The Coddle Shod, a dream of another world

[QuantumSoundwave]

Let me state clearly this was a dream, but… it felt so real, i felt sensations & smelled food. Anyway. Sorry for any grammar errors.

Use the AI Summary if you want to know if it is worth the whole read at all. I may never tell the rest. It’s name!

How I got there, how it is said to happen & what she said about them & us, & how it works… is all that i want to explain most.

I was at a house with a gentle man I had met, he invited me over for dinner, his wife had passed, he had three daughters, He was black & older than me, his daughters were mixed race so I believe if wife was caucasian, they all were very pleasant to be around.

One was almost my age, one a little younger then me another a little older than me & was dating a women " i realized this later". As they were getting the dinner ready he would come & go. The middle one seem to like me, she wouldn’t look at me unless she was talking to the other girls & seeing what i thought where she chimed in & smiled at me when she did talk to them, if she did talk to me directly it was only to announce something to me & she kept it very short but I could tell she was trying to find reasons to talk & be noticed more.

He asked me to keep on eye on the girls & keep them out of trouble. they all just said dad in unison… like this sentiment was a common statement of his about them i.e. they cause him trouble… alot.

I will skip much as it is unnecessary to story, other than just… the women were as the saying goes “girls will be girls”, they would laugh, joke occasionally show off or throw each other under a bus in front of me to embarrass each other more, gang up & tease each other always switching sides at a whim “a loving playfully lovingly to each other no real hard feeling were ever felt or at least shown” when speaking in front of me, they got back to the dinner conversation & they said they needed one more item for the meal, they all agreed would be perfect… quick mash potatoes & last minute too. I could smell the meatloaf & something else on the stove slow cooking

So they went downstairs to a storage area since they were out in the quick pantry, after one checked & I followed “this house was large, & they family was clearly wealthy” & i did not know my way around, but since they did they moved through it with extreme efficiency, I lost site of two youngest & followed the oldest since she was still in sight, the other two moved faster than the oldest one, she just veered off with purpose & I guess we went into her room?

I didn’t know it was her room yet till a went round the corner & her girlfriend was laying casually on the bed not interested in what any of the ladies had been doing, just there reading a book by herself, she teased her girlfriend, the one I followed to get there since I didn’t know where the others went because she walked slower & was in the way & closest so I stayed with her, "you finally came back said the one laying on the bed reading "the older girl said dinner is almost ready & we have company “her girlfriend said I can see that, finally looked up from her book at me & smiled but didn’t say anything else”, I could hear one of the other sisters yell at a distance “switch the power we need it in here now”

heard a quiet radio playing a song & a electrical hum, I turned to look at the sister go around a corner & I followed, a huge machine was there & i could hear it humming louder now, she took a metal ring from around a glass tube in one area & put it over another one & one of the girls yelled thanks just leave it there for now.

I wondered about the machine & i started to feel weird

the song playing in the bedroom, what I was just going to say… I have deva ju!

I said I have been here before, I remember the song playing, your room this moment, I have somehow done this before & this strange feeling too, I have felt this before!

One of the girls came in the room & then the other did too, & all three were gone as I realized I should be focusing on them & following them back casue I do not know my way well yet “I felt so spaced out & time felt slightly off now.”

The girl in bed hollered “I will be up soon.” I turned to look back at her “things felt echoed & behind themselves, way that would make you stop talking if your own voice was doing to you, or if you tried to walk you might trip casue the movement timing was off too” & then back to follow the girls who I was losing site of, I studder stepped, then I got my rhythm down & I was trying to keep up but things kept feeling more & more off. I found a set of stairs, I swore i seen a shadow & the voice of one of the girls going up & round & it sounded like the others were in front of her.

I came around the corner & started up, & realized this is not the stairs I took before, & assumed it must be another route since it’s a big house. I seen the shadows of the girls at the top & they started to move away & yelled to me hurry up.

I came around the corner & somehow every corner I rounded to find them as the house looked more & more off? More stairs they went up but always just out of site but their voices lead me on. until i got to the top, I saw there shadows going further into a room just around a corner & finally I was getting closer as I hurried up after them, the shadows were go but the voices stay the same volume finaly no more following them.

I rounded the corner a bit to fast & entered a room without watching ahead as I was watching the ground & the edge of the corner & I a heard them as if they were right there in front of me, except when I looked up it was a wall. it a wide open room with nothing at all.

I heard a lady’s voice, much older then mine say “oh, Hunny you lost?” I told her I was following the girls & I guess so, I noticed the room behind me no longer looked like the one I came from, "“when I turned around to see where the voice was coming from & who it belonged too” there was a circular banner made of filled in dry wall & a hole in the center & this little old women was facing one side trying to go around to come to me but it was a bit of a ways to get all the way round, her face looked old a weathered but still soft, she hobbled incredibly fast which was a bit off putting to see the way she walked & how fast she could hobble along, she was ina real hurry to come to me, I asked how did I get here, she said well girl will be girls & children will be children, I said they are not children, none of us were. she said you are all like little lost children in my eyes.

finally said slowed & looked up at me, & smiled isn’t that right [my real name] I was put off immediately, I asked how do you know my name!? where am I & where did the girls goes then, yes hunny, the girls, not women, you are all children yes, yes, lost… children, you, especially most lost… hmmm, I said again, where am I more frustrated becasue she was hobbling again furiously to get around the last bit to be with me, You are in the coddle shod! Your girls did something wrong & my girls have also, a hole opened up, did you sense something wrong, you should have Not moved until the sensation was gone, you came through, you are on our side, did you noticed the when you followed your shadow girls , I said yes, I was following there shadows I couldn’t catch up to them tho, she said no hunny there are shadows in our world, we are shadows in yours. unless one or the other comes through to the other. We can come through to you becasue we know how & we do it to take you & make you lost, younger is always better, they ask less question at first & listen more, are trusting, you are not so trusting anymore, but you will do for now.

Anyway you hardly ever come through to us anymore. My children were messing with something they shouldn’t have also the gears to the coddle shod & when your girls were changing something electrical around the both happened at just the right times a gap opened up. these things happen “Come Here Now, I am old… & why make me soo rush”

she was almost too me so I backed in the room I thought voices & shadows went into, so in a way she “the old lady” had to come round more, & she did so, I noticed as I moved to keep distance from her, she kept one side of her face only towards me like she was trying to hide the other one “it is weird cause later in the dream she told me as she chased me more. Here she was two faced, only showing one side of herself… she said there in the coddle shod they look like they actually are”, so I moved in a way that forced her to show her whole face if she wanted to come closer more.

She hesitated, then turned & came towards, the other side looked like a horror show, her smile extended back waaay tooo faaar, her lips did not close over her teeth on that side, her teeth when further back then ours do in her jaw, it was not natural, she was not natural, this is all so wrong, this was not natural at all. Her eyes lit up as she saw the realization & hear wash over me something was wrong, this brought her great joy I seen here eyes light up & her smile grow on the side that was normal & her face & smile extended on the other to make more room for a smile somehow!

there is so more but that was long enough, so many more entities & levels I still had to run.
This place way huge & made little sense at times, it was like a mix of backroom & scp entities mixed in one. But these things are real & the back rooms are not called backrooms by them, but maybe “The Coddle Shod” is a real place, all the entities that did speak called it that, it is how people can slip through the cracks & be caught between realities, or… it is a reality unto itself? She “old women” was very honest one the one side, but would not tell me why she wanted to be sooo close on the other hand. Like the man who disappeared & his family would hear him calling out from the place they saw him disappear at. They said from time to time they would here him calling them, but they could not see him, but it was as if he could see them, till his voice got weaker & weaker then he stopped calling out for help at all when they were near the place he disappeared at..

This world is so much stranger than we know.

So weird!

[ErisC]

it kinda reminds me of Twin Peaks meets Caroline meets Level 16.

like the dream sequence reminds me of the red room; while the old lady reminds me of the Mother in Coraline… and the girls kinda remind me a bit of Level 16.

also; looking up “the coddle shod” doesn’t have any similar results.

Though beyond the relative media i listed… what you explained is awfully similar to a dream i had a while back… (i have it documented i would have to look for it…) but the outside of my dream was more of a rural Japanese village with modern archetecture.

[QuantumSoundwave]

I always wanted to watch Twin Peaks, I missed so much of it becasue of bouncing around a lot, but what i saw of it was really good & i always wished I could have watched more. I really liked Caroline! I do not know what Level 16 is, I will have to look that up.

@ErisC

also; looking up “the coddle shod” doesn’t have any similar results.

I know I looked up the reference myself, I couldn’t find any meaning, only the words meaning separately “yes I even looked up the word THE” , & put all definaitions togther to so see what that said.

But she was so clear this place is called that.
Then this is what this thing means, this is why this is this way, this is what casues this!

I was thrown by listening to her, I wanted to hear her speak more but she was using it to lure me into a state of false securtiy it felt like, then when I seen “all of” her face!

Oh hell naw… nope! That smile… & I have no clue!
That warning deep down was now a screaming siren now!
It’s Time to Gooo!!!
I have no idea what she wanted from me… but we sure wasn’t gonna be playing no…
!
I am not joking, the other beings there called her “The Mistress!” like she was in control
~QS

[ErisC]

The mistress is an authentic dream entity. (though her names are various through out cultures.)

i also remembered a more similar one… i couldn’t find the one i mentioned earlier…

i have 23 pages of 15 posts each of dreams… to sift through… (and some are of my friend’s dreams as well…) i will find both eventually.

[Apocalypse]

The old woman’s physical transformation—showing a “horror show” side once you forced her to reveal her full face—is a common motif in folklore and Jungian dream analysis. It represents the duality of the threshold. In many traditions, entities that exist “between” worlds are often depicted as fragmented because they lack a singular, cohesive reality. She is “two-faced” because she is a bridge: one side mimics the familiar (the grandmotherly archetype), and the other reflects the “not natural” reality of the Coddle Shod.

The detail about the man calling out from the place he disappeared, his voice growing weaker over time, suggests that the “Coddle Shod” acts as a dissipative field—it slowly leeches the “density” or “reality” out of those who get caught in it until they fade away entirely.

[QuantumSoundwave]

What I will mention is first the banner “all were the same” looked kinda like drywall, but had more of a crystalline structure when looking close enough, or… you could feel it when touched but wasn’t cold, the banner made of what looked like a completely drywalled in railing it was in a long U shape except on one end, one end it slowly lowered till it met the ground but curved in on that end that also u’ed inward on itself & across was a flat end that just stopped with an opening between.

In the center of both sides was an opening to another floor/level, you could just jump down, that was one way how I got around “got away from her & ran across the children, & at end of this place was a set of what would be like fire stairs where I kept going from the kids further on, except they M.C. Escher’ed but not like gravity, they just sometimes did not continue leading down they would just wall off, so i would have to jump “in the center” down & across to another floor” down.

two more entities I will mention, this place had three children, much younger than the other ones who were “more or less” my age now in the other world.

These ones were children maybe 14 to 17 at most. they had no interest in me & i was only mildly interested in them, becasue how they looked & what they were doing.

They looked like normal people, but their flesh would phase in & out at different speeds, when the skin would go clear is what i will call it, they looked like crude oil flowing under their skin so I could see it motion.

They were opening one of the U’s to another dimension they opened the banner & the hole you could jump down, it was weird like they were folding reality of that place back in a long width wise of L shape cut out.

Part of the hole you could jump down & part of that from the banner opened up & folded back on itself, it the L shape was not in the way, each floor was stagger at only one end so you could safely jump down.

The inside of the flipped open L shape almost like old automobiles opened on one side of an engine, this caught my attention just as much as how they looked, it was gears & chains that hooked to them & other gears & went back further if inside, the gears & chains looked like a mix of motor oil that was clean & mainly a dirty dark brown, that is what the gears & chains looked like.

The children had pulled a gear out of place & were passing it back & forth! This must be what The Mistress was talking about they had done also, when the 3 ladies from the other world was messing with the cathode like bulbs & metal like rings, the rings looked like they had been hit with high electricity at some point… becasue they had that oily water look?

What was remarkable again was as the they held it “the children”, you could see in their hands/arms… it was drawing some into themselves from the gears, like feeding but with their hands & any other part that merely touched this hidden mechanical unit underpinning “running” that universe & how it worked. when they held it you could see when their skin turned clear, the black liquid they were made of was sucking something out of the gears or chains when touched, the speed of the black liquid inside & closest to the area in their hands/arms, that flow… would speed up.

I also noticed the gear looked like something was being drawn across the surface like a liquid being pulled to the top & out of it.

& along that surface of the gears & chains to the touch of these kids, the gears liquid again was a dark used oil brown, but when being sucked out, it grew lighter like it was getting cleaner or thinning out? :the gears & chains did not get smaller.

if that makes sense at all. The children keep fighting over needing to hurrying up, becasue they knew they shouldn’t be doing this for long, or… she would come.

Then I noticed a being who every time i looked at it, I knew what it looked like & could tell you very easily & explain him well, but when I looked away I forget defined definitions of what i saw.

I knew that it was still chasing me now, it was chasing me for the “The Mistress” who she used because she was not fast enough, I heard her call his name, but immediately forget after she was done saying it & that he was coming, until i saw him the first time.

He did not care what the children there were doing at all.
He was after me
he was a he
He did not change form
he was bulbus, very large & rubbery in movements

but specifics I would forget as soon as I looked away
what color,
his face,
all gone
only outline definitions nothing that would help make a picture well if I stopped looking.

He moved surprising fast tho when I would be looking he would move very slow. which is the only reason i remembered that was the contradiction to him moving slow & being surprised how much he moved when not looking compared to looking.

He was like a walking contradiction to my mind & the contradictions I saw was what stuck to make memories at all.

I fell/jumped down through three different levels & one I could see the outside world & that it was the ground floor in the normal world & it was snowing outside, like it was at the original house..

"the whole place looked clear coated crystalline & underneath that layer was drywall??? if that makes sense at all, you couldn’t tell unless you were looking closely or looking down the side longways close up, the window to outside “on what i will call the bottom floor” was made of this clear crystalline only, or… a similar material, what was weird also was if you looked at the crystal layer, it had cuts & layers, but inside the crystalline & you could see hints of a yelllow’ish tint from clear & snaps of blue, metallic or white at just the right angles with your eye almost to the wall, but mainly clear from far, or a dull yellowish color from closer up..

The bottom floor was not the "bottom floor: tho at all, it was just the floor that our realities land was on also. ~QS

Note: small corrections to explaination & edit to spelling errors. Like decent… to descent
“i never notice when writing how much is wrong, but after i re~read it all then I .”

[QuantumSoundwave]

I found myself yet again in a form of a coddle shod, a man was in a house I was there also though I knew not how.

He was allowing me to stay when a phone call came, on the other end a women with a raspy voice, saying she was coming… he hung up & said we must get out.

I start collecting everything he ask, then my stuff as well… just as fast becasue he seemed so rushed. “like we were doing something wrong by being here”

An old women comes in before & she is covered in green think mold spores, the kind when food spoils.

I start backing up becasue of this site of unusualness.

she is complaining of him & his ungratefulness… she found him in the woods half dead attacked by a beast, she healed him but had to stay away to not make him sick also & she let him come to this place & he hunts safely here, he was grateful at first for saving him but afraid of her.

But he wants nothing to do with me when I come to say “hello”, I save his life ya know. She point to him he fills in the story as she does what he is forgetting. “above was the short of tho.”

He says I am leaving now, I said “thank you” already once.

I have stop backing up. I step forward toward her, she see the gesture, she seems so grieved by him in this way.

I can’t help myself I ask may I hug her. her arms open wide.

at fist I am somewhat uncomfortable, I avoid human contact. but i find comfort in giving comfort.

the hug grows more sincere from me when I realize she means it she needs this hug & i realized I do too.

finally I can feel her relax her hug, so i do as well & we pull apart.

this mold spores is falling off

She says, I know you well now, I know your heart.

you are not afraid of death… but living.

You are not afraid of hurt… but loving.

one thing could fix that also. “she never said what.”

I was shocked by three things. She was right on two & one she was not an old women at all.

She keep her eyes almost completely closed to keep the spores out.

her voice was raspy from breathing these spores.

she was hunched over from the tiredness of it all “living that way so long.”

She said I can finally take a shower now… the curse is gone.

I was cruel but beautiful & i was cursed for it… & until i received genuine love as I am i would remain as such, the mold would never go away of start to fall off.

I needed a man to understand my pain, to be free again… becasue I refused to understand theirs, I truly felt I was better then them.

I had to be kind to all men no matter how cruel or ungrateful they were back as I had done to them, I lost hope anything would ever change.

I was floored, she was very beautiful… where the mold rubbed off from our hug.

Not only that but I admired the beauty of her heart now also.

Sometimes it lessons to teach us how to be kind, sometimes takes pain to bring peoples together who normally wouldn’t come together.

Then it only takes sincere kindness & understanding to wipe away that grief that remains.

Sorry for any misspellings/typos have to go to work.

With ~QS

[QuantumSoundwave]

what was trange was things that happened. I woke up thinking i was in this guys house, i was horrified to find out it wasn’t even his, i was in hurry to get out, I have been put in sistuations where someone took me to a house that wasn’t even theirs & said hide when they came home! Ffs!

I am an adult! “throws hotdog on ground”
I don’t hide from anyone… anymore.

So i was was there, that all happened I mentioned before… then I left becasue he was already gone & didn’t feel comftable being in a house with women I don’t know taking a shower just bad #metoo story… waiting to unfold somehow. She might claim I tried to pinch her moldy butt? One never knows anymore. GTG!

Oh I almost forgot to mention I woke up in this house, I fell asleep at my house & woke up in this dream in bed & he was saying wake up?

So i was leaving he was gone she was going to take a shower, it was morning.

I get to a building & the only logical option was to cut through it was like mystical temple… I but through casue the tree where too think to go around. I get inside & people are like buddhism worship or practice.

I say I am sorry to cut through, where may I go to get out, they point to this two huge brown very ordinate heavy metal doors, I climb these cut in rock stairs… open them both “double doors”

It is night, I look back behind me & it is still morning light coming in through the the open air windows.

I am confused.

i look back out twin moons one looks eclipsed by the other slightly moon which was offset from each other! so it itself was not covering this moon, but only it’s shadow was.

It is so beautiful? I have never seen stars so beautiful & close behind these moons.
It was like our milky way background but so different also.

The stars looked brighter than ours, but had dimmer light somehow… much more defined stars, & closer.

if this makes sense at all? idk know how to explain it better.

I am just in awe they say go it will take you home again.

I step through the doors, wake up at home & wrote the most shocking part first.
~QS

[QuantumSoundwave]

I know right!

Anytime I am in these weird places, it is always… sooo trange!