09-24-2012, 01:31 AM
I wish I could recall how my dream ended.
I've had dreams of vampires (usually bad) since I think I was 10 (after seeing Salem's Lot), and later on I started having zombie dreams as well. And after seeing Buffy as an adult I sometimes had Buffy dreams and Giles winds up as my dad a lot (in one dream I left my real 'rents to go home with Giles). So I guess now that I'm seeing the series Angel (on s2), especially with the ep I saw last night (Thin Dead Line) , it's no surprise I finally had a dream about the show.
I was 15 again, a runaway on the streets of Houston, only Los Angeles as shown on Angel was mixed in everywhere. I was on my skateboard I had then dodging zombie cops when Angel snatched my off my board and took me to the runaway shelter. I can't recall how it ended, though!
It made me realize how unlikely his LA is. I'm pretty sure if I'd made Los Angeles in the summer of 1999 as I'd once intended to do before getting diverted that life for runaways (and even homeless teens under 18) would've been very different than portrayed as on Angel (which takes place a year or so after I'd have showed up). But as I consider Angel's LA an "alternate universe" where "magic is more tangible and its tide has just gotten high" I usually don't have much of a problem accepting some of the outlandish things about mundane matters that the writers of Buffy and Angel sometimes put in. Even so, being Thrash again (the runaway I was at 15, called that because I had and used a skateboard for a little over a month when I first showed up until it was stolen from me) I learned to adjust to the rules of the street...and they're not the same rules as in Angel. (For example, there's no way I'd stay at Anne's runaway shelter, not unless they broke the law to let me stay...the only homeless shelters worth staying at for most runaways are for adults and where they have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding the ages of those who stay which is in itself a risk getting shut down if they're caught at it, and they certainly didn't demand full names as Anne did or take the kind of interest she and her volunteers did...and I'm pretty sure if Anne were breaking the law to help the kids then Wolfram & Hart would have her shut down.) The end result was I felt surreal on waking up having experienced both real world Houston and Angel's LA at the same time.
Btw, despite dreaming of Buffy (especially Giles) a lot, I think this was my 2nd time to dream of Angel and the first with him being an important figure in it (last time he was strictly cameo, which I think was a week or so ago).
But I had things to do immediately upon getting up and much of the dream faded, and I can't recall the ending either. Nevertheless, my dodging zombie cops by skateboarding around them (and then dodging a bullet) remains very vivid in my mind.
I've had dreams of vampires (usually bad) since I think I was 10 (after seeing Salem's Lot), and later on I started having zombie dreams as well. And after seeing Buffy as an adult I sometimes had Buffy dreams and Giles winds up as my dad a lot (in one dream I left my real 'rents to go home with Giles). So I guess now that I'm seeing the series Angel (on s2), especially with the ep I saw last night (Thin Dead Line) , it's no surprise I finally had a dream about the show.
I was 15 again, a runaway on the streets of Houston, only Los Angeles as shown on Angel was mixed in everywhere. I was on my skateboard I had then dodging zombie cops when Angel snatched my off my board and took me to the runaway shelter. I can't recall how it ended, though!
It made me realize how unlikely his LA is. I'm pretty sure if I'd made Los Angeles in the summer of 1999 as I'd once intended to do before getting diverted that life for runaways (and even homeless teens under 18) would've been very different than portrayed as on Angel (which takes place a year or so after I'd have showed up). But as I consider Angel's LA an "alternate universe" where "magic is more tangible and its tide has just gotten high" I usually don't have much of a problem accepting some of the outlandish things about mundane matters that the writers of Buffy and Angel sometimes put in. Even so, being Thrash again (the runaway I was at 15, called that because I had and used a skateboard for a little over a month when I first showed up until it was stolen from me) I learned to adjust to the rules of the street...and they're not the same rules as in Angel. (For example, there's no way I'd stay at Anne's runaway shelter, not unless they broke the law to let me stay...the only homeless shelters worth staying at for most runaways are for adults and where they have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding the ages of those who stay which is in itself a risk getting shut down if they're caught at it, and they certainly didn't demand full names as Anne did or take the kind of interest she and her volunteers did...and I'm pretty sure if Anne were breaking the law to help the kids then Wolfram & Hart would have her shut down.) The end result was I felt surreal on waking up having experienced both real world Houston and Angel's LA at the same time.
Btw, despite dreaming of Buffy (especially Giles) a lot, I think this was my 2nd time to dream of Angel and the first with him being an important figure in it (last time he was strictly cameo, which I think was a week or so ago).
But I had things to do immediately upon getting up and much of the dream faded, and I can't recall the ending either. Nevertheless, my dodging zombie cops by skateboarding around them (and then dodging a bullet) remains very vivid in my mind.
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