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I had a hell of a dream today - one of the few storyline dreams I can remember having in a while.
I can't actually remember how it started, but the end was a strange blend of American Gods, an element from a short story I read this week, and some plotline that was either from a show or movie I can't remember or another dream I had earlier this year. There are certain visual/background elements that recur over and over in my dreams: huge malls, larger schools, mismatched pieces of houses I've lived in or visited or saw on TV or in a movie, weird chase scenes, rooftops, a city on fire, and tornadoes. But I also have recurring stories that happen in my dreams too, though I usually can't remember them the first time around. The next time, though, I wake up thinking "Didn't that happen last week?"
So in this dream I think I was playing three different characters, all of them on the run from someone. The bit I can remember best starts after we found an artifact in a pawn shop, a heavy gold necklace with a thickly braided chain, variably-colored stones set at equal intervals along the chain, and a slightly larger stone in the middle. I think we stole it and ran after the main character had a flash of insight as to what the artifact really was - the shop owner had claimed the stones were diamonds, and that the chain had belonged to a Victorian lady. It had some proper name I can't think of, as well, but the main character had been staring at the stones, which were slightly tear-shaped, and when he noticed their colors changed from gold to milky white toward the middle of the chain, he realized that they were, in fact, the Tears of Eridanus. ...Which was the title of the short story I'd finished yesterday. (g)
I have no real idea what the significance of the colors was, but that's dream logic for you. Anyway, the character slipped the necklace into a sleeve of plastic and dashed out of the store with the others, because this necklace was what the entity chasing us was really after. At some point earlier in the dream our characters had apparently escaped an attempt to kill us in a little candy factory at the edge of a strip mall (again, dunno wtf) and the main charcter decided we had to return there. The route lead us along a highway verge at night, where we were crawling as fast as we could, I think trying not to be seen.
The candy factory had something to do with Sunkist, not sure what, and when we arrived the main character separated from the group, telling them, "Look, this boiler is going to explode in about two minutes. I'm going to make some calls, and when the cops arrive have them follow me in, then we all got to run. Got it?" The idea was the main character was going to show the cops the bodies in the basement around the boiler, then escape before it blew up. Showing the bodies would damage the guy chasing us and his organization, or something.
And here's where American Gods comes in. The guy after us was none other than freaking Odin, my main character was Shadow, and he was planning to get Odin 'killed' in the boiler explosion. He descended the steps to the basement and stopped, aiming the tiny penlight at the water flooding the place, making sure the bodies were still there - I clearly remember that this bit had to be from another dream or a movie, because the visual of murky muddy water with a skull and partial skeletons half-submerged in it was terribly familiar. Once he found the skull he nodded, then when sirens sounded outside he took the necklace from the sleeve and tossed it toward the boiler, then ran back up the stairs to lead the cops down.
Unfortunately I half-woke up at this point, but knew the next scene would be Odin arriving to try to find the necklace after the cops had been in and out just long enough to snap a few pictures, and then the place goes boom, taking Odin with it. Then my character would explain to the others what the Tears of Eridanus were and why Odin was after them. I've lost whatever that explanation was gonna be, though. Bah! It was supposed to be cool, too!
Oh well. (g)
I can't actually remember how it started, but the end was a strange blend of American Gods, an element from a short story I read this week, and some plotline that was either from a show or movie I can't remember or another dream I had earlier this year. There are certain visual/background elements that recur over and over in my dreams: huge malls, larger schools, mismatched pieces of houses I've lived in or visited or saw on TV or in a movie, weird chase scenes, rooftops, a city on fire, and tornadoes. But I also have recurring stories that happen in my dreams too, though I usually can't remember them the first time around. The next time, though, I wake up thinking "Didn't that happen last week?"
So in this dream I think I was playing three different characters, all of them on the run from someone. The bit I can remember best starts after we found an artifact in a pawn shop, a heavy gold necklace with a thickly braided chain, variably-colored stones set at equal intervals along the chain, and a slightly larger stone in the middle. I think we stole it and ran after the main character had a flash of insight as to what the artifact really was - the shop owner had claimed the stones were diamonds, and that the chain had belonged to a Victorian lady. It had some proper name I can't think of, as well, but the main character had been staring at the stones, which were slightly tear-shaped, and when he noticed their colors changed from gold to milky white toward the middle of the chain, he realized that they were, in fact, the Tears of Eridanus. ...Which was the title of the short story I'd finished yesterday. (g)
I have no real idea what the significance of the colors was, but that's dream logic for you. Anyway, the character slipped the necklace into a sleeve of plastic and dashed out of the store with the others, because this necklace was what the entity chasing us was really after. At some point earlier in the dream our characters had apparently escaped an attempt to kill us in a little candy factory at the edge of a strip mall (again, dunno wtf) and the main charcter decided we had to return there. The route lead us along a highway verge at night, where we were crawling as fast as we could, I think trying not to be seen.
The candy factory had something to do with Sunkist, not sure what, and when we arrived the main character separated from the group, telling them, "Look, this boiler is going to explode in about two minutes. I'm going to make some calls, and when the cops arrive have them follow me in, then we all got to run. Got it?" The idea was the main character was going to show the cops the bodies in the basement around the boiler, then escape before it blew up. Showing the bodies would damage the guy chasing us and his organization, or something.
And here's where American Gods comes in. The guy after us was none other than freaking Odin, my main character was Shadow, and he was planning to get Odin 'killed' in the boiler explosion. He descended the steps to the basement and stopped, aiming the tiny penlight at the water flooding the place, making sure the bodies were still there - I clearly remember that this bit had to be from another dream or a movie, because the visual of murky muddy water with a skull and partial skeletons half-submerged in it was terribly familiar. Once he found the skull he nodded, then when sirens sounded outside he took the necklace from the sleeve and tossed it toward the boiler, then ran back up the stairs to lead the cops down.
Unfortunately I half-woke up at this point, but knew the next scene would be Odin arriving to try to find the necklace after the cops had been in and out just long enough to snap a few pictures, and then the place goes boom, taking Odin with it. Then my character would explain to the others what the Tears of Eridanus were and why Odin was after them. I've lost whatever that explanation was gonna be, though. Bah! It was supposed to be cool, too!
Oh well. (g)