(Tim's note: I originally posted this yesterday, but today I figured out how to finally add titles to my blogs. So, this'll be my first titled entry! So, with that in mind (and the fact that it's a new month, and November had enough posts) I give you the deluxe, re-editted edition of yesterday's post!)
So, I had a Quest Dream last night. Really vivid one too.
What is a Quest Dream, you ask? Well, the term itself was coined by Josh (my sister's fiancee Josh, not clown-faced, exploding head Josh). According to him, every guy in the universe has one at one time or another. The dream itself is when a guy, more often then not the guy having the dream, goes on some outlandish, arduous quest to reach/save/do something for a girl. Most of the time its stuff like rescuing her from a tower, slaying a dragon that's trying to eat her, saving her from an evil wizard/criminal/boyfriend. Lame-o, cheese stuff like that. The girl is usually a real person too.
They're usually long, elaborate dreams and not very difficult to recall.
Mine was a little different than most.
It took place at a school dance, I think. Prom maybe, I dunno. The only reason I know it was a school dance is because everyone was dressed nicely and a bunch of people from my high school days were there. (Ponivas, Zach, Craig, Anna, Kristin, among others, to name a few.)
So, the dance itself was taking place at some ballroom on the top floor of some weird building. In order to GET to the floor, you had to go through this weird, huge room that looked like that one surrealist work of art, with all the doors and stairs going every which way. You know which one I'm talking about.
Anyway, the dream STARTED already in the ballroom, near as I can tell. I was dancing with a girl (whose name shall remain shrouded in anonymity, but rest assured, it is a girl I really know, but not one you might expect to be the "damsel in distress" so to speak in my dreams) and everything was going super.
Then, for some reason, the fire alarms went off, and since it was a dream everyone knew what was up: the faculty had decided to have a fire drill in the middle of the dance, and everyone who didn't get out of the building in five minutes got a failing grade and had to be held behind and lectured while all the passing students got to go back to the dance. Well, we all ran, the girl and I got separated, and Ponivas pushed me into a fountain. It took me a very long time to get out of the fountain and by the time I got out... you guessed it... it was too late! I made it to the designated point outside, but by the time I got there everyone was gone... except for Mr. Redden, who gave me an F and talked a long time about stuff I don't remember. All I remember was I was getting pissed cause the dance was going on without me and I
had to get back to that girl!
So, finally Mr. Redden pulled out two swords, tossed me one, and said we had to duel in order for me to get back in. So duel we did and it was epic! And I won, finally, by disarming him and then he said something like "You have learned well, my son! Go!" or something like that, I don't remember.
So I ran back into the building and immediately came into the surrealist art room. And I was all confused as to how to get through it cause, hello, doors on the ceiling and floors? Stairs going everywhere? Then, my cousin Matthew (I don't know why) appeared to me all shimmering like Obi-Wan Kenobi and said something like "Only by unlocking the rooms secrets may you pass!" So I looked around and eventually I found this button. When you pressed the button, the whole room shook and one of the sets of stairs would fall down and a door would cave in. So I kept doing that until only one door and one set of stairs was left and I ran up it. The door came out into a room that was big and round and full of stars, like an observatory, where I was confronted by.... Darth Vader (who actually is a common dream adversary of mine, I once played basketball one on one with him in a forest... don't ask). He said something like "You'll never win!" and I shouted "You can't stop me!" and we dueled... me with the sword I still had from Mr. Redden, he with his lightsaber, and thankfully in dream world, lightsabers don't melt regular swords.
After another epic fight (I can only assume, the fight scenes got hazy) my cousin Matthew reappeared and started blasting Darth Vader with electricity saying something like "Go, I'll hold him off!"
So, I ran out of the room and into the next room which was the ballroom. I looked around for the girl and couldn't find her... but I found Ponivas. He laughed for pushing me in the fountain and I tackled him and we had a big fist fight which ended with me knocking him out cold in the same fountain he'd pushed me in I think. It was a fountain, that I know for sure.
By this time I specifically remember my suit that I was wearing was all disheveled now. My sleeves were ripped, my jacket and tie were gone, the collar was unbuttoned, and the whole shirt was untucked. Sorta like "Disheveled Mulder", as Anna would say. I don't know why I specifically remembered this but I think it was something like having your suit messed up like that was a big disgrace or something.
Anyway, I was all set to give up, when I saw the girl standing in the center of the dance floor. She smiled at me, I ran to her, dramatic music, la-dee-da, we shared the last dance in the spotlight in the center of the dance floor, everybody clapped.... and that was the end. I woke up, or fell into dreamless sleep stage, or something, I dunno.
Funky, huh? It actually was an awesome dream and a refreshing change of pace from the nasty nightmares I've been having lately. The only really strange part was who the girl was, but you're not going to get to learn that part of the story, so nyah nyah!
All in all, it was very interesting. I rarely have dreams that long or elaborate, but that one I did. And it's given me quite a bit to think about it. What can I say, I'm a cheesy romantic at heart, I guess. Or an incredible loser. Not that I'm asking
you people's opinions on the subject, so keep your mouth shut, Zach.
Those crazy Quest Dreams.
