April 16th, 2009

 

This may be slightly disjointed or inaccurate (plus I can't remember the beginning of the dream at all right now-- this all happened near the end of it), but it was absolutely amazing so I want to write it down.

I remember walking up a small, enclosed stairwell somewhere, with a man who was dressed in some sort of red and gold pajama outfit + nightcap. He was acting extremely optimistic and upbeat, and led me up the stairwell to a landing with a door. Walking out the door, we ended up exiting the basement door of my old elementary school. It was around 7PM in the afternoon, when twilight had just begun to fall.
Interestingly enough, he ran out to the middle of the school playground and jumped into the air. Once he was about 20 feet up, he just hovered there. Suddenly, he began moving his arms in a sweeping motion around him, and every time he did, night would fall in the direction he indicated. It was like he was 'painting' the scenery with nighttime. Next, though, he began to repeat the same arm motions, but instead of night, a swirling gold glitter of some sort floated over the nearby houses and seemed to fade into the air (it was actually dream dust, but I didn't realize this until later).
Once he finished, he landed and walked back over to me. I asked him how and why he did that, and he said "In this world, I am known as both Mister Night and Mister Sandman." He then said he was going to teach me, and led me back over to the playground.
It was right here that I was no longer me-- I was Justice (the Jewel Monster), and was seeing everything from his POV. Sandman told me to jump up like he had, so I did-- but I jumped up about 60 feet instead. I was enjoying the view when I realized that there were kids inside the school building nearby, watching us curiously. Sandman did too, and said that I was going to be doing his job for him tonight (Apparently, in his world, he is not only well-known, but he is very popular and everyone looks forward to nighttime because of him). I then began to introduce myself, saying that my name was Justice and I was a Jewel Monster from THE Dream World (I seriously put emphasis on "the"-- because 'The Dream World' isn't a literal 'dreamworld,' it's an entire autonomous dimension). I then added that some of the kids there might have seen me before, or that they might have seen some other Jewel Monsters in dreams. I then named Preludove, Azurai, and Rosaka, and I think one other person, but the kids just seemed very confused so I stopped (apparently, I am indeed the only kid to have ever dreamed of them, haha). It was then that I said I'd get to work, and began 'painting' the scenery with night. It was incredibly fun, as it worked exactly as Sandman had demonstrated. I stopped halfway through, though, as I realized that everyone was mostly still awake, and I didn't want to put them all to sleep yet as it was quite early. So I stopped, leaving the world in a state of sunset twilight (which was very pretty). I then landed, and realized that some of the children from inside the school were coming out to talk to Sandman and me.

One of the kids knelt down on the pavement and began to scribble something on the ground with her fingers. I realized that she had some sort of finger paint with her, so I asked if I could use some and she said yes. I then took some of the red-brown paint and began to literally paint 'my' face on the pavement (Justice's face, technically). Surprisingly, it was a very close likeness for a dream (usually they say dream images were skewed, but everything here was incredibly accurate so far). I was painting the star on my forehead when someone called me from the top of the playground, so I got up and walked up there (I was now my normal self, not Justice). A girl was sitting there with several boxes of marshmallow Peeps, and immediately began ranting 'where do they get the nerve to do this' or something. I asked what she was talking about, and she explained that there was a rival 'Peeps' company who was making different animals out of the marshmallow, and she vehemently thought they should stop, as they were taking away from the appeal of the original by making it more 'commercial' or something. She said it just didn't feel right, and held up a box of the 'bogus' marshmallows to show me. Inside was a set of dark blue marshmallow bears, and a set of white marshmallow swans. I thought they looked pretty interesting (and were very well made), but the girl insisted 'see? It just doesn't feel right.' She then asked if I wanted one, and I pointed to a box of marshmallow doves beside her (they had little feathers and everything) and said 'those look pretty cool." The girl seemed highly offended at this, though, and instead shoved three normal blue marshmallow Peeps into my hand. I turned to leave, but some nearby kid grabbed one of them from me, squashed it, and gave it back. I found this very odd, so I turned back to the girl and offered her a chocolate I suddenly had, asking if I could trade that for a replacement Peep, as I planned to give them to my brothers (I can't eat sugar). She gave me a look, when suddenly her gaze turned to the sky. I turned back around as well, and noticed that there was a large red number display in the sky, counting down the time from about 6:37:40 (hours, minutes, seconds), which was the current time. Above the numbers, it said something like 'it's almost time to go to sleep!' or something, and I figured this was Sandman's doing, as everyone was still outside so he couldn't bring nighttime yet (as I had stopped for the same reason). I began to wonder where I should go, then, when the scene suddenly switched.

Now I was in a car, driving down the road from my house around the same time of day. The sign was still in the sky as far as I remember. However, once I got to the bridge connecting my road to the nearby town, I couldn't go any further as there were several cars blocking the road. I wondered what was going on, when I noticed that they were trying to 'capture' a large DBZ-style monkey (complete with Super Saiyan hair) that was trying to climb up a small mountain nearby (where a side road would have been in reality). I watched them for a minute or so before deciding they weren't going to move, so I drove around them. The road was now entirely different, though-- there was no bridge, only a winding road and an embankment up to my left. There were now several cars ahead of me. The one directly in front of me had a sort of display on top of it, showing several immodestly dressed women and (I think) one man. It looked like a carnival sign, though, and i wondered what the heck it was. Suddenly, the car turned up a side road and drove up to the top of the embankment, where a large whorehouse was situated. I stared at it for a second, wondering how the heck anyone could work for such a place, and then I began to wonder why the heck I was still there so I turned to leave. However, I left my car parked on the hill and walked down to a small 'farmers market'-like area nearby. I had barely begun to approach it when a woman looking at hanging rugs turned to me and began to talk in Spanish. A nearby man explained 'no habla Espanol,' and she repeated that back to him in a surprised (almost incredulous) manner. I embarrassedly repeated the explanation, before adding in English, "but one day I will," as I planned to learn the language for communication reasons. I then started to walk back towards my car but I couldn't find it.
I think it was right here that I woke up, actually-- and I woke up only about 30 minutes ago.

I intend to write Mr. Sandman into the same story I wrote Nicodemus into...