Barrow-Down Dreams

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

I was about to reply Nerwen in French but then I realised I would have to use the past tense of subjunctive and decided it was not worth the pain...

Maybe because it's bad.

And a night or two ago I dreamed that I and Agan were going to Copenhagen to see Rune next summer. We wanted to bring him something Finnish but we had no idea what. Then we decided we'd bring him a dead seal and a dead dolphin and we'd make him and his friends eat the meat raw and say that in Finland you're considered a loser if you don't do so. We also planned to make up an excuse that would allow us not to eat it...

It is a good plan the only fault is that I do not really care if finnish people consider me a looser.

Also I would have been more inclined to belive the raw seal thing if you had been from Greenland.

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Rune

Also I would have been more inclined to belive the raw seal thing if you had been from Greenland.

Perhaps parts of Canada and the US state Alaska as well?
Seal meat is eaten there legally, though the right to access it is restricted. It looks good though, but I closest thing I've seen to seal meat/blubber is whale blubber that my friend and her tribe ate.

So as not to be too off-topic, I actually had a dream that remotely involved the Downs a few days ago. I can't remember much except that I was on a bus, then a plane, then for some odd reason at an airport in Helsinki. One of my friends from home was with me for the flight for some odd reason, then she immediately turned around and left me at the airport because she had to go to Sweden to visit relatives or something. So, then I was stranded, but when I tried to buy another ticket the airport security came up and said they couldn't allow me to return home. I tried asking why, and everytime they would glance off into space and pretend I wasn't there.
I decided that since they weren't any help I'd just walk around the airport and see if I could find any. I came across Nogrod, who was oddly acting as if he expected me there and kept talking about selling me an area of land with a small 'house' on it, and a bunch of other real estate features. I told him that was nice and all, but I'd really like to find out why I couldn't board another plane, except he became a bit flustered and said that it didn't matter and I really should focus on how much of a 'steal' the land was, and how the market was right, etc.
I finally walked off and tried to find some actual help, with Nogrod still following me and telling me more about the house, and I met up with Aganzir and asked her about everything. Then she looked really disappointed that I wanted to board another plane, and kept telling me that I should just forget about it and stay in Finland, and especially buy the land Nogrod was trying to sell me.
I was really suspicious at this point, but for some reason I threw up my hands and asked about the house, and how many stories it was, etc. Nogrod then looked at me as if I was crazy and said, "Stories? No way, it's completely underground, y'know, like a burrow. Really, you should check it out, it's a steal! It's the only way to live."
I told him I probably was too big to live underground and that I prefered walls without worms in them, and he started to back away from me as if I was mad or something. Then of course, the dream ends and I never find out if I buy the silly place or not.


~ Ka

[Aganzir]

Well I would be disappointed if you tried to leave immediately. And next time you see Nogrod, just tell him you buy the land.

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Well I would be disappointed if you tried to leave immediately. And next time you see Nogrod, just tell him you buy the land.

Yes, but if I did that I'd have to live in a burrow, with who knows what already living in there. It would probably be some big trap after signing on the bottom line. Like a Shelob with boundary issues or a freshly annoyed and angry Bilbo hidden in one of the cupboards.

As for visiting I'd love to, but I'm afraid that part of the dream was truly wishful. Currently, I'm looking ahead to four more years of no savings and future loan payments. There is a possibility of studying abroad later on, that is if I can afford the whole affair. Higher education seriously is turning into a twelve year old with a credit card...

~ Ka

[Thinlómien]

I had a rather creepy and rather depressing BD dream, but as it amused me on some level and I found it quite interesting, so I'll post it anyway...

It was a sunny afternoon. I, Greenie, my three best RL friends (including Aganzir), Volo and Lhuna were in Nogrod's place, drinking tea and chatting. Suddenly, Volo turned to me and said in a low voice: "There's something I must tell you. In private." I cast him a quizzical look, but agreed to come to talk with him in the corridor.
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"I... I killed Legate and Nilp," he replied, "I must hide the bodies."
I looked at him (with an "oh silly boy what have you done now" -expression) and said, at length: "Then I guess I must help you."

We went to the yard and the rest of the tea party came with us. Volo would not have wanted to tell them what was the matter, but I refused to keep it secret. None of the others wanted to help Volo, they just stared at him in silence. Then Lhuna, looking very pale, said she wanted to go home and left.

I helped Volo nevertheless. He had buried the bodies to the grass in the yard, only something like 10cm (4 inches) deep. I said it was a very poor place and that they should be hidden elsewhere. Legate's body was very small and white and had a big head, of Nilpaurion there was only one hand and one other piece left. I don't know what Volo had done to him, but I remember thinking it was quite a crafty way to kill someone since there were so little remains. Anyway, we dumped what was left of Nilp and Legate to the biowaste and covered them with mould.

Then I was suddenly in a room that resembled the room I and Greenie shared when I was something like five years old. My three friends and Greenie were in the room with me. Now it was one of my best friends, not Volo, who had killed Nilp and Legate. I was very sad, crying all the time, and unbelievably angry at my friend, who seemed to find her deed very funny and just kept laughing. My other friends and Greenie weren't any more comforting. They kept telling me things like:
"Stop whining. People die every now and then."
"You have a lot of friends. Losing two of them hardly matters." (I think Agan was the one who said this...)
"What happens, happens. Get over it."
"It isn't such a big deal."
"I can't see why you're that upset by that."
"She did it, and so what? You can't change it anymore. It doesn't matter."
I tried to explain that it surely mattered to me and that it really was horrible for me. One of the examples/arguments I used was: "Just think! I've been away from 'downs for a day. In that time, Legate probably made ten posts before he died. Ten posts of his I've never read, and that's all! And now that you've killed him, he will never write new posts. Never! Can't you see? Even if I read only one of those posts per year, there would only be unread posts by him for ten years! And then it's over, I will never hear anything new of him again!"
I called them cruel, immoral and heartless and was very angry at them all.

Then, I woke up. We were still in the same room. I started crying again, because I had been so nasty to my friends as they really hadn't said those things and no one had really killed Legate and Nilp. I explained that I had thought it to be true because it was such a life-like dream (it had really felt very real). They said it was alright and understandable.

Then I really woke up. I was safely in my own bed, alone and thought, "that was a really disturbing dream". I can't really explain this, but in the dream, the dream within the dream had seemed very real and life-like, but when I woke up, both the dream and the dream within the dream seemed quite unreal. Definitely weird.

Also, I think it's quite amusing how the atmosphere and my attitude changes from the first part of the dream to the second. First, I'm very pragmatic and matter-of-fact, and not really moved by what has happened, but in the second part I'm upset, angry and very sad. Odd, isn't it? All in all, I think the first part is quite grotesque but amusing in a way (I and Volo are acting so oddly! ) and it was not nightmare-ish at all, but the second part was really depressing, I'm not sure if I could call it a nightmare, but it was definitely a very bad dream.

And I really don't know what to make of this habit of mine of having rather sinister BD dreams... I hope no one involved is seriously creeped out by this. And lastly, I should probably make it clear that my friends aren't normally like that... this was just a weird dream.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Eaaaaieiiii? That's probably the best expression of what I can say about that That's horrific!I don't really understand it. I can't even call it crazy, because it's not the right word. But it must have been horrible in itself (at least as you say, the second part). I really don't know what to think of it

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Eaaaaieiiii? That's probably the best expression of what I can say about that That's horrific!I don't really understand it. I can't even call it crazy, because it's not the right word. But it must have been horrible in itself (at least as you say, the second part). I really don't know what to think of it

Funny reaction. By the way, "ei" is Finnish for "no", so that first word quite amused me and was appropriate. But, if you don't know what to think of it, I advise you to forget about the second part and merely think about the first part, because the more I think of it, the more it makes me laugh, I mean, Volo's so funny, I'm so cold and pragmatic and the whole situation is all too crazy.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

[Volo: ]I... I killed Legate and Nilp.

Well, this is certainly interesting . . .

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Nilpaurion Felagund

Well, this is certainly interesting . . .

I just sighted a very rare wight! Ahem, yes, glad to see you pop in. And it surely was interesting...