Dance in the Full Moon

O, the Frailty of Memory

Monday, July 26, 2010

7.26

I dreamt that I was getting a room at southern. I had this dream two years ago, when I was going into the dorm. Now I'm switching rooms and I had the dream again.
I walked into a massive room that was all neutral space (you know, the greyish, not-there space that fills so much space in dreams) except for a staircase up the middle of the room. I walked up the staircase and started looking at the rooms. There is a balcony that runs around the middle of an open space above the staircase, and rooms line the balcony. The first time I had the dream, I went straight into a corner room (the last room availible) which was . . . okayish. This time, I was early, so I just tossed my stuff into a large, empty room with a single bed and decided to go exploring (to see if there was a better room). Try to remember, my dreams are never normal, so all the rooms were different. There was a lounge area with a dude in it. I was surprised to see anyone there before me, so I talked to him about which room he was in. He said he was thinking about putting his bed in the lounge. I wished him all the best and went on my merry way. I peeked my head into my old room, shook my head and laughed. I kept walking. At about this point, a bajillion people swept into the dorm and took . . . every room. I was perturbed, because I had gotten there way before to scout all the rooms to decide which one I wanted. BUT I had a good room, so why should I complain? I kept walking. Then I remembered that the building had rooms all the way around the balcony. I stuck my head into the bathroom, then a giant room with lines of bunks (the only room with multiple beds, for some reason) and then a small, dark room with a heart-shaped bed. I suddenly remembered the overweight black guy that had lived in that room two years ago. I laughed and hoped he would come back to be my friend again. Then I walked into the room in the back corner and I beat my knees in frustration. I suddenly remembered the room and I realized that it was the room I wanted. It was the largest, most comfortable room, with two levels and a bed (just perfectly placed) on equal footing with the upper level and sitting on the lower level. It had a large window, and a desk/shelf combo that ran the length of the room. I wanted it so badly. Michael Hadley was in the room already. He smiled and said "what's up man" and stuff, but I didn't reply because I was so angry at myself for forgetting/blocking out the memory of that room. Hadley talked about how he was so lucky to get the room and so I left to avoid being sick to my stomach. I walked the rest of the way to the front of the building and my room. It was then that I discovered that my room had shrunk and gained beds. I was now living in a teensy room with five other guys.
My dream ended.

I never, ever, win in dreams. I struggle to think of a single time when I actually got what I wanted or accomplished what I was working towards without something wrong happening/spoiling it. I don't know why my subconscious does this to me, but it's a cruel game.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

7.22

I dreamt that I was in an apartment complex where I've dreamt before. In the complex before, I was outwitted by a pretty realtor that I was hitting on. (Outwitted by my own subconcious). This time, I was again wandering aimlessly through people's unlocked apartments. Just now, I realize that I always wander through the same side, and never across the hall.
I came to the last room I ever get to, and I opened a closet just for kicks. There were hundreds upon hundreds of books in the closet. But there was no variety; there were five books and hundreds of copies of each. I had seen the books for sale in Barnes and Noble before in reality. I figured that the person who owned the house just bought the book that was on sale once a day (sadly the book on sale doesn't change once a day, and he ended up with hundreds of copies of Charlotte's Web and a few others).
The worst part of this whole dream (and really the reason why I'm writing about it) is that I couldn't turn my head. At all. Not to the right, or to the left, not up nor down. In order to look at the books in the closet, I was laying on the floor, craning against the pain and fear of looking up.
This has happened to me many times. I can't turn my head for no reason at all. I usually wake up with a stiff neck. But during the dream, it is the most terrifying thing imaginable. I've run from monsters and drowned and jumped off of too-high objects and been late and unable to run and lost my pants for hours at a stretch, but being unable to look around is the worst feeling of them all. Terror I can deal with because I know where it's coming from. Terror I can deal with because other people have been chased/naked/dead in dreams before. But being unable to look means that I have no idea what's going on around me. It's nothing that I've ever heard about before. It's my own body rebelling against me. I don't even want to write about it anymore because words are inadequate to express how terrified I was, lying there, looking at five hundred/five books on shelves in a closet in someone else's closet.

Monday, July 19, 2010

7.19c

He dropped his feet to the gravel and they bounced away. He dropped just one, but he was ready this time and he bounced into the recoil. His feet pounded into the ground too-fast. Slowly, he let go of the truck and ground to a halt.

He smiled, the dirt from the truck settling into a fine mud on his teeth. He walked back and picked up the bag he had thrown in the ditch. The ditchwater that was sopping the bottom didn't bother him at all.

He spat once, gathered his air, and set out on his new life.

Little did he know that he would soon be king of Bulgaria.
Little did he know that in a month's time he would be in love.
Little did he know that in a nearby city, his killers were waiting.
Little did he know that he would never see his mother's face again.
Little did he know that his bag would soon explode.
Little did he know.
Little did he know.

[this comes from reading a book with the LEAST SUBTLE FORESHADOWING EVER] (It's The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss)

7.19b

I'm thirsty. My throat is begging for liquid. My mind keeps telling me that a glass of kool-aid would be perfect.
My stomach is full. If I pour anything down my throat, I'm going to throw it back up into my mouth.

Homeostasis

7.19

Alison directed me to Tyler's dreamblog and I think that's a great, awesome idea. His dreams seem to have a bit more coherency than mine, but from now on I'll be writing about my dreams. I like mine and I think that (some of them) are worth sharing.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

7.13

I fixed the computers in the lounge. Now I'm taking a well-deserved respite.

The fanatic preacher has us trapped in the crumbling architectural tableau. We gathered in the last room with a roof.
"Thank you for bringing her to me!" He shouts. "Please, stay and watch. This will be a fitting place for her baptism--the water in which humanity's last baptism took place will be the place where their first baptism takes place." He moves behind the girl and she walks forward unthinkingly. They exit out the hole in the wall into the holding area of the reservoir. The too-blue sky sits heavily overhead. The waters (absolutely still) ripple out from the motion of her feet. The crumbling building all around slopes down to the water's edge, making a giant basin.
I stand up, motioning to the rest of my crew. "She's gonna blow, and when she does, we don't want to be anywhere near here."
"What's happening?"
"As soon as her mouth hits that water, anything in that lake is as good as dead. Let's go."
The preacher drones as he holds the girl in the chest-deep water. "I now baptize you in the name . . ."
I walk around the corner and open the door to the outside. My crew files out the door. I turn around for one last look. The water washes over the girl's head, and instantly blows away. A too-large, half-translucent green snake whips out of the girl. Its striated body coils in the air above the shaking preacher. The snake's tail finally whips out of the girl's mouth and into the air, hundreds of feet behind the head. The Pure Elemental swallows the preacher and its host body whole. They dissolve completely before they pass a hundred feet through the serpent.
I shake my head.
The Pure Elemental sees my movement and turns one glassy yellow eye at me. I smile, and fire a single, green flare high into the air. I slide around the corner and out the door. I break into an easy trot.

Maybe tomorrow I'll be dead, but not today. Today, I live.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

7.6

My first post in a while, and my last post today, I'm afraid.

I'm watching them. I called it six weeks ago, but I never thought it would take this long. Two weeks, I said. Two weeks. I was off by at least four, maybe more.

I told him that I expected it and he said that it would never happen. I scoffed. She started staring at him three days after they met. He's too weak to hold out on such a golden opportunity, especially opportunity with hips like hers. I placed my money on two weeks. Two weeks.

Now it's been four more and he comes up to her and tells me that she's pretty. She smiles like she just won a prize. Six weeks.

Should I be happy that I called it or sad that I was so wrong?