A loyal servant and a game involving vampires
I dreamt about a Persian prince who had a family of servants who served him faithfully: a man, a woman, and their daughter.
One day the man went to the prince and said, "Our daughter has betrayed you." And he told the prince what she had done.
"Thank you for telling me," the Prince said. "it must have been difficult, but you did the right thing."
Then the prince commanded that the man, the woman, and their daughter should all have their eyes gouged out. And it was done.
At first the man was devastated at losing his eyesight, and that his loyalty had been rewarded in this way. But he soon discovered that unusual insight had been given to him in place of what was lost.
(The dream had a narrative voiceover similar to what I've recorded here, but that's as much as I remember.)
Afterward I had a separate dream about playing a game involving monsters such as vampires and their minions. They were arranged around a rectangular board, which had three-dimensional features: dark plastic mountains around the edge, with a smooth surface between them made of translucent green glass. I seemed to be playing with one or two other people, but I couldn't see them. We had pewter figurines of the monsters, two or three of each type. We would choose which monsters to use in a scenario and set up the game. Each side of the board represented the different alignments: good and evil, lawful and unlawful. We would pick groups of monsters to fight with or against. These involved alien invasion type encounters more than dungeon adventures. Once we started playing, the figures would come to life and my point of view would descend into an imaginary world. When the scenario finished, we picked a different set of figurines.
Before waking up, I began remembering the previous dream about the loyal servant and it became mixed up with the game dream. The man and his wife had to contend with some vampires we had set to appear. Somehow his blindness was an asset.
I began wondering what things would look like if your eyes were gouged out. Would you see blackness, like when your eyes are closed? I was still thinking about this when I woke up.
I keep noticing an aquamarine colour in my dreams. Otherwise a lot of the elements seem to be grey scale. In this dream the figures were made of pewter, but the vampires had aquamarine ribbons painted on them. My racist dream was vividly colourful but many of the doll people had aquamarine as a prominent colour in their ethnic costumes. I've noticed this previously, but have neglected to note it, so I can't remember any other specifics. I should start recording this and figure out whether it represents anything.
In the past I've had dreams with specific red elements in an otherwise black-and-white environment. For example, in one of my favourite long-ago dreams, I was a mysterious woman in a red dress who arrived at the office of a loser detective asking for help, with echoes of Maltese Falcon and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The red colour served to draw attention to something, like in Schindler's List. Aquamarine seems to represent a subtler significance.
One day the man went to the prince and said, "Our daughter has betrayed you." And he told the prince what she had done.
"Thank you for telling me," the Prince said. "it must have been difficult, but you did the right thing."
Then the prince commanded that the man, the woman, and their daughter should all have their eyes gouged out. And it was done.
At first the man was devastated at losing his eyesight, and that his loyalty had been rewarded in this way. But he soon discovered that unusual insight had been given to him in place of what was lost.
(The dream had a narrative voiceover similar to what I've recorded here, but that's as much as I remember.)
Afterward I had a separate dream about playing a game involving monsters such as vampires and their minions. They were arranged around a rectangular board, which had three-dimensional features: dark plastic mountains around the edge, with a smooth surface between them made of translucent green glass. I seemed to be playing with one or two other people, but I couldn't see them. We had pewter figurines of the monsters, two or three of each type. We would choose which monsters to use in a scenario and set up the game. Each side of the board represented the different alignments: good and evil, lawful and unlawful. We would pick groups of monsters to fight with or against. These involved alien invasion type encounters more than dungeon adventures. Once we started playing, the figures would come to life and my point of view would descend into an imaginary world. When the scenario finished, we picked a different set of figurines.
Before waking up, I began remembering the previous dream about the loyal servant and it became mixed up with the game dream. The man and his wife had to contend with some vampires we had set to appear. Somehow his blindness was an asset.
I began wondering what things would look like if your eyes were gouged out. Would you see blackness, like when your eyes are closed? I was still thinking about this when I woke up.
I keep noticing an aquamarine colour in my dreams. Otherwise a lot of the elements seem to be grey scale. In this dream the figures were made of pewter, but the vampires had aquamarine ribbons painted on them. My racist dream was vividly colourful but many of the doll people had aquamarine as a prominent colour in their ethnic costumes. I've noticed this previously, but have neglected to note it, so I can't remember any other specifics. I should start recording this and figure out whether it represents anything.
In the past I've had dreams with specific red elements in an otherwise black-and-white environment. For example, in one of my favourite long-ago dreams, I was a mysterious woman in a red dress who arrived at the office of a loser detective asking for help, with echoes of Maltese Falcon and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The red colour served to draw attention to something, like in Schindler's List. Aquamarine seems to represent a subtler significance.