Dream 1
The Exploding Socks – Part 1
Date: 5/5/08
Type: Non-lucid
It begins with me sitting in a futuristic looking hall. The hall is humongous and every, single seat is occupied. There's the roar of every single person talking to the person next to each other. As I'm looking up the front at the stage a tall, bald man walks to the pedestal. He adjusts a small box on top of the pedestal and begins to speak.
'Greetings, my brethren!' he booms.
'Greetings,' booms the crowd back.
'We are here today to celebrate the life of Zogot Smothe and welcome him into the afterlife!' The crowd cheers madly at this and claps loudly. The bald man puts up a hand and everyone stops cheering immediately.
'Now, we welcome Zogot onto the stage,' says the bald man, beckoning to the side of the stage. Out comes a wrinkling old man with a walker. The cheering and clapping starts up again, but this time more subdued. It's obvious this is a solemn occasion. The bald man steps aside and welcomes Zogot to the pedestal.
'Hello, my broth-' begins Zogot, wheezing. But he's cut off by something – something white – hitting him and exploding. Zogot is blown into the first row, obviously dead. There's a shocked silence and then the screaming begins. Everyone runs for the door in a pack, screaming. The frontrunners of the crowd get through the door but then everyone gets jammed, major. There's screams of pain as people get trampled.
More white grenades are flying into the crowd, blowing holes in it. But the holes are closed again as people rush into it, eager to get to the door. People are being killed off left and right and all I can hear is screaming, everywhere. I'm at the back of the crowd and since I know I can't get through I push my way out so I'm free.
I look for where the grenades are being thrown from, I'm going to stop this mass-murder. I can see they're being thrown from the rafters. If I look closely I can see shadowy figures in the rafters, flinging grenades. I need a rope to get up there, so I look around. I spot a sign, hanging from the roof, held up by ropes. It's about halfway down from the roof and I need a way to get up there. An idea comes to mind, I can use the chairs!
I start piling them up underneath the sign. The tower gets so high I have to climb up the pile with a chair every time and place it there, then climb down again, and repeat. Eventually I get it so I'm about two metres away from the sign. The tower of chairs is wobbling like crazy beneath me and I don't dare to go down to get another chair. I'm gonna have to jump. I steady myself and leap towards the sign.
As I jump the chairs fall down with a thundering racket. I mange to grip on to the bottom of the sign but I'm slipping. I edge my hands over to the side of the sign. I climb up the side of the sign until, agonizingly, I pull myself onto the top. I grab one rope holding the sign up and slowly untie the other one. Even then, I'm not ready for the lurch as one side of the sign swings down. As I'm untying the other side I realise I don't even have to untie the sign, I can just climb up the ropes to the rafters.
I start climbing the rope to the rafters. My arms are aching but I have to keep going. If I don't, I'll never stop this mass-murder. I eventually get to the rafters, my arms feeling like they're going to fall off. I lie down on one of the rafters, taking time to rest and look down at the crowd. It's a horrifying sight, bodies are lying everywhere and over the ground there's a coating of blood and limbs. And there are still people trying to escape.
I stop resting, hugely pissed off. I run across the rafters, heading towards the shadowy figures. One notices me and throws a grenade. I duck and it goes flying into the rafters behind me. I jump at the thrower, and with the added blast of the grenade I land on top of him. I grab him and hold him above my head. Then I throw him to the ground. He screams and there's a smash as he breaks through the wooden floor.
I see the shadow of a figure running up behind me, a knife in his hand. I wait till the perfect time and jab backwards with my elbow, into his stomach. The attacker groans and I spin around. I wrestle the knife from him and slit his throat. A fountain of blood shoots from his throat and he falls off the rafters. (That part of the dream may have been inspired by MoS' Rambo dream.)
The grenade throwers are starting to notice me now, so they surround me on the rafters. But I'm in a position where they can only take me on one at a time. And they can't throw grenades either, they might hit their own people. A large guy runs at me but I quickly dispose of him by throwing my knife at his head. It buries itself in his forehead and he topples off the rafters. As he falls past me I swipe my hand down and snatch out my knife.
There's angry muttering from the grenade throwers now. They're getting beaten by a 16 year old boy! They rush at me one at a time and I dispose of them easily, whether it be a knife in the chest or a kick off the rafters. There used to be 30 of them but now there's only about 16. These are the smart ones, they're backing off, wary of me. I walk up to them slowly, knife in my hand, a madman covered in blood. I just keep walking at them, smiling serenely, like some bad ass villain in the movies who just walk at their victims, knowing eventually they're gonna get them.
I'm backing them into a corner and they all know it. A few of them make a run for it at the same time, all in different directions. I jump at one and kick him to the ground. Then I spin around and throw my knife at the other two. It slits the neck of one and stabs the other one in the chest. They both fall to the ground. Now I've lost my knife. I turn to the cowering group in the corner of the rafters. One person crawls to my feet.
'Please, have mercy,' he croaks.
'What!' I scream at him. 'What about all those people down there!' I say, gesturing towards the bloodbath below. 'Did they get mercy!?' The man cowers and I punch him in the face. There's a crack as his nose breaks. Blood flows down his face.
'Please,' he begs again. I punch him in the face again. And again. And again. All my rage at the bloodbath below going into each punch.
'Please,' he moans for the third time.
'I'll give you mercy!' I scream violently. I kick him off the rafters to the floor below. I look up at the group, my hands covered in blood. I rush at them and they scatter. But not quick enough. I punch and kick them off the rafters until there's none left. At least, until I think there's none left.
'Hello Kieran,' says a voice behind me. I spin around. A short, monk is standing there.
'I see you have killed all my men,' he says, smiling. 'Very clinically, I thought.'
'What do you want!' I scream. 'Why did you have to kill all these innocent people!?'
'I admit the bloodbath was too much,' says the monk. 'But what we want, Kieran . . . is you.'
'Why do you want me,' I say. 'I'm just a 16 year old kid.' I'm not angry anymore, just tired and frustrated.
'Just a 16 year old kid?' questions the monk, raising his eyebrows. 'Do you really believe that, Kieran? After all you did today?'
I look up at him. 'No,' I say. I glare at the monk.
'But I'm not fighting you,' I say. 'That's what you want.'
The monk smiles and nods.
'I knew you were smart,' says the monk. He pulls out a gun from his robe. 'Now come with me . . . or die.' He walks up to me and puts a hand on my shoulder. Then he clicks his fingers. The rafters disappear and I find myself in a forest.
'Welcome to the camp, Kieran,' says the monk. I start hearing someone walk on a wooden floor and the scenery fades around me, to be replaced by the darkness of my eyelids.
(I'm pretty gutted that I got woken up so I tried the DEILD technique. It worked, but I didn't get lucid. But right now I don't feel like typing Part 2 up. It's just so damn long.)
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