Natural Selection: Reb and Vodka

A Dream From My Past

I'm back at my old high school. Tonight there is an event out in the parking lot. Hundreds of people are in attendance.

I am friends with Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the Columbine shooters. They escaped that shooting with their identities in tact. Nobody knows they did it. As Eric, Dylan, a bunch of guys and I walk into the school, I tell Eric I liked his white t-shirt and black pants.. He immediately shooshes me. "Nobody knows," he says.

Later on, outside, when hundreds are gathered in one place, Eric and Dylan light a fuse that quickly travels around the parking lot toward the large crowd. BOOM! As soon as the bomb goes off, Eric and Dylan start shooting. I run inside the school and head toward the opposite side exit doors. I run out of the building and see a police car. I stop him and jump in. I tell him what's going on, who is involved. I tell him that 81 people were killed. He drives off, away from the scene of the crime. Dream ends.

I wake up

Sleepover

Dream 12/22/2016

I'm at a sleepover at my friend Aaron's house. Around ten other guys are there as well.

Most of the night we hang out in his room playing video games. I wake up the next morning and the room is empty, I can tell that everyone is in the living room. I get up and join them. They are playing Pokemon, the video game. They constantly switch turns with each other. There is a Japanese boy on the couch next to me trying to hold my hand. I don't know who he is.

While we're playing, I look out the window and realize that I parked my Jeep too much in the road and I'm afraid that someone will hit it. I head back to the bedroom to find my clothes. I search for an hour for my brown cargo pants and my gray t-shirt, but am unable to find them. Eventually I give up and go outside with the clothes I have on. I walk up to a red Jeep but it is not mine. I start walking back to the house and Aaron's sister and her friend tell me that they towed my Jeep because I did not have the required neck brace for the vehicle. I shoot out a few expletives and head back inside.

Aaron's mom is giving us all rides home. "You're gonna drive me all the way to my house?" I ask. She says that she will, that it's only five miles away. Everyone laughs. Shes mistaken. That's my old house, now I live two hours away, but I don't tell her that. We get into the van. It's packed with everyone inside. Aaron can't fit, so he hangs on to the outside. As his mom gets the car up to high speeds, Aaron can no longer hang on and he falls off, his face slams against the ground. As we speed off, I feel like I can see him get up, but it's very far away, I could be wrong.

As we ride in the van, I start singing "Maybe This Christmas" and Josh, the boy next to me, starts to sing the harmony parts. Dream ends.

I wake up

Family Guy

Dream 12/15/2016

I'm in a large room with Seth Macfarlane. He's drawing characters from Family Guy for a future episode. Some are drawn and some are claymation. I tell him that I've always thought Lois Griffin was hot.

It's time for voice recording for the episode. A guy in a tinted window gives Seth the go ahead. He starts. I can't make even the slightest peep. A girl walks into the room abruptly and realizes shes in the wrong room and walks back out. Seth gives me a look of annoyance. I return it. Dream ends.

I wake up

Cult Fiction II

Dream 12/8/2016

My sister works for a secretive, cult-like company that produces books. We plan on breaking in and stealing things. If we get caught by the security guards, the rule is if we hand him a book, then he has to let us go. Before we leave, her friend comes home from the cult with a ton of cocaine. My sister tries to perform a quick intervention. All the while, "Give Me Novocaine" by Green Day plays in the background.

We finally make it to the building, but in the end all we take is some bottled water from a vending machine. Dream ends.

I wake up

Boogeyman

A Dream From My Past

Eerie noises are coming from the bedroom closet. The kids are trembling under their sheets. Suddenly, something comes from the closet and snatches the children and drags them into the darkness.

My brother-in-law and I chase them down. We discover a world behind my closet. We walk into places where we should not be. We run into a giant with strange, glowing eyes. He looks like Sid Vicious from WWE. Camera crews and reporters follow him. He talks about kids. I pull a loaded gun and shoot him. It doesn't effect him. He tells us that we're not allowed back here anymore.

We stop by the front desk. The secretary asks if we are gay or equal partners. I tell her I'm not gay. I ask her what she thinks a woman is. She says if she wants to be a woman she must become a witch. Dream ends.

I wake up

Cheap Amusements

A Dream From My Past

I'm walking through an abandoned amusement park. I enter a store, which looks like it's been decorated by the elderly. Ugly wallpaper hangs on the walls, the shelves of the store are pretty vacant.

I look out the window and see a few police officers heading toward the front door. The officer in front is Rick Grimes. They come in to chill for a bit.

Birds are flying around the ceiling of the shop. One bird somehow gets trapped in my shirt, is frantically trying to escape. Rick comes over and gives me a hand, helps free the bird. Dream ends.

I wake up

Luck Be A Lady

A Dream From My Past

      I am involved in a talent show. We are three contestants left in the show and the next round is "50's Music." We have to dress and sing as a person from the era. Simon Cowell is one of the judges.

     Our dressing room is an old gas station, but instead of aisles of candy, chips, and car accessories. The room is filled with clothing and props, it's sort of thrown together disorderly like a thrift shop. Time is running out and I can't come up with an idea for my song.

     But instantly I see a fedora laying on a shelf. I grab it, thinking that I may be able to get away with doing a Frank Sinatra song. I search the aisles and find a three piece suit. Perfect. Now I am ready. The only Sinatra song that I can ponder up is "Luck Be A Lady." Dream ends.

I wake up

Demonic Tronic

Dream 1/11/2016

A man stands up on stage. His face is painted like the wrestler "Sting." His face changes like a picture slideshow, every three seconds his head is something different. With each new change, his face becomes scarier and more creepy until he has long, matted, hair, pale skin, cat's eyes and slobber dripping from his mouth, running down his chin. He goes by the name, Marilyn Manson. He and his band play. As he moves eerily on stage, a commentator talks about how he is demon possessed. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Lawbreaker

Dream 11/1/16

I'm driving with some friends to a mall. When approaching an intersection, the light goes from green to yellow. I speed up. Red. I stop before the white line, but then decide that I don't want to wait, so I drive through the red light, somehow avoiding a collision. I'm terrified that a cop will pull me over.

We stop at Arby's to satisfy our hunger. I order a loaded Italian combo, but instead of curly fries I get a large order of Jalapeno Bites, a Mountain Dew to drink and a cherry turnover. My friends are standing by a coat rack flexing, talking about how they both have girly arms. After we get done with our food, I walk up to pay for the meal. The line is long, my friends convince me that I've already paid, but in the back of my mind, I know that I haven't. Once again, I am afraid that the cops are coming to get me. Dream ends.

 I wake up

Leap

Dream 10/17/2016

     A guy that I work with, a person that my mind created and I walk down to the bridge that crosses the Ohio river. We dare each other to jump. It's a 70-ft drop. My work buddy has a leg cast that covers the entirety of his leg. He climbs up onto the edge of the bridge and makes the leap to the water below. Me and the remaining guy don't think he made it. The 70-ft drop was iffy enough, but the fact that his leg was already messed up brings doubt to my mind. We hear cheering below. We look down and see our friend climb up onto a smaller bridge, raise his arms in the air and give us the "okay." Dream ends.

I wake up

Bigfoot Comes To Manhattan

Dream 10/12/2016

Standing on some large rocks near a harbor, along with a group of classmates, I look into a nearby forest and see three Bigfoot. They aren't the size that I expected, quite small actually. I start cautiously walking over to where the wooded area begins. A few men from my class run directly to the Sasquatches. The animals become territorial and start to growl. As the men run back to the class, I look one Sasquatch in the eye and beat my chest. It becomes violent and runs toward me. I run away, passing my class up. The beast retreats back to the forest.

As my class walks behind me, I start climbing the World Trade Center, but notice that one of the towers is laying down and pieces of the building is broken up. I hear newscasters talk about the towers and an event that happened or is happening. I climb down and find my car. I drive away from the WTC, but as I do, I feel a rumbling. In the rear view mirror, I can see the remaining tower collapsing and a wave of darkness rushing toward my moving vehicle. The cloud of dust and debris overtakes me. I can't see enough to drive, so I stop completely.

Suddenly, I am no longer on a street but in a luxurious hallway. Possibly a fancy hotel. As I exit the building, I run into an old friend, someone I haven't seen in years. He is holding a new baby. The baby has brown, almost burnt skin and several white spots along her body. Actually, to be completely honest, she looks no different than a large, soft pretzel. My friend and I finish talking and then I exit the building. Dream ends.

I wake up

10 Seconds

Dream 10/6/2016

I took a 10 second piss. But it wasn't a dream. But it was. But it won't be. Make sense? Of course not. Dream ends.

I wake up

Red Balloon

Dream 8/30/2016

My sister, brother-in-law, nephews and me are driving a pickup truck down the road that runs past my childhood church.

My sister and nephews are in the cab of the truck, while I sit in the bed and my brother-in-law, Chad, is floating, crossed legged, down the road behind us. I hold a red balloon by the string in my hands. I slowly release the string little bits at a time until I am at the end. The balloon catches the wind and begins to pull me out of the truck.

A white car is driving right behind Chad and is annoyed at the pace we are going. It speeds up and swerves around us like a drunk, crazy person. I let go of my balloon. My sister stops the truck. I jump out and chase the car as far as I can screaming, "You piece of shit! YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" The car drives off into the distance.

I begin to walk back when I see Chad lying lifeless on the pavement. Dream ends.

I wake up

Blood Curdling

Dream 8/22/2016

I'm working at IHOP, being trained as an egg cook. A young, Mexican man is teaching me his culinary ways when all of a sudden, I hear the sound of a girl screaming at the top of her lungs. Dream ends.

I wake up

Gonna Make You Sweat

Nightmare 8/18/2016

     I'm eating at a restaurant late at night. The place is packed with people. I finish up and walk outside to my Jeep. I find it strange that the only vehicle in the parking lot is my Jeep, however, the restaurant is full.

     I go to start my car and it won't turn. It's dead. I walk inside and ask a man, sitting by himself, if I can get a jump. He says, "ok," wipes his face with a napkin and walks outside with me. A few guys follow. He asks me, "so you need gas money?" I tell him that I need him to jump start my Jeep. I ask him if he has jumper cables. When we walk out to the parking lot, we find my Jeep already started and turned sideways inside the parking space. I'm suddenly overcome with fear, I know something is wrong. One of the guys climbs in the vehicle while me and the others stand back. Suddenly a person appears from the darkened back seat with a butchers knife and stabs the man in the back. The man screams. The person in the shadows holds the knife in the restaurant goers back and starts to twist it. The man in the front seat screams even more so. Dream ends.

I wake up

Carrey Me Home

Dream 8/17/2016

I'm sitting at a picnic table with Jim Carrey. I tell him that my mom loves the movies "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Dumb and Dumber."

With a confused look on his face, he asks, "so which of my movies do conservatives like?" I tell him the two I already mentioned. He continues, "and liberals?" I know the answer but I can't remember the title. I fumble my words for a moment when Jimbo realizes the answer. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," he says, still a confused look on his face.

Jim and I enter a building where a reception is currently happening. I coach him, "now remember, go up there and do some dialogue from 'Dumb and Dumber.'"

Suddenly, Jim turns into my friend, Joel, and the reception turns into a quiet funeral. Joel gets up on the stage and starts in on his comedy routine, "When the goin' gets goin'," he says, "you gotta keep on goin'." Dream ends

I wake up

Planes Walker

Dream 8/2/2016

The town I live in doesn't have any automobiles. A few friends and I build a life-sized, working tie fighter out of paper. When it's finished I fly it down a country road toward the gate to another dimension. I stop right before the gate and meet with some friends.

A buddy of mine complains that his tie fighter isn't accurate enough. We all walk through the gate, which looks like many trees huddled together. As we go, I look up and it looks as if every ray of sun has gathered in one spot. My friend tells me not to go to the sun spot, if I do, I will die like all the others. We make it to the other side. It doesn't look much different than where I came from. Fields of green and gold. I see a few farm houses off in the distance. I think I am in Vermont. Dream ends.

I wake up

Castlevania

Dream 7-26-2016

Today is special. We've all, friends and family, gathered at my friends ranch for the day
to have a good time. It's time to take this party up a notch. My friends dad orders a large house-like water slide structure. It looks like a castle. To get to the top, one can either attempt the two yellow ladders reaching five or six stories up. Or you can walk the ever long ramp to the top.
Around fifty teenagers and young adults start up the ramps to the top. There are several pathways. I take one in which I am by myself for the most part.

The structure doesn't seem at all like a water slide. The hallways are long, wide and tall. And everything is made of stainless steel. We get to the top and try to slide down but the water isn't working. Water is supposed to fall from the ceiling all through-out the steel caste, but it doesn't causing everyone who tries to come to a screeching hault.

So instead of sliding, we make the water slide into a house, calling dibs on the rooms we like and taking ownership of it. I get a small room in the corner away from all the noise. It's comfy and cozy with a nice view of the gas station outside. I walk down the hallway and find a row of beds full of jocksters holding their trophies, as if that isn't cliche. I tell them that this is beginning to look like a frat house.

I walk outside and find lines of people playing catch. My dad is at the end of the row tossing a ball with one of the more troubled individuals here. My dad throws the ball a little too hard and it falls into a large bush. This kid goes to find it. Dream ends.

I wake up

Titanic

A dream from my past

A museum is excavating the historic, sunken steamer at the bottom of the north Atlantic, and piece by piece, tearing her apart to be rebuilt on land.

They request the help of several school kids at my elementary school. The kids line up in the shape of the ship to give the experts a visual of where the pieces should be assembled.

I am wholly against the idea of destroying the ship to rebuild it. I stand in the midst of the children and the museum staff and speak my mind on the matter. "You are grave robbers," I say, "that was the last place that many people saw before their death and you're going to take it from them. They're still down there. Their bones and dust is settled all around that ship and you're going to take it and all it's valuables and leave their remains in the deep darkness til the end of time." I shame them for what they're doing, bunch of grave robbers. Dream ends.

I wake up

The Secret Room

Dream 6/18/2016

I once heard that there was a secret room in my school that had been blocked off. Today I'm going to find it.

I grab the blueprints to my school and start investigating. I search and search but cannot find the hidden room. Then suddenly a man knocks down some drywall, revealing the room behind it. We walk inside and find years of school artifacts long forgotten. We rummage through everything. I find pictures of the old school administrator who hasn't been there for years. I find the podium that speakers used to stand at during chapels. I find my mom's Prius, WHAT?!? What is my mom's car doing in this secret room that's been sealed off for years. I look in the trunk of her car and find baby kittens. Their eyes are barely open. Right then, my aunt walks in and tells us that we must leave, "this room is not a place that we are allowed to be," she says. I ask why? What's wrong with us just looking at all this old stuff? It seems that whenever kids want to do something fun, adults come in and ruin it. She doesn't have an answer to my question, so we continue to look. Dream ends.

I wake up

The Dark Road Home

Dream 6/18/2016

A few of my classmates and me are coming back from a field trip. 

We stop at a gas station. The teacher asks me to go in and get her a bottle of Bud Light and a pack of ice. I go inside and look for both items. I look through all the beer and can't find one bottle of Bud Light. I ask an employee for help. He points to a refrigerator at the end of the store and tells me that the beverage is in there. I look in the frig' but there is nothing but bait and frozen meat. I keep looking. Dennis from my dialysis clinic appears next to me. We greet each other. I tell him what I'm looking for. He grabs a six pack of 8 oz beers that aren't Bud Light. He takes three bottles out, opens one and hands them to me. I give up and head to the cashier. The cashier rings me up and asks me if that's all, I tell him to hang on and I grab a Snickers. "Now I'm good." 

Some girls from the van come in and grab the stuff off the counter and head back outside as if they were annoyed that I was taking so long. I run outside and tell them that I forgot the ice. They become upset and run back inside. 

The teacher is taking each of the students home. We head out to Middletown to my house. The road is closed so we have to park and walk. We start down the dark country road. A car crashes through the "Road Closed" sign. Then another car does the same thing. I tell the teacher that they didn't put enough reflectors on the signs. We turn down my road. I talk about my neighborhood as if it's haunted. Each house has it's own haunting. Some houses we see ghosts, others we just hear noises. But the house next to mine is the one I'm most concerned about. A dog lives there, I believe it's demon possessed. We quietly pass by the house, but not without waking the beast. We hear the growl, then we see it's bloodthirsty eyes. Everyone is scared including myself. Dream ends.

I wake up

Billie Jean

Dream 6/18/2016

My class is preparing to give a performance to our families. The principal of our school is teaching us the dance routine to the song "Billie Jean" by the king of pop himself, Michael Jackson.

The entire class stands on stage as the audience awaits the dance. The music starts. We all begin to move. I realize that I don't have a fedora, which is essential to the song. I go on without it. I learned this dance perfectly back in the early 2000's with my cousin DJ, but the dance the principal taught is slightly watered down. I accidentally revert back to the original dance rather than the watered down version and begin to mess things up on stage. Everyone starts to forget their moves and the whole performance comes to a grinding halt. Dream ends.

I wake up

Vacation

Dream 6/7/2016

On a trip to Florida, I discover an awkward secret about my father.

We've rented cabins on the beach. We're staying in the same cabin that my dad stayed in on his vacation not long ago. While sitting on a boulder in the front yard, a blonde girl approaches me. She's a local. Instantly, I recognize that she's the girl my dad's been sleeping with. My dad is in his late fifties. This girl looks younger than me. It can't be love, my dad's not that nice. Gold digger, definitely.

I avoid the girl and walk to the back of the cabin onto a deck overlooking the ocean. The ocean will be my therapy. The way in which the waves crash onto the sand, without a break, and the seagulls speaking their minds off in the distance, somehow brings me peace. But the sunset is my craving. Watching it go to sleep under the green waters is like watching a thousand romances. It warms my skin  Dream ends.

I wake up

The Fourth Kind

Nightmare 5/31/2016

I live in a house in the countryside.

Aliens allow me to fly. I spread my arms and fly around the town, looking at old churches and schools. I come back home.

It's dusk. My sister, Kristen, is walking the dogs down the gravel driveway. The rest of my family is inside the house. The electricity cuts out and then comes right back on again . I hear my mom's blood curdling scream. I look toward the house. The shades are closed so I can't see inside. I look over toward Kristen, She shoots into the sky like something took her by the arm and yanked her out of this world at light speed.

Something strange is happening to me. I know that I'm about to be abducted. I hear the sound of my surroundings speeding up. A force grabs my body and I too am taken. Although the view from outer space is beautiful, the fear I feel is unlike anything I've experienced before. Dream ends.

I wake up

Beam Me Up

Dream 5/26/2016

I live in an advanced age. It is now possible to travel to other planets with ease, like you were taking a weekend trip to the beach.

My friend, Gary, and I travel to another planet. On this planet there are countries and continents just like Earth. When there, we take a bus to the different towns in the area. I tell Gary of my brilliant idea to stuff sand, dirt and water from different planets into glass bottles, label them and sell them.

We travel back to Earth. We shop at Lowe's. The entire time we are there, I am holding something in my hand. I can't quite remember what it was, but I think it was a doll. Strange, huh? Dream ends.

I wake up

The War in the Stars

Dream 5/21/2016

I'm in the field next to my old church in Anderson, Indiana. In between the church and the woods, I pitch a tent. A fancy igloo, no ice. The pastors daughter, Carrie, visits my igloo. She tells me about her new house, which she built where the gazebo used to be. We decide to go see Star Wars: Episode 8. The movie theater is where her house is. In the movie, Lando Calrissian has converted to the dark side and is now a storm trooper. He's played by Denzel Washington. Darth Vader is the main villain of the film, which is odd considering he's supposed to be dead.

Next, we watch Star Wars: Episode 9 which is entitled, "The Hard One." During the movie, the theater workers pause the film and demand our attention at the front of the room. They tell us that the upcoming scene has been difficult for some viewers, causing extreme nausea and sickness. It would help if we put a brass key next to our head during the scene and that will eliminate any chance of sickness. Carrie leaves the theater, I think to go find a key in her car. They resume the movie. The scene is of Luke Skywalker in a strange ship gunner pod. It's extremely fast. He is strapped into a speed absorbent harness. People get sick because the speed of the moment feels real. They feel as if they are there. Although it doesn't show, I think that Luke dies in this episode, considering it's called, "The Hard One." Dream ends.

I wake up

Starstruck

Dream 5/17/2016

It's my birthday today.

My family throws a party for me. People are inside and outside the house. Out of nowhere, Christopher Nolan shows up. He is one of my Film heroes. I want so badly to hang out with him but I don't want to appear like a fan, so I barely talk to him. I want to show him a movie that I made. I show some other people but realize that it's really bad. Chris leaves. Dream ends.

I wake up

Creature Feature

Dream 5/17/2016

I'm in my high school again.

I'm in a downstairs classroom, the high school math room, when I realize that I've forgotten my book bag in the classroom above us. I go to retrieve it. As I walk up the stairs, I notice everyone from the class following me. We switch to the upstairs classroom.

We're outside in the school parking lot at night, like we used to be after returning from far away games. A non-human creature appears. It looks vaguely similar to the creature from "Jeepers Creepers." We chase him off the property. While everyone celebrates the victory, another student and I walk into the school. We think we're the only people in the building, but we're not. We see the creature from outside going down into the basement. In the basement, we keep a prisoner, a bad man, locked away. The creature picks a fight with the jailed man, but everyone from outside now knows whats going on and comes inside to catch the predator, but he gets away. Dream ends.

I wake up

The Wilderness Trip

Dream 5/16/2016

My friend, Sam, is on a trip to the wilderness in the east United States.

I'm playing Minecraft in a hotel room with my friend Derek. I call Sam to see how his trip is going. He tells me that he killed a snake and kept it's bones for decoration. I am now in a car with Sam. I see the snake bones dangled from his rear view mirror. I ask him if he killed it himself, he dances around the answer. I ask him how he skinned it, did he use the hot water theory or the cold ice theory.

I am now back in the hotel room. Derek is now on the trip with Sam. They are on a bus. we are all on the phone together. Derek says, "Keith from Louisiana wants to know if we would want to play Minecraft or watch some movies. Sam answers, "me." Dream ends.

I wake up

"..And I'm all out of bubblegum."

Dream 5/10/2016

I am the son of the king. I am the prince of a 2 acre property. I don't rule with an iron fist. Mostly I sleep. The townsfolk seem to like me.

One day, impostors from another territory cross the borders of my kingdom and start murdering my people. I hold a meeting atop a large stack of bleachers. I yell out to the town, "I am the prince of this town and if you are an impostor, (I grab a shotgun from the man standing next to me) I will kill you myself." My people are on board as well. They take out anyone who doesn't belong here. The town giant helps too. Life eventually returns to normal. Dream ends.

I wake up

Late Fee

Dream 5/10/2016

My sisters, brother-in-law, and me are at the Middletown, Indiana public library.

I walk the aisles of the library with a few books in my hand. A man who I don't recognize comes and takes the books out of my hands and says that I can't have them. I'm a little confused by the incident.

My sisters and I go to the front desk to check out all of our books. The librarian tells my sister that she has a five-hundred dollar late fee. My sister asks her what happens if she doesn't pay. The librarian says that they will sue her for the money. We decide to use my other sisters account to check out the books. Dream ends.

I wake up

Family Reunion

Dream 5/10/2016

Today we are having a family reunion at my old church in Anderson, Indiana.

All my cousins are here as well as my aunts and uncles. The only people who didn't show are my own family, my mom and sisters. Everyone at the party is drinking. I used to drink but recently quit due to alcoholism running through my family tree.

I ride up to the party on a horse and a chocolate milk in my hand. My family members laugh at me behind my back, calling me a child. My mom calls me on my cell and asks me to bring her a drink. I decide to ditch the party and head home. Dream ends.

I wake up

Rotton

Dream 5/7/2016

My friend Garrek comes over to play some video games.

We settle in to play some virtual reality games, the kind where you can't tell the difference between reality and the game world. Before we play, I run to the kitchen to get us some food. I look in the trash can and see a bag of tortillas, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream etc. I pull it out of the trash and make us some plates. I eat all of my food but Garrek tells me that his tortilla doesn't taste right.

We continue with out gaming. We play a game where we fight zombies in a park at night. The game feels so realistic that Garrek has to quit.

My mom and Garrek's wife come into the room. I ask my mom why the tortillas were in the trash. She tells me they've been in the refrigerator for a long time and they've gone bad. Dream ends.

I wake up

To the Stars

Dream 4/22/2016

I'm at a baseball tournament today, watching my friend Tim play.

Tim has a break so we take a few steps over to NASA Headquarters to check out their new space ship. We walk up the stairs to where the ship is being constructed. We're overly joyed. We take a small device in our hands which is a time machine and travel back to 1967. (In my dream, America landed on the moon in 1965.) We watch as they build the first space shuttle (Which doesn't make sense being that it's 1967). We put on the first ever astronaut helmets. The feeling is euphoric. We travel back to modern times where we are met with Tim's father. We tell him about our travels to the past. We go on to share on knowledge of the NASA space program with him. Dream ends.

I wake up

Father of The Year

Dream 4/21/2016

I'm visiting my cousin in Illinois.

     I don't leave my room the entire time I am here. On top of the dresser in my room is a sink. I take a bath in it. One day, my dad comes to visit. That same day, my cousin gets the new PS4.5 aka Playstation NEO. It's really small. I have no idea how to fit a CD in it. My dad and I play wrestling. He gets really into it, like he is a kid again. We finish with our gaming and sit back up at the table where everyone else is.

     Out of the blue, my dad says something demeaning to my sisters kid. Everyone around the table is frozen in shock and doesn't know what to say. Somebody asks him why he said what he said. He replies with, "I don't give a damn!" Just like a rotten child would say it.  I look at him and say, "Well, if you ever talk to one of my kids that way, I'm gonna give you a knuckle sandwich right to your jaw." He becomes angry, "what did you say?" he screams across the table. "You better get out of my sight right now or I'm gonna come unglued," he says, not quite making eye contact with me anymore. So I walk out of the house.

     I walk down the path to DJ's house, but he isn't there, he's back at the table with everyone else. I walk to the barn where we did karaoke as kids. I stare down the field, where I learned how to drive a truck. I see mobile home upon mobile home all the way down the field. I think of all the memories I've had with this place. Dream ends.

I wake up

Lion

Dream 4/19/2016

     I am in a large auditorium. The walls are lined with shelves loaded with books. Bad men are chasing me. They mean to do me harm. The rules say that in order for me to defeat these men, I have to knock all the books off of the shelves. It seems impossible but I try. I start knocking as many books as I can off of the shelves while dodging the bad men's attacks, but it's too hard. I know I won't be able to do it. In a voice of desperation I yell, "Oh God, help me!" All of a sudden, a Lion, with lights flowing in and around Him, shows up and devours the bad men. Dream ends.

I wake up 

The Machine

Dream 4/12/2016

There is a machine that can turn toy cars into real ones.

A kid that's hanging out with us, Andrew, says that he has a red toy Volkswagen Van. He tells me I can have it. We make a pit stop at his house and me and two other guys tear his room apart trying to find the Van, but we can't. It's nowhere to be seen. We get back in the car, disappointed, and I tell Andrew, "If you run across the Volkswagen van, I will give you $1000.00 for it." The guy next to me whispers, "that's a good deal." Andrew tells me that he will look for it. Dream ends.

I wake up

Abducted

Dream 4/10/2016

I'm living in my Middletown house again.

Many people come and hang around my place. One by one the people start to disappear. We all know what it is. Alien abduction. After ten people get abducted, we make a plan to get ourselves taken by the aliens. The plan works. We are on the way to their planet. We get there and it looks very similar to our planet. In fact, the aliens aren't even hostile, they're quite nice. And the abductees are all fine as well. Who knew? Dream ends.

I wake   

Hairspray

Dream 4/10/2016

My brother-in-law, Chad, and me are driving to my aunt's house.

I ask Chad which aunt we are visiting. He says, "your aunt soda." My aunt is having a party but we are there to pick up a few items that we stored in her barn. Me and chad drink Monsters as he drives. I ask him for a can of hair spray. He hands me the can. It looks just like the Monster. I tell him that I am worried I will get confused and drink the hair spray.

We make it to my aunts house. I run inside to the bathroom to look at myself in the mirror. I spray some spray into my hair and style it, then I leave, forgetting the hairspray on the bathroom counter. When I get back outside, I tell Chad that I forgot the spray inside but I'm too afraid to go and get it. He says it's okay, he'll go and get it but he never does. Dream ends.

I wake up

Hungry Hungry SHARKS!!!

Dream 4/10/2016

I'm having lunch in the cafeteria at school.

The cafeteria is on the ocean. The tables float on top of the water. My friend, Derek, sits down next to me. The conversation turns to sharks. Derek informs us that their has never been a shark attack here. Right when he ends that sentence, a shark comes busting through the table and lunges toward Derek. Derek is able to avoid it. No one is hurt. Dream ends.

I wake up

The Twin Towers

Dream 4/8/2016

     September 11, 2001. I'm visiting the World Trade Center, conducting business on the fifth floor. All of a sudden, I hear a loud noise and the building starts to shake. I immediately think to escape. I see a line for the elevators, I skip it and run toward the stairs. The stairwell is packed too but eventually I make it outside. When I get out, I look up. I don't see smoke at the top of the building. Did the plane go in? I ask people standing around me if they saw a plane. I try to watch for the second tower, to see if a plane causes the destruction, at the same time I am running toward a parking lot adjacent to the WTC property.

     There is a small building at the corner of the parking lot. I run to it. In it, I find many stray people and my dialysis nurse, Laura. She says that it's time for treatment. I sit down and she pokes me with two needles the size of roofing nails. I whisper to her, "you and I both know what happens, the tower is going to fall. What do I do when that happens?" She tells me that she will get me a mask..

     Once again, everything begins to shake. I know what is happening. I hear screams all around me. Laura walks over to me and places a hospital mask on my face. I throw on my hood, close my eyes, and cover my face. I know when the smoke and dust enters the building because the screams escalate. I feel the soot when it hits me. I feel myself move. I hit the wall. Later when I would open my eyes, I would find that the soot moved me about five feet across the room.

     The room is taken over by dust and soot. Everywhere. Part of the building was destroyed when the tower collapsed. Much of the roof is missing. I look out the window to see if I can see the remaining tower. A man tells me, "it's over there." I look to where he's pointing. I see it. It looks further away.

     After my dialysis treatment is finished. I get in a car and try to leave the city. The people that I'm with comment on how different the city looks without the towers. As I'm driving, building #7 collapses behind me. I see the whole thing. Dream ends.

I wake up

ZombieLand

Dream 3/25/2016

I roam an abandoned town with a friend. No life can be found, except for the zombie infestation that remains there. We fight to stay alive.

We search the town for survivors. We come across my friend, Sam and his wife. Our conversation with them is short. I ask them where we can find fashionable clothes and cute girls. Sam's wife tells us to look near the women's clothing store. We bid them farewell.

We search the town but cannot find the store. Dream ends.

I wake up

Gang Wars

Dream 3/24/2016

Several teams come together to battle it out.

     We gather in my old church in Virginia. I am a team leader. At one point, all teams rush out into a cornfield and run from each other. We make it all the way to West Virginia. We will be coming out to the corn every day for the foreseeable future. I have a conversation with my friend, Lynch. He tells me that he has been to every state except for Maine. We talk about the harsh, cold Maine ocean water. I ask if that is the north Atlantic. He says it is. Lynch says, "it has salt in it so you know it's cold." I ask him if he and Jordan have been preparing to do the polar bear challenge. He says, "no."

     Each leader has to drive their team around. My license was suspended. I tell the main person in charge that I cannot be a leader anymore. I ask if their is any team that needs one more. Lynch raises his hand. I'm put on his team.

     I need some water. I look and finally find three water coolers. I push the knob on one and milk comes out. I hate milk. I've hated milk ever since I can remember. My mom told me that I wouldn't even drink it as a baby so she had to get a special formula. I wash the cup out and start again.

     In the middle of the church floor is a shaft that leads down into utter darkness. I mention to the man in charge that we need to have a challenge down there. Lynch agrees. Dream ends.

I wake up

Out Of This World

Dream 3/17/2016

I've been assigned a mission to travel into space. It will fun. It will be dangerous. Let's do it.

I am not alone. A group of about ten will travel with me, including a few kids. Our ship looks much like a house; with couches, beds, a kitchen, and windows to the darkness outside.

We blast off.

We travel eons and find a mysterious planet with no name. We land there. It is inhabited by humans. We walk into an apartment complex. A terrible storm is brewing outside. Most of the doors are closed or boarded up but one door is open. We walk inside. A mother brings her daughter to us and begs us to take her. She fears for her daughters life due to the ungodly storms that occur on this planet.

Some astronauts are exploring other areas of the planet. They come across an arena-like place with no roof. Suddenly, several lights come from above. Four giant monsters are lowered into the arena. The astronauts fight them, finally subduing them. We take two of the monsters prisoner and bring them aboard the ship. We must take off and return home with the information we have gathered.

The giant monsters are in shackles. One of the girls gets too close to a monster and he grabs her. The rest of the crew are watching a movie. I start yelling to get everyone's attention. The monster attempts to rape the girl. The crew rushes over. The giant throws the girl around like a rag doll. Perhaps the crew saves her, perhaps they don't. I can't remember. Dream ends.

I wake up

You Can't See Me

Dream 3/16/2016

I think I am on a field trip.

My friend, David, and I prank call the WWE. John Cena is filming a promo. Our call interrupts their shoot. David has the phone. He makes a bunch of weird noises and in the background, I imitate the lost astronaut (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sgc1I9sjfc). The WWE is pissed. Dream ends.

I wake up

Hard Knocks

Dream 3/14/2016

Somebody asks me to steal a basketball from QRS Recycling.

I no longer work at QRS, but I still have my uniform. So, I don my grey button up shirt with reflectors all over and with the orange hardhat on my head, I trespass on private property. My brother-in-law is working there at this time, but not too many others as everyone has pretty much left for the day. I explore the place because I haven't been to this plant before, the one I used to work at is the next city over. I come across the maintenance shop, where they keep the basketballs. I walk in and immediately see the vertical holder for the various sports balls, but there is a lock on the bottom to prevent anyone from taking them. Disappointed, I leave the recycling plant.

I end up at my old high school, where they are having an assembly. I walk outside to the playground and reminisce about when I was a kid playing here. Most of the playground equipment has been taken away, but a few items from my childhood still remain. I walk over to the metal rainbow and try to hang upside down like I did when I was a kid. I fell and hit my head when I was little, but I didn't cry.

I head to the assembly. The speaker is talking about the WWE. The wrestling organization is making movies on various subjects. One movie is about Planned Parenthood. The speaker wants the school to endorse the movies. One of the teachers stands up, takes the microphone and speaks of her dislike for the WWE, its violence and sexualization of women. At that time, I walk out.

I end up in a junk yard, where my friends work. My long haired buddy shows me some of the cars he's been working on. One car looks like an old version of a Volkswagen bug that was never released. He also shows me a guitar that he built. A custom Gibson SG. He says it's not but it is. I tell him of a custom guitar that another friend of mine made. He hardly listens. I have to repeat myself. We go inside and sit at a table. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I have a seizure. My breathing completely stops for a moment. The ones crowded there erupt in tears. Finally, I take in a large breath. Everyone is elated.

My mom and dad pick me up to take me home. I ask my dad if he can buy me a basketball. Dream ends.

I wake up

Deja Vu

Nightmare 3/4/16

A group of twenty to thirty people are having a get together in a house near the highway.

There is no road that connects the highway directly to the house. You must take a back road. The people gather. A monster is coming. Evil is coming. He is 11'7. The face he wears is not his own. He wields a rusty chainsaw. His fantasy is blood. I have deja vu. I know this feeling. I've been here before. I know he is coming. If I were to walk outside the house right now, I would see him trodding up the dirt road. I have to get out. I run out of the house and toward the highway. Cars drive up and down. I don't need a ride, I just need to get away. I run down the highway and never stop.

Later, I hear that the monster found the house. He killed everyone in it. Dream ends.

I wake up


(That same night, I'm not even kidding, my mom had the following dream.)


"We gather in our house. The family is all here. A monster is coming. He has blades for fingers. He wants to murder us. The second oldest nephew, Owen, somehow gets outside the house and runs. We have to get him before the monster does. We chase after Owen. The monster keeps coming." Dream ends.

The Time Traveler

Dream 2/22/2016

I am in love with a girl named Beth.

The only issue is that she's eighteen years older than me. So I time travel back to where we would be about the same age. She is both a judge and a contestant on American Idol. I go and watch a taping of the show. When you're up on the stage it's so unbelievable, so unforgettable how they adore you. I watch her and fall more in love with each passing minute.

The show is then interrupted by a voice coming over the intercom. "Attention, ladies and gentlemen, we have just received information that a plane has hit the world trade center." Some ARMY guys are sitting in the row behind me. I can hear them saying, "no, no, it can't be true." Oh it is, I've been here before, I know it all too well. In a few more minutes, they're gonna come back on the intercom and tell you that the other tower has been struck by yet another airplane. Then, when you think it's all over, the voice would come on again telling you to pray for our country because the pentagon has been hit. We're under attack. The towers would fall, taking several other buildings with them, thousands would be dead, the country would be in a panic. You would question whether it was going to stop. Oh God, dear God, how did I time travel back to September 11, 2001. Why did I come back to this awful day.

I follow Beth outside. Her husband is there with her. I flirt with her. She doesn't seem to notice. Dream ends.

I wake up

Heisenberg

Dream 2/20/2016

I am a meth cook.

I own a large piece of property. I have a building in the back. That's where I cook. I let the grass grow so my place is harder to see.

I hire a new guy to help out in the day to day operations. His name is Gale Boetticher. Together we cook meth. One day, I come in to work and find my wife dead and her body mutilated, lying at the feet of Gale. He has a gun in his hand and a smile on his face. I grab my gun as quick as I can. I shoot and kill Gale. I look at my wife. her body doesn't look human. It looks like an animal carcass that's been decaying and the neighborhood animals have been feasting on for some time.

I walk out to the road. There's a couple buildings out here. A bunch of druggies hang out. I chill with them. I show them my product. I tell them, "I'm the cook." I should ask them to say my name. Dream ends.

I wake up

Homecoming

Dream 2/19/2016

Tonight is homecoming.

My old school is doing a celebration of all the classes together including those who have graduated. I'm getting ready at my house. I am in the upstairs bathroom. My mom is downstairs. All of a sudden, my phone turns on by itself and starts playing an audio clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sgc1I9sjfc). The clip is an audio sound byte of a supposed woman astronaut that Russia sent into space in 1961. Her space flight encountered problems and her capsule went up in flames. The clip is a recording of her last moments. It is unsettling. It scares me. I run downstairs. My mom is moving an old camper out back. I finish getting ready in the camper bathroom.

I have to be at homecoming by 8 o'clock. I look at my watch. It's 7:56. I stress out and start yelling at my mom, telling her that we need to leave now! 

The school crowds all of its students and alumni onto risers in the gymnasium. My nephews are in pre-k and kindergarten. They stand in front. The school has made food for us but they didn't make enough. They say the alumni can eat first. I grab a bowl and bring it over to my nephews. I let them eat from it. Dream ends.

I wake up