Dream Journal Transcription (part IV)
8/19/05
I dreamed that I was Lina Inverse. First I killed Shabaranigdo, then I went after Ceifeed, though I knew the world would end if both the demon and the dragon kings were destroyed (at least in this dream it would). So the world ended, but I managed to escape to one of the Lord of Nightmares' other worlds.
I missed my friends, so I confronted the Lord of Nightmares and told her that instead of letting everyone on the Slayers world die, she should have sent them to her other worlds, so she did.
Then the dream changed and I don't remember much, except there was a werewolf with me and we did a lot of running from place to place in order to escape people. Oh, and there was a chibi Sailor Jupiter. No, I have no idea why.
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8/20/05
The beginning of my dream is blurry, but it seemed like I'd had the dream before, or at least played the game before. You see, I was in an roleplaying videogame. Aurora, Tony and Devin were there too, as well as some characters I don't know. we were already at the end of the game, getting ready to head into the last fortress, but I waited too long and some of the monsters came out. it turned out to be a blessing, though, because we sneaked around them instead of having to fight. I made a mental note to do the same thing next time I played the game.
Most of the monsters in the fortress were small and could be killed in one hit. I was using my wooden mace, of course. Apparently I had skipped some of the characters earlier in the game, so I was calling their names trying to get them to join me now. Lessa Keller-Kenton came, and Aurora found three others.
One of the mini-bosses was one of those games where you have to hit the buttons when they flash. Aurora and a nameless male character handled it very well. The next was one I knew was the hardest fight in the game, so we took a break instead. We were on a raised floor with a long hallway down the center, the boss behind a door at one end. One side of the hall looked out over a courtyard, the other was lined with doors leading into small rooms. I went to explore those rooms and found a pair of toy dinosaurs - a triceratops and a stegosaurus - in a pile of junk. In these higher levels there were no monsters except the bosses. The dinosaurs talked, and I recognized them as one of the best weapons in the game. But whose?
One of the nameless male characters (of which there were three, and one female that I know of) followed me in case I ran into any trouble. I let him touch the weapon and it chose him with a happy squeal. Such a cute weapon!
Then I noticed Aurora was gone. I got very worried, but then saw her at the far end of the hall, opposite from the boss. She had found a sleek black pony. Apparently I already had a dapple grey pony named Storm. Aurora and her pony, called Rain, jumped down into the courtyard and I called Storm to follow them. The ponies were both nervous so we let them gallop in circles. I rode on Storm's back for fun, even though she didn't have a saddle.
I guess we fell asleep, because then it was morning. The sky over the courtyard was cloudy, but bright.
Beyond the courtyard was a park-like area and a cafeteria! One of the unnamed characters was sitting at a circular table in the park. The rest were in the cafeteria. One section of the cafeteria sold chips and the other sold chocolate. I wanted a healthier breakfast, but decided to get chocolate. Storm was with me, so I planned to get her some too. First I had to run to Tony for money. He was sitting across from Lessa at one of the long tables in the cafeteria. Then I tried to order a chocolate with a name containing the word 'storm', but the guy at the counter only had one of each and that one was already paid for, so I asked for one with a name that had something to do with the ocean, but then I woke up! The last image from the dream was me eating a flakey bread roll with apricot in one half and the chocolate (which was minty and delicious) in the other as fillings. That was such a detailed dream. I wish I could have finished it!
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6/25/06
Two dreams. Both nightmares in the end.
The first was set in the world of Warcraft. A human finds out about a terrible weapon that the Horde has made (a bomb) and rides to Stormwind to warn the king, but is too late. As he's riding over the roads, the bomb hits.
Skip some years...
Because of the destructive attack, Stormwind has developed an extreme defense system involving very long-range lasers. You can't get anywhere near the city without being shot at.
Skip more time...
Almost like modern earth now, but completely focused on war. Toddlers are raised to love their family and home, but as soon as they can handle a weapon, they're taught to fight. Laser weapons for defense are being improved too. Everyone's lives revolve totally around war.
At this point I woke up, feeling very saddened and disturbed.
When I went back to sleep, the next dream started. I think it was the same world, but even later.
Humans dominate the world now, and for them, individual lives have returned to a semblance of normalcy. Mabry, Aurora, Devin, Brendan and Bronwyn are with me at something like the Medieval Fair. Various random things happen, vaguely reminiscent of stories or movies. The part I remember most, though, is the end.
The six of us all wear cloaks as sort of a symbol of our group of friends. Mabry, Brendan and Devin's are cloaks of invisibility. We're gathered in this small, empty shed and the door opens and closes on its own.
"Look. Someone came in," I murmur.
Brendan peaks out of his invisibility cloak to show us it's just him, then hides again. A moment later, a guard knocks on the door.
"Did that boy in the invisibility cloak come in here?" he asks.
We say no, but he knows we're lying. He tells us he'll arrest us next time he sees us because he thinks we're spies. So we have to run away, taking only what we can carry, becoming fugitives, because if we're arrested, we'll be tortured until we confess.
Stupid nightmares... I need a new dreamcatcher.
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9/5/06
I dreamed some guy who looked kind of like Dale from King of the Hill had been trying to kill us (me, Devin, Tony, Mabry, Brendan and Aurora), but we kept escaping. Finally he came to our house with some kind of small nuclear bomb. We ran as he set it off. It destroyed most of Norman, but we hid in Sutton Wilderness. We built a little fort in the northwest corner. A lot of animals had been mutated by the bomb. There was a pair of sabertooth dogs and a creepy grey cat that kept trying to get in.
Then my dreaming mind randomly decided that I was Rinoa and Squall was also there, and we had been the GF Griever, as in the fanfic by Larathia, but we'd split for some reason. Probably something to do with that crazy bomb guy.
After hiding out for several days, we left the park in search of somewhere else to stay so that we could more easily avoid the weird animals.
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9/19/06
Yami (AKA my highschool friend Jen) called me and said she was hiding from her dad who was going to hurt or even kill her. He caught her before I could get to her, but he'd tied her up unguarded so I freed her and summoned a spirit to teleport her to safety... cuz apparently I can do that. However, I still had to escape the old fashioned way.
Or not.
All of a sudden I had a little flying machine. Yami's dad shot missiles at me which I had to avoid. High-speed chase with explosions = fun.
I had teleported Yami to someone I knew could help, so I went to find this person. She said I'd really surprised her, but I didn't know why. I asked where Yami was, she said I should know, and I said I hadn't been able to pay a lot of attention when I sent her. She said she'd show me, but I had to keep it a secret. She took me to a little tiny house and unlocked the shed in the back. It led to a second backyard in which a lioness and her cubs were sleeping. There was another shed, this one painted white, and she opened it with a specially coded tool. Inside were a set of stairs leading down. She said "The White" lived here.
The hallways were all sterile white, but there were normal-looking rooms branching off from them. She showed me a living room with lots of great movies and games and a classy decor of light browns, reds and black. There were also bathrooms with huge, great tubs. It was wonderful.
She said there were apartments above and in other parts of the underground hideout where The White lived. I had noticed Final Fantasy VIII in the games and thought of the White SeeD. I asked if she'd every played the game, but she said no. She said that Yami was resting in one of the bedrooms, so instead of disturbing her, she took me up and out into the backyard of a house on the opposite side of the block. It had a huge swimming pool.
We got in a car, but then Yami's dad showed up and blocked our path, so the lady (who was Letitia all of a sudden) drove backwards and away. When he followed, she started speeding on purpose so a cop would pull her over and she could tell him she was being followed. It worked, and she pulled over in front of the house we'd gone in from first, telling me to go find Yami and tell the people with her what was going on.
Then I woke up. :/
I'd known, though, that The White were in fact the White SeeD. I may have been a reincarnation of Rinoa or something. Griever version, most likely.
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2/18/2007
In this dream, myself and most of my friends were werewolves who lived alongside humans without them ever knowing. Our enemies were the orcs, who could also disguise themselves as humans and lived the same way.
In our pack, there was a young male whose name I've forgotten. He was not the alpha, but everyone knew that he would be one day. Though younger than him and technically his half-sister, I was in love with him.
Our pack liked to visit a Unitarian church even though it was a human-run establishment. The place was clearly inspired by the First Unitarian Church in OKC. In one of the rooms there was a secret entrance into an almost identical room below it that held an emergency escape route for use if the orcs attacked. There was a special kind of air in the tunnels that werewolves could breathe but orcs could not, so even if they followed us in, they'd have to turn back or die. Only a select few pack members knew how to activate the secret entrance, but after enough pestering, Brendan finally told me, as long as I promised not to let anyone else, be they wolf, human or orc, see.
I went to the room, but I was followed by two of my human friends, Sarah and Carly (I dunno why it was Carly instead of Sarah's best friend Melinda). They saw me pull the little chain on the counter which triggered a small circle of the floor to sink down, taking with it whoever was standing on it. Of course, they followed me. Mabry and Brendan were very upset, though I tried to make excuses.
Then the orcs found out about us.
Led by our alpha, with the young male in second place, we took the secret passage to the escape tunnels. The orcs followed us, so we ran the whole way through. I struggled to keep up with the lead two. (We were of course running on all-fours in half-wolf form.) The orcs behind us had to stop chasing, but as the leaders rounded a corner, I heard the young one yelp loudly. I shouted to ask if he was okay, and he said yes. An orc had found the tunnel's exit and ambushed him, but he'd killed it.
The tunnel came out in a neighboring city, and the rest of the dream was about the pack exploring and getting acquainted with our new home, while avoiding orcs. There were a number of various occurrences, but I don't remember them clearly. At one point, though, I saw an orc riding a warg in broad daylight and thought he was crazy, and another time two guys started hitting on me in a dangerous way and I ran to the young male for protection and mouthed that they were orcs.
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6/10/2007
I was sent to infiltrate a hidden castle and destroy the evil sorcerer who ruled it. The entrance was a cave opening out into the ocean, so we joined the Black Pearl's crew to get there. As we neared the cave, we noticed that we were being chased by a Navy ship. To the crew's shock, Jack Sparrow ordered us to break the main mast, allowing the ship to fit under the low roof of the cave, where the Navy wouldn't follow.
The reason they wouldn't follow was clear when we entered. Any sudden movement on the water that disturbed the surface with a splash would draw the attention of tentacled monster beneath. I wasn't sure if it was several small monsters or a single giant one stretched throughout the cave. to protect the ship, we stopped not far from the entrance and I went on alone.
Moving very carefully, I made it across the widest stretch of water only to realize that the entire bottom floor of the castle was flooded by about a foot of water laced with sensitive tentacles. Sometimes they even blocked my path and I had to distract them by tossing rocks (or once or twice, a dead rat) into the water.
The layout of the floor was at least easy for me. I'd been told that the man I was supposed to kill would most likely be found on either the 4th or 12th floor. Straight across from the entrance was an elevator. Before I reached it, though, I seemed to black out.
When I opened my eyes, I found myself on the (thankfully dry) floor of someone's bedroom, between the bed and the dresser. Though I did not recognize the room itself, there was a plethora of objects and decorations that struck me as familiar. I realized why when I saw a brown and green Fire Lizard toy on the dresser and recognized him as Mabry's. Then the door opened and in stepped Mabry herself, only she was a young girl of nine years old, as she'd been when I first met her.
She asked who I was, so I told her my name was Robin.
She said I'd make a better 'Ri'. Ri being a character from my stories whom I would very much like to be, I agreed.
"I know how you can become Ri," she said, and I got a very bad feeling...
She came at me like she wanted to grab me and possibly strangle me. I slipped past her out the door, but saw that we were on a different part of the floor and I didn't know where the elevator was. So I asked her, and she pointed the way, and I ran ahead, leaving her to dodge the tentacles that rose where the water had splashed in my passing.
I pressed the button for the 12th floor and had to hang on tight as the elevator turned out to be only a small, rectangular cushion that rose up through the much more spacious elevator shaft.
I could see over the edge of the cushioned platform as the young Mabry made it in, glared up at me, then realized that the button I'd pressed was still indented, thus revealing what floor I was heading to. She darted away to take another way up.
Somehow, she got there faster and was waiting for me. Disappointed that I hadn't got the chance to search the 12th floor for my quarry, I hit the button for floor 1. This time, she stayed above and threw things down at me, trying to knock me off the cushion. She mostly missed, and I took advantage of my head start to lose her in the maze-like hallways.
I soon found myself in another out-of-place room, this one with furniture that I recognized from Sunny's living room. Sunny and Stephanie were sitting on the couch watching TV. They too were younger versions. They looked seven or eight.
They smiled at me and gestured for me to join them. Unlike Mabry, they did not feel threatening. I joined them on the couch and told them that I had come to slay the wizard who controlled the castle. When I described the way I'd been told to do it - some ritual involving symbols of animals; horse and wolf heads, and the wings of swan and hawk - they laughed and said it was a lot easier than that. All I had to do was pour hot sauce and something alcoholic on him, and he'd melt back into his true form. Apparently he was a toy horse with a spell on him to bring him to life and make him look human.
I thanked them and left the room, and had to outrun Mabry back to the elevator again. This time I pushed the button for the 4th floor.
Conveniently, that floor held a kitchen, and the wizard was there.
He was a tall, handsome man with bright blue eyes, a devil-style goatee, and long hair that was either blond or brown - I couldn't tell.
He might have been an adult version of Devin.
He grinned at me. Words were exchanged, but I can't remember them.I found a jar of hot sauce quickly and dumped it on him, but I had a harder time finding alcohol.
While we chased each other around the kitchen, me trying to find alcohol while keeping him too busy to cast a spell at the same time, Mabry arrived. For some reason, she did not come after me, though she looked angry when the wizard started listing reasons for her to envy and hate me.
I was getting desperate and had almost given up on finding an alcoholic drink in the kitchen, when Sunny called my name and pointed to a twelve-pack of bottles that looked like strawberry soda.
She handed me one, which I splashed in the wizard's face. He shrieked and began to sizzle and shrink until he was the size of a toy, at which point he stopped for a moment and just floated there. Worried that he hadn't been destroyed completely, I poured another bottle on him, but then remembered that he wasn't supposed to vanish completely. When the bubbles and steam stopped rising, a prancing palomino horse made out of plastic lay in his place. I decided to keep it, on the excuse that he might come back otherwise.
Sunny, Stephanie, and even Mabry thanked me for destroying him, and told me that the castle was safe now. There were several ghost-like but happy-looking figures wandering around and it occurred to me that they had been under spells which turned them into the rats and tentacle monsters that had filled the castle. Now they were free.
I even recognized some of them. One was a girl I'd known in highschool, and behind her I saw Sora and Riku from Kingdom Hearts.
Feeling rather Lina Inverse-ish, I decided to loot the castle. There were some cats (yes, I loot cats!) and a few Brayer horses that I had always wanted for my collection. I thought about taking the wizard's laptop computer, but it was old and not as good as mine, and looked like it was about to break anyway. While sifting through a collection of dragon puppets, I woke up.
(This dream I find very interesting now. It was only five days before that June 15, it involves Disney aspects in the form of the Black Pearl, and the encounter with Mabry is especially foreshadowing. She is the age at which I met her, when we first began to dream together of visiting other worlds. What's more, she attempts to turn me into my story character by killing me, and this particular story character, Ri, is the one I created as an alternate version of myself who could visit all of the worlds I dreamed of, and had her own pocket dimension which she could shape and change by willpower. By shear coincidence, this dream seems to symbolize what followed it. Even Sora and Riku made a brief appearance.)