Significantly less distressing dream

[jethrien]

Thank you, subconcious. I asked for less disturbing dreams, and ended up with crack dreams instead. I vastly prefer the crack dreams, thank you.

Last night I dreamt that I was an anthropomorphic mouse. I convinced an armadillo (non-anthropomorphic, by the way--looked entirely like a normal armadillo aside from the fact it talked) to join me as a partner in running a multi-day marathon (kind of like the Tour de France, but on foot). I couldn't convince the rattlesnake to join us. Thing is, everyone else was not animals, anthropomorphic or otherwise. No, all the other runners were totally normal people. Surprisingly, the logical thing happened--the race started, everyone took off, and in 30 seconds we were still chugging along on our little stumpy animal legs while all the tall humans left us in the dust. So when we got to the first stopover point that night, everyone else was already drunk and smashing cupcakes in each others' faces ('cause that's totally what Tour de France racers do, duh). It was very dark and late, but we didn't seem terribly discouraged to be so incredibly slower than everyone else because, hey, cupcakes.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

You're going the distance. You're going for speed.

[maydove.livejournal.com]

Cupcakes and nobody died, yay!

My dream, on the other hand, involved escaping an elevator that crashed and killed everyone inside.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

...have you seen Inception?

[maydove.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't...would I be horribly disturbed by it?

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, honestly. It's not a horror film by any means and it has a happy ending (debatably), but it's also a bit of a mindscrew. Also, there's an elevator that crashes and explodes, but that part's all a dream.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

The crashing elevator is on purpose, too - in the movie, it's a major plot point that falling and dying wakes you up, so while everybody "dies", they did it on purpose just to wake themselves up. So they're not particularly scared or upset by this.

[maydove.livejournal.com]

I've heard it was very good, but I'm pretty sensitive to mindscrewing movies. For instance, I couldn't finish watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I'm going to guess this isn't for you, then.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's quite as potentially distressing. That said, I'm not really sure you'd enjoy it. There are enough movies and tv shows out there, you might as well not waste your time on something you're not excited about.

[mithras03.livejournal.com]

Hey, you know, people dress up as all sorts of things when they run the London Marathon - Chewbacca, witches, multiple-person-centipedes, you name it. I particularly remember one guy in 2006 dressed as St. George (armor and all) and was dragging a giant dragon behind him - I think it took him 3 or 4 days to finish the race.... http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41591000/jpg/_41591840_scott_getty416.jpg

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

This was definitely not that - I was approximately four inches tall in the dream. I was not a person-sized mouse, I was a mouse-sized mouse. The first few seconds of the race was a sea of ankles.

[jeths-mom.livejournal.com]

You'd think with all that crack you'd have a little to spare for me. I love dreams like that - they make me wake up laughing...which makes me laugh more.