charamei: NaNoWriMo: The plot thickens (NaNoWriMo: The Plot Thickens)
Oh, dear Lord, my dreams are doing ring composition now.

So I'm curious - is there actually a Simpsons episode where Bart, Lisa and Maggie get catapulted onto the moon while tied to a curiously anti-gravitational bungee cord, or is that just a recurring dream opener I have? It's hard to tell with my dream openers; the first few lines of dialogue are exactly the same every time, so I get confused as to whether a couple of seconds of an episode has made it into my dream or I'm just remembering the last time I dreamt this.

This one gets complicated, what with the multiple storylines and all. )

Crazy crazy brain.

(NaNo: 10k to go, and I've finished the story. I guess I'll start doing my manifesto for [community profile] asexual_fandom: that's due in rather soon now.
charamei: Mystery Science Fiction 3000: These are just random sentences, folks. (MST3K: Random sentences)
Had another Harry Potter dream last night. What is it with those? I don't often remember my dreams, but every time I do lately they've been Potter ones. The extent of my interest in the franchise in the past few years has been looking over at my shelf of Things Written in Greek at Αρειος Ποτηρ και η του φιλοσοφου λιθος and thinking maybe I should be trying to translate that instead of Thucydides because it's probably easier.

Anyway. It was a wedding reception, but I'm not sure whose. Possibly Percy's? And it was also results day at Hogwarts. For some reason these were taking place in the same room. So Dumbledore's got a cornucopia that spits out a results slip when you say your name to it, and Neville passes with flying colours, I-as-Harry get a D, and Hermione's stood next in line panicking and then Dumbledore calls Ron's name (the alphabet goes L - P - W - G now) and we realise, hoshit, Ron's not here, and this makes Percy complain and Dumbledore twinkle. So we get hold of brooms from somewhere, probably best not to ask, and fly off very clumsily because the aerodynamics are terrible. Out of the window via the chandelier and into a hole in the ground.

And there's Voldemort using Ron for a human sacrifice or something (tied to an altar, half-naked [and blur-censored because my brain is baffled by the concept of writhing naked bodies], the works), so it's down to myself-as-Harry, Hermione and Neville to save the damselWeasley in distress! Which we did. By judiciously making up words which didn't work as spells, probably because they were made-up*, and possibly something about using gillyweed to make him drown in the air, but I was waking up by that point so it's a bit fuzzy. In any case I'm pretty sure Ron was saved and fainted prettily in Hermione's arms before being given the kiss of life as Voldemort gasped, choked and collapsed in the background.

My subconscious: a tropovore.



*Insert 'your spell fails because telepr0t is not a word' joke here.
charamei: (NaNoWriMo08: Not Harry Potter)
If the dreams are a gateway to the subconscious, then here's what I learned about mine last night:

  1. It is a little behind the current curve of my fandom life.

  2. It still really, really likes Harry Potter.

  3. But not enough to not periodically morph me into Hermione so I could call Harry/myself an idiot.

  4. It is confused between teenage magic users and thinks that Hogwarts secret passages may be found in Sabrina's airing cupboard (well, my airing cupboard, but I recognise the device when I see it).

  5. It is still utterly convinced that Potter witches fly their brooms sidesaddle, despite years of trying to square the canon with my mental image.

  6. It's got its own Potter OC, who never makes it into fic but turns up regularly in the relevant dreams.

  7. It is still, without fail, capable of creating a coherent plotline with a maximum of one 'dream' element (in this case, the airing cupboard). Boy, if I'd known I was hardwiring my brain into storytelling this effectively, I'd probably have eased off a bit...

(Srsly. Astride on a broom? Doesn't work! Sidesaddle! SIDESADDLE I SAY!)

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