Observation window

[davidn]

I felt really impressed with myself for dreaming up a really good scare during my first waking moments this morning, but the dream's made less and less sense throughout the day.

I can't remember how the dream started, but after something to do with large birds and vultures coming in to carry them off and a whole lot of other irrelevant stuff, I was in a grassy field outside. The birds circling around overhead eventually began to converge above a strange bluish cube that was slowly growing in the middle of the field, forming a dark egg-shaped mass hovering on top of it, which shifted and pulsed around with their movement. A hole opened in the side, and slowly, I and all the loose objects lying around were dragged towards it to be swallowed inside.

I awoke again in some sort of bedroom that I thought was a hotel, with sick-making primary coloured walls and no windows. I looked around for a moment, finding a set of stairs round a corner with an arrow-shaped sign stuck on the wall that said "All your basement" and pointed down to the lower floor, but I decided that I didn't want to go down there alone. Coming back into the room, I saw a two-inch-high horizontal strip of metal set into one wall, with the words "Observation window" above it. Through the small gap, I saw a figure in the next room, sitting cross-legged on a bed facing away from me (undoubtedly not human, blue, with a tail, and it was Krystal out of the later Starfox games, actually, but... shut up), and I walked over to take a closer look.

As I leaned down to put my face to the gap, though, I saw that what I'd seen was just an image projected on to a cover over the window. As soon as I realized, the cover shot aside and I saw a pair of stern eyes staring back at me from the other side, exactly like the mysterious woman that's been turning up in the latest Doctor Who episodes. I flinched backwards and closed my eyes, and when I looked again, the gap was gone entirely, with the words on the wall having changed to "Observation window has been removed for safety".

There was then a knock at the room's main door to my right, and I decided to open it suddenly, look at who it was, and then close it again, before letting them in, but stopped and apologized as I let Whitney inside. And that's as much as I can remember.

Well, I'd love any interpretations of that.

Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

The "for your safety" line reminds me of Portal 2...

About the Krystal switcheroo, maybe you're self-conscious about someone 'catching' you liking furries, etc?

[davidn]

Now, it's odd you should mention that, because a Portal 2 sort of mood did feature in this dream - the content had nothing to do with it, but I remember it being there somehow, perhaps with the first half of the dream being seen very briefly through detached first-person-control style eyes with a portal gun hovering in the foreground.

As you know, I don't think that furry is something that I'm particularly concerned about, but it's possible, especially being around a new group of real-life people just now who won't have yet discovered my online activities. (I'm assuming that it was common knowledge in my last workplace, seeing as they used to read my journal and everything. I would consider it a miracle if they somehow missed it.)

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

But beyond the furry thing, I know you've been self-conscious lately about other things... but, I'll leave it at that because I've lost track of where what can be said. :P (And just go ahead and delete this comment if this is already too much?)

[davidn]

I think I need to show you something I'm planning to put into Crystal Towers 2 :)

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I am giddy with anticipation. ;)

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, being vague to avoid spoilers for others, part of the beginning reminds me of Portal 2 too!

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

Basically I think you're a huge furfag. ; 3

[davidn]

I can take that from you!

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

Was "All your basement" the frightening part?

I'm not good at interpreting dreams but I'll throw out something for the sake of it - perhaps peeking in on someone (I won't comment on the "someone" in question) and then being glared at by a pair of eyes, yourself, could represent guilt over voyeurism? Or fear of being scrutinised, which could tie in with Ravenworks' interpretation? Maybe even a bit of both.

[davidn]

Maybe. Perhaps existing in a new work environment just now could have done that. I definitely mentioned, even quite recently, that I was afraid of my work being looked at by new people.

[rakarr.livejournal.com]

Or you could just have been about to spy on Krystal and had some scary eyes pop up instead. Either way. :)

[kibet.livejournal.com]

Nobody mentioned the obvious of 'all your basement are belong to us'?

Doesn't the DW woman have an eyepatch?

[davidn]

I was hoping they wouldn't ;) And... I really can't remember, now. This face definitely had both eyes intact.

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

The only thing that comes to mind has already been discussed here, where others mentioned it may be related to people who aren't aware of your Scottish Bunny-ness. :) Admittedly this dream did appear to follow the evening my friend made that mistaken identity (http://tamakun.livejournal.com/1086978.html?thread=2891522#t2891522), due to similar names...

And yes, I thought "all your basement are belong to us" too.

[davidn]

The sign might actually have said that... though I can't think why that was in my mind!

If I'm right, this dream was the night before that happened. Perhaps some odd sort of almost unrelated premonition :)