Polar Dream

(Post 17)

I had a lengthy and involved dream this morning. At the end I was talking to animals and getting ready to hunt polar bears using hardened snowballs. I remembered that I was hunting penguins earlier, so I ran outside the polar cave to the polar slope. I saw the penguins and ran towards them shouting in a very reassuring way," I'm not hunting you anymore! I'm hunting polar bears now! Anybody want to help?" The penguins all shouted" yippee" (with hi pitched, but not obnoxious voices) and ran towards me with snowballs in hand. The most popular of the penguins said loudly "Hold on! Only one of us can go!" He then looked at me hopefully and said "Right?" (I understood his intention – he wanted to be the only one to go so he'd have more prestige and influence with the other penguins) All the other penguins looked downcast because they knew that I'd choose the popular penguin. However, I needed lots of help so I said "Nope, you're all coming."

The popular penguin protested "But then, who will win?" He wanted this to be a contest so he could somehow find a way to be the best at it. I wasn't about to help him boost his ego, so I said, "Nobody. Just whoever kills the polar bear." (In my dream I didn't articulate very well, but what I ment was "all of us… we're all going to kill it, so we'll all win") The popular penguin looked down sadly for just a split second, but then he looked up and around and said importantly in a drawn out let-me-have-your-attention-I've-got-something-mischievous-to-say sort of way, "Or….. Whoever sits on him!" And all the penguins went "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh" (that's a drawn out ooh, not oh) with excitement for this new dare.

I woke up chuckling at the penguins' juvenile behavior. It was very refreshing and I felt very good for several minutes until my body looked up at me and said, "what are you chuckling about!?! You've got the flue remember! Don't you dare think you can be happy today! Smiling is right out!" I'm going to have to help it find some childish penguin love of life here pretty quickly or it'll likely lord over me all day long.

-Schlange

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post-Post Post (A post posted post the post of the privious post) - ok... maybe Post Script:

So, considering that I have the flue and ache all over I went back to bed. I woke up unable to go back to sleep because a dream startled me into an adrenaline rush. I was standing in a vast universe of colorless nothing (not black or white... just no color - I can't even picture it, but I guess dreams get to reinvent the laws of reality). One of my roomates (who happens to share my first name) was there, but I wasn't aware of it yet - he was behind me. He's taller than me in real life, but in this case he was 3 feet taller, with his neck being double it's lenghth and his head was as big as my chest. I turned around to see that he was bent over with his hands on his knees and his neck streched all the way out so that his nose was about 6 inches from mine. He said "Hey, J-Dog!" and I woke up with a start.

I've decided that dreams can get weird when you have the flue.