RE: A Dream of Fire, Friendship, and Forbidden Phrases
Dreams are a strange thing humans do, I wish I experienced/remembered more of my own. Trying to figure out just what the hell your brain was doing in those few hours/minutes/seconds of sleep is just so much fun.
I've never understood those people that hate hearing about other people's dreams, especially when they're dreams of an epic scale like your one. I guess I understand why people might not want to hear about that time I was sitting in the back of somebody's car eating a deck of playing cards, or that time I almost bought a book before realising I couldn't afford it, but when a dream sounds like an action movie how can you not be interested?
Also, I'm happy your subconscious/unconscious was worried about me, haha.
Oh, and do you have any recollection of what those trigger words might have been? Haha.
Dreams tend to lack any kind of cohesive story structure, and as such they're usually only interesting to the teller. I usually keep mine to myself but this one was just too good not to share.
Eating a deck of playing cards sounds pretty interesting. Very David Lynch. Which suits did you eat first?
I woke up choking from a dream where I was trying to download music by chewing and swallowing a vinyl record. "It's an analog signal," I thought. "This has to be the only way..." Made perfect sense at the time.
I think it's the lack of story structure that makes me enjoy dreams, both my own and other peoples'. It must be something about dreams being pure, unfiltered imagination that makes me like them so much.
I don't remember which I ate first, I think I was just eating random cards from an old deck. I do remember that somebody wasn't too happy with me eating the cards so I angrily bought them a deck of their own and told them they could do what they want with them, haha.
Haha, that is a strange one. It's definitely a method of music consumption I've never considered.