Weird dream...
I had a very long and complex dream last night. I'm afraid I only remember bits and pieces of it because it was so incredibly long, but when I woke up I felt it was significant for some reason. So here goes:
The dream took place at UAF. Actually, the first part took place in high school, where I was taking an extra year for some reason. Something about getting certain credits in. Even though I'd already graduated. I've had that dream before. That particular scene is always very vivid. Anyhow, I don't remember if this was still at the high school, or at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). Anyhow, I was with a bunch of other people, possibly taking a test or in study hall or something, and the phone rang. Some lady (possibly the teacher or librarian) answered and said that normally she wouldn't allow students to have phone calls from anyone, but she'd make an exception for the Pope, and handed me the phone. I got the impression that it was one of a number of subsequent calls from other people, but I don't remember.
The next part I remember was not much further ahead, I was at UAF and just coming from something with a friend of mine up there. WE went to her dorm room to help her decide something (I don't remember what). So she and God and/or the pope (who I think was there in person?) were having this big discussion over this thing, and she suddenly says something along the lines of "Okay, God, if you really want me to be gay, make my closet full of coats when I open it." Then she opened her closet, and it was full of coats, but she said it didn't count, because some of them were trench coats. I convinced her that this was indeed her answer, and for some reason we both knew that if she put one on, she would become a god and/or have at least part of His powers. So she put son a coat, and right then there's a bunch of drunk partiers going past in the hallway. Also, a big storm is starting to descend on campus (presumably what drove the partiers inside). So, to test her new powers, she commands lightning down on them. I stop her and tell her it's a bad idea, and that Wiccans have something called the "Three-Fold Law", which is a good rule of thumb even if you aren't Wiccan. So she changes it to something else, or at least tries to, but the wind from the storm is becoming so loud that you can't hear what she's saying. And the whole building is beginning to shake and groan in that deep, ominous way. I can't see them, but somehow I know people are starting to evacuate the building. So I drag my friend (who wants to stay for some reason?) down the back stairs to the second floor (which is confusing, because her dorm room was on the second floor), and then we know it's gonna take forever to get out of the building because everyone else is trying to, too. The collision warning/I'm about to fall over alarm starts going off, and the way it echoes through the empty back stairway is really ominous. Anyhow, right then, I see an exit to outside just sitting on the 2nd story landing, with a long ramp down to ground level. So my friend and I run down that, and towards the library. It looked and was laid out a lot like U Arizona's, for some reason, including having a big open underground courtyard. So we go running into the library and I think someone tries to stop me because we're running in the library or I have an overdue book or the pope called me during study hall or some reason like that. We ignore them and I start to go towards a back room I know of (I've used the library scene several times before in various dreams, except it's got a little back room that nobody knows about and doesn't really exist), but she went towards the courtyard and I followed. We skittered along the edge of the indoor part of the courtyard, being careful of the ultra-high winds which were sucking people out of the outdoor part, and instead ran up a little back ramp to the back exit, which opened into a bright sunny field with houses in the distance. I knew it looked so nice because the storm hadn't gotten that far yet (it was directly overhead), and that we would be safe if we stayed next to this door. Then some girl with a shotgun walked onto the top of the ramp from the courtyard and said we'd better get out "Christian butts" up there before she opened fire. I knew for some reason that she felt we were too safe and/or running from the problem, and that was at least part of why she was mad at us. I could feel myself walking up right then, and really wanted to stay on, because I Was curious why she felt she needed a gun to get us up there, and why she wanted us up there anyways instead of coming down to join us in our safe spot. Then I woke up. :(
So yeah, really weird dream. Any ideas, anyone?
The dream took place at UAF. Actually, the first part took place in high school, where I was taking an extra year for some reason. Something about getting certain credits in. Even though I'd already graduated. I've had that dream before. That particular scene is always very vivid. Anyhow, I don't remember if this was still at the high school, or at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). Anyhow, I was with a bunch of other people, possibly taking a test or in study hall or something, and the phone rang. Some lady (possibly the teacher or librarian) answered and said that normally she wouldn't allow students to have phone calls from anyone, but she'd make an exception for the Pope, and handed me the phone. I got the impression that it was one of a number of subsequent calls from other people, but I don't remember.
The next part I remember was not much further ahead, I was at UAF and just coming from something with a friend of mine up there. WE went to her dorm room to help her decide something (I don't remember what). So she and God and/or the pope (who I think was there in person?) were having this big discussion over this thing, and she suddenly says something along the lines of "Okay, God, if you really want me to be gay, make my closet full of coats when I open it." Then she opened her closet, and it was full of coats, but she said it didn't count, because some of them were trench coats. I convinced her that this was indeed her answer, and for some reason we both knew that if she put one on, she would become a god and/or have at least part of His powers. So she put son a coat, and right then there's a bunch of drunk partiers going past in the hallway. Also, a big storm is starting to descend on campus (presumably what drove the partiers inside). So, to test her new powers, she commands lightning down on them. I stop her and tell her it's a bad idea, and that Wiccans have something called the "Three-Fold Law", which is a good rule of thumb even if you aren't Wiccan. So she changes it to something else, or at least tries to, but the wind from the storm is becoming so loud that you can't hear what she's saying. And the whole building is beginning to shake and groan in that deep, ominous way. I can't see them, but somehow I know people are starting to evacuate the building. So I drag my friend (who wants to stay for some reason?) down the back stairs to the second floor (which is confusing, because her dorm room was on the second floor), and then we know it's gonna take forever to get out of the building because everyone else is trying to, too. The collision warning/I'm about to fall over alarm starts going off, and the way it echoes through the empty back stairway is really ominous. Anyhow, right then, I see an exit to outside just sitting on the 2nd story landing, with a long ramp down to ground level. So my friend and I run down that, and towards the library. It looked and was laid out a lot like U Arizona's, for some reason, including having a big open underground courtyard. So we go running into the library and I think someone tries to stop me because we're running in the library or I have an overdue book or the pope called me during study hall or some reason like that. We ignore them and I start to go towards a back room I know of (I've used the library scene several times before in various dreams, except it's got a little back room that nobody knows about and doesn't really exist), but she went towards the courtyard and I followed. We skittered along the edge of the indoor part of the courtyard, being careful of the ultra-high winds which were sucking people out of the outdoor part, and instead ran up a little back ramp to the back exit, which opened into a bright sunny field with houses in the distance. I knew it looked so nice because the storm hadn't gotten that far yet (it was directly overhead), and that we would be safe if we stayed next to this door. Then some girl with a shotgun walked onto the top of the ramp from the courtyard and said we'd better get out "Christian butts" up there before she opened fire. I knew for some reason that she felt we were too safe and/or running from the problem, and that was at least part of why she was mad at us. I could feel myself walking up right then, and really wanted to stay on, because I Was curious why she felt she needed a gun to get us up there, and why she wanted us up there anyways instead of coming down to join us in our safe spot. Then I woke up. :(
So yeah, really weird dream. Any ideas, anyone?