nighttime

So last night I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. When I went back to bed, I laid on my left side. Turns out there was a pimple on my left hip and it hurt, so I had to roll over to the other side. Stupid pimple, I wanted to sleep on my left side.

In an open set containing that time period as a compact subset I had an interesting dream. Presumably, it was influenced by the fact that I'd listened to the first chapter of Harry Potter in French before going to bed. There was a land where everyone had magical abilities. Everyone had one ability that they could do exceptionally well. I think it was called their character ability or something like that. Everyone had magical abilities, but this "character ability" was a spell or activity that the person in question had an extra special nack at.

So in the course of growing up everyone would eventually figure out their character ability when something drastic would happen that would require them to use it. After having discovered their character ability a tattoo would form on the person's forearm representing their character ability. Typically, it was also representative of the character of the person. Like a very compassionate (and tall and elfish) friend of mine (who is not a real person) had healing as his/her character ability.

There was one person in particular who was special (not sure at this point if I played that character in the dream or not). This person's father had died saving his life (haha, different from HP because only one parent had died and the specialness was gotten from the father instead of a kinda mix of mother and Voldemort). In this process at least the father's ability was somehow transferred to the child. Now, I say "at least" because there was some question as to how many "character abilities" this person was endowed with. The tattoo wasn't stuck to a certain form like those of other people. It was constantly changing and shifting throughout the day. Somehow his mother knew exactly how many character abilities this person had, but wouldn't say. All I know is that it was somewhere between 3 and 22. Also there was some question as the the efficacy of deciding that the ability defined the man. This main character for example was plagued by the fact that "flaming axes" was one of his abilities (sounds stupid I know), which apparently is typically that of someone evil.

I really don't remember much more about it, except that at one point he was trying to catch a plane. He was running out of time so he used his "slow down time" ability. That wasn't working well enough, so he used his "speed me up" ability. And then he had to levitate over an avalanche, inside a mall. (I guess that means he has at least 4 abilities.) I really don't remember if he caught the plane.