april 17

last night, i dreamed that i was part of AVATAR.

now, i have never seen the movie. i know that some characters are blue, and some characters are human. i also know that one of the human characters is in a wheelchair. i also understand that the plot of the movie follows pretty closely the plot of disney's POCAHONTAS.

this being my knowledge base, my brain decided to concoct the rest:

i am the character who eventually ends up in a wheelchair. i currently have full use of my legs. i am on planet earth, and i hear rumors of blue people who live underground, are really skinny, and sort of look like cats. i jump off the deck of my house and start digging a hole.

after i dig about a foot into the dirt, i strike something different and very interesting: bluish purple round, shiny stones (like the glass bits people use in the bottoms of vases). i take a step into the center of the hole, and the strange stones suck me under, like quicksand.

the layer of blue-purple stones is very thin, and i find myself in a tunnel. i look at my hands and realize that i have turned blue, and i have a tail. suddenly, i meet a female blue being who leads me to her den (is that what you call an underground room off of a tunnel?).

there, she tells me about her people and the strange stones, which are, in fact, the substance the humans are after. (unobtainium? really james cameron?) i decide to help her people by covering up the hole i dug so that no one can find the rocks or the blue people.

the female leads me back to my starting point and hoists me up through the purple stones. i climb out of the hole and try to hop the fence of my deck to get my shovel. this is when i slip and become paralyzed from the waist down.

with my arms, i pull myself back to the hole and sink through headfirst. when i fall into the tunnel, i can feel my legs again, and they work perfectly. weird.

then i find the female blue person, and we strategize our next move, which, unfortunately, i don't know... because i woke up.

according to the commercial i saw this morning, AVATAR comes out on dvd next week... so i guess i'll have to get it, watch it, and see if my crazy pregnancy-hormone-ridden brain was even remotely correct in my interpretation of AVATAR.