Duck Memory

Dream 1/27/2015

We are moving.back into our old house in Frankton, Indiana. Our current house is full of boxes and things to move.

     I recently read a biography on the guys from Duck Dynasty and discovered in a paragraph from the book that they describe living in an old farmhouse in Frankton with a few barns and a white fence. That is the exact description of the house we are moving into. I start to wonder if they once lived in our old-new house.

     While moving, something catches my eye stuffed in the corner next to the concrete porch. It's an old bouncy ball. The name 'Jase' is written on it. Dream ends



I wake up.

Aluminum Bird

Dream 1/27/2015

I'm in a mini van that is full to the brim with people.

     

     We are coming back from the beach. The driver is a woman named Carla. I am not fond of Carla. We do not get along.

     Somewhere along the ride, we get into an argument. It gets so heated that I tell her I am going to shave her stupid hair when she is asleep. She stops the van. Three of us exit the vehicle.

     We make our way to the airport to make other arrangements for travel. The other two make it to their plane but the pilot of my plane wants a permission slip. Angry, I tell her that I am twenty-five years old. She tells me that I will have to ride back in the mini van. 

     I am distraught. I think about how my two friends get a nice plane ride home while I have to endure hours with the woman I insulted and the people who witnessed it. 

     Suddenly, the pilot has a change of heart. She tells me that I can board the plane. She sits me in a wheel chair and ties me up. We board the aluminum bird. Dream ends

I wake up.

Clown Around

Dream 1/14/2015

I've been assigned the part of a clown in an upcoming school program.

     The stage is set up at the front entrance of Wal-Mart. My friend, Tim, helps me put on my costume and paint my face. It comes time for my performance. I appear on stage in front of hundreds of men, women and children. The music plays. I start dancing in a goofy sort of manner, throwing my arms in the air and jumping around. Some people laugh and others awkwardly laugh. The whole performance is not as funny as it should be. 

     A girl from my high school class is sitting about fifteen feet from where I am. She gets out of her seat and runs up and starts dancing with me. I push her to the side and the music changes. Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean' comes on the loud speaker. I start dancing like Michael. I rock the moonwalk. The crowd goes wild. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Black Powder

Nightmare 1/13/2015

A group of black guys don't like the fact that my family is white.

     I try to explain to them that I have no problems with people of color. I even went to prom with a black girl. They don't care. I'm still white. 

     They pull out a gun and aim it my way. I start to walk away slowly, knowing that at any second, I will be dead. I hear many shots go off, but no bullets hit me. I fall to the ground and pretend that I've been hit. I try my best to hold my breath but it is difficult. They know that I am still alive. I jump up and run away. They never catch me.

     They make their way to my sisters house. She calls the police and begs them to come quickly. When they arrive, over an hour later, they find my sister and her entire family murdered. Nightmare ends.

I wake up.

Top Thrills

Dream 1/11/2015

I'm at Cedar Point with my sister, Morgan, her friend, Lyndsay, and my friend, Jordan.

     We walk next to the roller coaster, Top Thrill Dragster. It's a massive roller coaster. A knot forms in my stomach. Morgan and Lyndsay have ridden the ride before and want to ride it again. Jordan is scared to ride it. I tell her that if she will go on it, I'll ride it with her. She agrees to it.

     We stand in line. Morgan and Lyndsay are in front of us. They get on the coaster. As Jordan and I wait in line, we notice that the girls are once again in front of us. I figure they are cutting.

     By the time we get to the actually coaster, the girls have ridden the ride three times. Anyhow, its our turn. But now, Jordan has two jocks who are gonna ride with her. I pout as I walk toward the exit. But I decide to go back. When I do, I see the jocks laying on the ground for whatever reason. Jordan tells me there is an extra seat next to her if I still want to ride the coaster. I agree to it. Dream ends

I wake up.

Flood

Dream 1/7/2015

I'm at my cousin DJ's house.

     My sister, Morgan, is about to run to the store. She is in the car waiting for me. I'm trying to put on my shoes as fast as I can. I look out the window and see the car leaving the driveway. I run outside to try and stop her but she speeds off down the road with DJ in the car.

     I turn around, disappointed, and see a girl I used to know from school. She comes over to me. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a metal, playground slide appears. We play on it for a bit. I ask her what kind of TV shows does she like. She doesn't answer. I sit at the top of the ladder and she climbs up the slide. We lay down, cover up with a blanket and turn on a little, portable TV that is there. I hold her close to me and feel a pitter-patter in my heart.

     Later, when my sister and cousin return, we wonder back inside. All of us are sitting around watching TV when my cousin tells me he wants me to flood the house for fun. I go into the kitchen and clog the sink. I start the water but immediately feel guilty at what I'm about to do. I turn off the water. My cousin walks in. He tells me if I can't do it, then he'll do it. He turns on the faucet and floods the house. For fun. Dream ends

I wake up

Plane Crash

Dream 1/4/2015

A parade is coming through my neighborhood today. 

     It's being put on by the local elementary school students. I leave my mom, who is with me, and run ahead to see the rest of the festivities. 

     I run into some friends who I haven't seen in a long while, Phil and Jake. I stand around talking for a bit. Jake tells me that he has recently been to Sri Lanka and discovered that an avalanche will soon be coming to the country. He sounds regrettable about the whole thing. 

     As we continue in our conversation, something catches my attention out of the corner of my eye. I give my full attention to it. It's a plane falling from the sky! Tumbling down through the air until it hits the earth. BOOM! A large explosion comes. Everyone is startled. Panic ensues. I look up to find many objects falling all around. People run in every direction.

     The only thought that comes to my mind is my mom. I run back toward the direction in which I left her, covering my head so not to be injured from the falling debris. I look up and run forward. Look up and run forward. I see her in the distance. Our eyes meet. We find each other, neither of us is harmed.

     We make it back to our house and find our way to the basement. We figure we'll be safe there. A though begins to build in both our minds. My sister and her four kids were out to McDonald's when the plane crash happened. Is she alright? As soon as silence fills the outside air, we leave in search for my sister.

     We get to McDonald's and see her car. It's empty. We search the area until finally we see her. She steps out of a friends car along with her four kids. They are safe. Dream ends

I wake up

Sharks!

Dream 1/2/2015

I am on a field trip.

My teacher, Miss George, has rented a yacht and taken the class out to the ocean deep. Underneath the boat is a swarm of giant great white sharks. Miss George tells us that we have to swim with the sharks. We suit up and jump in. I swim to the bottom. A shark lunges at me with an open mouth. He misses and swims over me. I can't believe his size. I freak out and swim up to the surface, hoping that no sharks follow me. 

I make my way to the boat. I say to the teacher, "did you know that these sharks could eat us?" She answers, "yes." Dream ends.

I wake up

Elevator Pitch

A Dream From My Past

I run into an old friend from high school one day.

Josh.

He is walking toward an elevator. I run after him to catch up on life. I reach him. We stand in an elevator with several strangers. The doors close. The elevator starts moving downward. Josh immediately hits the "STOP" button on the panel. The elevator comes to an abrupt stop. I'm standing in the corner watching, trying to figure out what is happening. 

Josh pulls out a clear bag full of white powder. Cocaine. Everyone in the elevator pulls out cash. Josh says, "Okay, everyone pass your money to the right." They follow his command. He starts passing around small bags of the cocaine. 

When business is finished, he presses a button to continue the elevators descent. The doors open and Josh exits. I follow him.

In front of us is a group of church goers wearing christian t-shirts. Somebody points out Josh as being a drug dealer. One of the church goers, an old lady, walks over to Josh and starts yelling and demeaning him. Josh doesn't respond. I jump in between them and face the lady. I yell back at her in anger, "If you people would stop condemning people and actually start trying to help them, maybe their wouldn't be so much bad in the world." Dream ends.

I wake up

SlenderMan

Dream 12/22/2014

Two men ride their motorcycles down a windy, country road.

They crash. 

One of the men is dead. The other has some serious problems. He was decapitated. His skin and guts in his mid-section are missing, all you can see are his bones. In the accident, he grew an extra pair of legs. He is in pain because his hip bones are separated and he needs something to keep them together. Somebody brings a big, long chain. They chain his bones together. Everything is good. 

He walks down the road, an extra person tall, holding his head in his hands above his neck. Dream ends.

I wake up

It Happened On Sesame Street

Dream 12/8/2014

My friend Derek and I own a hot dog vending business. 

We decide to set up in front of a Starbucks where much foot traffic will take place due to a wedding. In order for the people attending the wedding to get to the reception, they must cross our path. 

Derek starts to set up the cart while I go into Starbucks and ask permission to set up in front of their store. I know the manager. I think he'll let me. I sit at the coffee bar. He comes over to me. I start to ask him but he interrupts me and tells me how much he likes my dad. He goes on and on. Every time I try to bring up the subject of the hot dog cart, he starts talking about my dad. It's hopeless. 

I leave.

I step out the front door to find the hot dog cart gone. I ask Derek about it. He tells me that his mom came and hitched it and took it to Shelbyville, Indiana. I ask him how that's possible when he was grilling on it. He couldn't have stopped her. 

He calls her. She brings it back.

I go back into Starbucks to ask the manager for permission once more. But once again he can't stop talking about my dad. He shows me a picture of him and my dad years earlier.

I leave Starbucks and walk down the street to get some air. Down the road are a line of row houses with turn of the century architecture. A bunch of people are making a commotion. "Look, it's sesame street," one man says. Sure enough, the street sign does say Sesame Street. Good to know. I always wondered how to get to Sesame Street.

I walk back to Derek. The hot dog cart is missing once more. Same thing. His mom took it. 

I decide to walk into the wedding reception, which has turned into a one woman show put on by Whitney Houston. She's standing in a wrestling ring singing about how she is in love with Quentin Tarantino. Dream ends.

I wake up

Crimes Unknown

Dream 11/20/2014

I'm in prison for crimes unknown. 

     The guards are opening the cell doors one at a time for the prisoners to go to breakfast. Prisoners are walking by our cell in droves. Our cell door is not open yet. A few tall, muscular and hostile-looking prisoners come by our cell and taunt my cellmate. They laugh at the fact that we have a welcome mat in our cell. I call one of the guys "dumbass." He tells me that he is going to beat me up when the door opens. I stand close to the door, I don't back down. It opens. I walk right up to them. They beat me up. They beat me up good.

     Off to breakfast or lunch or whatever it is, I find that the only thing the prison serves it's prisoners is ice cream. I grab a pint of strawberry.

     I go to the wardens office. We have something in common, we both attended The Honor Academy. We become friends. We talk about The HA and almost nothing else.

     My sister, Morgan, becomes imprisoned for crimes unknown. She becomes my cellmate. Morgan, the warden and I sit in our cell eating ice cream and talking about the year we spent in the Honor Academy. Dream ends

I wake up

Still Alive

Dream 11/15/2014

     My sister lives on the 75th floor of the south tower of the World Trade Centers. A plane crashes into the tower.

     I rush to her apartment to warn her. She is with her boyfriend. I tell her that we have to leave, a plane has crashed into the building and now it's on fire. 

     She doesn't seem to mind. She tells me that she's just going to stay there until everything blows over. I can no longer stay. I leave her behind. I make it back to the ground and watch as the south tower collapses with my sister in it. 

     My sister walks out, not a bruise on her person. We walk to the north tower which has smoke billowing out the top from the plane. Everyone is running out. My sister tells the security guard that she has left something in her apartment on the 75th floor and she needs to go get it. The security guard tells her that chips are on her left and soda is on her right.

     We start up. I tell her that we need to take the elevator so we can get up there and back down fast before this building falls. She wants to take the stairs. We take the stairs. About mid-way up, the walls start to shake around us. The building starts to collapse, and we go with it.

     We live. Sitting with the security guards outside, we watch as many other buildings fall to the ground. Our mom comes rushing out of the distance. We are so excited to see her. She is happy to see that we are still alive. Dream ends

I wake up

Roller Coaster Tycoon

Dream 11/14/2014

     I am walking through the backyard of my high school, Liberty Christian. Recently they have started building an amusement park. There are a few roller coasters and other small rides. 

     I test out the coasters to see if they are legit, if they are any good. They look ferocious from the ground but the rides are quite tame. More for kids than anything else. 

     I walk down the property a little, where I am not supposed to go. I find a smaller carnival ride, much like the "zipper" that you would find at a small town carnival. A lady is letting her kids ride it. Nobody else is around.

     She tells me that I am not supposed to be over here and that I need to be getting back to where the rest of the school is. I ignore her. I start talking about how this school needs to get some decent roller coasters if they ever plan to make money. I point to a large empty patch of land. "They can build there," I say. You gotta spend money to make money. Dream ends

I wake up

Prom Night

Dream 10/31/2014

It's prom night.

     This prom night is dedicated to my friends parents because they are dying of cancer.

     The way it works tonight is the guy stands by the right side of the entrance and a girl who wants to be with him for the night goes and stands by the left side. The guy then takes the girls arm and they walk inside.

     It's my turn to see what girl I end up with. My fear is that nobody will choose me. I stand by the right side of the entrance and wait. Silence. Eventually a girl named Katy comes and stands by the left side. I take her arm and we walk inside to prom.

     Now inside, we're walking around aimlessly. We find where couples are getting their pictures taken. We step in front of the camera. I pull Katy to me and hold her tight. Some of the other couples hoot and holler. As we walk away, my friend James says, "what happened to the guy I knew at the Honor Academy?" (an internship I attended from 2008-2009) I respond to him, "I think he's still back at the HA."

     Katy and I trek to the front of the auditorium. It's the size of four football fields. It takes us forever but we finally get there. At the front of the auditorium, a Broadway play is being performed. I guess Katy gets bored because now she wants to walk to the back of the auditorium. She walks ahead of me. 

I lay down on the floor, get up and walk to the back.

     I find Katy in a little open room with graffiti covering the walls. I notice one of the sayings on the wall has my name in it. I sit down with her. She looks upset. I try to hold her but she pulls away. She says, " I'm mad at you because I graffiti'd this wall for you and you didn't even notice." I'm dumbfounded. Where did she get the spray paint. I respond, "I didn't even know that this was you who did this." She's not satisfied with my response so she gets up and walks away. I only have one lingering thought running through my head, women are crazy. Dream ends

I wake up 

The Demon Hunter

Dream 10/28/2014

     I'm running around the city at night when I get a call from Brian Warner, aka Marilyn Manson. He tells me that he needs help. A blue, ghost-like mist creature with a grandma voice, his words, is following him. 

The reason he is calling me for help is because my friend Sam is a demon hunter. More of a charity. People call him for help and he goes and murders the demon that is trying to murder the voice on the other side of the phone.

     So I start running toward Sam and I call him as well. He picks up the phone. I tell him that Marilyn Manson called and he needs his help. As I'm talking to Sam, I look behind me and notice a blue, ghost-like mist following me. I increase my speed. 

     I know where Marilyn is staying. I'm about to pass his place but I don't stop because I have a sneaking suspicion that he is possessed by now. As I pass I look. You know in the Exorcist after the girl with the demon inside of her kills the one priest and the other priest is watching her. She is sitting up on her knees throwing her arms in the air and growling into the sky, that's what Marilyn was doing, so incidentally, I kept running. 

     Eventually, I find Sam on a beach near a bridge. We start going over the game plan. He tells me that he wishes he would've given more of his business cards out to people. Dream ends

I wake up

Oil Owl

Dream 10/25/2014

     I've graduated. Whether it's high school or college, I have no idea, but I've graduated. The class has dinner together as a final farewell. One of our teachers, Gwen Stefani, comes and sits with us. My friend, Tim, and Gwen really get along. I'm jealous. I strike up a conversation with her. I ask her where she is from. She tells me that she is from a small beach community in California. I try to tell her how I would love to live near a beach but all of a sudden Tim interrupts me as if I had nothing interesting to say. He and her start talking again.

     It's time to go home. Home for me is in Indiana and although I don't know exactly where I am, it's most likely Oklahoma or northern Texas. Tim and I have motorcycles. My friend Derek is riding with me and Tim is driving a few girls home. Where does he get all the luck? I check out both of the bikes. My bike is a MANUAL 3. Tim's bike is an OIL OWL. Without further ado, we start the long ride home. Dream ends

I wake up

Farrow

Dream 10/25/2014

     Today at Liberty, we are fighting. We assemble in the gym to watch the fighting commence. I'm paired up with a big, black guy named Derek. He doesn't like me and he isn't shy about it. He talks about how he's going to pound my face in.

     I sit up in the bleachers and wait my turn to fight. Derek is on the gym floor watching the other fights close up. He is wearing a black hat and a black hooded sweatshirt with letters in red reading, "FARROW." I have no idea what farrow means but I know that I'm up next to fight.

     Derek and I face each other with intensity. All of a sudden, I blackout. I wake up to an empty gym, except for three guys, one of whom is Derek. He helps me up. The three guys and I quickly enter into a game of leapfrog. Dream ends

I wake up

I Will Always Remember

(I have had several dreams about September 11, 2001 in the past. The following is the most realistic of those dreams.)

Dream 10/23/2014

     I'm in a bus that's driving through New York City. It's crowded. Full of people. 

All of a sudden, a violent tremor-like wave shoots through the bus. People fall from their seats to the center aisle. Bodies lay on each other. Men, women and children. Without warning, we are covered in ice. (This is the part of the dream that I don't understand.)

     People in the area are freezing to death. Many of them take their last breath in front of me. Adrenaline rushes through my blood. This can't be my end. I push through the crowd to escape the bus. I make it out. The ground is covered in ice. I am naked and cold. I start to run. I don't stop. Eventually, I find myself alone, but I don't stop because I know if I stop, I will die. I run all the way to my apartment.

My roommate isn't here. She should have been home by now. 

     I hear footsteps on the stairs outside my apartment. I look out the window. An older couple, probably in their sixties, and a younger couple, in their late twenties, are walking up the wooden stairs to my apartment. I open the door before I get there. They are too calm for whats happened. They ask if I have any room for them to stay. I tell them I have lodging available. The older gentleman tells of how nice it will be to sleep in a comfy bed tonight. I let him know that I only have one bed but they can still stay if they want. They come inside.

     They begin to tell me how they are here for the festivities downtown. I tell them I think the festivities are cancelled. They are a little bit upset. They ask why. I tell them that terrorists have hijacked two airplanes and driven them into the World Trade Centers. Their faces widen in shock. They stare at me but say nothing. I walk over to the window and open the curtains. You can see the twin towers from my apartment. Smoke billows from a damaged part of the top of the buildings. I can hear several sirens off in the distance.

     I leave my apartment building. I drive toward the towers, maybe to see if their is anything I can do to help. I am very close to the towers. As I am driving, I look up at the south tower. It begins to collapse. I quickly turn my car around, almost hitting several cars in the process. I push the gas pedal all the way to the floor to get away. The north tower falls. But all of a sudden, another building to my right starts to fall, then a building to my left. I drive my car the best I can to avoid being taken out. Several buildings collapse around me, seven altogether. I don't know if i'm going to live through this but eventually the devastation comes to a still. I drive forward. Dream ends

I wake up 

The Dead Walking

Dream 10/20/2014

     Two of my friends died. Jake and Emily. I'm about a football field's distance away from the burial site. I didn't go because it was my fault that they died. From afar, I release life into Emily. A girl comes running my direction. "She's alive! Emily's alive!" I decide to go to the burial site. Emily has been risen from the dead. Jake is still lifeless in his casket.

     I turn to someone standing next to me and say, "I'm going to tell Jake to wake up and when I do, he is going to come back to life, watch." I turn to Jake who is lying in a foggy clear casket. You can make out his body through the covering. I say to Jake, "wake up, Jake." The lifeless body begins to move. Then Jake pushes open the casket door and a scene from out of the Bible begins to take form. Dream ends

I wake up