This is Door, an entry originally posted on March 24, 2003 in the blog nebulose.net. In chronological order, before this was Benjamin. After this comes The best laid plans.... If you're lost, I recommend the about page.

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Door

The second time I’ve had this dream, that I can remember.

It is a little collection of houses by a beach with white sand. I have just run away from something, where the rest of my family is still trapped. We made some kind of arrangement whereby they helped me to escape (they couldn’t), with the understanding that I’d go to this area by the beach but later come back and rescue them. The details of the escape are vague; the dream proper begins afterward.

(What constitutes background information in a dream? The way I imagine it, in a dream something like my-family-is-trapped-and-I-have-escaped-but-must-go- back-for-them-after-a-brief-sojourn-in-this-hamlet would be a single dream-emotion, something just felt intuitively and not experienced. Dreams are fascinating like that.)

The beach houses are constructed like old Japanese buildings—bamboo frame, thatched roof, paper walls and sliding paper doors. The residents of these houses are plotting against me secretly; in concert, I imagine, with my previous captors. Frequently I gain the upper hand by standing on one side of a paper door, watching their silhouettes converse, and listening to them scheme. Though I can see them clearly through the doors, they never spot me, or suspect that they have been compromised; this shortcoming of paper architecture has never occured to them in the dream world.

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Funny. I had one very similar to that last night. Except without the family. Was a few of my friends trapped somewhere, and I was supposed to go rescue them after escaping. I think you were in it. Actually, as far as I recall, I think you and Evan escaped with me, and it ended with us kicking in the door to the building where the people were trapped.

I have lots of dreams like that. I’m such a samurai-wannabe.

Posted by Ryuko at March 24, 2003 11:27 PM :: Link

I love how dreams skip the exposition.

Posted by Ben at March 25, 2003 7:52 PM :: Link

Thank you. Aaron, you are wonderful. :O)

Posted by Jenny at March 25, 2003 10:59 PM :: Link

“I’m such a samurai-wannabe.” ~Ryuko

Acknowledging and admitting it is the first step, Hajikudo-san.

:]

Posted by Baxter at March 30, 2003 7:58 PM :: Link

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