Monday, September 17, 2007

ASCII Powered Swords

I was out in the middle of this wooded area, and there was a river or stream near by. There were two people there, and though they were dressed in a contemporary way (khakhis or nice jeans, button-up or polo shirts) they were wielding swords. I'm not sure, but I may have been one of the people.

While they were sword fighting, they were in and around the river. Either the river was very shallow, or they were walking on water. I think there was a combination of the two.

During the fighting, the fighters started to "power up" their swords by using ASCII (alphanumeric and symbols) characters. One of them specifically used a "@", and it seemed to float out from the end of the sword, but it acted as if it was connected. There seemed to be some sort of glowing field around it that held it in place. Somehow these characters were supposed to make the swords stronger and the fighters better.

Unfortunately I don't know the outcome of the fight because the dream ended.

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Gifts from Bryan

I'm not exactly sure how or where this one started, but I was out in this country area, and there were one or two large trees near by. I was there in my car, but I don't know why I was there. While I was there, Bryan (the guy from VA to stalked me nine years ago) showed up in his little blue CRX. Needless to say, I wasn't pleased to see him.

He had a round chocolate bundt cake with him, and he offered it to me. I was afraid of making him mad, so I took it and grudgingly thanked him. I think I was there with him for a bit longer. I didn't want to seem rude by wanting to leave, but at the same time I just wanted to get out of there. He kept offering me gifts, such as Nintendo GameCube games and controllers.

Eventually I was able to leave. I drove around through the country a bit. It seems there was a vague sense of getting out of the car every so often and looking around. There were lots of hills and trees and rivers/ponds around, and little bits of towns. It seemed like there was a lot around me, but at the same time it was fairly spread out.

I finally got back "home", which was a lot like a combination of Mike's (former step-father) house and my elementary school library. I was in this library type area, and Em (wife) was there. There was a TV setup just to the left of the door as I walked in, and there was either a bed or a sofa right in front of it, leaving about four feet of space between. It was on an old rickety TV stand that looked like it was made out of thin fiberboard, and it had the feel of being made in the 70s.

I sat down on the floor in front of the TV and talked to Em about what had happened. While doing so, we were eating the cake and trying out the games or controllers. I'm not sure if it was said, or if we were just thinking it, but we wondered how safe this stuff was. Was the cake poisoned? Was there something wrong with the games or controllers that was going to harm us or break our stuff? We had a feeling not to trust anything that came from Bryan, but at the same time he had been so nice this time around, and it didn't seem like he wanted to hurt us.

We didn't make a decision before I woke up.