Dream Time! June 2, 2008
Posted by Anya in : spontaneous degeneration , trackbackI had a weird dream the other night. Man, was it weird. I’ll just tell it as much like a coherent story as possible.
Please remember, this was a dream.
We were on a cruise ship. It was also a recruiting ship — recruiting for Patrick Henry College. I think that Alex and Brett were somewhere around, I seem to remember them hovering around the edges of the dream. Jesse F had apparently become interested in going to PHC, so he went to one of their seminar things about why it’s such an excellent school, etc, etc. I tagged along.
Toward the end of the meeting, they asked if anyone who was coming to PHC had not been given the flu shot. This was an imperative for attending PHC, and if they had not done this, they needed to. I was pretty sure that Jesse hadn’t gotten the flu shot, so I asked him about it. Of course, this proved to be one of those irritating situations where as soon as you try to discreetly whisper something to someone, everyone else drops what they were doing and turns to watch you. Naturally, the presenter, noticing the commotion, kindly asked Jesse if he had been vaccinated. Jesse glared at me and said well actually no.
This incident probably explains how I came to find myself wandering the ship in search of someone else to hang out with. I was also trying to avoid Mr. A, who was pacing the decks and ready to tell everyone at the least provocation not to stack plates with the forks in between.
Fortunately, I stumbled across a meeting which Dr. and Mrs. 8kidlets were in. Their son Ethan wanted to be liberated from this meeting, so I snagged him to go roaming about with me. We went about and then Ethan decided to look over the edge. However, the railing was really, really wobbly so I banned the activity, assuming that the 8kidlets would be Most Put Out if their youngest son was washed overboard. We went in search of something else to do and ended up watching a tennis match. Somewhere in that process I lost my rings. I did return Ethan to his family and saw Abigail, Emma, and Eliza sitting in a row on a pew. I’m pretty sure there was a fourth girl who was about Sophia’s age, but it wasn’t her. I don’t know why they hadn’t gone adventuring with Ethan and me, but, it was a dream.
The next big thing happening on board was a crime. Who knows how we knew that there was going to be a crime, but we all did, so we were eagerly looking out for clues. My rings’ vanishing act seemed to be tied into the coming crime in some way. I think that there was a husband and wife who hated each other and we were waiting for one of them to murder the other…
Suddenly, the dream changed scenes. We (my family) was driving in a city. Suddenly a blind guy came running out in front of our minivan and we almost hit him. (Duh.) We drove on and then heard police sirens screaming behind us, so we turned around to see if we had hit him after all. As it turned out, we hadn’t, but the car behind us had. It was unclear if they had actually hit hit him, or just sort of gently bumped him. Either way, he was lying in their trunk sure that he was dying, and the police were interrogating everyone about what had happened. Things became even more confusing when it began to look like the guy wasn’t dead or, for that matter, blind at all, but this was instead part of a grand scheme involving a bank robbery.
The scene changed again.
We were driving into an apple picking orchard, where cats and chickens came running out to greet us as soon as the gate was opened. We had to get out of the car and try to scoop them up and shoo them back inside. There was a little kid playing in the dirt who looked suspiciously like Dakota. It seems for some reason that I reclaimed my rings from him. *sighs* Given Dakota, it wouldn’t be too surprising if he did manage to pick up something which I had lost.
And then the scene changed again.
I was talking to Andúnë. I think we were IMing, but it was hard to be sure. But I can’t remember what we were talking about… and then…
Dad woke me up.
Oh well.
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Lol! You always have the strangest dreams.
I had a really REALLY weird dream last night! It was a horror movie, pretty much. Like a halloween horror movie. And everyone around me was freaking out at the “ghosts” and such, and I was just sitting there lookig at everything strangely, and wonder why someone was doing such an elaborate and expensive practical joke.
I hope you are doing well…
I am back from vacation, and have been for a week but I haven’t seen you online at all. Of course, that’s no surprise because I’ve hardly touched the computer, we’ve been so busy chasing cows.
Yes, we’ve had an interesting week….
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