melatonin is a hell of a drug
Dec. 25th, 2009 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kleenexwomanMom and Barry haven't woken up yet and I have no intention of doing presents without them so I'm going to talk about these dreams I keep having. I had one last night and woke up feeling like my mouth was filled with salt.
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The suburb was built on a hilly place with wild magic. The magic behaves itself mostly, but sometimes it will switch around whole areas of the neighborhood. There are invisible paths between houses you can walk on. The green areas are huge meadows or bits of forest. The big attraction is the school in the biggest green, and people move to the suburb just to send their kids there.
The school is octagonal, and nineteen stories tall. Each level is devoted to one subject area, a normal subject sometimes taught from a magical perspective. Classes are held in the open in each side of the school, in open clasrooms. The library is in the center of the school, and the librarians are very nice. The books aren't alive, but sometimes the magic wakes up and makes them escape to the stairwells to fly. You can capture them and ride on them. The stairwells are where there are food carts, which are what you're supposed to eat from, because there are evil vending machines in the basement which just appeared there, and the food from them will possess you.
The school has a parking lot and a field, where sometimes kids sneak off to play or make out. Sometimes the alumni gather in the parking lot to tailgate, in hopes of watching a football game, but they have to watch the frogs in the field play frog games.
The mall is a few miles from the suburb. It claims to be a school of magic for those who can't get into the suburb, or who got tossed out of the school for not paying attention (or for getting possessed by the evil vending machines). Each store teaches a subject related to that store (and sells things), and there is supposedly a real school attached to it, but you'll never find it. Sometimes celebrity faux-wizards are roped into teaching special classes, but not often. Nobody really bothers to learn there, and when they do, it's all evil spells and mind control.
There are three stories in the mall. The top one is only for rich people and graduates; they WILL throw you out. I haven't gotten there yet. The middle one is where all the stores and Orange Julius stands are. The bottom one is often empty and has stores that tend to be shoddy and/or closed, because that is where the evil wizard and his witch mother lives. The arcade at the end of the mall on that floor promises riches and power, but if you lose at the games the wizard will yell at you for annoying him and then his mother will turn you into a stuffed doll to be sold there.
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I know this sounds like some kind of weird demented American caricature of Hogwarts or something, but I dream about these exact places a LOT for no apparent reason and sometimes it creeps me out. Maybe this will get them off my mind.
Now I'm going back to bed until everyone else wakes up.
*
The suburb was built on a hilly place with wild magic. The magic behaves itself mostly, but sometimes it will switch around whole areas of the neighborhood. There are invisible paths between houses you can walk on. The green areas are huge meadows or bits of forest. The big attraction is the school in the biggest green, and people move to the suburb just to send their kids there.
The school is octagonal, and nineteen stories tall. Each level is devoted to one subject area, a normal subject sometimes taught from a magical perspective. Classes are held in the open in each side of the school, in open clasrooms. The library is in the center of the school, and the librarians are very nice. The books aren't alive, but sometimes the magic wakes up and makes them escape to the stairwells to fly. You can capture them and ride on them. The stairwells are where there are food carts, which are what you're supposed to eat from, because there are evil vending machines in the basement which just appeared there, and the food from them will possess you.
The school has a parking lot and a field, where sometimes kids sneak off to play or make out. Sometimes the alumni gather in the parking lot to tailgate, in hopes of watching a football game, but they have to watch the frogs in the field play frog games.
The mall is a few miles from the suburb. It claims to be a school of magic for those who can't get into the suburb, or who got tossed out of the school for not paying attention (or for getting possessed by the evil vending machines). Each store teaches a subject related to that store (and sells things), and there is supposedly a real school attached to it, but you'll never find it. Sometimes celebrity faux-wizards are roped into teaching special classes, but not often. Nobody really bothers to learn there, and when they do, it's all evil spells and mind control.
There are three stories in the mall. The top one is only for rich people and graduates; they WILL throw you out. I haven't gotten there yet. The middle one is where all the stores and Orange Julius stands are. The bottom one is often empty and has stores that tend to be shoddy and/or closed, because that is where the evil wizard and his witch mother lives. The arcade at the end of the mall on that floor promises riches and power, but if you lose at the games the wizard will yell at you for annoying him and then his mother will turn you into a stuffed doll to be sold there.
*
I know this sounds like some kind of weird demented American caricature of Hogwarts or something, but I dream about these exact places a LOT for no apparent reason and sometimes it creeps me out. Maybe this will get them off my mind.
Now I'm going back to bed until everyone else wakes up.
