memorable

3/11/11

Lost a lot of the dream now as this is just from memory. It was quite an involved dream though, the first one in quite a while.

At night roaming around a large office on something like the 481st floor. There was a lot of university friends in various rooms as well and we all progressed as a sparse group together. Someone/thing was following us but we weren't in any great hurry, we just looked through anything that was interesting and then left everything exactly as it was when we arrived.
At the opposite end of the floor was a corridor that turned to the left and through some sort of 'team' sight I could see a trap that someone in the group had set in the floor.
By stepping on certain areas the floor would turn into spikes but we could 'see' where was safe and all navigated quickly through to the exit door just past it.
A sense of urgency sprung up now that we had actively begun to 'fight back'. The next section of the building was a large warehouse whose height spanned multiple floors. Someone pointed out that we had moved to the next floor in entering it.
Strewn all about were big crates with tarps tying them down that everyone was standing on and nervously waiting on top of.

Then something tripped the trap and we all knew we had been foolish to try it because now whatever was following was just going to be more pissed/harass us faster. People began bailing and splitting from the group.

I decided I would summon my wolves to help me escape/be prepared if/when I was caught. I raised my hand to the ceiling which as I activated my magic turned into a twilight sky that rapidly bled to red and then a deep purple. On the floor in front of me two large circles, about 4m in diameter, opened up. Their perimeters spun with golden runes and markings around the midnight black centre.
Out of the centre two enormous wolves appeared. These things were the size of buses, in snow white to contrast the their darkening summons. Despite their size and raw power they behaved like lifelong pets and were very playful, like they were my guardian animals. They had blue and orange edged eyes respectively and distinct personalities.

I jumped on the back of one and rode it around the large warehouse and adjoining access ways. Eventually I met up with people I want to stick with and they seemed reassured that my wolves were on hand in case things got hairy.

But I never got a chance to do more than ride them around which was still pretty fun.

20/2/09 - Rating 5/5
Elementalist

My dream began in a huge subterranean cave and running right down the middle was a huge sheer chasm. The whole cave was packed with people and went on for so long that there were little specs of light from fires in the distance.
Standing atop the gapping hole in the ground someone on the other side was taunting my group and I but being the leader I simply laughed at him and then led the way; falling down into the great void.
I could see above me huge dragons flying over the top and soon people were just pouring down with us. At some point here everyone was either exposed or transformed into purple or yellow blobs that represented what kind of person they were. I was a yellow falling blob, as were all my other followers but most other people falling were purple. We yellows seemed to be the superior minority group and all stuck together as we trail behind a big same yellow colored jelly fish. We sort of clung to it like a way to stay as a group through the void.
Upon reaching the bottom of the void it was all black and everyone seemed to have disappeared in this liquid/black/fog. Using a clicking like sonar I tracked down my followers (now back to normal human form) and we found a way out of the void's pit.

Upon exiting I was alone again but now outside a big, one story apartment complex; all very modern with a garden, fountain and smooth path out the front. I moved inside still clicking absently as I tried to find my people again. I occasionally saw others whom I recognized as purples and just ignored them.
The building was like a really nice dorm with bedrooms, common rooms and a big laundry room at the back. In this back room I looked out a low window to a pool and found there was one of my group standing in the waist high water. Pleased I had found someone I could stick with I climbed out of the large window and into the pool where I greeted the other boy/teen.
He seemed quite pleased I was talking to him and I quickly discovered he had been striving for recognition from me (the leader) but I never paid enough attention to him; his name was something like Alastair. I quite like the younger lad and sat on some nearby steps discussing the new place we were in. We concluded that we had arrived at a training facility for people like us (yellows/purples).
Just then I turned to look behind the boy and see our teacher/Matriarch (dragon thing?) wearing a white shirt coming around the corner. I quickly jump to my feet and yell something like, "Oh damn, get out of here now! You'll lose your form" to the boy; this was because he was in less control than I and may spontaneously transform (dragon?) upon seeing the Matriarch. To get him clear, I threw up my hand and created a wall of air which I elementally twisted to block his sight and jumped into the air myself to fly away in human form.
Having kept my form I wasn't going to risk it and go back so I just kept flying around using my elemental powers. I eventually arrived at a community, outdoor, recreation hut building where I thought to try practicing my fire elemental control. I was great at air, ok with water, dodgey with earth and could just create a few flame puffs of fire. I tried numerous times to hold onto my flame but it just wouldn't work.
Then a girl who had obviously been at the facility for some time now arrived and asked if I wanted some pointers. Feeling much less high-and-mighty now than previously, I humbly accepted her tutoring. She explained how to burn bright/hot and helped considerably; improving my basic fire control greatly but nowhere near as much as her's. She was an elemental melder (purple) and could create/control electricity which was based primarily on fire.
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The yellow/purple distinction was clear by this point.
- Elementalist (yellow) could control air, water, earth and fire at will.
- Elemental melders (purple) could only manipulate two (three if lucky) elements but they could create variations and twists when used together. When moving around the apartment previously, one of the purple people was an air/water melder who's specialty I knew was spontaneous typhoons.
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Not long after I was getting better, a group of half a dozen friends of the girl arrived and they started up a beat using body percussion and singing in a language I had never heard. They really got into the song and started dancing a bit in a small circle. Once the song hit the first main section a new girl created a flame between her hands and twisted it out lithely until everyone in the circle had a piece.
While the dance was going on I vividly remember trying three times to do a double rotation in the air to make a fire spiral around myself but each time I just couldn't get the fire right. At this point I became aware of how high I jumped each time, how slowly I fell and how perfectly/effortlessly I landed. Dream logic took this one to my great air elementalist powers not a dream.
The dance grew and the group threw and manipulated each other's flaming spirals to the music, making it look spectacular. At one point a guy's flame went out but I knew he had absorbed its energy; he proceeded to ark it like a massive bolt of static electricity to the next girl who received it and then her opposite hand lit up in flames.
They could twist and control the flames remotely and freely in the air but mine was only on skin/touch. Eventually, as I practiced and they continued to dance, I worked out that I could burn really bright if I changed the oxygen level around myself; it worked brilliantly, looking really impressive. The first girl asked how I caught on so quick and I explained that I was kind of cheating. Using this new found skill I started mixing it up with aerial acrobatics while spinning fire out around my hands. It was more difficult to focus on my movements while also shifting the atmosphere around but looked and felt excellent.