Little Big Planet (Nightmare)

This dream is a few days old, so I don't remember much of it. Here's what I do remember:


It was dark and there were storms. I could see these two plastic spheres, sort of flattened to make floors and roofs. They were connected by smaller plastic tubes - like a ferret habitat. There was machinery around, and I saw countless bubbles, most empty, though some filled with objects, like a tricycle.

There was a man working the levers, and he was not a good man. Inside one of the large oblong spherical cages was a naked young girl with blond hair, shivering. They were ripping images from her brain to put into the small bubbles. She was crying, but then she wasn't because they had stripped all her memories from her.

I realized they were harvesting the childhood of children to fill the balls - and that was where all the images in the video game Little Big Planet came from.


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There was a lot of powerful imagery in this dream, and it was vivid enough that I woke up with the realization still in my head. I actually enjoy Little Big Planet, and am still trying to figure out what my subconscious was trying to say, apart from the idea that video games and children should not mix. Maybe I'll keep Daniel away from the console games for a while longer.

Judgment of the Women

In essence, I was before a large table in a warehouse type setting. Sitting at the table were Julia Child, Meryl Streep, and Judy Collins. They all looked at me when I entered, and I felt small and without worth.  At one point, Judy Collins demanded that I sing, and I choked out this thin little song about something. She was disappointed.  Stockard Channing paced around the outside of the table, sort of joining in the debate about me.

The whole dream was me being picked apart by these great women.

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I can't tell if this was supposed to be a nightmare or not. I remember that I desperately wanted to prove my value to these ladies, and that if they could only see me at my best they might think better of me.

Seven Musketeers

Very basic dream:


I had people giving me boxes as gifts. Each box had a musketeer hat in it - one was black with a giant purple ostrich feather, another was brown with a long green feather. I got seven, and after each one I found the giver and gave them a big, long hug. I remember that at least two of the people who gave me hats were from the recent movie version of "The Three Musketeers."

The setting was urban. At one point I thought to myself "what am I supposed to do with all these hats?"