Barn's Submissions

[Barns]

I'm gonna start with subs for February. My DJ is pretty new, here's the link: Dream Journal (http://www.dreamviews.com/community/showthread.php?t=53225)

[Barns]

Here are my 3 February subs:

1. (19/02/08) Alien War Dream
This is pretty long as I can remember so much of it. I am submitting it for pure epicness:

We were riding in a long camper-bus along a bumpy, dusty road with low lying shrubs on one side and dark trees on the other.. The outside of the bus was a dirty white colour, it looked very old and ragged. There were about 25 of us riding in total and we all had our own bunk-beds in the bus. Out the tinted windows we could see it was getting dark. Most people had rifles slung behind their seats. We had been travelling for a while, and there was some quiet jazzy music coming out the radio. Most of the other people were asleep. Some strange noises were coming from outside, cracking noises and the occasional dog-like yelp. Something started scraping against the side of the bus, and some of the people woke up and tried to see what it was. The scraping got a little louder, and then stopped, only to start again a few minutes later. Several people were now staring out the windows. It was very hard to see in the twilight, it had got considerably darker in the last few minutes. At one point I thought I could see a large shape running alongside the bus, but it was gone the next time I looked. I didn’t know if I had really seen something or if it was just my imagination. Suddenly the scraping came back much louder than before. Everyone looked over to that side and most of us got a quick glimpse of a brown tail flicking away. Now nearly everyone was awake and murmuring about the sounds.
“I’m going down to the front of the bus” I announced to everyone.
I shuffled down the bus, trying to avoid kicking any cases over. It was quite hard to stay upright on the bumpy road. I reached the front, there was a door which separated the rest of the bus from the driver in his front cabin. I opened the door and stepped inside to speak to the driver:
“Did you catch an eye of whatever that was?” I asked him.
“Hmmn?” the driver drawled, with a cigar in his mouth.
“Well, some of the guys are getting real nervous back there. Just thought I’d let you know.” I replied.
“Nervous eh? Well... This ain’t our country anyhow...” said the driver, very slowly.
I was confused; “Not our country? What do you mean? Whose country is it?” I asked hastily.
The driver sighed and took his cigar out to say one word: “Zerg.”

The second he said the word ‘Zerg’ the bus made a huge lurch to the right. A high pitched whistling sound came from the sky, and something brown crashed from the sky and impacted with the side of the bus, near the back. The force of the impact blew the door open and I could see down the whole length of the bus. All the cases and objects had been blown to the right. Everyone else strapped themselves in. I tried to get back down the bus, I got about 2 metres before another whistling impact knocked the bus the other way. I fell to the floor and rolled over onto my side. Many more whistling impacts hit the ground and the bus, the next minute went in a blur. Large gaping holes were gashed open on the sides of the bus. There was so much chaos that I decided I really needed to get off the bus. Luckily for me, another impact had gashed a hole in the side nearest to me, I crawled towards the hole and rolled out the bus, my fall cushioned by some mud.

I stood up and the sight took my breath away, all around me explosions were happening. There were lots of Zerg in the sky and on the ground. I saw several human vehicles, other buses and tanks, which were being bombarded. A group of people ran by me and shouted:
“We are all going to die on this goddamn plain!”
This made me angry, I was determined I would not die to the Zerg. I ran over to a white truck and got inside. I floored the accelerator and sped off across the plain. The ground was very bumpy, but the ride was entirely smooth. I had no idea why it was so smooth, may be the truck had amazing suspension or something. It didn’t really matter to me then. I crested a hill and saw strange giant lobsters were coming towards me. I climbed out the cab of the truck, and looked up, a silver spacecraft was hovering above me. I blinked and I had appeared inside. I saw two men in army gear, one male pilot with a white helmet and blue overalls, and one woman with a strange black suit who talked to me:
“What is it like out there?” I asked her. It was a completely illogical question as I had been outside only a few seconds ago.
“They are pushing hard, but we have a way to finish this.” She answered. “Look”
I walked with her to a window in the side of the ship. All the Zerg were a long way down on the plain below. Suddenly blue domes of light rose out of the ground around the centre of the plain. The domes were huge and glowed with a light hue.
“What on Earth is that?” I asked the woman.
“We are trapping them with EMPs. We must keep them here.” She answered.
“Why must you keep them here?” I asked.
“You’ll see” She said with a smile.
I watched through the window as the swarm of Zerg circled their blue prison. I saw a black shape dropping out the sky, it hit the centre of the plain, dead in the centre of the ring of blue orbs and the Zerg swarm.
‘They were nuking them! They kept them on the plain so that the nuke would wipe them out!’ I thought to myself.

The ship we were in flew back over the way the bus had came. I kept on going, to places I did not remember passing. It eventually stopped at a towering city. It was absolutely beautiful, there were tower blocks so high they went into the clouds. Lots of metal walkways branched between the buildings. The whole city had an organic feel to it, the architecture of the metal structures was pretty incredible, with twisting beams and lots of hemispheres. The ship landed on one of the larger walkways. I talked to the woman again:
“Why are we here?” I asked
“Our work is not done.” She said
“What’s here? Zerg?” I questioned her further
“You’ll see.” She answered with an enigmatic smile, exactly the same as she had used earlier. It was quite infuriating.
We walked out of the ship and strolled along the walkways. The two army men and the pilot were with us. I tried to ask the army men questions but the woman kept answering for them:
“So who are you guys?” I tried to ask the left man
“We are elite” said the woman instead.
“What do you do?” I tried to ask the right man
“We do this.” said the woman again.
No matter how hard I tired I could not get a word out of the two army men, the woman seemed to be the only one of the crew that talked, apart from the pilot who made occasional radio calls to air traffic control (I didn’t know why).
We had gotten quite far, and we had reached the foot of another huge tower block. It became obvious at once that there were Zerg here too. Many of the windows were smoking and the sides of the building were charred. We managed to see a couple of flying Zerg go round a corner. The woman spoke to the two army men:
“The others will be here soon.” She said to them.
A loud whooshing sound came from the sky. I looked up and saw a small one-man ship flying towards the tower. The pilot yelled “Here we go!” so loud we heard it from the ground. He hurtled towards the tower and started firing at something.
“Well that’s them occupied” the woman said
“So what do we do? Are there Zerg here? You aren’t going nuke this place are you?” I pestered the lady.
“Look that way.” She pointed up a ramp.
I looked where she was pointing and saw some huge moving plants. Some of them were flowers and others looked like venus-flytraps. I stared at them for a while and then woke up.


2. (19/02/08) Lunar Failure Dream
This dream had a very sad ending, and for that reason I am submitting it:
I was on a moon which had lots of huge craters and mountain ranges, all composed of grey moon dust. There was a large colony on the moon, all the buildings were made of metal and hugged the ground. Everything had to be completely air tight obviously. There were lots of lunar vehicles moving outside and quite a few spaceships in the sky. I figured it must be pretty far in the future for everything to be this developed. I walked along a corridor and heard someone calling a name. I knew it was mine, and so I walked into a room with a long oak table with several people, all in military uniform, sitting round the table. One of them spoke to me:
“Commander, we have sighted another lunar colony to the other side of the mountain.”
‘Wow’ I thought ‘I am a commander’
He spoke again: “They have given us a few hours warning. They will be coming to flush us out.”
I blanched as I realised another colony was going to invade us.
“Then we must ready ourselves” I said.
Over the next few hours (probably only a few minutes in real sleep time) we oversaw the preparation procedures. All the big hangars were opened and the lunar buggies all came out. All the drilling machines had their drills removed and replaced them with guns. We had a few minutes left when a small man ran up to me saying:
“It’s a disaster! Our anti-aircraft system is switched off! “
“Then switch it back on! If we have no anti-aircraft defence then we will be blown right out of the water! Where is the switch?” I asked him
“It’s on the other side of the colony, we’ll never reach it in time!” He cried frantically
“Well I gonna have to try. Tell the others I’m going over there.” I said, whilst running towards an exit hatch.
I put on a spacesuit thing really fast. Once I opened the hatch I saw the building with the switch about 200 metres away. I ran for it, but the moon’s gravity made me go really slowly. I was about 3 quarters of the way there when I heard whining engine sounds, I looked up and saw the enemy ships blowing up our buildings. I was too late. I looked to my left and saw a man with a small ship, he was calling to me:
“Come with me, it is too late for this place.”
I ran into his ship with him and we escaped, I watched the dying colony through the back window.

3. (19/02/08) Giant Contest Dream
I am submitting this dream because it had he stupidest DC I have ever met:

I was with a real life friend of mine, and we were taking part in an enormous ball game. We were trying to get our ball to the other side which was about a mile away. Between us and the other side were lots of lakes and obstacles, which made it quite slow going .There were hundreds of people playing the same game with us, all trying to get our ball to the other side. We ran across a waterpark thing and went down one of the slides. It was pretty fun, but we had our minds on the game. We came to a maze of ropes and had to clamber through very slowly. Once we reached the other side my friend dropped the ball. It rolled down a hill, I yelled to him: “Get that ball for gods sake!”
We dashed down the hill and saw the ball float off across a small lake. “Swim after it!” I yelled. We began to swim across the lake and we reached an island. We could see our ball inside a cage made of bones. There was a pirate sitting on the cage. I asked him if we could have our ball back and he said:
“Bring me something valuable and we might have a trade.”
My friend and I looked around to try to find something to trade. We were in a strange cove which was full of pirates and fishing boats. There were sharks in the water but for some reason we weren’t scared of them. I saw a treasure chest on the sand and I swam over to it saying:
“We can give him the treasure, that must be valuable”
But my friend disagreed: “No, we should give him that old boot, all pirates love old boots”
I was thinking ‘WTF is he thinking, why would a pirate prefer an old boot to some treasure?!’
We reached the pirate and to my surprise he loved the boot. He gave us back our ball saying:
“Heh heh heh , this is the best trade I have ever had. Have your ball.”
Now that we had our ball we had to make up for lost time. We swam back and scrambled back up the hill. We reached the summit and saw that we had about half a mile of fields in front of us.
“Here we go” I said, ending the dream.