Saturday, July 24, 2010

Museum, Hotel, Farm, Ballroom - oh, and celebrities

I was in some sort of museum. It was under construction - scaffolding and sheets covered parts of exhibits. There were marble statues, and Baroque art, and a large, incomplete Egyptian wing. I was there with a toddler who wasn't mine. His name was Max. We found another toddler wandering around, who was named Ian. Ian jumped down a hole in the floor of the Egyptian wing, and emerged out another lower section next to some hieroglyphics, which he started to draw over. Then there were people in the wing, and Jonathan Groff, dressed in his "Taking Woodstock" outfit, tried to swim backwards up the hole (from the hieroglyphs to the hole), which was now filled with water. It took him way too long to do so, and when he came out of the floor he looked really upset.

We lost Ian - like he wandered off through traffic on a street at night in the rain. I looked for him, but I don't know if I ever found him. Same thing with Max - he just sort of dissipated somewhere in the dream. I think I found the people who were supposed to be looking after him, and I yelled at them.

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Third person - in a hotel, in the honeymoon suite, two characters from the show "Supernatural" were having really loud sex - Dean and Alex (Alex is a girl). The other rooms were making jokes about it. Then the couple who actually paid for the room came in, and threw a remote control at Dean's head for ruining their night.

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I was in a farming computer game, and it ran a little bit like the movie "Australia" and a game of Risk. Every turn I could take action based on how much land I owned, but I only owned five squares (?) of like a fifty square board. So I tried to grow some crops, and raise some cattle. Then this guy sent a tornado and destroyed all my stuff. So I walked off to the town council meeting - down a dirt path to a big white barn. Things were in black and white, and there was a black man in the audience in overalls, and all the farmers were being really racist towards him. I think it was the guy who plays Lafayette from "True Blood." I couldn't get any of the men to listen to me, because they were too busy making fun of the black farmer. And when I tried to tell them my problem, they just laughed at me too. I went back to looking at my farmland from above, trying to figure out how to win. I seem to remember flashes of cast iron stoves and old creaky furniture and tools too.

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I was going through True Dungeon at Gen Con, in the giant Marriott ballroom. I was a bard, but there were only two other people in my party. Nothing looked completed, and there were no monsters. We made it through to the end, and were just about to leave, when we passed three cut out sections of wall. From these sections, randomly, jumped out three giant animatronic centipedes, each the size of a man. We fought them - well, the two other girls in my party fought them. I provided support. They looked amazingly well done. So we went to claim our experience points, but they told us we had to go again because nothing was set up properly, except for the dire centipedes

This was the last part of the dream, and I remember some people were wearing...sparkly princess hats and veils? The place was well lit, as opposed to how it usually is (dark). And at times it didn't look like a ballroom, it looked like a glade in a wood.

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Okay - so this dream had no flow. If I were a director, I would accuse this of being nothing more than a montage of bits. What is cool is that I remember the beginning as well as the end of this dream. Some of the middle bits are hazy, the dialogue forgotten, but this is a pretty full dream, despite my brief descriptions.