This post is either going to seem a bit freaky or you’ll be like me and just smile and shrug and write it off to the random weirdness of dreams. Sorry, but sometimes I just like to think out loud. Maybe some of you have had odd little dreams like this and they leave you wondering too about what the hell goes on inside the human brain.<\/p>\n
Nap dreams somehow just get weird more often then sleep dreams. I don’t know why this is, other then possibly something to do with the fact that naps aren’t really part of the normal sleep cycle. This afternoon, after unloading the car and getting my house back up and running, and putting a few things away, I felt suddenly like a nap. After three weeks on the road it felt nice to just lay down in my own bed again. It wasn’t a long nap…maybe about an hour or so. But I had this really vivid dream. Most nap dreams are pretty vivid for some reason.<\/p>\n
In my dream, I’m wandering around the house getting things back in order after my trip. I go into the upstairs bathroom and start washing my hands. I notice there is a pipe next to the faucet I’ve never seen before. It’s a copper pipe, about a half foot to the right of the faucet, about an inch and a half in diameter. It comes straight up out of the sink top for about a foot, and then bends back down again in a severe ‘U’. The pipe ends about halfway back down its length. The end is open, almost as if it’s another faucet, except that it’s not over the sink basin. If anything came out of it, it would end up on the counter. I’ve never seen this pipe before. Somehow, in the dream, that is not unusual. I continue washing my hands and pay it little attention. Then something starts coming out of it.<\/p>\n
Feathers. Tawny brown feathers…they look like a barn owl’s wing primaries. Picture a Japanese paper fan, folded up, but instead of being made out of paper it’s made out of owl feathers. That’s what slowly comes down out of the pipe next to the faucet. I watch, fascinated. The feather fan comes down out of the pipe…then slowly unfolds…then slowly folds back up again…then goes back up into the pipe. <\/p>\n
Well that’s really odd<\/em>…I think to myself. You know it’s a weird dream when its weird enough to realize the weirdness of it while you’re still dreaming it. I finish washing my hands and go back downstairs. When I get to the kitchen I notice there is a similar copper pipe next to the kitchen sink faucet. I don’t recall ever seeing that one either. I walk over to the sink, turn on the tap, and once again a fan of owl feathers slowly comes down out of the pipe, unfolds, folds, then starts going back up. I grab it before it goes all the way back in.\n<\/p>\n I try pulling the feather fan back out. Something is pulling it back up the pipe, but not strongly. I feel like I could just yank it out, but then I’d break something, whatever it’s connected to on the other end, so I don’t. Eventually I let it go back up the pipe.<\/p>\n This is very strange.<\/em>..I think. I go down into the basement and check the utility sink. Sure enough, there is one of those copper pipes next to the faucet there too. I turn on the water, and another owl feather fan slowly comes down out of the pipe, opens, closes, and goes back up.<\/p>\n What the fuck…??? <\/em> I look up and notice that my brother is here in the house with me (I was visiting him for a bit earlier in the week). He’s a home improvement contractor and I figure he might know what’s going on. He’s looking around the finished side of my basement. I call out to him. "Hey…Billy…come over here…I want you to see something…"<\/em><\/p>\n As he starts walking over I turn off the tap, and turn it back on, and the owl feather fan starts coming out of the pipe again. It opens, and closes, and I grab hold to keep it from going back up the pipe before my brother has a chance to see it. It’s a delicate operation. I don’t want to break whatever it is, but I want Billy to see it. He comes over, stands next to me.\n<\/p>\n "Look at that…look at that… What is this…?"<\/em> <\/p>\n We both look at the feather fan. And I wake up.<\/p>\n