my dreams make absolutely no sense

I woke up at 4am last night and decided I needed to record the details of the dream I was having before they started to fade. My dreams are generally not very narratively consistent. People in my dreams often segue into different identities as the dream goes on, including who “I” am in the dream and my relation to the events of them. My dreams do not tend to make much sense. And even then I don’t generally remember details of them too well.



So I can’t really offer a coherent story of my dream as there wasn’t one. What I have is a series of vague elements that end up collapsing into a spectacular weird mess. Like I said the narrative isn’t very consistent but there were definite sort of “modes” the dream slid back and forth between. I’m going to call them layers. In one layer of the dream I was just myself in the dream, me in a very weird situation, but still as directly “first person” as a dream could be. In another layer I was someone else. I don’t remember any particular name but it was definitely a different person who for the sake of having a name to put to it I’ll call him Tom. Tom was in kind of a more Noir-ish setting investigating stuff. Tom was also sometimes a normal looking person and sometimes a cartoon character is Shmorky’s style.

Sometimes I would drift out of the main character and become more of an ethereal observer of events. Sometimes I was myself watching a TV show of the main “plot” of the dream unfolding on TV. Sometimes the main character of the dream wasn’t me or Tom but Korra from Legend of Korra. Just straight up Korra. These weren’t easily separated segments where Korra has her own plot in my dream sometimes the transition would be completely smooth and seemless I would occasionally just sort of be Tom or be Korra in a vague way that made no sense but didn’t seem inconsistent or jarring moment to moment in the dream.

Across all layers of the dream there was a city. When we were in the Korra layer this was of course Republic City. When it was me or Tom it was just a nameless city. As I said already it had a more noir-ish tone with Tom sometimes. Across all layers there was a Bad Guy. Bad Guy didn’t have any name but the Bad Stuff he was doing generally involved smuggling in some way I think. For Tom Bad Guy was a vague and generic silhouette in a trenchcoat and fedora. For Korra the Bad Guy looked like Shiro from the new Voltron cartoon but in green earth-nation-y robes. Across all layers there was also a big tower I (or Tom or Korra) lived in. It was like the space needle and gigantic compared to other buildings in the city.

For some reason in the layer where I was “me” there was a big arguments about growing strawberries in the basement of the tower. The strawberry bushes were kind of overtaking the whole basement. A woman from my office was involved in this argument and it got a bit heated. I think she was living in the tower too. As were my family.

The order of events is a bit confused in my head but on all the layers there was a bit of trying to find where the Smuggler’s operation was. There was a bit where Tom is sneaking about but then I drift out of it and I’m watching this on TV and there’s a dramatic moment where it seems like Tom evaded the Smuggler but then the Smuggler sent some street urchins to find Tom because they know where to find him or something and then the street urchins were never seen again.

Eventually it comes back to me and the strawberry thing and it starts getting really weird because the strawberry plants start like growing into people and it’s kind of body horror-y and I distinctly remember one bit where I suddenly had a baby in the dream and there was strawberries growing inside it’s body and like up through it’s oesophagus and then the dream kind of strongly jerks to the Legend of Korra stuff and the baby is Asami’s now and the family living in the basement of the tower isn’t my family it’s Asami’s and the strawberry plants are taking over and Korra and Asami escape up to the top of the tower with the baby and rip out the strawberries and they decide they have to go after smuggler dude and Korra glides them down on a glider into the city. They don’t take the baby but now they kind of have a weird video game style voice-on-the-radio helping them with no clear source I dunno maybe the baby was psychic or something.

Korra and Asami are looking for the Smuggler and run into (this is copied directly from the notes I wrote straight away after waking up) “some cartoon shark dudes hiding in huts covered in leaves (this was meant to be camo even though they’re in the middle of a city) selling illegal BBQ. I feel like this part was a follow up to another dream I don’t remember.”

Nothing really comes of that and there’s some kind of vague timeskip and now Korra nad Asami have been living in the top of the tower for years and Asami’s family are now strawberry vampires because of the evil strawberry plants (and the smuggler dude is maybe one too and possibly part of Asami’s family?) and they took over the city and have been trying to kill Korra and Asami for years.

Eventually Asami says she has to leave this city and Korra is like “why?” and Asami explains her family are vampires and have been trying to kill them for years and Korra is like “oh yeah” but it’s difficult because Korra is kind of physically fucked up from fighting like at the start of series four but they manage to glide off into the sunrise together.

And then the dream shifts back to “this is something I was watching on TV” layer and I’m arguing with my brother over the remote because I wanted to check the name of what we just watched so I can see the second part. And I check and the name of the show is this:

Yes I know that’s not words but that was the name of the show. And then I had merchandise and it was a piece of rubber that was basically just Shmorky’s tumblr avatar’s face about the size of a fifty cent coin (euros I don’t know how big american coinage is) and also a tiny apple about the same size. And then I think I woke up.