The Vampire Gene (Dream)

I was really cold (and I've been sick lately) after I got Tricity onto the bus this morning, so I decided to lay back down, and I had a dream.

In this dream, we were cleaning out Adam's Grandpa's old stuff from a barn (which doesn't really exist in real life, and his Grandpa passed many years ago so we wouldn't actually have any access to his stuff any more). We were almost done, and Adam went to carry off some boxes that we had gone through. I could see something still laying at the top that wasn't in a box, so I took a broom to knock it down.

When it fell, I saw that it was some kind of old-looking book, but for some reason it had some kind of technology on it. I started reading the book and it said that the vampire gene was passed down through a person's DNA, and depending on how the child is raised, that is what determines how strong (or weak?) of a vampire the person will become. To determine if a person carried the vampire gene, they would need to hold their arm against the device attached to the book, and they would see if they were positive or negative.

I didn't really think about how this book might have been passed down through the generations in Adam's family. Instead, I thought maybe his grandpa just had it as something he picked up over the years, among all of the other stuff. For the LOL's, I decided to put my arm on it. It said I was negative for carrying the vampire gene. Then I called Trcity over to me and I scanned her with it. Hers came up positive. The book had said that it passed down from the parents, so if I tested negative, then that means Adam must have been the carrier.

But how could Adam be the carrier of the vampire gene? He never drank blood or stayed up all night until sunrise. He DOES have light sensitivity, and he's so pale that his skin is pink colored, and he burns easy in the sun. I didn't think those were vampire qualities, though. I started thinking that maybe this book was faulty. Maybe it was just misreading Tricity because she was a kid?

So when Adam came back, I had him put his arm against it, but instead of saying positive or negative, it was blank. What did blank mean? I read on. It said if the scanner was blank, that meant the person tested positive, but did not have the gene activated, as they were raised to be normal, and their bodies were trained when they were younger to be more human than vampire, so they had weak or no vampire qualities about them. Instead, there would be a sign on their bodies.

We had him put his arm to the scanner again and we looked for the sign. I didn't see anything, but then Adam said "Oh, here it is." It was a light blue word that stuck out like a hologram on the inside of his upper right arm. It read "negative". That's why we didn't notice or see anything the first time. When he took his arm away, the word went away, but when he put his arm on it, it showed up again in the same spot.

I read on. It said that by default, the carriers of the gene would turn human, but based on how they were raised, it would determine how strong of a vampire they had the potential to be. Adam was kept out of the sun a lot, so that's why he became so light-sensitive with his eyes and skin. Tricity was the same way. He was also not given rare meat, because if he had grew up eating a lot of rare meat, he would be more inclined to drinking blood. If she were to eat a lot of rare meat, she could become a blood drinker.

Every choice to gain a vampire quality would require some sort of sacrifice. To have everlasting life, you had to become a blood drinker. To have skin as tough as stone, you could never be exposed to the light of day or else you would burn. And that is why Adam and Tricity had pretty tough skin compared to mine and the rest of my family. It said by the time a person reached adulthood, it was too late to make any changes, and they would forever remain in their current form. I looked at Tricity and said "Well Tric, if you want to be a vampire, there's still time to change!"

As far as I can remember, she said no... That was pretty much it for the dream. We had to go shopping after this, or go to my Mom's house, or something in my dream which drifted away from this storyline, and I eventually woke up.