Mydera

I read a book yesterday called A Touch Mortal, and while it wasn't a particularly great book, the dark atmosphere gave me some pretty cool dreams I just wish I was able to remember them better. First one's in a spoiler tag because I realize it probably gets a bit graphic in the blood and guts department.

Spoiler for Dream One:

Dream One: the dream was set inside a house with a bunch of people. Apparently something had happened and there was no power and no food. I think there might have been a flood as well, but I can't be 100% sure about that. I was responsible for protecting the people of the house and keeping things together. I instructed a tall guy with long dark hair to gather a group of people and take them out to search the houses around us for food. I'm not sure what killed off most of the population (maybe vampires?), but in the dream it was understood that just about everyone had died and no one was in any of the other houses in town. But, it was also understood that we needed to keep a low profile because something was after us, that's why were were grouped together. Safety in numbers. The group leaves to find food, and i check out store in the pantry. I notice we have plenty of food already, but I wonder what's going to happen in the future when all the food that can be scavenged is either gone or expired and there are no factories to make new food. We'd have to grow our own, and I had no idea how much land we'd need to grow enough food to feed us all, and how to preserve it to last year long. While I'm wondering about this, a kind comes running in and says the scavengers were attacked. I rush outside, and there are vampires attacking the group outside. There are probably ten or fifteen vampires, and they all look about the same. They have grey skin that sticks to their bones and sags like skinny elderly people, their hair is dark brown, and shoulder length. there's no telling if they're male or female, they could have passed for both. They have this wicked long teeth that make me wonder how they can even close their mouths. They aren't your pretty Ann Rice or Twilight vampires, there's no mistaking these things for humans the way they're faces are... I'd say they were a combination of Buffy the Vampire Slayer vamps and the Chiropteran from Blood +. The scavengers fall to the ground, blood pooling all around them. Two of the vampires grab each of my arms and rip into my wrists. I feel the skin ripped from them, and watch as blood sprays out like in a Kill Bill movie. I stare at my left arm in horror as I feel light headed and sink to my knees. Then I realize something. The whole world is dead, but I'm still alive. We're still alive... I should be dead by now with all the blood I've lost, but I'm not. Then I think there's got to be a reason why I can't die, and then I just know I'm immortal, I can't die or I would have by now. (duh, I'm dreaming! But I totally missed this chance to be lucid) I fight the lightheadedness and grab the nearest stick I can find and stand up. I yell out to the other scavengers that if they're still alive, then it must be because we can not die. I tell them that I know it hurts, but stand up and fight with me to protect those inside. I lunge at a vampire with the stick and drive it through his chest with inhuman strength. The stick and my hand go all the way through, and then I pull them back out to catch a vampire that's coming up from behind me. The stick breaks in half on the second impact. I use my other hand to grab the half of the stick that broke off inside the second vamp and pull it out. Just then a third one jumps me, and knocks me down. I don't fight it, I let it tear into my throat as I reach my arms around behind it and stab it with both sticks from behind. It goes limp on top of me, and I toss it off. I reach up and feel my neck in shreds, and marvel at how it doesn't hurt and I and still alive, then I look around and see my five scavengers standing up bloody, but healing quickly enough now that the fight is over that I can see the wounds closing up. Pretty cool! We take the food inside, and start to sort through it and put it away, then someone mentions needing a shower. I wonder how we're going to manage that with no power, but then I come up with a crazy idea. I tell them they will have to go back out and get as many gallons of water as they can from the nearest grocery store. I also tell them to get some funnels. I plan to make a shower by poking holes in the bottom of a plastic bottle hanging in a tree, and pouring water into it, letting the water drip down like a shower. I also think that we can set the extra gallons of water outside when it rains with the funnels in them to catch the rain and give us a good reserve. I'm really proud of this idea and my resourcefulness in the dream, and go outside to marvel at how much easier the situation seems now, and how much less scary the world looks with a plan. I see a ladder to my left, and look up. There's a gnome on the roof. wearing a handy man uniform. He tells me that our roof needs to be repaired because it has some sort of moss growing on it. I think, "great, more problems!" and then I wake up, lol.

That dream was partially influenced by the book, as there are people in the book called "Siders" who are immortal... but no vamps or end of the world

Dream Two (Fragment): There's a man who's an evil angel. He's trying to convince a bunch of people that he's a good guy and they should follow him and worship him. I know he's wrong, and I know he's the evil one, because I know a good angel in the dream. In the dream I point out that he's evil, and he tells me to prove it, so I tell some story about how when he came to earth he needed a favor, and the cost of having that favor granted was being split into two halves. Then I point out how he and the good angel look exactly alike, because they are the same angel, split into his good half and his bad half. At this revelation, they combine, and instead of having a good angel and a bad angel, there is now an angel who knows right from wrong, but has the emotion to do wrong to protect those he loves. I hug the angel, happy he's back to normal, then wake up. The good angel/bad angel thing definitely came from the book I had read, lol

Dream Three (Fragment):I'm going to Animazement with my best friend. She comes to my house, and rushes me out. Suddenly we're in the car and she's asking me if we're staying in a hotel or a house. I tell her we're staying in a hotel with two rooms, and then we're there! We put our things in our room, and then decide to go to the rave (which is what they call their dance to make it sound cooler, LOL) but I realize that I have forgotten to pack clothes to wear! I've only got extra underwear and two extra shirts.