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Japan on my Roof

8/29/17 Last night I had a strange dream, my family had moved into a new house that had been abandoned and my dad and I headed upstairs and onto the roof to take care of this strange garden place; woo everywhere was rotting, there was sparse decorations of Japanese origin, a lot of overgrowth from surrounding low to the ground rectangle planters, it would have been a paradise clean, what with the stonework, small koi pond, and hot tub/ relaxing pool and all. There was a small waiting area for relaxing and conversing, with spirits I think, and sitting under a little awning was a fat and happy Tanuki statue, I smiled and approached it using my best Japanese and it smiles at me, suddenly a character menu opens up and I'm asked or compelled to offer it something to complete a quest. The Happy Tanuki is missing either: a drinking gourd, a smoking pipe, or some food to eat, but I feel like the best gift to give it would be a smoking pipe or a drinking gourd. Suddenly I'm in an Ōkami style Japanese resort town, Spirited Away style, and I begin searching around for something to give the Happy Tanuki. As I explored A woman came up to me, and of course I knew her, I couldn't tell you who she was in the waking world but in my dream she was the mother of the woman I was dating; she sat next to me on a bench in front of an alter and we began to have a serious talk. According to this woman I was dating her 35 year old daughter, which I was shocked by because the woman I was dating couldn't have been more than 20-something. We chatted and made the decision to go ask The Alter of The Golden Dragon if I was truly in love and could have the mother's blessing, I was nervous, terrified, and questioning everything to say the least. There was a bowl of burning mustard yellow incense and the smoke from the bowl, the "toxins", were getting swept up into the mini waterfall next to it to indicate the dragon was at the alter, the dragon only ever stayed for a small amount of time so as I was ushered over to wash my hands and then stand on a small pedestal in front of the alter and write out my question in wax on a small scroll. I wrote the question, using the special wax made by the dragon onto the scroll and I was given to a small stick of toxin incense, just an inch in length, to light in a small bowl of smoldering ash from previous users. No surprise it was hard to light, but I found a burning bud at the very bottom of the bowl and just barely managed to light the incense in time to burn the paper and throw it into the ash of the alter. As my question "Am I in Love" burned the shadow of a dragon appeared, dodging and weaving between the few shadows on the alter; it rose from the shadows to circle around the alter and observe its questioners, to the guy on the other side of the alter from me it seemed to give its blessing, to me it charged at my face and crashed into me in a puff of smoke, something called "biting" which I'm told could be any number of things but none of them are an answer to my questions. It either meant the dragon didn't like me, didn't like my question, how it was worded, or thought I was ugly, which I'm told would actually be a great thing because it meant no evil spirits would come after me. I thanked the old alter attendant and the mom followed me as I went through the various shops and looked at all the goodies for something to take home. We talked about various things and I greeted one or two spirits, yokai mostly, before heading back to my room to sleep which I don't remember happening and the next thing I know it's one bright and foggy Japanese morning on a pier, greeting young female students and looking for an open air restaurant that either partially spoke english or clearly didn't have shrimp in their product. I did fairly well for myself too on that front; I found a small American Gaijin booth that served pizza and various other exotic delights, sadly a lot of the pickles kept getting mixed with the ranch dip and stuff despite best efforts to keep them apart. As I was getting my good I ran into one of my old schoolmates who was with some of her friends, the girl stole my tray when I wasn't looking then told me she'd put it on another table farther away even though my back was in terrible pin suddenly and I couldn't walk very far, finally I ended up getting what looked like a bowl of ravioli and a kind of meatball on a bed of rice with a strange "Curry Barbecue" sauce of sorts, I was getting ready to check out but then I woke up.

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The Death Eater Dragon

8/22/17 So I had a weird dream, like really weird, like I was Voldemort but also a dragon and I'd gotten free o my prison only to find draco malfoy and some other guy, I can't remember who he was, on an old fashioned wooden ship, I think it was a schooner but I have nothing to back this up other than the basic body shape because the masts were down against the ship. And that's only the boring half of the dream: We made it to a shore and the next thing I know I'm waking up and there's some dragon slaying witch cult with Draco tied to a pole and the other guy is gone, I think they cooked him in the cauldron behind Draco; I had a clutch of egg with me, at least 12 that were a shiny yellow and orange like my back. The witches noticed I was awake and noticed the eggs too, trying to steal them and using a "fake drake" dildo to try and distract me because apparently I was in heat, and it almost worked but I was able to kick the witch trying it away so I could garb the eggs and escape, but several of them were damaged an I only had 9 left. I managed to make it to an island that was a dragon sanctuary, trying to stop the witches by roasting them with fire as they followed me, I crashed against a beach and they weren't far behind but I managed to make a small burrow int the sand and covered them up, blasting the sand with fire to keep the eggs warm but the biggest fat witch named "Rainbow Rainbow" tunneled under the sand and used a spear to stab at the eggs. I dug up as many as I could but only managed to save about 4 or 6 and tried to take off again, they were closing in on me and I was panicking, trying to hide the eggs in safer places but I couldn't for fear of the witches finding them. Finally a good witch found me, she ran a dragon and rare animal sanctuary and after helping her mix some nutrient rich bug mush, because a big dragon means more mashing power for these strange green and orange beetle creatures, she showed me to some incubating tanks where the healthy eggs could go and my one cracked egg could gestate safely. I set them in the tub and thanked her. A little while later the eggs were ready to hatch and I climbed in with them, I swear those vats were either bigger than they looked or they were TARDIS's, anyway as they were hatching I heard the witches outside so I ducked low in the water and kept the hatchlings quiet while the sanctuary lady drove them away, but I was so damn furious that I climbed out just as they were leaving and chased after them to try and cook this "Rainbow Rainbow" chick alive.