Weird stuff I have dreamed about.
Feb. 1st, 2010 04:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinIt's a quarter till four in the morning, and I am awake mostly because I've been asleep for most of the past three, four days. I don't know how long I'll be awake for... I've kind of been in a cycle of sleeping for anywhere from two to ten hours, then being awake for three or four hours. I had illness creeping in on me in the aftermath of a period of physical exhaustion, and that just takes it right out of me.
One side effect of this is that I've had a lot of dreams lately.
Two Shall Stand, Two Shall Fall
In my most recent sleep I first had a dream about a fantasy-type world that was divided between two lands, one ruled by an immense being of pure chaos (very strongly influenced by the "Elemental Chaos" of D&D 4E: ice on fire and rock flowing like water and so on) and one by a being of order who I'm pretty sure was voiced by Peter Cullen. Each of them had a giant Masters of The Universe Action Playset style citadel that were so huge they were visible from each other, even though they were on the opposite ends of this apparently flat world, and they were naturally locked in battle with each other. The being of chaos took a direct interest in trying to invade and subjugate the lands of order, while the being of order took a more defensive/reactive approach, with some of his subjects making their own forays against chaos of their own volition. Order Guy ended up confronting Chaos Guy during the latter's big push, during which Order Guy accepted a fatal wound and Chaos Guy discovered why he'd always stayed out of the fray... the two of them were both necessary to the natural order of things, and when one of them was weakened unto the point of death the other one started to fade. So he undid the wound and retreated and started thinking about how to negate Order Guy's freedom to act rather than killing him.
By Mantisback To Memphis
I didn't seem to have a direct presence in that dream, but after that the dreamscape segued into me and Jack taking a journey through Vaguely 1800s Americana Land to Tennessee to visit![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
popelizbet. It was a very "off to to see the wizard" type thing... like, she really was pontifex maximus and we needed her help annulling some unfavorable marriage I'd been forced into. I was a lady gunslinger and Jack was some kind of preacher of whatever vaguely American Protestant Magic Religion it was that Lizbet was pope over. We were being trailed by bounty hunters sent by my husband. Jack was riding on some kind of fast-moving llama and I was riding a reanimated giant mantis skeleton (yes, yes, I know... it was a dream). We kept running into people we know in real life from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
statements, though the internet did not figure into this dream and we didn't know any of them yet.
We spent most of the dream traversing Kentucky, which was good, because reanimated giant mantis skeletons apparently love KFC.
There were many other random dreams that I remember in less detail, having been obliterated by multiple periods of sleep and wakefulness.
Extending The "Freshman" Metaphor
I was a newly appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, which met in a disused classroom in my old high school. As the newest member, I had to use a freshman locker, which was way the fuck away from anything... the courtroom in particular... and I only had two minutes between bells to get to it and get changed into my robe and then get back to the courtroom or else I'd need to get a signed hall pass to be admitted.
The Far East
In real life, Omaha is on the eastern border of Nebraska. It butts right up against the Missouri River, which forms a natural barrier between us and our good twin, Iowa. In this dream, there was a vast territory of "Eastrn Nebraska" which sprawled on the other side of the river right up through where Ohio should be, and because of this my high school Quiz Bowl team had to take airplanes to get to a lot of our matches. Yeah, that one's not so interesting. I'm not sure why it stuck with me except for the flying details, since I flew a lot more than usual in the last month.
There are more dreams that I don't remember more than a one-word description of at this point: superheroes, superheroes, zombies, dinosaurs... and of course, loads of fetishy sex dreams that I will never, ever commit to a public Livejournal. I'd be far too embarrassed to put up any kind of window into my private desires like that for public consumption.
One side effect of this is that I've had a lot of dreams lately.
Two Shall Stand, Two Shall Fall
In my most recent sleep I first had a dream about a fantasy-type world that was divided between two lands, one ruled by an immense being of pure chaos (very strongly influenced by the "Elemental Chaos" of D&D 4E: ice on fire and rock flowing like water and so on) and one by a being of order who I'm pretty sure was voiced by Peter Cullen. Each of them had a giant Masters of The Universe Action Playset style citadel that were so huge they were visible from each other, even though they were on the opposite ends of this apparently flat world, and they were naturally locked in battle with each other. The being of chaos took a direct interest in trying to invade and subjugate the lands of order, while the being of order took a more defensive/reactive approach, with some of his subjects making their own forays against chaos of their own volition. Order Guy ended up confronting Chaos Guy during the latter's big push, during which Order Guy accepted a fatal wound and Chaos Guy discovered why he'd always stayed out of the fray... the two of them were both necessary to the natural order of things, and when one of them was weakened unto the point of death the other one started to fade. So he undid the wound and retreated and started thinking about how to negate Order Guy's freedom to act rather than killing him.
By Mantisback To Memphis
I didn't seem to have a direct presence in that dream, but after that the dreamscape segued into me and Jack taking a journey through Vaguely 1800s Americana Land to Tennessee to visit
popelizbet. It was a very "off to to see the wizard" type thing... like, she really was pontifex maximus and we needed her help annulling some unfavorable marriage I'd been forced into. I was a lady gunslinger and Jack was some kind of preacher of whatever vaguely American Protestant Magic Religion it was that Lizbet was pope over. We were being trailed by bounty hunters sent by my husband. Jack was riding on some kind of fast-moving llama and I was riding a reanimated giant mantis skeleton (yes, yes, I know... it was a dream). We kept running into people we know in real life from statements, though the internet did not figure into this dream and we didn't know any of them yet. We spent most of the dream traversing Kentucky, which was good, because reanimated giant mantis skeletons apparently love KFC.
There were many other random dreams that I remember in less detail, having been obliterated by multiple periods of sleep and wakefulness.
Extending The "Freshman" Metaphor
I was a newly appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, which met in a disused classroom in my old high school. As the newest member, I had to use a freshman locker, which was way the fuck away from anything... the courtroom in particular... and I only had two minutes between bells to get to it and get changed into my robe and then get back to the courtroom or else I'd need to get a signed hall pass to be admitted.
The Far East
In real life, Omaha is on the eastern border of Nebraska. It butts right up against the Missouri River, which forms a natural barrier between us and our good twin, Iowa. In this dream, there was a vast territory of "Eastrn Nebraska" which sprawled on the other side of the river right up through where Ohio should be, and because of this my high school Quiz Bowl team had to take airplanes to get to a lot of our matches. Yeah, that one's not so interesting. I'm not sure why it stuck with me except for the flying details, since I flew a lot more than usual in the last month.
There are more dreams that I don't remember more than a one-word description of at this point: superheroes, superheroes, zombies, dinosaurs... and of course, loads of fetishy sex dreams that I will never, ever commit to a public Livejournal. I'd be far too embarrassed to put up any kind of window into my private desires like that for public consumption.