Morning rambling...
Jun. 11th, 2008 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moominmuppetI'm home today, trying to get this flare more under control. Possible I might go in for the afternoon, but I'm not sure yet.
In an attempt to exorcise the demons of my nightmare, though, here's my immediately post-wakeup conversation about it:
I was part of a group of pre-teen boys in a sort of post-apocalyptic world where there were all these fucked up little enclaves with bizarre rules. A lot of psycho conservative "tough love" camp type places.
Lots of trying to run away, just to end up at another that was fucked up in another way.
Lots of threats, and abuse, and freaky shit. When I finally woke up the last time, they'd just caught us again, and I still had a duffel bag, a small bag, and a hampster in a box. The psycho head of the place was going to kill the hamster as punishment.
The place before that was around a lake, with lots of alligators. I think I was a girl there, actually. Odd how that kept changing. But the paths around the lake were set up to trap kids and keep them from running away. I remember wrestling with a medium-sized alligator.
And I can't even blame it on some fucked up scifi movie in the background, either. I was sleeping to Countdown.
No idea where it came from.
(I was successful against the alligator, though -- it pays not to be afraid of animals, and to have a lot of experience with reptiles)
The problem was getting a good heft on it to throw it far enough into the water while still holding its jaws closed 'til the last possible moment.
And in the last place we were, there were all sorts of rules that they wouldn't tell us, about how far we could go from the main compound before bad things happened to us. Somehow we ended up sitting in a convertible in the woods watching a DVD on this TV in an entertainment center out there.
Hmmm. I suspect a chunk of it is from X-2, actually... That's the last thing I watched or that was on my mind about teens in danger/on the run.
The woods theme is probably from Kenyon, at least in part.
Not sure about any of the rest.
Huh. Reminds me of another weird element. In at least one of the places, there was some sort of visible distinction between teens who'd been deemed old enough to have sex, and had, and those who hadn't. I remember that coming up with one of the other kids.
It's a lot more elaborate, and thematically relatively different from most of my dreams.
Usually my brain has the subtlety of a brick.
Floods and disasters aren't uncommon themes, but it's usually during the disaster. Had a rather interesting one about a town that'd flooded, and all the large constrictors were loose in the water. I was trying to catch them/rescue them.
I remember a gorgeous albino burmese floating past at one point.
Dream symbolism guides always make me giggle. The idea that the same images mean the same thing to all people strikes me as complete idiocy.
Snakes mean totally different things to me than to most people.
Represent different things. Usually caretaking, actually.
How on earth the symbolism could be static between a person who has a phobia, or whose primary interaction with snakes is culturally normative, and a person who's loved them her entire life, and had multiple as pets...
(I was the kid who got in fistfights at summer camp to defend the spiders in our cabin)
There's something oddly halloweenish about my critter preferences; I love bats, spiders, and snakes.
And in 4th grade, I carried The Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians everywhere, and had it close to memorized (I also have a ridiculous fondness for salamanders; had a lot as pets as a kid)
I was utterly fascinated with the Japanese Giant Salamander, which could grow up to four feet long.
And the current collapse of the amphibian population is hugely upsetting to me on a personal, as well as environmental level.
In an attempt to exorcise the demons of my nightmare, though, here's my immediately post-wakeup conversation about it:
I was part of a group of pre-teen boys in a sort of post-apocalyptic world where there were all these fucked up little enclaves with bizarre rules. A lot of psycho conservative "tough love" camp type places.
Lots of trying to run away, just to end up at another that was fucked up in another way.
Lots of threats, and abuse, and freaky shit. When I finally woke up the last time, they'd just caught us again, and I still had a duffel bag, a small bag, and a hampster in a box. The psycho head of the place was going to kill the hamster as punishment.
The place before that was around a lake, with lots of alligators. I think I was a girl there, actually. Odd how that kept changing. But the paths around the lake were set up to trap kids and keep them from running away. I remember wrestling with a medium-sized alligator.
And I can't even blame it on some fucked up scifi movie in the background, either. I was sleeping to Countdown.
No idea where it came from.
(I was successful against the alligator, though -- it pays not to be afraid of animals, and to have a lot of experience with reptiles)
The problem was getting a good heft on it to throw it far enough into the water while still holding its jaws closed 'til the last possible moment.
And in the last place we were, there were all sorts of rules that they wouldn't tell us, about how far we could go from the main compound before bad things happened to us. Somehow we ended up sitting in a convertible in the woods watching a DVD on this TV in an entertainment center out there.
Hmmm. I suspect a chunk of it is from X-2, actually... That's the last thing I watched or that was on my mind about teens in danger/on the run.
The woods theme is probably from Kenyon, at least in part.
Not sure about any of the rest.
Huh. Reminds me of another weird element. In at least one of the places, there was some sort of visible distinction between teens who'd been deemed old enough to have sex, and had, and those who hadn't. I remember that coming up with one of the other kids.
It's a lot more elaborate, and thematically relatively different from most of my dreams.
Usually my brain has the subtlety of a brick.
Floods and disasters aren't uncommon themes, but it's usually during the disaster. Had a rather interesting one about a town that'd flooded, and all the large constrictors were loose in the water. I was trying to catch them/rescue them.
I remember a gorgeous albino burmese floating past at one point.
Dream symbolism guides always make me giggle. The idea that the same images mean the same thing to all people strikes me as complete idiocy.
Snakes mean totally different things to me than to most people.
Represent different things. Usually caretaking, actually.
How on earth the symbolism could be static between a person who has a phobia, or whose primary interaction with snakes is culturally normative, and a person who's loved them her entire life, and had multiple as pets...
(I was the kid who got in fistfights at summer camp to defend the spiders in our cabin)
There's something oddly halloweenish about my critter preferences; I love bats, spiders, and snakes.
And in 4th grade, I carried The Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians everywhere, and had it close to memorized (I also have a ridiculous fondness for salamanders; had a lot as pets as a kid)
I was utterly fascinated with the Japanese Giant Salamander, which could grow up to four feet long.
And the current collapse of the amphibian population is hugely upsetting to me on a personal, as well as environmental level.
