memorable

May 8, 2012

I woke up at 5:00 AM, and the alarm I had set for the end of my REM cycle was at 5:30, so I went back to sleep. I repeated for a while (or maybe until I fell asleep) “I remember my dreams”, or something very close to that. I remembered my dream, as it was interrupted by my alarm. It started at my house and a kid version of three people of Nine Inch Nails (Including Reznor) were at my house (and they all managed to never say a word throughout the entire dream). I seemed to recognize them, but I don’t actually know any other members other than Reznor (who was present) and (if he was part of the band) Atticus Ross, who was not present.
We ended up starting to leave the house, and my Dad was taking us somewhere. It was raining outside as hard as it ended up raining during that day IRL (which is quite a bit). I at some point (although I don’t know if this is a recall lapse or random sh*t outta nowhere, but I think it’s the latter) had ice cream, and the container it came in (a small round one, similar to one from another dream) was put on the floor ( I assume by me). I knew we had to go, and I think everyone else was already in the car. I was putting the Ice cream away and I recall it taking so long I went to the door and held up my pointer finger, signalling I’d be there in one minute. At some point between here and the next part, we went to a park area where I played music on my Ipod and everyone played some sort of game (I don’t remember what, though).
So, the dream shifted to third person, and it had become dark, but the sky was already gray to begin with. We were on a bridge, and things were chaotic. I somehow perceived that it was the Blacklight Virus (from Prototype) that had infected everything, and In my audio recording this morning I reported seeing zombies, but right now I’m doubtful of that. Cars were swerving, and shopping carts were running all over the bridge (and it was a long winding bridge, bigger than the one where I live). They were all the same shade of red, and some of them were still and just in the middle of the road, but some of them were sliding down the road too. There seemed to be a few cement walls (or segments of walls) in the middle of the bridge, separating the direction of lanes (of which I think there were 4).
This was supposed to, and conveyed very well, the feeling of chaos (although from this description it probably won’t seem that way). Eventually we got to our destination (which went unmentioned, but I think it was a mall). There was another lapse of what I assume was simply the dream jumping ahead, and we were in the mall, and there was a dark room with a lighted hallway. In front of the hallway were two creatures (and keep in mind this was all in third person). One seemed to be a grunt from Amnesia, and the other one seemed like some evil monster with zoidberg like mouth tentacles.
The Grunt (if that’s what it was) started jumping forward like a Hunter from L4D2, but only going a foot into the air, kinda like a frog. At some point in the dream of which I don’t know, I was at home and came a across something on my computer that said “Face Masks” and had a picture of a woman with white face moisturizer on her face and a folded washcloth over her eyes, as if she was at a spa. So back to the mall.
the dream seemed to go back to first person, and there was a third monster, that looked like one of the Prototype 2 zombies. I “went” back to the Face Masks thing and changed some settings in an attempt to lower the creepy f*cked up ness of the whole thing. I put “went” in quotes because I don’t remember actually going anywhere or seeing or feeling me change anything, but I just perceived it. In the dream the name Face masks seemed to make sense, mask being somewhere along the lines of the Flash (animation program) version of a Mask. Once I woke, this still didn’t make sense. This changing of setting didn’t seem to work, and I think i was going to try again, because then I was home and going through tabs on my internet and either the tab or Igoogle theme had the words “Maybe” written on it with fuzzy outlines of hearts (not real ones, the typical heart shape). After this, the alarm woke me up. No Lucidity, but I did seem to try to control the dream (although through settings as if it were a computer).

note: at some point, after we had left the house, My Ipod got broken. The part with the camera on it got dented in, and the glass/plastic material on it cracked. This was in first person, and I remember feeling a strange sensation touching the cracked and dented part. I have no idea where in the dream this took place.

another note. While in the car, before everything turned third person, we were listening to NiN music. The kid versions of some of the band members including Trent Reznor were in the back seats, but they had no reaction what so ever, and didn’t say anything. I did think it must of been a little awkward though.

a third note. This dream occurred between 5 and 5:30, because I woke up at 5 on my own, and then went back to sleep. My alarm went off at 5:30, so the whole thing had to have happened in less than thirty minutes. The dream itself felt more like 15 minutes, but I think dream time lasts longer than normal time.

easiness to recall:
8/10 (vivid and pretty easy to recall, and the dream was long)


A drawing I drew of the bridge.