✶ matthew's dream log ✶

I'm in an ancient roman city but it’s set way in the future. Skyscrapers and roman style columns everywhere alongside modern/sci-fi technologies. I’m in some sort of central square, and there is a massive fountain. I hear this earthshaking choir music, ethereal and forceful. I turn a corner and see three monolithic structures. Each one is thousands of feet tall. The first is a massive black hand pointing into the distance. It's made of pure obsidian. It's called “The Hand of Adam Reaching Toward God.” It seems to arch over the entire city. Next to it is the second monolith. A modern glass super-tall skyscraper. And then next to that, the third monolith. An enormous dark marble sculpture of a human figure. I have a real sense of depth and realness in this dream. It feels heavenly, but the sheer volume of the music and the height of the monoliths fills me with deep dread.

I went to see a psychic with a friend. The psychic was a face that was sunk into the seat of a couch. She spoke in a low gravely voice. She said my computer has “channels” and that it is trying to telepathically communicate with me through these channels. She said I should speak kindly to it.

I had a dream I was laying on a bed in a dreadful, dark room. In the far right corner of the room, there was a group of horrifying spirits wearing metal medieval knight's armor. They were huddled in the corner screaming and chanting. There were about 10-15 of them. I could hear their metal armor clanging loudly in the room. There was a strange gray mist covering them. And then a completely blacked out spirit appears right at the foot of the bed, everything goes dark.

I come to, and slowly realize I’m in a restaurant. It's an old country style breakfast restaurant with warm wood paneling. I’m very confused about how I got there.

I'm sitting with a strange family. The father is taking things out of my bag. My tools and all my belongings are everywhere on the table as I’m waking up. I’m flustered, and asking him why he’s going through my stuff. He looks like Bob from Twin Peaks, smiling at me. He won’t answer my questions. I'm scared, screaming and causing a scene. I'm dragged out of the restaurant. Trying to put pieces together. I realized I'd lost a lot of time. What was I doing before the dream about the knights? Who was this family?

Suddenly I’m walking with my friends and a small group of random people. It feels like I’m in Salt Lake City. I see a floating triangular symbol in the distance, far away from the city. It’s suspended over an ominous mountain in the distance. It captures my attention and I ask my friends if they know anything about this floating triangle.

They say it has something to do with the “Temple of Iron”.

We sit down for dinner and everyone starts talking about how erratic I was acting last night, but I don’t recall. I just remember waking up at the table with the family. i have no memory of the previous night. I just remember the dream about the knights and coming to with the family in the restaurant. I start panicking because of the lost time. I start to sense that I was abducted by the Temple of Iron and that the dream about the knights wasn't a dream at all. Maybe that actually happened? I start to sense that the father at the table who was looking through my stuff was part of this Temple of Iron somehow...

I go back home. ____ is there. We are babysitting some kids. She’s playing video games and I’m recovering. I see a spider making it’s way down from the ceiling. I decide to kill it with a paper towel. I smash the spider with both hands like a clap and it bites me in both palms. I see the two giant bites swelling up. They look like Christ’s crucifixion points. They start oozing green puss. We decide to rush me to the hospital. As we are leaving I realize there are 3 new born babies in the apartment. I'm shocked by this.

“Woah there are 3 babies?”

“Umm yeah???”

like it’s something I obviously should have known.

I think I’m gonna die from the bites.

I'm in a beautiful backyard with large square terraced pools, surrounded by a lush forest. There is a small house nearby. My family lives there. I have made some sort of deal with a forest spirit, and suddenly I've been transformed into a massive horrifying ogre. However, I'm given the ability to change forms whenever I want, into a beautiful light spirit who can fly. I spend some time flying around the forest. I get the sense that both manifestations (ogre & light spirit) are good. One is a defender, and one is a gentle guardian. I also get the sense that I am there to protect my nieces who live in the forest.

I was trying to leave a building, but I couldn’t find the exit. So I decided to go down the back staircase. It’s one of those unfinished concrete staircases that you find in hotels and other public buildings. I went down a few levels but realized I went down more flights of stairs than made sense for the height of the building. I kept going down, thinking I would find the exit, but the levels never stopped, ever. Just down and down forever. And above me, up and up forever.

I'm inside of a studio apartment. It seems that maybe I had just moved because there are boxes everywhere. I have discovered three new light switches that weren't in the apartment before. When I flick each one, tiny twinkly fairy lights in different sections of the room turn on.

I'm standing at the door and looking back into the room, its pitch black. I just keep staring into the darkness of the room. I am afraid but I can't help but stare. There is a cardboard box that's open. I then see a thin figure materialize out of nowhere. Still totally dark but my eyes adjust. It's a thin gray alien. But it's a silly inflatable one. I go over to it and grab it. Suddenly I start floating across the room with it. Backwards. As if gravity had been switched off. Like an astronaut. I'm seeing this in first person. I can see my hands in front of me. I'm doing a sort of zero gravity dance with this inflatable alien. I then return to the ground and start walking around the room, its still pitch black. I notice there is a female Cheetah in the apartment. She is not sleeping. She is just curled up in a nook watching me very closely. I try not to scare her and continue with my activities. The box where the alien came out of is now spawning many many objects out of it. Confetti, clothes, souvenirs, all different types of objects.

I hear about a women down the street who is in need of paper. I go to her house. She is standing in a massive courtyard. There are 3 walls surrounding her, they reach to the heavens. I can't see the tops.There are thousands of bags of colored paper hanging out of each window. Blue green red purple pink yellow orange. Each wall has gorgeous detail, victorian style doors and windows opening to the courtyard garden. There are statues and hedges everywhere. She is standing in the middle of the courtyard and asks how much paper I have. I say about 50-100lbs. She asks me to show her. We walk on a small foot bridge over a creek, she asks why I have so much paper? I tell her about my job and warn her about the Cheetah.