Mydera

My first dream of the night (morning, lol) was a really short one, but the one I probably enjoyed the most. I started out the dream in a little rectangular clearing in a woody area. It reminds me of when you leave the forest in Legend of Zelda: OoT and first step into Hyrule Field. There are trees all around, including where I must have just come from, but there's only one clear cut "way" to go. The clear way was to my right (I was facing in towards the rectangle like I'd just appeared there, not come out of the forest to get there) and it was a stone path the reminded me of the stone wall tracks of the "Bowsers Castle" level in Mario Kart (N64 version). The forest ends where the stone path begins, and when stepping on the stone path I can see there's nothing but purple gray mist when I look over the edge. I think it's cool the stone path and forest were floating in a purpleish grey sky, and vaguely become aware that I am dreaming, but not enough to really control anything. I can see that ahead the path makes a sharp, right angle turn, and goes on for another hundred feet or so before ending at a giant castle made of the same type of stone. I decide to follow the stone path since it didn't look like there was much if I went back to the forest. I get to the turn, and look directly ahead at the castle. I can see a big archway is the entrance, and there's a red carpet that goes into the castle, just like in the Mario Kart level. What is out of place are the two monsters in the castle pacing back and forth like sentries. One is a big black praying mantis. It seems to be made of shadows (but I had seen a manga image of a praying mantis just before bed, so it's very probably that rather than shadowy, it's "Inky" ) The other monster is a giant snake. It's walking on about 2 or 3 feet of tail, holding the top 6 feet of it's body upright. It's whiteish yellow like the albino cornsnake at our local science center. It's round enough that I'm pretty sure that I couldn't wrap my arms around it and be able to reach my own hands. There's an oval shaped jewel or something on it's forehead which I find really odd. A Snake, wearing jewels, wtf? They notice me only a second after I notice them, and they start making their way towards me. I'm not scared yet, because I'm semi aware that it's a dream and I will be ok, instead I'm anxious, thinking to myself, "What are these things, and how the hell am I going to beat them?" Before I have the chance to think of an answer though, I suddenly feel like I'm not alone. My eyes are still locked on the snake and mantis coming towards me, but I feel an undeniable presence to my left. Without even thinking I reach out my hand and grab K's hand. I don't even have time to be relieved that I finally found him in a dream again, on a night that I wanted to find him... then again, I didn't exactly find him, he found me, lol. The snake uses it's tail as a spring, and leaps towards us, with huge nasty looking fangs. I'm still not afraid, I'm not even wondering how I'm going to win this anymore. I place complete and total faith in K that I'm going to be fine. Sure enough, K steps forwards with his left foot, still holding my hand so he ends up taking a step in front of me as well as forwards, and swings a fairly long sword in an arc. The snake is cut cleanly in half, the top half falls over the edge into the void and the bottom half disintegrates. Because of that circle step forwards, K is now in front of me, almost facing me, so I can see him, sort of. I wonder to myself how I am so sure that's K, because he's wearing loose black robes with a hood that covers his face. I can't see his features at all but I just know it's him because it feels like him. He lets go of my hand and turns back around to face the mantis as it's closing in, less than three feet from us. He swings at it, and I think it blocks with it's pinchers, but he pulls back and attacks again, this time defeating it. It also disintegrates. I think I manage to call out "Thank you!" before I wake up, but that could just be what I was trying to say and woke up first. :/

((Just wanted to edit this entry to say that my best friend also happened to be able to recall her dreams last night. She texted me this afternoon that she'd had a dream with me in it. Since we wanted to share dreams, I told her I'd facebook her my dreams of the nights if she'd text me hers. Turns out, she dreamed that she was on a stone path in front of a church looking at me... her church had a red carpet coming out it just like my "castle" and she claims I was standing there with a dark shadowy guy. Things aren't exactly the same, and I never saw her in this first dream, but we at least had most of the same/similar elements which was pretty cool!))

The second dream of the night was just a fragment on a dark forest path. I've got my little boy's hand, and we're crouched down walking quickly through the dark, running from bush to tree to bush kind of thing like we're trying to move quickly but stealthily away from something. Curious what we're running from, I turn around and steal a quick glance at whats behind me. There's a huge man, probably between 6 and 7 feet tall carrying a really big burlap sack over his shoulder. I think that lump in that sack is big enough for a body, and wonder if he's a murderer. We continue to make our way quickly, but because the man is walking directly and we're zigzagging in the dark I notice he's gaining on us. The path goes down hill for a moment, then the path veers right. We make the right turn, to find that the path extends in front of us, but there's also a clearing to the right. I rationalize to myself that the man is probably going forwards, but he might decide that little clearing is a good place to bury a body if that's what he has in the sack. I decide that the clearing is probably the safest bet, because really why would he be carrying a body and no shovel if he was going to bury it! I pull my little boy into the clearing and we duck behind a rock where I don't think he can see us from the path when he walks by. My little boy says something, I can't remember what, but I remember hushing him and looking hurriedly at the path hoping the man following us didn't hear him. I don't see the man, so I hold my breath for a moment hoping to hear him on the path. I don't hear him, so I let out my breath relaxed, he must have turned back. But then I see him on the path, and he turns into the clearing, with his burlap sack and a shovel. I think "Oh shit, I made the wrong choice!" and then wake up.

The last dream of the night was hardest for me to remember because it just wasn't that interesting. I was in the kitchen, and my younger brother was there. There was loud music playing, and people I didn't recognize kept coming in and out of the room. I told my brother he was crazy to throw a party because Grandma was going to have a fit that he had a party in her house. He says she's not here, she won't find out, and even if she does, he's in the army now, she can't get mad at him when he's only home for two weeks a year, because then he won't come back at all. Then there's some missing time, and I'm on the side of the road near my great aunts home. My other grandma who died several years ago (not the one who's house I was at before) had called my cell phone and told me to help her sister. Since I'm there I say I will. A car pulls into the driveway, but only halfway. My Aunt tells me to get something out of the trunk that is still in the road. I worry a car might hit me, but think that my family will get a lot of money is someone does hit me, so I'll risk it. Apparently my dream self doesn't think much of a life, lol. I open the trunk, and get some sort of big vase with a sunflower in it out. I balance it in once hand against my chest and close the trunk. Then I see a car coming. I yell at my aunt to move the car forwards so it doesn't get hit. She asks if I have the plant and I say yes, move the car! The car pulls forwards, and I scamper off the road. Then I wake up.