Dreams, somewhat disturbing
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ysobelContent -- bugs and sudden death (but not death by bugs)
Dream A involved the two dogs, a wire-fence-enclosed park, and a group of my friends. This dream was not disturbing, though I did try to get a picture of Yahtzee and my phone did a 5-second exposure (getting dark so low-light) and then came up with something that was not a dog. Boo.
Dream B was a sci-fi thing where the station commander interrupted a battery-smuggling ring but the containers all just had non-battery toys (the batteries were in a hidden compartment) so he had to let it go. Cut to the two ringleaders, a human het couple, finishing the loading -- in space, with suits on, shoving the last container into a ship like you'd load up an SUV. They exchange a look and a smile, knowing they've almost gotten away with it. Then they clasp hands and push off with a backflip... straight into an oncoming asteroid (the size of a large boulder) which had been spinning slowly towards them. (Camera POV was inside the ship looking out, so we could see their faces and also whatever was behind them.) The woman hits it hard enough to take part of her head (and helmet) off; her boyfriend (who looked kind of like early-Stargate Daniel) was still alive but they were still joined by their hands so couldn't get away and ended up passing out.
Dream C was a thing where I found a butterfly crawling on my face, especially my nose. I gently urged it onto my hand so I could see it better. It was pretty, and unique-looking, though when I tried to get a picture there was a second butterfly and they were breeding, so I decided to check for eggs, and found a couple silk cocoons -- somehow this butterfly species did cocoon then caterpillar then chrysalis then adult. The first few cocoons were in a fold of my sweater but as the dream continued they started popping up everywhere including my face and scalp and in my ears. The cocoons were hard and very sticky, and the caterpillars were essentially armored, so thus infestation increased exponentially and couldn't be stopped. The caterpillars ate styrofoam and wood; plastic slowed them a little but they were overwhelmingly everywhere.
There was also something about an app that somehow the butterflies had used my account to upload, that went viral almost immediately, and this was one way they spread. (I dunno; now that I'm awake this sounds less plausible than the virus in Independence Day.) I deleted it as soon as I could but there was a lag in that process and hundreds of thousands of downloads had already happened.
At one point I tried to go up in an elevator but it had cocoons everywhere and the caterpillars had chewed through the wires, sending it crashing back down.
A bit later it went from immersive dream to movie, complete with an end note that Matthew McConaughey had done all his own stunts, and had even been barefoot when his character was.
Dream D was a rerun of C but with the tidbit that hot water killed the cocoon-eggs (but not the caterpillars or adult butterflies) so I kept trying to pour boiling water places, but the water cooled down really quickly so we had to keep boiling more. It was very soggy by the end, but I'm pretty sure humans still lost.
I still have the visual memory of the asteroid collision and the tactile memory of small sticky cocoons on my head. I don't recommend either.
(It's interesting that my waking brain is completely aphantastic but my dream brain gets visuals...)
Dream A involved the two dogs, a wire-fence-enclosed park, and a group of my friends. This dream was not disturbing, though I did try to get a picture of Yahtzee and my phone did a 5-second exposure (getting dark so low-light) and then came up with something that was not a dog. Boo.
Dream B was a sci-fi thing where the station commander interrupted a battery-smuggling ring but the containers all just had non-battery toys (the batteries were in a hidden compartment) so he had to let it go. Cut to the two ringleaders, a human het couple, finishing the loading -- in space, with suits on, shoving the last container into a ship like you'd load up an SUV. They exchange a look and a smile, knowing they've almost gotten away with it. Then they clasp hands and push off with a backflip... straight into an oncoming asteroid (the size of a large boulder) which had been spinning slowly towards them. (Camera POV was inside the ship looking out, so we could see their faces and also whatever was behind them.) The woman hits it hard enough to take part of her head (and helmet) off; her boyfriend (who looked kind of like early-Stargate Daniel) was still alive but they were still joined by their hands so couldn't get away and ended up passing out.
Dream C was a thing where I found a butterfly crawling on my face, especially my nose. I gently urged it onto my hand so I could see it better. It was pretty, and unique-looking, though when I tried to get a picture there was a second butterfly and they were breeding, so I decided to check for eggs, and found a couple silk cocoons -- somehow this butterfly species did cocoon then caterpillar then chrysalis then adult. The first few cocoons were in a fold of my sweater but as the dream continued they started popping up everywhere including my face and scalp and in my ears. The cocoons were hard and very sticky, and the caterpillars were essentially armored, so thus infestation increased exponentially and couldn't be stopped. The caterpillars ate styrofoam and wood; plastic slowed them a little but they were overwhelmingly everywhere.
There was also something about an app that somehow the butterflies had used my account to upload, that went viral almost immediately, and this was one way they spread. (I dunno; now that I'm awake this sounds less plausible than the virus in Independence Day.) I deleted it as soon as I could but there was a lag in that process and hundreds of thousands of downloads had already happened.
At one point I tried to go up in an elevator but it had cocoons everywhere and the caterpillars had chewed through the wires, sending it crashing back down.
A bit later it went from immersive dream to movie, complete with an end note that Matthew McConaughey had done all his own stunts, and had even been barefoot when his character was.
Dream D was a rerun of C but with the tidbit that hot water killed the cocoon-eggs (but not the caterpillars or adult butterflies) so I kept trying to pour boiling water places, but the water cooled down really quickly so we had to keep boiling more. It was very soggy by the end, but I'm pretty sure humans still lost.
I still have the visual memory of the asteroid collision and the tactile memory of small sticky cocoons on my head. I don't recommend either.
(It's interesting that my waking brain is completely aphantastic but my dream brain gets visuals...)