I had a harp recital that was supposed to be very informal but it ending up being in a huge auditorium that was filled with people. Felice chose the pieces we played and she had me play a Joanne Newsom song I had heard in the dream like only once before, never seen the sheet music for, and never played. She announced it and I said while sitting in the audience “you want me to sight read it?” and she and the audience said “yes!” So I started playing and did very well improvising most of it and I added glisses at some good points. It was a blues-y piece. When I was done, people clapped a lot and some people were standing up. I was very happy with the performance and couldn’t stop smiling afterward. After, I talked with Felice (actually I think we were sitting at a piano), then I left…
Next I was walking through a college; I think I was a senior and a girl that was walking near me was pissing me off because she was talking about how she never got sleep with her roommate in town but she wasn't… She gave me a dirty look or something and I said something nasty to her (like calling her a bitch or something like that) but then she made a crack about me being a commuter and not knowing what it was really like to be a “real” student or something. Then we got talking about being a commuter versus a resident and how I could leave and drive places. It ended up being a civilized conversation.
Next the dream segued into a different scene… a booby-trapped area. A guy that was a friend of mine (kind of like my costar in this portion of the dream) and I were trying to dismantle the traps. I know at one point I was doing side kicks to one wall to destroy one of them. But then there was a guy standing on the roof of one of the buildings trying to shoot us, so we ran to another building that was kind of like a metal maintenance shed. He could shoot into the shed and I was crouched in one part of the shed near the door that was sheltered from the bullets.
We ended up escaping out a semi-hidden back door in the shed that the shooter apparently didn’t know about and ran down a street down to the beach were there was a special trail with false entrances and exits. There were like little arrows created naturally by the sea grass or some plant that you kind of had to know how to interpret otherwise you’d keep ending up off the path. I had been there before – it seems like I’ve had dreams about this path before. There were different stages on the path, which was very long, kind of like the Appalachian trail where people make pilgrimage-like treks along the path. The shooter was following us, and we first were in the sandy section of the path which had white sand that was very difficult to get through. The trick was to take your time – slow and steady – because if you tried to go too hard, you’d end up getting exhausted.
Next was the vertical, icy portion of the path. It was almost like rock climbing but not so steep as to need special equipment. On this portion, people would leave food like granola bars and Nutragrain bars among stumps and trees for people after then, although I don’t think there was any food at this time. There were also icicles that said “suck here” on them like they were frozen food or nutritive water. The shooter was getting closer, so we started throwing things at him to try to slow him down.
We arrived at a flat part of the path, it seemed like it was on a plateau on a mountain or something, with a pool of water. It was still cold with snow and ice still around it. My friend was in the water and the bad guy arrived and asked me if I knew the difference between the two ways to use his weapon – he could use it as a blow torch or a flame thrower or something like that. I told that I knew if he used it in one way, he could use it to boil the water in the pool of water. He tried to do that to kill my friend, but it didn’t work (I knew it wouldn’t) and he ended up in the water somehow and coated with ice. My friend and I were going to escape and the shooter seemed so surprised that we would leave him to die. It was like he expected me to get in the water and get coated with ice, too. Then my alarm went off and I woke up.
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