strange dream

This morning, between 5:30 and 6:30 AM, I had a very strange and disturbing dream. In it, I awoke to a strange sound that took a while for me to make sense of (it takes me a while, even in dreams, to figure out why I'm suddenly wide awake). Reflecting semi-waking reality, I remembered fairyhead leaving earlier, so I knew it couldn't be her. As I became aware of my surroundings, I realized I was in our current house, overlaid onto the house my family lived in when I was eleven, and I was in the room that was my sister's, though it was our room in the weird overlay. There was a wet drip/slide noise that kept happening that I think I tried to track down, but I couldn't find any damp spots on the floor or the furniture. I think I went throughout the house, looking for the source of the noise, but couldn't find it. It was made worse by trouble with the electrical system; some lights would work at sometimes, as though different circuits were going down and coming back up. Eventually I ended up back in our room, got the lights to turn on, and looked up at the ceiling, which was strangely raw slats and support beams. Between two support beams, there was a shallow upside down channel, and a hugely fat blob of water was sliding down, pausing at a light fixture (where it made the dropping noise), and sliding past/under it and down, presumably into the wall, without ever hitting the floor. I watched it through a couple of cycles, as I couldn't believe it, and it suddenly seemed menacing. At that point, I felt like I became aware of a pattern of malice to the electrical circuits going off, and I did not want to be caught in an area when the water made the light go out (I had left lights on all through the house while looking for the source of the noise). I suddenly wanted to get out very badly, but had to get something first, out of another of the bedrooms that was simultaneously our computer room and my mother's bedroom, and was trying to time it such that I could get in and out between periods of darkness. Even in the dream, it didn't fully make sense that the two houses would be overlaid like that, though I could mentally map features of each into the other. I woke up before I got out or found whatever it was I was looking for, and the sense of menace slowly faded before I went back to sleep.

Now, I'm just puzzled.

a portal day

My calendar isn't static or fixed, but is quite subjective and based on signs, indicators, and interactions. Today, I think, marks the official beginning of the season of wind, and that makes me very happy right now.