12-06-2010 - REALLY LONG DREAM WARNING, this one took twice as many notes as usual to try and remember things, and tied in to several other dreams as well as real life stuff. I enjoyed it greatly, even if it didn't have any really wow sci-fi elements or anything.
Am at some kind of beach / pool / waterpark area with Keith Thompson, and we're just running around having some fun, splashing about and stuff. This part was the farthest back, so it is the hardest to remember, but a cross between boating and aquarium type of stuff. Soon running back to another part of the area, and I'm running on narrow strips of land in between gridded sections of pools or lakes ... very video game kind of feel.
I am expecting to see worms and snakes and alligators appearing on the narrow path in front of me, since it would be kind of hard to avoid them here [I think this bit is based on my conversation with Jayel here on the dream forum, just last night], but oddly enough, for once in my dreams, none of the critters end up materializing.
The area ends up turning into the Eisenhower Park stream / Knotts Lagoon area that I frequently dream about (last time here) and I am moving from the southeast corner heading west along the bottom of the area. [This dream covers the same portion of the 'route,' but in the opposite direction, and seeing different things. Fun.]
As I make my way west, the narrow path near lake motif changes to more running alongside a mountain path that seems to more match my early Cadet hike / 33 cave dreams, and I'm just jogging along slightly south of the mountains, themselves, on a bit of a dry California desert kind of a trail. It seems like a bit of an earthquake sort of area, and the ground is shaking a fair bit.
Smart thing to do would usually be to back away from the mountain and get more into a flatland sort of area to avoid falling rocks and things, but that just doesn't feel like the right kind of thing to do, so I go with my gut, and am running in closer to the mountains, right near the base of the cliff area. As I get closer, it is turning for cliffs into houses surrounded by wooden fences, and everything is still shaking.
The area, game, whatever it is, is starting to speak to me, wanting to know why I am getting closers to the cliff / houses, and trying to get me to second-guess myself, though it doesn't say my gut feeling is wrong, and it seems to be kind of an Easter Island / Tiki thing that talking to me with the voice of the statue from Night at the Museum ("Dum Dum"), which is kind of funny.
I kind of push through the cliff / housing / wooded area to reach the west side of the 'path' and start heading north, and it turns to driving on a highway (perhaps I-4 East approaching WDW?). I have no idea what I am driving, car, cycle, or switching between. I am there, but I don't really see myself. It is almost like a driving game, switching lanes to pass vehicles, but I soon find myself having to dodge around an accident scene.
Something that is almost a hook-and-ladder fire truck which is kind of towing a motorcycle has flipped on it's side and is lightly burning. I can see the people from the front of the vehicle are fine, and I can see the guy on the motorcycle portion has removed his helmet and his seat belt, and is just crawling out of his chair. Though he has been slightly hurt and is bleeding a little, he also seems to be mostly OK. Since nobody is seriously hurt, I drive around the accident scene and continue up the road.
I have approached Pleasure Island, and at a bank right on the edge of the island, itself, I find myself meeting up with Holly from the FCM conventions and a couple of her friends. She explains they are waiting on a friend being kind of towed in on a motorcycle, and offers me an orange hard candy out of a small Altoids-type tin. I pull out my own and offer around the lime flavor, and Dumbledore pulls out his with (of course) the lemon drops.
I explain to them about the accident, saying it may be a while, but reassure them everyone seemed to be OK, and as I have just finished telling them about it, the whole thing pulls up next to us. Holly leads me over, wanting to introduce me, and explains to them that I was kind enough to pass on word about the accident, but that nobody seemed to be hurt, and they are friendly, but don't really bring me in with them for whatever they all are doing. They start heading off, and I am kind of following them when I realize I need to stop for a minute for a bathroom break.
I head into a restroom, bumping a guy on the way, and apologize to him for it. I make my way into the stall, and start about my business with a urinal, when the guy I just bumped into slams the door open so it bumps me, and kind of makes it clear he did it because I had the nerve to bump into him. I apologize again and exit the restroom.
As I am walking away, I am in the parking lot area in front of the office at Savanna High, and it is evening. I stop to tie my shoe, and am playing some hand-held video game that seems to be a cross between Realmz and the original Zelda (the dream version that I've played while asleep in the past), and the thing that I am carrying has several spell books which may also be the various Harry Potter books.
I cast the spell which creates an item which is a cross between the ring which causes me to only take 1/4 the damage per hit and the stone which gives me super strength to move rocks, and I am thinking creating it with a spell is much easier than having to go move the frozen soldiers around level three to get it. Weird.
Meanwhile, I've just cast that while tying my shoe and am in the middle of standing up when the idiot from the bathroom comes roaring past me on a powerful motor scooter. He's trying to run me over, but just misses me, and plows into a lake. I try to ignore him and walk along, but he makes a second attempt. I dodge slightly and he is in the lake again. He repeats, I repeat, and a third splash, and I am thinking if this keeps up, I am going to miss dodging one of these times and he is going to hit me, so I run down a couple of side streets, trying to distance myself from him.
I find myself on the little roads that are a cross between London, Cambridge, a shopping mall and Disney's Main Street that I have dreampt about at least a couple of times before. (maybe sometime I will find notes from one of them and be able to post it here.) I am walking down the slightly older, slightly smaller streets, crowded with people, and am dodging around the weird statue-like announcer guy, when I decide to duck into an old bookstore.
I am looking through the bookstore, and see lots of Harry Potter books, and I realize they have released an eighth book, though it is a lot smaller than the others (but like the Jordan prequel New Spring, not the really tiny Beedle the Bard from Rowling) though I am not going to get it.
As I move further in the bookstore, I find I am exiting the B-Dalton Books downstairs at the Buena Park Mall, and as I step out, I find I am holding a copy of the book. I didn't mean to take it, so I hand it to the employee setting up a display at the front of the store, and start to walk off. I start up the escalator, and a package drops in my hands. It is about four copies of the book wrapped in plastic. I am unwrapping them and dropping them in a nearby shopping cart for the bookstore while Daniel Radcliffe is dressed up as Harry Potter and complaining about he can't believe they are doing this again, though I can tell he's not serious in his complaint.
As I get off the escalator upstairs, I find myself in kind of a mini food court seating area that doesn't exist in the actual mall, and I am suddenly being confronted by four mall security guards who are accusing me of stealing from the bookstore. I think one of them is Tony DeNosso from NCIS.
I say I haven't stolen anything, and I have nothing on me. Arnold Jackson chuckles, and says it is a good thing he has his backpack, and opens it to show one of the Harry Potter books. Tony has turned into a cross between Horatio (CSI Miami) and Jane from the Mentalist, and one of his partners is the brunette from that show indicating she has something stolen from the show as well.
Turns out they want me to help them in a test of mall security or something, so we're walking toward May Company, swapping good lines back and forth. They are really good lines, so I wish I could remember them, but that's just a little too detailed for my mind to remember. We're just heading out the doors toward La Palma right next to the May Company, when mall security confronts us. I think it is the blond from the Mentalist. She doesn't bother me, but is telling the others that they are in trouble, but suddenly she seems to catch on to what is going on, and whines something like "You're going to pull badges now and tell me I don't have a collar, aren't you?" and she's not happy.
