Dream Theatre
Jul. 22nd, 2008 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stillsostrangeRecorded here because I still remember it, and have fallen out of the habit of keeping a paper dream journal.
As prologue, whilst in search of ice cream yesterday,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala and I passed a jewelry shop with an ad for Trollbeads in the window. I was enthralled, but didn't go in because I have no budget for fabulous lampwork at present.
Last night I dreamed of a forested and becliffed island nation in a shallow sea full of sea monsters. (I've dreamed of that sea before, but don't remember details.) At sea was a viking/pirate sort of guy, exiled from the island and intent on payback. On the island was a young woman (who my hindbrain tells me was a thrall or some sort, but I'm not sure that was explicit in the dream-narrative) who was going to be given to the trolls who lived in the middle of the hochwald. I never saw the trolls, but they were very important. I also knew immediately that the trolls didn't care much about their tithe of girls, but it was tradition, so they kept taking them. The trolls mostly hung out in their mountains and woods making shiny things out of silver and glass.
At some point the thrall girl and the viking hooked up, but that seems like an obligatory Hollywood-style hook-up now that I"m awake. :P
Sadly, there wasn't much plot, but the island was gorgeous, and the idea of the troll-tithe has stuck with me. The country was a little too standard-issue fantasy-feudalism-complete-with-oppressed-women for my tastes, but I could probably fix that.
As prologue, whilst in search of ice cream yesterday,
matociquala and I passed a jewelry shop with an ad for Trollbeads in the window. I was enthralled, but didn't go in because I have no budget for fabulous lampwork at present. Last night I dreamed of a forested and becliffed island nation in a shallow sea full of sea monsters. (I've dreamed of that sea before, but don't remember details.) At sea was a viking/pirate sort of guy, exiled from the island and intent on payback. On the island was a young woman (who my hindbrain tells me was a thrall or some sort, but I'm not sure that was explicit in the dream-narrative) who was going to be given to the trolls who lived in the middle of the hochwald. I never saw the trolls, but they were very important. I also knew immediately that the trolls didn't care much about their tithe of girls, but it was tradition, so they kept taking them. The trolls mostly hung out in their mountains and woods making shiny things out of silver and glass.
At some point the thrall girl and the viking hooked up, but that seems like an obligatory Hollywood-style hook-up now that I"m awake. :P
Sadly, there wasn't much plot, but the island was gorgeous, and the idea of the troll-tithe has stuck with me. The country was a little too standard-issue fantasy-feudalism-complete-with-oppressed-women for my tastes, but I could probably fix that.
