Dream: 10/23/08

Dream: 10/23/08 – Knight of the Shield

I had attained a knighthood in the Order of the Shield. My plate mail was of dark black color and had silver emblems on the shoulder guards and breastplate.

I was in a place and it was necessary for me to attack/defend off someone. I felt like I was in a school building I had been previously familiar with. I had a long tube with a wad in it that looked like a head of garlic. I would swing the tube and the wad would fly out and after a short delay it would explode with great effect. The tube did not release every time, so I had to swing it numerous times to get the wad to eject. When it did, the wad landed near the ‘enemy’ and exploded, nearly stopping him. He did not go down and continued to attack. I drew a blade and after a few precise slashes and a thrust to the side of his neck, he fell. Afterwards, I was continuing a patrol, or just walking down the hallway, and the wad was the subject of someone’s conversation. I don’t know why, but I again tried to eject the wad down the hallway I had been walking. It finally released and landed near a flight of stairs that went to a lower level. A few civilians walked past the wad and I was nervous that it would explode with one of them nearby. It did finally explode, apparently taking out another ‘intruder’. A central alert station contacted me, somehow, and said I was becoming a regular ‘Batman’. I shrugged and said ‘I guess’.

I awoke, then went back to sleep.

Dream: 10/23/08 – Knight of the Shield cont.

I was walking with a younger man down the same ‘school’ hallway. He was asking if the rote, mundane, everyday affairs of his job were all there was to it. I told him that it was ‘pretty much all there was’. The work was similar to the work I do for the County. He was carrying a moderate size stack of papers with him. I was then shifted to another location, walking outside with a female, also a Knight of the Shield. My armor was on a display rack, as if I was ‘off duty’ at the moment. I commented that there had apparently been so very few Knights of the Shield, given that there were so few suits of armor to go around/made. The woman agreed that it did seem odd for there to be so few, but she didn’t say more about it. I donned my armor.

I awoke.