28.02.2000 The dream of Lou, Tetsuo, Minaru, the island and baseball (Non-lucid)
NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID
Dream #102
A very long and detailed dream that happened in the early 2000s.
Lou, Tetsuo (boys) and Minaru (a girl) are 11 an 12. They're friends in junior high. Lou and Tetsuo are boarding students because they follow a special sports programm: they play base-ball.
One day, they're hanging out in the harbour. They meet Bloom, a famous base-ball player, and Lou tells him of his dream of becoming as good as him. But Bloom is really completely insane and, some time later that day he abducts Lou. Nobody knows what happened of Lou and he is soon believed to be dead. Five years pass.
In fact, Bloom's family owns an island off the coast of the harbour, which is only reachable by foot on exceptionally low tides. It is surrounded by very dangerous reefs. When Bloom abducted Lou, he took him to the island. At the top of the island stand the ruins of a house, where he trains Lou. The rest of the time, Lou is alone, and the island is like hell: sharp rocks, brambles, going from one place to another is nigh impossible. Lou spends the winter nights in a small cave, almost freezing to death on several occasions. With time, this hard life gives him a body of steel. He who was a weak child become a strong, muscular teenager.
Every month when the tide is at its lowest, Bloom comes to train Lou. Occasionally, he brings food and clothes. From the island, Lou can see the shore and the city lights, and he often cries when he is on his own, but he never tries to escape because, deep inside, he wants to become the best base-ball player, and he knows he will thanks to Bloom. He knows that Bloom is insane, but also that he is the best, and Lou won't give up. On top of that, he has become somewhat attached to Bloom with the years, and he doesn't want him to be in trouble with the law should he decide to go back home.
Yet, one day, Bloom tells him that he's done it, he's the best, there's nothing more he can teach him, and he throws him out of the island.
Lou goes back to the harbour. He's a bit lost, doesn't know what to do. He goes in a park not to far from his home and sits down on a bench. A few minutes later, two women come. One of them is crying: it's his mother. She's talking with the other, who must be a psychologist, or an attorney, or maybe a social worker. The other woman makes Lou's mother sit on the bench next to Lou. From the conversation, Lou understands that his mother is convinced that he is still alive, and that everybody has vague suspicions about Bloom's family, but that nobody has pressed charges for lack of any evidence.
Not standing to see his mother cry, Lou gives her his only handkerchief. She looks at him straight in the eyes, takes the handkerchief and thanks him, but she does not recognize him. He has changed so much. He's 17, but he looks 25. His hair is shoulder-long. His mother says she suffers from not knowing what her son looks like now. He hurts. He gets up and leaves, thinking that he cannot just come back, that too many things have changed, that it would be better if his mother thought him dead.
He goes to his former junior high (which also covers senior high school). Since it's daytime, the corridors of the boarding school are empty. He goes to the third floor, where his room used to be, but he realizes that now it has become the girls' floor.
He runs down the stairs and into a young woman who was walking upstairs, causing them both to fall. He has a vision: this scene already happened, on his first day of school : he had bumped into Minaru in the stairs, and she'd hurt herself badly during the fall. This time, his reflexes allow him to react immediately and he clutches the railing in one hand, wrapping his other arm around the girl, so that he's the one landing on his back, and she on him.
She gets up quickly and helps him up, but he hasn't felt the pain of the fall. The real shock is that this is Minaru, an 18-year old Minaru, with whom he's just relived that scene. He recognizes her immediately and, although he's changed a lot, she has a feeling... that this might be Lou. But he's gone already, without apologizing, completely upset by this unexpected encounter.
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