Well, I'm not sure where I'm going with this post. Basically, I had a very detailed, rich, disturbing, but wonderful dream last night that I was a vampire. But not just any vampire, I was part of this young, stylish, hot TRIBE of teen vampires that lived in big abandoned warehouses in some downtown area. My brain created this entire universe, and it was so weird, that I just had to share it.
Lots of my friends were there in the dream, and they had been bitten also. There was Ash, and her boyfriend. We would all have dinner together in this big long hall, in a decadent Roman Feast-style with burgers, fries, pizza, and all this other 'teen' food. Everyone was dressed wildly, all the girls wearing cute plaid mini-skirts and hot shiny PVC high-heeled boots, and lots of make-up. I can't remember what the boys wore, but they were there, and were just as hip. It's like I was at this amazing party with all these beautiful children, just putting on a show for each other, but I was one of them! And we all hung out and socialized, but the only thing different about us was that we were all blood feeders.
I should also point out that there was this sexual over-tone to my dream, that it was a very sensual thing to be a vampire. The appetite that some of us had for blood was very strong, and the appetite of dominance over another being was definitely part of it. Yes. We were S&M vampires! HAHA! I'm just now understanding this as I write it....hehe....how weird.
So all I have left of this dream, are impressions. I don't remember a story-line, or a plot. I just remember bits and pieces, which is perhaps why I wanted to write about it as soon as I got out of bed. I knew it would disappear, bit by bit.
So it started with images, like I was watching this from a concealed place, of people still alive being bitten all over by some of these vampires, and being dumped still half-alive afterwards. Bodies missing limbs, with bones and shoulder-sockets exposed, but still heaving and and trying to get up. Very gross.
And all of a sudden I was in the middle of it, and someone was asking me if I wanted a taste. I can't remember if I did. But we were in some sort of semi-forested area, and there were lots of us. We were a gang.
Did I mention I could fly? We had the power to lift up and fly, but it required great energy stores to do this, so you couldn't keep it up for long. There was, however, a special substance that you could taste or smell (it was a foul, bitter-tasting spray in a small amber glass bottle) that would restore your powers, and magnify your flying ability. Someone gave me what was left of a small bottle, and I tried it. All of a sudden, I was rising up with little effort, into space! Things were getting VERY small, planes were the size of tiny ants. It was very frightening. So I made a conscious effort to go down slowly and my planet finally started to look less far away. That stuff was powerful!
Then....this is where it gets very, very hazy....we were heading to a Metallica concert. I was wearing this awesome PVC bat-wing shirt of some sort, with a chain harness all over it. It was AMAZING! I wish I could remember more of it, I might actually try to re-create it. ;)
I had a purse/piece of clothing given to me by a friend, and it had articles in the pockets: small semi-precious stones, small carved-bone skulls, weird little beads and amulets. And there was a strange bus outside the concert that was selling t-shirts with letters on the fronts. These were special, and had the vampire flight-elixir infused IN THE LETTERS. If you wore one, it would give you a constant dose of the elixir and keep you full of energy. Wow. Talk about practical, and fashionable! Of course, I can't remember what the t-shirts said.
My sister was in this dream also. This is also extremely hazy. I do remember that she was having a health problem, in some kind of vampire-way. Like....she had poisoned herself accidentally, and we had to get her some elixir, or something like that. I remember being worried about her for some reason, but very happy that we were vampire sisters, together again. :) That's it, that's my dream.
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Incidentally, I'm not sure what brought this on. I haven't seen 'Twilight', though I am considering it, just for the heck of it. I think we were more like the vampires in 'Lost Boys' anyways. It was on tv at a Fish & Chips restaurant last week (of all weird places) and I watched the last 20 minutes of it on the monitor, waiting for our dinner.
I've also been reading this weird fantasy book from 1983, called "Split Infinity", that has vampires in it, but they haven't played any role at all in the plot yet. I'm not usually a huge fantasy reader, but I got the book from a friend who was getting rid of all sorts of weird books, and I decided to read it because it had a Unicorn on the front of it! So maybe this played a role in my dream as well, but I kind of doubt it.
Word up.
