What are Dreams?

   When you lie down at night to sleep, perhaps even moments after your head hits the pillow, your body shuts down into a deep, and sometimes light, unconscious state that allows you to rejuvenate after a tiring day of work, or play, or whatever you do during the morning cycle. You stay this way for hours, and wake up, refreshed and ready to take on another day. Your life couldn't even function without sleep, in fact, without enough of it, you could go insane. But do you realize that your body doesn't shut down completely during it's time of healing inactivity? Besides your heart, your brain never stops working, but sleep is what puts your brain through a filing detox that stores and processes all it had to do, see, identify, and calculate during the day. During this complicated and mind boggling cycle, a lot of the information rushing through your gray matter can penetrate your conscience and take on the appearance of jumbled pictures, and, sometimes, coherent scenes that form a strange and unique story...

   Are dreams just nonsense images we sometimes get during the zero hours, or are they something more? In the Bible, God used dreams to communicate to the Old Testament prophets, like Daniel, to alert them to what was coming. Usually, due to the disobedience and sinful practices of His people, they were usually forewarnings of coming judgment, all of which came to pass exactly as they were told in the dream. Years ago, I started really taking notice of the sort of dreams I received every other night. They intrigued me, and I remembered hearing somewhere in more detail about people who received prophetic dreams from God. I got even more interested when mom told me that all dreams, especially if they were vivid and tended to stick with you for days, maybe even months afterwards, were nine times out of ten God trying to tell me something. Out of fun, I started writing the ones I remembered down in a journal I had received earlier for my thirteenth birthday, but, when they started growing more and more vivid and detailed, I started feeling a sense of awe. Then came the day when I the thought occurred to me: "If God was able to tell the prophets stuff back in ancient Israel, then why can't He do it here in the 21st century?" That's when I started writing down every dream I remembered that stuck with me, and the growing rate of their frequent showing accumulated into four journals so far, and, if He continues to lavish this amazing experience on me, the number will probably grow.
     
  Over the past few years, and especially during hard times, God has been telling me what I've needed to know when I needed to know it during the night while I sleep under His tender loving care, each dream unique in its way. Now, after receiving so many that I've lost count, some of which have scared me and, yes, drove me to tears and despair, I was frustrated because of this one thought: God isn't giving me dreams just to have them. He's trying to tell me something. Why he would want to talk to me of all people I have no idea, but one thing I've learned while pursuing all the different elements in every dream is that He can use anything, and I mean anything, to get his point across. You will see what I mean when you read these yourself. 

     The only problem when it comes to trying to interpret these pictures is that God uses symbolism: colorful images and events that tell the story symbolically. Sometimes He will tells us straight out what He wants us to do in a different form of dreams called 'visions', but they are somewhat rare. At least, I've never received one. A lot of dreams, yes, but no visions as of yet. So when you read these and have no idea if they mean anything, it probably means you just aren't used to interpreting symbols. Like Joseph and his dream about the sun, moon, and eleven stars bowing down before him; looking at that, without having ever heard the outcome of his story, or the interpretation, would you have been able to tell that God was telling him that Joseph's mother, father and brothers would bow before him one day? ...Probably not, unless He has given you the gift of interpreting dreams. I'm not all that good at it myself, but God has reveled several meanings to certain dreams to me, of which I am eternally grateful. What I've also learned is that God knows just how to speak to me by using symbols that I will understand; even certain characters from a book I might just have gotten into show up every now and then! God is unlimited, and he can use anything for His glory. 

     And this blog is dedicated to His glory too! I don't deserve the privilege of having my Creator and God so much as look at me. Why then would he want to bless me by telling me secrets only He knows about? That's the glory and the mystery of what a relationship with God through Jesus Christ can do. With man this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible. Also, if you have been blessed to receive the gift of dream interpretation, please, please feel free to write your opinion of what it could mean in the comments below. I will appreciate any help I can get. Also, I have copied down every entry straight from the journal it came form, so don't be surprised if I speak practically all the time in the present tense. May the Lord touch you as you read these dreams as much as He has touched me by giving them. Thank you for reading, and God bless!       

     
       

Dream 1: Star Wars, Weird Wars

8/24/12

     This was one of my weirdest dreams ever. I can't remember much of the beginning, but here is what I do remember.
     It begins in a rich green field that looks like Naboo. The sky is clear blue, but I don't remember if there were any clouds or not. Maybe a few wispy ones, but I'm not sure. Anyway, on one end of the valley on my left, Jango Fett and Boba Fett are practicing some kind of fighting techniques. I have a vague memory of them doing something between karate and wrestling, and maybe some targets, like archery, lying around. Not sure if it was for training or what.
     Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are doing some kind of game on the right side of the valley. They are standing about 5 or 6 feet away from each other and they are perched on these wood platforms that look like corn hole game targets. They have one foot perched on the high part and the other is bracing his body on the slope. They are using their lightsabers to deflect a red laser bullet back and forth. They are doing it really fast and it's pretty cool to watch. But it doesn't last long before, when Obi-Wan is sending it Anakin (who, by the way, is the Anakin from number 3). The laser suddenly morphs into a metal ball the size of a baseball and hits him in the face. Anakin falls from his perch and sprawls onto the grass. Obi-Wan goes to his side and then the scene changes to the inside of Slave 1. The inside of the ship is large and very white. Kind of like the Tentative IIV (Princess Leia's ship's) corridors, except no flashing buttons on the walls.
     Jango, Obi-Wan and Anakin are talking. I forget  what about. But then Boba and Jango start arguing, and I think it has something to do with an astromech droid. The scene suddenly becomes black and I hear something like a slap or the pounding of a fist against the wall or table. I half wake up then and I think, just, before I doze off again, that Jango had just either reprimanded Boba or hit him.
      The scene changes again to this very steamy room. Some kind of large vat of soapy hot water is in the center of the room. I think this is still on board Slave 1. Boba is in this room and he seems to be washing clothes. Probably some punishment or something. Something falls  into the tub and Boba goes over to see what it was. Steam is so thick that he tries pushing some of it away with his hand. Suddenly Anakin bursts out of the water. Boba yells in alarm and runs from the room. Anakin crawls out, dripping and wearing a blue swimming mask that is designed to cover the nose. Obi-Wan is leaning against the railing of a bridge or something like that above the tub. He's eating something which I think is cheese and Anakin leaves; I think Obi-Wan is laughing.
      The next scene is mostly another argument between Boba and Jango again. Boba seems to be pleading something to Jango, but I don't remember what. Jango seems to be tolerating it but not really listening.
      The next scene is outside. Instead of the sunny, grassy landscape in the beginning, it is all barren white rock, almost like ice and the sky is riddled with stars. it kind of reminds me of the North Pole. Boba is sitting on Slave 1's lowered ramp, his chin in his hands and looking very thoughtful. Suddenly Sly Moore appears (Sly Moore is a very minor Star Wars character and makes only a brief appearance in Episode 3). Seeing that he's cold, she hands him a brown cloak. She is being a bit nice to him, almost too nice. Then she comments that the cloak she gave him is a senator apprentices cloak. She says it kind of... I don't know. Eerily.
     The dream ends there. It was really weird, but weird dreams usually have meanings, so I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt. Just barely.

Dream 2: Pirates and Storms!

1/22/13

   Man, I haven't had a dream to write down since last year! All my other dreams during that time have faded from memory, so I can't write them down. So anyway, here's what I got.
      I can only  remember the parts near the end, but I do know that I was in it, and mom was in it, and three other kids who I don't recognize. Except the weird thing is that I'm not me and mom's not herself! I don't know who mom is, but it isn't her, okay. And I'm a boy for some odd reason (Actually compared to some dreams this isn't the weirdest one I've gotten).
     So anyway, like I said, I can only remember some of it, but I do know that somewhere along the line, me, mom and the other  kids, my three other  'brothers' because their all boys except I'm the oldest, teleport in some large cardboard box to a place that's kind of like pirate times. I know lots of other stuff happens in-between, but I can only remember the parts leading towards the end.
     Anyway, in the next scene I remember, it's night, but there's a lot of red firelight that lights the place up. I don't remember seeing any fire, just the light. We're on board a pirate ship, and I think prisoners, but I'm not sure. Oh, and the ship isn't in the water. It's like sitting on a rock formation or something. Maybe a reef, but I don't remember any sound of water.
     Anyway, there's this pirate captain (I can't remember what he looked like, only that he was kind of dressed as Sir Francis Haddock from Steven Spielberg's Tintin. The hat definitely) So yeah, I think the pirates just found this awesome treasure, only I can't remember what it was! The captain puts it in this very secure chest made of oak and braced with iron. It also has a pretty interesting lock, but I don't really see how its supposed to keep the chest closed. He nails in (I think six) gigantic nails into it's lid, where specially made holes were put in it for them. Sparks kind of go up as soon as they land inside the holes. Then he takes a bunch of gold coins, you know, doubloons? And melts them into other holes on the lid. They kind of form a pattern of some kind, so I don't know if it's for a fancy lock or decoration.
     Anyway, as soon as the chest is finished, this huge storm suddenly comes. There's no thunder or lightning, in fact, there isn't even any rain, just a large wall of gray clouds that are ominous but not because their dark. Their kind of a steel gray,. All I know is that the pirates are terrified of it. Then, from the center of the storm (See, it's still kind of far away) a large ring shoots from it and spreads out for miles. It looks kind of like the ring explosion of Sauron's Eye, but the way it spreads out is like ripples in a pond, but there's only one, and I remember it kind of having a small flare of rainbow to it, but not that much.
     As soon as the ring passes over us, we, including the pirates and the mast of the ship, are teleported to our living room! The mast has shrunk somewhat, and is sticking out of the ground where our Christmas tree used to be. Almost all the furniture's been cleared out, except for the kitchen table. I don't remember any other piece of furniture. Oh yeah, and the treasure didn't come with us either.  
     Anyway, the pirates then seem to start preparing for a fight or something, so they tie me (or my male impostor who doesn't even look like me) and my mom, (who doesn't look like my mom at all) and my three brothers (of whom I don't have!) to the mast to keep us out of the way I guess,
     The way they tie us to the mast is pretty weird. They get these knife blades that have long pieces of different colored felt at the ends where the handle is supposed to be. Then they tie our hands behind our backs with them. Then they connect the two ends, the knife part and the other end of the felt together by driving the blade into the most and through the felt at the same time. I don't remember the other colors, but I do remember was that mine was sky blue. (They are pretty flimsy by the way. They didn't even press the blades in the mast as far as they would go! And the felt was pretty weak too. Wouldn't rope have sufficed? If you can't tell already, these pirates are kinda dumb).
     So anyway, somewhere along the line I manage to get free. I don't remember now. I just do. But as soon as I do, there's a low rumble of thunder, and that very same storm starts approaching our house, and for some reason, the captain is angry at me! I have no idea why he blamed me for the storm, all I know is that he held me responsible.
     Unlike last time, this storm is more dangerous and though it has the same ring, it also has rain. So anyway, I don't waste any time and, after freeing mom and my brothers, we run into the garage and jump into the very same cardboard box we used to get to where the pirates were, only this time it doesn't transport us.
     But this time its raining harder than you can ever imagine, and there is a ton of wind that seems to keep trying to blow us outside (by the way, I forgot to mention that as soon as it began to rain, the pirates started to panic and run outside, so the house is pretty deserted by now).
     The rain is starting to flood the house by this time, but slowly. As soon as me and my brothers get inside the box, which is on it's side with the opening facing the opened garage door, I look back and see that mom's in trouble. My youngest brother had fallen behind as soon as he reached the kitchen, and since it's raining so hard that its penetrating the roof, he slipped and fell. Now that the wind has stared to blow, or more like suck in, it started to drag him towards the backdoor, (I think the back door is open, which would explain how the wind has gotten inside).
     Mom, not wanting to leave him behind, went back and tried dragging him back, but ends up getting caught herself. Naturally that leaves me to save them, so I crawl out of the box, make my way across the water logged kitchen, and, taking mom's free hand, drag them back across the kitchen to  the cardboard box, (by the way, the wind and the rain doesn't seem to penetrate the box).
    Since I'm a  boy, and like sixteen years old in this dream, I'm a lot stronger than I would have been if I was myself, but still, even that extra brawn isn't enough to get my mom to the safety of the box. I call out to Jesus for help, then, giving it all I got, I throw myself, mom and my brother into the box. And then everything goes black and I wake up. There you go, another dream written down. Let me know if it means something.

Dream 3: Mysteries, Middle-Earth, and Modern?

2/9/13

     I guess you can tell by this title that this is going to be some showdown of a dream. Unfortunately I don't remember much of it, except that it had two parts: the first one was the mystery and the strangest of the two, and the other was the Middle-Earth one, which wasn't as strange. Then there was the modern one that kind of adjoined the Middle-Earth part, and that was weird too. But even with it's strangeness, this is one of the most interesting dreams I've had. So here's the first part.

                                                                    Mysteries

     I can hardly remember this one and I'm really sad about that. I do know that it was a mystery, and it was a mixture of the Hardy Boys and Tintin (weird mix, huh?). I'm not in it, I'm just watching.
     The mystery involves orca whales, but I don't know what the Hardy Boys are doing. I think that they might be trying to capture it, but why I don't know. I do know that the attempts backfire a lot and someone (I think it was Tintin) gets dragged around by the orca (by the way Captain Haddock isn't in this, and neither is Snowy for some odd reason. Oh, and this Tintin is the cartoon version while I think the Hardy Boys are real). Plus I know that they get into some trouble with the culprits, it  could have been a chase scene, but I can't remember. I can't even remember who the culprits are or the plot of the mystery! That I find very disappointing.
   
                                                                    Middle-Earth

     This one was more action packed, but a little gross. I'm in it this time and me and a bunch of others are preparing for war. The place we're going to fight in looks like a mixture of Osgiliath and the Mines of Moria. I think there was at least one hobbit fighting with us, Frodo I think, but I'm not so sure of that either.
     Anyway, the battle begins. It's pretty tense, and I think we're fighting orcs, but then again, it could have been people. In the process my left leg gets cut off. My memory jumps to when after the war is over. We must have won because, even though most of us have wounds of some kind, we're all in pretty good moods (I don't know what happened to Frodo, but he doesn't show up again). I've got a new leg that looks more like an old fashioned hammer. The handle is the leg and the hammer's head is the foot. It's pretty weird.
     Dayna appears at one point with a replaced leg exactly like mine, and I do remember I make a twin crack, but I don't remember what it is (by the way the sick room looks like Ballin's tomb but is lit with torches instead of the white light). Then comes the celebration. We get out a large cake that has a green shamrock on it and dig in.

                                                                      Modern

     We then jump into some scrambled scenes that take place in our house and once at the pool where Levi has his birthday parties. I still have that fake leg and I think we're celebrating dad's birthday. So we got another cake out. Lili and Sam are with me at the table and we are eating some large slices of cake. They're both pretty happy and they don't seem to mind my leg. I'm a little sad because I can't do some of the things I used to, like run, so I'm a little down. The thing I really miss is running.
     The scene then jumps to Levi's pool, where the home schoolers have gotten together. Linden's there and when she sees me and my leg she runs over and asks me if I'm alright and what happened. I think I end up telling her that me and my family are really residents of Middle-Earth, but that's as far as my memory serves. I have a feeling that this does not mean anything, but who knows? It was still a fun dream all the same.

Dream 4: Dragon Attack!

7/10/13

    This was one of the best and longest dreams I've had so far! Unfortunately I don't remember the beginning or the middle very much, but I do know that it was all connected to form an epic story.
     The only part I remember vividly enough to write down are parts nearing the end. Parts of the middle half I know had to do with this character Dayna and I made up for a book we're writing: Elijah Thorndike, but that's it. I hardly remember anything of that part, except that it had something to do with a snow/ice refrigerator, mice, and corporate espionage. Too bad, I have a feeling that that part was very entertaining.
     Anyway, back to what I do remember. In the ending section it became a Percy Jackson and the Olympians mixture. I was in it, but I wasn't me, I was Percy (Percy is a demigod son of Poseidon, by the way, in case you didn't know). So anyway, me (in Percy form), and some other demi kids have just gotten back from a mission, (which I really wish I could remember cause it was epic) and we arrive back at our house via Pegasus and we land in the driveway (For the record, I vaguely remember flying on a Pegasus. So. Stinkin'. FUN!) Once we got there it was late afternoon (I think I was riding a white Pegasus) and then the scene changes.
     Me and some other demis are in a kind of park, where some large boulders covered with colorful graffiti are propped against a mountain side. Me and the others are standing around them, trying to make sense of the wild swirls and letters. Then suddenly a guy (who I think was Frank Zhang, a son of Mars) accidentally triggers something that starts to move a round stone back, like the entrance to a tomb or cave. Something roars from inside the and we run back to the pegusai and take off.
     Next I think we're in Annabeth's house (Annabeth is a daughter if Athena). The place is pretty loud (has a lot of different colored zebra stripped rugs and throw pillows and stuff) Also, the house, or at least the living room, looks a lot like the Shaffer's house.
     We are all preparing to fight the dragon, but it comes before we're ready. It starts bombarding the house, you know, dive bombing it and stuff? Except it never breathes fire. All of a sudden, Annabeth starts running around the house looking for something, and orders everyone to help her find it. Whatever 'it' is, she never tells me, but  everyone else seems to understand that its a matter of life or death, so they start tearing the place apart looking for it. Needless to say, the place gets more and more chaotic as the dragon starts to close in, and the thing still doesn't turn up.
     Now, I have no idea what it is I'm supposed to be looking for, (which is actually pretty normal for Percy) so i just follow Annabeth all around the house. Eventually I lean that this 'thing' she's looking for is the only thing that will appease the dragon and make it go away. Finally, we make it to her bedroom (It's a large place that's about two times bigger than Linden's room, and is on the ground floor. It has two big windows that light up the room with bright sunlight, with no certain and the bed has a lot of nice, plushy blankets on it). Annabeth starts tearing her room apart in a frenzy, and I just keep out of her way and watch. For  some reason I get the idea to stand by the windows, and it isn't long before the dragon finds out where we are.
     Annabeth ducks behind her bed and tells me to hide. I don't have enough time to find a hiding place, so I stand, with my back pressed against the wall, in the gap separating the two windows from each other. Unfortunately I can still see out the window to my right, and, eventually, I catch sight of the dragon's face peering inside. Annabeth orders me no to move, but, like an idiot, I do to get out of the dragon's line of sight. The dragon instantly sees me and starts to attack the wall from the outside. Annabeth and I bolt out of the room just as the dragon breaks through.
     We rendezvous with the others outside, in a place that has concrete and asphalt ground, like an unfinished parking lot, and a lot of snack stands and a parked ice cream truck standing around for some reason. The best place to go with a hungry dragon on your tail. The vendors of the stands have long since fled, so we have the place all to ourselves. Its big enough and open enough to be a large enough battle ground, but there were some buildings around. I think the place might have been part of an airport but... Its hard to explain, so use your imagination.
      The dragon hovers around are position, and then Annabeth finally tells me what she was looking for. I don't know what it was she actually said, but it must have been something important because the words clicked in mind. I reach into my pocket and pull out a small, wooden bottle with a circular wooden cork, or stopper, plugging it. I have no idea what it contains, but this was obviously what Annabeth had been looking for all this time!  (This is one of the reasons why I wish I could remember the entire dream, because somewhere along the line, and I think it was during that mission, I obtained this bottle somehow. So frustrating).
     So anyway, I take the bottle and face off with the dragon on the runway (at least I think it was a runway). The dragon lands and we both start circling each other, kind of like a stand off. The dragon is ten times the size of a Clydesdale, so you can imagine that the odds were less than favorable for me. The dragon had a triangular shaped head, glaring eyes that glowed orange, metallic black scales that, in the trick of the light, gleamed orange gold, bat wings, clawed hands and feet, spiny back and tail etc. etc. etc.
     So yeah, things get a little tense. I can tell that the dragon wants the bottle, but I have no real way to give it to him. So, I slowly scoot towards him with the bottle held out as far as my arm can go (why I didn't just roll it over to him I have no idea, but this is how it happened). Suddenly, and very unexpectedly, the dragon snaps impatiently at the air, as if to say, "Hurry up!" I get so startled that I just drop the bottle and back away. Thankfully, it doesn't uncork, and the dragon swallows it whole. Then, looking very content, it flies off and disappears. Everyone is very relieved to see the dragon gone, and they all begin to cheer, just as something flies through the air, hits me in the side of the head, and bounces a little ways down the asphalt.
      After the initial shock is over, I reach down and pick the object up. At first I have no idea what it is. It's wood, but it recently absorbed a lot of moisture and it looks a little like a ball. It's also very warm as well as wet. Then it hits me: This is the cork from the bottle, and the dragon just spat it out at me! We all get a good laugh out of that, and the dream ends with a very festive atmosphere.

Dream 5: Six Valley Guardians

7/20/13

     This dream was pretty incomplete, and was one of the more dismal ones. It had kind of an 'end of the world' feel to it. I don't really remember how it began, but I think it mostly had to do with some kind of war. High tech battle planes were shooting at each other. And some tanks, I think. I'm also pretty sure that the government was involved, but something didn't feel right. I mean, wars are never right, but this one just seemed especially wrong.
     As the war progresses, the fighters accidentally did something that would blow up the entire world in one hour. Instantly the war stopped and everyone started doing everything i their power to leave Earth. They used rocket ships, well armored battle planes, even a couple of those Chitauri monsterships from the Avengers. But me, Dayna, mom, and others from our church and Resurrection church, got together in a high tech hanger, you know, for planes? It was big, bronze colored and bustle with people from Eternal and Resurrection. The mood was very different here. Instead of panic there was peace and a little bit of excitement. Except I was a little sad, because Ms. Teresa had told me, Dayna, and four other girls from ZCWA that we weren't going to leave Earth with them, but in a way, we were going to leave. She didn't say where, and I kept on pointing out that if the Earth was going to blow up in less than a half hour, we were going to die! Ms. Teresa said reassuringly that even though we wouldn't be, technically, leaving, we would be gone.
      What made it even sadder was that mom was leaving too. Since time was short, we said a quick goodbye, then me and the other five girls followed Ms. Theresa to a kind of large storage closet. In it were six throne like chairs, all gold, but have a kind of color scheme. There was one for each girl, and Ms. Teresa said that they were for us. Then she left to catch her ride. (I forgot to mention that back in the hangers, while everyone was boarding whatever kind of transportation they had, someone, I'm not sure who but it might have Ms. Teresa, said that they would be coming back for us someday, and that I would marry someone who would be coming with them. I pretty much just shrugged that off to think about later).
     Anyway, back to the storage closet. It looks more like an attic than a closet, with one of those dangling lamps hanging from the ceiling. Something suddenly clicked and we instantly knew which throne was ours. For some reason, my throne was the leader's throne, fiery orange, and each girl got a dress to put on that matched the color of their throne. There was an American flag propped in the corner, and I wanted to attach it to the top of my throne to honor my country, even though I didn't really like it as much. But, in order to do that, I had to put a bunch of wooden boards on top of the throne, which sort of altered it's beauty, in order to get the flag to stay up. Amy Ray (who I think had the blue throne), stops me and says something very important. Unfortunately I can't remember exactly what. it had something to do with 'putting' or 'laying aside'...something. It might have been 'country', but that sounds very unpatriotic. But I'm pretty sure that's what she said! Somehow that changed my mind and I just discard the flag back in the corner, where it slides down and falls to the ground.
      Suddenly, everything changes. We're now outside in a wide open, very green valley. We're all in colorful dresses and seated on our thrones in not really a circle, more like an incomplete oval. I'm on the far right, with three other girls sitting in a kind of oval pattern to my left. The other two were also sitting ovalish, but facing us from the other side. Of the girls in our group I'm pretty sure of was me, Dayna, Amy, Allison, and Mikaela. The other girl I don't remember at all. The valley is very beautiful and sheltered, with some hills and mountains surrounding it, and a lot of wavy grass. Somehow I managed to bring my Bible and a notebook, and I'm very overjoyed at that.
     Centuries pass, and we never age a day. Along the line we find out that each of us have certain abilities, but what they are isn't exactly clear. I've become the groups leader in a way, but all we really do is just sit around in our thrones, waiting. We're the only ones in the valley, so it becomes quite a shock when we learn that we have visitors one day. At first we hope its those refugees Ms. Teresa said would come for us, but that doesn't really prove to be the case. A gigantic robot is mining the mountains that surround our valley. We have no idea if it's from Earth or whatever, but it obviously isn't friendly.
     Eventually we learn that the robot works for the government, and its holding two guys captive in the mines. while it works on building some kind of fortress inside the mountains for the government. Apparently, they want to set up shop in our little haven, and we resolve not to let them. We return to our thrones for an emergency council. We quickly make a plan to rescue the two guys (who someone, I think Ali, found out that their names were something like Pepper and Piper O_o)  and in the process destroy the robot, which was up to me... thanks a lot guys... So, for some reason, we sneak into the mountain in broad daylight and find that it's actually a portal linking our hidden valley to what the think could be the remains of Earth! Needless to say, things just got a lot more serious, and we quickly continue our search for the boys. We eventually find them, but, at the same time, the robot finds us! While the others escort Pepper and Piper (who i assume are brothers) out of the mines. I have to fight the robot.
     I manage to get him to chase me outside again, and somehow I start flying and I lead the robot to the top of the mountain. Apparently, though its the size of a house, the thing can't fly. Then comes the revelation of my ability: I can either veil or unveil someone's eyes! So, still, flying, I make the robot become blind and it falls off the mountain. Its extreme fall brings the entire mountain down, sealing the mine and destroying the portal forever. I eventually rendezvous with the others at the thrones. Pepper and Piper are there too, and, besides from being a little bewildered, are okay. While they stand in the center of the gathered thrones, I take my seat and I'm just about to make introductions when I wake up! ARGH!
     Though a little dismal a the beginning, I'm pretty sure it had a distinctive meaning. Hopefully a good one.

Dream 6: Lothlorien?

12/2/13

     This dream might have been influenced by my reading that very same chapter in Lord of the Rings right before I went to bed. But here it is all the same. I can't remember how it started, but The Fellowship are in Lothlorien. Actually, their more like stuck there because Mordor orcs have surrounded the entire forest, and Lorien is under siege. I think their staying with the Galadrim until the orcs go away. The first scene starts with Frodo. He's just walking around in the forest with the others, only he's being tormented by Sauron's voice, which is speaking to him even though he doesn't have the Ring on. At least, I don't think he has the Ring on, although things to get fuzzy from time to time, like it does when he does put it on. As the company walk through the forest, Frodo keeps ducking behind trees every now and then. He seems anxious, but mot really panicked.
     Next we suddenly jump to another part of Lorien. I must here point out that Lorien isn't as it was in the movie or books. It's wet and muddy, not very beautiful at all, and The Fellowship soon get really dirty, and they can't wash themselves off because it only makes it worse. Galadriel is still there though, and in a kind of clearing, she offers them these fresh leaves of lettuce in a circular, black kind of bowl that looks like it's made out of the same metal as a frying pan. Cast iron? It's a little bit rusted too, but that doesn't seem to matter. Frodo takes one of the leaves. It's very wet and crisp feeling (like the kind of leaves you want to put in a salad. Even though I wasn't in this part, I could feel it) and, following Galadriel's instructions, Frodo rubs the leaf on his legs and feet. The clean water that's in it washes the mud away like magic.
     After that, something serious happens. I can't remember what,but was something similar to what happened to Pippin when he looked into the Palantir, only it happens to Frodo and there is no Palantir involved. Whatever it was it makes everyone a bit more edgy than usual, and they all decide to go deeper into the forest. All I can remember of the serious moment are images of Frodo hiding behind some tree roots, looking a bit more scared than last time.
      The dream then suddenly takes an interesting turn. I am now in it, only I'm not me, I'm Merry, and I'm wearing an elvish cloak. A female elf has also joined our group. All I remember about her is that she was blonde, had hair like Eowyn, and she had a name only I can't remember what. She could also turn herself herself invisible. I think we're still in Lothlorien, only it doesn't look like Lorien anymore. The trees are now almost completely gone, and a kind of city is now erected. The streets and the city are made of white stone, and elves are walking around, but it still looks too modern to be Middle -Earth. In fact, as time moves on, it slowly starts looking even more modern.
     Suddenly, and without any explanation, Frodo breaks away from our group and runs away down the street. The others and I run after him, but when we turn a corner, he's nowhere in sight. We get the feeling that he put on the Ring. We're now in a kind of plaza. Still in the white stone city, but the people here are more brightly dressed, and I think their humans, not elves. At the end of the plaza is a building, with rectangular sides, a triangular roof, and two large pillars that hold a tall overhand. it kind of reminds you of a public library. I remember that it was made of a bluish gray, marble stone (possibly lapis lazuli). The girl elf then speaks for the first time. She says that she has a feeling that Frodo is in the blue building, which she says is the Lothlorien church. She and I then go to check it out, leaving the others to wait outside.
      The inside of the church is beautiful. The walls are made of dark, solid oak, but there are many windows to light the place up. There are these long benches that resemble pews, but their backs are just wood, and the seats are cushioned with red velvet. But, though the church is beautiful, the people who are i it are definitely not. They are all dressed in a bright, gaudy colors, and pretty much all of the woman are, in one way or another, dressed indecently. They wear a lot of make up too, and their faces are sharp, kind of like a foxes, and their skin color range from pale blue, pale peach, and even pale pink! Their hair are various, unnatural colors too, like hot pink or dark cerulean. I don't remember much about the men, only they had various facial deformities and strangely colored skin, like smoky, coal black.
      The people are all seated in the pews, complaining to each other about something, but I can't remember what. In fact, their complaining so loudly that, if there was a sermon being preached (I don't remember if there was) it would have been impossible for us to hear it. They were obviously very stuck up, self centered people who cared about nothing but themselves, but chose to sit all day in that beautiful church. After the girl elf and I look around a bit (she sometimes turning invisible to get  to certain places) we  come to the conclusion that Frodo isn't in the building. We're just about to leave and look somewhere else, but then the elf, who suddenly turns invisible, gets tangled up in some beautiful gold silk with white vine design that had been draped over an empty pew. I don't know how it happened, but it attracts a lot of unwanted attention, because, since the girl is invisible, it just looks like the fabric is moving around by itself!
      An orc then comes over and asks us some questions. The girl elf, now no longer invisible or tangled, tries to laugh the matter off and say that we were just fooling around, but he doesn't buy it. He calls me (I'm still Merry by the way) a "Rohanian", but that isn't exactly true because Merry doesn't become Theoden's esquire until much later in the book. The orc then calls for reinforcements on a walkie-talkie. The elf girl and I then high tail it out of there, and were chased all over the place, but in different places.
     The first place is a grocery store (I'm not sure but it might have been Target). We are definitely not in Lothlorien anymore, but I'm still Merry, the girl elf is still here, and we're being chased by orcs. The people in the store are like the ones in the church; weird and colorful, and they hardly pay attention to whats going on, so we just avoid them. Somewhere along the line, elf girl and I get separated. I hide in the clothes section, and I don't know how, but the elf girl projects her voice across the store without a loudspeaker. She starts to pretend that she's on the orcs' side and tells me to give myself up, which I don't. Then she calls out to the orc chief and says something like, "Hey, I suppose you know that there are others back at Lothlorien?" The orc chief gets upset about that. "What?" For some reason that cracks me up in the dream and I laugh in my hiding place.
     The scene then changes. I am now running down a hall in a different building, kind of...I don't know really how to describe it. It's a storage building, with white halls and electric lights on the ceiling. I duck into a closet that's full of bubble wrap to hide. The orcs eventually look in it, so I have to get out of there. I can somehow out run them, even though they're bigger than me.
     The scene then jumps to a kind or country side house that looks a little bit like the bed and breakfast, or Green Gables. The girl elf and I are back together again, and we are staying with some people, I forget who. We're pretending to be different people. Kind of undercover (going by different names and such). Out near the side of the house is a kind of elevated porch/balcony, that has stairs going down it to reach the lawn. Near it are these strange white pillar things just standing like over-sized pedestals. The girl elf then tells me to jump on top of the first pillar, I don't know why, but I do it somehow. Kind of a big jump for a hobbit. As soon as I'm up, I look back at her and I see Gollum sneaking up behind her. I tell her to look out, and I think she gets away. I'm not sure, but she must have because then Gollum starts coming after me! I avoid him by jumping up the other two pillars, but, as we all know, Gollum is very agile, so he starts to follow my example.
     With nowhere else to run, I somehow get down the highest pillar (how I'm not sure) where the girl elf is waiting for me with a gigantic white horse. But, before we can mount and get away, three orcs, one of them the orc chief, suddenly show. Gollum I think has run off at this point. The orc chief is pretty fed up after chasing us all over the place, and he's just about ready to kill us too. But then one of his followers says that it would be better if they took us alive back to Sauron, and eventually the chief agrees.
      The scene then jumps back to 'gloomy' Lothlorien. The elf girl and I are riding the horse, she in front, and the orcs are leading. Just as we're going through an overhang of rocks that's on the boarder, one of the orcs says, "That's far enough." Then he pulls out a sword and whacks off the orc chief's head. Speechless, we watch as the two 'orcs' remove their disguises, revealing that their actually Aragorn and Theoden! Only their in lego form, which is a little weird.
     At this point, everything that is LOTR related ends. We never find out what happened to Frodo, unfortunately, and the dream takes on an entirely different turn. I am in this part too, only I'm me now and I'm in our house. There is this guy living with us, a teenaged guy, and he's kind of mean. He keeps stealing my stuff and I always have to keep reclaiming it. In this small part I am just bringing a small arm load of stolen things back into my room. Somewhere along the line I start hearing voices in my dresser, so I start opening up all drawers. In two of them I find two rubber,  yellow snakes; one has a smaller head than the other. Somehow I learn that the dresser contains a secret room, and the only way I can get into it is if I get into one of the drawers. But that's impossible, so therefore I can't get in.
     The scene then jumps to that hidden room. It's pitch black in there, except for one, solitary, lava red glow that's coming from what I think is a shield, which is resting on a pedestal. There are two cats in there as well: a father and son. They are sworn to protect the shield at all costs, and they kind of look like anime cats, kind of the kind Linden draws. Suddenly a shaggy black cat (kind of looks like scourge) with sickly yellow scales (or sores which is gross) on it's back. Starts to creep up on the shield, and the two cats prepare to fight it.
     The scene then changes one more time. Actually it jumps from two different scenes. The first is a fight between a man who looks a bit like Aragorn, but it isn't, and a creature that is the black cat in another form. The cat's new form is a humanoid type creature. His skin is a pale, sickly white with only a slight hind of tan to it. His head is shaped like the Green Goblin's helmet, and his face is like a lizards, yet strangely human at the same time. He has the body of a man, for the post part, but his hands end in claws and his legs get thicker near the foot until, from the calf down to his ankles are covered with this jagged, sickly yellow material that doesn't look like cloth or metal. It's jagged like crystals, but it seems to be fused to his body, and those yellow spots that were on the cat's back are also on his.
     But, while these two are fighting, I have a sense that their in a movie of some kind, and that Dayna, mom and I are watching it at the kitchen table, only there is no TV around. It's pouring rain where the two are fighting in a kind of abandoned street just outside a gas station. The bright lights are on, and they flood the place in a kind of silvery white light that illuminates every raindrop like a diamond. The asphalt road is slightly flooded, just enough to cause a splash. The man who looks like Aragorn starts to speak to the creature. He actually more like pleads with it to accept Jesus Christ  as his Lord. In fact, he sounds almost close to tears. The lizard man says never, and the way he says it shows that it's his final decision, and they battle on. Suddenly the lizard man jumps up to pounce on the man, but, just before he lands on top of him, the man pulls out some kind of weapon. I couldn't see what it was, because, just before it happened, me in the dream closed her eyes. All I could see was that the handle was shaped like a beer bottle, with the slender end pointing up.
     What happened is pretty much what happened to Fenris Wold when he tried to pounce on Peter in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Before he dies the lizard man says, and I remember it clearly. "Well, it was fun...while ti lasted." Then the scene jumps back to us at the kitchen table. Mom doesn't really approve of most of the movie (mostly due to the violence) but it's apparently a movie Joseph owns. It had a name too, only I can't remember it.

Dream 7: Test Flight

2/10/14

     This dream originally had a ton of detailed parts, but the only one I really remember is the one I'm going to write down. This part starts out in some house (I'm really not sure whose. I originally thought that it was in our living room, but, now that I think about it, it really wasn't). The room is kind of open aired, like a veranda, and it's kind of surrounded by all this garden like foliage. Flowers too I think, but the lighting is kind of gray and gloomy, like one of those days where there's a lot of clouds but hardly any rain. The veranda is made of wood, what kind I don't know. It was strong, but not regal; rich, but plain, and it was either the color of light oak or more tanish like plywood. I really don't remember. The veranda had a roof too, so that, plus all the surrounding foliage, gave it a kind of private feeling.
     The inside of the veranda is the size of most living rooms, and it's kind of furnished like one too. It had at least one couch in it, maybe two, and enough chairs for everyone to have a seat around the table that was smack dab in the middle. It's made out of a lighter kind of wood than the veranda. I get the impression that it once contained some lighter kind of wood than the veranda. I get the impression that it once contained some light varieties of food, but the people sitting around it have just finished eating. The people are me and my family. I can't remember if my own family was there, I don't remember seeing them, but my Uncle Paul and Uncle Tim's families were there, and so was Grammy! I'm sitting on one of the sofas, while everyone else is sitting in chairs.
     I'm not sure who brings it up, but they tell me that there's this high powered jet that's soon going to be put through a test flight. It's designed to hold at least four or five people, and it's purpose is to fly up and navigate through the highest atmosphere of the planet. Then they ask me to be the one to test fly it! My first response is something like, "Um, when you say 'jet' do you mean the one's with sharp noes and very loud jet engines?" when they confirm it, I'm anything but thrilled, but I agree to anyway because they asked, and it sounds important.
     The next part takes place at the air port where the test is going to take place. Me, mom, dad, Dayna, and some other people I don't really know, are on our way to the place where we'll be competing to see who will be on the test flight, even though I volunteered, I still need to be 'okayed' by the people who are in charge of the project. Dayna's trying out too. I don't really remember the tests, but one of them was like this big, escalator wall, or ramp. It's slanted quite a bit, and we're told to run up it as fast as we can; the surface of the ramp is acting like a big escalator and is moving down, while we have to climb up. At the signal, we rush up it, and, after a little scrambling, I make it to the top first. The next test I really don't remember. It took place near one of those moving conveyor belts in the baggage claim, only there wasn't any conveyor belt. There were these two foot poles with red beacons on the tops that were stuck to the front of the  conveyor-less...whatever you call them. Each pole had it's own number, and they were separated by at least three feet. What we had to do was sit under one of the numbers while of the guys in charge of the project questioned or talked to us about some things. I really don't remember much about that test.
     There might have been more, but that's all I really remember. In the end, I am nominated for the test flight, along with three other people. Dayna doesn't get to go, and she's a little sad about that, but I think  she gets better about it. I and the others then troop into the jet. It looks exactly like one of those super powered Army Jets, with sharp, conical noses and break the speed of sound. Except, instead of jet engines, it has this large, square like thing on its back that has jet holes in it, maybe five  in each row, and five holes high. It's from these that it gets most of it's power, even though it has two additional jet engines on it's wings. The inside of the jet is tan colored, and roomy enough, with bench like seats in the walls for passengers to sit on. The other people coming with me take those, while I get in the pilot's seat to fly it.  
     I don't remember anything about the take off. The next thing I know we're soaring high above the Earth's blue sky and in hat glowing blue aura that you sometimes see in pictures, which mark the farthest part's of Earth's atmosphere. The test goes very well; I'm able to pilot the jet without many problems, and everything goes along peacefully. Eventually we direct our coarse back for home and I fire up the back twenty jets and we rocket back towards the surface.
     The next part is a little bit muddled, because I get the impression that me in the dream has been...well, dreaming herself, at least as far as from the training to the actual test flight. But, now I, in the dream, am going back to the airport to do the actual training and flight. I have Scrappy with me this time for some reason, dressed in his coat and harness ready to go. I carry him for the most part. Anyway, once we (other people who are trying out for the test) enter the airport, I start recognizing some of the training mechanisms, like the escalator wall, and the conveyor-less...pole numbered...beacon thingy... I get really astonished at this, and, when i tell the guy that all these things were in my dream, he just says something like, "Well, that's an interesting coincidence." Then I say, "I call it prophecy."
     Then at this point, things start getting confusing. I think I pass all my tests, and then these people, who don't want me to go on the test flight, start masquerading as my friends and keep trying to attack me. The person they try to impersonate is a middle aged woman, but what they do is have three different people pose as her at the same time! They definitely look like her, only that the fact they are impersonating her three times kind of backfires because it makes me aware of their plot immediately. It wasn't very smart of them, I might add.
     Things are a little chaotic for a while, but then I'm eventually able to pinpoint the real woman from the impostors because I took note of what the real woman was wearing, and, though all the impostors wore the same thing, they had certain, helpful additions. Like one wore something purple in addition to her outfit, while another wore something red; things like that. With that in mind, I manage to identify the impostors to the authorities, and they are arrested and put away for good. I then pick up Scrappy and leave, probably for the jet, and that's where the dream ended.    

Dream 8: Carnivorous Plants!

2/27/14

    This dream wasn't the happiest one ever. It had an oppressed, kind of 'fight-back-or-be-destroyed[ feel to it the entire time. I forget how it starts, but it jumps sometimes from our time to Clone Wars time. I guess I might as well start with the Star Wars part.
     It starts out on a rocky kind of ledge, at might, high above a vast city. The ledge holds a small, triangular, one story building. It kind of looks like one of those Naboo ships, with a pointed front, only the back is more rounded and it's obviously a building. There are three Jedi waiting outside the building, under the pointed overhang, one of the Jedi is Kit Fisto, that much I know, and the other two I don't really remember, only that one was a girl, with pink hair and white face that was streaked rose pink like her hair. She is obviously an alien. They're waiting outside this place because it's the hideout of General Grievous, and their waiting to catch him. Only, their not hiding or anything, their just waiting like they would for a bus. They're also trying to figure out if Grievous is already in the fort or not. They  are eventually convinced that he is already in the fort or not. They are eventually convinced that he is, due to the fact that his speeder is on the premises, and they go in. Only, I think the bad guys know that their coming, and planted that speeder there to drive them into a trap, only it's never sprung. It continues on with the Jedi sneaking down hallways and taking out a few guards (sometimes getting into open fights to do so), but I never found out if they found Grievous or not, because that part of the dream stops.
      The next part jumps to our time period, at our house. Only, for some odd reason, our house has kind of an apartment feel to it, even though it's obviously still a house. Things aren't going too well, because I think there's a famine going on in America, or a major foot shortage, like a blight. Because of that, the Government is handing out special seeds to everyone. They say that if they plant them near their houses, the seeds will grow food for them until the crisis passes. A lot of people buy into that, and plant the seeds. Me and my family are only ones who don't do it.
     Eventually, the plants grow, but they are definitely not food plants. They're carnivorous plants! They have two jaws, but they don't look like Venus Flytraps. They're more oval, if  you get my meaning. They don't have any eyes or teeth, they're heads are about the size of a Great Peraniese dog, and their long stalks act more like necks. They grow until their taller than houses, and there are only two to each house. And they have lizard like red tongues. What the plants do is break into the houses they were planted nearby, (either through the windows or the walls) but they don't attack, they just lie down and wait in plain view until someone comes to investigate, and they swallow them whole.
     Even though we didn't want any of the seeds, somehow two plants start attacking our house. One breaks through mom and dad's bathroom window and waits. We of course find out about it right away, and, feeling very fed up, I take a stick (which for some reason we have a whole supply of in this dream) and I use it to stab down on the plant's head, like I would with a sword. It's pretty gross, because the plant's head starts to leak out this icky dark blue plant juice, but it does die... right on the bathroom floor. We have to kill off a few more plants I think, but I'm not entirely sure. Then we all decide to leave home (where to I have no idea) since things are pretty crazy. We're all very sad about that, and it gets even sadder when, even though we can take Scrappy with us, we can't take Carson and Drew. We're packing pretty quickly because we want to leave that very same day, but we delay long enough to find a home for the cats. Missy Ruffin, our hip-hop dance teacher, decides to take them in. Only, for some odd reason, she's living in Grandma's house. In fact, Grandma wasn't anywhere in this dream. So we lure Carson and Drew to the house with cat food, and then leave them there. Kind of mean in my opinion, but that's how it happened.
     By the way, I forgot to mention that, before we left, Dayna and I were in our room, trying to decide which stick to bring as a weapon, just in case we needed to fight. I knew it was probably better to take a smaller one, since they were lighter and easier to swing, but I ended up choosing one that was more of a staff. It was made of smooth, pale goldish wood, and, made out of the same kind of wood, was the snake that twirled around it until it's head was almost at the top. It was definitely heavier than most of the other sticks, and Dayna pointed this out to me. But I just said that I chose it because of it's symbolism, because it reminded me of the bronze snake Moses had put on the pole in the desert, when the people of Israel were being attacked by poisonous snakes. Dayna just shrugged, and maybe after that we hit the road, but I don't know because the dream stopped then. That's pretty much all I remember.

Dream 9: Meaningless or Meaningful?

12/30/14

     This is probably one of the most bazar dreams I've ever had so far, and the craziest thing is that it tells just one big story. I'll try to write as much down as I can. I can't remember where it officially starts, but the very first part has me, mom, Dayna, and possibly dad in it, along with Lili Lowther and Tim Hawkins. This was the weirder part of the dream, and I doubt it has any meaning, but I have to write it down because it goes along with the story. Anyway, it seems like Tim Hawkins is putting on a show right there in our hometown, and, for whatever reason, he ends up in our house and takes a shower in mom and dad's bathroom. I'm not sure where everyone else is at this point, but I'm the only person in mom and dad's room. For some reason I end up putting on one of Tim Hawkin's rediculous costumes, a white robe with a gold sash and sun glasses, just as Lili comes in. She mistakens me for Tim Hawkins for some bazzar reason and asks me for my autograph, and, like an idiot, I play along and continue the charade until she leaves, and I don't tell anyone about it. I have no idea what I was thinking, or if I was even thinking at all.
    The next scene takes place on the day of the performance, which seems to spread throughout the day in separate acts. We all stay for the whole thing, but there are breaks in-between acts so people can take a break, stretch and get food. The performance area is in a building kind of like a chapel, large enough to hold a simple stage and seats about a hundred people. The chairs were like the chairs in CTK. Anyway, during one of the acts, I begin to feel guilty for leading Lili on like I did, and start to get worried that if she very gets the change to meet the real Tim Hawkins, the truth would come out in a rather embarrassing way. So during one of the breaks I pull her aside and tell her what I did, but it turns out that she had already known from start! I  apologize and she forgives me, and me go back in to see the rest of the show.
     Once it's over, Lili takes me on a kind of road trip (she could drive in this dream). I don't remember if we stopped somewhere, all I remember is driving and passing a lot of thick forests. The area we lived in had a lot more trees than normal. In fact, it sort of resembled a jungle. Anyway, once the road trip was over, Lili brought me back to the large van mom and dad drive in this dream. They've just finished loading the van with something they had just won from the performance. I never find out what it is, only that its big enough to take up most of the backseat and its covered with a black tarp, but there's still plenty of room left in the van. That's how big it was. It's at this part of the dream that Dayna seems to completely disappear, and a new character comes on the scene. I can't remember much of what he looked like, only he was big and strong and very large and intimidating sort of man, only he seems to be working for my parents. I'm thinking that he was a guide of some sort, which makes sense because of something that happens later. Mom and dad  don't seem entirely thrilled about whatever it was they won, and they jokingly suggest calling it Obama, but goodnaturdly.
      Anyway, once Lili drops me off, I find that someone who looks exactly like me has been taking my place by helping mom and dad load up! And it isn't Dayna, by the way. Its at this point in the dream that I somehow learn that if you've been away for far to long, a duplicit of yourself will somehow present itself. I also get the impression that that isn't a good thing, because the duplicit gives off the sort of signal of untrustworthiness, and I also lean that their actually kind of evil. We then get in the van to leave, and since I have no idea how to get rid of my duplicit, she ends up coming along too. She doesn't say anything throughout this entire section of the dream. All we do is glare at each other. It's at this point that the dream completely starts to change its characters. Dad's look completely changes, and I think mom disappears entirely. I transform into a teenaged boy, and does my duplicit (looking exactly like me, of course), and our guide remains the same.
      Suddenly we drive our van over the side of the road. I get the impression that this was the duplicit's fault, and we crash in what can easily be described as a dense jungle. It really didn't look like Charlotte at this point. There were vines hanging from the branches of trees, strange foliage all around, birds not native to America flying around (I think I saw a kookaburra once) and round yellow fruits that looked kind of like grape fruits grew here and there. Our guide spears one of these with an arrow or something, but I can't remember what the inside looked like. We all then start hiking through the forest, I guess to try and find our way out. I can't remember if my duplicit disappeared or not at this point, but anyhow, we suddenly stumble across some white eggs hidden under some ferns or something on the jungle (or forest) floor, but I never find out what happens because the dream then decides to take a completely different turn with a whole new cast of characters and circumstances.
   
     I'm not in this part at all, in fact, no one I know is, which is kind of a good thing. Though now I'm only an observer, I follow the progress of a little boy with short blonde hair. The father's still the same from the last part of the dream I think. There's also an older man with gray hair who's either a pastor or a friend of the family, and a teenaged girl who looks a lot like Allison Reynolds who I think is the little boy's sister. I don't know if there was a mother around or not but I got the feeling that there was, only I don't remember seeing her. I think there's some in between stuff that I'm forgetting, but I do know that the boy is the keeper of a family heirloom, a gold ring set with a sparkly red stone with two small diamonds set on each of it's sides. It fits him perfectly, and, though old, it seems made to fit on his finger. I think he wears it on his right ring finger, because the ring will only fit there. Sometimes in this dream I'm only watching, while at other times I can feel what the boy is feeling, mostly physically and sometimes emotionally, although I never take his place or become part of the dream myself.
     This part of the dream is quite a bit darker than the rest of the dream combined. There's this man who I think looks a lot like the father of the boy (maybe another duplicit, but that was never made clear). Anyway, I get the impression that he's related to the boy, I'm thinking maybe an uncle, but that's only mentioned like once. He seems to want the boy's ring, like, so bad he starts attacking the family in order to try and get it. The boy runs into a bathroom to escape him, which, even though it's attached to the house they live in, has windows that look outside. Why those are in a bathroom I have no idea. The boy hunkers down in the bathroom, locking the door and turning out the lights so as to give the impression from the outside that no ones inside, even though the door's locked. The man tries to get in but finds it barred against him. Strangely, he doesn't even try to break it down and enter by force, he just tries the doorknob a couple of times, and then leaves. I think the door was made of dark wood, come to think of it, in case that's important.
     The boy, after catching his breath, then opens one of the windows and climbs out. Their house is surrounded by trees, not the jungle type that was left behind in the previous section, but normal. There's a great deal of dead leaves on the ground even though it isn't autumn. The boy wades through these until he's several feet away from the house. Then he uncovers a bike partially hidden under the leaves, gets on it and rides away as fast as he can. The dream goes on for a while with random scenes of him peddling down various streets and roads. I couldn't tell if it was a hint that he had been riding for days, maybe hours, but I did get the impression he was far away from the house. Eventually, the boy comes across a more populated and industrialized part of town. I can't really tell it it's a city or not. Suddenly, while the boy is riding down the streets, a large group of teenagers fly by on their skateboards. I think they were racing or something, and I get the impression that this was a gang. The main boy (no one in this dream had names),  since he's caught right in the middle of this rowdy migration, has no choice but to go along with the crowd down dangerous streets at breakneck speed to avoid hitting somebody. Even though he's pretty young, like maybe ten years of age, he rides that bike with skill before finally breaking away from the main group, but not before attracting the attention of the leader and another gang member, a girl with red hair and just entering teen years.
     The leader is a teenaged boy with shoulder-length brown hair. He isn't exactly all that commanding, or forceful or cocky, but he still decides to make trouble for the main boy. The younger boy just wants to move on, but the older boy wants to fight first. Seeing that there's no real way out of this except to right, the younger boy does fight, and, even though he is significantly smaller than the older boy, he miraculously knocks him down and wins the fight through cunning and some clever tricks. All in all, he wins the fight, and no one gets hurt. The older boy just hits the sidewalk at least once. The girl was watching the entire thing, and, once its over, she goes to help her fallen leader up. While she supports him, since he's a little dazed I think, she turns to the younger boy and offers him a hug to show that there are no hard feelings. It's so obvously a trick that I have no idea why he complies, but he does and the girl and the older boy attack him and overpower him. It doesn't end well, and the boy gets carried into a nearby building, since all this took place on a street corner.
      The scene then jumps to the inside of a warehouse or something, where the boy is like tied to this elevated table and blindfolded. He isn't treated any rougher than that, and anyway they release him in a moment. The rest of the dreams too depressing to write down in detail so I'll spare you the pain of reading it. In short, the skateboard gang are actually part of an orphan program that's trying to pair them up with  families and give them new homes. The boy's sister and that old man I can't place, who is apparently friends with the gang leader, come to the warehouse and talk to the boy, who's surprise to see them. The sister tells him that his ring is one out of four, the only one's in existence. They're then interrupted when the man who first attacked them arrives and starts to beat down the door. The boy runs away again, at the urging of everyone else, and starts to climb up to warehouse's roof from the outside, while his sister and the old man try to reason with the man. The dream ends on a very tense and fearful note that snapped me awake instantly. I didn't like this dream at all because it had a continuous feeling of fear and danger. I also don't think it has any spiritual meaning at all and is just a jumbled plauge created by my inflamed imagination. Although, then again, you never know.

Dream 10: I Don't Even Know

5/3/15

     This was one of the darkest dreams I ever recall having before in my life, and I have had a few. The beginning is kind of weird, and I have to say that all my research on Helen of Troy for my essay must have helped influence it somewhat. Basically, in this section, I'm Paris and Venus, Athena, and Hera are trying to get me to pick one of them to give the golden apple to, only they don't try to bribe me. More like threaten my life and try to kill me as a group effort in a ridiculous way that wouldn't have killed me in the slightest. They put me in mom and dad's bathroom (in the bathtub actually) turn the water on and make it sound like I'll drown once the water level reaches the top, even though I clearly stand above the rim of the bathtub. It's stupid, I know, unless they meant that the entire bathroom would be flooded and THEN I'd drown, but I high doubt it. Anyway, after the bathtub fills up a little more than halfway, I just leave the bathroom and find the three creeps waiting for me, where they try the 'being nice' tactic. Like that would work now after they just tried to kill me? Yeah right. Anyway I get tired of it after a while and prepare to make my decision. But I never do because the scene changes, and with it the intensity.
      I'm now me, and my family and I are taking a road trip to California,  which strangely only takes three hours. Anyway, one we get there, we spend the night in a flooded hotel. I think it's purposely flooded, making it sort of like a water park. Instead of walking we have to swim across the room. There was some kind of adventure in there that involved horses (I think I became a horse at some point) and something about Bigfoot? I really don't remember much about that place except that the water flowed, like a river, and even dipped in little hills like waterfalls sometimes, but I really don't remember what took place there. It actually wasn't as fun as you might think, at least, there was no sense of happiness or fun in it, and it mustn't have been very important in any case.
      The scene jumps again to a different place. It's sort of a hotel slash airport, very fancy I get the impression. For some reason Frank and Joe Hardy show up briefly and from then on everything takes on a slight, computer game feel, but still very real life. I'm still me in this part. Basically I have a very nice room; it even has its own refrigerator and everything. But installed in the floor is a small metal circle, kind of like a manhole, and the manager tells me that if a power crisis ever takes place in my room, all I have to do is open it and the hotel handymen will be alerted and instruct me in what to do in order to fix it. Well, a power crises DOES take place in my room, causing some lights to flicker and maybe some sparks to fly. The intensity rally starts to pick up at this point.
     Since things are starting to go haywire, I pull open the manhole and find a sort of dial in the similar shape of a compass, which I undoubtedly have to turn. The handyman then starts to direct me, with the use of a speaker I think because he never comes into the room himself. He basically tells me which way to turn the dial and how many times, but it's a very complicated and long process, and I can't make any mistakes or something horrible will happen. Eventually I think I manage to finish the combination and stop the crisis, but, the moment I do an even bigger power crisis strikes and i have to do the whole thing over again, only this time the solution is even worse. The dial is now replaced with the picture of a woman's face, with many small and confusing lines separating certain sections of it, and what I have to do is look at each side of her face and match up the sections that are symmetrical or something like that. It isn't as easy as it should be because the dividing lines make each side completely different. I try to use an instruction manual, but that fails utterly and time starts running out. Finally I try something and it proves to be a mistake and the entire resort blows up, starting with my room.
      The scene then changes again, ad this one is the worst. I'm still me and I'm now in a sort of game arena with a bunch of creepy creatures. They're all drawn in Linden's style of art and are all cats, and other creatures she tends to draw, although there are a few people in it other than me. One of the drawn cats in particular is orange and has glowing red eyes. The whole sense of the place is dark, and those gathered, including me, are sitting on these platforms of different elevations and chuck objects that we somehow get at each other. They aren't dangerous things like knives or anything like that, but the moment they hit someone they kill them. There is some blood involved in this, I get hit and killed several times during this, but I always end up right back in the fight no matter how many times I die. Its also like I'm forced to be there and I can't leave or get out it no matter how much I want to or try.
     Finally, after dying and yes, killing I'm sorry to say, I finally can't take it anymore and jump off my platform. I charge the cat (which has black fur now) and start trying to kill it with a heavy object that I repeatedly keep swing . The cat fights back by swing what looks like my fake white jewel on a chain. Since the weapon I'm using is heavy and I have to keep rising it above my head, the cat manages to strike me under my arm with the jewel and I die again, but this time I don't get transported back to my old in the arena, at least I don't think I do. I really don't remember.
     The scene changes one last time. I'm back with my family, where I'm not entirely sure, either in the kitchen or back in the motel, which has somehow been put back together. Anyway, everyone is happy and having a wonderful time, and everyone, mom especially, keeps on urging me to do something that I can't remember. It was something like join in and have fun, or something like that. This makes me very upset and I literally turn to mom on the verge of tears and blurt out something like, "Mom, I killed fifteen people!: But mom just tosses her head dismissively and says something like, "That doesn't matter!" It's the carefree way she said it that leaves me a little raw even now, but that's as far as I remember the dream going. In many ways it seems to be repeating what I've been going through for days, but as to what it means I have no idea. I'm pretty much resigned to it at this point.