Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Living as the Undead

Had another Zombie dream last night. Guess it's a common theme with me. This wasn't too scary of a dream though. Actually, I kind of liked it a bit.

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I was in a mall when a zombie outbreak had started (or possibly had already been going on for some time). A lot of people were fighting off the zombies, but not doing too well. Me and some other guy were upstairs in the mall looking down at them and killing whatever zombies had come up to try and get us. After a bit of fighting, most of the zombies were dead, and there was only one zombie left upstairs. The guy I was fighting with had been killed during all of this, so perhaps this was his zombie. The zombie grabbed onto me and started biting at me. Realizing I wasn't going to be able to push him off before getting bit, I took out my cell phone and called my girlfriend. I told her I was bit by a zombie and that I loved her and I was going to end my life before I turned into one of the undead. I hung up the phone and jumped off the top floor in an attempt to kill myself.
The next thing I remember was that I was in the backseat of my girlfriends car. I guess I had survived the fall and she told me that if I was going to become a zombie she was going to become one too. She drank something that looked like a bottle of blue Kool-Aid and told me that it was the virus. I looked at my arm and it seemed like I hadn't gotten bitten or anything so I told her that perhaps in my confusion of trying to call her to make sure I said goodbye to her before I died, I didn't even manage to get bit. I drank some of the blue liquid as well, so that if she turned into a zombie I would turn into a zombie too. Eventually, I guess we turned, but we weren't really like zombies. We were able to walk around and talk normally as well as control ourselves. The good thing though was that no other zombies would try to kill us. Me and her went into a casino and started playing around for a while, and a man came up to us and gave us a flier for zombie rights. Supposedly, zombies were people too and there was a rally in support of us because everyone else wanted to kill all of us. I don't think anything else happened after that, because I woke up.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Dream Games

Alright, so again, I haven't blog posted in a while, but I have been recording my dreams in a note on my phone after I wake up from them, so I'm going to post them all as one post. If some of it doesn't make sense it's because I can't figure out what I was trying to say when I wrote it half asleep, but I'll do my best. Sorry if there's no real "plot" to these, even though there may have been one in the dream originally

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Dream One
Me and my mom were running away from a horrible storm that had started on the east coast and was slowly moving west (though in my dream, New York was on the left of the United States and we were moving to the right). We had been driving and barely outrunning the storm for a while, and we were able to see the huge gray cloud behind us, destroying everything it flew over. Eventually, we made it to a beach, but couldn't go any further, but instead of the storm killing us, I was taken under by severe waves (which is a reoccuring theme in most of my dreams and I can't figure out why...did something happen to me at the beach when I was younger that I repressed?) I was tumbling beneath the waves, unable to do anything, and no matter how far away from the water I ran, they were still able to get me. Eventually when one of the waves took me under, time rewound, yet I still had my memory of the escape. It had begun again, with us back in New York, trying to drive west. This time I knew that making it to the coast would not do anything for us, so we decided to try and find a way back into New York after the storm had passed it. While driving west, we came to a train station and asked where it was headed, but we were told that it would be going all the way west, so we did not want to take it. We continued to drive away from the storm and eventually came to an airstrip with planes taking off. We thought we would hop on a plane and fly through the storm, but at that moment another plane had tried to this and exploded upon touching the storm cloud. We got into one of the planes that was unoccupied on the runway and decided to try to fly around the storm by going south and then back north to get back to New York. There was a problem with the plane though and we ended up crash landing somewhere in Mexico, where we were being hunted by some people. But I woke up before finding my way out of there.

Dream Two
Me and my girlfriend were at my girlfriends house babysitting her younger sister. Eventually I had to leave so she drove me home. At my house she ended up staying there for an hour past her curfew, and then went home. In the morning, her parents had called me and said she didn't come home the night before and they had been out looking for her for a while. Eventually she came back to my house with a friend that she had found on the way home the night before and had been driving her friend home (even though I guess her friend lived right next door to me). It turns out her friend was a porn star and her and her friend had a lesbian experience and she decided that she didn't want to be with me anymore and wanted to go do porn with her friend. I went to the neighbors house and talked to the other girls husband, but turns out that her husband was in charge of all the porn and said he was going to be paying me for all the movies she would be making. I was still shocked and confused and didn't really know what to think. At that moment another man came in saying how he wanted my girlfriend but the other girls husband began to beat him up saying that she was my wife and that I had all the rights to her. I didn't like this because even though she belonged to me, she still didn't love me or want to do anything to do with me.

Dream Three
I was sitting in class getting ready to take notes when my girlfriend came in the room and said there was a fire in the building, but then right away said she was just kidding. The teacher was mad at her for saying this but ignored it. Normally, the teacher was very nice, but today she was being completely crazy. Everyone in the class was getting annoyed because she was making ridiculous rules and people were getting in trouble for reasons that didn't make sense. At one point, she took away the laptop I was using to takes notes on because it had a few games on it that I wasn't playing. Eventually we all went outside because there was a fire department assembly, but everyone in the class had enough of the teacher so they were being rude to her and turned the class into an outdoor party. Eventually, one of the students stood up and told us to look at ourselves and explained what we were doing. We all apologized to the teacher and calmed down. The teacher walked up to the crowd of students looking very sorry and sincere, but then started giving out detentions instead of apologizing like we thought she would. Then she turned to my girlfriend and told her that she would be in detention for the rest of the semester, but my girlfriend just laughed at her because she wasn't even in her class. Then the teacher turned to me and said that I would take her place in detention and miss all of her classes and I would fail all of the tests, so I told her I was just going to drop her class. Then she turned into a giant monster and chased us back through the building. Me and my girlfriend ran back into the classroom because I forgot my laptop, and then then we jumped on a giant warpstar and started to fly away. While we were flying we shot lasers at the teacher monster and blew her up. We had managed to escape and lived happily ever after.

Dream Four
I was at my dads house and there was a party going on. My dad was very drunk and kind of being a jerk. I was at the neighbors house and he was talking to her about her boyfriend. He said something about her only liking certain types of guys and it was very rude and she was upset. I told her I would talk to him about it. I ran after him and he was very angry and I told him he couldn't say stuff like that to people. He took his bottle of whiskey and threw it at me, but it hit the ground. Eventually, a bunch of helicopters started flying overhead and landing around us. It was the military saying that something had landed in our neighborhood. Turns out it was a bunch of aliens and they started killing everyone. Something else happened that I don't really remember, but I ended up being in a public bathroom hiding from something but that's all I can remember.

Dream Five
I found myself in my house hanging out with my girlfriend. We weren't doing much, but we went into my room to try and fool around. But inside my room was my aunt and she was watching us carefully to make sure we weren't doing anything. I was really mad that she wouldn't give me some privacy so I went to my mom to tell her about it. I start talking to my mom, but her and my brother tell me that we are all trapped in the house. I ask her what she is talking about and she tells me to try and leave. I open the door and see two terrifying looking decomposed people and they were keeping us in the house. I laughed and told them I could easily destroy them, and I did. But, then a third one appeared, with wings and looked even more terrifying than the first two. Suddenly, I found myself in a different area. There were other people with me and we were trying to find a way out. I remember walking through a sewer with a group of people before getting separated from them. I found myself staring at a lake, and the next thing I knew a horrible creature jumped up from the water and pulled me down. I was drowning as it held on to me and I was looking up from under the water when an old woman pulled me up. I thanked her and I returned to my house. When I came back to the house, I realized that me, my mom, and my brother are all dreaming and that's why we can't leave. They want to kill themselves in order to wake up, but I tell them not to worry because I know how to wake myself up and I will go and wake all of them up (which, I can always do when I know I'm dreaming). I woke myself up and found myself laying in my bed. Everything was completely normal. I ran into my moms room and woke her up and she asked me if I had a scary dream and I told her I did, but that I had to go wake up my brother. I ran into his room and woke him up and he said he was having the same dream too. At this point, I didn't realize I was still dreaming, but thought I had woken up and was back in reality. I turned on the TV and  saw that our dreams were being broadcast as a television show. I had also realized that if we had died in the dream we would have died in real life, because a group of children who died in the dream actually died in an accident in real life. There was also a commercial on TV for a celebrity who had gone missing and I realized he was one of the people from the dream. I ended up tracking him down and found out he had gone into hiding after the dream. It turned out we had been dreaming for a few years, and they were going to continue to let us dream until we all lost. It was at that point that I realized I had to stop the people behind this. I tracked down the old lady who had saved me in my dream and it turned out she was my martial arts master. A flashback of the dream showed me that it wasn't actually my teacher who saved me, but a projection of her, and in the dream it was actually a creature wearing a scary mask, that I guess took residence inside of dreams. The teacher was training me to defeat the people in charge of the dream show, and told me they were going to be premiering their release of the show at New York Comic Con. Me and my girlfriend went there, and before going in she was training me in the art of fencing to take them down. (My notes say at this point that they end up trapping me in another dream, but I don't remember and then I woke up. Maybe I'm dreaming right now...)
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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Mob Chase

Alright, before I begin writing about the dreams I had, I want to note something that I found very interesting. Maybe a little weird. I don't know. In the blog post titled "I Love College...and Zombies?" I was dreaming about the college I was supposed to attend this fall and I am currently going to classes there. There was one part of my dream where I was talking to a particular girl, and I remember her face..."Eventually, I was on my way back to the guy dorms. Some girl was coming up from them and she looked at me, but didn't want me to think she was a slut or something and said "I was just using the restrooms there, the girls are broken" and I was making small talk with her and I said something like "hey, don't I know you?" and she really did look familiar, but I didn't know her. Again, I felt Alpha because she was flirting with me pretty bad." The weird part about all of this is that...in my new college, I met this girl for real. I didn't realize it at first, until she was smiling at me. I remember the girl in my dreams smile above everything else. The girl from my college is now my new friend and we enjoy each other company, but I think it's very weird, and almost impossible that I had a dream about her before I met her. Probably some psychological mind trick going on. I thought I would record this down though, since this is a blog about dreams.

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Dream One
I was at some kind of amusement park with a few of my friends having a good time, and I realized my girlfriend was also there. I told my friends I was going to go look for her and I left them and began searching. Eventually, I found her in a hotel room inside the amusement park and she said she was staying there with her family and was very happy to see me. Her dad came back to the hotel room from wherever he was and was very pissed off to see me standing there talking to his daughter. There was also another woman there who was fighting with my girlfriends family because she had claimed that the hotel room was actually hers and that they had stole it. Eventually they just decided to share it. I started to leave, when all of a sudden the room started to flood. I grabbed my girlfriend and was able to swim out of there with her. That's all I can really remember.

Dream Two 
I was at a horse racing track, and everything seemed like an opening for a movie. I saw a known mobster with his grand daughter. He dropped his bet ticket on the ground because his grand daughter was playing with it, and I picked it up and handed it to him. I saw the horse he had bet on and saw that the payout was $44 Million. I had a feeling that the race was going to be fixed, so I ran up to the betting window where my mom was and told her to bet on that horse. I couldn't get through the crowd so I had yelled to her and she heard me, but so did the mobster. Eventually, the horse won and the $44 Million prize was split up between me and the mobster (even though this is obviously not how betting works). He was very angry to only get half the prize and told me to give him my half or he'd take it. I ran from him and he sent a bunch of his gang after me.
Eventually, I found myself hiding in a mall, disguised in security guard clothes along with two dream friends who I had never actually met before. Eventually, the mobsters found us and shot one of my friends. Me and my other friend eventually hid up in the ceiling, and ended up staying there for a few years. Time passed and one day while I was out getting what I could only assume was groceries, they had found my other friend and killed him. I was completely destroyed by this and thought it was time to end all of this. I went to the mobsters hideout and I handed him the ticket for the rest of his money. He was still going to kill me, but I think I killed him first. However, all of the money was lost as well. In the end, I lost both of my friends and all of the money. I guess there is a lesson to be learned there.

Dream Three
I was entered into some kind of poker tournament and had gotten really far in it. Me and my girlfriend were both at the same table, as well as a bunch of other kids who would be known as my "team". For some reason, even though we were playing against each other, we were supposed to be working together. I was dealing first, and was being a complete idiot because I had half of the cards facing up and the other half facing down. I also took half of the deck and put it into my hand by mistake. I told them I was going to fold that hand because I had screwed up so bad. Eventually me and one of the other kids got into a big fight about something, and I left for a bit to find a bathroom. My girlfriend came with me and we ended up in some parking lot with a bunch of stores around us. She left to go find a bathroom and I stayed behind with her stuff, but then I started getting woozy because I needed an insulin injection (even though I'm not diabetic in real life, I guess I was in this dream). I started crawling towards the needle that I needed before my girlfriend eventually saved me. I had said something like "I thought you didn't love me anymore." and she assured me that she still did.
I headed back to where the tournament was supposed to be, but ended up in a place that looked kind of like my house. There was a bunch of gang members there (they didn't really look like gang members...more like mafia, but not italian). They wanted something from me and I couldn't give it to them. Eventually, one of the guys shot me in the back, and I saw the bullet hole on my stomach. I put pressure there and begged them not to kill my family because they had nothing to do with it, and they had gotten me. They were about to kill my younger brother when everything rewound, and I was standing there being asked to give them what they were looking for. I told them it was in my room and I ran in there and locked my door. While the man who originally shot me was trying to get in, I picked up my baseball bat and began to search for my airsoft gun under my bed. I eventually found it and when the man came in I put the gun to his head, and thinking it was a real gun he dropped his weapon. I picked it up, shot him and then a gun fight broke out between me and the mob guys. Eventually, I managed to get out of there with the help of a few police officers.
When I made it back to the tournament, I sat down next to the kid who I got into a fight with. I told him I was very sorry that things had gotten out of hand and begged his forgiveness, telling him that if we were going to get through this we were going to need to work together. He accepted my apology, but as he did, we were no longer playing a card game. Instead, we were in a huge battle with a giant worm like creature. We were fighting with everything we had, and eventually lost, but we were able to try again. I'm not sure if we won or lost, because I woke up.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Revival

Alright, so I haven't been posting at all for most of the summer. But that led me to realize a few things. For one, it led me to the idea that there HAS to be a correlation between writing a dream journal and having lucid dreams. I doubt this is true for EVERYONE, since I'm really the only test subject at the moment, but there is definitely some relation there for me. So, I'm going to try and resume this journal and see how long it takes me to get my lucid dreams back. It was also hard for me to record my dreams because...well, I wasn't having any. I think it may have been do to a new medicine I was taking, but recently I seem to be dreaming again every night, so hopefully that problem is eliminated. Well, we shall try this and see what happens.

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Dream One
I found myself at a college theater, awaiting the opening the play my brother is in the process of being the part of. I was talking to him about how I was so surprised that even though auditions had just ended, the play was already done. I went to find a nice seat, but while I was walking around I found the battery of a cell phone that someone had dropped. I asked around to see if it belonged to anyone, but all I could find was a man willing to help. We manage to find out the name of the owner of the cell phone and then began to question the members of the audience if they knew who this person was. The first person I asked was a slightly attractive blonde woman, most likely in her thirties, and it turned out the the cell phone had belonged to her son. She thanked me for finding it and was talking to me about a few things before I went up to join my mom and my brother (even though he was supposed to be taking part in the play) and the top row of seats. A few moments after arriving at my seat, I noticed the blonde woman get up from her seat and begin walking towards me. I had started telling my mom that I think she was attracted to me for some reason, but was unable to do so before the woman had sat down next to me. The woman began to talk to me about something I really had no interest in, but I listened for a while before finding an excuse to leave. My family and I went to a cafe on campus where we were going to attempt to hide from her. At this point though, the woman was essentially stalking me. The only way I was able to get away from her was when my mom and brother distracted her and I was able to teleport home via the anima system (something used in Square-Enix's MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV). At this point, I was now sort of inside Final Fantasy XIV but I was scared that if she had seen me teleport she would be able to track down my location and find me, so I disguised myself as my friends female character. I believe this worked and she was unable to locate me, and I relaxed and returned to my real life home.
The next thing I remember was laying in my moms bed, wondering if this women knew who I was and if she could find me. At that point, I heard a knock at the door, and yelled to my mom not to answer it, but it was too late. I heard screaming and fighting and I'm not really sure what happened to my mom and my brother, but the woman appeared in the room with a large knife. She was clearly insane at this point and was crying about how I didn't love her and how she would have to kill us all because we could never be truly happy. She started to slash at me, but I grabbed a broom stick and was blocking some of her stabs. A few of them got through and hurt pretty bad but I knew I would be able to fight her, and I was not going to die. Eventually, I grabbed the blade of the knife with my hands, even though it was cutting them, and managed to take it away. The next thing I remember doing is savagely stabbing her with the knife, cutting her literally to pieces and leaving the knife in what was left of her bloody mess called a body. I walked into the living room to see if my family was alive, and everyone was fine. They asked me what happened and I told them, and they told me to make sure she was dead. I explained that there was no possible way she could still be alive after what I had done to her, but my mom suggested that I feel for a pulse. I touched her neck and began to panic because even though I didn't really feel a pulse, I knew she was still alive. I took the knife from her body, stabbed her a few more times and ran out into the street looking for a police officer. I finally found one and had explained what had happened and he was willing to help me. Eventually a detective showed up (played by Morgan Freeman) and had been trying to help me figure out what was going on. At that point, a weird creature had flown from my house and towards the police officers telling us that there was nothing we could do to kill it, and that it could easily destroy our world by stabbing what looked like a pin into some kind of instrument that was the shape exact shape as the creatures body. Detective Morgan Freeman suggested that if stabbing the instrument in that exact location would destroy the world, then stabbing the creature in that exact location on its body would destroy it. The creature began to panic and we knew that we had found it weakness, but suggested we created a truce. We would enter into negotiations and if the creature was satisfied we would trade it what it wanted in exchange for letting me free of it's stalking and harming my family and the guaranteed safety of earth. The creature agreed and we went into some weird minigame where we would offer him certain items and he would decide what he wanted to accept. Eventually, he was happy with what we were going to be giving him but during the negotiations, his reinforcement ship had showed up. He flew away, thanking us, and told us that he would leave with the ship and let them know of our alliance. While that was going on, a giant spider-like creature was emerging from the ground and my little group was unable to defeat it. We began to run away until eventually, we came to a pirate ship who were willing to help us, because they had been in an alliance with the police officers. We were rescued and everything was fine in the world once again.

Dream Two
In this dream, I started out riding in the back of a convertible care similar to the car I have, while my brothers friend and her ex-boyfriend, Carl, were in the front. Carl was driving and began to pick up a lot of speed. While we were driving, a minivan was attempting to turn, but waited before we were right next to it to attempt this, and smashed into us. Even though we were in the smaller car, we didn't really get effected by the hit. The other car, however, was badly damaged. Carl continued to drive and we began saying stuff like "Carl, I think you hit someone back there" and he responded with "Yeah, should we go back?" and I told him we should. When we arrived at the scene of the accident, the car was smoking and the people were still inside. I checked on them to see if they were ok and one of the women was hurt pretty badly. I asked if they had called the police, but they said the police were going to take an hour and a half to get there. At this point, Carl approached their car and began screaming at them for turning in front of him like that, but I told him to chill out because they were really hurt and we could worry about that later. They acknowledged that it was no ones fault but their own but I told them not to worry about it for the moment. Carl went back to his car and I stayed with the girls just in case they needed any more help. Eventually the police officer arrived and was talking to them and I told her what happened and the girls admitted it to being their fault but I told them that Carl kept driving and we had to tell him to go back. The officer was not happy about this and she went to question Carl. Suddenly, I saw Carl take out a knife and start to stab the officer and I ran over to him to stop him. Eventually, he and some of his friends went into a near parking lot and were armed to the teeth with guns and weapons. I went in there to stop him and everyone was telling me not to go, but I went in anyway. I remember having some sort of weird machine when I went in there to confront them, and they were getting ready to kill me. I had a cool looking trench coat on and sunglasses and looked like I wasn't afraid at all. Right when they were about to open fire on me, I pushed a button and the machine I had began to take all of the ammo they were shooting at me and sucking it up like a giant magnetic vacuum. When they went to reload, I pushed the button again and it sucked up the rest of their ammo, right out of all the clips, as well as the weapons they had, including Gatling guns that were on the back of their trucks. After that, I beat the hell out of all of my opponents, saving Carl for last. I don't remember exactly how the final battle between him and me went, but I do know that I won.
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