chomiji | Dream On (Reply)

So I was dreaming about houses last night. I often dream about exploring a house, but I don't think I've ever had a dream with three different houses in it before. And ghosts. And a demon giving us lessons in how to fight off the ghosts.

It started off pretty mundanely: I dreamed I was selling my father's house, which I actually did a couple of years ago after his death, but this time, it was in fact my childhood home in Rock Creek Forest. And even though the yard was all torn up, as if from construction, it sold right away. But for some reason I was also selling the next house down the hill, which used to belong to (and in fact, likely still does) one of the two rabbis at our synagogue - the one I like better, actually. And I was staying in this house while it was for sale, sharing a bedroom with some young woman I'd never met before. We were being very polite with each other and careful about keeping the room tidy.

This seemed to have worked, because we must have sold the house. Next thing I know, the Mr. and I had bought another house. Bizarrely, it was exactly the kind of house I don't like, an expanded split foyer home similar to what we had when we lived in Kensington. But somehow this one was better - I remember walking up and down and all through it - and I was delighted. So much so, that when I looked out the window at the back yard, and saw that there was an extremely creepy-looking graveyard right there (!), I wasn't freaked out at all. We even made sure to take a good look at the graveyard by night, when the ghosts were stirring (!), and my reaction was "Sure, we can handle this. After all, this house is really great."

I called out to the ghosts - they were ghosts of tough-looking evil guys, something like bikers crossed with pirates - that they had better behave, we knew a couple of Priestesses of Light. This is pretty much true - I was thinking a couple of old friends who are practicing Pagans. And this tactic seemed to work. In fact, some sort of demonic spirit showed up and started giving us advice about dealing with the ghosts in the future. For example, we had to be very careful to not only lock the door, but also to latch it with an iron latch - we had one on the outside and one on the inside. It didn't look very effective, but because it was iron, it did the job. And when the Mr. and I were doing some yard work, and were menaced by one of the ghosts, my lightweight weeding trowel wasn't very effective as a weapon, but the heavier one went right into the ghost, and that seemed to fix him quite well!

I woke up at this point, and found myself wondering why we were taking this demon's advice, even though it seemed to be working. Why was he helping us? What was in it for him? I found myself thinking of Ryuk, the shinigami in Death Note, even though our demon advisor didn't look much like him. I keep thinking that Ryuk's advice is going to be Light's undoing one of these days.