Nightmare Convention Upstairs!
Dec. 21st, 2005 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saffronhareOn the way home from preschool today, Princess !Kaboom regaled us with tales from her dreams last night. She was perky as ever in the telling...
It started with sharks ripping her up and killing her until she was dead. Then, vampires plucked out her eyes, but it was okay -- she had a collar on that kept them from biting her neck. After that, the pirates made her walk off a plank into the water where there were tentacles. It was an octopus.
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I goggled for a while and missed details about the crocodiles. When she stopped for a breath, I asked her what she thought of these dreams and what she was doing. She told me that she kept being trapped and managed to escape and then got trapped again. The stories continued...
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There was a big black dog with, like, more than four legs. Fifteen or sixteen or seventeen. She told us she escaped but kept hearing "helps," from her sisters, so she ran back to rescue them.
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Faintly, I asked if her dragon helped her through this. She said no, it was just me by myself. Sometimes she mentioned a weapon; other times, she was just "quickity-quick." She did mention Hello Ninja toward the end, but I was too dizzied to catch the context.
She expressed no apparent terror at the whole thing and seemed like she could go on and on. Not once did she use the catch-all word "monster" to describe her opponents. They were all identified. I'm impressed and a bit unsettled. Heck, I didn't even know she knew what tentacles and vampires were. I think I need a service check on that dream catcher.
It started with sharks ripping her up and killing her until she was dead. Then, vampires plucked out her eyes, but it was okay -- she had a collar on that kept them from biting her neck. After that, the pirates made her walk off a plank into the water where there were tentacles. It was an octopus.
.
I goggled for a while and missed details about the crocodiles. When she stopped for a breath, I asked her what she thought of these dreams and what she was doing. She told me that she kept being trapped and managed to escape and then got trapped again. The stories continued...
.
There was a big black dog with, like, more than four legs. Fifteen or sixteen or seventeen. She told us she escaped but kept hearing "helps," from her sisters, so she ran back to rescue them.
.
Faintly, I asked if her dragon helped her through this. She said no, it was just me by myself. Sometimes she mentioned a weapon; other times, she was just "quickity-quick." She did mention Hello Ninja toward the end, but I was too dizzied to catch the context.
She expressed no apparent terror at the whole thing and seemed like she could go on and on. Not once did she use the catch-all word "monster" to describe her opponents. They were all identified. I'm impressed and a bit unsettled. Heck, I didn't even know she knew what tentacles and vampires were. I think I need a service check on that dream catcher.
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Date: 2005-12-21 10:33 pm (UTC)Also, I'm perversely pleased to see that Hello Ninja has already worked its shiny pink way into the vocabulary. :)
And seriously, can you imagine that any child who is around us for any length of time might not know tentacles and vampires? I'm willing to bet she also knows Cthulhu, gelatinous cubes, and BEMs, even!
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Date: 2005-12-21 10:53 pm (UTC)Mostly, it was alarming that she was relating all these encounters in such a matter-of-fact way...and so many of them, one after the other.
Wowzer.
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