Buffy Dream

[rowyn]

My brain tried to make me dream about Buffy the Vampire Slayer this morning, which is particularly funny because I've only seen a couple of early episodes and the original movie. So the dream resorted to having a flashback to the movie inside the TV show (I don't think the movie is even canonical to the TV show).

The flashback was of movie-Buffy being strangled/stabbed by hands reaching through her bedroom wall (without breaking the wall; the body was apparently desolid). Then her movie sidekick (did she have a sidekick in the movie? I know my brain made all of this up) staked the vampire behind the hands.

Scene returned to the present, with TV-Buffy and whoever her friends are in her bedroom, and Buffy is saying "Of course I cleaned the blood off the wall afterwards". The wall was now covered in posters and papers from her childhood: teen star posters and childhood drawings and whatnot pinned or taped to the wall, the way kids do.

A disembodied, vaguely threatening voice said, "You know you want to see what's underneath." Buffy & co. started taking down the top layer of posters and papers, and underneath were letters Buffy didn't remember writing to a person she didn't remember knowing. They were still trying to get to the beginning of the sequence when the dream moved on.

The other bit I remember is the crew of teens moving a bunch of corpses, and one of the characters tried to start a musical number (apparently because my mind remembers there's a musical episode of Buffy even though I've never seen it.) The character was trying to talk about the obligations the dead people still had, and started singing, in Fluttershy's voice, o/~"When you have a duty ... "o/~

And the other characters answered with "They're dead," in flat, not-singing, not-going-along with this voices.

Fluttershy-girl: o/~"You still have a duty!"o/~

"No they don't! They're dead!"

It didn't really go off.

The funny thing is that after I woke up I kept trying to make the song scan in my head, with the counterpoint sung. Even though the point in the dream had been that the counterpoint wasn't sung.

I can still hear Fluttershy's voice singing that line, which makes me wonder if I got it from an MLP episode and just forgot. In which case someone will surely let me know. :)

Comments

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

That would be a funny sort-of-song. ;)

[rowyn]

It was funny in the dream, anyway. :D

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Boy, trying to recount dreams to Gwendel is so often a "You had to be there" experience. :D Like, in my DREAM, it was FUNNY. Or, in my DREAM, it all seemed a whole lot less stupid at the time. Or, in my DREAM, it was SCARY, so stop laughing at me!

[rowyn]

Yes, I realized while writing up the part where they were taking down the posters to uncover the message underneath that I couldn't convey why this had been creepy in the dream.

I think the musical/not-musical part translates, though. :)

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

That's because in your dream, you had the mental equivalent of CREEPY BACKGROUND MUSIC playing in your head, of course. :) Tearing down posters, one after one, anxious about WHAT IS UNDERNEATH. What could be hiding behind there? Are they just posters innocently put onto the wall, or is there something sinister underneath that they're meant to conceal? MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

Ahem. Or something like that. I mean, hey, I could see it being creepy. I got this mental image of something soaking through the posters and giving a hint that something's underneath there and "wants to get out," however illogical it might be that anything that creepy could be held back by a bunch of posters.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

My Little Pony has a marked lack of anyone being dead. Even when there was a war against the changelings everyone was just knocked out or tied up in goop.

I don't think Buffy ever had a 'move a bunch of corpses' episode, even though it did have lots of people die. They were usually demons and burst into flames or whatever.

[rowyn]

Oh, I don't think I got the pastiche of elements from any particular source. I was wondering if the tune/words my brain used for o/~"When you have a duty" had come from MLP, though. Not as related to corpses. :D

[jorrocks-j.livejournal.com]

But Buffy did have a friend of a different species named Spike.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

So... are comments suddenly not showing up for everyone else? It looks like LJ broke their site again.

[rowyn]

Yeah, LJ broke comments display for a while. It's working again now, though.

[whitefangedwolf.livejournal.com]

Brains are weird. I just read this and now my brain is trying to write a story about "Fluttershy the Vampire Slayer".

Oddly enough, I'm beginning to think that it just might be doable.