How my mind got me a cool new place, and ruined it for me
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, 07-03-2012 at 10:46 AM (464 Views)
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Set: Sunny day, Paris suburbs, huge and gorgeous apartment
Characters: My girlfriend K, my sister, a freaking spider with wings
Lucidity: None, but very detailed environment
I am with K in our new imaginary place. It appears to be on the first floor in some sort of suburban residential neighborhood. It is so charming, clean and modern it could be an IKEA display apartment. We are discovering the kitchen, impressed with cool utensils we've never seen before. The kitchen has huge panoramic windows and we can see a bunch of people in our garden, having fun and drinking champagne, they're probably here to welcome us in the neighborhood or something. We hang out with them for a bit, it's all fun and games but I don't pay that much attention to them because I'm excited about my new place.
I go back inside on my own, and that's when I notice a massive spider, sleeping on its web, with its legs retracted. I look around me and I see some other smaller spiders here and there. For some reason, this doesn't make me react at all, even though I'm really not a big spider fan. I continue to focus on how pretty the place is. After a little while though, I look back at the big freaky spider, and realize it has started moving. That's when I panic. I call K and my sister (who is here now), and we panic together. While they scream their lungs out, I try to find a pair of scissors in the kitchen's multiple drawers, I want to cut the spider to hopefully kill it. All I can find are utensils that look like scissors, but are actually ice tongs, snail tongs and other things. I finally locate a big white pair of scissors that looks like it could work, but it's too late, the spider is now coming out of some sort of cocoon, and right before our eyes, grows a pair of dragonfly wings. That's right, a spider with wings, thank you very much mind, you really got me on that one. We get the hell out of the kitchen and shut the door right on time, as we hear the flying monster rushing onto us. It's trapped inside so we calm down...
I am now facing the bathroom door, I come in to see what it looks like, and close the door behind me. The room is white and spotless, and there's no spiders in sight. As I walk forward, big clamshell-looking plastic sprinklers are set off, and blast a fresh mist at me. I find that pretty cool, and I notice the price tag is still on the sprinklers, they're very expensive. I think to myself I would never have bought that but since it's already here, why not enjoy it. I take my clothes off and walk towards the tub, it's huge and square-shaped, and looks quite deep, kind of like the bathtub in Lara Croft's manor in the first Tomb Raiders. The entire wall is a window and through it I can see the neighbors' backyard, two little girls are playing with a beach ball. The window doesn't seem to exist, and as I continue to walk forward, I end up on the grass. I wonder if they can see me, they are laughing now. I realize I'm still naked... I quickly back out and wonder who would build a bathroom with a window like that. That was quite a first impression I made on my new neighbors...
After that the dream is over.