Friday night: In the dream i’m having a serious conversation with somebody when the edge of sleep and awake blurred and i woke myself up answering a question out loud. That happened three times. When i looked at the clock it was 1:47am. I wish i knew who i was speaking with and what we were talking about. Each time i woke myself up i fell right back in to the dream. That’s kind of unusual i think.
Then i dreamt a place i’ve never been before. I didn’t know any of the other people in the dream except Scott and there were a lot of people, mostly tall men (AVP players?). The men have picked Scott and me up from ?the airport and are taking us back to their ?house. Traffic is moving pretty fast and not too heavy when one of the men sees a man on the side of the road that, apparently, he knows. We pull over and rearrange luggage to make room for the other man and continue to our destination. It was like a mall and a resort and futuristic condos and apartments. The home/condo of the people Scott and i were staying with is really incredible – big round rooms and large open spaces. Very Deco feeling to me. The main room (living room) is all open space for two (or more) storeys. The one wall over looking the pool is all glass. The view is amazing. On the back wall of the room i can see there’s a loft higher up and guess that it’s the master bedroom and think that i’d like to go up there to look but can’t see how to get up there). There’s a large open spiral staircase – not a complete spiral but a kind of free-hanging large curve which i think i will go up later and explore. We’re all lounging around on the plush white couches in the living room and i’m telling the people about my earlier dream i’d had that i woke myself up talking out loud. We go outside to the swimming pool. It’s a kind of roundish natural kind of shape. Not really a kidney shape but like a pear or leaf or something oblong like that. It’s surrounded by a stone patio and very beautiful. I go back into the house and into the kitchen to get a beer and the kitchen is very small like a galley. I look in a little cupboard near my feet and see a bunch of beers but they’re not cold and they’re not good brands so i check the fridge. There are two six-packs that contain bottles that i think are beer but the bottles are an odd shape for beer. I take one out from each of the six-packs. One bottle has a blue label and the other has a green label. I return to the pool and give Scott one of the beers. They taste pretty good. Then several of us leave the pool and walk through a nicely kept lawn to the edge of some woods. There’s a barely visible path that one of the tall men points out and we walk up the path until it ends at a secret rose garden. It reminds me of the Shakespeare Garden in Golden Gate Park. Simple but beautiful. We return to the pool to swim and relax in the sun some more but i’m tired of water and go in the house. I walk up some stairs and down a hall. And the dream theme shifts. I realize i can’t find my ‘stuff’. I had two suitcases and a big flat case that was the size of a formal dining room table but only a couple of inches deep. All my cameras, lenses and filters are in those bags and i’m frantic that i can’t find them or even remember what happened to them. I ask Scott but he doesn’t know either. I begin to fear that my stuff got left on the side of the road when we rearranged the van to make room for that guy on the highway. I keep asking Scott to intervene for me and ask the tall men if they know but Scott tells me to ask them myself. I don’t know them though and i’m embarrassed to ask them. Scott and i walk through the kitchen galley out the other side and into a mall. It’s not the mall i go to sometimes in dreams. It’s a new place completely. We walk down the mall a bit when Scott goes in to a door that’s an apartment. I don’t know whose apartment it is and feel very nervous being there without permission. Scott is looking for something and i leave and go back out into the mall. Once out there though i begin the panic because i’m lost and go back in to the door to the apartment where Scott is, except it’s not the same apartment. I go through the kitchen and out the door and i’m back in the mall but in a completely different place. I think i know how to get back to where i was so i walk around a wide hallway with a marble floor and statues along the walls. As i turn the curve, Scott comes out of the apartment where he was and begins to berate me for getting lost again. We go back in to the apartment he just came out of and there are two blond girls in the kitchen fixing tea. I’m pissed because i thought that he shouldn’t have been in that apartment without permission but the girls don’t seem to take any notice of us. Scott looks at my Life Is Good backpack and asks me if that’s the only purse i have and i respond that it’s either the backpack or a square shaped cosmetic bag. I can tell he’s annoyed with me for being underdressed and getting lost. I feel completely inadequate. We argue a bit then decide to go to a show. We walk back the way i’d just come, over the marble floor, past the statues and come to the ornate entry way to a theatre. There’s a live music show so we buy tickets and go sit down in the red velvet seats. It’s like an old time movie theatre. Plush and gilded. There are four of us seated in our row. Scott is sitting at the end by the row and i’m sitting in the seat on the aisle. There’s a man sitting is the seat next to me, to my left, explaining something about the show but i can’t understand what he’s saying because i feel like he’s crowding me. He’s a large white man in his thirties. He reminds of me John Goodman or George Wendt (Norm on the old show Cheers, where everybody knows your name). Finally the show starts and it’s some kind of musical performed by amateurs and not very good so we leave.
Saturday night: A news report on television. As the news reporter describes what has happened, i’m witnessing the event as if it is unfolding. Three people, two men and a woman (all black) have robbed a ?party and are running away from the house. The woman is wearing a beautiful sea foam green satin dress. The news reporter describes that she is running and shooting behind her as she runs. I see how she is wrapping her left arm around her body and shooting behind. Large Rottweiler’s come out of the house and chase the three. One of the Rottweiler’s lunges for the woman and sinks its teeth into her flank (side/back). The woman screams for help and one of her companions tears the dog off of her. The reporter comments that dog must’ve lunged at just the right time to avoid being shot and shows a graphic on the screen behind him of a drawing of the woman, the dog, and the bullets. The robbers get into their van (the black van from yesterday’s dream?) and make their getaway. They (we i guess – them and me the omniscient dreamer) are on a highway and the woman in the satin dress is lying in the back in pain. There’s an old black woman trying to examine the wound but satin dress is fighting her. Finally the old woman tears the dress away from the wound and we see that a big chunk of her flesh is just gone and it’s a big bloody open wound. The old woman (she seems to be a nurse so that’s what i’ll call her) has some sterile gauze held with forceps and is trying to clean the wound but still satin dress fights her. Then there is a white girl with blond hair trying to assist the nurse. Satin dress has a two-pronged fork (like a pickle fork) and stabs the white girl in the throat. She, blond girl, clutches her hand to her throat because her wind-pipe has been punctured. She looks to the others for help. The driver of the van pulls off to the side of the road, gets out of the van and walks around to the side. He slides open the door and pulls the dying white girl out of the van and throws her down on the grassy shoulder. He gets back in the van and resumes driving and we can see the girl crawling after the van holding her throat and crying.
Now the van is on a busy highway (it reminds me of the bypass around Chicago) and there’s tons of traffic including big eighteen wheelers. We have to change lanes to get onto the track (like a roller coaster chain) to make it to the top of the hill. We can’t get over to the lane in time and end up in a tunnel. I try to read the road sign just before we enter the tunnel but can’t see what it says. On the other side of the tunnel we come to the hill but now we have to drive up and over it. Now the dream is changed and i am driving a small car and apparently the other story is finished. I’m flooring the gas trying to get up the hill. I can’t make it and roll back down backwards, trying to avoid the big rigs. When i get to the bottom i try again to get up enough speed to make it. It takes several tries but i finally make it to the top of the hill and stop at a truck stop/restaurant to get directions. It’s a diner on the inside and the dream changes again. I’m back to being the omniscient dreamer watching.
A man and woman sit down in a booth. They are a non-descript middle-aged white couple. Very “happy days” in style. The table placemats are paper with a map of the United States on it and the interstate highlighted with all the kitschy tourists attractions noted along the route. Hwy 66? The man tells the woman that they have to go to ?St. Louis to settle the matter and then they can return to their home and not have to worry about “it” ever again. The woman is nervous about the whole thing but follows along because she doesn’t have any other option apparently. The couple resumes driving and reaches a town that’s all red brick buildings. Even the high-rises are red brick. It looks like some kind of big factory or institution. I (the dreamer) am alone now and viewing what’s going on in rooms inside a big building. In one room, it’s some kind of manufacturing plant but i don’t notice what’s being made because of my shock at seeing a wall lined with mutant babies in harnesses being used as machine parts. Each of the babies has something horribly wrong with its limbs. Instead of hands or feet they have cogs and gears. An old man (scientist?) adds a new baby to the line and i see how its feet are hooked up into the cogs of the machine to make it run.
The scene changes again and the dream is witness in another room in another building. The room we are in is a small (8 x 10) room at the top of a long flight of steel stairs. There are steel bars on either side of the stairway and it twists back and forth with at least five steel grate landings. I realize we must be in a sort of tower. There are two infants lying on a table in a dark room. The scientist is sitting in a chair behind their heads. There are two light buttons (look like ‘tap lights’ but not quite as big in diameter) and the scientist presses one to turn on a lemon yellow light. After he does that he watches each of the babies for a few minutes then turns the light off again. After waiting for a short time he presses the other light and turns on a lime green light. Again he watches the babies like he’s expecting some kind of reaction or result. In a news flash the dreamer is getting the background story. Many years ago there was a ?radiation accident and ever since, all babies born have some kind of ‘defect’. Some of the defects are apparent (like in the gear babies) but others are hidden and scientist have to discover the power as soon as possible because they can be so dangerous which the adults learned about when one baby in a nursery full of babies had the power to make things burn and all the other babies in the nursery were incinerated. The fire baby was unburned but its cheeks were red and puffy. Ever since then every baby is tested. Then i’m back to the room with the scientist and two babies. The scientist turns off the lime green light and again waits, watching for some kind of reaction or result. Suddenly there is a noise from the stairway. A full-grown Bengal tiger is coming to the gate that leads to the room. The scientist quickly secures the gate to keep the tiger out. His fear is great. He wonders which of the babies on the table manifested the tiger and begins taking notes. He feels fairly confident that the gate will keep the tiger out and just as he thinks that thought, he is transported outside the gate into the stairwell with the tiger. Immediately he realizes that one of the babies can make things manifest and the other one can transport objects. His fear is panic now as he runs down the steel steps with the tiger chasing him. Luckily, he was transported a flight lower than the one the tiger was on so he has a head start. But still, he’s a man being chased by a tiger. He bursts out of the steel door (it is a tower) and up the path to the road. There is a royal party coming up the road on horses. The horses are ‘dressed’ in red satin with gold tassels. The first horse is carrying four dwarves (jesters?). The scientist begs them to let him ride to safety but they ignore him and ride on. The second horse is ridden by a man wearing yellow satin with red trim. He indicates that he cannot offer the scientist a ride because they are part of a parade and continues up the road. The scientist (now with the tiger almost upon him) runs up the road in the opposite direction the ‘parade’ was moving and is running as hard as he can but the tiger is right at his back now and the man realizes he is in no danger from the tiger and stops running. He turns around and pets the tigers’ big head.
The dream changes again and i am witnessing the meeting between the middle-aged couple and a panel of town elders. They are all seated at a large rectangular table. The man is sitting across plus one to the right from his wife and it’s before the ?trial has started. He hears his wife saying how she felt a little guilty for not paying their ?premiums but the two months of extra money would pay for this trip she didn’t want to be on. The husband interrupts her and tells her she must pay the monthly fee right away because a missed payment will null their contract and they’ll never be able to leave mutant town if their contract isn’t valid with the other place. Again, the dreamer is getting a news flash to explain the back story of how the couple is involved. It seems that right after the radiation accident, they, along with their baby (the fire baby) left the town and escaped. The elders want the baby back and it’s a trial to determine whether the baby has to stay or can live with the couple. It’s not the couple’s baby but the woman (a nurse?) was one of the witnesses to the aftermath of the nursery accident and grabbed the fire baby and ran away with it because she wanted to protect it. She and her husband and the baby then escaped from the town because they knew the radioactive fallout would cause any body that remained in the town to mutate. The dreamer is wondering how the radiation affected the grown up and assumes they are all insane. The elders are conferring among themselves about the fire baby and across town, the mayor of St. Louis is telling a crowd of people that the band Kiss will be coming to do a concert because they’re from St. Louis and owe the town a concert. In the dream i think to myself “well THAT sort of explains what Kiss is all about” and chuckle to myself.
