saturday night i dreamt about...

exploring huge factories beside a large river. factories which are rusty and pump their filth out in to the sooty night from long, flaming smokestacks. along the way a little girl in a pink dress with long, yellow hair (alice?) finds and latches on to me -- something i do not wish to have happen, for who wants to be responsible for a small child while trying to explore industrial settings? we go up huge stairwells, balance on pipes over fuming pits, tippity tap across steel-lattice bridges.

eventually we cross the river, expansive and tinged a mustard yellow, and poke around the shanty houses on the other side. they have pretty gardens, which glow -- amazing because of the lack of sun. the sky is black and brown with soot and chemicals, the gardens are shocking and fresh.

the little girl picks some flowers and i usher her out of the garden areas fast, afraid of the owner's wrath. on the way out of the gardens, which were located right on the river shore (separated by only a steep cement "river" curb) i find my father as well...

...now i have to nieve beings to watch.

i walk over to the river, looking into its yellow, rushing depths for answers and some solution or freedom...i see, instead, a huge eel swim downstream, at least 20 ft. long. i then see an enormus octopus do the same thing, then a shark, a gigantus fish... all hungry, all taking turns swimming down the shore. it reminds me, strangely, of those "go-fish" games at amusement parks where the small, plastic fish are pushed by your hook with the current -- except everything was ginormus and a darker mustard color than the water (like an old old film).

my father and the alice-girl peer into the water, looking for the interesting things that i have found. they are able to see nothing but the glare of the smokestack fires waving over the water -- something quite beautiful in itself. i am afraid to loose them both to the hungry, waiting jaws in this game of "go-human."

interesting

i have been having some groovy hardcore-industrial dreams this year, and i say whoopee!

*grin*