Saturday, December 1, 2012

The rabbit

Age 18.
Dec 1 2012

Last night I dreamed that my family invited me to dinner in this castle downtown. This location was very transient, shifting and never staying the same. Sometimes inside it was very modern, looking like a lounge with light tan walls and curves with one wall behind a bar tiled with soft white, small squares. Sometimes it was like my house or my residence or Tina's house but with her living room stretched out wider and longer. Where I saw her house in the dream, it was also inverted horizontally, like her whole house was mirrored.

In any case, I arrived there and my family was already sitting down for dinner. They had a surprise for me. On the table, tiny and small, there was a little baby rabbit that looked a lot like Luna. I was shocked and I picked it up, turning to my parents quizzically and asking them what this rabbit was doing here, and they told me that Luna had bunnies and this was one of them. My parents kept smiling but thy told me this one was sick so that's why they brought it to the table to look after during dinner.

I picked it up. I could squeeze it gently in one hand... It was ridiculously small and soft and it rolled around my hands blearily. It was white-bodied with Luna's markings but it was also a bit of mottled gray on its back, too. It was breathing quite hard. I searched for a towel to wrap it in to keep it warm - it was so cold. Progressively as I looked at this baby rabbit it began to morph. It started turning pinker and pinker and bloodier; I wrapped it in the only available thing and that was a plastic bag, and I cradled its cold body to my chest, massaging it to try and help it breathe.

But it kept getting more progressively looking like a skinned rat with no tail. It's small body heaved in my hands and the baby rabbit's blood smeared the plastic; I was scared so I put it down on the table on a napkin and held it only with my hand. Then, with one final giant breath in and out, the little thing - now looking more like a carcass than a little rabbit - heaved one big exhale and died. In my dream I felt it die immediately. One breath and it was gone, nothing gradual about it.

I was extremely upset. I asked my parents why this happened so suddenly and they replied a bit guiltily that they didn't know what to do, they were waiting for me to get here to see if I could fix it. I got up from the table where they were eating - in my dream there was bok choy and salad - and I walked to the adjoined living room behind me with the dead bunny in my hand.

I traversed this living room (the inverted version of Tina's house area with her goldfish, except it had beige carpet) and I walked out the back door into a giant sunny, near-evening field. It was summer and the light streaming through the dense canopy of trees was bright gold. I approached a small box near the back of the field. Luna was inside, lounging relaxedly, and I didn't see her other bunnies. I reached my hand in to pet her and accidentally surprised her. She faced me and I apologized to her, laying the bunny in a small already prepared hole in the ground. Luna looked at her bunny sadly and cuddled its bloody head before I buried it for her.

Then, Luna directed me to an area east of her cage: a cavern. She somehow motioned for me to go in there with an incline of her head and even blinks. So I walked in a bit nervously.

Inside were an entire colony of black bats. They were scrambling around and I figured for some reason that the little bats standing in line were getting initiated and given the power of flight. I stood with them and after the ceremony was over, I flapped my long arms and flew easily.

I flew up into the sky and all around the castle-house-thing. Up into crannies and past portables and through windows. The feeling of flying in this dream was very intense, all the muscles of my arm and back straining to carry my weight, and I jerked up and down awfully. But it was like swimming through air; I haven't dreamed of flying in a while and I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it here.

My family by this time in the dream had faded away. I was alone in a good way.

This part of my dream is a bit fuzzy. I did fly through the castle and land on the other side, gently slipping down the wall to land. I think I landed in front of a man but that's all I remember. I think I also flew back to Luna to thank her for telling me about the bats, but by then the cage was empty and she had left.

In any case I migrated with the other bats to another colony, where we met up with a bunch of really scary looking yellow-orange bats, tufted with bright fluorescent furs in pink and green and violet. They had barn-owl like faces - OR, faces like Blizzetta from Twilight Princess - with giant and menacing red eyes. As we flew away I asked the bats who these were . The golden king bats, someone told me. Apparently, over a squeaked and irritated conversation, we had an alliance with the other two bat houses but not them. They asked me why I didn't form an alliance with the golden king bats yet.

I am not certain what happened after that. Certain snippets of the dream after this scene are vibrant but certain ones are blurred.

I dreamed I flew back to the castle and then I forgot about my wings. I went upstairs to someone's room, a friend I imagined with shifting features. At some point we went downstairs to hear this friend play the piano, and then we went back upstairs, where I think we had sex. I'm not sure if they were male or female, but their skin was mainly dark... It was probably a girl but with a soft man's voice and certain male body parts. It was thrilling to have them inside of me; I still remember a bit of what they felt like, all hard against my softness.

When we went back downstairs my friend's mother was playing a choppy tune on the piano and we went back upstairs after having a debate about the ugliness of one of the walls of the lounge. This friend laughed and guided me back upstairs to my bedroom of the residence house, and I woke up to write this down.