Saturday, September 25, 2004

Family of Thinkers: Scrolls Cry in His Eyes

Early on in the dream, I'm not sure where I started out, but I wound up at this family's house. This family was supposed to be someone I knew. They were a very intelligent family, and they played lots of "brain games" that required a higher intelligence to accomplish the tasks set forth in the games. Originally I wasn't really there to see them, but I was supposed to be there without their knowing. I was moving around there house fairly quietly, but in odd ways.

The house was situated out in the woods a fairly good drive from the city. It was a very open and woodsy house, though it was contemporary and finished nicely inside. Anyway, when I was moving around from point to point inside the house, I was doing so on instruction from some girl. I think the girl was supposed to be Alyssa, the "good catch" that Matthew knows from school. I think it may have even been her family that owned the house.

It was strange moving around from room to room at first, because to sneak around the way I was supposed to go, the rooms would suddenly seem suspended by large cables or even bolts that hung from the ceiling, and then I was supposed to swing from support to support to get from room to room. It was like I was in between rooms, almost like being in the walls, but the empty space between the rooms was several feet. Also, when I was in between rooms, there looked like there were no walls on any of the rooms, but once I was in a room, it looked normal.

It started out as night time, and as I said, no one except for Alyssa knew I was there. Somehow, though, I wasn't careful enough, and the mom figured out that I was there. She was this average looking blond woman with long hair. She was tall and thin, and as with the rest of the family, very intelligent.

After she found out I was there, she was meeting me in room after room as I traveled. It almost seemed like a tour of the home. Throughout the course of events, I eventually met Alyssa's two [slightly] younger brothers. They were busy playing some sort of intelligence games. I think that's where I first got the concept of these high intelligence games that the family played. I watched them for a bit, and then I kept moving around.

The dad had been at work, but then he finally showed up, and he came into the kitchen and was having a cup of coffee. He was dressed in a button down white shirt and dress slacks, and he had a briefcase. Him and the mom started talking for a bit, but she knew it was better for the dad to not find out I was there, so I was hovering outside of the floating structure of the room to listen to the conversation. I forget what was being talked about, but I moved again, trying to swing to the kitchen in order to make it to a different room, but he caught me as I did. He wasn't upset or anything, like I thought he would be. After the whole family knew I was there, I just moved around the house like they did, by walking.

I think I met their dog(s) which were something like yellow labs. I think I went in and talked to the dad again at some point when I felt that I should leave, since it was now getting light out, and he mentioned something to me and Alyssa. I think he was giving us instructions on what to do if he were to die. In my mind, he showed me the house that I needed to go to, and the man I needed to see, and I remember him telling Alyssa what she needed to say to the man to prove that she knew him and wasn't just trying to use him after her father's death.

A long space of time went by where I don't remember much of anything, but I finally went outside of the house, and it was very hilly and woodsy, but there was a street right outside of the house at the end of the driveway. I think I had driven Em's (wife) car down there from the house, but by the time I actually go down there, I was walking. There were a bunch of people down there, and they were all supposed to be working on the road and the surrounding area for landscaping. Something about them, though, I knew that they weren't really workers as they were with some strange cult. The "main" guy had long-ish hair, that was messy, and he was dusty all over as if he had been working on sanding drywall. He reminded me a bit of Charles Manson, but that wasn't who it was supposed to be. Whoever it was, I knew him in the dream, but I can't remember him outside of it.

Somehow the father had died while I was out there, and all these people had suddenly thought that he was theirs for the taking. I had to "fight" them about it for a while, but I finally go them to lay their hands off, and I did something with him that allowed me to pack him into a small box, like an ice cream carton. I knew that I had to go find this guy that he had showed to us in the "vision" with Alyssa.

I had him and I had traveled quite a way, and I had gotten lost. I didn't really know where I was, but I felt like I had taken a wrong turn somewhere and wound up in a completely wrong place from where I was supposed to be. Alyssa, who was now looking a bit more like Pink (the *cough* singer), was with me, and she just kind of jumped ahead and disappeared for a bit.

I then saw things from her eyes for a short time. She was trying to convince this guy that she was supposed to bring him her father when he passed away, but the guy was being a real dick about it. She tried to recite the words that her dad had given her, but she wasn't able to remember them exactly, and so she wound up saying things like "He has crows in his eyes", and hoping that would work on the guy. The guy thought she was talking gibberish and threatened to call the police, or worse, to take care of her himself.

Then I was in my own perspective again. She came back and said that she had found the man that her father had requested. I went around the corner (we were inside, but still outside, so it was like turning the corner in a large hallway, but it wasn't quite it) and to my right was the guy standing in the door like the father had shown us. I went up to the guy with the ice cream carton that was about half full of rapidly melting ice cream, and I used a scoop to dig some of it up and move some of it around to show it to the guy, and I told him who it was. He said, "So he wanted you put put him here just because my house is so cold!" I thought that the dad didn't want to melt!

I was trying to think of a way to get the Pink to recite the words that her dad had said, but I couldn't do it and let the guy know that I knew anything about it. We had pretty much given up hope, and we had started to leave after the guy was all pissed at us and laughing at us to leave, when the girl suddenly stopped in the middle of the hallway (even though we were supposed to be outside, we were walking through what seemed to be a hallway heading out of a bedroom that had a mirrored closet to our left as we were leaving) and she quietly recited the words. She said "Scrolls cry in his eyes."

The guy jumped, and he shouted, "What!!" Suddenly everything went dark, and there was a sound that echoed around. (it reminded me of when everything goes dark in Diablo for the Claw Viper Temple quest). I turned to my left, and I saw the mirrored closet (at more of a distance of about 15 feet) shimmer and move, almost like they were being fixed and melting together from being broken.

The girl turned past me to my left, and suddenly she was supposed to be the guy, but still looked like her. Her face contorted, and her back was to me. She got sucked into the glass, and slammed up against the far wall (which had been a reflection previously, but her words acted like a spell that caused it to be a room that acted as a jail) She bumped into me as she got sucked in, and the wall she was against was now only about 2 or 3 feet away from me.

She turned her head quickly to the left side, and she bared her teeth. She now had fangs, and she flung her left hand up and against the wall. I saw her nails turn black and grow out like claws, and I noticed that the pants and tube-top she was wearing went black (I don't know what colors they were before) and turned to leather. Also, her eyes went completely black. Somehow this trapped the guy and I was supposed to get the father inside the house. To see such a change in the girl, combined with the sound, wound up frightening me terribly, and scared me awake.

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