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An awesome, vivid dream
13 years ago
From my dream diary night to 3rd April 2012. It was such a vivid dream that I had difficulty to get all the details recorded before it faded, but thanks to a well worked-on habit I got to record my dreams, I think I got this one recorded pretty much in its fullness. Some things do not entirely seem to hang together, but I think that this one ended up surprisingly consistent still. I might have unintentionally filled in on the dream as I was writing it up to make it readable, but I have as far as possible made sure that the dream got recorded in its original state, unmodified by post processing. Also, please bear with me that English is not my primary language (or even second), but I translated it as well as I could.
April 3rd, 2012:
It was taking place in an independent state that consisted just of a land mass that was probably no bigger than a small theme park would be, surrounded by a large city. It was really a state in a city, like the Vatican is, but surrounded by huge fences, and managed in the same way as North Korea. Their supreme leader had achieved godhood in the eyes of his followers and he had a large army of eastern dragons whom served him. In a way, they seemed like they were mindless beasts in the beginning of the dream, but yet not. They performed really complex tasks, but performed them in a way that seemed as if they were programmed to perform them. There were also a huge lot of soldiers. The dragon's and the soldiers tasks seemed mostly to keep population supressed and keeping them from fleeing across the huge wall to freedom. Aside from the terrible rule, the place was really beautiful. There were also tigers in what looked like enormous bird-like cages. Their main task seemed mostly to be intimidating. The place was like a huge garden with water deep down in ravines and trees hanging over. The buildings were old chinese style, as far as I can tell.
Somehow I ended up in there and I got to know that the supreme leader of the "prison state" wanted gifted people for completing his super weapon, but I never got to know what it was in the end. I can not either remember how I ended up there, but as far as I could tell, it was something about that I was a gifted person who had the knowledge needed for this super weapon. I attended to a disiplination meeting, where many people sat down while the leader spoke to us. We were forced to do kowtow and the dragons demonstrated by eating one of the people there who refused to kowtow, so in the end everyone did so without questioning. I, however, refused to bow down to him as well, but as the guards ordered the dragons to demonstrate again what happen to those who break the laws, the dragons just looked at me and suddenly they did not seem to be mindless beasts. But the moment lasted short and they were on their patrolling again, as if I had not been there. The guards seemed confused at this and I was forgotten in the crowd after the others there had finished grovelling.
The meeting was done, and I can not remember really what it was about, but it seemed like its main purpose was that the supreme leader had to prove his god-hood in fairly lame ways, such as that he could slide around on the ground without moving at all and that he could hover on the spot while also sitting. It was really like cheap tricks used by illusionists. Afterwards I walked around at the place, looking at the place and trying to forget I was a prisoner there. For some reason I met Kent Ove and Thorbjørn there, of all people. They seemed to be quite the merry bunch, drinking beer and listening to music. I talked a bit with them and they said they were having all these amazing adventures in their sea-plane, going pretty much all over the world with it. For some reason the plane was stuck above, though, like a helicopter. I do not remember much of the talk, but eventually they seemed like they were ready to move on and climbed up the rope ladder to the plane and flew off. I wished a lot that I could have joined them, but something prevented me.
By now it had turned to be night and the place was fairly ok lit up, however, the light kept flickering on and off at random intervals, as if the power supply was struggling. I met some other guy there, who seemed like he were kind of edgy and paranoid. He was clothed like a brittish World War I soldier but he was stammering and impossible to talk with. Some of the guard soldiers took note of us and they charged at this WWI soldier I was talking with. I tried to run after him because I wanted to know what he was doing there, but he dived off a walking-bridge into the water and seemingly disappeared. I stood there looking down in the water, a bit apart from the shouting soldiers, and I was sure I could spot a light flick on and off for a short moment, a bit as if someone had opened an underwater hatch. I immediately thought it could be my escape, but at the moment I tried to get away. The soldiers where disiplining a dragon, who seemed to not like that at all.
As I walked past one of the tiger cages, I saw that one of the people there fed them with dead mice, and I thought to myself what a horrible place this really was and that I had to free the people who were locked in there. I randomly walked into two people who were hidden in a building, and my intuision instantly told me these were spies. I grabbed one of them, who looked quite pale and frightened in his face when I faced him. I was surprised at myself that I was able to lift him with one hand just like that too. I fumbled a bit with my words, but managed to tell him I knew they were spies and wanted to know if there were ways out and into this place. They took a short time to gather themselves and one of them nodded a lot and the other one shook his head. Then, they looked at each others and the one who was nodding his head now shook it while the one who shook his head nodded. It was a bit comical so I gave a laugh, and this seemed to make them calm down and they said that there was, but I had to make sure to keep it all quiet. They were spies in there to find out about this super weapon. I told them I was supposed to work on it, but I had no idea what the weapon was yet, nor did I want to find out. I just wanted to free this place of its tyrannic rule. They tried to talk me into helping them, but somehow I managed to talk them into helping me instead. After all, if this place was freed, there was no longer any super weapon to worry about.
We made a plan, but unfortunately I can not recall at all what it was about, but my part involved to be a distraction and interact with the dragons, and their part had something to do with freeing the tigers. The spies told that the dragons where following an ancient rule that they could only break free of if it was broken, and for some reason I was the key to break it. They said the dragons acted differently around me, and I was the only one who were able to have any kind of two-way communication with them, even if it was just looking at each others. The dragons otherwise treated everyone who was not under the direct influence of the supreme leader as mindless animals. I walked off to do my part of the plan, which was to round up some of the civilians who were there and create some sort of distraction for the soldiers and the dragons. It did not take long before I had made a big enough distraction. The soldiers took note of me again and they just ran towards me, shouting things I could not understand. I ran off and had the soldiers after me while they kept shouting. The dragons reacted to this at first, but they quickly gave up the chase as they saw it was me being chased. The soldiers caught up with me and they cut me at several places with their bayonets. For some reason I did not bleed or hurt, though, and after a short moment the soldiers backed off and it did not take long til they were out of sight. Suddenly I was in my Elmandrian dragon body and it felt really great. The soldiers shouted again, and this time I could understand them, they shouted for the tiger cages to be opened. My keen sight could spot them in the distance and I saw that the tiger cages were empty. I hurried over to where the civilians and the dragons were and the soldiers shouted for the dragons to attack me again, but they just looked at each others, then spoke for the first time in my dream, saying something about that the ancient rule was broken and that they no longer would take any orders from their leader, which they called something I can not recall. Suddently it became a lot of life there, people were running everywhere, towards the huge gates at the wall that encircled the whole place. The dragons attacked all the soldiers and killed those who chosed to oppose them. Some of the dragons tore down the enormous gates as if they were nothing and the people ran out, shouting from joy and excitedment. I flew up and settled down on top of a building's roof to be away from the commotion that happened below, and I felt very happy and quite content with myself. Helicopters suddenly filled up the air too and it became quite noisy, and at this point I woke up.
~Etath
April 3rd, 2012:
It was taking place in an independent state that consisted just of a land mass that was probably no bigger than a small theme park would be, surrounded by a large city. It was really a state in a city, like the Vatican is, but surrounded by huge fences, and managed in the same way as North Korea. Their supreme leader had achieved godhood in the eyes of his followers and he had a large army of eastern dragons whom served him. In a way, they seemed like they were mindless beasts in the beginning of the dream, but yet not. They performed really complex tasks, but performed them in a way that seemed as if they were programmed to perform them. There were also a huge lot of soldiers. The dragon's and the soldiers tasks seemed mostly to keep population supressed and keeping them from fleeing across the huge wall to freedom. Aside from the terrible rule, the place was really beautiful. There were also tigers in what looked like enormous bird-like cages. Their main task seemed mostly to be intimidating. The place was like a huge garden with water deep down in ravines and trees hanging over. The buildings were old chinese style, as far as I can tell.
Somehow I ended up in there and I got to know that the supreme leader of the "prison state" wanted gifted people for completing his super weapon, but I never got to know what it was in the end. I can not either remember how I ended up there, but as far as I could tell, it was something about that I was a gifted person who had the knowledge needed for this super weapon. I attended to a disiplination meeting, where many people sat down while the leader spoke to us. We were forced to do kowtow and the dragons demonstrated by eating one of the people there who refused to kowtow, so in the end everyone did so without questioning. I, however, refused to bow down to him as well, but as the guards ordered the dragons to demonstrate again what happen to those who break the laws, the dragons just looked at me and suddenly they did not seem to be mindless beasts. But the moment lasted short and they were on their patrolling again, as if I had not been there. The guards seemed confused at this and I was forgotten in the crowd after the others there had finished grovelling.
The meeting was done, and I can not remember really what it was about, but it seemed like its main purpose was that the supreme leader had to prove his god-hood in fairly lame ways, such as that he could slide around on the ground without moving at all and that he could hover on the spot while also sitting. It was really like cheap tricks used by illusionists. Afterwards I walked around at the place, looking at the place and trying to forget I was a prisoner there. For some reason I met Kent Ove and Thorbjørn there, of all people. They seemed to be quite the merry bunch, drinking beer and listening to music. I talked a bit with them and they said they were having all these amazing adventures in their sea-plane, going pretty much all over the world with it. For some reason the plane was stuck above, though, like a helicopter. I do not remember much of the talk, but eventually they seemed like they were ready to move on and climbed up the rope ladder to the plane and flew off. I wished a lot that I could have joined them, but something prevented me.
By now it had turned to be night and the place was fairly ok lit up, however, the light kept flickering on and off at random intervals, as if the power supply was struggling. I met some other guy there, who seemed like he were kind of edgy and paranoid. He was clothed like a brittish World War I soldier but he was stammering and impossible to talk with. Some of the guard soldiers took note of us and they charged at this WWI soldier I was talking with. I tried to run after him because I wanted to know what he was doing there, but he dived off a walking-bridge into the water and seemingly disappeared. I stood there looking down in the water, a bit apart from the shouting soldiers, and I was sure I could spot a light flick on and off for a short moment, a bit as if someone had opened an underwater hatch. I immediately thought it could be my escape, but at the moment I tried to get away. The soldiers where disiplining a dragon, who seemed to not like that at all.
As I walked past one of the tiger cages, I saw that one of the people there fed them with dead mice, and I thought to myself what a horrible place this really was and that I had to free the people who were locked in there. I randomly walked into two people who were hidden in a building, and my intuision instantly told me these were spies. I grabbed one of them, who looked quite pale and frightened in his face when I faced him. I was surprised at myself that I was able to lift him with one hand just like that too. I fumbled a bit with my words, but managed to tell him I knew they were spies and wanted to know if there were ways out and into this place. They took a short time to gather themselves and one of them nodded a lot and the other one shook his head. Then, they looked at each others and the one who was nodding his head now shook it while the one who shook his head nodded. It was a bit comical so I gave a laugh, and this seemed to make them calm down and they said that there was, but I had to make sure to keep it all quiet. They were spies in there to find out about this super weapon. I told them I was supposed to work on it, but I had no idea what the weapon was yet, nor did I want to find out. I just wanted to free this place of its tyrannic rule. They tried to talk me into helping them, but somehow I managed to talk them into helping me instead. After all, if this place was freed, there was no longer any super weapon to worry about.
We made a plan, but unfortunately I can not recall at all what it was about, but my part involved to be a distraction and interact with the dragons, and their part had something to do with freeing the tigers. The spies told that the dragons where following an ancient rule that they could only break free of if it was broken, and for some reason I was the key to break it. They said the dragons acted differently around me, and I was the only one who were able to have any kind of two-way communication with them, even if it was just looking at each others. The dragons otherwise treated everyone who was not under the direct influence of the supreme leader as mindless animals. I walked off to do my part of the plan, which was to round up some of the civilians who were there and create some sort of distraction for the soldiers and the dragons. It did not take long before I had made a big enough distraction. The soldiers took note of me again and they just ran towards me, shouting things I could not understand. I ran off and had the soldiers after me while they kept shouting. The dragons reacted to this at first, but they quickly gave up the chase as they saw it was me being chased. The soldiers caught up with me and they cut me at several places with their bayonets. For some reason I did not bleed or hurt, though, and after a short moment the soldiers backed off and it did not take long til they were out of sight. Suddenly I was in my Elmandrian dragon body and it felt really great. The soldiers shouted again, and this time I could understand them, they shouted for the tiger cages to be opened. My keen sight could spot them in the distance and I saw that the tiger cages were empty. I hurried over to where the civilians and the dragons were and the soldiers shouted for the dragons to attack me again, but they just looked at each others, then spoke for the first time in my dream, saying something about that the ancient rule was broken and that they no longer would take any orders from their leader, which they called something I can not recall. Suddently it became a lot of life there, people were running everywhere, towards the huge gates at the wall that encircled the whole place. The dragons attacked all the soldiers and killed those who chosed to oppose them. Some of the dragons tore down the enormous gates as if they were nothing and the people ran out, shouting from joy and excitedment. I flew up and settled down on top of a building's roof to be away from the commotion that happened below, and I felt very happy and quite content with myself. Helicopters suddenly filled up the air too and it became quite noisy, and at this point I woke up.
~Etath
I had a good few laughs reading through it, particularly at your description of the lights flickering on and off, and how you, in the dream, were to be designing something, there's the engineer in you very clearly ;) Who else but an engineer would be designing a weapon in their dreams and assuming that the power supply for the lights was having trouble maintaining the load? XD
The way you described everything was really enchanting, overall, though. It was quite a good story, for a dream! Also, that must have been awesome being your dragonself in the dream <3
I suppose I am an engineer by heart. ^^; My dreams frequently tend to be about designing, fixing, or disabling high-tech stuff. The most interesting dream I had about such was one I had long ago, in which I was a dolphin and had to hack the controller circuit on a liquid rocket engine, carrying a world-ending war-head, on land... :p I got that dream after a seminar I attended to at university about liquid rocket engines.