nightmare

-pre sleep-

As I fell asleep last night, I saw in my pre-sleep imagery large double-doored gates, each opening to reveal another. There were two statues of a human figure, one on each side of each gate. I was fascinated by these gates and proceeded through them as they opened before me. I made it about halfway through these gates before I stopped. Fear gripped me, and the statues appeared malicious, still as they were. In a mild panic, I turned around and attempted to return from where I came, but quickly decided to open my eyes to banish the imagery, yet not the fear.

-Dream-

Recall begins as I get into the back seat of a car as quickly as humanly possible, then slam and lock the side door. My pursuer, a crazed serial killer grabs the door handle and yanks on it several times as I get myself to the front seat to lock all the doors. I press the button to lock the door, and in my panic hit the unlock button, then the lock button once more. I get the key into the ignition and press the panic button. The siren starts blaring. and my assailant recoils from the door, clutching his ears. I watch as he falls to the ground, convulsing as if an electric shock is running through his body.

I take a moment to calm my nerves. I let out a deep breath and take on another terrible fear of mine, driving.

I take the car out of park and let it coast downhill, turning right at the first opportunity and parking immediately. Then I wake up.

I was walking home from somewhere, at first I was able to walk just fine, but after awhile, I became tired, and I was reduced to crawling. It was as if my limbs would not listen to my brain unless I forced them to. I got tired of not being able to move, so I called a taxi. I asked the taxi driver to take me to the town I live in. we started moving. for the longest time, I just sat there, trying to regain my strength. I watched the buildings turn to trees, and the trees turn to mountains, but I did not realize that this was the incorrect way to my hometown, as I live in a populated area, not in a mountain. I started seeing other cars, like the one we were in. the taxi driver seemed to be distracted by the other cars that looked like his, so he got out some sort of radio and spoke into it, asking the cars to change colors or something like that. Suddenly all the cars were white with a black stripe down the middle, I thought that was strange for all the cars on the road to suddenly look the same, it reminded me that I may have not given him enough info to get to my house. I gave him my address so that he could get back on the right course. This made the taxi driver angry, he hunched over, his eyes turned red, and he got a rather nasty scowl on his face. I thought that this may be because I had given him the wrong info before, but I didnt' have much time to contemplate this, as I fell asleep before I could do much thinking.

I woke on a stone slab in a dark shack in my underwear. I was vaguely aware of my cell phone on my right cheek (not the face). I got up, confused, and I walked out a door with a small amount of light shining through the bottom. Outside, the taxi driver and a young blond girl were outside, sharpening meat hooks

(side note, I have never seen a meat hook before this dream, and I am surprised that this is exactly what they had in the dream.)

"Good morning, Meat." said the taxi driver.

I started running, but I became confused when they didn't immediately chase after me. I turned around and asked about it, but they didn't respond. the girl begun approaching me with a meat hook. Knowing I didn't have cell phone service, (I checked when I was running away) I knew my only option was to disarm her. I visualized what I wanted to do, grab the meat hook in mid swing and take it from her. before I knew it, I had the meat hook. I didn't hesitate. I plunged the hook into her back and yanked toward me, the meat hook embedded into her left, shoulder. I yanked it again, and it came out her chest. She didn't make a sound. I approached the taxi driver slowly, not noticing that the girl had simply disappeared completely. I wasn't sure how I was going to disarm him, he had two meat hooks, one in each hand. A meat hook flew at my head, I caught it. I was slightly confused, the taxi driver was throwing the meat hooks at me? the other meat hook flew at my head, again, I caught it. well, if he wanted to make my job easier, that's his choice. I embedded a meat hook in his skull, he was still alive, and I didn't feel like seeing his skull ripped open, so I embedded the other into his back. he disappeared as wall. I sat on the stone slab again, a bit tired, I rested.

I woke up in the same place, in a different paradigm. instead of the cold, creepy place I was in before, I was in a very nice, warm warm bedroom. the stone slab was now a proper bed, and the shack was a very nice room. the door opened, and the taxi driver poked his head in, I could tell he was no longer malicious. the taxi driver had a drink in hand, "Hey, want a Pepsi?" I said sure, even though I don't like Pepsi, He tossed the glass bottle to me, I caught it in my elbow. when I looked at it, it had changed to a mtn. dew. I set it aside and said, "I'll wake up soon" as I was a bit tired of the dream plane, and was ready to wake up.

I awoke.

I was sitting at a fire listening to stories. I became so engrossed in the tales, I was inside of them. I saw a giant serpent made of sticks in the sky, it roared. my view then shifted to a burning mask of a snake. the fire crackled and consumed it, but not before the mask turned into a human head with a forked tongue sticking out. my view changed to what was behind the mask, a stage. my consciousness approached the stage. There was a man on the stage, full of enthusiasm, but I could tell that he didn't want to do what he was about to do, it was only a necessity. I was then standing off to the side of the stage, I was the assistant, my job was to calm the sacrifices. a job that wasn't much better than the man on the stages job was. he asked for the first sacrifice. a woman put a baby in a cradle on the stage. the man keeled over the cradle, I couldn't watch, I looked away. I heard a crunch. when I looked back, the cradle and baby where gone, eaten. "at least it was quick and painless" I thought. the man asked for the next sacrifice. A young child toddled up to the stage. again I couldn't watch. done with that one, he looked to the side of the audience with pets,

I'm sorry I can't type any more, it's too hard.

There was a poodle puppy that I played with, and my own dog that I played with before I woke up.