Dream Journal

I’m walking with Chip down a long narrow road that’s in the middle of a lake. Chip’s holding Gillian. I say, “Hey, let’s cross back over into the US (from Canada) for a second. Do you have your passport on you?” We get to the border station. There’s nobody there, just a walled-off area with some doors. I step through the first door into a brightly painted red/orange room with a door at the far end. Chip steps mostly in but keeps his foot in the door, and says that he doesn’t think he has his passport. So we back out and return to the road across the lake.

Over here it’s beautiful — the lake is surrounded by green, tree-covered hills, and there are lots of people around. It’s a tourist destination. As we begin walking, something catches my eye — a great plume of smoke from the top of two hills. There are rapid waves of smoke coming up off the hill to my right, and up ahead, a huge plume of dark, billowing smoke is erupting. I run to get a better view. I scramble to come up with the name of this volcano, and Kilauea springs to mind so I stick with it. I now think I’m in Maui. I get out my iPad to record video of the eruption. The larger volcano emits a big white cloud in a vague shape that keeps its exact form and lifts up and travels across the sky. Then the volcano is silent. Before long, a little spout I didn’t see by the side of the lake road lets out a pillar of smoke, then stops.

The iPad is giving me trouble. It keeps changing to unwanted applications instead of video, and I get really frustrated trying to get it back to video. Then I notice the power is really low, and rationalize that that’s why it’s not working right. Then there’s a small underground rumble and a small eruption from under the lake, bubbling smoke and air up to the surface. Up ahead, where the road joins up with a big open area, there’s a bar and store for the tourists. I run over there and sit down near lots of other people, as it’s a great view. I look to the top of the larger volcano and see this wooden structure that looks like troll buildings in World of Warcraft. I’m thinking about trolls when the ground begins to shake and rumble and a huge explosion happens. Bright blue-green lava explodes out of the top of both volcanos. Blue-green is the color of TROLLS.

References: Gillian is Chip's baby girl. World of Warcraft is a video game and trolls are one of the races in it.