spellbee2

We’re hosting a huge Christmas party at my house, open to pretty much anyone we know (neighbors, old friends, high school teachers, etc.). I’m on cleanup duty, which is basically a never-ending job, since people keep dropping the glasses on the tile floor in the kitchen, shattering them and sending glass shards everywhere. I finally get fed up with cleaning up broken glass, so I passed the broom to my brother and walked towards the back door. My music pastor and an old friend of mine both walk in. The pastor’s incredibly impressed with the amount of Christmas decorations, while my other friend (who’s really into cars and mechanical engineering) comments on a spare engine we have laying in our backyard. I carry on a conversation with them, but really I’m not paying attention and instead am looking forward to playing Rock Band with them.

I’m playing a 3DS game where your character is flying around through some obstacles, and you have to move the 3DS around to control which direction you fly in. I play for a while before I realize I don’t have the 3D setting on, so I turn it on, and suddenly I’m a lot more immersed in the game, until after a while I’m no longer playing the game and I’m actually in the game, flying around various levels with incredible ease. I find myself at one point in a high school building, going through a couple different classrooms, rubbing my hand across the ceiling as I glide effortlessly around with no particular goal in mind. A couple students tell me I should “Peter Pan” - fly around with my hands on my hips like Robin Williams does in Hook. I do this for a while, despite the fact that it looks and feels somewhat silly.

I wake up to my WBTB alarm, but immediately after turning it off I fall back into another short dream. I’m at what seems to be a circus of some type, standing in front of a big, yellow, old-fashioned marquee. There’s some kind of stand-up comedian nearby telling jokes, and as he speaks, his words show up on this marquee. At one point he says, "Ladies, always avoid dating a guy who's into circuses. He'll promise you a night of magic and excitement, but ultimately you'll end up with two half-deflated balloons and extra justification for your fear of clowns." He then ends up saying something equally hilarious about women in relationships, but I forgot because I was cracking up from the first comment, so much so that I actually woke up again laughing like crazy.

While I was up, I decided to do an actual WBTB for a few minutes before going back to sleep. I’m now at my college, moving stuff in for the start of my next school year. My new dorm room is huge, about the size of a basketball court. It’s big enough for 6 bunk beds and a loft, plus a large common area in the middle. Plus, it’s on the corner of the building, so there’s large windows on two walls, allowing me to see the entire night-time city skyline from several floors up. I quickly realize that it’s someone 1am, way past curfew, but I still have half my items that I need to bring in. Plus, I realize that I left my TV that I was gonna take at home, 800 miles away, so there’s no way for me to go back to get it. Another guy is moving into this huge room, but accidentally drops his large TV at the foot of one of the bunk beds, causing some of the support beams to almost melt away. I realize this is weird, so I stop and think about where I’m at. “I’m such an idiot - I graduated college months ago. I’m dreaming!”

From the get go this dream is incredibly stable, so I don’t even bother doing any more RCs or stabilization. I see my brother who for some reason is here - he has a slightly alarmed look on his face. I explain to him that this is a dream, and to prove it to him, I grab his arm and tell him to look at me. He focuses on my face, and so I casually will us both upwards until we’re both flying. My brother is incredibly excited by this - so much so that when we touch back down, he tries to test his new skills by jumping out the window. I chase after him, only to find out that the dorm room is now about 50 stories up, so it’s a long way down. I straighten my body out to become more aerodynamic until I catch up to my brother, who is freaking out because he can’t control his descent. It’s hard to hear him at first because of the sound of the wind whipping past us, but I eventually remind him that this is a dream, so even hitting the ground at top speed wouldn’t hurt a bit. We keep plummeting until we reach terminal velocity, and then splash down into a lake. The initial shock of the water is jolting, but ultimately both of us are unscathed.

The dream transitions to somewhere else. I’m now lying on my back in a large green field. My center of vision is strangely slightly underneath me, in the ground about a foot or two, so I can see my body and the grass around me, but not the sky. Still, everything feels incredible, and I spend about 5 minutes just enjoying how everything feels. I can sense every single blade of grass against my body, and I can feel a cool breeze blowing above me. I can even feel the earth rotating beneath me, until it starts rotating a little funny. I start to feel less like I’m lying on the ground, but more like I’m tethered to a grassy ceiling, suspended over the endless expanse of the sky. My euphoria is cut short by the feeling of a cat jumping on my chest, and I’m pulled out of my trance to see that I’m lying on the floor of my house. I sit up and notice a weird old lady who is reciting some kind of script, and I realize that I’m in some kind of weird commercial for cat food. I tell the lady her commercial is dumb, and then leave through the back door.

There’s a lot going on in my backyard. There’s a goat on our roof, a fox on top of my car, a ton of crows flying everywhere, and a single random tree that’s caught fire. I try to think of some other tasks to score some points, but for some reason I think I’ve already done them (I thought that interact with an animal was a personal task, that teaching a DC to fly was a TOTM, and that I had already done all my 3-step tasks). I decide to try for some time control, so I reach out my hand and will everything to slow down. After a few seconds, everything starts moving in slow motion - I can see every wing flap of the crows, and the fire is now moving much slower than before. I try to jog my memory for some more score categories, but then I’m woken up by my morning alarm.

3 NLDs - 3
WBTB - 2
DILD - 10
Interact with a DC - 2
Fly - 5
Invulnerability - 5
Dream Theme (lake) - 5
Time Control - 10

Night 10 Total - 42 pts