Troll Kingdom

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

DREAM THREAD Part Pi.Pi!

Was at my old flat, instead of it being run down as in many other dreams it had been done up, other flats on the top floor had been removed to make a roof garden, and below that was a swimming pool so impossibly large that the building can only have been some sort of TARDIS. Next to that was a display of animals in some sort of aquarium, then a smaller pool for kids that went down to the next floor.
 
OH! Dreams! I had a fairly vivid, extended, and coherent string of them last night. Pretty much the military/school theme. Let's see how much I can remember: Not much, I guess. I was in some kind of program and Batman was in our class. There was a break between classes and I went over to thank him for being in our class because he really took the load off the rest of us when the teachers were asking questions or whatever, but he was working on something with Robin and couldn't be interrupted. Then we were outside in some kind of square/park/courtyard. Maybe a little like a small town baseball diamond--or maybe just the parking lot of a motel--at any rate, something with a low structure obstructing the horizon. We were getting ready to start whatever class/project we were supposed to be doing and no one was enthusiastic about it. The sky looked nasty and we were kind of hoping it would get cancelled because of rain but then someone said that no, they probably wouldn't cancel it because of rain because suffering and hardship were part of the training. But then there was a lightning bolt or explosion or something a few blocks away and it kept getting bigger and closer and pretty soon it was clear we were going to get caught in its after-effects. There was no time to find cover so I layed flat on the ground with my feet towards the...whatever it was. Then I decided maybe I should plug my ears and I was trying to decide how to put my fingers in my ears while keeping flat to the ground and keeping my arms close to my body. Later I had a completely unrelated dream where I was fixing up a house I got from a old lady and she had come back to check on her feral outdoor cats.

I keep thinking I'm going to get myself back on a regular sleep schedule. Got to bed before midnight last night and woke up before 8 (because I had to go to the bathroom). Considered getting up but realized I'd woken up out of a dream so I'd go back and have a nap for 15-30 minutes. When I decided to get up it was around 9. I'm at an age where the "it might be a tumor" joke from "Kindergarten Cop" isn't funny anymore.
 
Last night was genre artsy. I had some nasty sleep issues (discussed after) but when I finally got to sleep I had a kind of live action anime manga dream where I was at some mall and there were bad guys I had to meet or avoid or fight and I was supposed to be meeting with some other group who would point out who I needed to talk to. Then I went back to their "lair" and the original storyline went out the window and I had some kind of comic book or portfolio of art that I wanted to show to one of their people. I had to be careful how I presented it to get what I wanted or I'd turn them off.

Then my family was going to see some new Superman movie and I was being a huge nerd about it. I'd had some kind of spoilers and there were, like, 2 movies we wanted to see but I made them see this one first because there were, like, Easter eggs in the other that you wouldn't get otherwise. Also, one of the classic Superman cartoons happened to be playing on the monitors in the minivan we were riding it--the one where he fights a bunch of flying robots that was heavily borrowed from for the trailer for "Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow"--While we're waiting in the lobby I'm talking to another film nerd who works there about all the cool stuff about the film and he wasn't aware of the old cartoon.

Next I'm apparently in some kind of 1st person video game, where I'm having to wander around this building looking for treasure and stuff. I kept finding stuff but not being able to get it. Like, there was a secret door in the bottom of a fireplace hearth but the treasure was 10-20' below and I couldn't figure out how to get to it when someone slides down out of a chute onto the treasure and I know his name is Two-Face. But, I think, Two-Face is a Batman villain, so of course at this point it was a Batman video game.

***

[TMI bodily functions warning] I don't know what the heck happened last night. I've been having turkey and all the fixings twice a day since Thursday. Lately I've been kind of sore too so I opted to take a bath instead of a shower. Decided to flip the mattress too, since it was past due. Got to bed at a decent hour, feeling bloated like a tick. At 12:40 I belched or something and had...I dunno, some kind of reflux event where I wound up having to get up. Guzzled some Pepto to limited effect. Drank some milk. Had cough medicine and a cough drop. Drank some water. Ultimately also took a Prilosec. All the time I'm horking up heavy, thick, stringy slobber. Farted a few times too. Eventually got things under control to the point that I was able to lay down again and after awhile before eventually falling asleep. Periodic stinky stinky farts and the occasional belch with possible reflux threatening. Wound up sleeping until 9, had some more cough medicine. Throat's still a bit sore. Did soaking in the tub cause some kind of expansion of all the food in my belly? Did I accidentally mix some concoction of chemicals from all the food? Was it just a result of consuming a lot more calories than I have been consuming of late. I dunno, but it wasn't any fun. If I had any trust in the health system I'd go see a doctor but I tried doing that a few years ago and even the most basic things were cripplingly expensive--even with insurance. Still paying off a double endoscopy from almost 2 years ago and there's a light--far off--at the end of that tunnel so I'm trying not to incur more medical debt.
 
Fire alarm re-sent

It was in my dream
I was in a building, we were having a drill or someone was smoking
Then I woke up
It was my neighbors place
I know how to reset it
My neighbor has some sort of thing tho, we don't make eye contact with her or say hi. When we do she bites our head off.
So I opened the door and immediately smelled smoke
And 2 other neighbors were there also. Thank God. But no one had the code to reset what had just been a small cooking mishap thankfully.

I had the code, opened the box, the only difference is now I can't read the words without my glasses
So I need to ask someone what it says and I reset it. Now they know how to do it to.
Hilariously some knew where the extra key was, but they didn't know what to do with it.
2:35 am
Texted build mgr
All Clear
 
There was a lot of stuff going on in last night's dream and it changed in process. I started out a character in it and later it was more like a TV show. I know this because at some point I had to explain to someone what it was about and my summary is probably more interesting than the actual dream: "They're like, cops or detectives or something and they're roommates. The one cop is dating the other cop's ex and so she's always over."
 
Actually, I'll expand a bit on said dream sequence, because I was a bit disappointed with the synopsis. I mean, it's interesting, but there are a number of ways to interpret it. In the first part of the dream that I remember, where I'm actually in it, it starts out straight-up military. I'm a soldier. We're at war and I've just finished at night guarding the perimeter. The boss says I'm on duty again the next night. I get home around when my roommate and his girlfriend are getting up and tell them I've got work again and the girlfriend is upset because we have different schedules and they'd wanted us all to do something together. I don't know if it was a different time but I also saw them, like sunbathing or showering or something in a kind of hazy PG nude scene sort of way and felt a bit guilty for perving on them. Around that time I think is when it turned into a cop story because soldiers don't generally have partners and a chief and work shifts. That's around when I had to explain what was going on to someone else who'd come into the room (and I was obviously no longer a character in the story).
 
Top