Getting a wee bit behind here:
Most Interesting ConversationThursday night, April 24th, 2008Posting on
DV, wordy conversation with
Marlie. Quite interesting.
Vex Kitten was in there somewhere, and
Placebo showed up to make a pretty long post with lots of bolded points later on. In a later dream, actually, but it was a continuation of this one, so it goes here.
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A Whale of a TaleThursday night, April 24th, 2008
In a house somewhere with
Heather and someone else, maybe
Tab. I drank a small tumbler of bourbon, then sat on a couch fiddling with my
camera. What happened next was amazing. At one point, my surroundings just changed, and I was sitting on the sidelines of a water park type show, with whales in a river area that ran from in front of me around to my right. There was one gray whale and two killer whales, a male and female. It was weird, the water in front of me was cut off, like there was a glass wall holding it in, but there wasn't. So I could see the whales as they passed just beneath the water in front of me.
Then I decided I wanted to take closeup video of their antics, so I set my camera to record video, and jumped into the water at my right. The gray whale came by backwards, huge, pushed by the current, then one of the killer whales came blasting through, pushing the larger gray out of the way. I quickly grabbed ahold of it, puling myself onto its wide back. It then turned, with me in tow, and rounded the corner ahead at full speed, jumping through the air, crashing into a sort of small pen above the water with a lioness in it. I remember thinking, that thing could just grab me right off the whale's back! But it didn't, and we rode on.
The whale went down past where the audience could see, it would have been to my left if I were observing. There was a huge dropoff and a waterfall, and the whale went over it head-first, somersaulting head-over-tail, with me clinging desperately to its back, crouched down with my head tucked under. There was a corner of a scaffolding that if the whale were to hit on its back, it would crush me. Luckily, we missed it, landing with a huge splash. When we came back up, the whale strongly swam its way up the waterfall and back around, doing its circuit. I got off the same place I got on, and
Tab (I think) pulled me back out of the water.
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A Foot of a Different ColorThursday night, April 24th, 2008
Me,
Mama and Daddy were driving around looking for somewhere to buy something at, a bible program for the computer. We had the software box, but we needed either more copies, or it was an empty box. We went into one place that claimed they had it all, and looked around for awhile with no luck. Turns out the place mostly sold shoe molds... O_o
I was getting really tired and hungry, we all were, and I had developed a limp because of a poorly fit shoe, ironically enough, but I wasn't about to pay the prices they wanted for shoes, so I bore it. So we left, me limping painfully the whole way, until I finally found a wheelchair and took advantage of it to get back to the car. Riiiiiight... I really need to pay more attention to these things.
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Hostile TakeoverThursday night, April 24th, 2008
Cars parking on a hill beside a busy roadway. We were in hostile territory, perhaps Soviet territory? Some woman pulled up in a Jeep or similar, parked it on the hill but
didn't set the emergency brake. Well, she thought she did, but what she pulled was the seat belt strap. She got out, carrying a case containing a sniper rifle, and walked down the hill to set it up, directly behind her car.
The car started to slowly roll downhill. I jumped in to the car, grabbed the brake, and pulled it all the way up and back,
but it didn't work. The car kept rolling, a little faster now. So I got out, grabbed the frame of the door, and hauled the car back up the hill to its parking spot.
It was frustrating, because I was playing a fine balancing game with the car. In order to get it where it wouldn't roll down the hill, I had to get it way too close to the road for comfort, and the cars and trucks on the road never slowed. There was something about the woman with the rifle revealing that she wasn't even a good shot, and
Gibbs (from NCIS) took over for her and fired the shot. He was with us. Whoever 'us' was.
[I seem to have a LOT of dreams involving cars, especially the brakes, not working as they should. It's disturbing. You'll see what I mean as my dream journal progresses.]Same dream, there was a MiG in bad repair, that we were fixing up to fly. I think we were some rebel band of fighters. I was the mechanic. The pilot wanted to go ahead and give it a trial flight, despite my warnings, so we compromised and I went along, strapped to the rear of the left wing. Well, that or just holding on tight. It may not have been a MiG, I'm not the best with planes. It had VTOL. Anyway, I was doing my mechanic thing while we were in a near-vertical climb, when I spotted something bad. Bad and irreparable. I hollered out to the pilot, “Get out of there, it's going to blow up!” and with that I let go of the plane, and fell back in a freefall. I kept yelling to the pilot to get his rear out of that cockpit or he wasn't going to live to regret it, but he wouldn't, and then the plane exploded.
Miraculously, we both lived. At least the pilot had a parachute. I didn't. We were almost in the outer atmosphere when the thing blew, too. But hey, I'm
Superman, right? Actually, I think I may have been Ironman in the dream. Anyway, he was laid up in a hospital bed and I was visiting him. He was red-faced, due to the burns that covered his body. I was apparently fine, and joking with him about what happened.
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