December 24, 2004
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I had a short but odd dream about a small tribe of ghouls. I’ve never dreamed of ghouls before. Zombies have appeared more often, and sometimes Lovecraftian deities, but ghouls are a first.
Actually, it was just a female, her parents, and her suitor. I’m not sure what happened to the rest of her tribe, but I had the impression that they had been decimated in some fashion, and that the remainders of her tribe (that is, her elderly mater and pater, plus one) were on the move to find a new home land. In fact, I believe they were fleeing the decimation of their tribe, possibly caused by the tribe of her suitor.
They were travelling into what they thought of as mountainous Badlands, but the female knew her parents would not travel through them so suddenly in the dream the “Badlands” were rapidly replaced by stones which might best be described as “flagstones” interspersed with boulders. Over these the elderly ghouls traveled easily without ever realizing they were in Badlands at all. Because if her elderly parents had known, they would have killed themselves. They were old and losing the strength and agility of their race, and so it was only proper that they sacrifice themselves for the good of the tribe (and to provide meat for the youngsters).
So they finally got under the mountain, but oddly enough it was all held up by scaffolding through which the ghouls did gymnastics the Olympic teams would have been jealous over. The female went first, her parents in between, and her suitor last. But once they were under the mountain, and her parents realized they’d been duped into the Badlands, they kept trying to fall off the scaffolding. And the scaffolding was none-to-sturdy. So first the mother tried to slip through the warped boards and had to be saved, and then the father tried to tip himself off of the platform.
It was very annoying.
Comments (5)
i dream a lot about zombies too.. sometimes lovecraftian deities, but not that often.. i did have a dream (after reading Shadow Over Innsmouth) about fish zombies… all they wanted was human flesh.. sorta a mix between lovecraft and zombies..
hey! thanks for the book suggestion. that will help, since i had no idea where to start or what to look for. and i thought i heard/read somewhere that when choosing a tarot deck it will kind of “find” you. is that something i should think about?
I swear you must be doing some kind of interdimensional travelling…
You have the most fascinating dreams! I did get to see the sun blinking off and on, in the last one I can remember, but I awoke before it got any weirder…
Happy Holidays! Peace and Love…GFW
You should try to publish some of your dreams they’ed make for a good serial Zine or something close to that line
You have very interesting dreams! Do you do lucid dreaming? I should pay more attention to my dreams again. I used to do lucid dreaming. Oh yeah i hope you had a great holiday and happy New Years!