Field of Shattered Dreams

Merry Ol' Town of Galveston

Peter — Thu, 05 Oct 06 16:23:05 +0200

This was a terrifying dream, and at the end of it, I had extreme difficulties getting back to bed.

In the first part of the dream, I was an observer, watching what was happening through others' eyes. The dream was in a small village in the middle of the countryside. There was a massive pit of mud in the middle of the town, with lots of people herded into it, and some townsfolk standing around the outside of the mudpit. I heard some chanting and all of the people in the mudpit changed into various farm animals--sheep, pigs, etc. The townsfolk standing outside of the mudpit were carrying chainsaws, and they fired them up. They then went to the grisly task of slaughtering the transformed people. It was some sort of illusion, the people who were "changed" still saw themselves as people, but the townsfolk under the enchantmant saw them as farm animals, and it was slaughter day.

In a horrible scene, a mother in the town was going after her son. She thought that her son was a farm animal, had always been a farm animal, for such was the nature of the evil power over her mind. Her confused son begged for his mom to stop, snap out of it. She didn't.... and an unspeakable thing happened as he was killed by her.

After this, the townsfolk snapped out of it. They couldn't remember clearly what had happened, or what they had just done. They were all herded into a church by a small middle aged woman who told them - "That's right. Follow me. Gotta know Jesus. Gotta get right with Jesus." She sat everyone down and started instructing them. Except her "Bible" was actually a book of dark spells and hexes. Apparently whatever dark forces were at work in the town, they used religion as a cover to instruct and brainwash the people.

In the next part of the dream, I was myself again(the dream switched back to first person). I was back in town from Tokyo(I currently live in Tokyo, but I'm originally from Buffalo, NY). I volunteered to help out at a hardware store that I used to work for. While I was working there, the mother who had killed her son came into the store. She explained that she was from the village of Galveston, NY, and strange things were going on in her once-happy village. People were getting sick, disappearing, and a pall of fear began to hang in the air.

An FBI agent, who happened to be in the store at the time, overheard her story and decided to investigate. Even though I was on vacation, I decided to investigate as well(foolish me). So I jumped in my car and drove to the rather creepy village.

The FBI agent showed up first and went into a church there. He talked with the pastor there, and she explained that she didn't understand what was happening, or why people were disappearing. The FBI agent questioned her a bit further, and then decided to leave--he couldn't find any good leads yet. As he was leaving, one of the children in the church began coughing up blood, lots of blood. The FBI agent looked a bit skeptically at the parents, but they told him that they didn't know what was wrong.

Some speculation here: They never actually said so in the dream, but it seems like people in the village were divided between the sacrificers and the sacrificed. The sacrificers learned the dark arts, and were trained to sacrifice the others. The sacrificed were taught to be obedient, and to accept their fate quietly.

Anyway, I showed up in town after this. I took a look around the village, and decided that it was quite spooky alright. I then noticed something--crows. Lots of crows, so many in fact, all making all sorts of strange noises.

I looked up and noticed, "Those things aren't crows, are they?" They were some sort of strange creatures, that looked like a cross between a bird and a lizard. They had teeth and tongues, but crawled through the trees, darkly consuming other strange things that also were in the trees.

It was enough to convince me to leave. I got in my car and drove for the bridge out of town. The town was on an island, and there was one bridge out of town that they raised at night.

I had to take a whiz, so I stopped by a pitstop on the way. As I was leaving the bathroom, one of the children there said to me, "I wonder what they're going to change YOU into? Maybe a carrot?" This kid creeped me out, so I decided to get the heck out of dodge.

I was driving towards the bridge. I realized that the sun was rapidly dipping behind the trees, and I also remembered that they raised the bridge at night. If I didn't get over that bridge soon, I was going to be trapped on the island during the night, and I didn't want to be there.

I was whipping down the streets as fast as I could.... and then the dream ended. Bummer. I don't know if I got off in time, or what happened to me if I didn't. Good idea for a horror film I think.

I had this dream the night of May 22nd, 2006

Home Bazaar

Peter — Thu, 05 Oct 06 15:17:51 +0200

Okay, so I'm going to be posting about two great things on this site, dreams and E-commerce. :-)

I recently started an e-commerce site(http://www.home-bazaar.com) and it's coming along pretty well. Some of the images are broken, and the color needs a little bit of work, but other than that I'm ready to start promoting it, and telling everyone about the wonderful world of E-commerce.

Terrible Power

Peter — Thu, 05 Oct 06 15:14:23 +0200

I think this dream took place in early September.

In this dream, I was in a building that looked kind of like a big train station(like Shinjuku). I went up onto one of the "platforms" and I found that there were a bunch of ropes suspended over a huge pit. There were people standing and hanging onto the ropes. I decided to climb down onto the ropes to meet them, carefully. When I asked one of them why they were doing this, he explained that people who did, and were judged "worthy" would be granted special magical powers. He said that you had to think of 5 special shapes and concentrate very hard on the shapes.

At this point, he got sucked into the abyss below. Apparently, he had been judged unworthy by whatever forces were at work here. I decided that it might be in my best interest if I tried to concentrate along, considering how unpleasant the alternative was.

I thought of a triangle, square, circle, cube and something else. I forgot what the 5th shape was, this becomes important later on in the dream. Then I noticed that people were being sucked into the abyss left and right. I started concentrating like crazy on the symbols. After some time, people stopped getting sucked down into the pit. The people who were still alive were celebrating like crazy, realizing that they were still alive and now had the special power.

I walked out of the place, and I decided to try out the powers I had been granted. I managed to shoot force bolts from my had and fly around a bit.

We were told to return later, and recite the sacred shapes. I was in deep shit, because I couldn't remember what I had used for my last shape.

I went back the first time, and they said that we only had to recite the first sacred shape. Thankfully, I remembered that the first sacred shape had been a triangle. So I was safe for the first round.

Anyway, I was contemplating what horrible fate was going to befall me, when the dream ended.

Pretty scary stuff. It was cool to have special powers, though.

Mt. Fuji Erupting

Peter — Thu, 05 Oct 06 15:02:54 +0200

Early February: I had a dream about Mt. Fuji erputing. I had taken a day trip out to Shizuoka prefecture to see the Fuji san.. get out and see some fresh air. Unfortunately, Mt. Fuji went active while I was there, and so I saw the sky go black as night with ash. The smoke and darkness were really scary, and I decided to leave the area as quickly as possible. I got back on a train for Tokyo. After the eruption happened, most of Honshu had been taken out. I somehow survived(the dream was pretty hazy on the details). My old roommate Nick had the power to stop the eruption but unfortunately I hadn't told him in time, and he didn't stop it. The ultimate cause was some evil scientist. (This dream was a bit fuzzy on that section).

The Little Green Men Are Coming

Peter — Thu, 05 Oct 06 15:02:15 +0200

Another night, another wacky dream. In this dream, I met this rather "interesting" new-agerish type fellow. He explained to me that sacred mushrooms were the key to spiritual experience. Not only that, but they were also the symbol for interplanetary travel and that aliens had built spaceships resembling them. He continued onward about how the spaceship's internal chambers, flight system, etc. were all modeled after mushrooms. Needless to say I was thinking that this fellow was a nutjob. He then continued, in all seriousness, saying that, "It's true! Jesus is coming back on his starship! I don't think Klecko is coming though." I was like, "Uh.... Klecko?" But I figured that although this fellow was living in a rather interesting delusion, I prefered the real world. Little did I know. A few days later, I was watching live on CNN. An alien ship had landed in Washington D.C., and a little green man popped out saying, in an incredible cliche style, "My name is Klecko. Take me to your leader." I just about had to scrape my jaw off the floor, but the best part came later. A few days later, I talked to some people. Dubya's popularity had soared quite a bit (I guess shaking hands with the little green man made for great publicity). Unfortunately, he had deployed our troops in some other no doubt fruitless conflict(unfortunately they didn't tell me where in the dream). So, his popularity sank like a stone. Again. This was a pretty funny dream for me. Oh, I told my GF about the previous dream a bit(the one about the girls). I think she reads too much into stuff like this--it's just a dream. -"My name is Peter. Take me to your leader."

Dream Date: July 26th, 2006

Two New Roommates

Peter — Thu, 05 Oct 06 15:01:25 +0200

Hello to all of my friends! From now on, whenever I have a noteworthy dream, I'll post it here so you can come and read up on it. Anyway, I had a dream on Friday, the night of the 21st. In the dream, we had two sisters move into Maison Sunshine and my God they were beautiful. They had spent some time in the United States and so their English was excellent. Me, being the friendly neighbor that I am (hehe) decided to yack it up with them and get to know them. The younger sister had just had her birthday, and the older sister gave her a birthday card. On the front of it was a half-naked white guy saying, "Hey, I got something for you." I opened it up and saw him completed naked with a big you-know-what. Helluva card to give your sister. The older one was super cool but probably a little bit too sex crazy for me. Anyway we grabbed lunch together from a Chinese restaurant. We all ordered these gargantuan plates of sesame chicken and started chowing down. Another girl walked by and I commented quietly, "Wah, that chick is pretty cute too." One of the sisters heard me and agreed with a big grin, "Yeah, she is." I had forgotten how good their English was--silly me.

Not being a single guy, I felt a bit guilty about this dream. My GF and I talked it over though, and it was OK.

Date of dream: July 23rd.

Wonder twin powers... Activate!

Peter — Thu, 05 Oct 06 15:00:17 +0200

I had this dream the night of 7/27 I believe. The dream was about a CG movie about a bunch of superheroes. Think "The Incredibles." There was a band of superheroes, including the following: *A giant ape(sort of like The Incredible Hulk) *A super patriotic superhero(Like Captain America) *His 13 year old sidekick *A demon boy(funny bit--he came out of the closet halfway through the dream) *And a super strong guy, like Mr. Incredible. Anyway, in the dream, a mad scientist had stolen the sidekick's girlfriend. The superheroes infiltrated the base and managed to save the poor girl, but she had her memory erased by the evil scientist (who took off after realizing he couldn't beat the heroes. In the last scene, the super patriotic guy and the sidekick were flying off on these levitating surfboard type contraptions, sort of like the Silver Surfer. They were trying to track down the evil scientist. They ended with the tag line, "Tune in next week. Same super time. Same super channel." Obviously an allusion to Batman. I thought they were just being humorous, but Yuichi looked up that they had launched a T.V. show based on the movie. The T.V. show was going to be a spinoff of the film, with the film used to help launch the show. A clever piece of marketing, if I do say so myself.

Original Post: July 31st

SuperRob

Peter — Thu, 05 Oct 06 14:59:16 +0200

I had to move my blog over. My old one decided to die on me. :-<

Okay, so in this dream I met up with Rob in Tokyo. We had been using the Ganzfeld card tester that I had built on my computer. He had gotten progressively better and better at guessing the cards with the funny symbols. We were talking about how we were going to proceed next. After walking past the Matsuya by my house, we decided to go back to my workplace together. Once we got to T-mark and walked up to the office, Rob used his psychic powers to detect a bomb inside the building. I was freaking out and ran to the door to flee the office as quickly as possible. Rob used his psychic powers to warn the rest of the people in the office, and told them to leave the building. Everyone left the building. Then behind us, there was a HUGE explosion, and the entire office disappeared. Good job Rob. :-)