Barrow-Down Dreams

[Thinlómien]

I had a rather creepy and rather depressing BD dream, but as it amused me on some level and I found it quite interesting, so I'll post it anyway...

It was a sunny afternoon. I, Greenie, my three best RL friends (including Aganzir), Volo and Lhuna were in Nogrod's place, drinking tea and chatting. Suddenly, Volo turned to me and said in a low voice: "There's something I must tell you. In private." I cast him a quizzical look, but agreed to come to talk with him in the corridor.
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"I... I killed Legate and Nilp," he replied, "I must hide the bodies."
I looked at him (with an "oh silly boy what have you done now" -expression) and said, at length: "Then I guess I must help you."

We went to the yard and the rest of the tea party came with us. Volo would not have wanted to tell them what was the matter, but I refused to keep it secret. None of the others wanted to help Volo, they just stared at him in silence. Then Lhuna, looking very pale, said she wanted to go home and left.

I helped Volo nevertheless. He had buried the bodies to the grass in the yard, only something like 10cm (4 inches) deep. I said it was a very poor place and that they should be hidden elsewhere. Legate's body was very small and white and had a big head, of Nilpaurion there was only one hand and one other piece left. I don't know what Volo had done to him, but I remember thinking it was quite a crafty way to kill someone since there were so little remains. Anyway, we dumped what was left of Nilp and Legate to the biowaste and covered them with mould.

Then I was suddenly in a room that resembled the room I and Greenie shared when I was something like five years old. My three friends and Greenie were in the room with me. Now it was one of my best friends, not Volo, who had killed Nilp and Legate. I was very sad, crying all the time, and unbelievably angry at my friend, who seemed to find her deed very funny and just kept laughing. My other friends and Greenie weren't any more comforting. They kept telling me things like:
"Stop whining. People die every now and then."
"You have a lot of friends. Losing two of them hardly matters." (I think Agan was the one who said this...)
"What happens, happens. Get over it."
"It isn't such a big deal."
"I can't see why you're that upset by that."
"She did it, and so what? You can't change it anymore. It doesn't matter."
I tried to explain that it surely mattered to me and that it really was horrible for me. One of the examples/arguments I used was: "Just think! I've been away from 'downs for a day. In that time, Legate probably made ten posts before he died. Ten posts of his I've never read, and that's all! And now that you've killed him, he will never write new posts. Never! Can't you see? Even if I read only one of those posts per year, there would only be unread posts by him for ten years! And then it's over, I will never hear anything new of him again!"
I called them cruel, immoral and heartless and was very angry at them all.

Then, I woke up. We were still in the same room. I started crying again, because I had been so nasty to my friends as they really hadn't said those things and no one had really killed Legate and Nilp. I explained that I had thought it to be true because it was such a life-like dream (it had really felt very real). They said it was alright and understandable.

Then I really woke up. I was safely in my own bed, alone and thought, "that was a really disturbing dream". I can't really explain this, but in the dream, the dream within the dream had seemed very real and life-like, but when I woke up, both the dream and the dream within the dream seemed quite unreal. Definitely weird.

Also, I think it's quite amusing how the atmosphere and my attitude changes from the first part of the dream to the second. First, I'm very pragmatic and matter-of-fact, and not really moved by what has happened, but in the second part I'm upset, angry and very sad. Odd, isn't it? All in all, I think the first part is quite grotesque but amusing in a way (I and Volo are acting so oddly! ) and it was not nightmare-ish at all, but the second part was really depressing, I'm not sure if I could call it a nightmare, but it was definitely a very bad dream.

And I really don't know what to make of this habit of mine of having rather sinister BD dreams... I hope no one involved is seriously creeped out by this. And lastly, I should probably make it clear that my friends aren't normally like that... this was just a weird dream.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Eaaaaieiiii? That's probably the best expression of what I can say about that That's horrific!I don't really understand it. I can't even call it crazy, because it's not the right word. But it must have been horrible in itself (at least as you say, the second part). I really don't know what to think of it

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Eaaaaieiiii? That's probably the best expression of what I can say about that That's horrific!I don't really understand it. I can't even call it crazy, because it's not the right word. But it must have been horrible in itself (at least as you say, the second part). I really don't know what to think of it

Funny reaction. By the way, "ei" is Finnish for "no", so that first word quite amused me and was appropriate. But, if you don't know what to think of it, I advise you to forget about the second part and merely think about the first part, because the more I think of it, the more it makes me laugh, I mean, Volo's so funny, I'm so cold and pragmatic and the whole situation is all too crazy.

[Lhunardawen]

Lommy, you are perhaps the person I know with the most interesting subconscious.

I wonder how this is related to my last dream, when all of us had been drinking and dancing in front of a mirror. No more drinking for you, Volo...but I have to thank you for one of those deaths.

[Aganzir]

That dream made my day Lommy. *still laughing*

I had a dream which was not BD-related in itself but maybe somehow connected to Lommy's previous dream. In it I adopted a baby seal.
For what purpose, I wonder?

[satansaloser2005]

I'm sorry, I can't resist....


Two baby seals were sitting in a bathtub full of warm crisco. One says, "Pass the soap." The other replies, "What do I look like? A typewriter?"




I kept waking up in the night, and my laptop was right by my pillow with everything but the Downs minimized. I don't know how much of what I saw was a dream and how much was actually posted. I remember someone said something about my duckling, but other than that, it was a blur.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Lhunardawen

Lommy, you are perhaps the person I know with the most interesting subconscious.

Interesting because of the number of people she seems to want dead? Yes interesting is one word ..... disturbing might be another....

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Lhunardawen

Lommy, you are perhaps the person I know with the most interesting subconscious.

That's been known for a while... : )

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Funny reaction. By the way, "ei" is Finnish for "no", so that first word quite amused me and was appropriate. But, if you don't know what to think of it, I advise you to forget about the second part and merely think about the first part, because the more I think of it, the more it makes me laugh, I mean, Volo's so funny, I'm so cold and pragmatic and the whole situation is all too crazy.

Ha, I thought it may have been an unintentionally used Finnish word, given the structure of it
...No, of course not. There would have to be just two a's and i's, not four ...

But I actually thought about it and concluded that I liked the second part more.

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

But I actually thought about it and concluded that I liked the second part more.

I wonder why

[Volo]

The contrast between part one and part two was especially amusing. I guess you're quite used to me messing up (though I would be quite surprised if your other friend doesn't mess up). I'm quite honored by you helping me out, but I'm rather interested in how I killed the two.

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Volo

The contrast between part one and part two was especially amusing. I guess you're quite used to me messing up (though I would be quite surprised if your other friend doesn't mess up). I'm quite honored by you helping me out, but I'm rather interested in how I killed the two.

I'm not sure about messing up, but you always seem to appear as more or less pitiful or simple in my dreams, I'm sorry. I'd be interested to know the killing methods too - especially as there was so little left of Nilp...

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

[Volo: ]I... I killed Legate and Nilp.

Well, this is certainly interesting . . .

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Nilpaurion Felagund

Well, this is certainly interesting . . .

I just sighted a very rare wight! Ahem, yes, glad to see you pop in. And it surely was interesting...