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Family biz, two huntin' bros
I was trying to stop the Apocalypse from happening and I was on a roadtrip through the American Southwest at the time. One of the steps in the quest involved waking an ancient, Aztec-era sleeping god that took the form of an enormous lizard a la a dragon, and I kept deciphering old maps that took me to locations in the desert that had strange formations but none quite seemed to be what I was looking for.
Then I had an epiphany and realized that they were ALL the locations of the sleeping god, which was actually the size of nearly the entire desert. So to wake it I had to go up in a helicopter and bomb its outline, since only fire would wake it or something, and lo and behold, upon flying over it and bombing certain points, the giant fiery sketch-outline of a dragon came to life on the landscape in the night like the Uffington White Horse and talked to me.
Later in the dream, I had a baby and a cat that were mine and we were living next door to a couple with their own baby and cat. But it turned out I got along better with/bonded with their baby and cat better than my own, and they loved me, but the parents would only surrender them to me if I gave up my own blood kid and cat in exchange. So I was stuck having to make this choice of "either give up/abandon your own child or give up/abandon the one who loves you." And I decided, painfully, in favor of keeping the ones that belonged to me because I had a responsibility to them; then realized it wasn't actually a separate dream but was a dream moral test scenario set up by the dragon god to see if I was capable of self-sacrifice and thus worthy to take up the mantle of stopping the apocalypse. So that part of the dream dissolved away and I was back in the desert again.
The reason I am posting this dream is because I somehow know it was caused by watching the Supernatural episode 5.08 - "Changing Channels," which is at once the best episode of Supernatural, one of the best episodes of anything, and tragically not what the rest of Supernatural is about. I am doing everything I can to... slightly lessen... the spread of. .... genital herpes. And that's a good thing.
Then I had an epiphany and realized that they were ALL the locations of the sleeping god, which was actually the size of nearly the entire desert. So to wake it I had to go up in a helicopter and bomb its outline, since only fire would wake it or something, and lo and behold, upon flying over it and bombing certain points, the giant fiery sketch-outline of a dragon came to life on the landscape in the night like the Uffington White Horse and talked to me.
Later in the dream, I had a baby and a cat that were mine and we were living next door to a couple with their own baby and cat. But it turned out I got along better with/bonded with their baby and cat better than my own, and they loved me, but the parents would only surrender them to me if I gave up my own blood kid and cat in exchange. So I was stuck having to make this choice of "either give up/abandon your own child or give up/abandon the one who loves you." And I decided, painfully, in favor of keeping the ones that belonged to me because I had a responsibility to them; then realized it wasn't actually a separate dream but was a dream moral test scenario set up by the dragon god to see if I was capable of self-sacrifice and thus worthy to take up the mantle of stopping the apocalypse. So that part of the dream dissolved away and I was back in the desert again.
The reason I am posting this dream is because I somehow know it was caused by watching the Supernatural episode 5.08 - "Changing Channels," which is at once the best episode of Supernatural, one of the best episodes of anything, and tragically not what the rest of Supernatural is about. I am doing everything I can to... slightly lessen... the spread of. .... genital herpes. And that's a good thing.