Dream Journal Transcription (part III)
1/17/04
I dreamed that several people including Gentry and Letitia were outside in the snow when they were attacked by a dragon.
Aurora, Andrea, her dad, and a few others decided to try to save them. We made the Agnews' house our base, but in the dream in looked completely different (more like my grandmother's house), and when we got there, the dragon was already inside!
We hid in a bedroom and sent small groups out for supplies and to spy on the dragon while we tried to think of a way to defeat it. Later, when everyone was asleep, I thought of something. I went to a young woman who was helping us. Oddly enough, she was the one who had played Puck last time I performed in A Midsummer Night's Dream. I said, "you know, I don't think the dragon's real..."
She replied, "I know. He lost a bolt the other day. I had to fix him."
"So you're controlling him? Clever."
I decided not to tell the others.
We found the missing people and revived them by having a giant robotic horse dump hot water on them... don't ask.
Then, while everyone was busy, I went to the older woman who was leading us. She was familiar, but now I don't remember her name. A little boy who was actually Audra Urqheart's son followed me, but when the woman saw that I wanted to talk privately, she sent him away.
"I know about the dragon," I explained.
"Oh, he knows too. Don't tell anyone else," she said, referring to the boy.
Then I woke up because I had to pee. I wanted to see how it ended...
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May 12, 2004
I dreamed I was back in New Orleans on the choir trip again. A lot was going on, but I don't remember it clearly. Near the end of the dream, I was looking out at a foresty area which was backed by a cliff, and there was a speck of golden light right in the middle of the cliff.
I started jumping from tree to tree until I got past the forest and came to a flat plain, which I flew over without having to touch the ground as I usually do.
The cliff was nothing but a tiny ledge with a candle held up by dirt and a golden crystal bird placed over the flame so it glowed. When I lifted the bird, the candle went out, so I flew back to get matches and a new candle. By the way, there was a statue of a mermaid out in the middle of the field.
i came back and replaced the candle and the dirt that held it, but the ledge was a shrine to a spirit who dwelled there, and it was very picky. The spirit formed a serpent of earth which flew at me, so I cleared a space around the candle and let it be filled with part of the serpent. I replaced the bird and left, then woke up.
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9/28/04
It began in Laura's house (my house) at night. Devin and I were in the living room when I happened to look out the window and see a ghostly young girl slowly opening the gate. I locked the door and told Dev to stay away from the windows, but she already knew we were there. She said something about a monster coming... a dragon with many heads... a hydra... and then she vanished.
Almost immediately afterwards, the hydra appeared, crawling slowly down the street.. First it spotted someone across the street, and they were dead within seconds. Next, someone ran to our front door and started begging to be let in, but we knew that if the hydra realized we were inside, it would break through the door or windows and attack. It soon came and killed the poor man.
We held our breaths, silently begging it not to notice us, and finally it wandered of to the back yard.
In the morning we stepped outside, and this is where the dream took an even stranger turn. Across the street was a wide beach, and on the edge, built in and above the water, was a stone castle. In this castle lived the Goddess of Life, an old crone who could be seen walking along the battlements, and the God of Death, who was currently relaxing on the beach, surrounded by servants who fanned him and offered him drinks. Unlike the goddess, he appeared young and healthy, Many found this confusing, but the truth was that he too had once been old and wrinkled like his counterpart, but had recently cast a spell or concocted a potion which altered his looks.
It was considered a scandal, and Life was not pleased.
There was a man in the dream, dark haired, young and handsome. I fell in love with him. I don't think his name was ever mentioned, but he looked and felt like Zander so that is what I'll call him. The only major difference was that his hair was shorter and pulled back in a pony-tail, sort of like Darres from Vampire Game. His eyes weren't violet, either.
The hydra did not come back the next night. Instead, two other characters were introduced. They were my parents in the dream, but were not Laura and Tony. They fought over me like Ms. Coulter and Lord Asrial fighting over Lyra. I think the mother was Ms. Coulter, but the father was definitely not Asrial. He was short, and partially bald.
I don't remember the details well, but there was a bizarre car chase over a field of short, brown grass and I think Coulter crashed her trailer into a chasm and was presumed dead.
Then the hydra returned, summoned out of the ocean by a spell. I think Coulter did it. Zander/Darres and I stayed the night in my house and were not attacked. Devin was there again, as well.
Unfortunately, more sea monsters began to appear. Everyone was doing their best to fight them. We arranged a meeting one day to form a fighting force strong enough to defeat them. For some odd reason, I was wearing my purple jester's hat.
We met in a park-like area with a small pavilion and a hurricane fence surrounding it. We were trying to find out what every person's fighting specialty was. At one point, I called out, "all X-wing pilots, come with me!" and more than half of the people did. They lined up against the fence, but I was surprised and could not think of a speech. Zander helped, I believe.
My fleet of X-wing pilots successfully fought off the monsters, and the hydra disappeared.
Zander and I were celebrating in a bar, drinking and chatting with the barkeep, when someone - an enemy of mine, I suppose - stabbed me in the back with a knife. I fell forward onto the bar, spasming.
My spine had been damaged, and my legs were partially paralyzed. There was a time jump, and in the next scene Zander was helping me relearn to ride a horse. Like the character Readis from The Dolphin's of Pern, I spent most of my time on horseback then.
The final scene of the dream was a beautiful stream surrounded by plants and flowers. Zander was sitting by the water, and I was behind him on my grey mare, holding the reins of his bay horse.
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10/3/04
This dream took place in Grandma's house, but Grandma was Mary. As in, the virgin Mary. Tony was also there, but he was not my father. There was also a woman I did not know. I can't remember what her name was.
They were all lycanthropes, and not even "normal" lycans. They had fangs and venom like spiders.
The strange woman wanted to kill me. Her teeth and fingernails were poisonous, and her hair was like spider silk. She attacked me, and I fought her off using pillows and couch cushions as shields. Finally I managed to get into my room and grab Mace-sama.* I crushed both her hands with it to keep her from scratching me. She ran outside and across the church yard. I followed, and smashed her face with the mace, killing her. Mary told me to eat her so that I would become a wolf spider, and I did so.
("Mace-sama" is the spiky wooden mace I bought at the Medieval Fair. My favorite toy weapon, though I was always better with swords and staves. My Heartless carried a mace for this reason.)
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12/16/04
I flew. I actually flew on my own. No jumping, no riding a dragon or a broom. Just flapping my arms and flying over the city.
Aurora was there too. We were running (or flying) away from a vet because she thought I was a male dog and wanted to neuter me...
but that's not important! I flew!
(since then I have flown in many of my dreams, unassisted, either by the method described here or by skimming a foot or two above the ground, touching down only to change direction.)
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2/9/05
At first I was dreaming about a plague like in Warcraft 3. I was flying around the world trying to avoid the infected areas. Devin was with me, as were one or two other people whose identities were unknown. Then it turned out that Hugh had captured Aurora and hidden her away in a cave on an island. We took a boat across the water, passing sharks and human corpses. When the cave was in sight we flew in. It was a long, twisting tunnel, and we picked up Spyro jewels on the way. We passed a branch in the tunnel but didn't take it. However, around the corner was another opening connecting to the same branch. I looked through it and was astonished to see a huge dining room, complete with high ceiling, chandelier, and long, spotless table. Adjacent to this was a living room, a bathroom, and a study, and inside the study was Hugh. He didn't look up as we came in.
"Lovely house," I commented with an edge of sarcasm.
He said thank you, but still didn't look up, so I left Devin to deal with him while I went up to the second floor.
I knew Aurora's room immediately by the anime pictures on the door. I burst in, finding her huddled on the bed, and said "guess who's here to rescue you!" I was suddenly wearing my fox ears and tail.
She jumped up and hugged me, then proceeded to complete my tour of the house, laughing when I told her that I had flown around the dining room since it was so big.
Upstairs was also a kitchen and a master bedroom. I woke up after seeing this.
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5/17/05
I had a scary dream about Twilight almost dying! She was still a little puppy, and somehow she had gotten badly hurt - deep cuts all over her. The vet said at first that there was nothing he could do. i was so upset!
We saved her in the end, but I don't remember how. :\
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6/7/05
I dreamed that i wanted to know what human flesh tasted like, so I cut off the fingers of one of my hands and ate them. Creepy...
It was my left hand, too, which was stupid. Honestly, if i wanted to know so badly, i should have just taken a bite out of a well-muscled part of my right arm, not that i plan on eating myself anytime soon. Dreams are weird.
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7/7/05
My dream started in Valdemar. The Companions were fighting a battle, but sometimes it would switch to the kingdom of Tortall.
Then the battle was over and I was in Laura's house with Zander. An evil sorceress/demon thing came and used a weird cell phone to throw curses at me that stole parts of my soul. Zander and I chased her off, but she threw the phone in the mud to break it so the curses couldn't be lifted. Then she came back with several minions carrying guns. Zander and all my friends held them off while I hid under a pile of blankets and pillows. I was too weakened by the curses to fight.
Then it was later and we were at a party in a place similar to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship building. I was talking to Dee from school about what had been happening. Then Hiei, Forest and Will showed up and I didn't know who to be with. Zander had turned into Brendan. The last clear part I remember was running to get my white fox ears and tail, so I must have chosen Hiei.
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7/18/05
This dream took place at the end of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. When Harry chased away the dementors at the pond, a group of riders came out of nowhere and took Sirius and Lupin with them. I, in Harry's place, wanted to follow. I knew they were going somewhere wonderful.
I was staring out the window that night, and finally decided to go after them. I howled like a werewolf and saw a red flash of light on the eastern horizon. It was a signal in response to my howl. I followed all night, howling and running towards the signal, and came to a huge city at dawn.
The western edge was a cliff, so I was high above the rest of the city. I climbed down, but did not continue east. I thought they might have changed directions. Tony caught up with me and we started heading south.
Outside the city, we met a group of people with whom Aurora was traveling. She said Lupin was there, and we would meet him soon. We were waiting by a lake when we noticed several corpses by the water's edge. They had been covered in garbage bag plastic, but it blew off suddenly. Somehow we knew that this had been done by zombies, meaning these bodies would rise in turn.
We ran.
We ran until it was night again. I passed Starwind the Tayledras and asked if his people could help. He said he thought so.
Aurora caught up with me and said that the zombies were really fire demons who were helping to protect Lupin and Sirius. I conjured a giant illusion of a chained werewolf breaking free to prove we were on their side, and we turned around. Tony found and joined us while we were running back (through peoples' backyards. Why am I always running through peoples' backyards?) Then, quite sadly, the cold woke me up. (It's bloody summer!)
^This dream was very detailed. I left out a few things because it was the middle of the night and I wanted to go back to sleep.
I was a combination of Harry, Tonks, and myself. (Tonks because I was in love with Lupin)
At one point, I visited a library in the city, but nothing important happened there.
The people who Lupin and Sirius had gone with were elves and werewolves.
While leaving the city, Tony nearly fell off the stairs that zigzagged up the cliff.
The city was very pretty, and seemed to be almost futuristic architecture that mimicked ancient ruins in some ways.
Even after I woke up, I was still nervous about the zombies. They scare me because they are so fatal and hard to kill, but mindless at the same time. They are like a plague incarnate (which I'm sure is the point).
Anyway, it was a fascinating dream and I wish it hadn't ended.
It also contained a full range of very real emotions. I was terribly anxious while chasing Lupin, always afraid that I'd lose him, and infinitely relieved ever time i saw the light signal. As stated, I was terrified by the zombies, and before them, I had been overjoyed to catch up with Lupin's group.
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