dreamin'

[arethinn]

Really odd and somewhat intense, realistic (although still bizarre) multilayered dream(s) last night. Dominant images I remember are a pond in a yard (?) that was gradually getting dirtier, and I wondered how one cleaned a backyard pond, but it was a few koi in it and was attracting larger and larger numbers of frogs of all sizes as time went on in the dream (every time I saw the pond it had more frogs). At several points there were two giant snakes (20-30 feet? and thick around), one black and one white, who were wrestling or fighting in it (reminds me of Merlin and the red and white wyrms under Vortigern's tower). Many other parts of the dream involved being in some kind of simulator? VR thing? where I was viewing scenes created by kaidevis that largely resembled the indoor queue areas for Space Mountain, crossed with the TNG Enterprise in "red alert" status and some various other futuristicky kinds of things... lots of glowing panels and dim neon or LED things against lots of black. The dominant colours were blue, purple, and magenta. On some occasions when I was in that area of the dream, there was a big screen at the front, on which the two fighting snakes were seen, the black one acquiring kaidevis's head sometimes, and other times its head morphing into other people (none I can recall) or various sort of mutated, monstrous heads/faces. Sometimes the snake-fighting was its own immersive "VR world", sort of hovering over an ocean with a feeling of being computer-generated, rather than the organic experience of standing next to the pond, or the television-like feel of watching it on the screen.

Coming out of the building where all this was happening, it was the back door of some kind of theater like place, although the feeling of being the building housing a theme park ride was quite strong as well, like I had come out of Star Tours or something. But now it was opening night for The Matrix, but it was also a stage production somehow as well as a movie, and a somewhat bedraggled and younger-looking Keanu had showed up for the photo-op beforehand as well as to act his part on stage (but it was being filmed at the same time). I was apparently part of the crew for this and was standing next to him behind a long folding table, turning first one way and then the other as people took pictures of this big group of people. Later I was in the same spot talking to a girl friend (who does not exist in real life), sitting down on folding chairs, and saying something about us having had hands on each other's hips (conga-line style) during the photo shooting.

Other tidbits I can't well place now: Guy following me around trying to flirt with me, not getting the message I wasn't interested. I recall trying to hit him at various points to get him to go the fuck away, but was somehow not able to summon the strength (or anger) to actually put any force behind the blows. (This actually happens a lot in dreams where I try to physically harm someone - I haul off for the punch, but somewhere between that and the skin contact, the force just vanishes, even though I still want to hit them. It's like I feel I can't express anger and am "not allowed" to fight back against things I don't like.) Persian girl with last name of "Hfan" (or something; not a real name, as far as I know) which got translated into "Hrafn" when I was in that semi-conscious state after the alarm clock.

The bits with kaidevis as the head on a black snake, sometimes with quite evil aspect, were really odd. I have no idea where my brain came up with all that.