nightmare

January 7, 2011

This dream was sort of two parts. They connect, but it was real hazy in the middle. I wouldn't say that this was a nightmare, but really actiony with a couple of thrillers.

I was in a nice house, with a huge glass window on one side that looked out onto the valley surrounding the place. There was a group of people there for some reason, but I can't remember what for.

Soon, I had to leave, and decided to take a shortcut home through the forest. At one point, we (for some unidentifiable people had joined me) came across a large junkyard. A storm quickly arrived, causing a nearby dam to break and flood the entire thing, leaving pieces of nearly everything lying around. We knew that we couldn't get across any other way, and that this was our only option.

I stepped onto a plank of wood that shifted like crazy, bit just managed to get to an upturned desk. I had to keep going, since whenever I stepped on something, it was only a matter of moments before it would sink beneath the churning waters. As I leapt towards a bunk bed, I knew midair that I wasn't going to make it. I was easily a yard away when I fell through the water. As my breath slipped away, I made one final surge and grabbed onto the railing, pulling myself up, coughing and sputtering.

I soon after made it up to the shoreline, and climbed a steep hill to find myself behind my backyard. The gate was locked, so I decided to take an alternate route through my neighbor's house. They gave me quizzical looks when I, drenched in water, dashed through their house, saying, "Sorry, I just need to get through here real fast."

The next portion of my dream was real hazy. I vaguely remember being at a movie theater. On the screen, this show was playing about these horrible creatures that would transform people into more of themselves. At the end of the film, they advised humans to go to their building.

Strangely enough, my dad wanted to go see what this was all about, so he loaded me and my two siblings into our car and drove to the address.

I was shocked to see that it was at an airport. Even weirder, there was our exact same car, already there. There were many different buildings that made it up, but we walked towards one called "Souvenirs." There, we found a slushy stand, with a monstrous creature from the movie behind it. It offered us some odd-colored slushies, and said they were for "converting." My family members willingly starting drinking them. I tried everything to get them to stop: begging, screaming, crying, but nothing worked. My dad said that, "It's not worth fighting. They all started to lose all sanity, and their skin began to turn various hues. This was when I knew I had to get out.

There was supposedly a force field that kept us from leaving, but it didn't affect me. As I turned the corner, I bumped into none other than Stephanie. I told her that we needed to get out of here this instant, and we started for the exit. Right as we were about to leave, a rhino-man (for I have no better way to describe him) blocked our path. He charged, but fortunately, missed horribly, and crashed into the door, breaking it open. Stephanie and I ran towards the car, and finding it unlocked, hopped in and bolted the doors tight.

Suddenly, we heard a knock on the window to our right, and were stunned to see Mitchell Musso standing there.

"Will you by my CD?" he asked. "I need some more money to pay for the limousine."

I started to say no, but was stopped by none other than Justin Bieber.

"Do you think that you can actually get away?" he sneered. "My masters sent me personally to stop you. Prepare to know the true definition of pain!" Out of nowhere, two female ninjas with those ninja fighting sticks jumped to his side.

I desperately turned to Mitchell.

"If you help us fight off these guys, I'll buy your CD. Deal?"

"Deal."

Mitchell, Stephanie and I then engaged the trio in a battle that would have made Chuck Norris proud. We beat them, but just barely, and knowing that they would soon regain consciousness, we ran off, away from the airport as the world slowly faded to black.

Analysis: The junkyard vaguely reminded me of the junk from the opening sequence of "Adventure Time," and also of the furniture I had recently seen out at the curb for the trash. I had been at an airport a couple of weeks ago as well. To be honest, I didn't even know that Mitchell Musso was a singer, until I Googled him after waking up. I'm just so glad I could beat up Bieber as well.

Category: Non-Lucid Semi-Nightmare

Lucidity: 1/10
Clarity: 4/10
Length: 8/10
Enjoyment: 2/10
Overall: 3.75/10

I thought I'd post a couple of nightmares I'd repeatedly have as a young child.

1.) The Heffalump on the Stairs

This dream would always take place in the evening, when my family was having dinner. I wasn't with them, and was instead reading on my living room couch. Suddenly, a demonic-looking Heffalump (yes, from Winnie the Pooh) with sharp teeth and wings came slowly down the steps. I knew that this thing, whatever it was, was trying to get me, but when I tried to shout out to my family to help, my voice came out as a whisper. My legs and arms were going in slow-motion, and when the thing reached the the bottom of the steps, my dream ended.

2.) Chuck E Cheese Game of Death

This dream would always take place in a Chuck E Cheese's (don't laugh). There was this one game, that once a day would suck two random people inside of it and kill one of them, but release the other. I was picked, and I was slowly dragged into the machine with the other person. The machine picked the person to release, and it wasn't me. Then everything went black, and I woke up.

3.) The Screaming Shack

This dream would always take place in the Screaming Shack, and I was always Harry Potter. Hermoine and I were in the Screaming Shack, and we had caught Peter Pettigrew. Suddenly, Snape and Lupin burst in, and started to yell at us. Then, the full moon came out, and Lupin transformed, killing Snape and Pettigrew. He came after Hermoine and me, but I fell and he lunged at me, and then everything went black and the dream ended.


All of these dreams deeply scared me when I was little, but around the age of 9, I just stopped having nightmares for some reason. I've only had maybe one or two since then.