theatrical_muse #192 - Write about a recurring dream you've had.
When you become a Slayer, you get some lovely consolation prizes for the fact that your life is about to become completely wrecked. Like prophetic dreams for instance. They're not exactly cohesive, as dreams go. In fact, the first time I had one, I wasn't sure what had happened. It seemed like some really strangely fragmented nightmare. An acid trip I know I didn't take. Though I could have fooled myself at that point.
At first, it's just a bunch of girls from different places in time killing the kinds of things that are beyond the average nightmare. It's pretty disconcerting at first. To be this normal teenage girl who lives this almost cookie cutter teenage life and then suddenly find yourself having these incredibly violent dreams. At first, I just thought it was eating wrong before bed or watching too many movies. But then it became all too real.
They started in L.A. and they followed me to Sunnydale. Sometimes I have them more often than others. Like when The Master was trying to make good on his long buried (pun so intended) plans to open the Hellmouth, or when The First was trying to do a lot worse. Actually, now that I think about, the times my dreams have been most recurring is when there was a lot of Hellmouthy type action going on.
Anyway, eventually, the dreams became a lot less scary and actually proved useful. Sometimes it took awhile for it to all click, but more often than not, the dreams provided some kind of insight into things that seemed impossible to figure out. Things that history hadn't really recorded much about. I can't speak for Faith or Kennedy or any of the Slayers out there, though they all get them too. It's part of the package, located right between those first customary wood splinters and the shorter life expectancy.
Buffy Summers
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
314 Words
At first, it's just a bunch of girls from different places in time killing the kinds of things that are beyond the average nightmare. It's pretty disconcerting at first. To be this normal teenage girl who lives this almost cookie cutter teenage life and then suddenly find yourself having these incredibly violent dreams. At first, I just thought it was eating wrong before bed or watching too many movies. But then it became all too real.
They started in L.A. and they followed me to Sunnydale. Sometimes I have them more often than others. Like when The Master was trying to make good on his long buried (pun so intended) plans to open the Hellmouth, or when The First was trying to do a lot worse. Actually, now that I think about, the times my dreams have been most recurring is when there was a lot of Hellmouthy type action going on.
Anyway, eventually, the dreams became a lot less scary and actually proved useful. Sometimes it took awhile for it to all click, but more often than not, the dreams provided some kind of insight into things that seemed impossible to figure out. Things that history hadn't really recorded much about. I can't speak for Faith or Kennedy or any of the Slayers out there, though they all get them too. It's part of the package, located right between those first customary wood splinters and the shorter life expectancy.
Buffy Summers
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
314 Words