Zombie dreams
Apr. 23rd, 2007 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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caitirin is in class, I'm spamming my LJ with interesting dreams I had the other night.
The immediate aftermath of the dream happened something like this:
caitirin - *making breakfast*
elaby - *toddles blearily out of bedroom*
Caitirin - Good morning!
Elaby - *small serious voice* ... Zombies.
Caitirin - O.o *runs to comfort*
Yes. If you didn't know, I have this dead-people phobia and often have dreams about corpses/graveyards/both. This one was very odd but kind of interesting.
In the first part of my dream, I was with my mother on a road beside a graveyard. The graveyard was raised a few feet above the road, and my mother climbed up into it and was looking around in it. She found a stone tablet with some writing on it and a crucifix carved into it. The crucifix had some crusty gunk spread on it. My mother touched it and asked me what it was, and I told her (knowing that this was some sort of ritual, or something) that it was crushed up communion wafers mixed with wine. My mother then said that it was the body and blood of Christ and that she couldn't leave the cemetery now that she'd touched it or she would turn to stone. I was kind of like "O.o Come ON, Mum. Let's go." But she just wouldn't leave. There were stone statues among the graves and she said that they were people who had tried to pass through the boundaries of the cemetery. No matter how much I tried to convince her, she believed that she'd turn to stone and so she wouldn't leave.
Then the dream changed and I wasn't really in it anymore. The scene was inside a cathedral and there were these two people (a guy and a girl) who had accidentally stepped up onto these stone rectangles, an inch or so off the ground, and were stuck inside barriers. You could see red glowing lines, rectangular and about the height of the people, edging out the area they had to stay within. One of the people poked his finger out of the area, and from his perspective, his finger looked normal, but when the people outside looked at it, the finger outside was just a bone. Then it started to disintegrate. They yelled at the guy to pull his finger back inside, and he did. Then one of the people outside reached their hand in, and again, from their perspective it looked fine but to the guy inside, their hand was skeletal and beginning to crumble. He yelled at the person to pull their hand out. Then, the girl tripped and fell off of her rectangular stone, and she fell onto the ground an ancient skeleton and shattered. The guy then threw himself out of his own area and shattered as well.
After this, someone (it might have been Scully) found these rectangular iron plates in a corner of the cathedral. They were molded with flowers and things, and they were used to ground iron fence-posts. The post would be stuck into the middle and chain would be strung between them, and they were so wide that they wouldn't topple over. This was used for graveyard boundaries. Scully (or whoever) turned one over and found that on the bottom, there was this picture of a person who had been killed and their story had eventually become a classic fairy tale. There were a whole bunch of them, one with a picture of dwarves and one with Hercules, I think. Anyway, she discovered that these plates actually were some kind of things that sealed in the spirits of those people who had been killed.
Then she turned around and everybody had become a zombie, even herself. One of the priests then said that they needed to get a bunch of dignitaries from different faiths (he was calling for Rabbi somebody-or-other) in order to fix this, but everybody had become zombies, so I don't know what they hoped they could do.
It's actually kind of interesting, now that I type this out, how much of a "boundary" theme there really was in that dream. Who knew my dreams would actually have themes sometimes?
caitirin is in class, I'm spamming my LJ with interesting dreams I had the other night.The immediate aftermath of the dream happened something like this:
caitirin - *making breakfast*elaby - *toddles blearily out of bedroom*Caitirin - Good morning!
Elaby - *small serious voice* ... Zombies.
Caitirin - O.o *runs to comfort*
Yes. If you didn't know, I have this dead-people phobia and often have dreams about corpses/graveyards/both. This one was very odd but kind of interesting.
In the first part of my dream, I was with my mother on a road beside a graveyard. The graveyard was raised a few feet above the road, and my mother climbed up into it and was looking around in it. She found a stone tablet with some writing on it and a crucifix carved into it. The crucifix had some crusty gunk spread on it. My mother touched it and asked me what it was, and I told her (knowing that this was some sort of ritual, or something) that it was crushed up communion wafers mixed with wine. My mother then said that it was the body and blood of Christ and that she couldn't leave the cemetery now that she'd touched it or she would turn to stone. I was kind of like "O.o Come ON, Mum. Let's go." But she just wouldn't leave. There were stone statues among the graves and she said that they were people who had tried to pass through the boundaries of the cemetery. No matter how much I tried to convince her, she believed that she'd turn to stone and so she wouldn't leave.
Then the dream changed and I wasn't really in it anymore. The scene was inside a cathedral and there were these two people (a guy and a girl) who had accidentally stepped up onto these stone rectangles, an inch or so off the ground, and were stuck inside barriers. You could see red glowing lines, rectangular and about the height of the people, edging out the area they had to stay within. One of the people poked his finger out of the area, and from his perspective, his finger looked normal, but when the people outside looked at it, the finger outside was just a bone. Then it started to disintegrate. They yelled at the guy to pull his finger back inside, and he did. Then one of the people outside reached their hand in, and again, from their perspective it looked fine but to the guy inside, their hand was skeletal and beginning to crumble. He yelled at the person to pull their hand out. Then, the girl tripped and fell off of her rectangular stone, and she fell onto the ground an ancient skeleton and shattered. The guy then threw himself out of his own area and shattered as well.
After this, someone (it might have been Scully) found these rectangular iron plates in a corner of the cathedral. They were molded with flowers and things, and they were used to ground iron fence-posts. The post would be stuck into the middle and chain would be strung between them, and they were so wide that they wouldn't topple over. This was used for graveyard boundaries. Scully (or whoever) turned one over and found that on the bottom, there was this picture of a person who had been killed and their story had eventually become a classic fairy tale. There were a whole bunch of them, one with a picture of dwarves and one with Hercules, I think. Anyway, she discovered that these plates actually were some kind of things that sealed in the spirits of those people who had been killed.
Then she turned around and everybody had become a zombie, even herself. One of the priests then said that they needed to get a bunch of dignitaries from different faiths (he was calling for Rabbi somebody-or-other) in order to fix this, but everybody had become zombies, so I don't know what they hoped they could do.
It's actually kind of interesting, now that I type this out, how much of a "boundary" theme there really was in that dream. Who knew my dreams would actually have themes sometimes?
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Date: 2007-04-24 03:11 am (UTC)The boundry thing intrigues me... My zombie dreams usually come with the feeling that its real, just in a different dimension, and sometimes the barrier between us and them gets kinda thin.
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Date: 2007-04-24 01:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-24 03:33 pm (UTC)Reminds me...saw an ad last night for "28 Weeks Later", which looks pretty good. It follows "28 Days Later." Technically, they're both zombie movies, but only because the people act like zombies, not because they're walking dead people...
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Date: 2007-04-24 03:39 pm (UTC)I was thinking the whole zombie/boundary dream thing would make a good short story or something.
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Date: 2007-04-24 03:50 pm (UTC)The "zombies" from 28 Day Later are fast and scary, but they also tend to starve to death (virally infected people so anger-crazed they can do nothing but try to kill people not like them...they even forget how to eat...)
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Date: 2007-04-24 03:54 pm (UTC)http://www.realityfelon.com/Faith/zombies/
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Date: 2007-04-24 05:06 pm (UTC)When we did the Dover Zombie Walk, there was a guy taking pictures for a zombie comic he was working on. Instead of drawings, he uses photo manipulations and such. Should be fun to see when (if) it finally comes out.
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Date: 2007-04-24 03:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-04-24 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-24 06:07 pm (UTC)Must finish L5R game plot
Must finish Nano rough draft (~20k words)
Must finish second round Oddyssey submission (~another 1500 words)
Must finish Oddyssey slam story (~800 words)
Must read/critique/edit three rounds of Oddyssey submissions (~70k words for the first two, ~15k for the third)
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Date: 2007-04-24 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-24 06:29 pm (UTC)Actually, I only get about a third of my ideas down on paper in any sort of form, including just notes...
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Date: 2007-04-24 03:25 am (UTC)Where are you posting from? Are you at your old apartment or your new one?
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Date: 2007-04-24 01:52 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's very weird that that dream made as much thematic sense as it did.
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Date: 2007-04-24 03:55 pm (UTC)no subject
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