The Pillow Study (a dream I had)

My apartment had expanded when I woke up. I was in a severe state of confusion and lethargy, and had to drag myself from room to room, so it took me a while to notice the change. (Which only makes sense, how did I sleep through their work in the first place?) A new bathroom was added to compensate for my destruction of the first one, and some how the lay out was changed. On my second walk through the house I noticed a series of notes and diagrams arranged on a blank picture frame that was resting in the new back hallway by the new bathroom. They were from my mom describing the use on my new room “the pillow study” which could only be approached from one of it’s two doors, the other had been covered over with a crucial sheet that should not be moved, inside the room stretching from one corner to the other was a line of pillows laid end to end, across the length of the room. In addition there were several incantations and rituals to perform to enter, also the function of the room, as the pillow study did not necessitate my presence I left well enuff alone and explored the other minor changes due to it. They had opened a hole from my living room into the basement; it was small and covered over with a hinged wooden piece, that when I moved aside it let me see a work bench with tools and a story. The story was of a little girl and a little boy trapped in a deep recess of my building by seven long necked angry dragons.  They had forced the boy to go up to my rooms while I slept and build me my new bathroom and pillow study. When he returned the girl was jealous that he had gotten to see something other than the small hole in the wall where the dragons weren’t raging. She convinced him to flee. Which they did successfully, the dragons raged on carelessly. The children’s presence wasn’t needed.

            I left the house when I started to feel better. Walking along a low stonewall I saw Simone and Danie playing in the back yard of redmountain. I walked all the way to (school) where I met my new roommates. They had captured a man who looked deeply familiar, threw him in a sack and had me help drag him home. I didn’t want to but it seemed important. We took him into the back bedroom, where my new roommates were torturing him for some information, I knew not what. I lobbied for his proper treatment, and they always agreed to my face and beat the old man when I wasn’t looking.

            Disgusted, I entered the pillow study from the fabric door, when I emerged from it’s contemplated enclosure, My roommates had become a lizard and a bird, but still men. I went to visit the old man, he had escaped from us by lying still in a garbage bag in the corner, I found him and tore it open to give him some air. He talked to me, we talked of immortality, and I told him I wasn’t interested (??? at this point I might also have been the boy who escaped the dragons but the old man might have been too).  He himself was an owl, and the lizard came back and with his lizard’s speed, drug off the owl, to the palace of the king. The king wanted the secret of immortality, just like the lizard and the bird, and the lizard had told the king in exchange for land and money. I went there, unsure of what to do but hoping to give the owl a possibility for escape, in the end I did, moving a well sighted gun of a royal musket bearer so that the bullet struck the owl’s hat and left him to escape.  A search party was organized to find the hat. A soldier very near me found the hat and I came to inspect it. Inside there was a big “juicy pear” which was half rotten and enclosed in a pool of it’s own fluids. The man handed me the hat and ran to tell the king, but when his back was turned I tipped up the old bowler hat and drank the juice and swallowed the juicy peach in one fluid gulp. The guards then tried to kill me too, but I leapt into the air becoming a fox or a coyote and evaded them, leaving my man bones in the air in a pirouette.

           

The lizard knew as well that he had to escape, so the last of the immortal beasts departed the royal gardens. Latter I could see that owl and lizard were ship wrecked together on a beautiful deserted island, completely comfortable after hundreds of years with the bounty of nature. They now had the means to escape but owl and lizard said together. “Each new day even in so small a place is a whole new set of experiences, never has their been a day like this one, and tomorrow is the same” but under their island beneath the waves there were two children, a boy and a girl trapped by seven angry long necked dragons.