There is so much to this dream and I think I might have experienced many things “at once” that supposedly came before or after other instances, but I must say I’m very glad to have these very vivid (color-wise), very present and aware dreams.
My cousin Kayla and I were at a gas station, and she was sitting in the driver’s seat. A man came up behind her—I’ve never seen him, but he looked older, somehow withered and heavily lined. Her window was shut, but he reached through the glass and started to comb her hair. I went around locking all the doors (they had locks like the ninja’s car) and handed her a mirror, asking if she knew the guy. Not that locks would matter if he could reach through glass anyway. For some reason I had to drive, and somewhere around there I knew I was dreaming, so I decided we were going to go to a really nice place.
I think we were driving approaching a suspension bridge, like the Mackinac or Golden Gate.
And then I was on this rise in what I think was a forest—but it was a clearing, and I could see in the not-so-distance a higher-than-I-was mountain. It seemed to be all huge boulders, and there was this large cave opening that I knew I was heading to. Somehow I was barefoot for a little bit of the walk, and I stepped on something that was sharp, but it didn’t puncture my heel. I picked it up—a shell, but a strange shell. It looked like a normal snail shell—as big as my hand, but then on top of it there was a protrusion that looked like a pinky finger, even detailed like a finger, the nail, the lines in the knuckle. On top of that, there was a smaller shell, exactly the same, except for this one, the finger on top of it had a spine where the knuckle connecting to the hand would be. It was bright green and blue, shiny and iridescent, really pretty. I thought it was strange to find a shell on the mountain. There were other people, a father and two sons walking by, on their way to the cave. I wasn’t bothered that there were other people somehow, but I went with them toward the cave.
I was with someone during part of it but I’m not sure who it was. It seemed female. When I got into the cave it was lit by these lights shining through crystals in the wall—it was more like a crystal facet than a spray of them, but it wasn’t bright, and everything seemed evenly lit. In one of the tunnels, I found a gallery of oil pastel paintings (I think they were oil pastel simply because of how brilliant and vivid the colors were) of characters from my books. I wasn’t totally pleased with the interpretations of my characters, but I still thought they were pretty good. Brygen/Regen was wearing this deep sapphire gown, and wore this white headdress with her black hair spilling over it. There were several pictures of her and I didn’t think her face was quite right. It was showing different expressions and I was thinking it was like an “Emotion Eric” sort of thing, and I recognized several of the scenes, but there was one of her hunched over and screaming and I thought it was well done, but I didn’t recall a scene where she would have been like that.
There was also a picture of Zathrew, and I thought his nose was too cartoony. I adjusted the way I saw it so I could clearly imagine him with a different nose, and thought that would be more acceptable. In some of the pictures he looked too old for Zathrew, so I thought it might be from one of the later parts of the story. I could rotate him in the picture I was looking at, so I was scrutinizing his appearance. It wasn’t quite right, but I appreciated the effort that was done.
We continued through the tunnels—it was like a 3d labyrinth through the mountain, and there seemed to be airlocks of some sort.
I saw this thing about the size of one of those long pieces on a pen cap, except it seemed to have been lathed. I had to put down the shell to pick it up, and when I picked it up, it turned into a staff, and I thought it was really cool, but I could only take one thing, and I wanted the shell more. I stood in front of them and tried to pick something up, but the program didn’t seem to be allowing me to, like if there are too many things next to each other in a game, the program doesn’t know which one you mean. I walked away and tried again, but it didn’t work, so I left the shell behind.
I started to walk out, but there was some kind of disturbance, and a fight started. Someone grabbed the shell, and a huge plasma blade poured out of it. It was like an axe-sword, and they were performing all these spins and flips with it. This was when I realized that the opponents were after us, but the tunnels and entrances were set up like a puzzle game and we had to meet certain criteria to open the doors.
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