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2024/02/13

EPIC SAMURAI MOVIE/RPG

In this dream I was watching a movie but also being a main character in it, kind of like a video game. This movie was apparently some kind of epic. It was four hours or so, split into two parts. I sort of mashed together Andrei Rublev with Seven Samurai. It was more influenced by the latter, as it was some kind of Japanese epic about swordplay etc. But it was more open-ended, slow-moving, etc. than Seven Samurai. It was in black and white, but it was widescreen, unlike Seven Samurai. Being "in it" was kind of like being in an MMO or an Elder Scrolls game or something like that. In the movie, I was some kind of rounin or other outsider getting involved in a lot of clan wars, etc. A lot of the movie was just wandering around a beautiful landscape and observing everyone's rituals, etc.

The scene that was most detailed was a number of samurai walking up to some leader's home where he was camping out. I was one of them. The leader had several figures with bows and arrows who shot out at us. However, we took them because we massively outnumbered them. We didn't have arrows though. We only had sharpened spears made out of thick bamboo. I only speared one of the warriors and dodged a few arrows. The leader alone survived and the rest of the spear group ran away. I alone stood and hid in the bushes. The leader ended up going to sleep and I snuck into his bedroom. He didn’t recognize me as one of the group, but was afraid and a bit shocked that I was in his bedroom. A kind of female performer who looked like a strange Nou performer of sorts. She snuck in, seduced him/hypnotized him in a way with her strange dance and beautiful voice, and then crippled him by breaking his legs so he couldn't leave. I stole something from his bedroom, but didn't kill him. He was actually thankful for this and we were friendly with each other. I was wearing a few plastic tubs of sorts for shoes.

I kept having leeches, slugs, and other slimy creatures staying in my plastic box-shoes and I couldn't figure out how to fix the problem. I peeled those creatures off of my feet and dumped them out in his bedroom. He was a bit angry at this. After this, I started walking back to the "hometown"/"starting area" and it started looking much more like a game than a movie. I was meeting another samurai friend and we were talking about the "quest" I just did and potential ramifications of war. I was walking along some bridges with the guy and these strange, blob-like, dark green creatures (the movie/game was in color now) who looked like big suckerfish lizards covered in slime or something like that. I gave them a hit and “defeated” them as soon as they came up like some kind of platforming video game.

2024/02/06

VIKING RESCUE

In this dream I was driving back from a different part of the state where we apparently had been vacationing. When I say "we", I mean a number of people in a truck including my younger cousin and others I didn't know. Apparently it was work-related. We stopped at a gas station to pick up some snacks. This place had a good selection. I got two strange "soda flavored" candies, one being some little hard candies and one being small fried chip things. I got a big bottle of a "sour" flavored purple energy drink that was so heavy I had trouble carrying it. I wanted to get something else on top of that, so I got two chocolate donuts with sprinkles. A voice in the back of my head told me "I really need to eat something more healthy than this…" but it was too late and I told myself I would eat better next time.

When I went back to the truck, my younger cousin was in my spot and said "fuck you" and then the truck drove off. I only had my phone, wallet, and keys. I had a lot of things like my laptop, headphones, books, etc. in that truck and so I was very pissed. I was abandoned at the gas station! I knelt down and started cursing up a storm. It was suddenly night time and few people were left at the gas station, although it seemed to be open 24/7, which helped. The gas station had a sort of bar in the back and I went into there and told them the situation. I asked to borrow their phone, but then realized that I had my own, so I stepped outside and called my mother. I gave her the location of the gas station as best I could (it was called "Doll's Eye" apparently) and she said someone would be there soon.

Next thing I knew, I saw a number of vikings approach the gas station! They were some kind of insanely dedicated LARPers who had created manually operated "cars" that looked like ships. Some of them were operated by horses. They attacked the gas station, but spared me. They started looking at some white plaster-looking statues in the back. They looked like coffins with human figures on them, kind of like medieval French stone coffins for royalty. The vikings told me they were Spanish artworks that were 1000 years old. I told the vikings my situation and they decided that apparently I was a "chosen one", destined to be with them. Some of them broke off their mission in the opposite direction and gave me a ride back to my town, in the direction the truck was going. Their "car" operated like a manually-driven ship, but somehow it was still as fast as a normal car.

The way home went through the backwoods and the vikings told me more about their lives. They explained that it was out here in the woods that was closer to how people "should" live. I more or less agreed. The Varg philosophy, basically. I asked what they did in the summer when it got hot. They said "Don't ask. We become some sweaty boys, haha!" Eventually they took me to my hometown at some strange port for trading ships and my father met me to give me a ride. I was still worried about my stuff being in the truck that abandoned me and we were talking about how I could get it back.

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