Date of dream: Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Level of Lucidity: N/A
Level of Cohesiveness: 
Lucid Intent? No
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This is very vague and muddled. I take note of it only because it supposedly happened on Mackinac Island.
I don't recall if this is how it started but I think I was at some kind of store, like an old general store with a wooden porch; it seemed to be late afternoon or evening and the sun was close to setting. Maybe like six or seven PM as it is in summer. I think I was with a group of other people my age (as always, I seemed younger), and I think we went in the store and I was doing some things, but I can't recall what they were. I believe when I came out I had to retrieve my sandals and put them on and somebody might have remarked about that, like, "You're going to wear sandals?"--as if they thought sandals weren't appropriate for the terrain I would be walking. I just nodded and put them on and went back out onto this porch which ran around the corner so it fronted both the front and side of the store; I think there was an intersection here too, because there were streets to the front and to the left (on exiting). The streets were lined with buildings like a small city and people were walking around and such.
Some other people, like stereotypical Fifties gang members or bullies or something, showed up, so I tried very hard to avoid them. Maybe they were just snobs and I didn't want to be teased. I think I hid behind something or edged back into the store to wait them out.
After that I left the porch and set foot in the street. I think I used one crosswalk, then another, only I took the second when it wasn't my turn, and I believe I had to dodge to avoid being run over by a car or horse carriage or some such. I think maybe I pretended I was a horse rearing up or something. I felt a little stupid for nearly causing an accident and took this side street to another street which would have run parallel to that out front of the store, only I think it was further down. I stepped out into it and turned to face the direction which would have been facing away from the side of the store...and now found myself standing in the middle of a long paved street with low buildings on both sides. This was Market Street, Mackinac Island.
This street was practically DEVOID of other people! I mean, almost completely ABANDONED! I stood there feeling kind of anxious because I had been intending to go walking down this street for a while, but now that there was nobody left I wondered if I was even allowed down it! I tried hard to remember what time of year it was, since the island practically "shuts down" in winter and the streets are used for snowmobiles, the footpaths for skis. I figured somehow that it was late autumn, maybe late October since the trees seemed almost bare; it was warm out, but I guess that's what it was. *shrug* And October is about the last month that the tourists really come to the island before it settles down for the winter. Had I come too late then to walk Market Street?
I shook my head abruptly. "The island doesn't close at night!" I snapped to myself. "It stays open. And it doesn't close just because it's autumn! I can walk as long as I want." And so I did just that, and started walking toward what would have been the East Bluff, if this had been real life. As I said it was evening and long shadows were falling across the street; there was a person here and there, but I felt they were islanders; yet I felt very peaceful here.
As I walked along I suddenly spotted this kind of geeky-looking girl coming at me. She was my age (I seemed to be in my late teens or early twenties). Or maybe she was catching up with me? In any case, she wasn't so much geeky in a nerdy stupid way as she was in a hyper-smart, intellectual genius-type way, and I really REALLY wanted to avoid her; I just had these extreme feelings of irritation, as well as the feeling that she would taunt me, like the bullies or snobs I had nearly run into earlier. She wasn't a HORRIBLE person but I knew we had a history and it was of not liking each other. She had longish dark hair and glasses and may have resembled a real-life version of this bookish girl in an anime called Read Or Die which aired recently (I watched only part of it).
Anyway, she was headed straight my way and I knew she intended to confront me. I tried to think of a way to avoid her but couldn't. And suddenly she was at my elbow, grabbing my arm tightly and starting to talk. I will have to paraphrase since this was all very jumbled and garbled and even in the dream I really had no clue what she was talking about.
"I wanted to find you," she said, "and bring you along and make sure we got the experiment right. We've been working on it night and day, it's taken ages, and now it's almost done but we have to put the finishing touches on it and make sure it's just right before we can move ahead..." The only part I really recall is her saying she needed me to come and make sure they got "the experiment" right, but she babbled and babbled so much about it. Still holding my arm, she started dragging me bodily down the street, and I had to stumble along after her. I was surprised by her matter-of-fact yet not unfriendly air; I'd really expected her to tease me. Instead she was yammering at me like we were...well, not so much friends as classmates or lab partners or something. Not REALLY close, but at least on good terms. She just talked and talked and we finally came to a halt near a table or something set up in the street (closer to the right-hand (lakeshore) side of the street, except I then turned to face the other direction so it would have then been my left), and it was here that the "experiment" was set up. And now it gets even MORE garbled.
All I can be sure of is that this "experiment" involved a sort of humanlike head or bust which was for some reason meant to resemble me. That was why the bookish girl had wanted me along, to make sure it looked like me. The thing is, aside from a superficial resemblance, it really didn't. But that wasn't the point; I guess it was just supposed to SOMEWHAT look like me. I don't get the feeling that this was so much IMPORTANT to the experiment, as merely a choice they had made, to put a human face on it; they'd just happened to choose my face. o_o
This bust faced back up the street, the direction we'd come from. There was a small group of others here, including one or two guys, also our age. They were the others working on the experiment. The first thing I noticed about it was that it wore its hair in a long ponytail like I used to (in the dream, I believe I still had this ponytail, which I have not had in over a year as my hair was cut short last December). This ponytail, for some reason, in the dream was enough to show that it was supposed to be me. I observed this a bit, then somebody started fitting a plastic mask over the blank face of the bust. I first saw this mask from the backside, which was white, yet the sunlight hit it so that I could see the painted features through the back of the mask and I noticed that it was the face of a girl, albeit a very ugly girl! She looked almost cartoony, with pudgy cheeks and tiny piggish eyes, maybe red hair, freckles, and...a beard!! Yes, at first I thought I was seeing things but then when I looked more carefully I saw a few little lines of red paint below her lower lip, over her chin, and I knew those were supposed to represent beard hairs. I did not feel insulted, as I knew this was not meant to insult me; though I was puzzled as to why this girl mask had facial hair! O_o
I think the bookish girl then began explaining the experiment to me, the others in the group crowding around, and maybe after that I made as if to leave...but I'm afraid I cannot recall much else. Like I said...very vague and convoluted. :/
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Date of dream: Sunday, December 26, 2004
Level of Lucidity: N/A
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Lucid Intent? No
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I had this bit of a dream a couple of days ago and forgot to take it down.
All I remember is I was looking at my big foldout map of Mackinac Island, in the back of my book Pre-Historic Mackinac Island by George M. Stanley, Ph.D. I think I was in my room. The map was different though, and even though I was unfolding it, it seemed a lot smaller at some point. The real map is a topographical one with lots of detailed terrain but this one was much simpler and not topographical. There were also not as many sites marked off on it, just a few.
As I perused it I noticed a little thing labeled just offshore from British Landing and peered at it more closely. Here it said simply, "Living Coral Reef." o_O
"Coral reef...?" I wondered. There was a living coral reef off Mackinac Island? I puzzled over this and then thought, "Yeah, that little thingie marked just offshore...that would be the reef." For I had a dream memory of having seen a little scribble or something in the water in that area (on the map), and that must have depicted the coral reef. Interesting.
I never seemed to really think of the oddity of a coral reef in Lake Huron of all places, except right at first when it puzzled me. Then it seemed normal. *shrug* At that moment I realized there was another map on the back of this one (I think--either that or just another separate map), and decided to look at that, either to find more information on the reef or just to see what other locations it had on it. So I either turned this map over or fetched the other one and looked at it with some anticipation.
I was somewhat disappointed to find that the map here quickly switched to a sort of overhead layout of the area of Fort Mackinac and a park nearby or something (I remember seeing wooden barricade walls, not the limestone ones of the fort, and a big grassy area inside; there were a few trees and I think there was a view of the water). This was not actually a map of the island but just a little "map" of the fort and the area around it. I think at first it was just in one or two colors of ink (blue included), but then it might have been a picture because as I said I remember grass and water. I was no longer very interested and so I stopped looking at it.
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Date of dream: Sunday, December 26, 2004
Level of Lucidity: N/A
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Lucid Intent? No
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This is relatively weird, if also rather prosaic. O_o I'll just try to go over what I remember since it was part of a bigger dream.
Basically I was with my...Grandma H. (my dad's mother), and we were in a school, at a computer, with Dianne B. (classmate), and Grandma was showing me how to use this website!! GRANDMA H.?? She doesn't even HAVE a computer--probably doesn't even know how to use a VCR! Yet in my dream she was adept enough, and was even teaching ME!
The lights in the room didn't seem to be on. It was kind of dim. I think we were nearer the back of the room and near a wall in front of us, huddled at this computer, and Grandma was showing me how this particular site worked. It was some sort of Parks Commission or something site--you know, like DNR or national parks--I can't quite think of the terms. It had information on the prehistoric geological state of the region thousands of years ago--lake levels, terrain, topography, etc. And it had topographical map images of certain areas in northern Michigan. As soon as Grandma started explaining this I grew very interested. (Dianne was just kind of there oohing and ahhing along with me, but not doing much else.)
"What's this site called?" I asked Grandma; I peered at the browser, but it was set so that the address bar didn't show. But then a moment later I guess it was showing, because I saw the URL. It looked to be www.derbunypark.org, and I think that's what Grandma called it, but then I squinted and looked closer and no, the N looked like an R--www.derburypark.org. (I THINK that's what the URL was; I might be off. I know it ended with "park," and then had ".org," as Grandma was talking and said, "Dot-Org" when that showed up.)
Grandma brought up a screen showing the different map regions available, and said, "You'd probably do best looking at the UP" (Upper Peninsula of Michigan), because that had the most extensive set of maps available. But there were also maps for the Straits area and the northern Lower Peninsula; just not as many.
I was not incredibly interested in the UP :/ , but I thought, maybe I could grow to be, in time. I wondered if they had any for Mackinac Island! But I did not see any for that area. (It was showing a map of the region, and I think there were red square outlines around areas where maps were available; none in the Mackinac area.) :/ There were some names on the map and I think they were of prehistoric/ancient sites, and the one I remember specifically was "Nipissing."
Nipissing! That was the name of the prehistoric Great Lake that Mackinac Island rested in! (Now Lake Huron.) Perhaps, even if I could not find information on Mackinac Island in specific, I might at least find some interesting info on Lake Nipissing and the area. This thing on the map was not LAKE Nipissing, just a site called "Nipissing," but it was close enough for me, and my interest was piqued.
"Let's do Nipissing," I suggested, and I said the name exactly as I pronounce it in my head, "NIH-pih-sing." Then I worried that I had mispronounced it since, I really have no idea HOW it's actually pronounced--and the way I say it sounds a lot like a bodily function! >_< Grandma didn't say anything though, and clicked on "Nipissing." And...hm. That seems to be all I can specifically remember of that part of the dream! Go figure. :/
But I do recall a further part with me having to leave for my next class. I think Dianne was leaving too and she left promptly, but I suddenly had ALL SORTS of stuff on and under my desk to take with me--frustrating! (This is a recurring theme of mine, having to leave--for a class or to get on the bus--and having to gather up a LOT of stuff to take with me--and then usually running late. But I have not had this theme show up in a long time!) I had a bunch of books on top of the desk--then some under it. I can't remember the specifics by now but I remember picking up at least two books stacked atop each other, maybe with another item like a folder, from under my desk, seeing one of these books (a thick, light-colored hardcover), and thinking, "Why did I even BRING this book--? I've already got enough books! And I didn't even have any time to read! I should leave these behind since I'm not using them. But--I have to bring them with me. Well, okay, but I'm not going to bring them BACK to class with me again! How stupid was I!" I felt very stupid for having brought so many books to class when I had no time to look at them all, and they were going to be so heavy in my bookbag, if I could even FIT them in it! I think I could not fit them in. :( I believe I ended up stuffing as much as I could in my bag (it seemed to be the black one with the faux leather handles that I used in high school), and then carrying a bunch of other stuff in both of my hands, looking very disorganized and flustered as I finally left the classroom and worried that I would be late for my next class!
Real-life associations: Just hours before having this dream I had gone to visit my Grandma H. with Ma and Dad, for Christmas. I do not visit my other grandma because the family on that side is huge and there is never anywhere to sit and they never show any interest in me aside from the same few questions, then total ignoring. Why bother going? I do not even see the point of visiting Grandma H. (she usually has only her boyfriend and other son present) because I do not see the point of visiting with somebody just so they can ask how you are doing, and then that's it. But I seem to be the only one who feels like this. :/ We stayed there longer than I thought we would and ended up eating, which I had not planned to do, since I had already eaten that morning! And Grandma and her boyfriend asked if I had lost weight (um, no, I've GAINED a lot though!), and tried to ply me with more food. (When I said I had one major meal a day, and then primarily snacks, they acted as if that was too little to eat--never mind that my major meal is usually more than one serving, and my snacks consist of CHOCOLATE! I overeat EVERY DAY!) I do recall thinking for some reason, at some point, about Grandma having a computer, then brushing off such a goofy thought since she would not know how to use it OR the Internet! So my once-yearly visit with her must have prompted her appearance in my dream, and my thought about Grandma using the Internet probably had some bearing on it too.
Nipissing and the topographical maps were probably influenced by my ongoing interest in Mackinac Island. Dianne and school are two things that show up in my dreams repeatedly; I assume the school environment has to do with me "still learning" and also feeling as if I have never grown up, though Dianne's frequent appearances continue to puzzle me. (She usually plays a sort of "Shadow" role, just remaining in the background while I do all the interacting, though our personalities seem too similar for her to really be my Shadow. We were a lot alike. :/ ) The most perplexing aspect, though, was the "Derburypark.org" domain name. It's the sort of specific detail I don't usually remember from dreams, and I made sure to write it down immediately after awakening (though as I said, the "...urypark.org" part is the only part I'm ABSOLUTELY sure about; the rest is maybe 60-70% sure). "Derbuny Park" or "Derbury Park"? I have no clue what that could be. I've never heard of it. There is no such thing as Derbuny or Derbury Park on Mackinac Island, that I know of, nor in the area. I'll have to look it up online just in case. Even in the dream it was an odd URL because this was a more wide-ranging site, covering the entire region if not the state and more, and the name was so specific sounding that it didn't seem right. *shrug* Not sure how much sense I've made. I focused particularly on the changing of the N to an R (the two letters do resemble each other, in lowercase), and on the ".org" ending.
[Note: I Googled "Derbuny," "Derbury," and a few variants--no such place-name exists.]
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