Louisa May Alcott and H.C. Andersen
Categories: 3,7,8
Louisa May Alcott is traveling through the realms of faerie, which is basically just a big wood with stops along the way. I can only remember two of the places she went towards the end of the dream, there was witches house but more like a boarding school — the witch comes out and talks with Alcott and says it was a school for foundlings and Alcott says “I’m not a foundling” and the witch says “don’t be ridiculous dear, I found you.” and then she makes her stay.
She later escapes and walking about ends up at a cottage where H.C. Andersen is sitting sorting very long coloured threads. He gives her a red one and tells her to use it to mark where she has been the next time she escapes and says in that way is the exit from fairyland.
She tries to go the way he indicated and ends back at the witch’s school for foundlings. There was a feeling at that point in the dream, not really a narration, that fairyland is an attractor, so that if you are close to it you will invariably wander into it if you are not careful, thus if you are near the exit you will wander further in.
She escapes again and uses the string so that when she is at the point where she would turn back into fairyland instead of escaping she can see that the string has been there and she goes the right way.
There was also a point some time in the dream where she was on a high hill and she could look over the tops of the trees to the places she had been before — including the witch’s school and H.C. Andersen’s cottage, she saw some other places but I can’t remember those.
The weird thing about this dream: I have never read any Louisa May Alcott so why the hell would she be in my dream.
