Dream Log: March 4, 2001

• With August at Porter College. We go into the dining hall to grab some drinks and come out with two cups of watermelon juice. When we come back outside we meet our hippie friend, Nick. We all lie down, watching the sky as a city bus flies by. It's the new thing and we talk about it, predicting personal flyers any day now. And there you go: we see a girl flying, her books under her arm on her way to class.

I dreamed I was adopted by a family of giraffes. They all lived in a giant bird's nest by the side of one of the roads in my home town. My three giraffe siblings would spend most of their time in the nest, with only their long necks and heads showing above the woven twigs.

I became sullen and unmanageable after a time, refusing to get into the nest with my giraffe siblings. Eventually, my giraffe mother had to abandon me.

I have no idea what this means. I do have three siblings (not giraffes, naturally), but the set of feelings I experienced in the dream are not at all remniscent of my upbringing.

Even in the light of day, I can't shake the image of the three giraffe necks and heads sticking out of a waist-high twig bird's nest.

I was a nonmorphic fox, and while walking on the side of a road in the desert, I noticed a sietch someway from the road. I went in, and met some unknown creatures there. They had dry sand-like skin, so I presumed they had adapted to the life in the desert. One of them was much larger than me, and seemed like some sort of miniature Mecha, but it had same kind of skin as the other lifeforms so I didnt know if it was a robot or a living being. The Mecha sprouted some strawberry milkshake on my fur and told his stupid explanation to others, but rest of them were friendlier and asked me to get water can from the road, so I went to get it. I grabbed the can with my teeth, but when I was heading back to the sietch, the Mecha was coming towards me and said that he needed to sprout more milkshake on me to preserve his mental stability against some neurotic symptom, but that was enough to piss me off! I dropped the can and beated him EXACTLY as in MGS: First punch with both paws, then a high kick that tossed the large Mecha on its back. I started running towards the sietch, but the Mecha soon got up (with "!" on top of him..) and ran angrily after me. I got in before him, and pressed down the lever on the side of a toaster, while the Mecha got closer. I managed to avoid him long enough, and when the toaster was just about to bounce up, I jumped into it and the spring system bounced me out from the window before the heat could injure my paws..