May 3, 2007

• Dreams

  I had one huge long terrible dream last night.  I'm not sure if dreams mean anything, but if they do then I don't know what the hell is going on in my head.

  I started off dreaming about college.  I was here at Mizzou and everything was very pretty and it was raining just a bit (It was raining yesterday?).  I was walking to Engineering Building East to take my Mass and Energy Balance exam (I have one today?) when Jason called (He's supposed to?).  Suddenly I had the ability to teleport, so I used my telephone as a medium to teleport to Jason's location.  Unfortunately, Jason was on some kind of secret island military base where the Americans and Russians (I hated Russian class?) were both stationed (Mike was talking about playing Command and Conquer?).  Mike was there, too, and we all became part of a military scouting operation to gain some information on the Russian activity.  We were also scouting to find sources of clean water for some reason.  As we go closer and closer to the Russian base, we noticed that something seemed odd.  Bodies littered the ground, but the American force had not attacked the Russian base, nor did the Russians even know that the Americans were stationed on the same island.  We came across a spring on our way, but unfortunately it, too, was littered with bodies.  I can remember in the dream that it smelled really awful, as it should have.  When we finally reached the Russian base we noticed that everyone seemed to just be standing around, most of them wounded in some way or covered in blood.  Needless to say, we were all very alarmed.  We decided to head back to the American base and took another route trying to find more fresh water that wasn't filled with rotting bodies.  Another spring was on the opposite side of the island far enough from the Russian base to be bodyless.  When we got back to camp and reported our findings, the guy in charge, I'm assuming some kind of general or something seemed unconcerned.  He told us that we couldn't get water from the spring closer to the Russian base anyways because there was too high a risk of discovery or something like that, but he didn't really say anything about all the bodies or the strange behavior of the Russians at the base.  Later as Mike, Jason, three or four other soldiers, and I were eating some crappy food around a fire (This was probably from old cowboy movies that my dad watches.), we heard strange noises from the surrounding area.  Of course, moaning and such.  A few moments later, a bunch of Russian zombies popped out of the darkness.  I immediately teleported away to the mall from Silent Hill in fear and left everyone there.  Good thing that the mall was just the mall from Silent Hill in look, not in events.  I decided that I needed to get my hair done (I'm getting it done after finals week.).  (In the dream this seemed completely normal to me, but now that I type it, it just seems stupid that I left a bunch of people to die and then decided to get my hair done.  Perhaps that's how my guilt about all this Mike and Jason business is translating into my subconcious?)  I had an appointment, believe it or not, at 3:30 pm, but it was only 1 pm, so I was going to have to wait.  Fortunately for me, the girl working there (who just happened to be this girl with blue hair that works at a nearby Taco Bell here at Mizzou) said she could fit me in now instead.  I went on in to the salon, which was really nice for a mall salon, and sat down to get my hair cut.  Instead she started mixing colors.  As she came back I was suddenly compelled to teleport back to the island.  Now, instead of a military base, I was in some kind of subdivision looking place with a few houses and then a bunch of empty lots in the middle of nowhere.  I believe it was still on the island.  On of the older guys who works with the same research group as me, Raj, was there along with a lady that looked like a reporter and several badass looking men dressed in military uniforms.  A couple of children poked their heads out of one of the houses, and by children I mean 12 or 13ish.  Then several more people came out of the same single house.  They all crowded around me and explained what was going on.  It seems the American military general guy decided that to get rid of the Russian threat he would use some kind of virus in the water of their spring that would kill them all.  Instead, it killed them and then reanimated their bodies (I'm sure all this zombie stuff is somehow connected to my friend Jared who is getting zombies and the house from Night of the Living Dead tatooed on his arm, yes, permanantly...crazy kid.  The worst one so far is the one with all the maggots on it.  I HATE zombies!) and they came to feed on the flesh of the still living American soldiers.  Few made it out alive and those few were taking refuge in the house that everyone came out of.  In total it was about 15 people.  I wasn't sure where the children or the report or the several other random women had come from, but I took it to be the truth and turned to my research buddy Raj.  He wanted me to go and get samples of the water near the Russian base for testing so that maybe a cure could be found.  I accepted and went with four bulky military guys to find the spring again.  As we walked, one of the guys told me to use his nose as a map to the spring...which confused me, but when I looked at his face I realized that indeed, his face was shaped like the island and his nostriles were positioned so that they mimicked the positions of the two springs.  (Seriously, don't ask me...)  We got to the spring and I took some water samples, but as I did, zombies popped out of nowhere and attacked us.  One guy was bitten and another bitten by the guy who just got bitten, so I grabbed the other two soldiers and teleported us back to the mall.  The girl who was going to do my hair was pissed because in the time that I had been gone the hair coloring had dried out.  I told her I would pay for it and teleported back to the little house.  When I returned, Raj took the samples from me and asked where two of the guys had gone.  We explained and he looked sad.  Then he handed me this credit card (At the lab he is in charge of the group's credit card so you have to ask him before you make a purchase.).  He told me for my hard work I was to be given this $50,000 to spend however I wanted.  I shrugged and teleported back to the mall.  The girl was even more pissed off, so I told her that I had just been given $50,000 and I could give her a huge tip for finishing my hair.  She was overjoyed and sat talkatively cutting, coloring and fancifying my hair.  When she had finished, my hair was shorter and highlighted with white and blue-black (I was planning on doing this exact thing to my hair.).  I gave her $1000 as payment and then teleported back to the island.  When I got back I noticed that one of the people in the house had been bitten by a zombie.  She looked like a female basketball star and was African American.  I questioned her, as she had already started to rot, as to why she wasn't trying to bite everyone.  Her response (which confused the hell out of me) was that she was my mothers long lost daughter from another man and that my mother had some kind of nerve cells in her brain that stopped the decomposition of the mind from the virus (I have a feeling this has to do with Parasite Eve, a great game.).  She was hanging around so that she could help Raj's research to try and find a cure.  Suddenly, everyone froze for a split second and then ran in the house.  I followed.  I then saw out on of the cracks in the barred up windows that hordes of zombies were coming from all directions at the house.  A couple military guys rushed back out the door with baseball bats and started hitting zombies in the head.  Incredibly, they managed to destroy all of them, just the two of them.  I applauded.  Everyone went back about their business.  It seemed that the two children I mentioned earlier were pretty sad.  I asked them what was wrong and they explained that their mothers were missing.  Hmm...not cool.  As soon as they had said that my mind flashed into a different place.  I was seeing things somewhere else I guess.  Two womens' heads where in a cage carried by a huge zombie.  In his other arm he had their rotting corpses.  The two womens' heads, which looked waterlogged and horrible where chatting amiably with each other and complaining about how bumpy the ride in the cage had been.  It was really the most horrifying part of the dream.  Nearing the settlement, the huge zombie set the bodies down on the ground and set the heads on top of the empty necks.  The women waved goodbye to the zombie and started walking toward the house.  My mind flashed back to my own eyes and I saw the women approaching and yelled out in fright.  The two children rushed to the window, and then recognizing their mothers opened the door!  I was terrified for some reason and froze in fear.  One of the children was instantly bittened and dismembered by a random zombie that was just chillin' outside.  The other grabbed his mothers head from her shoulders, cursed at it and then grabbed a baseball bat from inside the door and hit the head off into the woods.  He did the same to the other woman.  It was really horrible!!  Their waterlogged bodies fell to the ground and the child came back inside and just wandered off.  It was at that moment that I gain saw another place, this time behind the house we were all hold up in.  A female zombie and my sister-from-another-father were outside at the food stores, which were for some reason under a potted plant in a small natural rock formation.  Even though it seemed as though my sis was handling the whole being a zombie thing well, she still hungered for flesh, so she was eating meat from the food stores at the command of this female zombie.  Suddenly, realizing what she was doing, my sis punched the female zombie's head off and ran back inside.  It was as this moment that I decided I had had enough fun for one day and I teleported back to Mizzou.  As I was walking back from EBE after my Mass and Energy Balance exam, which I was supposed to take way back at the start of the dream, sirens went off and a young man's voice came over the loudspeakers...which I don't think Mizzou has any of.  The voice yelled for everyone to get inside their respective dorms and stay inside because zombies had overrun the campus and all exterior doors were going to be locked in about five minutes.  I ran back to Mark Twain just in time to hear the door click behind me.  I sighed with relief and went to my room, thinking that it wouldn't be too bad to be trapped in Mark Twain since there was a good amount of food and everything I would need to survive for quite some time.  When I opened the door to my room, I noticed my roommate was "sleeping" on her desk with her face in a book.  I assumed she had fallen asleep studying, but then I saw a huge bite on her neck.  I realized that she had been bitten and had died, but would reanimate very soon.  I instantly grabbed her from her chair and chucked her out the door of the room, locking it behind me and informing the front desk of the situation.  They removed her from the building.  I then called Mike (who I guess hadn't died at the campfire or maybe my brain just forgot since this was a really long dream) and found him to be safe in his room.  I then called Jason.  When I called him "something" picked up, made some strange noises and then it sounded like the phone was crushed.  I assumed he was dead up at his dorm in Michigan.  I then called my parents who where safe and sound with my little brother hold up in our house way up on a hill.  I wasn't reallly worried about them anyway.  My dad has like 15 different shotguns and both my brother and mother know how to shoot.  I turned on my iTunes and just as I was about to check my e-mail I woke up.  I was rather relieved.

  So, that was a pretty epic dream.  I've never had one that long or that well put together.  I mean, for a dream it made a good amount of sense.  However, I have no idea what any of it really means about my mental state.  I think mostly what my brain is saying to me is that my life is a little turbulent right now, but it will eventually settle down as soon as Jason is out of the picture.  By Sunday for sure I will know what path I will be walking, so we will see how the symbolism in the dream plays out.

  As a side note, before this dream started I had a very quick dream that involved a fivesome with me, Mike, Jason, Dante and Dr. House.  It was pretty good, not gonna lie.

  Okay, studytime!

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