Pleasant Beings, Oh where art thou?

May 15, 2011

Much of the story of this dream has been lost. But it centers around a woman from another realm. The very few people of Earth who know of them refer to them as “no face” people. They are called this because when they reveal themselves to humans they only remove a drama mask shaped part of their disguise, which covers their face. The “no face” people are roughly shaped like humans but their skin/bodies looks like you are looking at a pool reflecting light. Sometimes it is darker like an ocean, others lighter like a glacial pool. They may have eyes but no ears, mouth, nose or other facial features. As humans they are elegant people who prefer billowing, flowing clothing, and they have startlingly blue eyes. If they stay on Earth long enough their disguise ages at a slower rate than a human, allowing them to blend in with the people around them. They do not travel between realms lightly, and to do so is difficult and must be done with precision under particular circumstances. A kind of portal has been made from an unassuming wooden sculpture of a carousel; two of the figures are a monkey and an elephant. Under the tented top is where a disc appears of shimmering blue.

The no face people often come to Earth either to learn or to help return things to balance. The one woman spent a very long time here both learning and completing her mission. She usually carried with her two journal sized leather bound books and another object of similar scale, perhaps a picture or parchment, map, guide, it is not made clear. At the end of the first story arc, the woman is quite old, that is her disguise is old, no face people seem ageless to us.  She wants dearly to return home although she has made many good friends here during their time. In the end they succeed in sending her home. One of her friends keeps the carousel and it is passed down in their family.

At some point a human does go to their realm to learn knowing they will be unable to return to Earth.

In the second story arc a young male acolyte of their kind tries a new way to help shift the balance. They do so by sliding into the consciousness of a willing host and guiding them. Such a person is found in the descendants of the woman’s friend, although he knows the host is young the no face has little experience with humans in their entirety and has much to learn. At one point he reflects that he should owe his elder no-face (not the name they call themselves) for placing him within the body of a toddler. (He does not mind that she is a girl but finds the sensation of urinating discomforting, and it seems to him that the little one has to do so very frequently.) The little girl potty trains very quickly with his guidance. He guides her gently but not overwhelmingly, they are as one but our language cannot describe the phenomenon adequately. The little girl has at least two older siblings a boy and a girl.

That is all I recall!