I Dream of Flying Pancakes
One of the great entrepreneur stories in our town was about a local guy who built a toy factory. What made his toy factory special (or rather… very peculiar) was how the toys dropped off a conveyor belt onto an audience of volunteers below. The people in the audience then made one adjustment to the toy and passed it back until it ended up in a bin at the back of the room. And people loved this! A few of my friends went there all the time and had a blast putting someone else’s toys together.
I decided to go talk to the owner and get some ideas on how to start a business. Today wasn’t a good day, though. He was freaking out, saying the world was going to flood, and everyone was going to die. But because he foresaw this, he had cooked a giant, flying pancake to protect himself. Unfortunately, he was right about the flood. Water crashed in through the windows and swept him away before he could get into the pancake. My girlfriend and I took it, instead, wiggling inside the dark, somewhat gooey center. Then we waited.
After 40 days, the pancake landed on dry ground. The flood was gone… and so were all the people. Well, they weren’t really gone, they had just turned into animals. Dogs. Cats. Other weird creatures. My girlfriend and I wanted to know what happened, so we started exploring some nearby caves. Underground, we came across more homes where the people had been replaced with animals. But then we found a fortress that belonged to a pale, little girl. Apparently, the girl was a witch, and the flood and the animals were her doing.
Naturally, I challenged to fight her. She set up an arena so all of her minions could watch her beat me. She also transformed into a giant octopus-like monster just to make things a little easier for her. I smacked one of her yellow eyes with my flashlight a few times, though, and that changed her mind. She sent all her minions to chase us away. By the time we got back outside, it was already 11:30 at night. We had something we were supposed to do at 12:00, but we decided to go back into the cave and take care of the witch. Whether or not we did, I don’t know. I woke up before we reached her again.
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Responses to “I Dream of Flying Pancakes”
Comments RSS Feed – All CommentsClark — 24 February 2010 @ 11:43 am
This is the Old Testament, as written by Pokémon.
Kali — 24 February 2010 @ 10:15 pm
LOL! I love it.
Hopfrog — 25 February 2010 @ 3:29 am
OK, I’ve got some time to kill let me clean the pipe and pull up the dream moods website and get to the bottom of this whole pancake witch battle.
Putting together toys seems to indicate trying to make the best of a bad situation. The flood, oh my, seems to represent the need to release physical desires and tension over emotional issues. Ok, this is weird, the pancake reprents happiness with your current situation. But I am guess that since it is both you and your girlfriend involved in the flood and seeking refuge in the pancake that you would be perfectly content if she were here with you in the states despite any other difficulties you are facing.
The witch and the animals can mean a whole bunch of things, but in the context of your dream I have a theory. The witch represents a manipulative negative force in your life and the people being transformed into animals seems to represent the witch’s ability to successfully manipulate the people in your life who, if the animals cannot talk, you are not able to communicate with.
Walking in a cave seems to represent your desire to explore the unconcious mind and a quest for self discovery. Which, makes sense, because, well, your posting your dreams. The flashlight seems to tie in nicely with the cave as an indication that you are trying to shed light on your inner thoughts or trying to illuminate a solution to a problem you are facing. The fact that you attack the witch the flashlight indicates the you seem to be trying to figure out how to deal with this person who is having a negative influence in your life. With no resolution to the witch battle it seems you are still uncertain that you have found a way to effectively deal with this negative influence.
Basically, your not happy about your current situation but making the best of it and miss your girlfriend. If your girlfriend were with you, then it seems you would be happy regardless of any other hardships you are facing. Your doing a lot of introspection and trying to figure out a way to deal with a negative influence in your life but seem to be having trouble finding a solution.
My apologies in advance if this is way off, my qualifications as a dream analyzer include a semester of Psych 101 and looking up stuff at a website. :)
Clark — 25 February 2010 @ 11:46 am
I’d say you did a pretty good job.
Mom — 26 February 2010 @ 11:17 am
So… who or what is the negative influence in your life right now?
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