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Dreaming; Night of
April 3, 1987 |
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7:13 |
3A fantasy, ala Piers Anthony and the like, not sword & sorcery. It was quite nice. There were, of course, good guys and bad guys, myself being among the former. It began with someone (me at times) trying to find out something about his past. He found out that he'd had four "fathers" rather than just two as he'd thought (fathers in the sense of his mother's husbands). He also discovered that a number of his childhood playmates had been killed at various times when they'd been playing together. These and other memories he'd been repressing, but now they surfaced. He went on a sort of quest, along with some others, some of whom were intelligent, speech-producing animals, almost cartoonish. There was a scene where a woman (one of the major characters) used some magic at a used car show being given by a friendly con man. I don't remember exactly what she did, but I do remember her making a woman appear, and then two others that looked just like the first. I remember looking at them closely, as I would do if they were on TV, to see if the casting director had really gotten triplets or if he'd tried to fake it with wigs, make-up, etc. Then the pace speeded up. It was very much like a quest now, with everyone looking for the same thing (I don't know what). Here's where my descriptive ability breaks down. Everyone descended into some structure—a mountain? a huge tower?—each by a different route. Some through steep tunnels, some fell into pits full of water and swam underwater through the cavern-like area to a pocket of air. My PoV cut back and forth from one to the other very quickly, giving me the feeling that progress was being made. A bit more. Then we all (or at least a number of us; I had no real sense of most of my comrades) arrived at this ramp-like gangplank. We walked across it and entered into a room that left us momentarily speechless. Everything was made of colored-plastics and such and had a very modern look. I first got the sense of a gaming room, as the room was filled with tables with people at them. I soon realized, though, that there was more going on here than that. I somehow got the sense (and I didn't think this in these terms, I just felt it) that the people here were like gods, in the Greek tradition. Very modernized, of course. Then a portal opened high on the far wall (the inside of the room was like a dome, perhaps 30 feet high). Light shone in, and a woman appeared. It seemed that this was the guy's mother from earlier in the dream and that she wanted him to forgive her. In the Greek analogy, she would be Athena. A bit else, then I woke up. (G) |
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