u/ollicoptermakesstuff

I consider myself an agnostic atheist, but I have been drawn to paganism, and I have been wanting to open myself back up to being more spiritual! I became interested in Hermes (as a character and deity) over a year ago!

So, in my dream, I was somewhere with a bunch of clutter/antiques, and I spotted a small/mediumish Hermes statue in a Greek style (head facing the side as well), but with his Roman name, “Mercury,” etched into the bottom of the statue. I was with an NPC friend (idek, just some guy who was my friend in the dream), and I was like, “Hey, look, it's Hermes! Well, his Roman name is Mercury; that's why it's etched there.” And my friend was like, “What are the odds you found one in all this clutter? Maybe it's a sign from him.” Then the Hermes statue moves its head and looks at me. I look back, and I’m like. “Am I seeing things?” and then he looks back again. I don't remember how it led to this, but then the real Hermes shows up (it's hard to describe what he looked like in the dream; he was blurry, but I could see his face and smile, kinda resembled mine; perhaps he manifests as the person he is reaching out to sometimes, I have no idea). I also recall him having his flying shoes and flying/floating in the dream. He said he was giving me 4 challenges/trials to face, and then he would be my deity/grant me 4 favors. I cannot recall the first three, but the last one was the scariest. So he said, for this one, you cannot look at the entity's face, no matter how drawn you are to do so. So my friend and I look down at our feet, and we see the entity's feet walk to my friend and get real close to him; my friend is scared shitless and tempted to look, but resists. Then the entity walks to me and gets close; I can feel its breath, and it stares at me, but I resist the urge to look up and run. Then the entity disappears, and we look up and suddenly another entity appears (a woman-shaped one, idk), and we quickly look down, and she goes away. That's when Hermes comes out and is like, “You did it!” and we are like, “PHEW!” And for some reason in the dream I have a little child brother, and Hermes is like, “Well, to get your favors I have to steal your little brother and starts dragging him, flying away, and me and my friend are reaching out to him and are like, “NOOOO!!” Then Hermes sets him back down and is like, “I was just joking! Gotcha! Anywho, you earned the favors!” So then I ask for the creatures I can't look at the faces of to never see them again, and that one couldn't be made, and then I was like, “Ok, make me a god,” and he was like, “Ok!” And I started flying into the sky and was like, “WOOOOOOOOO!” And Hermes said to the gods, “Listen, I made the guy a god because why not,” or something like that. It was a fun and funny dream!