Hello! I recently had a dream that focused around a book I read a week ago. Dream 10/18
I had a dream that focused around some sort of Eldritch entity. I was trying to oppose it along with some unspecified friends.
I was in the band storage room at one point, and we had all tried to let Maria know about it, but hadn’t wanted to give such a burden. She was very confused. I ended up calling her and trying to explain the situation, and ended up asking her if she was available and wanted to go somewhere to talk about it. It felt like asking her out. At that point when we agreed on a time and place, hung up, people came in to the storage room to get their instruments. One girl heard me talking on the phone and congratulated me. I remember realizing that since I was at school I could not go and meet her, or else I would be cutting class. In the dream I was as indecisive as if it were real life. I lingered by the band doors trying to decide, as other people left for cte or early dismissal. I think the meeting was around 1, band starts 11:30 ends 12:15. I ended up not going and instead going to my classes, trying to text to tell her I couldn’t be there. I think eventually we did meet at a later time. I remember explaining that I had made an agreement with this creature/being that I would give something to have musical skills (in the dream it was guitar which I don’t play, in real life it would be saxophone and viola). This was clearly subconsciously based on Last Things, a book I recently read. The main character also had musical skills as a result of an unintentional contract with a demon. However he didn’t know it was such, while in the dream I seemed aware of what I was bargaining with. For whatever reason I had needed Maria’s help to end the bargain and defeat the demon. I explained to her that I can’t play for shit (at the end of the book I read the mc can no longer play at all due to burning his hand in the final fight). There was also a girl in the book. She was first portrayed as a stalker with an unhealthy obsession with Anders (mc) which at first made me think of her as possibly mentally ill. Anders is for the most part portrayed in a positive light, although with a lot of (relatable) self loathing and self destructive tendencies. Thea (stalker girl) is also supposed to be a flawed character, but the shift from stalker girl into “magical protector” is too sudden imo and seemed like it didn’t fully justify her wrongdoings (such as kidnapping Anders’ girlfriend and holding her captive in inhumane conditions… To “save” her.) To me it seemed that the author could have had much more nuance in this character rather than saying “shes good now” and skipping any redemption arc. Anders forgives her way too easily for stalking him and literally kidnapping his girlfriend… I guess this dream was just my subconscious trying to make changes to the book by showing what I might have altered, while incorporating aspects (and people!) from my life. The girl I dreamed about is someone I actually do know irl but haven’t been super close to. It seemed like the dream swapped the characters a little. Rather than being a questionable stalker character, the girl is someone I view in an overall positive light, while I loathed the character. I (taking the place of Anders) felt like even more of a flawed character as I knew what I was getting into with the bargain with the demons. Still seemed to have those self destructive actions and self loathing characteristics of Anders, and playing guitar, but also with my life mixed in. I found it very interesting how the dream mixed my life with the book. Any thoughts? Have any of you had a book-dream before?
by _SadWing_