Pearlnight's Dreams and Poems

This is where my dreams and poems are housed. I got into keeping my dreams in the Spring of 2024, but I've been writing poems for a few years now. I'm a complete amateur, and I don't consider these to be much more than simple play. My more serious works lie elsewhere, but I hope you enjoy what's here.


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Dream Diary

This is where my dreams go. These appear at pure random, and as dreams, can contain bizarre or disturbing themes. I may produce art inspired by these dreams, or I may take elements of these dreams into my pre-existing works.

♰ Living City

Dreamnt: 17/09/24

There was a city that bore some resemblance to one of our major cities here, likely one of the more industrialised ones. It’d been turned into this gloomy landscape of creeping machinery, and it functioned like a giant human body. The open air was assaulted by near constant volleys of smog, filth, and the deafening cacophony of screeching metal. Pipes ran through this place like veins, and would coil around every building they touched, pulsating and breathing like elongated bodies. The sky was mostly black save for pockets of pure white over the less polluted areas. I saw nobody, it was just me. In the heart of this place was a literal “heart”, a gigantic monstrosity of gnarled metals, and the potent stench of human blood. It was a special machine, according to my knowledge in the dream, because it was fed by recycling human remains inside its compound. It was full of a red, chalky substance that stirred and mixed with various unknown oils and fuels. Out of all the structures I saw, this one was alive.



♰ Dictatorship

Dreamnt: 31/08/24

I was in a dictatorship of an unknown size and purpose. People were kept in a giant fenced-off grassland area and not allowed from leaving the pen, or else they would be killed. I’d regularly see the “master”, whether he ran the whole joint or was a mere overseer keeping up the illusion elludes me. He was an old man with a full head of white hair, a well-groomed beard and a piercing stare. He wore a nice suit and carried himself confidently as he’d patrol the pen and search for people who needed to be killed. At one point he deliberately opened one of the pen doors, seeking to weed out “traitors” who’d take it as a chance to escape. People were not killed on the spot, but instead carried away and disappeared entirely. At times, as I’d roam the pen, I’d find human bones attached to the fences. Other times they’d have signs stuck to them, telling us that these were traitors. I sat on the grass near the door that had been opened. He came up to me personally and started to talk. He was taken aback by me sitting where I was, but correctly presumed I wanted to taste freedom without being killed. He warned me not to make this a habit, but was otherwise amused by this, the way a child amuses the adults around them with their naivety.

As I peered out into freedom, I also saw that he had an extensive collection of plastic playground-equipment. All of his guards were playing on the equipment and having the time of their lives.



♰ Asylum

Dreamnt: 30/08/24

I was in a group of volunteers going in to rescue a group of people from a victorian style insane asylum. It had mysteriously lost most of its staff and the charges inside were now being left to rot. The visuals would flicker from those of a black and white photo, to dull colour, and often at random. None of us were prepared for what we saw.

We went through a dark, filthy, dungeonesque tunnel. To our right were the holding cells of the unfortunate prisoners kept inside. None of the people we wished to save were violent, but their years of captivity had mutated them beyond recognition. Many were emaciated, and would howl, bay and cry at the sight of us. Others were catatonic and would refuse to acknowledge us. Many had devolved into self injury, especially as they’d mutate. I’d become so frightened that I was able to close my eyes and avoid seeing bits of it. One man had become so agitated he’d melded his mutated body into that of a chair, scratching into himself and crying at us to get this “season” away from him. We learned he had a phobia of halloween, and that he fancied himself a devout christian. Despite his mutations, he sounded like a gentle old man. Above all, these people were victims and needed to be saved.
I personally, upon waking, believe this place was cursed with a form of magic or an eldritch force.



♰ Assorted Summer Dreams

I found myself sleeping with the blind fully down, as I find the light of summer incredibly irritating to my senses. It puts me into a deeper sleep, and as I've observed, causes me to dream less. Despite this, and the random jumble dreams everyone has, I got some results. I even have an anecdote from a friend.


For context, the below dream is about one of the characters from my webcomic, Dancing with the Dead. He's named August, and is a slippery vampire politician that's mad for hunting, smokes like a chimney and has this penchant for making everyone extremely uncomfortable. I for one think this is shockingly in character for him. No need to worry about car accidents when you can poof into smoke and leave everyone to get smushed into a giant ball of metal and gore.



♰ Vampire bureaucracy strikes again

Dreamnt: 26/05/24

I went into a store with the intention of becoming a vampire. It was shabby, cluttered and packed with unusual relics; jars of wet specimens, skulls of creatures I’d never even heard of, and rows of weapons adorned in jewels. I approached the worn wooden counter, scarred with claw marks, and meet the owner, a stocky orc lady in an apron. I purchased a certificate from her, which was supposed to give me legal permission to be a vampire. Then, she directed me to the back of the shop. I entered a room styled like the fancy house sets in a typical Amicus horror film, hardwood and all. Upon entering, I was approached by a Vampiress, who sweetly asked me if I was here to be turned. She was dainty and gentle looking, but unique for a vampire, she had albinism. She lied me down on my back, stroking my chest and preparing herself to turn me. I'm asked for my certificate, and I show it to her. Then, upon seeing it, she stops and sighs in mild frustration. Confused, I asked her what was wrong as she clambered off my chest, but she dryly tells me that I need another certificate. I wake the angriest I'd been in a long time.

♰ Special Delicacy

Dreamnt: 07/05/24

My parents had made a “special delicacy” for me, and were eager to see my feedback. The delicacy in question was a deformed pig head surrounded by several raw sausages, all lathered in a heavy helping of melted chocolate. They made me eat the whole thing and I gagged spectacularly the entire time. My biggest complaint about the meal was not that it was a deformed glob of raw meat, but that it was specifically pork. I do not like pork.



♰ Werewolf Pursuit

Dreamnt: 28/04/24

I was pursuing a serial killer that was a werewolf. I was vaguely in England, but unsure of what region I was in. I started in a small cottage, several people were there with me and discussing where it could have gone off to.

I went into the nearby woodland, and after a minute, it started to snow heavily. It was scenic, almost painterly in nature. I pondered on the nature of killers, and why people would decide to do such a thing. I took a lot of diverting paths, and as I did so, the trees became more frequent. It felt as if any minute, the werewolf could come out and attack. The dread was potent. After what felt like an hour, I reached a clearing into what I saw as a residential area, with several back-to-back houses and a group of children playing nearby, seemingly unaware of the wolf. I decided I’d gone far enough, and went back to report my findings.

When I returned to the cottage, it had been devastated. The werewolf had arrived in my absence and killed several members of my party. One survivor, a kindly old man, directed me to the wolf as he lay bleeding on the floor. A fire had broken out nearby, and through the smoke, I saw the werewolf fleeing into the night, grinning and laughing at the mayhem it had caused. The last thing I saw was its appearance, and it was the most unusual werewolf I’d ever seen. It was literally half-wolf, half-man, or rather, half wolf, half teenage boy.



♰ Maggot Child

Dreamnt: 20/04/24

A little girl was terminally ill with a disease that would spawn ungodly amounts of maggots out from her face. They were a faint yellow, and would pour from her cheeks, squirming into her eyes, nose and mouth. Despite this, she was calm, and would stand patiently as her parents picked the maggots off her skin, now blighted from their constant burrowing. Her father tried to stay hopeful and insist that she could recover, but her mother, and even the little girl herself knew that it was only a matter of time.



♰ Vampire Family Reunion

Dreamnt: 22/03/24

I was in an underground crypt full of fog. It looked like something right out of a 1960's horror film, neon colours and everything. The setpieces were pitch black, spined and gothic in appearance. In front of me was a large metal grate gate, just as sinister and thorny as the rest of the scenery. Then, vampires started to come down the stairs from which I came, all in groups of what I recognised as family units. I was informed by another human nearby that this was their yearly family reunion. The grate gate then opened, and the vampires went into the main room; a large dining room full of chairs and tables. They were in a state of absolute disarray, but the vampires didn't seem to mind at all. I followed them inside and I tried to get some food from the table. The dishes were surprisingly normal, not the feast of entrails that one would normally expect from a vampire dinner. They greedily wolfed it down before I could even snatch a morsel for myself, and thus, I was left with mere scraps.



♰ Castle and Swamp

Dreamnt: 21/03/24

I was in a large ivy-engulfed castle that was allegedly my primary school, just renovated. As I was exploring, the weather would change and become snowy. I found myself on the front of the school, by a big dragon statue. It was a bust of an old dragon wearing a crown and smiling down from his high position, onto the ground below. I felt a parental warmth emanating from him, and I found myself hugging and caressing his cold stony surfaces. Then I left, and went to explore elsewhere. I found myself wandering out of the ruined castle regions and into a swamp, where I saw an overgrown shack. I had a camera on me, so I went inside taking pictures. It was bare, walls already fallen down and floorboards profusely rotted. The only thing inside of any intrigue was a huge jar of wet specimens; rabbits tightly packed together in the transparent fluid.

A lady, supposedly a teacher, came by. I tried to show her the shack, but it’d already collapsed into the fetid waters it stood above. We left together, and she, a warm and kindly woman, led me back into the castle.



♰ Werewolf Warfare

Dreamnt: 12/03/24

I'm assuming my wikipedia binge of recorded spree-killers had something to do with this.

I was in a wide open grassland with a few fir trees dotted here and there. The weather fluctuated between a foggy haze, and a fresh, pinkish dawn. I was fairly close to a large body of water, most likely a lake. It glimmered and twinkled brightly. In short, it was beautiful.

I was also...a werewolf, and with me were a whole dozen of other werewolves. All of us were in our wolf forms, and uniquely for werewolf standards, we were all perfectly sapient. The mood was not of camaraderie, however. Instead, it was one of dread. We'd been revealed to mankind, and now, humanity had declared open season on virtually all of us. This day was the first of man's invasion onto our lands. One of us gave a speech, lamenting our condition, and then, it happened. Hunters of all sorts poured over a river, opposite the body of water behind us. Werewolves charged forward, many falling to the constant volley of gunfire. Some of us fled, while others stayed behind to fight and drag down as many huntsmen as they could. I was a surprisingly good killer of men; I found myself dragging their corpses back to my allies to show off my prowess. A few times, they'd stare at me in disbelief as I'd hold up my "trophies" and haphazardly hurl them at trees as if they were no more than ragdolls. Amusingly, I recall my main method of killing was me rapidly slapping them to death. During my frantic retreats back to the trees, I noticed an especially bothersome hunter with a comically grotesque face. He was annoyingly skilled, and kept a good distance too. By now, he'd killed a good few of us, and I decided that he needed to die, and urgently. I took a chance, and attempted to flank him from behind. His dog, some kind of gundog, attempted to attack me. I slapped it hard, but when the hunter turned to face me, I lost my nerve and retreated. He gave chase for a bit, before going back to his station and continuing to hold his ground. The dream ended before I could give it another go.



♰ Uncle Les almost boils me to Death

Dreamnt: 05/03/24

Heads up, this one has an attempted suicide. Nothing too morbid though. No death happens and it’s a tad on the ridiculous side, but, you know.

I suddenly wanted to take my own life. How would I do it? I’d made a deal with…The creepy uncle from the movie Braindead/Dead Alive. He was this sort of demonic figure that seemed to know all about this stuff, and he showed me this chair that was supposed to slowly boil me to death. The electric chair, but spicy. So I sit in the chair and I ask him if it will hurt. He says it’ll be completely painless, and that my limbs will simply lose all sensation. Now I’m in this chair, Uncle Les from Braindead waiting for me to boil, and then suddenly I pull out my phone and check Telegram. I see all of my closest friends and they’re all asking me what I’m doing today. I then realise the error of doing such a thing to myself and demand Uncle Les let me out the chair. He seemed a bit disappointed because the chair “took a lot of fuel to get going” but he relented and untied me from it. Then I start…crying and hugging him? I thanked him for “helping me realise how I was loved” (He tried to boil me alive but okay?!) and then I ran off into the distance.



♰ That time I invaded Carthage

Dreamnt: 24/02/24

A friend and I were roman soldiers going into North Africa. I kept drawing them pictures of their icon, and my other friend Lutzbug was there as this strict general who I kept having to hide the drawings from. This was post-destruction of Carthage, and for some reason it wasn’t the ruins of a massive city, but this dinky little shack. At one point I went in the shack and I was suddenly with a man (very enthusiastically) showing me to make an automatic Minecraft chicken farm.


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My Poetry

This is where all my original poems live. These are written at pure random, and whenever I'm inspired. I'm not a taught or skilled poet at all, I just do these for the fun of it. Each poem also comes with its own description, as I like to explain things a lot.

Perfect Blue

There is a period nestled within the night
A time when time falls apart
When every thing glows
A cyanotype work of art
Every living being who remains awake to witness
Transforms anew
Silver spectres in the perfect blue

Meaning

Perfect Blue is about Blue Hour, and my experiences with it. My first time witnessing blue hour came during a breakup in 2020. I spent the night overjoyed with myself for dumping my ex, and I’d stayed up for so long that I witnessed Blue Hour. It was on that fateful 13th of May, that I was stained by that Blue Hour, forever.

White Monks of the Soil

When the hallowed grounds plunge into dusk,
the Pale Acolytes rise from a bacterial slumber
Milky legs splay out in a greeting of thousands
Beady black eyes shine wide
Pronged tails flicker in the damp air,
of the glass temple they dwell inside
Upon an altar of rot
To a god of fungal decay
The white monks of the soil begin to pray

Meaning

White Monks of the Soil is about my time cultivating springtails, a type of tiny hexapod. I own terrariums, which benefit from the presence of Springtails due to their appetite for molds and fungi alike.

September Spell

One of my few tethers to the human kind,
a grounding point for the psychotic mind,
is when the clock hands strike midnight,
and September arrives

The sensations fall upon me as a sparkling sheet
Of auburn leaves that crunch beneath the feet
Glistening conker shells rocked gently from the trees;
by the longed-for kiss of the autumn breeze
The days that flicker like the dying flames,
of candles that have burned for too long
The touch of a warm darkness profound
Without fail, each time, I am left
spellbound

Meaning

September Spell is about my experiences with September and October. I find that this time of year makes my bouts of psychosis easier to handle, and it generally has a very nostalgic quality for me. Alongside this, is the focus on sensory stimuli, which is more vivid to me as an autistic person.

Wardian Man

He arrives from the shining darkness,
cloaked in a circling eclipse of moths

They crawl on his antique coat.
As they sing their silent psalm,
their unholy idol reaches with a gloved palm
Amongst dust and floral smells unknown
Hundreds of night angels
spew from his sleeve alone

He casts his glittering gaze into mine,
eyes preserved through the tides of time
The living wardian case
That still teems with exotic flowers
Eternally perpetuating,
with blood as its water

Masochism and mystique
The thoughts with infinite ways to speak
As numerous as the songbirds

Meaning

Wardian Man is a poem about being accosted by a vampire. Vampires are one of my special interests, and I’m (As one can decipher through language) open about eroticising them. The title “Wardian Man” is a reference to the Wardian Case, the prototypical terrarium used by the British empire to port all sorts of flora. The vampire, like the Wardian Case, is an example of self-perpetuating life.

Cotard Delusion

Crazed eyes pierce through the starry seam
This reality lies in tatters, and all that remains
is a deathly dream


Meaning

Cotard Delusion is about the condition it’s named after. I experience bouts of it, and it heavily influences the way I perceive myself.

Dark Angel

I beseech you, oh Dark Angel of the Pool
Lady of the black lake
Of all things fair and cruel

Oh dancer within the darkness
Climb down from the top of your tenebrous tower
And take myself into you
So I can blossom as an umbral flower

Make me what you are
A being stunning and stark
A speaker of the void

Meaning

Dark Angel is about loneliness, and the intense desire for intimacy. I wrote it during a very hard time for me, when all I desired was to gracefully disappear into an all-consuming, all-accepting force.


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