Dream Diary: November 2007

Dream Diary: 20 November 2007

i was trapped in a house. vampires were outside, trying to get in. we had a spell book, and we could cast spells by burning the pages on an open flame. we tossed a pile of pages on the flame, but the vampires kept coming. they would break through soon. i sheafed through the sheets to find something, anything that would be helpful. but all the spells i found were benign.

at last they broke through. reinforcements hid up in the many trees outside, watching our house, watching us, waiting for orders. inside, we sat around a table with the vampires, negotiating.

later, i was in a bedroom painted red. i was on the phone with someone, and he said his room was red too, with Chinese symbols painted and engraved all over it. next thing i knew, he was on my bed, trying to seduce me.

Dream Diary: 21 November 2007

we are traveling from end to end on the train tracks. we had to walk through the ruins of a city, while following the abandoned, elevated tracks of a train system that had been glittering and gleaming in its technological brilliance, but had long stopped speeding through the miles. old buildings were reduced to rubble, succumbing to weeds and roots all over their supposedly strong foundations. we trudged through these urban remains, our heavy packs on our backs. we were dressed for hiking.

we had to take the train from end to end.

we were living in a small room, like a dormitory, only there were so many of us, and small windows. were we on a mission?

it seemed as though i was glimpsing past and future. train. no train.