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I had a dream I actually remembered this morning. I know there was one before it, because bits and pieces are starting to come back, but the first part I really remember is being in some sort of mall-looking place that was apparently just one huge store. This guy who was supposed to be a teacher or something along those lines was telling us about stuff that I think had to do with avoiding spirits or whatever latching onto us, because it could get ugly. Of course, just a little after that I'm walking around some more when a couple of people I'm talking to freak out and I notice I'm seeing them through a thin layer of water, like my eyes are really teary without the feeling of tears, and I'm all "help me!" and somehow whatever watery thing latched onto me is removed.
I'm on my guard after this, and when I show the teacher/chaperone that I can finally do some sort of "magic" trick that apparently involved sticking my left arm straight out at him with the hand flexed upward and fingers together and rotating my arm at the shoulder in a small clockwise circle to somehow produce a bubble of water, he says something about "nice balance" and shows me these bracelets on his wrists that apparently help him fine-tune his control and increase his defense against spooks and whatnot and leads me around for a bit showing me what I might consider buying. I remember I was going to get a necklace with a mermaid pendant on it to protect me against watery things and a few others, and then I moved on to somewhere else that seemed to have mostly cloth-related things, because I saw this long narrow plastic-wrapped package and at first thought "ooh, incense!" but then I looked closer and saw that it was actually a bunch of embroidery thread in funny packaging.
At some point I wind up crawling around the store on my hands and knees and a couple of girls from high school are behind me, and I'm wearing my boot-cut jeans because they keep riding down some while I'm moving around and I stop bothering to pull them back up when the girls behind me start commenting about my underwear. Served 'em right. Anyway, I wind up in this darkly lit fish store-looking section, where there are small lights for us to see the fish (which are apparently mostly deep-sea species) and it's sort of like the Nocturnal House at the zoo. After a while, when I've been through a brighter area and a darker one, someone's telling either me or everyone in general stuff about Christian history that my brain probably just made up, and then everyone's going into this sort of cave theater that's lit enough so that we can see where we're going and not run into people, and I decide something feels fishy so I turn around and leave and wind up in a white hallway on my way back to the mall-store-place. In the hallway I turn a corner and run into three female former teachers of mine, although the only ones I remember now are Miss McCreary and Ms. Carter. Ms. Carter and I talk briefly about the hinky goings-on, and shortly Miss McCreary and the other teacher leave. I eventually enter the store again and am talking with women closer to my own age, and we settle on some sort of conspiracy going on and then I wake up to the phone ringing, the bastard.
I'm on my guard after this, and when I show the teacher/chaperone that I can finally do some sort of "magic" trick that apparently involved sticking my left arm straight out at him with the hand flexed upward and fingers together and rotating my arm at the shoulder in a small clockwise circle to somehow produce a bubble of water, he says something about "nice balance" and shows me these bracelets on his wrists that apparently help him fine-tune his control and increase his defense against spooks and whatnot and leads me around for a bit showing me what I might consider buying. I remember I was going to get a necklace with a mermaid pendant on it to protect me against watery things and a few others, and then I moved on to somewhere else that seemed to have mostly cloth-related things, because I saw this long narrow plastic-wrapped package and at first thought "ooh, incense!" but then I looked closer and saw that it was actually a bunch of embroidery thread in funny packaging.
At some point I wind up crawling around the store on my hands and knees and a couple of girls from high school are behind me, and I'm wearing my boot-cut jeans because they keep riding down some while I'm moving around and I stop bothering to pull them back up when the girls behind me start commenting about my underwear. Served 'em right. Anyway, I wind up in this darkly lit fish store-looking section, where there are small lights for us to see the fish (which are apparently mostly deep-sea species) and it's sort of like the Nocturnal House at the zoo. After a while, when I've been through a brighter area and a darker one, someone's telling either me or everyone in general stuff about Christian history that my brain probably just made up, and then everyone's going into this sort of cave theater that's lit enough so that we can see where we're going and not run into people, and I decide something feels fishy so I turn around and leave and wind up in a white hallway on my way back to the mall-store-place. In the hallway I turn a corner and run into three female former teachers of mine, although the only ones I remember now are Miss McCreary and Ms. Carter. Ms. Carter and I talk briefly about the hinky goings-on, and shortly Miss McCreary and the other teacher leave. I eventually enter the store again and am talking with women closer to my own age, and we settle on some sort of conspiracy going on and then I wake up to the phone ringing, the bastard.