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kitten superheroes [21 Jan 2007|11:15am]
finally, a dream that corresponds with dzima's earlier (much much earlier) dream of superheroes;

I am similar to jean grey from xmen in terms of hair and skin tight outfit (though that is the usual for superheros is it not?). My partner in crime is a little redhead. Her hair reminds me of a red squirrel tail. Big and bushy yet most lustrous indeed.


A group of baddies are following us. I'm teaching squirrel hair how to fly
we land on a grassy hill. there is a valley followed by another grassy hill opposite us.
On that hill are 5 little kittens. We of course, have turned into kittens ourselves (and the whoel dream style has gone from real life actors to animated block colours)
kitens had to be persuaded to our side. They looked rather menacing. An had turned into a plump bouncy balloon-style kitten (marshmallow) whilst i was white and hairy with tinges of red and ginger here and there. Anyhow, whitey starts freaking out. she bounces all over the place and smashes into me. We morph into a DUO CAT sort of like power rangers - with ours powers combined..!) now we're drawn as a sketchy thing that keeps expanding out then back in like shards. Upon settling down on a set shape. we look liek myself. but a bit fatter with large saucer like eyes.
we encourage the kittens to jump onto the other hill but they cannot jump far enough and land on our head (we are in the gulley. having combined forces, we are supersized... or the gulley was never that deep)

Returning to our superhero scenes, we go back to TAFE to collect our garments (magical armour). I turn on my invisibilty shield and stuff the sidekick into my shirt.
The baddies after us have one supervillian who can smell us
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winged humans in stinky lakes and mothers jumping off roofs [17 Mar 2005|11:32pm]
[ mood | contemplative ]
[ music | blossom dearie - ooh la la ]

I had broken 2-3hoour segmented sleep. the last 2-3hour block was the ing dream. The last 15mins of sleep resulted in the roof suicide dream. AHEM AHEM:

Dream one.
Everyone.. okay. some/most people i know have wings. We have the power invisibilty. Th ar two tis who have horrible parents/caretakers. We must help them escape/run away/avoid detection from baddies. It's like a video game wher we fly up to the rafters and hid behind blue curtains, sliding doors, stools and boxes. We put pm the guise of reindeer and fly about.
Then we are wading in a pool of water. it is a very large pool of water. sort of like if the sea were actually just a huge swimming poor with varying degrees of depth. Well. I a, in shallow knee deep/occassionally ankle deep,/every now and then wasit deep water. Skanky water with bits floating in it. stinky and fetid and sloghtly brown, which makes the azure blue tiles underfoot look a murky browny green.there is an "island"/fountain nearby. We are near the depths of hell.. or at least an opening to it and lots of demons, so we must wade in silence and be prepared for attacks from invisible forces
Something abotu a giant computer full of information on us. And we are at the edge/corner of the world - a wrong step or a malicious push could send us over and into oblivion. Must complete our mission then go back to the room with the twins and the glass sliding doors.
Outside the doors is a corridor with brown rattan/bamboo matts. Japanese style
Funny. i dont remember much of this dream, besides the need to be silent and cautious. aware. intents, and ready to fight or flee... and waking up with a sense of wonder and tingly anticipation. "must remember this dream!"
the wings on our backs were gorgeous though we didnt always use them as we were often in squashy areas where unfolding wings and a running takeoff/leap (of faith?) was quite impossible/would draw attention to us.



Dream Two
I still have the wings but i cannot use them! I am in my room. the window is wide open and the flyscreen has been removed/never existed. Sad - wings - clipped freedom? but it was okay i guess - the window was open for escape!
I see mother out on my roof. She is crawling on all fours across the sloped rooftop tiles
"what are you doing?" i ask her. She ignores me and keeps crawling. I realise she wants to jump off.
Alarmed I yell at her to stop and reconsider. i see/have a flashback of her climbing out of my window again. I lok at my window. i am about to climb out when it touches/hits/scrapes my lower leg? I turn to kat and tell her how much I owe my sanity to this window.
"Seriously man. Some days i was SO close to losing it. just getting up and leaving this joint. THIS CLOSE! (very very) but when i climb out of the window, it somehow touches me and gives me a sense of calm, makes me think things through. reconsider... Why has it let her (mother) through? Was it being malicious? It didnt like her? Only worked for me?
Anyway. I got up and climbed out the window after mum. She'd crawled over the gap between "my" roof and "kat's" roof (an 80cm - 1m gap?) and was now on the edge of the bathroom's roof - the highest roofpoint humanly possible to reach, overlooking the ground. "NO! DONT DO IT! THINK THINGS THROUGH!" I yell out. I know she will jump anyway/not listen to me...if only to spite us.
I am on the roof now - my section. Strightening up, nimbly 'dance' across the tiles, toes pointed like a ballerina. i leap onto the window ledge which is slanted. Two bounds and i am across, quite amazed i didnt fall over down the 1m gap as the ledge is quite slanted and i had nothign to hold onto. Perhaps it was because i had been so quick and light of foot? Maybe because i wasnt overanalysing/thinking about gravity. weight and whatnot?
I am onto the next roof now - Just in time to see mum hurl herself off the ledge.
I leap-step-dance over. She lies flat out on the lawn. head down.10seconds pass and her bdy gets over the shock. groggily and stiffly getting up, she lurches off.
I lower and drop myself down. Wonderign how she could have survives such a fall with her spinal injuries (displaced discs/broken back). I am angry adn ask her why she did it. She is crying now, and holds out a doctors prescription sheet.
"the doctor says he can no longer help me. i am too old"
doctor: "my life goal is to serve the younger sick people - make their lives more liveable and enjoyable whilst they can. You are no longer considered young so i must stop your treatments. I'll give you once year before your back gives completely and you will be confined to a wheel chair/paraplegic"
she sobs some more. "So i've decided to do everything and anything i've wanted to. live life to the fullest ... before i become confined to the wheelchair. If i dislocate some more back discs, so what? i'll be paraplegic soon anyway!
how sad.





p.s i have yet to watch constantine.

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babies and ghosts out to get me - will edit this later [27 Feb 2005|03:46pm]
I was a human. I could see ghosts. Mayeb i was a half ghost half human./alive person. Either way. I could see and talk to both sides. There was some sort of ghost world heirarchy based upon where you lived in the department store.
ANYWAY>
There was this one house/manor dedicated to a dead ghost family. The ghosts there were really mean and freaky, and possessed very strong powers.
I went to school at a university near a shoppign centre. I keptcoming back hoem at weird hours of the day and would then go into my room andnot come out. Mum liked to spy on me. I liked to talk to the ghosts. Mum decided to make it a rul that she drive me to and from uni every day so she could keep an eye on me.
FINE. said I. TOmorows class starts at 6:30 so you'll have to drive me up there at 5:30 woman.
Suffer in your jocks.

Anyway. The manor was full of ghosts. yes. but they were weird psychos who didnt talk to the other ghosts. they were liek. ... long un-human looking spirits that wailed alot and zipped in and out of their windows. In the human world. It was so strong a ghost presence, that it was a haunted house. which was house to a great cult of.. something.. But to get a job there was wquite a pristigious thing to have indeed. Even I tried out for it. But when i went there for the interview, the front had been closed off to visitors, with huge glass walls put up so we could see that inside was a congregation of epopel dressed all in white (i was too. i realised) and some sort of meetign slash exhorcism was abotu to take place.

okay. then this thing starts comign over the ghost community. Perfectly harmless, friendly ghost familes...who passed by the manor/walked within 20 metres of it, suddenly had one membe are aflicted with a mental diseas in which they turn into zombie ghosts. These zombie ghosts will go after and attempot to kill oen person who is close to their hearts. and the onlt way to kill them/cure them = stake through the head. BUT if you want them to survuve the stake through the ead, you have to do stake them BEFORE they kill the other person/turn them into a zombie ghost.
OTHERWISEEEE.... after they've killedanother person and you stake them, they will die (instead of turnign back to normal).
It appened to a few ghost families theat were close to me.quite bizarre.


Theres this tall skinny multi-levelled house with lots of little square windows.
Inside is the ghost of a 7or 14 headed baby freak thing. it becomes afflicted with some sort of disease thing/the evil manor/cult house ghost spirits zip by and do somethign to it.
suddenly. the 7 headed baby is split into 7 normal little baby ghosts.
well.
6 normal baby ghosts and one "pimple" baby with no head and just a whole lot of holes on its side- thats the part of the ghost that used to join all the head tgether you see. That middle pimple thing gets really pissed off. not idea why, but it becomes pissed off AT ME, so now i have a freaky pimple thing after me and i must stab it witha stake.
damned fuckign shit man! why do these thigns always happen to me!
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godzilla and rhinos walkign across the sea [04 Dec 2004|11:05pm]
I had a dream about a Godzilla type dragon.dinosaur. It was very horny. We made it a purple dildo cross condom (huh!?!?!) purple deluxe fur from Lincraft. I’ve got a poncho made out of it actually. Its very nice fabric!. Yeah. Godzilla was terrorising a shopping centre full of little kids. He’d come out of a deep crack in the floor/down-in-the-ground . I came up to the shopping level he was on and shooed all the kids into the lift and out to safetybefore heading off the the food court area. I befriended Godzilla and the shopping centre turned into a shopping centre type house.

..

who am I kidding



Turns out, I lived in the shopping centre, But I’d removed some of the chairs and bins and randomly placed bill boards, and stuck a brown velveteen couch next to the medicare building and a large pot planted tree.

Godzilla was super bored. I can’t quite remember where the dildo bit comes in, but I DO remember us looking out the window at the ocean.
Blue sunny sky. Nice waves. Giant rhinoceros walking across the ocean (like god/Jesus? I’m not good with names)
It was a grinning rhino too.
Don’t worry. It made as much sense in the dream as it does in real life (I.e., none)
We were all stumped. (I still am… where the hell did the rhino come from? And how come it could walk across the water?)
the rhino finally got to the beach where a whole crowd of people/paparazzi/journalists/ were waiting (to interview it?).
It probably squashed them all with its huge foot. I dont know. we stopped looking out of the window to stare at godzilla instead.
Godzilla flew out to play in the waves (inspired by the rhino?)
I told him to watch out for the people/paparazzi/journalists/helicopters.
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The dream about popartpistol and… boobies. That look like crap [09 May 2004|09:57am]
The camera lens is drawn to the picture of a little cartoon like figure sitting underneath a tree branch. The picture is drawn onto felt. We hear a voice saying "little Tim, do you want to learn how to stop and reverse the environmental damage of the sun?".
'Little Tim' - the cartoon like figure comes too life and nods his head.
"watch, as I teach him…" "Little Tim must reverse (flip over) all that is on this page"
And so our hero Little Tim walks about the felt page, flipping over the tree branch, the leaves, the sun, the "dirt". There are a lot of leaves however, and he starts to lose track of what has been flipped and what hasn't. You can tell by feeling the leaves. The 'normal' side is all dry and crackly after the sun has sucked all the moisture out. The "flipped" side is smooth like a baby's bottom….

Anyway. CUTCUTCUT! (Next scene)

popartpistol(Jess) is in my class. Someone is looking for her - someone bad. So she and her boyfriend get into the cupboard to hide. Jess sticks her eye through the keyhole/crack in the door to peek at the outside people.
The cupboard is dark, and the darkness envelopes them. So much so, that her eyeballs have been enveloped in a dark sticky gooey tar..
They stay in the cupboard for ages - a few years. Jess looks at her bf whose hands are around his head - He has gone crazy from the cupboards' confines. Jess is still sane though. Well. Slightly deranged maybe but relatively normal. She still looks at people through the cupboard door though.
Sometimes students go into the cupboard to look for cardboard and paper. When that happens, Jess presses herself against the wall to melt in with the shadows. This isn't too hard because her hair is black and gooey and so are her eyeballs (*actually. Her eyeballs have a swirly red colour - like the one in her user pictures). Her bf, at this point has TOTALLY melted into the shadows though if you stare, you can see him cringing - hands around head - as if to protect himself from the darkness.
Anyway. The students don't like going into the cupboard - they reckon it's haunted.

One day. I open the cupboard.. Something happens and light floods it. Jess 'wakes up' and jumps out into the open.
"shhh!!!!" she says to me. She is normal now, though quite dirty - she hasn't had a shower for several years and there's still a bit of slime on her, now it's a semi transparent sandy muddy beige instead of a tar black.
The teacher (narelle - a tafe teacher) is calling out the roll. She looks at Jess and goes to tick her name off, but she's been removed from the roll.
"hmm. Jess jess jess. JESS! Student Number 60". Narelle writes onto the end of the roll book.

She then turns her back to us and takes out some feather dusters. I hear that she is planning to hit Jess for running away for all that time. (it turns out Narelle is the person Jess was hiding from all those years ago). I know about her sinister plans so I run up to her, grab a feather dusters and shout threats and curses whilst dancing about and brandishing my so called weapon.
We have a "sword fight" in which I am victorious. The Grande high witch/teacher (a role played by Helen Oo - Head teacher of fashion at my tafe) comes in and takes Narelle's dusters. She speaks to us in a nice sweet manner to calm us down, but I hold onto my feather duster anyway - this could be a trap. I warn her that I am prepared and she simply says "ok".

At this point, Jess becomes excited. Bounding past me, she yells at the top pf her lungs "A SHOWER! I'M GOING TO TAKE A SHOWER! AND REAL SOAP? ARGH! I HAVEN'T USED REAL SOAP IN YEARS!"

She runs into one of the pink shower cubicles. Pulls the curtains. Shuts the door and proceeds to.. Shower. I too need a wash, but there aren't any spare, so I yell at her to hurry up.
Later, I find an empty cubicle to shower in so it's ok.
I finish my shower and walk outside to chat to my friends. They look at me and ask if I've had a boob job.
Confused, I stare at my breasts. The look slightly square-r than they used to. I 'm scared now. What the hell did I do?
"ummmm… I don't know.. Did I?...DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAD ONE?"
Someone says"yes". And "they look like poo-s" .. you know how the typical doggy poo is sort of round and topped up. Like a sundae? Well. My boob job sucked so much, that the fake and real boobs squashed into each other, causing little "folds" in my skin so it looked like to poos on my chest.

I went to the mirror to look at them properly, and was approached by a wide eyed gawping man. I gave him a death stare and told him to leave. He does, and my friend says "he just wants what's best for him and his children"
I tell her that's disgusting and perverted.

Eeeeew.
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dinosaur dream [09 May 2004|09:56am]
I had a dream where we lived in a really big house with a super huge front garden.
one day, some people came over with a whole bunch of cows and set them free to roam about. I went down to check them out. They had horns and looked sort of scary. and there were some horses which I tried to pet. HOWEVER, I was distracted by a little dinosaur (about 1metre in height) which bounded up to me and tried to bit my hand off.
"No! Bad! naughty! HELLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPP!!!!" I yelled
It had somehow survived the gazillion years since it's next of kins' extinction.
Anyway. The dinosaur was a bit of a handful (and kept trying to bite me to pieces) so I took it to my little niece’s house to be her new "playmate"
The niece was a nasty piece of work. She was pure evil in an "innocent" form.
I went over to her huge ass playhouse, opened up the room and told her about her new friend
in her sweet angelic voice and pretty little petticoat-ed clothes, she climbed out of her playhouse and let go of the roof, which slammed down on the dinosaurs fingers (she meant to do that. evil huh?)
the dinosaur yelped and started at me in a "omg she's evil! Get me outta here!" sort of way, but I replied "not until you learn some manners"

It was a smart dinosaur and was learning English so it could speak... anyway.....

Then there’s another scene where I caught a really cool red bus with plush red velvet seats and red-clothed passengers + drivers with red caps to I don’t know where.
I-don't-know-where was a weird place with a train line that went to “Dr nguyens house, misses petes, Grande witch marther, Dr Stephenson, Dr rabbit, Dr guyunayrh, Dr blabla”… like.. it stopped at their houses… weird huh? So basically. I had no way out of the place. People started at me weird ly because I didn't “belong”. I needed to find the bus again so that I could get home. Argh!

There’s more to the dream but I've forgotten it already. Bah!
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Kat's infatuation with sea urchins and my four arms. [22 Feb 2004|09:32am]
[ mood | cheerful ]

*insert picture of some wine groves from port Stephens*
*insert picture of weird small hut in a yellow hued desert version of "smurf town"*
*insert picture of a rotting goat skull*

Kat was wearing my clothes. and they had turned her into a totally different person. She was acting like a total hog and wouldn't let us go upstairs or.. something or other. whatever. She was acting unreasonable and like a small child delinquent. IT WAS THE CLOTHES that had enforced upon her this transformation. THE CLOTHES we had to get rid of.

I had four arms.
So did the other person (Mel?)

Kat was walking outside the house, on the drive way. We opened the door and grabbed her. Me; her shoulders/upper body. Mel; her legs. She struggled, screamed and yelled.
"We should take her upstairs to put her down. It'll be easier (to take her clothes off) that way!"
So up we went and put her on her bed. She kicked and struggled but still we held her down.

"AH HA! HA HA! You'll NEVER be able to take them of!!!" (kat said) "you'll be too busy trying to hold me down!"

"AH HA HA HA AH HAAAAAA!!!!!" (said I) "YES WE CAN! and that's because we have... FOUR HANDS!"

And so, with our extra pair of hands, we took off kat's clothes ("skater" length black pants and a knit top?)

We released our hold of her after that.She sobbed then lay still for a few minutes.

Suddenly. She sprang up and out of the bed.
Standing by her room doorway and looking back at us, she smiled and cheerfully proclaimed: "Ah well. At least now I can go eat those.. snail things!"

'Snail things' were those huge clam-my sea-urchin-y things you see at some Asian (Chinese/Vietnamese) seafood stores. The shells are like limpet (?) shells only way bigger... yeah?

ANYHOW. Then she held out a MASSIVE urchin thingy shell (that was sooo long and spiral-y that it resembled a 1 metre long unicorn horn) to her head, yelled out "wheeeeeeeeee" and galloped off somewhere (presumably to eat giant urchin things)

p.s karunya was in the dream too!

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blonde hair, baseball bats, and flying pigs [22 Jan 2004|11:07pm]
[ mood | sorta dizzy ]
[ music | I wanna get high - Cypress hill ]

We are watching a play (Kat and I) in which a little blonde ringlet-ted kid is going to the woods with her step mum and step sister to fetch stuff. The mum leaves the children. The sister wants to kill the blonde girl and so the blonde girl hides.

Kat stands up and proclaims that she'd read the book, and THAT was not how it happened... But mid-sentence she frowns, and says that it's just an adaptation and things like plots are always smudged a little bit, then sits down in her seat again.

I have become the little blonde girl.
I live in a cartoon world. Or the dream is rendered in cartoon-age... ?

Anyhow. I am hiding up in the trees and I've turned onto invisibility mode with my dear pet pig. The evil sister mutters to herself about not killing me earlier.

She walks back home and I flutter back with her (all the time invisible of course)
I get back to the house to find it full of strangers. My "father" is informed of my death/disappearance.
"Ah well...Most unfortunate.. But now our guests have a room to sleep in (mine)!"
So with no safety in the house, I decide I must leave.
Someone opens the front door and I fly out. It is dark and windy. Trees sway briskly and the moon is shrouded by clouds. I must find a place to sleep. The Japanese Gardens are nearby so I head off towards it.
Rains starts to pour down on me. It is cold and the park ifs further than I thought.
Grandmas house, I realise, has an abandoned shed in it's backyard. I turn around and start flying back in the direction of my old house/grandmas house.


Halfway there, something happens and I must duck for cover.
I fly under a huge rusty metal bridge and into a little enclave.
The enclave has a tunnel which is full of those black rocks they put under the trains so it looks like a coal mine.
A Man (lets just call him Bill) stands at the entrance, bottle of alcohol in hand. he lives in the enclave.
We enquire as to whether there are people living in the tunnel.
The Bill takes up a gun and fires several shots into the tunnel.
"Well. If there WERE, there aren't any now! he he he he"
We walk up to the tunnel and peer in. The guy peers in also.
I hear footsteps./ Turning around, I see a thick stalwart man with a truckers cap standing at the entrance of the enclave. he holds a gun.
I inform Bill of our guest. Bill greets him.
the man tells us he's lost his baseball bat in the tunnels/drains. He asks if we can retrieve it for him.
Bill shrugs his shoulders and holds up his beer. "I'm busy you see." He assigns us (me., the tiny blonde child and her pig) to the task because we all must earn our living in the tunnels/enclave.
"What if we don't or can't?" I ask Bill.
"Then they will kill us" he says matter of factly. "they will shoot us or bludgeon us to death"

To ensure they treat us nicely, Bill takes into custody the man's fat wife or sister or..something. She also wears a truckers cap.
This way, if the man does not treat us courteously, Bill can kill the wife/sister

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Dream medley (5 in 1!!!) [11 Jan 2004|08:07pm]
[ mood | awake ]
[ music | Delta Goodrem ]

In my dream.....

1.
I was turning into a bird. My chest had barrelled up and I was short. squat. muscular. "large"....
My chest, I noted, was densely covered in small rich chocolate brown downy feathers. Upon my shoulders sprouted a few coppery emerald green feathers. Like brilliant Amazonian jungle serpents. The feathers were thin at the base with a circular bit at the top. Like the stuff people put on hats. There were these same feathers sprouting off the nape of my neck in a plumage sort of way... They were coloured fushia & brilliant gypsy purple...
I was getting worried - why a bird? I didnt want to be one!
tHERE WAS A GUY WHO HAD THE SAME THING HAPPEND TO HIM... hE GREW FEATHERS, STARTED TO SHRINK...AND SHRINK..AND SHRINK... UNTIL HE WAS BIRD SIZED AND THAT WAS THAT.
excusing the caps.

If I were to morph, (thought I to myself) would I not be a cat? For some reason.. I always assumed myself to be catty... Dreampt of predatory cats. Savoured the hunt. Felt the cool steely power of the feline gaze. Glossy sleek skin. Padded paws..... hmm.

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2.
There is a man in a yellow skivvy tp. He is a good man. He comes into the room. I have dreampt of him before... A recurring dream
? No. juts a recurring figure in my dreams * A recurring figure according to my DREAM not according to my REAL dreams..... ?!?!?!?!??!?! just like how I dont usually dream of myself being a cat. But in my dream i apparently did

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3.
We are navigating our way through a maze type thing. The maze is a huge shopping centre only there are no shops or people. It is a deserted shopping centre? With me are mum, dad, 2 brothers/male cousins and one girl toddler cousin....
We must make it to a certain place.
We must go through a 'bridge' in a room.... The bridge is made of rope - similar to teh ones seen in childrens' playgrounds - rope on either side as "handling bars", ropes at the bottom with sticks evenly placed along the bottom as "steps" liek rungs in a ladder. Below the bridge lie a million flesh eating pirahna type fish (or some other sort of vicious creature).. waiting for a slip. They cannot jump out of the murky waters to bit our ankles though. luckily...
They (the people) are too scared to cross the bridge and I am frustrated. I yell to them that if it it were a bridge in a playground as opposed to a bridge with killer fish in the water underneath, they would not think twice of crossing.
There were other rooms apart from teh bridge room... And there were escalators which worked only if you touched two funny buttons.... I saw flashes of old chinese corridors. and Some space age metallic walls too.
The other team of people were getting away from us because we were stuck in the room with the bridge... huff.

* * *


4.
I see a flier for a student exhibition at Dendy Cinemas. It advertises an old japanese flick about the "Land of OfOf" ... a 'magical place'... 'explored by two strange students. '.. 'a girl & a boy..."

The girl was once a straight A+ student but one day, she just went against the "rules". She started to rebel. Get creatice. Dress differently. Be unique... He grades dropped to Straight Bs (which was the equivalent of a "fail" in her society)... She droppes her social circle and becomes a loner. Everyone thinks she's weird.
One days, the girl is at the train station, She is sitting on a green bench, drawing into a sketch pad. Looking up, she sees the boy. He is weird too,. He is seated on a blue milk crate, busily scribbling in a white note book - a creative journal? The girl has always thought him weird but now so is she! They are like minded and as such become friends. Somehow. Together, the discover "OfOf"...
The land you can get to ONLY if you walk off the edge of the warf (at dusk?) with a shopping trolley...

I dont't want to know what happens next. I tell the people to stop talking incase they wreck the movie for me since I have yet to watch it.

I look at the flier again.... "One day only. Tuesday 1 July".. It is september.
I am utterly dissapointed - no movie for Olivia!.. I make a mental note to look for it at blockbusters...

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5.
There is a door in a tiny room. It is lain sideways and starts at the middle of the wall. Blueish dark light filters through the room form a window to teh right.
There is a bed.
heavy breathing can be heard on the other side of the door. 'It' is a she-smonster. She is made of clay and is sort of wooly.
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[29 Dec 2003|05:38pm]
Oh.
I had a dream with a red and white striped singlet top thing.
It was very 1950s type kitsch.It had ribbing on the edges and suspender belt things hanging off it. also made off ribbing.
Is my brain telling me to get off my buttocks and make some clothes? I think it is.
I want a digital camera :(
But I dont think I should be writing this in this blurty because it's not 100% dream related.. hmmm
And do i write 'buttocks' of 'buttock' ?

Anyhow.
There were also people who smiles alot (in my dream) and i cant remember much else
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great big fat nothings [15 Dec 2003|12:32am]
[ mood | depressed ]

...
My dreams have been rather drab of late
Black and white. Boring. Not even that! they've been coloured GREY
They have thin plots. Nothing makes sense. I feel... numb?
It is just a blur of uninteresting faces. I forget what happened when I wake up.
it's like an endless plain of sand. Only there's not even a sun to colour the sand. to heat or to cool it. There is no golden orange colour. There is just a murky gray and it is everywhere.
And that is all I remember

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In which she is a ghost, a cupid, and a doll [02 Dec 2003|12:24pm]
[ mood | stressed ]

I am a ghost, trapped on earth. Not yet able to move on to the heavens for reincarnation.
I am gently rocking on a swing. The swing next to me is empty, but it sways with the breeze. So there we are moving gently and in unison. How pretty.
I look to my left. Far away is a wooden seesaw. A tiny toddler walks about. She is a ghost too.

An old lady ghost is singing to herself on the next swing. She rocks gently as she sings. I see her going transparent. Her body begins to float upwards. And soon she is gone from my sight - delivered at last to the next stage of life.
Now I know how to move on : I must sing a song. Which song? I', not sure/ But decide "Blackbirds" is my best bet.

Now. Sitting next to me on the swings is another person... I think he is the guy who plays Olivia's sidekick/co worker in that CSI-type show... The one from the sex/rape unit. SVU?

Behind me are some thin white walls. A 16 year old girl ghost. She looks at me between the walls. She has golden hair like the toddler. She's very timid and runs back into the maze of walls when I try and tell her to come with us.

I look back over to the seesaw. I want to bring the toddler ghost along with me - I don't know how else she will leave earth (without some help) - she still has the mind of a toddler.
I motion for her to come to us. She laughs and shakes her golden tresses - beautiful curly ringlets that shine like the sun. Shyly, she toddles up to us. I lift her up and we seat ourself on my swing. The other guy is on his own swing. And we start to sing "blackbirds" but it doesn't work. We're still on earth.
Not enough momentum.

So we all head towards the seesaw thing near the swings. Not the wooden ones from whence the toddler came from, but another one. Made of plastic and steel with supporting coiled springs at the bottom for "bounce". With Pascal coloured animal heads either side of the "seat" though the colours are all fading and the green plastic covering the steel coils are covered in dirt and grime....

I see the Bee Gees walking across the park/field and motion for them to come over. We need help singing the Blackbirds song.
They don't realise we're ghosts. We don't bother telling them. We just ask them to sit on the seesaw and sing with us. They oblige.

So there I am. Legs bent. Squashed between two animal faces with a toddler seated on my lap. We start to sing. The lyrics and melody get addled in my brain. Thrown about my head because I am trying to make the seesaw "bounce".
The song is finished. I am glum. the SVU guy and the toddler might get to leave, but I might not, having not really sung enough. But for some reason, I feel a flash of warmth, I become semi transparent. I hold my breath in excitement. But it is gone in a flash. I look down at the toddler. She has not become transparent either. Mustn't have been her song. I look up at the guy. He hasn't turned transparent either, but his lower half/legs are floating up to the sky - his hands cling firmly to the seesaw. He is grinning - it's all working out for him.
I'm unsure as to what happens with me - so did it work or didn't it?
I feel another flash of milky warmth; another split second of transparency, then I begin to float upwards. My eyes are wide in wonder and excitement. Finally! I clasp onto the SVU guy's hand. We turn and smile at the BeeGees and the toddler. Wave our goodbyes
.
As we float upwards, we remember the old lady. A yellow package had been delivered to us earlier on as we sat at the swings. The old lady had been reincarnated as a young baby, and she wanted us to visit/check in on her. We decided to do just that and started flying in her direction.
As this happened, we felt ourselves shrinking in size and growing wings. In minutes, we had transformed into little chubby cherub angels. I think I had a nappy-tan line...

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We see the reincarnated grandma's house. It is my real life home. And my real life parents. They are like Matilda (Roald Dahl)'s parents because they are mean and nasty and care not for their kid. They are packing. Going on holidays.
We are inside the house now. And we must rescue the baby - take it back to heaven with us. But we cannot get out of the house! The windows all have fly screens... The SVU guy turns into Catherine. Catherine Hides in her room but mum finds her. they have a screaming row.
I meanwhile am still frantically searching for a place to hide. I am trapped in mum's bedroom and I hear her approaching.
I squash my fat little body into the closet. Wrap myself in curtains.
The closet door slides open. I freeze.
A giant eye - mum's eye (though she has long hair and is short and squat and looks nothing like my real life mother now) stares at me. She has heard me. I don't know what else to do. I yellow out "BOO!" in an attempt to scare her off. And I topple down, stiff as a doll, to the (carpeted) ground. I lie there and she continues to stare at me.
She thinks I am a baby doll. She sees my eyes are semi closed. It is hard not to blink.
She peers closely at me and tries to make my eyeballs roll. She thinks I am one of those dolls with the eyes that "close" when laid on my back.
She pokes my left eye. I am wearing contacts. My eyeballs are dry and the contact sticks to her finger then falls over my eye. She thinks she has broken me and tries to stick it back.
I do my best not to blink. Then I roll my eyeballs up into my head.

She hears my Father/uncle/guy with a hairy moustache who looks semi Italian calling her to go. She hurries off and I am able to move again.

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by the way. The old lady was probably the same one from this dream .. rememebr? olympics? 1/2 black 1/2 beige bra? chinese operetta??? no???? then click the link and read on.

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the witches''s village and the lego dragon [30 Nov 2003|11:36am]
[ mood | indifferent ]
[ music | Autumn Leaves -- Mel Torme? ]

Walking through a little 'village'
Passed a row of tiny houses. Several were all wall and no door/window. Instead, they had painted on doors, windows, window sills, pot plants, etc etc etc. Those houses were the magical ones.
There was an imposter house manned by real/non magical people. How did I know? It had a real front entrance.
A Beautiful lady glided past me, heading for a marvelously painted magical shop called "House Of Death" . She wore a grand top hat a disappeared into the wall of the shop where a door had been painted.

I went to work for some witches. They weren't evil, they just didn't smile much. They lived next-doors to some faerie's.
The witches led me to their backyard where they had a little olive tree grove. One of the fire faerie's stood at the picket fence dividing the faerie's/witches homes. A tiny butterfly with sharp slanty yellow wings fluttered around her fingers then flew into our backyard. She asked us if there were two lost things of hers in our backyard. The witches replied, tightlipped but courteously "not of their knowledge" but if they were to find anything, they would deliver it to the faerie's dwellings.
Not saying there were feelings of ill will between the neighbors. The witches just spoke like that to everyone. Nor was the fire faerie accusing the witches of stealing. She just said two of her possessions had 'lost' themselves (as magical things are wont to wander). If she thought the witches had stolen. She would have said so.
anyhow
The witches then led me deeper into the olive grove backyard. The faerie's butterfly flittered about. I saw a peach colored bird flying about and the butterfly diving towards it. We watched. Me in interest, the others indifferently. The butterfly swooped down and pinched the bird's tail feathers. the bird froze, and the butterfly started carrying it, held by the tail feathers, back in the direction of the faerie's house.
The boss witch muttered something about forgiving the faerie's for allowing their bird to escape into the witches backyard and of waiving the penalties for trespassing, then told me to help the butterfly take the bird back to it's owners.

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another non-sensorial excerpt:
We built a Lego house, a Lego train, Lego swings, and Lego fighters to fight against a dragon..... ?!?!

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the simpsons - d'oh! [23 Nov 2003|11:45pm]
[ mood | amused ]

I was Bart simpson. With my dad Homer. Something something something

Now I'm Human/Olivia-n again, I'm in a boarding school/institution. Not a normal school though, this place was controlled by a freakishly giant sized woman with a mind more twisted than.. than.. Ms Trunchbull from Matilda (Roald Dahl)
In her school, everyone had to obey her. Everyone wore the same red top, the same blue pants, listened to the same songs etc etc etc. The students all had gray dull skin. Me and a group of other people had snuck into the school to try and rescue it's other inhabitants from imminent doom. And We had to do it quickly before we were caught up/drugged and became one of them

Despite our best efforts, The Headmistress smelt a rat and knew who we were and what we were trying to do.
As a sort of counter attack, she'd started drugging our (very bland, very "nothing"ish) food and water with "drone" pills to turn us into compliant zombies.

My supervisor's back was turned, Esther, who was part of my group from the outside/normal world quickly ran to the cupboard and took out some sugar. I started putting them in our water. At the same time, Esther took some vitamin E pills and stuck them into some orange juice.
We hurriedly gulped down the liquid.
We had taken a drug that made our skins gray so that we'd look like everyone else/pass unnoticed by the headmistress. The Vitamin E helped our bodies cope with the Gray Skin drug, without it, our skin would start (and had already started) peeling off. Rather disgustingly may I add - you could see layers of red skin (1st layer) and under than, green then yellow skin that was slowly but surely scratching off.
I think the sugar was meant to give our brains/tongues a shock and help us resist the "drone" drug..
Anyhow.

fast forward some.

We have escaped the building/institution. We are running about a large group of office blocks, and we're being chased by the people from the school
We run into one of the buildings. It is full of little offices/rooms and they all have Venetian blinds on them.
In each office are salesmen. They don't take any notice of us. In one room, A man is selling triangle rulers and compasses and rubbers and pencils. He has them standing erect on a long table and yelled out " order order oder!" to this other guy who has come to see his wares.
anyhow, In each one, we run to a couch/table and hide, then run out to another office to hide again.

In the last office, which is empty, Esther wiggles under a weirdly shaped "sleeping bag" type couch.
I try and hide underneath another couch only to discover a robber already hiding them.
He looks at me uneasily, afraid I might be one of the people who are going after him.
Across the room/near the door, another of the couch things moves, an arm appears and lifts the couch up to reveal it's owner : a thin Lebanese/Arabian man with a bald head. He wears a crinkled up red flowing top and black shoes (and pants, I would presume...). He wields a gun and cocks it at me.
The man in my couch also has a gun. They bother think I'm going to report them to the authorities and they want to kill me.
I try to tell them I'm running away as well.
That I'm "one of them". They don't believe me.
So, to convince them, I give the one in my couch a haircut.
hahahha
Esther comes out of hiding and holds the hair that I've snipped off. Lot's of it is going down the back of the guy's shirt though, and It's making him really itchy. I tsk tsk and tell him he should have worn a plastic protect-against-hair thingy. He's a bit bummed at my tsking.
But he's pretty stoked about getting a swanky hair cut,
They both don't think we're bad anymore.


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Now I'm Bart again. And I'm on a row boat with Homer. We are paddling down a river, going with the current, which takes us to a waterfall down which we plummet....
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AND THEN I'm on a street in my human/olivian form . Parents are there. Aunts and uncles are there... Dad points at all these super good restaurants we are walking by and everyone decided to start this thing where, every Friday, we go to one of the restaurants to dine/try it out.
I excitedly exclaim that I'm soooo totally up for it.
Mum has a brainwave : "why not WALK all the way to the restaurant from our homes, then walk back afterwards?"
Somebody starts to protest.
mum points out it'll be really easy peasy Japan-easy compared to all the walking /hard labour we had to do at that gray-skinned institution (ref above)
We all agree. But we're going to catch the bus home. We'll walk NEXT week.. haha.

So yes.
In my dream, we are going to walk from like, Yagoona to Leichard and Yagoona to Hurstville etc etc etc (that's 40 or so minutes by car, several months by foot... )
how retarded

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[23 Nov 2003|09:45pm]
[ mood | confused ]

I was riding a motorbike down this long downhill-sloped highway. I sped down.
zooooooom.
but I didn't really know how to slow down.
I think somewhere along the road, I saw some people/wait staff that I met at last week's rugby semi-finals function, so I somehow jumped up, with the bike, so that when I landed, the bike was lying on the ground/unable to stop and I was standing besides it.
One of the guys said he'd teach me how to ride the bike properly.

Then, I was walking around with Kim Catrell (??) that older lady from Sex In the City and some other chick. We (The other person and I) wanted to go up to this high class buffet restaurant to eat Oysters. Kim didn't. So we left her downstairs as we took the lift up to the place.
We got up there and the waiter said it was $129 per person. It ended up being a "We love Kim Catrell fan club/buffet restaurant" type thing so we went back downstairs, made Kim come up with us, and got in for free.
Then we ate some oysters and other stuff.

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zombie sheep and zombie monkeys [09 Nov 2003|12:54pm]
[ mood | exhausted ]
[ music | Smoke City ]

Uncle Ken and Kat and Raymond and Edwin were going to the music man to work. I however, was busing doing TAFE stuff so I didn't go.
Which was rather pointless (staying at home) because I ended up having to go next doors to Ken's (house-sitting)

In side the house was a large meadow/field.
near the door was a river and in the river were fish. These fish could live OUT of water for 4 hours.
The field was full of long grass..It went up to my knees at times, but sometimes it was just 15 cm long and you could see the patchy ground underneath. The field was also (I think) full of sheep/monkeys.
Not your AVERAGE sheep/monkey..these were killer zombie-ish sheep/monkeys (maybe there were sheep & monkies???)
Anyhow. It was super dooper dark. For some reason, even though i was inside a house, I could see the sky. and the field.. it was ENDLESS.

I dotn know why but there were alot of fishes on ythe fields. I had to run up to them and yell out "BOO!" to try and scare them to flop back into the river before they died.
Some looked reallly dead. Patchy skin. No eyeballs. No movement, torn flesh... But when I yelled out "boo!" they flipped about. hmmm.

I spent the whole night there. Running about. Getting VERY tired.. but I couldn't leave without getting all the fish back in the water. And Ken and them weren't back yet.

I was going to be in trouble from mum and dad for not coming home to sleep.
So hopefully, they would think I woke up super early and went somewhere.

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Vampires and coconuts and...two minute noodles. [07 Nov 2003|07:32pm]
[ mood | scared ]

I was a vampire, along with my (real life) cousin vampires edwin and Raymond, and my vampire sister Kat....
We went to a party. But no one was allowed to see us, we snuck around trying to avoid detection.
The place was packed full of people in pretty dresses, suits and glam heels.
Well. not FABULOUS and BEUTIFUL.. sort of borng pretty. nothing eye-catching. i think. But everyone (well, the girls at least) was pretty. And they all had a glass of champers in their hands as they smiled nd laughed and "work the room"-ed
They were all standing in the backard. It was a large hill with golden light streaming from the large house at the top of the hill.
It was dark. In a nice way. There were bamboo flares lighting the place. and at the bottom of the garden, to the left, was a little house/room with blue wash walls. One side was completely open (or was covered with glass).
It lay right next to the wooden fencing. In fact, there was a door leading out of the house/yard from the fencing. We were inside this place. Crouched. Heads cocked at the long pawpaw like coconut rocking gently in the middle of the room. We turned ourselves invisible t avoid detection, but we could still see our fellow vampires. We opened the coconut and drank some of it's seet aromatic juices. mmmm


THEN. we are on the street. It is dusk. We are walking..up and up and up.. we are being followed. we are lost.
we are on an island compound full of ant.
Not normal ants. But ants that were human sized and human intelligence-d but still warrior and brutal and strong like ants... They were like... aztecs.. antrecs!!! haha.. But not so (lame) or funny in my dream.. becuase wewere one thier land and they could sense that, and they would make a meal of us if we didnt run off pronto.
At this point, I dont think we were vampires.. or maybe we were just budding vampires. Devoid of the ability of flight and super human strength.

back on the street again. we kept waslking up the street/ ike Marrickville, Newtown, etc, the streets were narrow and knobbly. Irregular and full of tiny but tall grim-ish houses. They had an asian twist to them. Indeed, when we entered one (to hide from the mob from the party who were after us), pushed from the musty cardboard boxes and ascended the stairs, we were faced with a harware/storage shelf full of two minute noodles and asian pickles and the such.

In another house, there was an asian 'community'. it was open to non asians ofcourse. But it was run by funny but totally un-endearing totally annoying and badly dressed (woolen red, green, yellow ugly knits anyone?) asian women with frizzy i-just-got-electricuted-by-a-disfunctional-time-machine perms.... And they had their sonds in their classes and they babied them and stuff. And they taught yoga.. and maths.... and cleaning (??) and dragon puppet umm performing..
You know those dragon dance things they have at chines new year? with the troupe of drummers? and err. yeha. well. They taught people how to dance/be part of a dragon. eg. wehat to do if you're the "tail", the "middle" the "head" and blabalbla part f the dragon.

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Jack and the beanstalk [02 Nov 2003|01:19pm]
[ mood | rejuvenated ]
[ music | CD 2 of a tango cd. mmmmm ]

MMM. Tried to sleep in today. Was pretending to til dad told me he was going out and if I would kindly launder the clothes. 10:30.
Great. I couldn't even manage 11? (a consequence of waking at 6 every morning for the past 3-4 weeks)

ANHYHOW. I had a rather odd dream which is hard to recollect but here goes:
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I am somewhere with my sister going to Kogarah/home/some place important/comfortable
We pass by a huge outdoor concert. Nikki Webster, the little girl who was in the opening ceremony for the Sydney 2000 Olympics was there about to perform. She spoke like a child. Slurred her words, and was trying to speak with a deep voice to sound more mature.
She held out her CD for all to see ("buy it!" ??)
I'm not sure if anyone really liked her. I for one, thought we should pick her up and chuck her in a very large bin.
So we go on our merry way and pass by an apartment block. it is made of red/maroon bricks and there is a fire staircase going up. 5 floors with 2 windows per floor and a singer or two one each level's fire stairs.
They start to sing a song. Much like the moulin rouge thing : It's pretty good.
Pink is on the 2nd last level. She disappears and reappears in the window. Singing her heart out.

Then. I am with two twins. Singer people. And they are like, half cat half deranged human.
They have a thin strand of rope and they hold on to either end. The rope is connected to a pulley. so it's sort of like a see saw with either girl going up or down. They live on the 3rd floor and are trying to get to the ground.

I hang onto one string and one of the twins on the other end shoots straight up and nearly bashes into the pulley. At the same time, my string slacks and drops to the ground (with me attached).
I land smartly. Like a cat. I look up at the gawping twins. "how'd you do that?"
"umm...I jumped from the end of the rope"
"oh?"
So they do that. Only their rope does not reach the ground so much as mine did, because the other twin is careful to keep a distance from the pulley.
They let go of the rope and go 'splat' on the ground.
I say goodbye and continue walking, after suggesting they get a longer rope.

I walk into a garden which has a wooden swing in it's front yard.
The place is rather pleasant in a sort of spooky way. There a green trees with hanging boughs, softly whispering with the wind. The sky is a murky but pale and calm blue. It is nearly dusk, and things are getting a little dim. A little cooler.
The swing is a little rectangular wooden plank.
On either end is a smartly drilled, perfectly round circle with a long fat twined rope going through it.
the rope goes up. and up. and up. Into the clouds and far away.
A big hulking man appears. He's like a giant. A small petite woman also materialises. I think she has brown hair,. long. in two buns. She is nice.
I ask where they got the rope from (for the swing) as I need some in order to get home
"The string? Oh. Jack got it when he climbed up that thing"
She pointed at a huge beanstalk climbing up to the sky (and far away :P ) a good distance away from us.
Jack, one would assume, was the giant-boy standing to the side. He didn't speak much.

I say "oh. thank you". I cannot afford to climb up the beanstalk. It will take too much time and I will also probably fall off and break my crown. heehee.

I get a piece of white rope from somewhere and tie it to another rope.

Now I am in mortdale with my sister. We must catch the train and I start to buy a ticket but then the train comes. So in I hop. And I've forgotten if I've bought my ticket or not. and I feel around.
It is an express and we get to Lidcombe station in no time at all. Just when I've found my ticket. Lucky lucky me

...
Now. did that dream scram out "cats" the musical" , "moullin rouge", "jack and the beanstalk" and "the adventures of Alice in wonderland" to you or did it not?
Why do all my dreams have some sort of reference to Alice in wonderland? In the whole "journey through a weird ass place. Trying to get home. Nothing makes sense" type way.

Of course, The fact that her adventures in wonderland were, supposedly, but a dream, could have SOME reason to it.

I had some other dreams this weeks which were in the same weird theme. Something involved a large wrinkly outstretched mouth. I cant remember the rest. But they WERE bizarre.

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dancing lions. roar roar [25 Oct 2003|03:39pm]
[ mood | sleepy ]

I was up in the city. Walking around. I had to go home, but the train station was closed! I had to go to another station...
But then it opened again. And I had a train in about 7 minutes but I really really needed to go out to a shop and buy a juice.
I got down to the train station. It was really cold and dark (4:30 am? in a drak dirty part of the city) Dirty in a grubby way. Not a sexual way..
And yeah I had to go underground for the train and the place was bloody PACKED and it was really bad.
Then Suddenly I was at regents park station, standing behind a metal pole, all alone and hiding from bad people.
then *badaboom*
I was at the stupid stupid music man. Working. grrrrr.
And we were stuck for some reason. AND THEN the music man turned into this big arse building and it incorporated uncle Sam/grandparents' house. Raymond, Kat, some other people, and I were in there trying to run away from these baddies who wanted to take us back to the music man.
Oh. and there were giraffes. I don't know where they fit in though.
Maybe it was because the Music Man had a bit of an Africa savannah thing going on: there were gazelles (?) and.. err... mountain goats/sheep... :S and ... GIRAFFES and funny dry looking dark brown bark-ed trees. and the sun was setting and giving the sandy ground a nice red hue.
All the goat things started jumping into an enclosed fence. We were all
"wtf? what the hell are they doing? do they want to die?"
So I had to go up to them and stare and them to make them move. No one else could do it, because the goats would bite/kick them. Only they didn't do it to me because they were cool with me ... ?

Well. Then Sam.. or a "bad guy" can be heard coming into the room, so I tell everyone to quickly run away and that I'll handle everything.

They all begin to run away and I slink into a corner of a room and climb up onto the ceiling (not really climb. I have to use my arms and legs to push againts adjacent walls to keep myself up.)
Two lions come in. Some people are now stuck in the room. The lions want to eat the people, so I have to distract them...
I dance in front of then, avoiding their paws and jaws, but they just bat name away so I climb up onto the ceiling and lie there upside down/crouching/clinging on for dear life and do my best lion impersonation ("roaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar!!!!!!!!!!")

The two tigers look at each other. and they start to dance.
NOT what I had expected (I thought they'd start fighting each other, becuase my roar was a 'challange/throw the gauntlet/bite the thumb" type roar) but hey, at least it worked. Who was I to complain?
They finish dancing and go back to the person so I roar again....and again... and again.... until they realise it is not the other lion roaring for them to dance, but me.
They go back to trying to kill the person, but all of a sudden, the girl lion turns around, roars, and extends her front legs and wiggles her bum in a dancing fashion. The male lion is surprised but pleased. They dance. Then they turn into two scandanavian/russian girls (that look like the sisters of the russian girl who teaches piano at the musicman.)

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The mushroom village [22 Oct 2003|10:59pm]
[ music | Those smoke city people screeching like monkeys... weird. ]

***edited 24th Oct '03***

Jenny and I were somewhere doing something. I think we were in Transylvania. Because there was a lot of purple and black.. very 'Count Dracula" only not Dracula;la... That cartoon with the duck-Dracula? Count Quackula? Eh. I cant remember. Count Duckula!
We'd finished and needed to get home so I called dad who came to pick us up.
We drove down dirt roads. The sun was yellow. The grass was yellow. The dirt was yellow.
Hell. The mangy little car dad drove was yellow!
We were, most obviously, driving in china.
because China is a very yellow country (in my dreams at least). Especially in the rural country areas. and totally so if you're driving through China in the 'olden days', as was our case

So. We drove and drove down the hill through winding roads and the like when we espied a little yellow sand/mud house with a thatched wooden roof.
We walked in to the restaurant/inn (for that's what it was) and sat down on the wobbly knobbly wooden 'communal' bench/ and table and dad looked through the menu and whispered
"woah! this place is really really famous. So their food is really really expensive...."
and then, to the somber waiter/ress who was standing RIGHT next to him, he said
"I'll just have the plain noodles with mushroom please"

Then, I looked at the menu. And it really wasn't THAT much more expensive.. Well. it was. noodles for $9. Which is expensive for Asian stuff with nothing but noodles and (shitake) mushrooms. But European quasi Asian stores get away with selling their noodles for $16 a dish so $9 as opposed to $5 -6 isn't so bad yeah?. I ordered what dad ordered anyway. Jenny probably did the same.
The owner of the inn/restaurant was a stooped little man with white bushy eyebrows and a long charismatic face. His face was a scribble or wrinkles and I have a shot of him in my head; a short balding man with white tufts of hair stiffly yet softly perched upon the sides of his head, looking at us with those crinkly 70% closed eyes, bushy white eyebrows, a huge grin from cheek to cheek, teeth white and bright and in his cupped hands were a mound of uncooked shitake mushrooms... How adorable....
Or so w thought (read on. Read on.)

the noodles were very yummy.
but my brain didn't let me fully enjoy them because it wooshed off to another dream segment.

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We are on a tiny little train. Like. It's up to my knee, height wise. And I don't know how I fit into it.
Everything is rendered in cartoon. Rather jap. anime/spirited away ish
we get off outside a white washed hall and enter.
inside are shelves upon shelves of little clay mushrooms.
We know that the mushrooms are actually people and each shelf is like a mini village. Complete with winding dirt roads, rickshaws, chicken pens, thatched huts and fields and meadows and farms.
I walk up to the mushrooms and inspect them. One little bent mushroom is actually an old woman with an Asian hat on and wrinkly blue robes.
Another is a young boy who looks like he was running before he 'froze'
they are all stock still. unmoving. because Jenny and I are in the room, If we turn our backs to them, they reanimate. when we turn again. They freeze.
So we "turn" then "re-turn" several million times til the mushroom people are used to us and continue on their little mushroom lives and ignore us.
The mushroom people hate the old man owner of the mushroom and noodle inn/restaurant because the man gets all his mushrooms from their villages.
he comes in and grabs handfuls of innocent civilians. Chops them up and serves them with noodles.
Damn. They were tasty little buggers though.... dribble dribble...

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Then we are on the train agin. Only it's gotton even smaller! about 25 cms high!
We get off at another hall thing. And this place has a western cowboy look & feel to it.
I walk in and people are playing pool. They look up at me. I hold out a bottle of grog. I stick it in the freezer which seems to be the only other piece of furniture in the bare yellow floor-ed room besides the pool table and a wobbly round little table with an old faded blue glass vase on top.
They see what I have done. Content, they turn back to their game.
I get back on the train and travel to another cowboy hall.
The same thing happens several more times.
Then. I run out of alcohol. but I go in to check if they have any grog in the fridge which they do.
So i close the door and everyone cheers then goes back to their game.
I have started some sort of 'tradition' whereby all neewcomers to the cowboy halls must open the fridge and check it's contents.
Also. Now. The cowboys stick their grog in the fridge as opposed to letting it go yucky and room-temperature-d standing next to the wall.

Too good.

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