Barrow-Down Dreams

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I had an entertaining dream last night where I was absently observing a thread, I think - though it might have been a chat - about the various schools downers have attended.

This wouldn't really have caught my eye had people not started talking about how Kath loves her grad school, mine, and goes for hikes in the woods outside the city all the time.

I obviously reacted with jaw-dropped incredulity: the college is small. I know many of the students, if not personally than by sight. I know most of the faculty, and much of the staff. It will be strange in a week and a half when a horde of new freshmen arrive for orientation and I know none of them. And yes the graduate program runs on its own set of tracks, but still, I reasoned to Brinniel, surely I would have known if Kath was attending my school and living in my [very small] city. Surely she might have mentioned to me that she intended to come here? And how could I not have known that she'd been living less than a block away from me for months now?

Brinniel failed to console my tremendous oversight, and I mentioned something about Lhuna and Johns Hopkins, and then my dream changed into some weird sing-along in the library which involved a bunch of people I haven't talked to in years and a Santa Claus puppet, and all else was unrelated to the Downs...

[Brinniel]

Originally Posted by Lommy

And Brinn, that penguin dream must have been awesome - I wish I had such dreams too.

Indeed, it was. You should tack a poster of penguins to your ceiling so that penguins are the last thing you see before you fall asleep.

Originally Posted by me

In my second dream, I returned to my computer and got onto the Downs only to discover Mac and Rikae's WW game had already begun. But instead of typical WW, it was being played through some online roleplaying game (something like World of Warcraft, I'd imagine). And the special feature of this game was that instead of typing their arguments and suspicions, the players spoke with microphones from their computers. I can't remember much who was playing...I know there were a lot of regular WWers. But what struck me odd was the fact that Bethberry was playing...as far as I know, she has never WWed before. Meanwhile, I was trying to figure out how to work this new way of playing WW as I had entered the game much later than everyone else.

I can't believe I forgot an important part of this dream! While I was playing this weird version of WW, I was hanging out in RL with Glirdan...apparently we had become good friends. When I woke up, I couldn't help but wonder how he managed to wander into my dream considering I never knew him that well and I think he's been missing from the Downs for about a year now...

Another dream I had a few nights ago was about Rune. On Facebook he changed his profile picture for the first time in ages to a completely different photo that resembled something like a professional portrait. The picture looked like Rune, except he was clean shaven and much more poised. I remember writing on his wall to tell him it was a good photo and to keep it as his profile picture for awhile.

And then last night I had a rather silly dream about Legate. He was participating in a wrestling match of all things (I think for a college team). Never mind the small detail that this wrestling match occurred in a boxing ring. Anyway, poor Legate didn't stand a chance against his opponent who was twice his size. And as I watched him get tossed about, I couldn't help but wonder how Legate got to be a wrestler in the first place (don't worry, he didn't get hurt if you were wondering). Then later on, I was browsing on the internet when I came across an article with Legate's picture and a lengthy interview about his life. So apparently in my dream, Legate was not only a wrestler but semi-famous. I think there might've been even more details involving Legate in this dream, but alas, I cannot remember.

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Brinn

I think they were supposed to be Emperor Penguins, except they were something like five feet tall. I got to observe them, take pictures, and even hold a baby one (which was not giant) in my hands

You mean like this?

There you go Brinn, you're subconscious also is up-to-date on the prehistoric discoveries of penguin adaptation and study.

As for me, I had several dreams last night where there was running/walking involved or something, but only one had Downer references. One of them was staged in a piece of work I did for Rune's B-Day, where there's this tree with Odin's face in it and it starts glaring at me and says, "You didn't shade enough! 3H graphite pencil isn't enough! I need more!"
Then I ended up just walking off and I find Fea and Diamond writing a story someway inspired by WW and the Downs. I go to look at it and whenever I lean over the writing and scribbles of editing it disappears since apparently I'm not allowed to see it, then they walk away with the story and the dream ends.

No, I have no clue what it means and I think it's a rather annoying dream because my work was critizing me, which I can do enough on my own.

~ Ka

[Brinniel]

Originally Posted by Ka

You mean like this?

There you go Brinn, you're subconscious also is up-to-date on the prehistoric discoveries of penguin adaptation and study.

Aha, so giant penguins do exist! ...Or rather, they once did..

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Had a dream the other night about Rikae and Mac. It basically boiled down to my mind making needless correlations, and went something like:

I went to the wedding, and saw this very nice old German lady who is connected in a totally obscure and confusing way to my late great grandmother, and was like, "Tilly, what are you doing here?"

And she was like, "It's my great-nephew's wedding. What are you doing here?"

And then I was like "Zomg, we're all like family now!"

[Thinlómien]

I had a most disturbing dream. In it, Mith and the phantom were both really angry at me. That was because I had cricised Arda Cup Soccer and said that tp shouldn't be included in the Tol-in-Gaurhoth team, because he's always included everywhere. I said they should take some member who's just as active but gets less attention, like Groin, for example. Mith was outraged that I could even suggest something like that and the phantom was rather upset too. So, they stopped talking to be, but they were always laughing and gossiping behind my back, and telling other 'downers bad stories about me. They were also sure that it's going to be a fiasco (and told as much to everybody) when they heard I was to play Hermione Granger in the last Harry Potter movie. ( ) Even though I was angry at them too, I couldn't ignore their cricitism, for I too doubted my capability to handle a major film role. Unfortunately, Mith and tp also tried to sabotage my position as Beorn's heir. (I almost wrote "Beorn's hair"... ) They questioned the papers that proved I was the heir and started such a public debate and suspicion that Beorn himself had to come back from the woods where he had retreated to and put his paw print on the papers to verify them. That silenced Mith and tp for a while.

[Groin Redbeard]

That sure is a complicated dream, Thinlomien. I wonder what you did to have your crazy, yet lovable, brain make up such a dream?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

When the police had come and taken Rune away, I fetched his all bloody rucksack from his place and took it with me in case he would still need it.

Ha! Rucksack again! So it's not just me who imagines that Rune must have a rucksack in every dream!

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

So, they stopped talking to be

...and said: "Thag you very buch."

[Macalaure]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Had a dream the other night about Rikae and Mac. It basically boiled down to my mind making needless correlations, and went something like:

I went to the wedding, and saw this very nice old German lady who is connected in a totally obscure and confusing way to my late great grandmother, and was like, "Tilly, what are you doing here?"

And she was like, "It's my great-nephew's wedding. What are you doing here?"

And then I was like "Zomg, we're all like family now!"

Welcome to the family!

As a matter of fact, I do have some very distant relatives that immigrated into the US a long time ago, so there's a chance.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Macalaure

As a matter of fact, I do have some very distant relatives that immigrated into the US a long time ago, so there's a chance.

She's not from the US. She was like... An exchange student? And my great-great-grandparents hosted her... or something? And she became close with my great-grandma and over the past sixty or seventy years has flown to the US regularly to visit. And now, even after my great-grandma died, she still comes to visit, and my aunt and some of my cousins fly to Germany every year or so to go hang out with her and her family. And she brings us chocolate.

So, point being, due to the smallness of the world, they're probably your next door neighbors.

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Brinniel

Aha, so giant penguins do exist! ...Or rather, they once did..

In a way, though, I personally think they're hiding out somewhere. Probably in the infamous rucksack...

~ Ka

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by THE Ka

In a way, though, I personally think they're hiding out somewhere. Probably in the infamous rucksack...

So that's why Rune's been always carrying it! Maybe he is smuggling them all around the world...

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

So that's why Rune's been always carrying it! Maybe he is smuggling them all around the world...

It is a quite tiresome job, but it pays well.

[Brinniel]

Originally Posted by Lommy

In it, we Finnish 'downers had visited Brinn's home a long time ago in winter. Every now and then, Brinn had posted pictures of a churchyard near her home in Facebook. One day, she posted a new pic. The churchyard was filled with snow. "Yay, now it looks more like it should look like," I commented and somehow stepped into the picture and then I was in the churchyard. Brinn was there (and she had taken a really long hair extension, by the way). We were both very happy to see each other and hugged. Then, Greenie, Aganzir, Volo and Legate popped into the churchyard as well. "What are you doing here?" I asked, for as far as I knew, they were supposed to be in our summer cottage. The others looked at Legate, and in the end, he spoke up, scratching his ear: "I just heard Brinn calling me in the distance. We followed the call and it pulled us here." Then all the six of us went for a walk around the churchyard and after that - I think - we went to have hot chocolate in a nearby café. Needless to say, it was a very pleasant dream.

That does sound like a lovely dream. So lovely that I wish it'd all come true (the hair extension part too)....even if I don't live near a churchyard.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Brinniel

That does sound like a lovely dream. So lovely that I wish it'd all come true (the hair extension part too)....even if I don't live near a churchyard.

Move closer to some then and let's do it!