Monday, November 26, 2007

just another one of those "underground world" dreams ...

this is the second of these dreams i've had in a few days. it's me and the dogs running away from someone and ending up taking some harry-potter-esque portal to an underground world, one where the "ceiling" isn't sky, but earth (and very, very high), and there's no sun but there are muted trees and plants everywhere, abandoned houses and cars, paths, streams ... classrooms? yes, i had to teach a class in a scary building that resembled a burnt-out shell of a building. having the dogs with me helped, and the students loved them (although they kept running away).

i met a woman teacher whose husband moved around this world in a viking ship on land there. i don't know how it sailed ... but since i saw beowolf a week ago, this might be where this is coming from. (i'm like that, it's lame: i see a movie or read a book, then [surprise!] i dream something similar. i think my subconscious must not be very creative). anyhoo, the woman lived there permanently and was very friendly, but what very few other people lived in this world came and went. i guess i was moving there soon?

[ahem.] also, people and things had magic powers. there was a chase scene involving uh, magic stuff ... and i ... fought off the bad magic [cough], and then the lady took me to a nuclear stream (don't ask) that was very blue and couldn't take me any further because i was crossing back into our normal world over a wooden bridge. colors were very bright again on this new path and the dogs were bounding around everywhere, never minding anything ... but i knew i would go back to weird-underground-world again soon, and that was OK. strange as it seems, i found the strange new world oddly comforting despite it being very gray and a little scary.

ok, dream interpreters, what is this suddenly (recurring?) dream all about? my subconscious apparently revels in science fiction much more than i do ...

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