Date of dream: Saturday, December 23, 2006
Level of Lucidity: N/A
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Lucid Intent? No
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Another Mackinac Island dream, but a kind of lousy one. >:/
I didn't take good notes so much is very faded.
I seemed to have just arrived on the island and was in the company of at least my brother, though my mother was likely there too; maybe also my sister-in-law. We were just setting out and I was excited about going to look around again. We started walking past a large park on the left...I guess it would have been the equivalent of Marquette Park, but it looked nothing like it and even the positioning was wrong. I. e., nothing in this dream really resembled the real Mackinac Island.
It was large and sprawling and covered with lush green grass. There were very tall trees standing here and there, providing shade, though bits of sunlight got through and hit the ground below. A very pretty park. We started meandering through it on our way to wherever we were going (I seemed to be kind of separate from the others). There were lots of tall things in the park for the amusement of children...like one had an inflated room or house or something in it and when kids went in they could bounce around. I looked at this longingly but then thought that I'd probably be too scared because it was up high and I don't like not having good footing--plus it was for kids anyway. I think the flooring of it was orange. There were also tall windowed observation towers which were reached by climbing up the laddered sides made of wood. I didn't take down enough details of these. :( I do think that we started to go up one, and I seem to recall seeing the Mackinac Bridge at some point, but we didn't spend a lot of time there because I kept telling myself I had a schedule to stick to.
I guess I got back down but then I recalled that I'd forgotten my map back at home! :( How would I find my way around the island without it? Sure, they sold maps in the stores, but they were very basic maps of only the main trails (this is true in real life), whereas I like taking the lesser-known trails. I tried to convince myself that I could make do without it, but that feeling didn't last long--of course I couldn't! I'd get hopelessly lost, especially on the less-populated part of the island. How could I have been so negligent as to forget my trail map? *sigh*
I knew that there was at least ONE store in town that sold copies of this particular map (also true IRL)--but I didn't remember which store it was, and there are LOTS of stores! I think we doubled back toward town to look through the stores in the hopes of locating this map. We were now walking along this street, closer to the righthand side, past some stores and such. It's like they had some of their wares standing outside and I came to a booth or stand or something selling postcards and they had some of what I thought was Sugar Loaf Rock, but here's where it gets a little strange. At first it looked like Sugar Loaf, which is a big breccia sea stack located closer toward the middle of the island--not down near town. Sugar Loaf, in real life, has nothing around it but a carriage road and some trails. Well, I took down one of these postcards--they were sepia tinted, like some I've seen in real life--and there was a large rock formation, sure enough, but wedged up right against the flat left side of it was the very store that was selling these postcards! I looked up, and sure enough, now right beside this store there was the gigantic rock formation which didn't look very much like Sugar Loaf after all. It seemed to be in its natural state on the right side, front, and top, but the left side was flat like a sheer cliff and the store was built right up against it, maybe some other buildings too. And this was known as a big tourist attraction so they were of course selling postcards of it. Maybe the photo on the card was an old one from the store's early days because now there seemed to be a lot more buildings around.
I was kind of puzzled though I'm not sure about what. Maybe I thought, "I can't believe they did this to Sugar Loaf," though more likely I thought something like, "I can't believe they did this to this rock formation," because now it's like it wasn't Sugar Loaf after all. It seemed kind of damaging to the island's natural rock formations to build a store right up against one like that! I put the postcard back, still perplexed. It was just this huge, squat rock formation, kind of similar to Sugar Loaf only much broader like a miniature mountain.
There's an additional part of the dream; I'm not sure where it fits in. Perhaps it was before I realized that I'd forgotten the map, or at least before we went back to town, if we did. I was traveling with a group of other people and we seemed to perhaps be going up a road, though maybe not; perhaps this is just recall from an earlier dream (see "Undiscovered Mackinac"). We saw a sea stack or a rock formation or something only it was called a "mountain," and we were talking about what "mountains" people could visit on the island and which were off limits. People started tossing out names of places and I, who seemed to be more knowledgeable about such things, would say if they could or could not be visited.
"Sugar Loaf can be visited," I said. "It's on state land and public property."
"I've heard there's a place called Chimney Rock...?" a woman, I believe, said.
I shook my head. "Can't visit it. Unreachable."
"Lover's Leap?" somebody else mentioned, and I shook my head to that too. It's true, Chimney Rock and Lover's Leap are located on state park land, but there's private property surrounding them and they haven't really made ways for the public at large to reach them! I know because I even tried. -_- I then mentioned some kind of "mountain" people could visit--maybe it was the rock formation visible in the distance off to our right, very large--but these other "mountains" were mostly off limits to tourists.
There was also some kind of mention of a "cave in a cove." There was a part of the shoreline where there was a cove or bay (the land curved in a concave fashion), and located among the rocky landscape here was a cave that was well nigh impossible to reach unless you were really daring. I had knowledge of this cave, like I'd heard about it before; even after waking, it feels like part of an earlier dream which I didn't take down, though I really can't recall such a dream. I seem to recall a dream once where there were caves and such on a rocky shoreline and they were really hard to reach, and I was picking my way around this place, but I never took note of such a dream so who can say. :/ Anyway, I found the thought of this practically unexplored cave intriguing, though of course it was located in an inhospitable area.
Well, I guess the map situation was bothering me so much now that we went back home, for me to pick up my map. My memory picks up with me being in my bedroom, locating the map--a printout on folded paper, just like the one I took these notes on ^_^ --and then gathering a bunch of other things I would need, like the camera, and fresh batteries (so I wouldn't have to double back and buy some in town like I did in real life last time I visited the island), and this and that etc. etc.--it's like I had most of this stuff already but I'd set it on my bed and I was checking and double-checking to make sure I wouldn't forget ANYTHING this time. And it was taking me so long! Finally I guess I finished and now Dad was the one taking me to the island because I guess my brother and mother and whoever else were done with it all. Dad drove me to Mackinaw City, I guess, though it's like I didn't have to take a ferry or anything and I guess we arrived on the island. But I noticed that it was after SIX PM and it was starting to drizzle rain. There was NO WAY I could do all the things I really wanted to do now that it was after six PM! Plus it was raining. Dad seemed rather neutral and uninvolved, but I was very upset that I wouldn't be able to finish my trip which I had barely even started. I figured we should just go back home.
What a lousy trip. -_-
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Date of dream: Friday, December 22, 2006
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I was in my room at night and for some reason had come up with some fictional characters for a story. There were several of them, at least four or five, though they kept changing a bit as the dream went on and I thought up more. The primary one I remember was a male character who was a werewolf or lycanthrope. And he didn't just change into a regular wolf, he changed into a direwolf. I have to say right now that I'm not entirely sure what a "direwolf" is; at first I thought it was just some sort of monster wolf from roleplaying guides like Dungeons & Dragons, but then I saw the word mentioned in a book talking about prehistoric animals so I figured it must mean a sort of very large, extinct wolf species. The dictionary I have on hand has no definition of "direwolf." In any case, in my dream the meaning was the latter one--a very large, prehistoric type of wolf. This young man had the ability to transform into a direwolf, though I believe this ability expressed itself only when he was in the throes of extreme emotion, like rage.
This man was, I believe, probably in his twenties, very slight and almost androgynous in build, and kind of Gothy; I think he wore all black, like black pants (maybe with chains?) and a black T-shirt, and I think his hair was white or silver and very straight, falling close to his head. He had a very meek, tentative personality which you wouldn't normally think of in conjunction with a guy who can change into a giant wolf! But this is how I believe I pictured him. It's like I had some drawings or such in front of me; I was on my bed thinking this all up. For some reason I focused primarily on this character as the one who I liked most.
I know there were at least one or two female characters and one of them might have been an anthro (anthropomorphic animal, AKA a "furry") or at least part animal, like a catgirl; one female character, maybe her, was outgoing and boisterous, much the opposite of the lycanthrope. These characters all hung out together as friends. In a later part of the dream when I decided to start making a listing or keeping track of these characters, I suddenly realized (as if I should have known before but had forgotten) that there were like two little cute animals who went along with them too, like birds or little furry animals, both alike. They were characters too. It's like I kept ending up with more characters in this core group.
I remember spending a lot of time trying to think of what exactly I should call the lycanthrope guy. Even he, in my imagination, was having difficulty describing himself. Should he be a werewolf? A were-direwolf? A dire-werewolf? A dire-were? A were-dire? I was quite confused. He was obviously a werewolf but I couldn't think of a way to convey the additional fact that he didn't turn into a NORMAL wolf. So that was rather problematic. :/
I also started coming up with scenarios for this guy. He was very passive, so turning into a huge raging werewolf was rather against his nature. In one part I had him concentrating hard, eyes squinting and fists clenched, trying to work up to transforming without having to enter a rage or some such--honing his powers. In another part I considered having him fall in lust with one of the other characters--the catgirl or something?--and not quite knowing how to approach that. I think I was having him say something to the woman like, "I want to roll you over and go at you from behind like a direwolf!" ^_^;;; He was just stating his confused, direct thoughts; in his own defense, the woman he was speaking to was more amused than anything, because she was interested in him too, and had probably even put him up to this or approached him first.
As I sat here mulling over all these characters I finally thought, "Hey, I really like these guys! I could come up with a whole new storyline just for them!" And this thought really excited me. Because you see, in real life I write only in about four primary storylines--the Trench Rats storyline, the D Is For Damien storyline, the Horus/Kemet storyline, and the Manitou Island storyline (another storyline, the Ameni Chronicles, is tied in very loosely to the Horus storyline). I literally CANNOT write any interesting fiction outside those existing storylines, and this has been the bane of my writing existence. At this point I have no desire to start an entire new storyline, though it would be nice to be able to write stories with original characters who don't belong in any of these storylines, so that people won't have to read an entire series just to get it! In the dream, however, I was going to create a new storyline itself, featuring Lycanthrope Boy and the others. They were that intriguing, and I really liked this thought. How new and exciting!
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Date of dream: Thursday, December 14, 2006
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This was VERY detailed and longwinded while I was having it but I took no notes, intending to just forget it. It was rather odd though so I'll recount what parts I can. Apologies for the muddledness.
I do know that I was at school--it seemed like the high school, but it was different--it reminded me of how the junior high felt to me when I was actually going there, not how it felt years later when I visited and everything was really small. ^_^; It was quite busy--lots of students wandering around. I don't know if it was my first day there but perhaps it was because I was seeking my classes and wasn't sure of where they were. There seemed to be someone in my company, a male I believe, but I'm not sure who it was and we kept parting ways. I was walking in this hallway seeking a bathroom. *ugh* Recurring dream theme. But then I think I was seeking my class.
At some point Trunks--yes, Trunks, from the anime Dragon Ball Z--showed up. O_o He was a student here too--lavender-haired Trunks! ^_^ He was in his cartoon form and everything. I knew that Trunks and I somewhat knew each other and he was friendly so I think I tried to get his attention but he too was seeking his class. Maybe we met up briefly and then I lost track of him. (I think it was Future Trunks as opposed to Trunks from Dragon Ball GT, but he didn't have the terribly broody attitude of Future Trunks; he was a bit mellower.) Anyway, Trunks went walking off and I lost track of him and I kept seeking my class.
Either I thought Trunks shared my class, or I decided to follow him instead, so I started popping into the various classes. I had seen him in one class earlier but when I looked again I didn't see him. I kept peeking into classes and wandering around among these crowds, I was so lost. :( I thought again that I saw him sitting in another class and I yelled, "Trunks! Trunks! Hey, Trunks!" but he couldn't hear me and then maybe I lost sight of him or he wasn't there after all. I went wandering back out into the main hallway, incredibly flustered, then realized...
...Hold on, all of these rooms kept changing. No wonder I couldn't find where I needed to go when everything was in some sort of state of flux!
That could mean only one thing. Feeling terribly anxious lest I end up being wrong, I flung up my arms and yelled:
"DREAM! THIS IS A DREAM!"
Contrary to my fears...none of the people flowing around me even glanced my way. Either my reaction was completely normal, or this really WAS a dream! Lucidity! :D Cool! I kind of wanted to start making things around me change--like, "If this is a dream, then the walls will start melting!"--but I didn't quite seem to have that ability. I just didn't have that focus or control yet. :/ So instead I went running down the hall, waving my arms and yelling, "THIS IS A DREAM! THIS IS A DREAM!" over and over while nobody paid me any attention. So that was pretty cool. ^_^
I eventually settled down. Now that I knew this was a dream, wonky stuff started happening. I believe in one part, Goku from Dragon Ball Z also showed up--maybe somebody was with him--and perhaps he too was looking for Trunks. In another part, I saw somebody standing near a locker and I went over to them only to see that it was a lifesize cardboard cutout of...Sailor Moon/Serena from the anime of the same name. O_o ?? I'd thought she was real at first. I touched the cardboard and murmured, "But why is she made of cardboard...?" For some reason that really puzzled me, why she wasn't real. In another part, I somehow received the information that somebody important or famous was going to go walking right by me, and I saw somebody coming, then it's like I turned around and all of a sudden Mel Gibson went walking past on my right and I yelled, "AAGGH!!" because he startled me so much!! ^_^;; But Mel Gibson didn't even bother looking at me, just went on his way, and I thought that was rather rude, so screw you too, Mel Gibson.
I think at some point I was trying to be careful not to wake myself up, because that often happens when one goes lucid.
I'm pretty sure other weird things happened, I just can't recall them by now. :(
In any event I went into another hallway and here there was a redheaded lady with high cheekbones, kind of older--forties or fifties--and I was racking my brain trying to remember where I'd seen her before. She had frizzy hair and a husky voice and I knew she was famous somehow. I think finally I realized she was the sergeant or whatever that woman was in the movie Private Benjamin; at least I think it was the movie. She was the leader and always seemed to be in a foul mood. Well, here she was, and I think she was a teacher in the school or whatever this was. She, unlike just about everybody else in the dream, noticed me and interacted with me when we started talking, and she had knowledge of what was going on, the fact that I knew I was dreaming. I recognized her now as some sort of mentor figure here to advise or guide me so it was a relief to meet her.
"Now that I know I'm dreaming, how come I haven't awakened yet?" I asked her, quite perplexed. "Aren't I supposed to wake up now that I know I'm dreaming?"
"You wake up as soon as you figure out the purpose of this dream," she answered me.
"So I have to figure out its meaning...?" I looked around me as she nodded. "How long have I been asleep now?"
"Seventy-five minutes," she said.
I was awed. "Seventy-five minutes..." I murmured, still looking around. I'd been sleeping and lucid this long, and still hadn't figured out the meaning of all of this? I guessed that I'd somehow have to figure it all out if I ever wanted to wake up and end this dream. :/
Here ensues a big hazy period. Other dream images I recall but can't connect to the basic plot were: driving north on the highway, near Orchard Beach Road, and seeing capybara-like animals in an enclosure on the right; I was with Dad and we went to look at them and I think somebody was raising them for some reason, they were ruddy/sandy colored with coarse fur, kind of rodentlike, strange but cute; and in another part I saw a view of the Mackinac Bridge from afar. Told you this dream was way wonky.
I think I experienced a false awakening so that would have been a dream within this dream. There was another part, I'm not sure how it's related, in which I was in my bedroom, just waking up, and I heard a small forlorn meow right outside my window. I looked out and saw Cosmas sitting outside in the yard! Stunned, I hurriedly started putting on my clothes and went racing through the house, past family members--my parents as well as my brother were present, all awake and staring at me in surprise as I fumbled to button up my shirt, my hair messy and my state half dressed--and I exclaimed, "Coz is stuck outside! He must've escaped!" I was so worried and wanted to get him back inside, the poor thing.
I ran to the back door, ignoring how Eric and/or Dad moved toward me as if to stop me, and flung the door open. And saw two large deer lying on the porch. O_O One was a doe and one was a buck and they were slumped on their sides, against each other, both apparently dying--the buck looked like it had a bunch of long guns/rifles or spears protruding from its side! Stunned, I shut the door and just stood there stupidly. I knew that Eric and Dad hadn't wanted me to see that. I guess I looked again though and now the buck was wrapped in barbed wire. Eric and Dad explained some sort of hunting technique in which a deer was wrapped in barbed wire and I couldn't believe that people would do something so awful! I was ready to get pissed off at Eric for doing this (I knew he'd been hunting deer) when it was explained that he had merely found them like this and had brought them back here, probably to put them out of their misery; so I was relieved that Eric hadn't done this thing, but still sorry for the deer. I knew they were going to die, poor things.
Well, I opened the door again to let Cosmas in and what came in were three black cats--one small one, one average one, and one fluffy one. I knew they were all Pepper--my deceased cat. O_o Don't ask. Perhaps Coz was with them as well. I can't quite recall my emotions toward them; I think I was just worried that I wouldn't pay them all adequate attention. Well, at least the cat(s) were okay, if not the deer!
More haziness; perhaps this phased into the next part. All I really remember of it by now was being at home with my mother and father and it was evening, like around eight at night, but still somewhat light outside which it shouldn't be at this time of the year--but that was normal in this dream. It was like dusk, right after the sun sets, and the sky was deepening blue. There was a much better view out the front window than there would normally be. Ma and Dad and I were just doing our things when I went over to the window and casually looked up. I was surprised to see the sun still high up in the sky with a few wispy clouds gathering around it; it was really glary bright. I turned to Dad and said, "Hey, the sun's still out! Way up there!"
"No it isn't," he said, and pointed at the horizon. "It just set not that long ago."
Confused, I looked up at the sunlike object high overhead. It seemed to waver or grow brighter. My eyes grew bigger, then I exclaimed, "Get down!" Ma and Dad both turned to look at me in puzzlement; I think Dad had been making something to eat in the kitchen and was in the middle of this now, and Ma was just confused. "Get down!" I yelled again, then started screaming it. "GET DOWN! GET DOWN!!"
They finally got it and we all dropped to the floor, covering our heads with our arms. There was a bright flash...though no loud noise or shockwave. I'd recognized the bright light as being an incoming nuclear explosion, just in time for us to duck and cover, but I thought to myself, what good will this do us in the end? -_- I probably should have just stood and watched it come and let the end come quickly. That's how I'd prefer going in a nuclear attack.
Well...again there ensues a big hazy period. I get the feeling there were a few more explosions (though there was actually no noise associated with them, just light), but I don't recall the details if there were any. I guess some time passed and it seemed nobody was affected by radiation or fallout or anything. :/
Then at some later point, feeling anxious, I turned to Ma and Dad and said, "When that nuclear explosion hit--that was just a dream--right? That didn't really happen, did it?" Because now I was just about sure I'd only dreamed it all.
Unfortunately, Ma and Dad both expressed knowledge of the nuclear attacks. My anxiety grew almost overpowering. "You mean you dreamed the same thing?" I asked desperately. "How could we dream the same thing?" Because it was either that, or the explosions had really happened, and whichever it was, I did not like it.
That's all I recall of all that. ^_^
I might add an interesting aside concerning the redhaired woman's telling me that in order to awaken from the lucid dream, I had to discover the reason for the dream. A while back I came up with an idea/plot for an imaginary movie in which a man falls asleep and enters a long detailed wonky dream, and is informed by another character in the dream that if he wants to wake up, he'll have to resolve the dream's subconscious meaning--and until then he's stuck there. So it was kind of interesting to find myself in my own character's situation, even if I still have no clue what the hell that was all about. o_o
Might I also add that this dream was, at its longest, a little under an hour and not 75 minutes as the dream guide said. :P
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