Some Dreams

June 14, 2011
I was in an arid region of North Africa at an "amusement park." The only ride was a wicker basket with about seven eagles tied to it. The only other person I remember being there was the ride operator, a native of the region. I rode the eagle basket. Suddenly, a conflict broke out and a rival tribe was firing on us. I was handed an Uzi and dodged bullets for awhile.

I woke up briefly and fell back asleep. The sun was just starting to rise and everything in my room was lit with a very surreal golden glow.

I was now inside of a spaceship in a meeting with aliens from another dimension. The spaceship had the same sort of glow that I had just seen in my room, except it was made of a strange metal that shimmered with a multitude of colors. I was one of a few diplomats for the human race and the aliens were quite gracious hosts. They presented us with a box and told me to take the watch. I looked in the box and there were a few necklaces and two strange vessels that resembled vases. They were all amazingly beautiful. I went to pick up a necklace, because I didn't see a watch and I figured that was the next closest thing. The aliens corrected me and told me to take a vase. It was made of the same material as the spaceship and sometimes it was a watch, but mostly it was a vase. There was a sort of stopper in the top of the vase; it ended up being a fancy wine bottle stopper. It slipped out of my hand and a fat man sitting next to me caught it before it fell.

The faces of the aliens escape my memory, but as I was scrutinizing them I noticed that one of them was actually Sam, my first boyfriend. He sneered at me because it was Valentine's Day but we weren't dating anymore. He was annoyed I hadn't gotten him a gift.

June 18, 2011
(I don't remember if this was the exact order of my dreams. Everything got all jumbled)
1. I was wandering around the UCSC campus with some people, though I can't quite remember who (Greg?). The campus was all different, as if it had become overgrown and abandoned. I don't remember seeing any students. I think I was trying to purchase marijuana, but I had no cash and I didn't know if I would be able to find someone with any. I was searching for an ATM to make a withdrawal. I couldn't seem to locate one. Old bridges were broken and the trees looked older, greener. Not sure if it was the same dream, but I recall being in an area full of concrete, and rain beginning to come down.

2. Very vague and misty: I was some sort of demon queen and my father had just died (?). It was time for me to take a husband. Lakes of fire and mirror portals, I had black spikes all over my body. A human man being turned into a demon. Everything else is fuzzy.

3. Was laying in a hazy void with Maru. Rested my head on his side and told him I was having trouble dreaming. The sun is too bright through my blinds.

4. Kim (next door neighbor I grew up with, but she's down in So Cal right now) rings the doorbell and I tell my mom to answer. I am hiding behind the wall that forms our house entryway, but Kim knows I am there and makes me come outside. I forget what she said to me, but all the neighbors' sprinklers are on and their lawns are flooding. They resemble the mirror portals in my demon queen dream. I try to select them with a mouse cursor, but it only selects a few lawns. I am frustrated that my mouse won't work properly.

Blast Off

A trade with the lovely Styx. Done with pastels, which took me forever. This was very much inspired by Mantegna's "Lamentation of Christ" painting.


I also started this ArtSlam challenge. I'm doing it on medium difficulty, which means I'm committed to make art till the end of July. I really hope I can do this. It's a lot more difficult to keep up with art now that I'm not in school. After work + kung fu I mostly just end up wanting to sit and do nothing. Time to push myself a little.