Bad Voodoo dreams

It’s long after the fact by dream-time reckoning, but i’ll write what i can recall.

In the first dream, i’m a member of a small community. The ?school is having a large celebration of some kind. Homecoming? All of us students are gathered at the base of a very tall hill. I can hear people asking where ?? is and when was she was going to appear. She is the homecoming queen i think. It seems like we were gathered around a bonfire but i’m not sure now. Somebody yelled and pointed to the top of the hill. The hill is very high – maybe a half a mile above us and very steep. At the top is a wooden structure that reminds me of a Shinto shrine. It’s many storey’s high and at the very top is a kind of bell tower. The homecoming queen is in the tower and i can see that she has a rope around her neck. I can also see that the structure is on fire. Even as i realize what i’m seeing, the rest of the crowd also sees and the murmuring gets louder and louder. The entire structure, engulfed in little green and gold flames that look like shiny fish scales from so far down as we are, begins to fall towards us. As it gets closer i can see that the homecoming queen has rigged her suicide so that she will not be strangled by the rope until the building hits the ground. That is supposed to trigger her fall from the tower so she is hanged. Something doesn’t work right though and the building hits the ground. It knocks her out of the tower and into the flames. The rope is around her neck and only slowly strangling her. I see that one of her hands has green flames on it and she uses her other hand to try and put it out. I see the dismay in her face as she realizes that her plan hasn’t worked and she is going to burn to death and feel the fire. [Woke up]

In the other dream that i can remember some, i am alone in an abandoned town. It’s mostly gardens in the surrounding area with the buildings to the center. It’s a terraced landscape and four or five “layers” high. I’m running along a path to get to a large building at the top. It looks like it might be a courthouse or some kind of ‘important’ building. I’m terrified because all the animals have escaped and are after me. They’ve eaten everybody else they've caught outside and i know they'll kill me if i can't get to a shelter. As i’m running through the second level heading up i can see the leopards and lions racing after me on the level below. A hyena is right on my heels and my heart is pounding so hard i don’t know if i’ll make it. [All of the animals in the dream look like animal crackers but scary. They all have sharp teeth.] When i finally get to a ?barn and get inside, there’s a man there that begins to tell me about a man that used to work there and he was killed by some kind of monster inside the building. As he’s telling me about it, i’m living it. I’m the man ducking behind shelves and playing keep away from some large gray-skinned looking think that instead of a mouth has a shovel with teeth – like a steam shovel? Some kind of heavy equipment but organic. It’s disgusting. As i (as the man in the dream story) come around the last shelf by the door (where i’m standing, listening to the man tell me the story of the man and the monster) i (as the man in the dream story) come face to face with the horror it kills me and i wake up for real drenched in sweat.


Mostly i recall images and feelings rather than a coherent story. Today is Monday, so the dreams were Saturday night dreams and i was sleeping in a hotel in New Orleans. I'd eaten a lot of crab legs and shrimp for dinner so maybe the dreams were due to shellfish but i don’t know. The animal crackers chasing me was completely terrifying and even remembering it now makes me feel tense. The homecoming queen looked familiar i think, but i can't now remember who i thought she was. The flames were extremely beautiful.