Man, I have REALLY weird dreams. Last night, I had one about an amusement park. For some odd reason, a recurring theme in a good deal of my dreams is this amusement park which doesn't even exist in the real world! It has a unique layout, unlike ANY park I've ever seen...
When you first enter, there's a booth for tickets. You can go left, where there's a BUNCH of rides, and on the other side, there's an arcadeesque game center. If you continue down this path, you'll get to the midway, with a HUGE lake on the side. This midway ... well, it has a really weird significance to my dreams... essentially, it's about as brutal as the entertainment in anceint Rome. It is, strangely, the most populated part of the park in my dreams.... but only in a nighttime setting. But that's for another post.
If you instead went right, you travel a path with some less-bloody midway games. Keep going, and then you get to the part I really don't get: a part of the park with things like mini-golf and kiddie rides... that is dilapodated and no one works at or visits. It's just abandoned, and not haunted either, just abandoned.
Now, exiting the park, you can go left, which leads to a train station. One of my dreams consisted of me leaving the park, going on the train, and getting lost in a huge dark city with no money. It was really kind of creepy. If you take the train correctly, it leads to a set of shack-like rooms, where I was staying in the city dream.
Go right, and you immediately come to a REAL hotel complex. It's the one I stay at at our annual vacation. In the real world, there also IS an amusement park nearby, nothing like the one in my dreams.
In this paticular installment of the amusement park-themed dreams (Of which I've had at least 10 in the past year), I was leaving the amusement park and I saw a black dog driving my car (I don't have a car in the real world) into this real hotel complex, and almost driving it into the lake near it. There was more, but that's all i remember.
And what does this have to do with Mario? I had won from one of the non-death midway games a lifesized Yoshi doll.
It's freaky that I conjure up this imaginary amusement park, and it is prevalent in so many of my dreams. And it never changes at all. Same layout each time.
Another thing about these is that, with these carnie dreams, I actually appear in them. (Always 3rd person though) -- I rarely appear in ANY other dreams I have.
I can try and draw it and scan it if you want me to. It's freaky and hard to describe.
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