Kids! Prove that the winter sun is lower!

Illustration that was a long-time-coming of a dream from a month or two ago.
 

Worms in the blood. Snake in the grass.

(what happened, is no one is dreaming anymore? what has become of us, have incubi feasted on our imaginations?)

A friend and I are in a mansion. A haunted mansion. It is daylight, so there is nothing to be afraid of just yet, but we had better figure out how to get out of here — because in the evening it will most certainly fill up with blood, from which white worms will leap and eat your flesh. Down the enormous staircase we go, the floor is stained with the blood that floods the house nightly. Glad we found the door.

Out we go. We walk hand-in-hand up a rocky slope, it seems to be a dry grassy hill in Colorado. It is a nice day, sunny, little breeze. "Whoa, look at the sidewinders!" I point them out — two enormous snakes some 100ft away squiggling about on a rock. I call them sidewinders, but they are huge like anacondas. I'm fascinated.

I hear a noise in the grass near our feet. "Don't move," I say with my breath. It was dumb to come out here with shorts and sandals. I know the sound was another snake, a small snake. Slowly I shift to look behind us, my friend slides out of the way at the exact moment that the snake strikes. It flies through the air, striking my knee and biting. I swat it away in a panic. "Quick! What kind of snake?!" I know we have to identify it so I can get the right anti-venom. It is all black, not large, with a sort of blue-checkered tail. "It's a blue coral snake," I say confidently. "Go!"

We hit a full-out run, back to the mansion where we can get help — I'm limping slightly.

Shit, I probably shouldn't run, the venom will spread faster with my racing heart! I'm remaining calm nonetheless.

— another —

I can't stop eating these nuts! But they are metal. They are made for climbing. Still, they are delicious and I must be really hungry. A friend doesn't seem concerned — but I start to worry about how they are going to go through my digestive system. The metal wires will surely make it difficult for my body to get them around the corners in my intestines! Damn, this was a bad idea.

Huh: now I can see this machine in front of me. It is my digestive system, layed out like clockwork, and made of white plastic and screws and other metal bits. It appears that the climbing stoppers are making it through just fine. That's a relief. I pull one out at the end — it seems unharmed by my digestive processes. I get wet, splashed on. Frustrating.

It's Dark, but in a feel-good movie way.

Nothing but ghosts, villains, psychics, and fire raining from the sky lately. But all fun, and always supplemented with little kid hands, candy mountains, and co-op mansions.

Eating Desert

Alien Bugs

Christy, Tricia, Maggie and I are at some type of AmeriCorps event with Mike Callas. It is mostly women and our time there is ending. We are in the desert. We start to sneak off and end up close the building when someone yells for us and we start to sing our goodbye. We are dancing and singing across the sand to the crowd. I step on something crunchy and brown and realize I have stepped into a pile of bugs and they are bitting me. The bugs are small, brown with black spots and have a hard outer shell. I jump out of the pile, but the bugs have covered by feet like shoes. I try to brush them off my feet, but it is really painful. They do not crawl up my body but simply stay on my feet. An old man comes over to me and says, "All they want to do is die." I stop trying to brush them off and we all head inside. Tricia shows up with Charles and they leave in search of information about these bugs and Maggie and Christy disappear. I start to peel off the dead bugs. They come off my feet like one sheet of metal but leave behind spikes like a cactus. Samuel appears and gets out his knife/tweezers and starts to pull the spikes out of my feet. Soon, Tricia appears on the TV and tells us that it seems as if the bugs are from another planet. The bugs however do not crawl on you but will attach to your body if you come in contact with them. Bugs start to appear below the door and come into the building. Some of them have become long worms and are on Samuel's clothes, but he brushes them off. (We are both sitting on tall stools and are not touching the ground) My dress falls pass my feet into a large pile of bugs. I need to get out of the dress, but cannot put it over my head due to the bugs below. Samuel and I are desperately trying to find a way for me get the dress off through the top of it.....I wake up!

bits

There is a high school below a few small extinct volcanos. Found myself atop this historic roof, it seemed odd that the volcanos had been paved over with black road top. It must have been for drainage?

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Taking pictures in ABQ with my camera... oh wait, where did this come from? Did someone send it back to me and I just don't remember opening it? Great! Miracle tour comes through again!

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I'm walking around water and it's warm.

The Time Travel Game.

The scene is set:

A woman in pink comes out onto the steps of the Library, or maybe, City Hall. She has a blow-up car (it's inflatable) and is all set to go on her honey moon with Archie Andrews. But look, there's Veronica Lodge and Betty (woman in pink) sees a ring gleaming on her finger! (It seems she and Archie somehow got married instead)

The towns mission is proposed:

A person smiles at the crowd of townspeople, "who will wear this wig, and chase her (veronica) down?" The person holds up a curly orange wig still smiling. A tall blond man who is apparently someones brother tries it on. "Oh that's so funny" everyone thinks, "that won't work." A few others try on the wig.

Then the game is explained to me by someone who knows I'm watching and that I don't know what's going on. "Your going to have to go back in time to fix the problem." The problem being that Archie accidentally married Veronica.

The Game:

Everyone goes back in time. I'm doing yoga in a kiddie pool, kind of hanging out and learning how to do something I have trouble with when I'm awake, when I see a bunch of people in the shadows. A spotlight shines on them. They're all teenagers making out in the dark. I'm aware that the spotlight is coming from someone who traveled back in time.

A man and a woman who are making out in one of the darkest corners get the light shown on them. Suddenly the man realizes that the woman is a dog-spirit (which is a thing) and he gets scared and runs away. I know that this is going to change the future.

A girl floating in a pool is surprised when buttons suddenly fall out of the sky into her lap. I don't know who dropped them, but I'm sure it's part of the game and it's going to change the future.

Betty is inflating her brightly colored blow up car, I hear her start the engine, I can't believe that car works. It's getting closer to show time.

There is a dark green bar. There is a lot of sexual tension. Crazy characters keep dropping in from the future all the time. I wake up before the puzzle is solved.