3rd Wheel in my own head

Most of my dreams are fairly uneventful. The more interesting dreams are relatively far and few in between. I can count on one hand my three or four most interesting (in all of my life), those being "the turnaround," "big bird," "superhero" and last night "southern belle." Yes, I title my dreams. I'll summarize my previous dreams before going into "southern belle."

"The turnaround" was my anti-nightmare dream. I think I was about 8 years old, and it started out as one of those typical running from a monster but can't move fast enough dreams. But at some point, I just got angry. I had enough of being chased, I turned and even tho' the monster was a LOT bigger, I attacked it. I never had another nightmare of that sort again.

"Big bird..." what can I say? It started out as one of my other more interesting dreams, a repetitive dream. The dream started as it usually does, driving down an alternate world Rt. 93 toward an alternate world Boston. Usually the dream takes me right into downtown Boston but not this time. This time I veered off an exit heading West. The road turned into a country road and there was a pull off area, so I did. I got out of my car and I heard a crashing noise in the surrounding woods and out popped Big Bird. He ran straight at me and all of a sudden I became Big Bird (looking out through the costume and everything) and was heading back into the woods, down a rough path. I began to hear chanting and a man speaking. I snuck up to where the sound was and saw a large circle of people with one man "preaching" and the others all murmuring excitedly and nodding, etc. I listened closely and heard the man speak about... the elliptical orbits of the planets in our solar system. So at that point, I had to get across the circle, my path continued on the other side. I started stepping through the crowd (still Big Bird) saying "excuse me, sorry, excuse me" all the way across and then I ran like crazy. Next thing I knew I was in the kitchen of the house I grew up in (Stoneham) relating the story to my parents.

"Superhero" was just fun! I got to play a spy, then a superhero-like person who could fly and was super-strong and I had to battle with aliens. Enough said about that!

Last night's dream was different. As far as I know, I am always a part of my dreams. Last night I was not. Not only was I not involved in any way, but the dream I had was just bizarre. It was set in the Civil War era and centered around the life of a young woman, a Southern Belle. I was just a 3rd person point of view, a sort of floating camera. It started all happy, her family owned a plantation, she was rich. I will breeze through this a bit: In the process of the North Army coming and going (gaining ground, losing ground) she somehow had half her face shot off. Literally gone, just a sort of pit. She took to wearing a porcelain half-mask and continued on with her life. Fast forward, the North finally took control of the region, she was placed under house arrest and her house was occupied by Northern troops. (Again, I am skipping detail, but the dream itself kept jumping into the future). Finally, she irritated the Northern soldiers in her house so much they took away her porcelain mask and her face was filled with what looked like terracotta instead, and she was chained up with her own slaves.

And that is pretty much how it ended, as I awoke because my arm went numb due to my daughter being in our bed last night and I slept on one side at the edge of the bed all night.

Anyway, that dream will go down as one of my more interesting ones, I think.

Back to work, I have deployments to make and testing to be done.

Just a brief update.

Nothing much going on. That's not true, tons of things are going on, but nothing Earth shattering. Isaac and cub scouts, Anabelle and Space Pirates and soon, Daisies, work for me, choral group for Sandra... Anyway, I just added an RSS feature to my own web site - see if it works for you:

Mike's Junkyard Blog

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As for the site itself; It's my site where I muck around, play mostly. I wrote it in Euphoria. You can see some of the source code by clicking the links on the "links" page.