I had four dreams on this night and though they seemed separate, they also seemed to run right into the next in some ways.
#1) In the first dream there was an old lady travelling through a thick temperate forest on a ship. The ship was magical and it could sail across both water and land. The old lady was hunting down an enemy that she had been pursuing her whole life.
She comes across an old man in the middle of the forest and offers him a ride on her ship, which he gladly accepts. Through their ensuing converstaion it is revealed that the old man is the enemy that the old lady has been hunting for, though they do not fight because they are too old and tired now to keep fighting. The forest clears and the ship sails away on a large body of water, and the dream ends.
#2) The second dream takes place on a peice of land owned by my Aunt and Uncle, out in the eastern coast of Canada. There is some sort of gathering and we (both friends and family, as well as some random unrecognizable characters) are all sitting around two fires on opposite ends of the open space, wrapped in blankets or doing various activities. The sky is overcast and it is "spitting" rain, but the gathering continues despite the slight chill coming off the ocean.
I am sitting on the ground near one of the fires when a shadow falls over me. I look up and there is an elderly native man standing over and staring down at me. He is dressed in the traditional clothing of his indegenious clan (though I cannot recall the name of the tribe) and radiating a plesant warmth. It becomes quickly apparent to me that no one else can see him. The dream becomes fuzzy hear and I cannot remember any more for a bit.
Later in the day the drizzle has stopped and there are a few partings in the clouds where the late afternoon sun shines through. The gathering is still going full strength though I am laying down on a blanket away from everyone else. Through half lidded eyes I again see a shadow fall over me. I open my eyes and there are three native indians in traditional clothing huddled together and staring down at me. There is a young woman who seems strangely farmiliar though I cannot place a name to her face. There are two young men, one who looks like someone I used to know named Mike (but with long hair), and another whose face is shrouded in darkness. I am not afraid or worried, though I am a bit uncomfortable with all of them staring at me in silence.
I get up and go over to my Aunt Dorthey, and ask her who the three strangers are, even as they continue to watch me. Again, though, no one else can see them except for me and my family silently thinks that I am eccentric. For some reason I "just knew" that is what they were thinking. The dream ends there.
#3) The third dream takes place in a busy city with narrow streets. There are two people with me; a young woman and a young man, and though we are friends in the dream I do not recognize them as people I actually know in waking life. Everything about the city seems very dreary and grey and takes place in the Chinese section of town.
The young woman and I gave our hair scrunchies away or something and then convinced the young man to come along with us to buy some new ones. We all went into a store that had three stands filled with hair elastics. Even though it wasn't necessary or whatever, my friends and I wanted to buy bigger and more poofie scrunchies. That is the gist of the dream, though it was very "grey" and "blurry" near the end.
#4) In the last dream I was a beautiful Chinese movie star who had just been signed on to a new movie. The filming location is deep in a temperate forest and is difficult to get to because there are no paved roads. There is a shallow, rushing river near the filming site that I have to be carried across because there is no bridge and I do not know how to swim or something. For some reason I am already in a bright red film costume when I am carried across the river.
Filming begins but is quickly halted when it suddenly starts to downpour. The cast and crew try to take cover in the equipment tents. As it is raining, the director adds a sex scene to the film, starring my character, and doesn't ask if I am interested in participating because he just assumes that I would. I refuse and say that my stunt double can do it, but she refuses also. I storm out of the tent and into the pouring rain after I quit because the director would not stop harassing me about doing the offending scene.
LEGEND:
BLUE indicates side notes and personal thoughts written after the fact
BLACK indicates a normal dream
RED indicates a lucid dream