obfusc8

12/1/2016 (mon)

Before 4.20am
ND "Rain Catching"
Most of the dream is spent wandering around after a strung out guy who is making an art film about war. He shows me part of it which features flags on a wall in the shape of various countries, with war like slogans appearing over the top. It is shown using a holographic projector. The guy starts waving a net on a pole back and forth over the projected image.

The film skips to being about mass killings. The next piece is about someone killing everyone in a department store by coverinig the floor in rat poison pellets. I question this - wouldn't they have to eat the pellets to be effected? The video skips to showing hundreds of people lying dead on the department store floor, and a racoon-faced man with a beard laughing about it.

Then it turned out to be a flash-forward, or a possible future scenario. I am in the store and everyone is still alive. One of the employees opens a card and the others gather around to read it. They start discussing the card and the rat-poison killer.

The dream skips back to the strung out guy. He is waving the long net-on-a-pole back and forth under a gutter where rain is running down off a roof. Maybe he is trying to catch the rain in his net. I wonder if this is supposed to be some fancy analogy for war and how pointless it is. Then he gets rainwater in his eye and it blinds him. In panic he starts running through an alley between two buildings. He jumps over a footpath gate and runs away.

At this point a woman shows up and the plot goes kinda sideways. Basically, there are two women, one I really like but who isn't that interested in me (let's call her B), and one whom I don't really care about but am sleeping with to get information ('A'). Neither of them are AB, my RL partner, and there is no mention of her at all in the plot. A is part of a drug gang, making me some sort of undercover agent working for B.

Anyway, so while chasing after strung-out film guy, I bump into A. She seems in a good mood and invites me for coffee at a nearby cafe. She is normally broke but apparently has a large amount of cash, so I try to find out where it came from. She is evasive and won't tell me, despite a great deal of flirting, kissing and touching (with clothes still on 'cause we're in the cafe, although we are way beyond acceptable displays of public affection here... think drunken uni-house party behaviour). "Can't I just treat you, for a change?" She replies, getting tired of all the questions. I decide to back off for a bit.

Leaving the cafe and A, I head over to B's appartment because all the foreplay has left me feeling extremely horny. There are a couple of guys who look like wrestlers heading into the appartment next to hers. B walks up while I'm standing outside the door. Damn she's hot. She questions me about A, we make out for a bit then she opens the door. It leads straight into a bedroom. I lead her straight over to the bed, but a bee flies out and attacks me. I try to fend it off and wake up twitching and trying to slap the bee away from my face. It is a few moments before I realise that there is no bee.

4.30-6.30am
Short LD 334 "Star Power"
I flup through photos on my phone. There are some of me. Among the photos are videos of people dancing, and a young kid with shaving cream on his face.

My friends JR and ST are sitting with me in a bar, drinking. We chat about dreams and I recall a (fictional) awesome dream from the night after I saw them both last. JR fell up a grass bank, or something... I try to find the dream entry on my phone but have trouble with the phone being typically unusable in a dream.

The surroundings shift, placing me in an exam room with AB. All the desks are taken. I move a metal filing cabinet and cover it with a piece of wood to make a desk to work at. There are bags on the floor that I shove out the way. The exam involves a bag of 'Lucozade tablets'. They can be used to clean things? While trying to read the instructions I notice that the guy at the desk next to mine has undone his trousers and is playing with himself. :yuck:

It occurs to me how utterly absurd this all is. Must be a dream. I leave and head outside, finding a children's adventure playground on a grassy hill. It is night time. There are no clouds and the sky is filled with stars. I recall the challenge task and reach up to hold a star. It feels warm, like a lightbulb, yet sharp like a jagged stone. I gently close my hand on the star and absorb the energy from it. Opening my hand the star has disappeared from the sky.

The stars are now arranged in patterns. They look like magical symbols, or possibly Egyptian heiroglyphs. Nearby DCs are looking at me and asking what I'm doing.
"I have the power of the stars!" I laugh.
To demonstrate I repeat the earlier action of closing my hand around the brightest stars in the sky to absorb their power. I feel incredible, as if I just downed an energy drink and won X-fighters. What can this star power do? I try and unleash it as energy bolts and do a sort of Spiderman web shooting pose but nothing happens. Feeling a bit hyper and full of energy I do some parkour over the playground benches and climbing frames.

At this point I recall the phoenix TOTY and think about setting fire to something, but wake up instead.