I just had a… well it wasn’t a wierd dream actually, it kinda played out like a story. Perhaps a combination of seeing parts of Tomb Raider and The Mummy recently, yet it was a bit more like the end of the live action Jungle Book film.
Anyway, we’re explorers in the jungle, and there’s five of us (who those 5 are keeps changing) and we’re trying to get stuff out of this old temple. But there’s another group trying to get in before us, led by the actor Guy Pierce (the baddie from Monte Cristo (the new one) and explorer in Two Brothers (tiger film), I just had to look up his name). There’s a lot of traps, and especially the one from the Jungle Book, with the salt/sand fill trap. But there’s one thing everyone’s especially after: A troll in blue clothes.
Now it just so happens we have a troll with us, actually (made of rock, like in Discworld books) so after some plotting because the other group have more manpower than us, we swap the troll’s clothes and the troll (so out troll’s sitting there like a statue) and we ‘give up’ and retreat on a donkey drawn cart with the statue sitting on the back, while the other guys try and figure out how to get this other troll back.
Then at night one of us goes back for the true troll, and gets found out because they’re still hanging around, but it sets off this sand/salt pit trap and we only just get away.
It’s all a bit blurry after that, but there’s one more treasure we need: A wooden lion. It’s standing on a pedestal in the pit room and surrounded by a bunch of soft toys that aren’t considered as valuable. After lots of fighting and stealing back and forth somehow the lion’s back in the pit room and one of us is putting it back on the pedestal. There’s a guide native to the area telling us about the soft toys and how other people have dumped them there; look, they all have labels on them giving the date.
Paul’s brother (who is mysteriously now part of the group, along with Paulus himself) grabs the lion and runs, just as Guy Pierce’s group enters and starts chasing us. We need a plan…
The other group have destroyed a lot of countryside and had arguements with locals in the village they’re staying (like bad guys do) while we haven’t been noticed all that much. They also play dirty and have attempted to shoot us, while we haven’t done the same to them because we don’t like shooting people. So we go to the village, and these villagers all happen to have guns (my, my. Perhaps it’s Sandford (Hot Fuzz))
We find that Paul’s brother is driving across a field in a caravan in a desperate attempt to escape, chased by several vans of the bad guys, shooting out the windows at the caravan. The villagers raise their guns and shoot the tyres of the bad guys, yet the caravan stops too because it’s been damaged. Que everyone fighting against each other over this lion thing.
Now the odd thing, is that there’s two endings here, and one plays out other the other:
1) Paul’s brother stands up in the middle of the fight holding the lion up yelling “I’ll break it!” - thereby making everyone realise how foolish all this bloodshed is over an ornament, everyone makes friends, shakes hands, and the lion is put back in the temple unharmed.
At this point, I think I’m nearly awake and a sense of reality kicks in, spawning a different ending:
2) Guy Pierce dives at Paul’s brother with a weapon that keeps morphing between a knife and a gun, and both are injured. At one point Paul’s brother blocks a knife with the lion, which is damaged by being stabbed in the chest by the dagger. There’s a long pause as Guy Pierce sees that his prize has become worthless, then keels over; pan along, Paul is holding a gun and has just shot the guy, then asks his brother if he’s ok. Brother nods, starts staggering along then falls over because Guy Pierce shot him in the stomach at some point.
End Dream (I have no idea where I was during the end half of that dream, since it seems I saw it all but didn’t actually do anything) O.o
I have no idea what this all means (Not like, destiny/omens and stuff, I think dreams tend to be a mix of things you were thinking about, be that a film you watched a while ago or something you’re worrying about in the waking world, although not in the entirely Freudian sense), other than seeing Tomb Raider recently. Maybe I feel guilty that I took Simpsons Cluedo to Paul’s for us all to play when Paul’s brother hates simpsons, and then I found original cluedo in my cuboard at home but I know I won’t be bothered to carry it =P
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