January 4, 2004

• I dreamed last night I was sucked into this medieval world where these blue to gray skinned people kept slaves of everyone else. They took me to this awful place and some dull grayish lady in drab Victorian-esque garb checked my teeth!

  
  

  Then I was in a long line of slaves heading somewhere. This guy kind of adopted me and looked out for me so no one else would mess with me when we slept. He didn’t take advantage, which was nice. We weren’t chained or anything, but everyone stayed together, even though I’m pretty sure some of us were meant to be sacrificed and we knew it. The area was a wasteland, so I guess there was really nowhere to go anyway.

  
  

  My new friend was some kind of prince/leader, and he was planning a rebellion but had been caught. So I’m pretty sure he was definitely going to be sacrificed. But he was determined to finish his plans, and he let me help though I didn’t tell him I was from another world. I’m not sure how he meant to get the plans out either.

  
  

  We were finishing the plans when one of the blue-skinned slavers came up behind me. I ignored him and put the plans in a manilla envelope. When he demanded that I hand the envelope over to him, I handed it to the prince instead. When the slaver reached over to take it from him, I jabbed him in the gut with my elbow and it killed him!

  
  

  Everything was pandemonium then, slaves running about as if killing one of the slavers had been a catalyst for freedom. The Prince grabbed some other girl by the hand and took off (grrr, jealousy! grrrr) We all raced over a hill and came upon an ancient forest. No one was going in though because someone said the forest hated people and would kill them. I went in without hesitation because I love trees, and I didn’t think the forest would hurt someone who loved it.

  
  

  So quite a few people followed me in though we got separated. I put my hand on a tree and it wasn’t like trees here. The trees were very angry and didn’t like people at all, not like our trees which are for the most part very laid back and complacent. But I won them over and they decided not to hurt any of us and perhaps keep the slavers out too. (Apparently they could move about though I didn’t see them actually do this.) Just so long as no one hurt any trees or lit any fires.

  
  

  Apparently more of this world was bleeding over to that one because a little farther into the forest there were up and down escalators and bits of a shopping mall that had materialized. So a lot of people had ridden the escalators down into the mall which had three stories and only one guy was standing at the top to tell me where everyone else had gone.

  
  

  I got very upset and told him to stay out of the mall and to keep everyone else out too. I was afraid they’d just get into more trouble if they met any of my people in the mall. But apparently the mall was empty (must of bled over after hours) and I told the Prince as he came up an escalator with a group of people (and the girl, grrrr) that the woods had told me we could stay provided we didn’t do any harm and I told him where I was from. It did worry me that the escalators were working though because how could they if only parts of the mall were there. Made me think maybe the problem would get worse.

  
  

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  You know, I have a marked paranoia when it comes to thoughts of humanity mixing with other beings. I don’t fear for us… I fear for what we might do to them. I think despite the strides we’ve made in acceptance, we are still an intrinsically xenophobic people. It’s always us against them. S’probably why the aliens haven’t made any overt attempts at meeting us. Though what they must think of us based on the people they “abduct” I shudder to think.

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