I am going to share a dream I had last night with all of you, mainly because it's one of the weirdest dreams I've had in a long time. Also, it is now officially a recurring dream, so that makes it special. A celebration is in order.
Dream:
I am at my school, Whitman College, and all the buildings are about three times their normal size and height. The library is about the size of the Seattle Public Library, etc. As I wander through campus with some friends, I notice that there is an unusually large amount of people gathering near the the athletic center, which is roughly the size of a large office building. Thousands of people are gathered around, many of them running past me to see what is going on around the corner. For some reason, I don't follow the crowd, and instead go into the library and look at children's books, and then I browse the gift shop.(Whitman's library has no gift shop, only a crappy coffee dispenser and an old microwave for heating up frozen burritos) My curiosity gets the best of me, but for whatever reason I don't want to leave the library so I ride an elevator up several stories until my line of sight clears the athletic center and I can see what the large crowd is gathering for. It turns out the crowd has gathered to see a rather large, living dinosaur. It looks like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but is again about three times larger, making it tower over the buildings around it and making the people gathered below it look like ants. The thing about this dinosaur is that it doesn't look really natural. It looks like it is a totem pole dinosaur...like it was illustrated by a native American from the Pacific Northwest.
So, this strange looking dinosaur is PISSED that it is on display for thousands of gawkers. As only happens in dreams, the second I notice that the dinosaur is secured rather poorly with a surprisingly thin rope around its neck, the rope breaks. The people don't seem to mind. They keep gawking. I am standing on the 30th floor of the huge library, and the dinosaur, as only happens in dreams, looks directly at me and beings to approach the library, completely ignoring the thousands of people who are still calmly watching the dinosaur leave the secured area and start charging a building. I immediately panic and do what anyone else would do who was in an elevator staring at an oversized dinosaur charging at them. I hit "B" on the elevator's glowing buttons, and the elevator carried me to the basement of the library. I started walking down a concrete hallway lit by dim and flickering fluorescent lights, and I wake up.
I used to have my own recurring dream where a cartoon-ish dinosaur chased me through the Von Trapp mansion from the Sound of Music while the ball went on downstairs. After a seemingly endless session of life-or-death hide-and-seek, I end up pressing myself to the bottom of my grandmother's bathtub when the crystal doorknob turns and a huge dinosaur eye sweeps the room. Only milliseconds before I am spotted, I wake up. The end.
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