Daylight Dreams of Vampires

I had the weirdest dream about vampires and Angel last night. I wish I could remember more of this, it was one of those very emotional dreams where I felt both severely depressed and incredibly happy, and it seemed to go on forever. It started off with Sparky taking me out to breakfast, but the places we went to weren't serving breakfast any longer, which really upset me but didn't bother him, which made me even more upset. I think I really wanted French Toast and all of the syrup bottles were empty. At some point in the dream I also had no clothes on, which freaked me out even more.

So I set out on my own, apparently with some clothing now, and had to walk back to our hotel, which was in New Orleans but the landscape didn't look at all like New Orleans for some reason. We were staying at a big fancy Holiday Inn right by a freeway overpass. After walking for some time, I managed to get on a bus that was going that way, though I only had a handful of change with me to pay. I saw the hotel approaching and someone reached up to pull the bell for the stop, but it didn't make any noise, so I pulled it too, and again it was silent. I asked the bus driver, Mel Gibson, if we could stop there and he said 'Oh no, that would be much too expensive' and so the bus kept going and went way past the hotel before I could finally get off, in an area that actually did resemble old New Orleans.

I made it back to the hotel eventually, and was upset to find that my husband, who was now Angel, was not there. I found out he had become obsessed with playing a really involved arcade game and was spending hundreds of dollars on it, but he couldn't stop playing for some reason. At this point I realized I was a vampire also, and went back to the vampire lair to look for him, where all sorts of young people, poseurs and real vampires were hanging out (sort of ala Underworld), and one of the young poseurs kept acting like he knew Angel but he didn't have any clue who I was, and kept holding out his fist, which was covered with small cuts across the knuckles and saying 'These are Angel's rings' and I kept thinking, no, Angel's rings were silver, and finally confronted him on it. But he kept bragging and I finally blew him off as nuts. I went through Angel's desk and found a receipt for like $800 for this arcade game, which he had apparently also won a bunch of things by playing, and I tried to figure out some reason he was doing this.

Me and some others went looking for Angel, in the daytime, in an RV driven by Wilfred Brimley. Somehow we were immune enough to sunlight that we could tolerate little bits of it. He drove us all over town and through an alley way so narrow he had to fold in the mirrors on the RV, and we finally found Angel, who seemed very confused and embarrassed by what he had been doing, so I figured he'd been under some sort of spell and could not find it in my heart to be angry with him, though he didn't apologize exactly. I had to drive us back to the hotel in the RV, which I managed very well. When we arrived we were going to take the stairway up to our room, when I realized I could fly as a spirit up the stairs so we did that. For some reason I've never been good at flying in my dreams, so it felt really clunky.

Angel was very humble and loving when we got back to our room and I didn't bring up the subject of why he'd been missing or what he'd been doing, we just made up without speaking about it.

Meanwhile, back at the vampire lair, the young braggart was also going through Angel's desk and found a note about his 'great secret' which turned out to be the demonic arcade game, which was waiting for another victim to find it...

I think we then checked out of the hotel and everything was cool, though again it was daytime which concerned me, though I think we had a big black limo waiting for us just outside and could make it that far safely.

Dream Sources - I was reading Charlaine Harris's Living Dead in Dallas before bed (her heroine stalked off down a dark road after a fight with her vampire boyfriend); Sparky just taped another episode of 'Angel' last night, we're like the whole season behind in watching them (very sad this may be the last season); On Conan O'Brien last night Dubya made a joke about his mom looking like Wilfred Brimley; I saw a guy on The Daily Show driving an RV; the Mel Gibson reference is easy; I've been feeling very poor lately because I had to shell out my half of $800 for a new version of Adobe Creative Suite (whoa, that's wshere the $800 amount came from also I guess); and day before yesterday was Mardi Gras and I was thinking about my friend who lives in NOLA. The ring thing might have been because of a recent episode of the Osbourne's I just watched where Ozzy lost a quarter million dollar ring.

Posted by Morticia at February 27, 2004 04:11 AM | TrackBack