Dream about Gil
Aug. 19th, 2008 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayamaiaI swear, fictional characters...! Well, at least my brain is trying to make me happy.
So last night, I dreamed I was running around with a guy who I couldn't help but think was a LOT like Gilgamesh Wulfenbach. His father was even uncannily like Klaus, except for some reason he owned Eudemonia and the guy who was so much like Gil worked there. Anyway, we're trying to keep out of sight of his dad's troops and he gets the idea that he'll take apart one of their tanks - I duck under to help him but he is already almost done. (that really should have tipped me off that it was a dream, but I just thought again, 'Wow, he is so MUCH like Gil!') Anyway, I thought he was taking some sort of gun out of the works, but it turns out he just made a different vehicle from it, a partially automated van which was ridiculously comfortable.
He jumps in the driver's seat and says "Why don't we go out somewhere?" and suggests this pool that exists somewhere between the Caldecott Tunnel and Orinda... one of the standing weirdnesses of my dreams, that area is always hugely vertical jungle and can contain anything I want it to... While we're driving, I realize I can't even remember the guy's name, but decide I'll just call him Gil and pretend it's just a pet name. I also realize I'm developing a huge crush on him, so since the car is partially automated, I climb in his lap and kiss him - he gets totally flustered and says he has to drive (though he really doesn't).
We arrive at the pool, but it's not the one I thought it would be - an ordinary one that I knew had been there, which Gil tells me shut down some months previously - but the place next door, which is part pool, part petting zoo. When we get in, it turns out there's a sort of circle of pools, starting as kiddie wading pools and going up no farther than six feet deep. There's a fence through the middle to keep really little kids in the safe area, and there are extremely unlikely creatures at scattered places along the circuit. The creatures confuse me a bit, because some have too many legs and several of them don't resemble anything I know - but then I see there's a woman playing a kind of jello centaur for little kids to ride and I realize they're beautfully made automatons. I probably would have spent more time puzzling over the animatronics, but I was thinking about Gil. He might not be great about picking places for dates, but even that was sort of adorable - he seemed perfect and I thought I'd finally found someone I'd like to be my boyfriend again. He was wandering off ahead - probably realized that neither of us had swimsuits, so this place was a mistake - and I was staring after him and trying to think how I would break it to people that I was dating someone again.
I go and join Gil at a sort of corner store that was attached to the place, and he apologizes for bringing me there, but maybe we could go somewhere else. I like this idea and think up my own things to do when we get there, but he suggests a picnic. So we start looking around the store, and he calls me over to examine what he'd just pulled out of a drawer - they were strawberries, double dipped in dark and white chocolate. So we get a bag of them, and Gil says he had just gotten a great idea, then we'd get going... and I'm so excited I wake up.
What a come-down, realizing that I had only been dreaming about a guy who was just like a fictional character. I've been wandering around since waking saying things like "Awww, why can't he be real?!" *sigh*
Not really unusual for me, though, in recent times. And not a surprising choice, either. He's a tinkerer and brilliant, nice, awkward, but also self-possessed... Gilgamesh Wulfenbach is one of those perfect boys that show up all over in fiction. There just aren't enough of them in real life.
Time to chase Randall Munroe. =)
It's interesting to note, though, how my mind did its best to hide the fact that I was dreaming. I know that Gil doesn't exist, so I meet a guy who is just like him, but in just slightly more realistic circumstances. I don't really go anywhere else these days, so I meet him at Eudemonia. Things like that.
So last night, I dreamed I was running around with a guy who I couldn't help but think was a LOT like Gilgamesh Wulfenbach. His father was even uncannily like Klaus, except for some reason he owned Eudemonia and the guy who was so much like Gil worked there. Anyway, we're trying to keep out of sight of his dad's troops and he gets the idea that he'll take apart one of their tanks - I duck under to help him but he is already almost done. (that really should have tipped me off that it was a dream, but I just thought again, 'Wow, he is so MUCH like Gil!') Anyway, I thought he was taking some sort of gun out of the works, but it turns out he just made a different vehicle from it, a partially automated van which was ridiculously comfortable.
He jumps in the driver's seat and says "Why don't we go out somewhere?" and suggests this pool that exists somewhere between the Caldecott Tunnel and Orinda... one of the standing weirdnesses of my dreams, that area is always hugely vertical jungle and can contain anything I want it to... While we're driving, I realize I can't even remember the guy's name, but decide I'll just call him Gil and pretend it's just a pet name. I also realize I'm developing a huge crush on him, so since the car is partially automated, I climb in his lap and kiss him - he gets totally flustered and says he has to drive (though he really doesn't).
We arrive at the pool, but it's not the one I thought it would be - an ordinary one that I knew had been there, which Gil tells me shut down some months previously - but the place next door, which is part pool, part petting zoo. When we get in, it turns out there's a sort of circle of pools, starting as kiddie wading pools and going up no farther than six feet deep. There's a fence through the middle to keep really little kids in the safe area, and there are extremely unlikely creatures at scattered places along the circuit. The creatures confuse me a bit, because some have too many legs and several of them don't resemble anything I know - but then I see there's a woman playing a kind of jello centaur for little kids to ride and I realize they're beautfully made automatons. I probably would have spent more time puzzling over the animatronics, but I was thinking about Gil. He might not be great about picking places for dates, but even that was sort of adorable - he seemed perfect and I thought I'd finally found someone I'd like to be my boyfriend again. He was wandering off ahead - probably realized that neither of us had swimsuits, so this place was a mistake - and I was staring after him and trying to think how I would break it to people that I was dating someone again.
I go and join Gil at a sort of corner store that was attached to the place, and he apologizes for bringing me there, but maybe we could go somewhere else. I like this idea and think up my own things to do when we get there, but he suggests a picnic. So we start looking around the store, and he calls me over to examine what he'd just pulled out of a drawer - they were strawberries, double dipped in dark and white chocolate. So we get a bag of them, and Gil says he had just gotten a great idea, then we'd get going... and I'm so excited I wake up.
What a come-down, realizing that I had only been dreaming about a guy who was just like a fictional character. I've been wandering around since waking saying things like "Awww, why can't he be real?!" *sigh*
Not really unusual for me, though, in recent times. And not a surprising choice, either. He's a tinkerer and brilliant, nice, awkward, but also self-possessed... Gilgamesh Wulfenbach is one of those perfect boys that show up all over in fiction. There just aren't enough of them in real life.
Time to chase Randall Munroe. =)
It's interesting to note, though, how my mind did its best to hide the fact that I was dreaming. I know that Gil doesn't exist, so I meet a guy who is just like him, but in just slightly more realistic circumstances. I don't really go anywhere else these days, so I meet him at Eudemonia. Things like that.
