3/14/11 - Of Dogs and Blockades

03/14/2011

Of Dogs and Blockades (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This was another long dream, and again, is hard for me to remember. At the beginning of it, I'm playing some sort of 2D platformer. It has tons of collectibles, with some fairly stringent requirements for the later levels. I'm working on making my way over there.

Now, there's a whole bunch of stuff in the middle of this dream that I just can't remember...

But towards the end, I'm in some city somewhere, trying to move along to a new part of it. About halfway there there's some sort of blockade in the way to going any further. There's some sort of... "tutorial"? going on. Or a public service announcement, or even an ad. I dunno. There's just something blaring on the huge TV screen on one of the buildings across the road. I get the feeling that I should be paying attention to it, but I don't want to. "It's like they don't trust us," I mutter aloud. I think there's someone else there, but I can't remember who.

Instead of trying to make it through the blockade, I settle into the alcove underneath one of the buildings. It's awfully messy, but it will do. It's also drawing the attention of quite a few dogs over. There are some dogs I don't know, but I recognize my sister's dogs, Shaley and Matty, in the mix. I let them come up to me and I pat them a bunch.

At some point Matty starts not sounding good, as if she's coughing up a hairball. I look and do indeed see some hair in her mouth. I try to gently push her away so she at least doesn't cough that up on me, but she starts to whine. At this point the dream slooowwwlly fades out. It's a long process, and I end up feeling pretty tired when it ends.