The bones that drift endlessly as far as the eye can see

[sovay]

I have been having peculiar nightmares (the one about being in New York with giant ex-zombie animal carcasses rotting on all the buildings was memorably lurid. Because nothing says Waldorf-Astoria like a decapitated snake half the size of a city block draped across the roof) for the last several weeks solid. Last night I dreamed I was cast by a Japanese director in a retelling of a folktale about a drowned girl. I think it was some kind of subconscious-bastardized version of Urashima Taro; in the first scene, the man who was probably the other protagonist was to find me washed up on the beach, rolled over in nets of kelp and Hel-faced with white sand. The makeup was fantastic. Then I drowned for real halfway through the shoot and spent the rest of the dream as a corpse with a sharkskin crust of barnacles growing on my skin. You come through, brain.

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[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

Interesting that your unconscious should associate New York with zombies. I have a friend who says she doesn't expose herself to zombie-themed fiction, and won't until she leaves New York City after this summer, because being in such a crowded urban environment just pushes the fear factor over the edge.

[sovay]

I have a friend who says she doesn't expose herself to zombie-themed fiction, and won't until she leaves New York City after this summer, because being in such a crowded urban environment just pushes the fear factor over the edge.

Zombies aren't even a particular fear of mine. I'm genuinely not sure where the dream came from, except maybe that there aren't a lot of apocalypse films set in Boston.