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I had a nightmare last night about being captured to be a meal for a robotic bird.
The dream started in a collapsed building that I knew as a 'school', where the first two floors were intact but the top two had crumbled, making the stairs no longer make sense or take you to the floors where it looked like they were pointing. After walking around them for a while I realized that I had found my 'starting point' (having apparently taken control of the dream at some point after the action began), and was then able to follow a logical guided path out of the maze.
The next setting was an open space at the front of a meat factory, with vague rusted machinery piled up on the floor. There were others with me, but I can't remember who they were or what they looked like - quietly, we climbed one of the piles and peeked over the top to check that the path was clear to the building's entrance.
Instead of the escape route we were hoping for, we saw the thing that had captured us talking to one of its henchmen next to the huge closed front door - our captor was a man-sized mechanical bird, mostly black but with parallel silver pipes like those on an engine crossing its underbelly, and black orbs for eyes. He had welded the entrance shut to prevent us escaping, and without knowing any other way out of the building, I knew that we were going to have to find somewhere to hide and just hope we hadn't been discovered by the time he left.
I wonder what could have caused all that.
The dream started in a collapsed building that I knew as a 'school', where the first two floors were intact but the top two had crumbled, making the stairs no longer make sense or take you to the floors where it looked like they were pointing. After walking around them for a while I realized that I had found my 'starting point' (having apparently taken control of the dream at some point after the action began), and was then able to follow a logical guided path out of the maze.
The next setting was an open space at the front of a meat factory, with vague rusted machinery piled up on the floor. There were others with me, but I can't remember who they were or what they looked like - quietly, we climbed one of the piles and peeked over the top to check that the path was clear to the building's entrance.
Instead of the escape route we were hoping for, we saw the thing that had captured us talking to one of its henchmen next to the huge closed front door - our captor was a man-sized mechanical bird, mostly black but with parallel silver pipes like those on an engine crossing its underbelly, and black orbs for eyes. He had welded the entrance shut to prevent us escaping, and without knowing any other way out of the building, I knew that we were going to have to find somewhere to hide and just hope we hadn't been discovered by the time he left.
I wonder what could have caused all that.
