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Dream Journal
Studying Hell Creatures★
July 25, 1996
July 25, 1996
I dreamed what might have been a great Sci-Fi movie. We’re in the ocean. At certain times when we were motionless, the waves would ripple up and throw us to the shore and these strange unseen creatures would bellow.
I was part of a scientific group. We all tried our own experiments. I thought it would be cool if at certain points you could drop down a level into hell where the creatures were and see them. Then the next scientist would look for you and start sinking, so you’d grab his foot from below, and, scared, he’d pull you out. And we’d discover how to go to upwards, too.
Fantasy Ideas: Just this year I saw a movie called “Ponyo” (released 10 years later), made by the imaginative Hayao Miyazaki. So many of his ideas come from the dream world, and this very thing was in Ponyo — creatures made of water that could rise up out of the water and manipulate things.