Dream Log 2014-10-05

I remember two of my dreams from last night.

In one, I somehow found some sort of recent awards/profile page featuring my best friend from early elementary school. Her first name had been changed to Ephrata, and her last name to something else I can't remember. Later, I came across a new plant that somehow ended up indoors at where I was staying. Boy was I surprised to find that plant to be sentient, communicating telepathically, and moving of its own accord. As it turns out, that friend had turned herself into a plant.

The second dream was much more mundane: I promised two separate people that I was going to meet them at the farmers' market, and they were surprised to both be waiting for me at the same spot. I have this odd feeling that this dream actually fed into the first one, but I can't recall how.

Dream Log 2014-09-10

I had some odd dreams last night.

1. In the first, I was hired to perform manual copying of data from documents into a database. The computers in use all ran DOS. I offered to write a program that'd automate the whole process, but they wanted to do it the manual way in order to keep people employed. I tried to explain that people would still be needed to maintain the program, but they wouldn't listen.
2. The second dream was pretty much an episode of King of the Hill, down to the characters. It was some sort of holiday episode with a visit to a commercial slaughterhouse in order to obtain meat.
3. The third dream starred some sort of cat-people, siblings of them. There were attempts to instill despair, followed by incest, and later murder in order to prevent the mother from stopping what was going on.

Restoration of the Old Kingdom

It starts off with a boy escaping punishment from his mother via a secret passage to a cavern...

Years later, when the boy is a young man, his mother is making them move for away. As he packs up his belongings, he is distracted by a rabbit bounding off towards the village. Once there, he is confronted by a group looking to go on an short adventure, led by a wiseman . Hoping to make his last day in his hometown a good one, he accompanies them.

They make their way to a market house at the end of a valley, where the young man had been employed previously, but they must make their way past the valley, and the wiseman discovers that it's blocked off only by a wall of the market. Unfortunately for the market owner, one of them barrels through rows of stock, then breaks through the wall. Not wanting to be stopped, they ran through.

The group happens upon a cave, and enter it as directed by the wiseman. The journey here becomes quite dangerous, with the final section requiring them to walk across the top of stalagmites that project upward out of a searing-hot spring.

Once in the final room of the cave, they discover a door at the top, much to their surprise. The young man stands, almost in a trance, at the entrance to the final room as memories from his late father fill his mind. He begins to manipulate hidden switches throughout the room, causing fire to rise from all sides, finally resulting in a major quake.

Outside, light begins to fill the area around the hill containing the cave, and the quake causes much of it to collapse. After the dust clears, a castle is revealed, and the song familiar to everyone who remembers the old kingdom that resided in the area is played from the bell towers. They exclaim, "The king has returned!" and run to the castle to greet him, only to come upon the young man. After an awkward pause, someone familiar to the old king says, "You look just like him... You must be his son!" The people rejoice, as the old kingdom can now be restored.

Once sat upon the throne, the young man realizes that this cavern of his youth was the throne room of the old castle. He also found out his father's death led to the collapse of the old kingdom, and his that mother wanted to keep him isolated from anything involving it.

Dream: Mountain Spring and Waterfall

I know for a fact that I've had this dream before, which is why it's interesting. The overarching plot starts off with me wanting to run away from home, and through the course I visit multiple different locations. I'll only describe the snapshots that I can recall.

1. I start by walking down my homestreet, which isn't so abnormal. I make a left at the tee.
2. A thought runs through my mind, "If I keep going this way, through the mountains, I'll end up in Everett." I even see the mountains in the distance. Strangely, there aren't any actual mountains between where I live and Everett in real life.
3. I end up passing through a rural area reminiscent of the rural Cascade foothills, with light forest and a lot of grass on the slopes.
4. Eventually, I arrive at a massive spring, where the water is clear and the bed is made of white rock. There are executives of some sort ("suits") in the water, and I mention to one that I've been in the pool before. He only utters a bit of poetry in response.
5. My next stop is where the road I'm walking along makes a light right turn, with the stream originating from the spring separating it from the base of a cliff. A high road runs across the top of the cliff.
6. I exit the forest, only to come to a series of waterfalls in a somewhat more barren landscape. I had been off the road for some time, instead opting for a paved path originating from it. The path splits, with one end capped with a balcony and the other direction crossing a bridge similar to this one, only using steel tubing instead of wood. The bridge crosses a very tall, yet moderately wide waterfall, which levels off for a hundred meters, then cascades down a much wider set of horseshoe falls. I take out my camera and snap photos of the scenery, but when I get to the bridge I hesitate, remembering my last experience. The bridge begins to violently sway in a manner similar to that of a boat as I try to cross it, forcing me to return to the path.
7. I climb various other paths to take photos of odd sculptures that adorn the ridge visible from the balcony, where other tourists do the same.

It's an interesting dream, but I only recall having had it once before.

Dream: Internment Camp/The Fox and the Hound

My dreams have always interested me. Some are almost normal with parts that could never happen, and others take memories from my entire lifespan and are creative with them. I mainly enjoy sleep because of the adventures in my dreams.

It started off where I had entered a place (not sure if it was a country or not) which was run by children. In the dream, I was much older than I am now, but it seemed as though I had somehow traveled through time, as the last quarter on my UW ID surprised me. I was taken into custody for being an adult, and had to show photo ID to the officers there. Unfortunately, a long-term adult holding area (which ended up a locked-down high school gym) was my destination.

When there, I found a friend of mine, and she had somehow formed a relationships with the DragonBall Z character Vegeta, who was in the 'real' world as though he always had been. Otherwise, the camp (called an 'internment camp') was full of adults who had been there for far too long, many acting like cavemen (though still wearing moderately normal clothes). The only strange thing was that these two baby-esque muppet-like characters were watching a movie on a small TV, and if anyone got close, they'd be attacked.

The Fox and the Hound

The movie was similar to Disney's production of "The Fox and the Hound," with many differences as I watched while perching atop the bleachers above. The movie was darker, and followed a somewhat different plot, involving more human-esque pranks, with two major differences I can recall:

1. The dog's father only ended up badly injured from rescuing the fox on a snowy mountain in a horrible storm.
2. The fox pulled a prank in which he tied a doll of some sort to a balloon, and let it float up into a tree. The old lady (from the movie) and the dog, thinking the doll was the fox, were frantic in trying to get him down, until lightning struck the tree, starting a fire and incinerating the doll. The fox appeared at the base of the tree, and was scorned as everyone ran from it.

It was an interesting take on Disney's movie, and made me want to watch their production. It's fortunate that we have it on VHS, isn't it?