/actions, they’re a royal retinue of some kind, plus Emperor. The Doctor is already hiding behind a screen, spying on them, but they’ve seen her now so she can’t exactly hide with him. She notices - this becomes significant later - a folded handkerchief on the ground, a kind of burgundy-mauve colour with beaded detail. She watches them curiously as she leaves (without, I recall, washing her hands! Though that may be my fault as my dream seemed to forget the sinks.) They seem quite nice, nod to her as she goes past.
They were humanoid, as far as I recall, covered in a kind of light blue fur, slightly taller than average humans and probably all double jointed from the way they moved. Very ornate clothing, from what I recall, and they seemed to be dancing as they entered the room - some sort of ritual?
Anyway, Rose waits outside. Women enter and leave the loos, but the Doctor doesn’t come out - neither do any of the aliens. Are they still in there? If so, she needs an excuse to go back in. She starts taking her watch off, planning to go back in and pretend to be looking for it somewhere, when someone sees her and stops her, asks why she’s taking it off. Rose, caught out too suddenly to lie, says rather randomly, ‘so I can go back into the presence of the Emperor.’ (A bit random, and not entirely IC, but, hey, I was dreaming, so sue me.) The woman asks why she has to take her watch off to do that, and Rose goes erm for a bit, when another woman comes up and gets her out of it, says something about the Emperor and precious metals and (I think?) him either being envious of or wanting to take it? And she leads Rose back into the loos. (I think she may have asked Rose what she wanted in there, and Rose said she’d lost something and was looking for it.) This bit doesn’t make sense. At all. I think she may be the woman in the next bit, but who knows? Notably, the watch was mine. I kept kind of flitting between watching the action and being Rose.
So they’re back in the loos. No Doctor, no aliens, no one but Rose and this woman. In the manner of dreams, Rose knows that something’s happened - the aliens have been attacked and the Doctor taken prisoner. Also, she knows this woman was part of it. So the woman asks what Rose is looking for, and Rose quickly grabs up the handkerchief on the floor and says this. The woman’s face changes - somehow, she doesn’t want Rose taking that object. Ah, and again the details of dreams get blurry. Rose opens the handkerchief and finds two 20p pieces. The woman asks to take them, saying she needs to do tests on them; Rose sees the chance to get to wherever they’ve taken the Doctor. She says she can’t let them out of her sight, they’re very important to her, they’re the only thing she has left from her grandmother. Woman is not unreasonable, and eventually agrees to let Rose come with her to test the coins.
This turns out to be a church. I think either Blake or His Dark Materials got to me on this bit, because the church was eeevil. Woman leads Rose to this massive chapel type room - walls doing up ten stories high, curving in, far wall all done in white and gilt. She asks who built it, and is told that it was Brunel - who I know was a builder on Earth. So I think that was my mind being odd.
Tons of people in the pews watching this. Rose sits down near the back of the room with the coins while the woman goes to speak to the people at the front - on a kind of raised area which keeps going up like steps.
While this is going on, Rose looks behind her at the entrance. Someone is there - very tall and large, reminded me a bit of Hagrid - messing with a bookcase on one side of the door. The bookcase slides open, then closed, then open once again - and there, behind it, is a torture room. Going far, far back. Near the front are rack-like stretching machines with two parts that come together and then pull apart again - a bit like the principle of being torn apart by horses pulling in all directions, but without going that far. One of the machines - she can see two, but not who’s on them - has model dogs on the ends, exactly like a fairground ride, and the other has cats. The cats are positioned facing each other so they’re meeting, the dogs so they’re splitting apart. Don’t know why that’s significant. Loud noises of torture - moans, screams et cetera - and the people in the pews are turning round, muttering. Rose wants to go running in there, try to find the Doctor - she’s certain he’s in there, in that strange way of dreams - but knows that if she does she’ll probably end up strapped to one of the cat-and-dog machines. Before she can make a decision, the people at the front of the room notice, and are furious - who opened that, close ti at once, and so forth. It’s obvious that torture is something everyone who lives here knows about, and they’re all too in feat of it to say anything. The woman, in a furious mood, charges down to get Rose - and she knows she has to act terrified, so all the way up to the front of the chapel she goes, ‘please don’t torture me, please, I don’t want to go to Hell, I want to see my grandma again…’ and suchlike.
When she gets to the top, there’s an old and rather nice-looking man sitting at some kind of desk, with what looks very much like a lightbox on it and lots of switches and equipment, who assures her that she’s not in trouble ad if she’s good and helpful today the Church will be very pleased with her. She gives him the handkerchief, he opens it and takes out the two coins.
Another woman - my ex-teacher and director of the play, Ms. Baylis, nonetheless - is sitting on the other side of the old man and speaks up. No, that’s wrong. There should be three coins. Give us the third coin, girl. Third? There’s only been two in it since Rose found it on the floor. Nervously, she reaches into her pocket, pulls out the change she has - and thank goodness! There’s a 20p piece. She hands it over, acting again, all please forgive me, I was scared, don’t hurt me, etcetera, and they reassure her they won’t.
And that is where I wake up.
So I want your help to finish off my dream. Why is the Church so interested in these coins? How did they get onto the toilet floor in the first place, and where is the third coin? Why did the Doctor spy on those aliens? Is he really being tortured now, and if so, how is Rose going to get him out of there?
Anyway, I think it occurred on a human-colony type planet, because that would explain the odd manner in which my mind mixed invention and reality. It involved Rose and Nine and a cast of supporting characters.
Okay, they were outside an inn. Am going to include every detail I remember. The menu outside was green cardboard, laminated, and had a number of different languages offering a rather limited selection of food, including chips. After considering it for a few minutes, they go in, only to be told by the landlord that they missed the food-serving time. So they ask if they can at least use the loos, and she says sure, gents are to the right, and female/alien loos are to the left.
Which causes the Doctor to look at her in a rather amused manner, and her to point out that he’s human looking enough to use the gents, and off goes Rose. The loos are of a rather strange layout which doesn’t impact much on the story but was interesting anyway; imagine a long thin rectangle. Entrance on one of the short sides of the rectangle, little entry-way bit with sinks (I assume, but I don’t remember any specifically). Then think of a kind of… slightly more than semi-circle. A whole circle with just a bit cut off where it intersects the right-hand wall of the rectangle as you stand looking at the entrance door. And a wall from the outside edge of the circle to the other side of the rectangle, cutting the rectangle approximately in half. The circle and the other half of the rectangle ate the cubicle bits. Doors between each section - yes, even a door leading from one cubicle to the other. I think it must have been another room which was converted. There’s also lots of rather pretty decoration-y bits all over the place.
So Rose goes for the half-rectangle cubicle, closes both the doors, sits down (no seat, and the rim’s a bit bigger than earth-normal seats) and need I really discuss toilet-going activities? Anyway, much more interesting than that, the Doctor comes in, causing Rose to almost overbalance on the toilet’s edge. (Though I didn’t think this at the time, my personal theory is that he came in because he’d seen who was going to be coming in next.) Direct quote from the dream - ‘You know what people are going to think we’ve been doing when e come out of here, don’t you?’ Oh, Rose. You wish.
Anyway, this rather amusing little scene is cut short when there is suddenly A Lot Of Noise. About ten people enter the toilet room. Rose leaves the cubicle to see that they’re all aliens; and judging by their clothes/actions, they’re a royal retinue of some kind, plus Emperor. The Doctor is already hiding behind a screen, spying on them, but they’ve seen her now so she can’t exactly hide with him. She notices - this becomes significant later - a folded handkerchief on the ground, a kind of burgundy-mauve colour with beaded detail. She watches them curiously as she leaves (without, I recall, washing her hands! Though that may be my fault as my dream seemed to forget the sinks.) They seem quite nice, nod to her as she goes past.
They were humanoid, as far as I recall, covered in a kind of light blue fur, slightly taller than average humans and probably all double jointed from the way they moved. Very ornate clothing, from what I recall, and they seemed to be dancing as they entered the room - some sort of ritual?
Anyway, Rose waits outside. Women enter and leave the loos, but the Doctor doesn’t come out - neither do any of the aliens. Are they still in there? If so, she needs an excuse to go back in. She starts taking her watch off, planning to go back in and pretend to be looking for it somewhere, when someone sees her and stops her, asks why she’s taking it off. Rose, caught out too suddenly to lie, says rather randomly, ‘so I can go back into the presence of the Emperor.’ (A bit random, and not entirely IC, but, hey, I was dreaming, so sue me.) The woman asks why she has to take her watch off to do that, and Rose goes erm for a bit, when another woman comes up and gets her out of it, says something about the Emperor and precious metals and (I think?) him either being envious of or wanting to take it? And she leads Rose back into the loos. (I think she may have asked Rose what she wanted in there, and Rose said she’d lost something and was looking for it.) This bit doesn’t make sense. At all. I think she may be the woman in the next bit, but who knows? Notably, the watch was mine. I kept kind of flitting between watching the action and being Rose.
So they’re back in the loos. No Doctor, no aliens, no one but Rose and this woman. In the manner of dreams, Rose knows that something’s happened - the aliens have been attacked and the Doctor taken prisoner. Also, she knows this woman was part of it. So the woman asks what Rose is looking for, and Rose quickly grabs up the handkerchief on the floor and says this. The woman’s face changes - somehow, she doesn’t want Rose taking that object. Ah, and again the details of dreams get blurry. Rose opens the handkerchief and finds two 20p pieces. The woman asks to take them, saying she needs to do tests on them; Rose sees the chance to get to wherever they’ve taken the Doctor. She says she can’t let them out of her sight, they’re very important to her, they’re the only thing she has left from her grandmother. Woman is not unreasonable, and eventually agrees to let Rose come with her to test the coins.
This turns out to be a church. I think either Blake or His Dark Materials got to me on this bit, because the church was eeevil. Woman leads Rose to this massive chapel type room - walls doing up ten stories high, curving in, far wall all done in white and gilt. She asks who built it, and is told that it was Brunel - who I know was a builder on Earth. So I think that was my mind being odd.
Tons of people in the pews watching this. Rose sits down near the back of the room with the coins while the woman goes to speak to the people at the front - on a kind of raised area which keeps going up like steps.
While this is going on, Rose looks behind her at the entrance. Someone is there - very tall and large, reminded me a bit of Hagrid - messing with a bookcase on one side of the door. The bookcase slides open, then closed, then open once again - and there, behind it, is a torture room. Going far, far back. Near the front are rack-like stretching machines with two parts that come together and then pull apart again - a bit like the principle of being torn apart by horses pulling in all directions, but without going that far. One of the machines - she can see two, but not who’s on them - has model dogs on the ends, exactly like a fairground ride, and the other has cats. The cats are positioned facing each other so they’re meeting, the dogs so they’re splitting apart. Don’t know why that’s significant. Loud noises of torture - moans, screams et cetera - and the people in the pews are turning round, muttering. Rose wants to go running in there, try to find the Doctor - she’s certain he’s in there, in that strange way of dreams - but knows that if she does she’ll probably end up strapped to one of the cat-and-dog machines. Before she can make a decision, the people at the front of the room notice, and are furious - who opened that, close ti at once, and so forth. It’s obvious that torture is something everyone who lives here knows about, and they’re all too in feat of it to say anything. The woman, in a furious mood, charges down to get Rose - and she knows she has to act terrified, so all the way up to the front of the chapel she goes, ‘please don’t torture me, please, I don’t want to go to Hell, I want to see my grandma again…’ and suchlike.
When she gets to the top, there’s an old and rather nice-looking man sitting at some kind of desk, with what looks very much like a lightbox on it and lots of switches and equipment, who assures her that she’s not in trouble ad if she’s good and helpful today the Church will be very pleased with her. She gives him the handkerchief, he opens it and takes out the two coins.
Another woman - my ex-teacher and director of the play, Ms. Baylis, nonetheless - is sitting on the other side of the old man and speaks up. No, that’s wrong. There should be three coins. Give us the third coin, girl. Third? There’s only been two in it since Rose found it on the floor. Nervously, she reaches into her pocket, pulls out the change she has - and thank goodness! There’s a 20p piece. She hands it over, acting again, all please forgive me, I was scared, don’t hurt me, etcetera, and they reassure her they won’t.
And that is where I wake up.
So I want your help to finish off my dream. Why is the Church so interested in these coins? How did they get onto the toilet floor in the first place, and where is the third coin? Why did the Doctor spy on those aliens? Is he really being tortured now, and if so, how is Rose going to get him out of there?