Dream Journal
September 9, 2016 @ 8 AM
Context: Why did I go in the palatial house for sale? Thoughts of possible future wealth from Smart Teddi. The sign about the rodent infestation was because Rebecca found evidence of a mouse under the sink last night. And collecting characters was something I did in Smash Squad.
There were a series of adventures, little episodes, and at the end of each, we picked up a new character.
For example, we were walking down a residential street. To our right, behind a sign saying something like “Slum-Level Rodent Infestation”, there was a palatial house with a “For Sale” sign. I pulled out my phone and brought up Zillow. It listed the current price at $89, and previously $82, $79, $68, etc. I thought it must be how many millions. We went up the front steps to take a look inside. Myself and one of the other characters went in first. Instantly I knew the place was haunted. We walked in the front hallway about 10 feet with information about the hauntings of the house flooding my mind, including something about them trying to bury the banister to stop the hauntings. Just as we were walking past the banister, a ghost of a little blonde girl appeared, and we screamed and ran out. The ghost followed us to our car and got into the front seat. I took a closer look, and it was Alice (from Alice in Wonderland). She was mostly solid-looking but glowing. Okay, so she must be the latest character, I thought. I accepted her as part of the group. She had sat in the front seat, so I found a spot in the extremely wide back seat among all the others.
Shortly after.. we must have driven (flown) into the city area just a couple blocks away.
I was standing at the top of this hill in this city. It was dark and rainy. I was with this woman. Her style was to be flirty and grab interest that way, but I found her wholly unattractive. The rest of the group had gone ahead down the slope. It occurred to me that it’d be easier to fly down and I said, “Do you want to learn how to fly?” She said yes. I thought a moment, then said “Hold our your hands like this”. I held out my hands, palms down. “Then imagine raindrops falling up onto your hands from below.” I felt a familiar tingling sensation as if lots of tiny raindrops were hitting my palms from below. My palms had little light blue expanding circles, like raindrops in water. I could see this from 3rd person. My perspective kept shifting from first to third. As I talked, she changed her demeanor to more of a daughter-role.
I then must have gone into a building that one the rest of my group had gone into. It was all brickwork, with high ceilings. There were people standing in line for something. It felt like a restaurant, with warm light. Anyways, I began to do parkour around the brick walls there; jumps back and forth between low walls, getting higher, flipping way up into the air and landing upside-down behind the counter (smiling, they said I almost knocked their printer over), then pushing myself higher and higher using ridges on the walls. It was a happy atmosphere. People watching thought it was neat.
Then I wondered where the rest of my group was. Chairs lined some of the brick walls and I looked beneath them. I might have been looking for my gloves or hat also, since I was going to go outside and it was cold out. At any rate, I started finding members of my group. The first few were stuffed animals, then I saw the rest, each one hiding under a chair. I went back outside, and was surprised by how cold it was. There was a voice off-screen that said “cancel the weather”, followed by a series of full-screen shots of mostly dinosaurs suffering bad weather conditions — flooding, rain, winds, etc.
References: Zillow is a real estate app.
The Secret to Flying: The tingling hands and feet when flying or doing parkour was something I was aware of in a distant way. I’d never put it into words or consciously acknowledged it. But here my Dream Self knew that it was an important part of flying and taught it to another person.
Information Flooding My Mind: Here’s a great example of relevant information flooding into my mind as I enter a new place. In this case the knowing comes directly, without trying to rationalize it as a phone call, or reading a sign.
Video Game Desires: The idea of collecting characters comes from collecting characters in Smash Squad, which I was really into at the time. It’s a waking self desire, and my dreams partially take that shape.