Thread: L33tsaber's Dream Journal

1. I'm stuck in some sort of lodge with a bunch of my old classmates. Mom says I have to go outside (because it's "not fair" if I stay indoors all vacation for some reason). So I go hide in the attic, which is actually quite comfortably furnished. There's a fresh, hot pizza in the attic, and I end up eating half of it.

2. It's snowing at some relative's great big house, and I'm outside in the snow with a few of my friends, pretending that we're wolves, like I used to several years ago. Suddenly, I can't find my friends, and instead there are a bunch of dogs, one of which I end up having to fight off.

In the basement of that same house, there's a pawn-shop sort of thing, with a lot of clothes and a handful of anime collectibles, including the complete DVD boxset for Wolf's Rain.

3. I'm supposed to go to a butterfly garden exhibit, but I can't seem to move my legs. There was also something about chocolate, math problems, a pink headband, my sneakers, not being packed to go back to college, my old house, and Miles Edgeworth.

I've been having an absolutely horrid dry spell ever since I came to campus. I only remember a tiny trickle of detail from last night:

I'm in a shop, looking at cards for some random trading card game (like Magic: The Gathering) and I find one that intrigues me - the illustration is of Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the card title is "Instant Badass".

A little snippet from my nap just now -

I'm wandering around an empty school building, and come to a small entryway (the type with all the glass). Since I like the acoustics, I start singing "What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?" and segue into "Donald, Where's Your Trousers?" and back. As I tap my shoes on the floor, they produce some sort of accordion accompaniment. Then a bunch of vampires show up (in the style of the ones in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so they've got the freaky faces and everything), but nothing really happens.

Then I go across the street to buy some groceries, but all the stores are closed.

1. I'm wandering around an anime convention, in my Sander Cohen tailcoat but missing the mask. I encounter a lion that behaves like a puppy.

2. I'm in the campus cafeteria, watching some really amazing dishes being put together - a roast and a dessert. I want to try them, but I'm told they're for a fancy dinner being hosted by Mr. Giles (yes, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and I therefore can't have any until said dinner.

We get into a van, presumably to head to the banquet, but instead we end up at my grandparents' house for some sort of school reunion (as I can only guess by the schoolbus parked outside the garage. The bus has been painted glittery gold.)

For some reason, they have a dog. A very friendly dog, mind you, but a dog nonetheless. Also, one of their cats (who's usually just aloof) starts acting like my cat Sophie, and bites me.

3. I'm in some sort of game-world where all the navigation (even on land) is done by swimming, using some very faulty game mechanics. I can't seem to get where I'm going...

...and then a knock on my dorm door wakes me up.

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And I never did get to go to Giles' party. Darn.

Oh yeah, almost forgot - something about having my head reattached to my body, which involved pressing big square metal buttons along my spine. Then I went to look in a mirror, and there's a scar all around my neck, along with an orange bar code tattoo and some number in binary.

It was weird.

Something about being unable to afford to continue college, so my parents planned to send me to New York alone to pursue the performing arts. The dream seemed to mostly revolve around me packing my suitcase.

I was doing a routine water change for my roommate's goldfish, and he exploded.

((Luckily, the little guy's just fine IRL.))

I'm at a convention, and for some reason, Jack Terricloth (front man of The World/Inferno Friendship Society) has a table in the artist's alley. I buy a print for him to sign, but the next time I look, the image has disappeared. I spend forever looking for it, but I eventually have to apologize for taking up so much of his time.

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Well, whaddyaknow~ another dream with Jack in it! And right after Halloween, too. How appropriate... except that this one was quite a bit more depressing than any of the other dreams he's shown up in.

I was on a ship that was pulled by a whale, a dolphin, and a shark on harnesses. I somehow fell off and couldn't grab hold of any of the critters.

I wound up on a rocky, deserted island and tried to build myself a boat by creating a pixel-art rendering of one.

1. Something about a cult formed around pennywhistles.

2. I was being forced to watch my annoying little cousins, but Mr. Giles showed up to help.

3. Something about a bizarre cross between Lord of the Rings and The Wizard of Oz.

I'm on a very bizarre sort of cruise. There are about twenty passengers, some of whom are from my old school. We all have to participate in the various activities and games, one of which being a contest to see who can throw a quarter the farthest.

The weirdest thing is that whenever someone breaks a rule on the ship, everybody has to lie down on their stomachs, and a crew member administers five whacks across the bottom with a strap of cardboard. There's even a rule sheet on the ship about how this is to be carried out, including what the passengers are supposed to wear while being punished.

I'm at a piano recital. My performance is in an hour, but I didn't know I was performing, so I had no pieces prepared. Dad brings in a bag full of sheet music, and I start looking through it for something I could play by sight. Among the score books is one for Repo! The Genetic Opera, but the arrangements are weird (especially the one for "Zydrate Anatomy".)

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...there's no Repo! sheet music in real life (except for the things that get posted on Little Glass Vial, which hasn't been updated for months.)

1. I'm at a shadowcast performance of Repo! The Genetic Opera that, for some reason, seems to be held in a weird combination of the auditoriums in the two high schools I attended.

The show ends up stopping at "I Didn't Know I'd Love You So Much" because the shadow-Nathan has fallen asleep in the shadow-Shilo's arms, and it's too adorable to risk waking him up to continue the performance.

2. I'm asked to give a speech and tell some jokes. Afterward, I'm in a minivan, being driven home by a blond guy with pointy canine teeth who tells me he likes my dry wit. He then gives me a lecture about how I keep wearing my wristwatch too tight.

I've got some sort of glove made out of ceramic, detailed with a phoenix motif, and I'm supposed to put it on when I get home, by which point it's somehow turned into a ceramic sock with a phoenix motif.

When I get to the door, I realize it's my old house, and the neighbors' house catty-corner has turned into a bakery/balloon shop.

As I go inside, my dad tells me I have to give my dolls a Christmas present -- my television. Then I go into my room and find there's a bunch of new stuffed animals (including a very cuddly-yet-semi-realistic tiger) in the "pet net" hammock that's been in the corner of the room across from the bed for as long as I can remember.

Then I go to get the TV, which to my horror has cracked and broken. Then I realize it's turned into a mirror with two panes of glass, and only one pane is shattered. The other is in perfect condition.

Next, I'm in the kitchen to see if I can find some cookies - there is a box of gingersnaps that are supposed to look like goats, but when I open the box, I find that the cookies neither resemble gingersnaps nor goats.

On the patio, there's a dog - a German Shepherd, except that its fur is sort of a fox-like orangey-red. It sits there begging for treats, and my parents tell me it likes crepes. Of course, we have no crepes.


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Erm... WTF? (At least the first part of the dream was kinda neat.)

I'm on some sort of vacation in a great big cottage on a really tiny island in the middle of a lake somewhere in the middle of a great big city. This sets the stage for most of the dream that involved...

1. Not actually being on "vacation" - I'm being forced to stay with some lady who makes everyone do menial chores such as fetch her a cup of ice from a freezer with a broke ice machine. There is a tray of weird blue ice cubes, and five other trays of ice cubes that are wrapped in foil and turn out to be medications for cats.

2. That same lady turns out to be a teacher for some class I'm in. There's a guy in the class who keeps talking while she's taking roll call.

3. Something about me communicating with a boy who's somewhere in the city via a TV screen in my room in the cottage.

4. (NIGHTMARE WARNING - for me, anyway) While in my room, I receive news that one of my favorite actors has been killed in a car crash.

I'm supposed to be filming some silly college documentary and taking pictures with a few classmates, but I'm too upset to go outside. Eventually, though, I find myself just barely able to go out because I'm wearing one of the actor's jackets (which, upon further reflection was an odd cross between one of Giles' tweed suits in the first couple seasons of Buffy and Nathan's plaid coat in in Repo during the numbers "Who Ordered Pizza?" and "Everyone's a Composer".)

We go to a place that's sort of a cross between a ballroom, a bowling alley, and one of my old schools. As soon as we start taking pictures, though, I wrap myself up in the jacket and break down into uncontrollable sobs.

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When I woke up, I spent the first five minutes lying in bed trying to reassure myself that it was just a bad dream. Then I checked Anthony Head's IMDB page and a handful of fansites to make sure he's still alive and well (which he is).

Don't scare me like that, subconscious.

This was all set in some odd combination of my old school, my college, and my paternal grandparents' house, but I can't remember much other than small details.

1. I found a Repo! novel, which turned out to actually be a magazine full of interviews of Anthony Head, along with a couple of pull-out pictures which actually turned out to be his shirts. (So, if you're not exactly following this, the short version: I pulled a shirt worn by my favorite actor out of a book.)

2. Something about trying to hide from my roommate by getting on an old-fashioned train going around the inside of the school. Some random little kid and I somehow managed to get into a discussion about how the caboose is the coolest car on a train.

3. Running into one of my classmates in the cafeteria, then taking the dinner tray upstairs to eat while attending a night class.

1. Something about a French restaurant that charged exorbitant amounts of money for reheated TV dinners.

2. Something about going back to my old house, and my goldfish Aristotle is in the dining room. Except he's huge, somehow living out of the water, and walking around on his fins like a dog. He even eats out of my hand...

1. I went back to my old school (think I snuck in, actually) to watch the band practice for a concert. The percussion section had lots of beautiful new instruments, some of which I don't think even exist in real life. And of course, I couldn't touch any of them because I wasn't in the band anymore. (I seem to recall remarking "Where do they get all these wonderful toys?")

2. I'm in the historical downtown area of either my college town or my hometown, and I keep floating away, barely managing to grab onto a convenient lamppost (though it looked more like a maypole or something).

3. I tried to convert my room into a carnival theme or something, most likely just to break up some monotony. For some reason, Mr. Giles (yes, that Mr. Giles!) is there, acting in a disapproving first-season Watcherly capacity - I should be training instead of wasting resources on these flights-of-fancy.

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Well, well. Hatsuyume. First dream of the new year. And I have no idea just what the heck kind of fortune this predicts...

1. There's a summer camp with a rickety old bridge, and the need for all participants to get vaccinations and a 'courage transplant' (which for some reason involves getting your eyes replaced, like Blind Mag from Repo! The Genetic Opera). Before the courage/eye transplant thing, though, you have to get your photo taken, and for some reason they kept trying to take mine while I'm hanging upside down from the bridge in the dark. After that, they wanted me color-correct the picture in Photoshop. The medical procedures never happened (except thinking about the shots made my shoulder hurt as though I were getting one).

2. Something about shooting a box of Lindor truffles with a crossbow.

During my nap today...

1. I'm wandering around some cross between campus, a hotel, and the Indianapolis Children's Museum. I go into a gymnasium area, which has been set up like a stage for what would appear to be a production of Seussical, except that since I don't know any of the songs from that show IRL, I'm guessing none of the right songs were being rehearsed in the dream. Anyway, I sit on a ledge or railing overlooking the stage, and out comes my Computer Science professor, who's directing the whole thing -- at which point I notice that everyone who's helping with the musical is in my class. I'm also supposed to help by being in the orchestra, but I can't find the sheet music.

2. Throughout the various parts of the dream, there were recurring bits where I'm in the dorm room, and there's noise out in the halls that turns out to be some crazy religious cult singing something while they're either arguing with - or kidnapping - or possibly beating up the other residents in the hall. I lock the doors.

3. I'm on vacation, and there's a tourist guide video showing people coming down this really tall, colorful fire escape staircase outside an apartment. It turns out to be me and my family several years ago.

Then my grandparents show up, and I try to show them the part on the video again, but it's not there this time. To get to wherever the heck we're going, we have to hang on to this zip-line type thing, but it's got no safety gear and no harnesses, and the left side is loose from the wire so it hangs off dangerously. By the time we get to the ground, the malfunction has run everyone into the dust. My favorite fedora is ruined.

4. Something about trying to get my fedora fixed by uploading it to a computer system in the distance learning lab in my old junior high school. I can't get it back in physical form, because the records at the dry-cleaners' show I already retrieved it when I transferred it from the computer system to my cell phone.

Er... yeah. It was a weird nap. My hat's all right, though.

Don't remember much of this one (and it took me forever to remember what I do remember...)

Everyone thinks I'm dead or something (or perhaps I am... I dunno... it was confusing). I visit my own grave, which for some reason is in the middle of campus, right next to the Fine Arts Building. Somebody's left a rose and a box of chocolates there, so I take them.

I'm at my old school with a couple of friends. Suddenly, the Tall Man (from the Chzo Mythos) shows up. I have no idea how to beat him, so we run. Part of the escape plan for some reason involved getting as high up as possible on a swingset, and then into a getaway van.

We defeated him eventually, but I can't remember how. (I think it involved a skateboard, a sheep, and bending three saplings into knots and setting them on fire.)

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*shudder* Never play Trilby's Notes before bed.

1. For some reason, I was back in high school in my old-old town, and I had to finish up my final project in art, which consisted of six pictures that we had to do with wax crayon (the first picture had to be a field with flowers, the second through fifth had a theme to follow but we could pick the subject, and the sixth was anything we wanted. The only one I remember out of the bunch I had finished was a drawing of Protoman). The sixth picture I decided should be a portrait of my friend Nolan, since he always wears this cool rainbow beanie. I suggest this to him in the lunch line, and he tells me he's dead. I reply that that's okay because I can still see him (even though nobody else can) and get him some ice cream.

We go to this weird hotel to draw the portrait, but before I can do any work on it, the lobby starts burning, and as soon as we leave, the hotel explodes. Everybody in my school gets held for questioning, and I refuse to answer the police's questions (because "I was the last person in the hotel because I was drawing a picture of my ghost friend with crayons. It exploded *after* I left, honest!" probably wasn't gonna cut it.)

2. I'm trying to get back into my old house to find something for dinner, but the refrigerator's unplugged, so all the frozen food thawed.

3. I'm reading some weird book about this kid rebelling against his dad who believes being perfectly good lets you use more adjectives. The boy just wants to make an ice cream sandwich, but the father takes his cookies and ice cream away because "sweets are evil". Then for some reason, I decide that the best course of action would be to run away from home, so I google "how to hide from your parents" but before I can read the results, people show up to discuss the book. I hide on the other side of the computer desk until they go away, and then I start running (on all fours, like I always seem to do in dreams - weiiiird) but no matter how far I go, someone always manages to almost catch up to me.

Then for some reason I'm back in my own bed. I feel someone's hands around my neck and on my forehead (as though either trying to wake me up or check my temperature) and I wake up with a start only to find that there's nobody there and the door to my room is closed.

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Thoughts: Aww, poor Nolan. I won't tell him that I dreamed he was a ghost. Also, WTF is up with always trying to run away on all fours? Also-also, WTF was up with the hands?

1. Something about trying to find a good skateboarding spot, getting lost in a tunnel, and finding boards that belonged to skaters in the area who mysteriously disappeared.

2. Something about somebody getting shot in a glass room, and I'm trying to keep pressure on the wound.

3. One of my best friends suddenly gets really mad at me. So she hides a few cans of beer in my dorm refrigerator and pulls the fire alarm so that everybody has to evacuate the building. When I get back to my room, there are a bunch of people in there having a party, and I have to chase them all out. Then I find out that the lock on my door is broken, so I can't keep more would-be partygoers out of my room unless I stand with my back against the door to keep it closed. Then there was something about going back in time to try to keep the party from happening and finding out exactly how ex-friend broke my lock and pulled the alarm.

4. Some guys and I acquire this magical ham that grows on trees. It has to be cooked in a specific spot in the woods to the north of my old elementary school (even if there were no woods there IRL). So we sneak out of the window carrying the ham and the branches of the tree on which it grew, and we walk to the woods. There's a broken down building that used to be a one-floor dormitory, and that's where we have to cook the ham. So I start trying to build the fire using only sticks and friction, and have several failures before I finally get the sparks going. then things are interrupted by a family of shadows who lost their bodies, so I make new ones for them with construction paper and magic.

5. Some weird arcade shooting game where you have to keep the enemy cars away from a kitten.

6. Hiding from some would-be kidnappers who want these keys I'm carrying that are made of semi-precious stones.

1. Something about an anime club and cookies. My friend, who goes by the nickname Squall, was there.

2. Something about microwaving a bunch of frozen foods. Everything turns out until they make me try to microwave a bunch of cheese and tortillas in the shape of a horse. Then there was a box of tiny desserts, including a miniature creme brulee and a hazelnut-coffee truffle.

3. Something about a musical. I don't think I was in any particular role, but I was trying to remember the one villain song I had to sing because everyone else would be too busy with set and costume changes to do it. Then suddenly we're outside my house rehearsing some odd combination of "Heavens Divide" from Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and "Libera Me From Hell" from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, with flowers as props.

4. Something about getting a bridle and a saddle in the mailbox for no reason. There's a guy using an elephant to move equipment and beds across the yard. Then we're having grilled sweet corn, but first I have to use a paintbrush to fling this really weird bug-killing solution all over the place to get rid of spiders and Half-Life headcrabs.

5. Something about the ending of Metal Gear Solid 3 and imagining being in the field so that I could stroke The Boss's hair and tell her everything's going to be okay.

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Weeeeeeeird. -_-'