Posted Thursday, 1 March 2012 // by Virenne
So again, a little random fact about me : I LOVE EVERYTHING EPIC. Yes I do. Even my utmost favourite band in history is EPICA (they're incredibly awesome, but rather underrated. Please check them out! The vocalist, Simone Simons, is probably the most beautiful woman in the whole world. And they write the most epic songs with the most epic lyrics about life and justice. So much better than those mainstream pop crap). So you can see, ever since I was very young, I've always been a huge fan of the fantasy genre and this applies to books, movies, games, etc. In my previous post I mentioned that I've always been a rocker, but now that I'm growing up, another music genre that I grew to love is epic music. If you've ever noticed the background songs in trailers for movies (the epic ones, my favourite ones are from Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, and Inception) or even games (like Skyrim and Lineage II), now that's the kind of music I've been in love lately. These songs mostly are performed by the whole orchestra with full choir, sometimes singing in languages I don't even know - but that's the most fun part of it.
Anyways, since I love everything EPIC, my dreams tend to be epic as well. I once dreamed that the purgatory is actually a "test" to see if you're good enough to escape hell. If you can manage to escape then you'll be sent to heaven, but if you can't, then you're stuck in hell. I had to fight incredibly huge monsters (the only one I could remember was a mix between a bear and a large dog, it was standing on its two feet but with a face shaped like a dog, and as big as a bear), had to outsmart the devil's minions who cleverly made a sort of genocide (making everyone trapped in hell, but me), and lots of other things unimaginable. The last thing I remember before I woke up was facing the devil himself. He said that I have accomplished all the tests, and I shall be free from the grips of hell forever. When I woke up I actually felt really good!
Now, that dream was so old, let's talk about a dream that's more recent. It just occurred last night. So this dream was a mix between Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Alice in Wonderland. Epic, I know. Like in the beginning of Lord of the Rings, I had to meet several other people and together we formed a sort of fellowship in a mission to seek noble things that could help with justice and world peace. I know this sounds weird already, but trust me, it's going to get even better. I still can't remember who these people were, and I'm certain that I've never seen them before, not in real life, not in movies as well. Anyways, there were like 5 of us including me - there was another girl and 3 guys. Together, we had to travel using this long necklace made of chains (hint: Hermione's time-turner, anyone?) that could teleport us to this other dimension to find the lost item.
The thing about this other dimension is that the form changes every time we go there. However, no matter how different the set up of the land, we always have to go to the Lake of Goodwill (yes, it even has a name). This lake keeps all the necessary things needed to keep the world balanced, so every time the world starts to favour a side from another, that's when we have to go to the lake. The things inside the lake can be in any form, from a blood red rock to a shining crown. There's a catch - I was the only one who could get into the lake to actually get the thing needed. (Insert Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone reference here) Remember the Mirror of Erised? Now imagine a same thing, but instead of a mirror, it's actually a lake (hence, the name: Lake of Goodwill).
It just so happens to be that I was the only who could go into the lake because other people who tried to go in (maybe they don't have enough goodwill), they will get suffocated and poisoned by the water, but when I jump into the lake, it turns crystal clear and gleaming with light. The lake itself was pretty huge, but rather than that it was DEEP. I mean, really deep. (Insert another Harry Potter reference here) In the Triwizard Tournament when Harry had to jump into the lake and save Ron, the lake was deep and filled with a lot of creatures. They didn't attack me though, they only watched me carefully as I swum and searched for the item.
I swear, if I told this story to Sigmund Freud, he would say that to reach my goal in life (that can make people happy), I would need to move instead of staying in my hometown, and I will need my trusted fellows to get to it. I would also need to keep a good heart and good intentions. There will be some other people that would supervise me and watch me closely, but I don't harm them, they wouldn't attack me. Something like that. Without the interpretation, I still liked the dream anyways. Anyways, I better go to sleep now, it's just past midnight. I will see you guys and I will report the full experience of my first week in my second semester in UQ!
Cheers!
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