Sounisian Dreams -- a NIGHTMARE!

[deirdrej.livejournal.com]

OK, after reading about Hazelwillow's lovely dream, filled with awesome lights and colors, and trapeze artists (BTW, was Kristin Cashore one of them? She studies flying trapeze...)....Anyway, after reading about Eugenides' beautiful new garden, I thought I might tell you about an HILARIOUS NIGHTMARE I had!

My dream was not set in an Attolian garden, but in a lecture hall with no windows, rather like one of those at Simmons College. And Megan Whalen Turner was there! I could see her from afar! I wonder what she was wearing in Hazelwillow's dream? Flowing robes in bright colors, perhaps? In my dream, she was sensibly dressed in jeans and a green sweater (echoes of Simmons, perhaps? ;-D).

Well, I started this dream completely, ecstatically excited, because MWT was going to be reading the first chapters of book 5 aloud! What spoilerific bliss!! EXCEPT...I was trying to save seats for friends (Mary and Maria, etc.), but I couldn't ...because I was ACCOSTED by a TALL, DARK, and HANDSOME MAN (Nick Ryves, perhaps?). Who was also exceptionally scary, somehow or other (must have been Nick Ryves ... I love Sarha Rees Brennan's books, but they have NO RIGHT to intrude into my dreams about other books!). Anyway, this man just kept on talking to me, no matter what I did, and sticking right by my side, no matter where I went, and I was trying so hard to get away from him that I ended up in the wrong room altogether, where a wierd comedy about umbrellas was playing. I mean, please! What is so funny about umbrellas?!! So finally I managed to shake this guy, and then EVERYTHING WAS OVER! And I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING MEGAN WHALEN TURNER SAID!

Can you imagine a more horrible nightmare? Missing all those wonderful chapters of the next book? Aargh! And then Mary and Maria came running up to me, having missed it all TOO, and they were going, "What did she say, what did she say?", and I had to tell them "I don't know." They were so stunned -- poor things!

I'm thinking I must be feeling guilty for not posting on Sounis in so long [LOL] So, here I am, to wish you all a happy Little Christmas (if you celebrate), and Happy New Year!

And I'll be posting something wonderful very soon -- promise! :-D

Comments

[keestone.livejournal.com]

I think that dream may have been even more annoying than my dream about my sister's alarm clocks.

[deirdrej.livejournal.com]

Oh! That sounds so horrible I think I don't even want to know! Does she have those alarm clocks that leap around the room so that you have to chase them to turn them off? Does she have lots of them, and do they run in different directions? Did Stenides make them? Or do you have to turn them off with a key, which Eugenides stole?

Perhaps you could persuade him to steal the clocks, as well ;-)

Or... Oh, no! Don't tell me Gen wasn't in the dream!

[keestone.livejournal.com]

No, Gen wasn't in the dream or anything, it's just by far the most off-putting dream I've ever had that I couldn't technically classify a nightmare. It was just a room full of clock alarms going off . . . beeping, ringing, buzzing, radio, etc. And I couldn't turn them off and I couldn't leave or wake up. Guaranteed bad mood in the morning. It was kind of partly based in real memory because my big sister used to have a clock radio that she set to go on to a really annoying morning radio show at top volume for over half an hour and she'd pretty much beat me up if I got up and turned it off. I think I was fourteen when I got fed up enough to dismantle my bed and drag it across the hall to my dad's study/music room.

[lizzyazula.livejournal.com]

I agree that missing MWT was terrible, but being accosted by a tall, dark handsome man? This may have a been a nightmare, but this particular aspect of it gives it a certain perverse pleasurable element...on one hand, you missed MWT, but on the other, you meet this guy. You hate him now, but it sounds like the beginnings of a hate-him-then-love-him story (like Pride and Prejudice). You are dreaming (and therefore partially living) a CLASSIC ROMANCE. MAYBE he'll appear in future dreams, and little by little your relationship will progress until you figure out you're madly in love with him and he makes up for this first dream by letting you meet MWT. With dreams like this, you'll want to spend all your time sleeping! You'll have to write a book about it afterward.

And yes, I know I just completely over-analyzed this dream. But still...

[deirdrej.livejournal.com]

Oh, my, that's a nice idea--thanks! :-)

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

The tall, dark, handsome scary man didn't by any chance have a smelly, forked beard that he dyed red, did he?

[deirdrej.livejournal.com]

Noooo! Scary, but not that scary. That is so funny -- I'm still laughing! Really, the guy was more Nick Ryves-ish...Who knows? Maybe Costis looks like that, too. ( Btw, my Nick Ryves is NOT the pic on the Hardcover. The paperback and the British ed. are both much closer).

Maybe he was Legarus the Awesomely Beautiful. Though I somehow don't see him as scary...at least not in that way.
Hmmm....

[keestone.livejournal.com]

Hah!

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

And I'll be posting something wonderful very soon -- promise! :-D

*paces*

[hazelwillow.livejournal.com]

Egads! That is a truly agonizing dream! :(
I don't remember what MWT was wearing in mine, but it was definitely something normal. However, like the gods in (most) Eddesians' minds, she has faded to be a bit vague in mine. :-P

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