[UA] Dream

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

Last night I had a strange dream, or perhaps two dreams that were
consecutive and linked.  

Both took place on the outskirts of a huge city in the middle of winter.
The city was huge--rank upon rank of vast skyscrapers, all completely lit
up.  The city was surrounded by corn fields, though I think there may have
been a lake on one side.  There was no buffer zone between downtown and the
fields--no suburbs, no miracle mile, no sprawl.  Skyscrapers edged right up
to these cornfields, which had stalks on them even though there was
drifting snow on the ground.  

In the first scene, I was with some friends and we were making a very
realistic snowman at the crest of a hill.  Somehow we were building it
around the core of a tree or a bush or something, so that it looked like a
man in white clothes aiming a pistol (which was a branch) down the hill.
Then one of my friends said "Someone's coming!  Hide!"  We hid (in trees?
In the rows of corn?) and a man came into view at the bottom of the hill.
I knew that man was a judge.  Evaulating it in my conscious mind now, he
must have had bad eyesight too, because he mistook the snowman for a real
person and shouted at him to drop the gun.  The snowman did not, of course,
comply.  My friends and I were giggling as the judge slowly tried to talk
sense to the "gunman."  Then he dove to the ground and pulled a pistol from
his satchel.  He tried to shoot the snowman, but his gun jammed.  Then he
had a heart attack, and it slowly dawned on us that we were responsible for
the death of this important man.

Perhaps I ran away then.  I think the snowman was to the west of the city,
and I ran to the north.  As I was running towards the city, I saw a
confrontation between two teenagers.  One was coming out of the city,
walking down a set of enlognated steps, his face hidden by blackness.  The
other (who may have been male or female, I'm not sure) said something like
"I know" or "I know what you've been doing" or "I know you," and the man
with the shadowed face began chasing him/her.  I knew that the boy with the
shadowed face was "the angleman" (or possibly "the anglo man") and that the
race would judge him.  If the boy/girl the angleman was chasing could get
to a door and get inside the city fast enough, the guilt of the angleman
would be proved and all the teenagers in the city would be after him.  But
if the angleman caught her (him?) first, he would do something terrible to
her and no one would stop him.

-G.

Who is both curious and apprehensive about what the list is going to turn
this into.

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