Ok,
epic dream. Literally. Looking back, it was a combination of Lost, Once
Upon a Time, X-Men, Game of Thrones, and Cloud Atlas. I am more a
watcher than a participant. A group of young friends are living in
rundown houses in the woods. Something than I don't remember happens,
and one by one that start to get special powers. Some of them are are of
the changes, some are not. There is a sense that some of them are
becoming evil. The world changes around them, into a mythical land.
There are remnants of ancient structures around them. I realize that if
they touch these structures, changes will happen. Some may die, some may
become good in the future, some will become bad, some will receive
powers that will unveil themselves in the future. A friend that I know
IRL stumbles off the path and his back hits the wall of a structure.
Another friend that I know helps him to his feet, touching him while the
first friend is still touching the wall. I know that they will both
receive powers, but the helpful friend's won't be as strong since he
didn't touch the structure directly. We are back in one of the houses.
One person has received the power to influence objects, but doesn't
realize it yet. He comes into the room with the others, saying that he's
won the lottery. The house has changed to an opulent old house. No one
is aware that the house has changed. As far as they are aware, they have
always lived together in the house. They are all rich now. I hear a
news report on the radio about the lottery win, because the winning
number contained letters as well as numbers, like a code. No else seems
to have heard the radio. Things start to change in the house, a little
at a time. There is a special delivery. It is boxes and boxes of
different volumes of The Game of Thrones, each one telling different
aspects of the stories from different characters perspectives. The boxes
are dumped open. Each book is a specific different volume, and friends
grab individual book. I grab one, and realize that it tells the story as
I am seeing it in my dream. The friends have some 'normal' people in
for a dinner party. I realize that this is a bad thing, that these
people are in danger for their lives. The friends are still not aware
that they have been altered, and that their actions are now reflecting
their evil intent. The normal people are mingling at the party. Objects
in the room from the mythical land appear. Tables, chairs, bottles, etc.
outside on the patio, there are now scattered chairs and tables, as
well as a throne in the corner. I know that if anyone sits in the chair,
they will be killed. My real life friend is joking around the throne
and starts to sit in it. Instead of dying, he is propelled from the
chair. Inside the house, I sit on a couch with two of the friends. An
Irish Setter-like dog sits next to me on the couch. This dog has a
connection to the ancient world, and can speak, but no one else realizes
this yet. It speaks, but it appears that only I can understand it. It
says nothing of any real importance. Then, while everyone is out of the
room, some of the normal people think they'll help out my tidying things
up. One of them takes the magical bottles and cleans the dirt off of
them so they sparkle like new. I know that this is bad, because this is
the dirt of ancient world and is the only connection to the ancient land
that they have. The friends are enraged. I also see that a silver spoon
has been thrown away accidentally. One of the friends is frantically
looking for it. I realize, but she does not, that the spoon is required
for her powers to reach their full effect. When she tears through the
garbage can, I see the spoon fall out behind some furniture, but no one
else sees it. Suddenly, the surroundings have changed to a very modern
luxury condo. Again, no one else is aware of the change. As far as they
are concerned, they have always lived here. Slowing, a few at a time,
flying buildings start to go past the windows in the the condo. More and
more of them appear, displaying advertising on their exterior walls
until the view is filled with these advertising-covered flying
buildings. A different real life friend turns to me and says that
there's too much advertising these days. Suddenly, we are outside on the
street, which is a series of stairs, ramps and bridges. Up from one of
the stairs comes careening an orange car. It is driven by my friend who
was thrown from the throne. He has gone mad. He drives through the
crowd. I see that he has hit a pedestrian, and his right leg had been
severed cleanly above the knee. He holds up his stump at an angle, in
pain. I see the blood spurt out across the street, where it hits the top
of some bridge supports. When it touches them, the supports start to
melt and the bridge collapses, like it was made of rubber. There is a
huge pile of debris. One of the female 'super friends' leans on the
debris, and the roadway is magically flattened. The supporting archway
on one side remains standing. Her boyfriend tells her that she should go
tell the mayor. She smiles knowingly at him, turns, and starts walking
away along the beam of the archway. It flattens out as she walks along
it. Her boyfriend thinks that the beam must be made of some kind of soft
material now, and tries to pull out a rivet. He is unable to, of
course. I watch her walk away on the beam, an see it flattening ahead of
her in a spray of sparks and fire. The theme from Lawrence of Arabia is
heard. Interpret away, Lana. And yes, Lena Headey was one of the super friends. A baddie.
First of all, I love that Lena Headey made an appearance in your dream. She is welcome to inhabit my dreams on any night of the week.
This dream is about a number of ideas; the sheer power of sexuality and sexual identity is chief among them. Just as some of your friends have no idea that they have or will gain super powers, or that small, seemingly insignificant things (such as a spoon) are connected to having power, your subconscious mind is telling you that a person's very identity is not just something he lives with, but a form of power. Your friend who sits on the throne (he's a real QUEEN, that guy) isn't killed, as you expect, but thrust up and forward with a burst of energy by the throne, itself. This friend eventually goes "mad." In casual English, we use the word "mad" when what we mean in "angry." This friend and his "madness' actually represent your anger at the fact that an ever-changing world still feels threatened by your homosexuality, which is actually your source of power.
The magical bottles that make people sparkle like new actually wash away all remnants of where they came from and where they've been. This is seen as a negative thing in the dream. It represents your resentment at the efforts some homosexuals make to fit in in a predominantly heterosexual world. In your mind, Jim, too much effort has been made to sanitize homosexuality and make it more palatable to the masses, instead of the masses making the move to accept that there's great value in diversity in how people identify, sexually. It may have looked like dirt and soot that was washed off of your friends, but it was actually the stuff of who they really are: and they don't want to be magically clean and homogenous, because they embrace their histories and the things that make them different from others.
Your friend complaining about how there's so much advertising is a reference to how homosexuality has become something that is used as a gimmick - on tv shows, in the press, in music videos and pop songs, etc. It's a watering down and cheapening of something you hold sacred; your sexual identity...the way advertisements water down and cheapen the idea of family love to sell greeting cards or lemonade.
The stairs and ramps represent all the obstacles that you, as a homosexual, see before you every day, in a world where you're the "other." It's one of your friends, though, who manages to overcome these obstacles and 'flatten them out" - because she has acquired super powers. Again, her super power is really not a super power, at all, but the fact that she's embraced her true self. It's only when she walks away from her boyfriend (with a knowing smile) and towards something else. Because she's a lesbian. The boyfriend's pathetic efforts to pull out a rivet from the road, because he assumes it's pliable points to the fact that, no matter how hard he tries, he can't change something that is set in stone and NOT PLIABLE: the woman he's in love with is actually a lesbian.
This dream is very complicated and covers a lot of ground, mostly about your feeling about how the world views you and homosexuals, in general. Also, you should tell your real life friend that she's a lesbian. She and her boyfriend really have a right to know.
Oh, and Lena Headey is in your dream because - as much as I love her - she's a perfect example of Hollywood trying to make homosexuality more palatable to a heterosexual audience by casting a very beautiful, femme, heterosexual actress in big screen girl-on-girl movies. That's why she's a baddie in the dream.
I think the Lawrence of Arabia soundtrack is just incidental, and every gay man knows that Peter O'Toole was beautiful in that role.
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