The Charismatic Burglar

So I was sort of by my house, but also outside. There was a lot of movement and shifting of perspectives, but this last part of the dream I remember:

I saw a man getting into a jeep - the kind with the exposed bars and no roof. I knew that he had stolen something from our house, so I walked over to him and asked him to give it back. He smiled at me, and said that he would, but that he'd be back to rob us because our house was too easy a target to pass up. I told him that if he was going to rob us, to please take the computer in the basement, as it was unregistered. That way everyone would win - we didn't need that computer, and he could sell it for money without it being traced.

He smiled and kissed my hand, saying that he would consider it. I asked his name. He said **** Miles, or Miles **** - I cannot remember.


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I really liked that thief in my dreams - he was disarmingly charming.

Long Ago, I Dreamed

Oops.

I've been dreaming, and not writing it down.

Sorry.


So here is a dream that I remember from some time ago. It still sticks with me:


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I was by a lake at night. There was moonlight. Next to the lake was a sort of shed/camper. I kept wanting to borrow a pan from the woman inside, but she was perpetually getting dressed, and every time I opened the door to get the pan, she was half-naked.

Outside, an electric bright yellow lizard with bright blue spots was climbing down a mirror. I laughed at it and wanted to take a picture of it with my phone. It shot out its tongue and grabbed my phone. I kept trying to take the picture, but every time I pulled on the phone the lizard grew larger, till it was almost covering the mirror (about 3 feet long?). At that point I got uneasy, and left.

On the water there was a series of shining metallic light wires - it reminded me of how movies show technology. The kept shimmering into being then disappearing. I walked along the lakeshore, and then I saw some evil sheep. I knew the sheep were evil because they were deep red, with red wool and purple horns. Their eyes were flaming red, and they had sharp teeth.  At first they did not see me, but then they did, and they started shifting towards me. I started moving away, and found myself between two rows of theater seats. The evil sheep and goats kept sort of drifting towards me, and I really didn't want them to get too close to me.

On the water, a woman was standing amid the shimmering electric light wires, manipulating them somehow...


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The big thing here - those sheep and goats were EVIL. I mean, in the dream I felt like they were the most sinister livestock ever.

Wrong Hemisphere

I was on a sort of cruise ship, sailing. It was not a big ship. I was near the stern of the ship, and I saw seals in the water, on an ice flow or maybe it was a dock before we sailed.

It was icy out - the water was filled with icebergs and snow, and I decided that I could swim out and see what was there. I wanted to see wildlife. So I did, I climbed into the icy water and started to swim through the snow and slush. After a while, I found a larger ice flow and climbed up. Not to far from me, I saw a small group of people watching a dolphin standing on its tail. Farther in the distance, there were spotlights for a worksite, and I heard a voice yell out "land ho!" I looked around, and out beyond the lights there were what I thought to be mountains.

Now it was twilight, and I had to get back to the ship. I knew that it was going to get much colder once the sun went down, so I started swimming. It was slow going - my front was so cold in the icy water. I got worried. The icy sea seemed to stretch on forever, but I knew that I could not stop swimming or I'd freeze to death. I sensed the ship in the distance. I was so cold, and I really wanted to stop moving. I thought I heard someone call out that I was in the water.

I reached out for the ladder on the ship, and missed it. The ship sailed right by me, and I cursed my luck for missing the ship by one hand's length. But then I was pulled up by A.T., who was upset at my stupidity. There was this air about everyone who thought I had been suicidal, except I hadn't been. I was a little put out by this.

As we came into dock, I was excited by the fact that I had put my feet on another continent. Then I realized, and said aloud, "Goddamn it - Antarctica is on the other end of the world! Idiot!"

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I disembarked onto a giant river delta with steamboats. Young Clint Eastwood was there in his poncho, auditioning for a movie. All he had to do was put a cigarette in his mouth, and he was cast. That's because he was auditioning for yet another western.


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I don't recall dreaming about ice before - not on an ocean anyways.

Cats and Red Pandas

This dream was a last minute addition to what I believe was a zombie apocalypse dream - lots of running, two warring factions, etc.

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I found a baby red panda and took it "home" - though my home had a lot of arbors hanging with bougainvillea and what not. It felt a little Spanish in nature. But at some point I put the red panda in the refrigerator to let it sleep, and forgot about it. Then I remembered it and retrieved it, but it was so cold and small, and it was on a plate surrounded by what appeared to be soy sauce. I held it to my chest and tried to clean it off. I was so worried that it was going to die. I walked about, trying to remember what red pandas ate. Then I thought worried about how I was going to take care of the red panda when it was fully grown, and I couldn't hold it.

Then the little red panda came back to life and started to grow till it was about the size of a cat. I put it on a shelf, and then my other cats were there. One of them hissed and swiped at the panda, which growled back. I realized that it was not the mother cat, but one of toms, and scolded them. Then the panda snapped at me, and I hugged him and told him he shouldn't, because then I would have to abandon him.

Two Nights: Two Parts of a Nightmare

Day 1:

Two musical chords.

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Yes, that was all I remember. Two horrible, movie-style "look-out!" musical chords. Woke up and was halfway across the hotel bed toward the window before I realized that I had only dreamed it.

I remember nothing else.





Day 2:

I was running home through the cornfields in the back of the house. The fields were still brown and not yet tilled, and I was running along the edge, between the field and the forest. There were snakes, sleeping along the forest edge. I ran past them, not really looking at them because they were harmless. Then I thought I saw a hooded cobra, and I stopped, thinking "Cobras don't live in Indiana..." As I stopped to look, the snake reared back and sort of bit me in the hip. I was surprised, and plucked it off. We both looked at each other, sort of surprised, then the snake extended its fangs and sunk them deep into my side, like around my kidney.

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Again, I woke up, though this time I did not attempt to escape my bed.

Later, while at the Sonora Desert Museum (highly recommend it), I saw a medium-sized snake, black and shiny, slithering across the sidewalk below me. I decided to give it a wide berth.

Swords and Shame

I was at some type of college - it looked like my old college, except with large brick verandas. There was a fight workshop of sorts going on. All the students were in Elizabethan garb. Half the class started working with shields, the other half with swords. It was blurry, but I remember being happy with how things were going.

Later, we were watching a movie. Something like the Three Musketeers. I was commenting on it, and my fight instructor (who I know in real life) whispered in my ear that I was annoying everyone and should be quiet. So I was, and I felt ashamed.

The rest is blurry, but at some point I found a secret door in the facade of a brick building. I don't remember if I was able to go through it, or if I watched my classmates go through it. It closed back up.

Washington Post

I was in a town in Washington - or possibly Canada. I tried to explain my location to a woman on a phone, and when I looked at the map I had gone north into Canada, but there was a line on the map which said "No Record Beyond this Point". I had gone west through Canada, and the state of Washington was blinking on the map, but I wasn't confident that I was there.

I was at a house, and Matt Damon, Zoe Deschanel, and Darren Criss were around. The house was suburban, and there was a pool in back. The whole thing had an air of incompleteness about it. It was a property, but not a home. I had traveled to this place to write. I was working in an office occasionally? Or at least, I was occasionally in a sort of office building. I got a letter from a woman, handwritten and on some sort of napkin, saying that she wanted to publish my book on female gamers and would offer me a healthy paycheck. Then she called. I was walking around the town, trying to make sense of what she was saying and not sound too happy. I reflected on my book, on my essays, and what still needed to be done. I could not believe that she was going to pay me for a book I had not finished.

When we hung up, I wanted to surprise everyone, so I didn't say anything. Later, at a table by the pool, I announced that I was going to have my book published by...I think I said something like P.T. Waterly? I can't remember. Then Mitch (actor friend), burst out laughing at the name of the publisher. He was making fun of me, and I was crushed that his first response was to laugh at me. Darren Criss gave me a hug, but I didn't feel better. I fell into a sadness because the first reaction was to make fun of my project.

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This is the second dream in recent memory where I've felt ridiculed by actors I know, even though I don't think of them with animosity.

I do actually have such a book in the making - but it's not very good. I don't think my style is engaging enough - but that would be news for a different sort of blog.