the dreaming pool

I dreamt about... crocodiles.  Well, one crocodile really, one really big crocodile.
 

The dream started in a place that had pools... big rectagangular pools with walking strips between.  Some of the pools were water, and some were a strange  yellow acid based substance.  You would dissolve if you were immersed in it.  There was a metal walking beam/structure about all of the pools, with metal steps on either side of them to go up on the structure. 

I saw a huge, HUGE 20 or so foot crocodile emerge from one of the acid pools.  I wondered how it survived such a thing, and surmised in my own mind that it must be kind of super freaky crocodile.  I was above on the beam, and saw this.  I thought I was safe, but the crocodile began to climb the stairs towards me.  I had to get out.. so I ran down the other set of stairs.  It seemed to know what I was going to do and turned around on the stairs to go back down after me.  I ran along the cement between the pools, being careful not to fall in an acid pool.  I was heading towards a door at the end that headed out. 

I remember looking behind me to see this large creature on my tail, but I awoke before remembering what happened next.

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The other dream I remember from last night:

my boyfriend was getting me a ring.  He had got a plain aluminum band and took it to someone who could put grooves in it.  When he gave it to me, it had custom grooves in it.. actually one groove, with the outer edges  curving oddly outward.  He said it was a symbol of us being together... and I loved it, even if it was a tiny bit odd.  He then took another piece of metal... and he was going to make his own ring...

_____That's all I remember of that one, I think that one was dreamt b/c of what he can do with metal pieces, how he bends and contorts them to suit his needs. :) He's amazing that way.  He'd just shown me something he made for his car... and something else he was about to make.  I'm pretty sure that's where part 2 of the dream came from anyway.

The crocodiles,
who knows... that one's up for interpretation.

Very strange dream.

I was at work. Sort of. My dreams version of work. I had a *cubicle*, almost enclosed office
type of space. A female coworker came up to me. I guess it was after hours. She was
not in a cubicle but outside of it.. in an open space. She has a syringe. She took my arm,
and I did not struggle, and injected me with heroin.
Now, I have never taken heroin in real life. I don't know what the experience is like.
But the dream experience was insane. So much time passed in the dream. For hours I was
in a haze.. a velvet haze. I can't really describe it. Time passed strangely. She and now
her husband were also using the drug. They seemed to bore of me somehow.
I think I passed out.
I know many hours passed, and when I woke I realized that almost a day had expired.
She came in again with another syringe, only this time it was empty.

She took my arm.
"the doctor called. they need your blood. it's for the clotting problem"
Okay.
But she couldn't find a vein. she stabbed me, I winced and pulled away in pain
as she moved the needle inside my arm trying to find a vein. I could see
only small amounts of blood enter the syringe. Finally, she found the vein, and I watched
the needle fill itself.
When she pulled out the needle blood ran everywhere. Some got on my face. It ran
down my arm.
She threw me a wet cloth and told me to clean myself off...that I looked like a grotesque
clown. I looked in the mirror... the office had turned into bedroom.
Indeed..I did look like some horrific clown....

and that is all I remember.

August 12/02


I dreamt I was a wolf.  
Not at first... first I was alone in the forest.  I knew there were wolves in the forest and I was 
scared.  It was dark, not night dark but deep forest dark.  The canopy of leaves so thick
it blocked most manner of sunshine. I could hear them.  I climbed one of these great old
trees as far as I could manage.

When I looked down the tree was surrounded by the creatures;  pawing at the base of it.
Again, I was frightened.  I happened to catch the eye of one of the wolves however; a great
grey animal with brown eyes.  Somehow my fear began to vanish.  Somehow, I found myself
climbing down the tree to stand among the wolves.  

They did not attack.  Instead, I found mysef suddenly one of them.  I was running among 
wolves in the deep dark forest;  and nothing could feel so free.


And then of course, I awoke