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Dream - Spy mystery action game
Apr. 2nd, 2021 01:54 pmThis morning I dreamt that I was a participant in a live action adventure-mystery game. Not as a player but as a source of information. I don't know if I was male or female nor how old I was, though I was definitely an adult.
I sat at a desk in an area of the ... complex? school? ... that was designated as Africa. Or maybe North Africa. My desk was Cairo and the players were looking for clues to the location of the McGuffin - a box containing snippets of gold coins called talons. (the snippets were curved like claws but I think the original complete coins had birds on them).
I was obviously irritating some of the players because I wasn't simply spouting the information they required as soon as they showed up at my desk; instead I was making them ask about it and coax it out of me - because that was the way I saw the game. It was all right up until someone came up who apparently thought that there was a real, actual box of gold to acquire. Then the dream began to get rather dark and I was trying to escape the delusional player.
All I remember about that is trying to get through a door before he could get me but the door was blocked by a young and lovely Elizabeth Taylor and a handsome spy action type actor (Cary Grant or Rock Hudson, I'm not sure). I pushed Liz into the actor in order to make room to get past them.
It occurs to me that the inspiration for the game in this dream is probably a recent virtual Family Feud at the school where I work. I was sent an e-mail invitation to join by the game planner and felt obligated to tell her that ... as much as I appreciated her thoughtfulness and desire for me to participate in an event that gave her great pleasure and enjoyment ... I'd rather have my teeth pulled. (and I have a positive terror of losing my teeth!)
However, serving as an information source for this sort of game ... that sounds like fun to me!
I sat at a desk in an area of the ... complex? school? ... that was designated as Africa. Or maybe North Africa. My desk was Cairo and the players were looking for clues to the location of the McGuffin - a box containing snippets of gold coins called talons. (the snippets were curved like claws but I think the original complete coins had birds on them).
I was obviously irritating some of the players because I wasn't simply spouting the information they required as soon as they showed up at my desk; instead I was making them ask about it and coax it out of me - because that was the way I saw the game. It was all right up until someone came up who apparently thought that there was a real, actual box of gold to acquire. Then the dream began to get rather dark and I was trying to escape the delusional player.
All I remember about that is trying to get through a door before he could get me but the door was blocked by a young and lovely Elizabeth Taylor and a handsome spy action type actor (Cary Grant or Rock Hudson, I'm not sure). I pushed Liz into the actor in order to make room to get past them.
It occurs to me that the inspiration for the game in this dream is probably a recent virtual Family Feud at the school where I work. I was sent an e-mail invitation to join by the game planner and felt obligated to tell her that ... as much as I appreciated her thoughtfulness and desire for me to participate in an event that gave her great pleasure and enjoyment ... I'd rather have my teeth pulled. (and I have a positive terror of losing my teeth!)
However, serving as an information source for this sort of game ... that sounds like fun to me!
