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Another one of those dreams that almost had a coherent narrative.
Last night's dream started on a bus or train (it was sort of indecisive) traveling a long distance. The main character was a young man in his 20s or so - he was sometimes the viewpoint character, and sometimes the viewpoint character was a young woman travelling on the same bus/train as he.*
At one point, it stopped at a shadowy station and they (the man and the woman) got out for a few hours to go look around the place. Beyond the station walls was some sort of city that was sort of Faerie/otherworld - the crowds inhabiting it were not quite right. They were in one crowded shop which had a display case of the refrigerated sort you see in butcher shops, full of things for use in charms and spells and influencing.
And then they somehow ended up backstage in a large theatre - I think they were being pursued - and the young man picked up a bass guitar. Somehow, playing it earned them safety, or passage, or something.** At any rate, they could leave. He took the guitar with him, and went back through the city and the shop from before and the doorway to the train station, and ended up back on the bus/train without the girl, and without any memory of her.
At this point, the viewpoint character was nonexistent, so I just knew that somehow, taking the guitar meant that he'd traded her for it, without realizing what he was doing, and that the memory of her was taken also. There was also the question of how far this influence spread, because while the people on the platform who'd seen them both going in didn't notice anything wrong, I woke up as he was back on the train and someone else, who may not have left the train, was thinking that something was wrong here.
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* And who was, at times, making kanzashi. XD My brain was working out the method by which I think I figured out how to make some of the more elaborate kanzashi, but attached to a rigid headband instead of a hair prong or stick, so that short-haired people can wear them. I think it'll be pretty nifty if I've got it right. :D
** I predict this element was due to me watching Time Warp recently, where they used high-speed cameras to film the bassist from Metallica playing slap-bass.
Last night's dream started on a bus or train (it was sort of indecisive) traveling a long distance. The main character was a young man in his 20s or so - he was sometimes the viewpoint character, and sometimes the viewpoint character was a young woman travelling on the same bus/train as he.*
At one point, it stopped at a shadowy station and they (the man and the woman) got out for a few hours to go look around the place. Beyond the station walls was some sort of city that was sort of Faerie/otherworld - the crowds inhabiting it were not quite right. They were in one crowded shop which had a display case of the refrigerated sort you see in butcher shops, full of things for use in charms and spells and influencing.
And then they somehow ended up backstage in a large theatre - I think they were being pursued - and the young man picked up a bass guitar. Somehow, playing it earned them safety, or passage, or something.** At any rate, they could leave. He took the guitar with him, and went back through the city and the shop from before and the doorway to the train station, and ended up back on the bus/train without the girl, and without any memory of her.
At this point, the viewpoint character was nonexistent, so I just knew that somehow, taking the guitar meant that he'd traded her for it, without realizing what he was doing, and that the memory of her was taken also. There was also the question of how far this influence spread, because while the people on the platform who'd seen them both going in didn't notice anything wrong, I woke up as he was back on the train and someone else, who may not have left the train, was thinking that something was wrong here.
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* And who was, at times, making kanzashi. XD My brain was working out the method by which I think I figured out how to make some of the more elaborate kanzashi, but attached to a rigid headband instead of a hair prong or stick, so that short-haired people can wear them. I think it'll be pretty nifty if I've got it right. :D
** I predict this element was due to me watching Time Warp recently, where they used high-speed cameras to film the bassist from Metallica playing slap-bass.