Gay dragons and fat hedgehogs

Date: 9/29/2018

It started the way all good dreams do, me and Ali sending each other memes. I found a bunch of videos of funny scenes from ghibli movies and I kept tagging her in all of them because they were so cute. I skipped over one because it was really long, but then Ali ended up sending it to me saying “lol this is my favorite one!” I decide I might as well watch it even if it is several minutes long. I pull up the video and like usual for my dreams I’m just kind of transported into the video and it becomes the dream. There’s this bigger purpleish dragon that’s probably the size of a small horse or so, and it’s discussing something with a much smaller yellow/orange one that’s like the size of a really fat cat. It’s kind of frog like, but has these fin things that work like wings. The big one is taunting the little one saying how it could just eat him if it wanted. The little one is very grumpy and stubborn and blocks the thing it’s hiding with it’s body. (I think it was either some food or it’s baby) The yellow dragon taunts the purple one right back, and the whole scene makes the viewer really root for the underdog. The big one lunges after the little one but then the little one just opens his mouth really really huge, like the whole thing just grows, and swallows up the big one. It’s this hilarious, satisfactory moment and then bam out of nowhere this giant giant giant blue-gray sea dragon just pops it’s head through the trees and swallows the others up in like .4 seconds. Leaving everyone to go like “what the...” but they way they did it was really funny. Anyway, as I’m watching I’m thinking “huh, I don’t remember this movie at all! Is this Tales from Earth Sea or something, because that’s the only one I haven’t fully seen since I fall asleep every time!” I decide I should go watch the whole movie since it looks entertaining. The movie is about these two dragons who can also both turn into humans under certain conditions or whatever. One is red and one is blue. The two dragons are in love with each other, but they always have to keep it hidden for whatever reason. They’re out in this meadow and both turn into their human forms and I realize they’re both dudes and I’m like “OH I GET IT”. They’re discussing how the only way they can be together is if they choose to be human forever and give up their dragon selves. (I guess dragons are homophobic..?) They know that if they give up their dragon selves that it means they’ll no longer be immortal, but they agree that it’s worth it. They rolled around in the meadow switching between their dragon and human selves and laughing together and ugh it was really cute. Anyway, they’re more or less accepted by the humans who are in awe of these dragonborns who would give up their magic and immortality and everything just for love. The two guys end up adopting a dragon orphan and they name her Flower and UGH IT WAS SO CUTE OKAY. Time shifts and now I’m in a modern day grocery store, but it’s in a skyscraper at least 100 floors up and it’s the size of a convenience store. There’s a weird vibe in the air. Everyone is whispering about the dragons that have come to kill the whole town. Surely the dragons are here because they’ve found out what the blue and red guys had done and that they’d stolen a baby orphan dragon and now had come to destroy the two of them and bring Flower back. I’m watching from the POV of the princess (her name is Rosie) at this point, and my parents, the king and queen, are beside me. I’d heard stories of the two men plenty, but I’d never met them since they’d left town many many years before to hide from the dragon kingdom. There’s a peasant man standing in the snack aisle holding a bag of chips that’s really just chip dust at this point. He stares blankly ahead, dazed and frozen. I ask him where the dragon is, repeatedly, since he just keeps staring at me blankly. Finally I get through to him and he rattles off a bunch of words in a language I can’t understand. It’s just peasant language but I always seem to have trouble with it. I catch a word in there he keeps repeating—which he pronounces as “gloss-ee-ay”. Now, I don’t know a lick of French irl, but somehow in this dream I managed to connect that he was saying glacier, meaning the dragon was in the ice section. I sprint down the aisles and to the big freezer where the bags of ice would be. I don’t see any ice, just a few overturned boxes of ice cream bars, and a giant hedgehog the size of a beaver that’s sitting inside eating fudgescicles. I look to the hedgehog with wild eyes and ask him where the dragon is. My father is telling me to get away from the freezer. The hedgehog won’t give me a straight answer and keeps beating around the bush. “Tell me where he is!” I demand. Ruefully the hedgehog answers, “he’s below me.” I look at the metal chest he’s sitting on that’s the width of the freezer and just as I make the connection, a hulking yellow dragon explodes out of it, melting the frost with his breath. I skitter away from the freezer doors and everyone is running around the store in a panicked frenzy. I grab my parents by the hand and drag them behind me. We rush over to the tiny porthole sized windows. The ground is much too far away to jump. There doesn’t seem to be any doors in this place. The dragon chases us around, and it seems to want me most of all. It’s speaking to me in dragon tongue and for some reason the words are coming through perfectly clear. The words don’t make sense though—why would I go back with this yellow dragon to live with the dragons? I was a human, the daughter of the king. I wasn’t about to let myself be kidnapped by a lying dragon. I race back around towards the freezer. Somehow I know that the glass doors will keep him out. I leap inside, shivering at the chill. The hedgehog is laying in the corner, half dead. His eyes are apologetic. I pull my father in behind me but my mother is too far behind—too close to the dragon. Tearfully I pull the doors shut and tell my dad to help hold them closed. The dragon comes right up to the glass, his breath fogging it up. He seems confounded by the handles, unable to figure out how to make them work. Then he starts carefully plucking at them with his claws, remembering how the humans do it. I grip onto the doors with all my strength. At last the dragon seems to give up. I breathe a sigh of relief. He turns to my mother then back to me with a sick smirk. I want to cry. He’s going to kill her. All because I wouldn’t go with him. But then the dragon says one last thing before he does. He doesn’t call me Rosie, he calls me by another name. Something ticks inside me. Something is different. I can’t look as he tears the queen apart. Shaking, I turn to the king. “She was never my mother, was she?” His brows are furrowed, sorrow creasing his face. He runs a hand over my hair. “No Rosie, she wasn’t.” I can already feel the fire beginning to burn within me. I turn back to the yellow dragon and murmur, “And my name isn’t Rosie.” Letting the warmth of the raging fire within over take me, i bellow in dragon tongue, “this is for king of my people, and for the mother who always loved me as her own.” And I burst out of the freezer as a flaming deep red dragon full of searing fire.

AI generated interpretation This dream could be interpreted as a reflection of your inner conflicts and desires. The two gay dragons could represent a desire for acceptance and understanding in your own life. The fact that they have to hide their love in order to be accepted could represent a fear of being judged or not being accepted by those around you. You desire to be accepted and understood, but fear facing judgement or rejection if you express yourself authentically. The giant sea dragon could be a symbol of an oppressive force or power that may be blocking your ability to be your true self. The hedgehog could be a representation of yourself, since it was protecting something precious and was stubborn and grumpy. This could mean that you are hesitant to express yourself and your true desires for fear of judgement or reprisal. The princess is a representation of your inner power and strength, and when she finally is able to tap into her true self and express her true desires, she is able to overcome the oppressive force and be true to herself. This could be a representation of your need to be true to yourself and express your feelings without fear of judgement or rejection.