lucyoncolorado

OK... really I'm going to start keeping a sheet of paper by the bed again. Yet again, I woke up this morning with a very clear memory of a vivid and exciting dream, but by the time I'd brushed my teeth it was gone! I remember only these two snippets from other dreams.

In which I go for a walk about with my dog, have some fragmented adventures, and experience dreams within a dream...

I'm on a hiking trip with my dog. I remember one scene vividly. I must leave her tied to a tree in a snowy field while I hike a few more miles up to a cabin full of people with whom I have some business. When I left her tied up, I was not troubled because I thought I would be nearby and only gone for a few minutes, but as the time and distance increased, I felt a lot of anxiety about leaving her out there. Anyway, she was fine, as usual.

The rest of the dream, I only have fragments. The cabin was some sort of wilderness backpacking hostel. It was comfortable but crowded, and I remember making what seemed like serious plans with a youngish and over-confident young man, blonde in a baseball cap. I had a feeling of anxiety about the people around me, as if they were a little bit on the cultish side. But right now I can't recall if I felt like the people were dangerous or if the wilderness was dangerous and the people were serious because they were professionals. I kept feeling that I'd been here before.

At some point, I was climbing and hiking with my dog. I was wearing crampons and was using an ice axe. This was difficult to do with my dog on a leash. But it was beautiful. Sunlight on snow, and a few large cedars. Again, there was the feeling of near danger, but I can't recall if people were after me or if it is just the normal focused anxiety of facing the wild elements and a difficult hike.

Throughout these fragments, I kept remembering that I'd been to all these places before in other dreams. For example, I remembered suddenly this following dream, in quite a bit of detail:

I'm a teenager visiting a friend. We are sleeping in the living room of her trailer home, and her mother wakes up late because she has worked the night shift. The living room included a wrap-around plush sofa facing a giant television. We'd pulled out the bed. Behind the sofa were two large windows with tacky long drapes. The mother sends the girl and me for a walk into the woods behind the trailer to a country corner store. We walk through pine forest until we come to two cedar planked sheds with locks on them. From the sheds, we can see the corner store and the freeway in the distance. The other girl goes on to the store, but I stay at the sheds and look in the opposite direction, towards more wilderness. I remember that many years have actually passed, and I'm on a walkabout with my dog in that wilderness. I experience major de ja vu.

Later, I am navigating a part of Mexico, trying to get through some highways to a certain destination. I thought of how I need to figure out how to get around this part of the country before A came out to join me on my travels. Again, I remember how this is just like another dream I'd have. It flashes before me, but I lose it the second I try to recall it.

In which I stumble onto the set of an adult film and am disgusted by their use of sushi-newts...

I'm backstage at a large theater, and I'm trying to get to a particular destination. I'm looking for the ladder to the catwalks. I walk into a dressing room where four or five people are filming an adult film. One woman is laying on her stomach while a man is having sex with her from behind. I'm neither shocked nor interested, but the director seems to be disappointed that I'm not. I tell him that I don't personally watch porn but it doesn't offend me that others do. I'm asking him for directions, but he really wants me to watch the filming. He is trying to shock me.

Another actor approaches, and he has a really giant penis. It is disgustingly big, like a deformity. He looks like a circus freak. Everyone laughs. Then the woman lays down on a giant piece of sushi. I remember that someone once told me that sushi used to be traditionally served on the body of a naked woman, so this didn't freak me out. I'm getting bored by the whole thing and really wish the director would tell me where the catwalks are.

Suddenly, a small piece of salmon sashimi grows two little arms and starts scurrying across the floor like a newt in a puddle.

"That's disgusting!" I tell the director, honestly. "Is someone going to eat that?"
"No," he answers. "This woman is going to have sex with it!"

There's a fetish for everyone, I suppose. It's been a long time since I was surprised to hear about someone's fetish. But having sex with a salmon-sashimi-newt creature is actually shocking. I admitted to the director that he shocked me and he was satisfied.

In which someone tells me my philosophy of life and gives me a mascot...

Someone read a line from a scroll and showed me a creature or maybe an object. This was my philosophy of life and my life mascot. I realized I was dreaming, and I thought about how important it was that I remember this. I woke up enough to sit up in bed and say the line out loud. I realized that it wasn't very profound after all- more on the level of fortune cookie wisdom. But it was applicable to my life, and besides, I was surprised at how well constructed the sentence was for something that appears in a dream. I thought right away that I should write it down and that no one would believe me that it was told to me in a dream. Then I fell back asleep and dreamed that I was writing it down. In this second dream, I also remembered that my mascot was called a whipper or a whippet, but it had nothing to do with paddles or laughing gas.

I can't remember a line of the philosophy of life.