I'm laying down in the shed behind my house, I realize I've been there relaxing for too long because it's night time. I come out of the shed, and I see sights that horrify me, there's military cargo planes hovering low at every other house, there's one just next door, and flying in the sky highers the sky is filled with strange looking aircraft not belonging to human but are working hand in hand with the military. Their weird aircraft looks like it's monitoring the cargo planes though. I get low and sneak into my house, I go to warn my mom and sister but after checking the whole house I realize it's empty, I wonder if they were taken or killed or escaped, then sudden;y my grandma run into the room I'm in I assume looking for us, I tell her they're gone and that we need to get out of here. We exit the house and there are other people running away o the streets but there are young cops everywhere getting them, so me and my grandma run on the side lines into an area with high trees, I see air-crafts every and judge when we can run to remain hidden, then we run out into this park but two cops a male and female come at us and i wrestle one and his gun falls to the ground I pick it up and shoot them both in the head, then me my grandma and some other people run. Now in a different are, my grandma has turned into an old friend from high school, We're at a public area, people here aren't panicked yet, I guess they're only collecting people from neighborhoods so far, so I tell her we need to get out of here before they come, next thing I know people start panicking because a crowd of people are running for something and running towards us, so we run she follows me, and we go down this cement dip and I see the door that leads to the underground main working area has already been opened so that means other people are escaping here, I run in, and keep running through turns and doors, every time I turn around my friend seems tired and wants to go her own way, and now she's talking to two guys also down here hiding, but I know this isn't safe enough they probably have heat sensors, we need to go lower in the ground, so I just leave her, but then the guys turn possessed and start to go after me so I climb up the stone wall, they're climbing right up behind me so i jump over to the other side which leads me into a room with a hole on the upper wall that shows the outside, I climb up the wall and jump out before those guys catch up, then I run across the street through the panicked crowd and the calm possessed crowd and I climb up this wood pole that goes about 50 feet into the air next to a two story building, then the guys catch up and try to climb up the pole, they seem to be having trouble I guess they're not so athletic. Then when I reached the top I jumped onto the balcony and turned around and pushed the wood pole and it begins to fall and they fall to ground. I realize there is this guy up here on the balcony with me, I ask him if its safe up here, he says safe from the people, but not from the weird air-crafts, so we decide we need to get to a mall. I don't know why. Now we're dead center in a mall on the second floor, some people seem afraid, but the store workers are still trying to sell their shit, I follow the guy through a clothing store then through another, and then we go into a store connected to the outside that sells dirt bikes, he sits on one and puts on a helmet, the store worker runs up and talks to him as if trying to sell it to him and saying he should sit on it. Then I go and sit on a black one, and I grab a helmet and stuff it on, then we both start the bikes and begin to ride out while the store worker tries to grab us, we ride though the mall to the exit with a few people chasing us, then we hit the street and go across it into dirt and ride across shopping areas and then we get to place that has no one and it's shadowed, we roll our bikes up this ramp on to this wooden deck blocked off from view with nets and junk, it has benches on both side, then a few stairs steps that lead to a higher deck that can see the open sky. we put our bike down and pull the ramp up so no one can get here, but we start to let people up that look trust worthy, and they work with us. now there's about 20 of us up here, and it's late again we talk about how we don't think there's many humans left. whenever a possessed one tried to get us or a cop tried to get us we'd shoot them in the head, most of us had a gun. The lady with a smokers voice didn't have a gun and she complained the whole time. I went to the top deck and looked at the sky, I see one of those weird air-crafts, it flies over pretty slow and is black and has curled wings upwards, it flies over us then stops and begins to spin in a circle faster and faster until it disappeared, and it effected the sky from it, I look up and see the sky was broke apart like the sky was always a hologram, there's a gps map up there, it shows dots in areas, I notice one area with a lot of dots, it's of were we are. I tell them hiding it futile as they have tracking devices on us. So we look for them. I tell them it;s in our skin, we have to cut ourselves open to I do and first try I find it. The others find theirs and want to destroy it, i tell them not to, but for one of us to take them some were and leave them so they think we're over there. Then I tell them instead of fighting things on earth we need to kill those air-crafts because they're behind all of it, they agree but ask me how. I tell them that when it fly's it has time and space warped around it so we can't touch it with anything, but when it spins in circles to disappear it doesn't have a full warp on it. The dirt bike tells me I need to go to a gun store with him not for regular weapons, but for rpg's and grenades. So we get back on the bikes and i follow him to one hoping they weren't all taken. When we go into the store no one is around. there's seven rpg's piled on the ground, we strap them to the back of our bikes, them we put grenades in a back pack, lots of them and i put them on my back and we drove back. Then the ones of us who had the rpg's went to the top deck and aimed em at the sky and everyone else has grenades and waited at the bottom deck just in case. Then one of those air-crafts was slowly flying around like it was looking for something, I tell them to wait til it spins then it begins to spin, we wait til it's a little faster, then me and someone else shoot a rocket at it and explodes with a mushroom cloud. Then three more of those air-crafts come because of the explosion, that must be all of them, and they fly around slow so I tell the other people to throw the some grenades at them so maybe they'll spin and flee, none of the grenades hit them they just bounced of but it made them all spin and we blew them all up. woke up.
Original journal entry dated May 22, 2002: It didn't really start out as a nightmare, it started out as a dream that I was playing Dungeons and Dragons like my friends, and it was a normal session except for the fact that we would literally become our characters. And the fact that the campaign took place on the actual campus, not in a far off fantasy world. This was a whole dream in and of itself. It then phased into the next dream in this manner: When we were done playing, we cleaned our stuff up, packed it away, etc. I asked for a ride home but nobody wanted to give me one, although M offered to drop me off at the closest bus-stop. Unfortunately, it wasn't the bus-stop that I needed to be at, which was a mile down and across the freeway. So I started walking down the side of the freeway, which wasn't there at first, but then there were walls along the edge of the road and I had to walk IN the road, inching along with my back pressed to the wall, while tons of cars barreled by. I managed to get across the freeway when I realized that I had miscalculated and overshot the place where the bus-stop was, so I had to go back. As I was going back, I found myself stumbling along a gravel embankment at the edge of the road, and the way that the wall and embankment were arranged, I had to walk away from the actual road and into a sort of hollow near the freeway pillars and supporting structures... all of the sudden, it got way too foggy for me to see, and I wandered blindly until I suddenly felt incredibly cold, clammy hands all over me, and then I passed out... ...when I woke up, I was blind, but I was in a warm bed and a house, and people were talking to me. There were 3 voices - one was a fatherly voice, conjuring up in my head the image of a man smoking a pipe. The second was a daughter-ish voice, that of a young girl. She spent a lot of time talking to me and stuff. The last one scared me, it was a mother-ish voice, but instead of conjuring up a motherly image in my head it conjured up the image of something rather like a medusa (I'm talking mythology, not squid, here). They took care of me and talked to me, but they never touched me. In my dream I think I was an orphan so I guess I finally had a family. I always refered to the fatherly figure as "father", the sisterly one as "sister", but didn't refer to the motherly figure as anything at all. I kept asking them when I would be well, when any important events would happen, when I would be able to go back... they told me, one day, that in a day they were going to go somewhere, and asked me whether or not I wanted to go with - I could go tomorrow, or in a week. I told them tomorrow, and asked them where we were going to go and what we were going to do. They responded, "Tomorrow they will uncover us." As I vaguely began to wonder if my caretakers were something other than... well, alive or human... back in real life, D knocked on my door, and the dream abruptly ended. So then I managed to get back to sleep, but this time my dream was different, it was about the dorms only the design had changed (for one, they were nicer and the foliage was more lush, the landscape was prettier). There were some design flaws in the dorms, one of them was that in order to reach their own patio the next-door dorm had to cross ours. So there was a debate as to whether or not they also got to use and put their stuff on the half of our patio that they had to cross to get to their own. Then there was some stuff about mom and screen-names, and a bunch of random stuff, one thing of which included a mural with different descriptive name-bubbles that you could choose to put next to the objects depicted in the mural. The Mural of the Week was one with dinosaurs, and for some reason they didn't look sad but they were crying, and some of the word bubbles were pretty silly.
Original journal entry dated Sept. 26, 2002: I had a strange dream about shoplifting toddlers who ran around in costume all the time. It was... strange. And there was a dog in it. I can't remember much about the dog. I had this dream that this one guy who looked a lot like an animated version of Hero from "RPG World", was leading all of us ([college friends], and I) on this one journey to collect these mystical stones. Everything was going VERY badly. We had to go to this one underwater Atlantis-like city, which was actually the ancient ruins of some advanced civilization of aquatic druids, and we all got a specific treasure item that was neat-o cool. Except one of my friends lost hers, because we got into a battle and she didn't get a chance to pick it up before some stupid mage cast a spell that teleported us about 50 miles out into the ocean, where we may have subsequently drowned if not for a passing ship. Anyway, we completed that quest, but she never got her item. On the next quest we went on we had to pass through that area again so we went back to kick some mage ass (on principle) and get her item. It turned out to be a Stone Of Greater Discounting. It allowed her character to buy rare and expensive items at FAR below normal price. I had another dream that I had a camcorder and was videotaping a train ride I went on through the Rockies when I was about 14. The train ride actually happened, but I've never owned a camcorder, and as far as I know, in real life mountains don't breathe.