December 11, 2003

• Well, I had three dreams last night, but I only know this because I woke up the first two times and told myself to remember the first two. Which I now don’t. Of course.

  
  

  I know, I should have gotten up and written them down, but then I would have been awake and not sleeping and I already get little enough sleep. I hope my mother gets me the little minitape recorder I asked for, for Yule. Then I can just press a button and record my dream without getting up, turning on the light, and waking up enough to write in a notebook and then not being able to get back to sleep.

  
  

  Anyway, the third dream was extra odd as if to make up for the two forgotten. My mother was a maid at this huge mansion, and the girl who lived there was having a “sweet sixteen” party. I was sixteen in the dream and for some reason, the girl invited me. (I never got a “sweet sixteen” party myself. I didn’t have any friends. Do people even still have these?)Anyway, it was last minute notice. I wanted to stop and pick up a Harry Potter book, but there wasn’t time so I had to go to the party without a present.

  
  

  The mansion was huge. It was three times the size of any normal mansion. In fact, everything there was larger than it needed to be. It made me feel like I was much younger. I passed a dining room chair that I would have had to climb to get into. (Maybe this was my subconscious trying to convince me I was much younger than I am now.)

  
  

  I was shown into an auditorium-type room. The birthday girl sat near the bottom with everyone else fanned out around her so they could see her as she opened the presents. I felt really guilty for not having a present, but no one seemed to notice and no one said anything. I saw this baby-blue blanket with a stuffed animal head at one end sitting on a chair, and I thought of bundling it up and saying it was from me, but I resisted the temptation. (Besides, whoever really owned it would have known.)

  
  

  Suddenly, the party was attacked by vampires. (Yeah, I know how dopey that sounds. Sue me, I caught the end of NightFlyer on Sci-Fi last night.) The vampires were killing most everyone, but some they were turning into vampires too.

  
  

  So I’m pretty sure they meant to kill me, but when one of them had me down, I kicked and clawed and then bit the jerk until he let me go. They thought this was pretty funny, a vampire getting bit by a human, so they decided to let me live, sort of. Actually they just let me go, but since it was pretty much a given I was going to be a vampire too now, it wasn’t much of a favor.

  
  

  From that point, the dream got steadily weirder. Remember we were in some kind of auditorium, well now it was some kind of deck hanging over this ancient forest. The forest was a very long way down, but I jumped and landed easily.

  
  

  The trees were huge, bigger than the mansion had been. The branches were so large and pendulous, they dipped into the ground and came up again as if they were new trees. I kind of felt like the hulk the way I went leaping and flying through them. (Yay, hulk smash! hehe)

  
  

  Meanwhile, the vampire lord (master, leader?) regretted letting me go since I hadn’t come back and sent out his goons after me. I got the impression he admired my determination and grit and wanted me to either fall into place like the rest of his lackeys or be dead so I wouldn’t give the others ideas.

  
  

  At this point, I figured the safest place to hide would be right under their noses. So once I managed to lose the hunters, I doubled back to the mansion. OK, so now the deck which had been an auditorium was a bed. (Don’t ask me, I guess I’m even nuttier in my sleep than awake.) It still looked like the deck, but it was much closer to the ground and had a mattress instead of floorboards. 

  
  

  So the vampire lord was sleeping there with the girl whose birthday I had been attending, now a vampire herself. I hid underneath in the dirt. There was barely enough room, but at least I was pretty sure no one would look for me there.

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