Street Vendor

A Dream From The Past

I'm in Anderson, Indiana near my old high school walking toward the Mounds mall area. It is night and I'm not in a safe area so I have a bit of stress on me. In between my school and the mall lies a little alley that connects the two. Walking down the alley I see a woman with a hot dog cart selling hot dogs and polish sausages. Most of the people in the alley, the late night bar crowd, eat from her cart.

I stop at the cart and order two hot dogs with everything. The lady makes me a variation of the LA Street Dog. She first puts mustard on it, covered in grilled onions and green and red bell peppers. She then asks me if a Dr. Pepper is okay for my drink. I approve. She hands me a can of Dr. Pepper.

Later on that night, I see that the hot dog cart is there but the woman is gone. I explore her cart. I find a package of pepper jack cheese laying out. I think it's gone bad. I make myself a hot dog with the grilled onion and peppers. I check out the frig and see an assortment of sodas. I grab a Sprite. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Bus Station

Dream 3/5/2017

      My old biology teacher from high school walks me to a bus station. We are both taking a bus to parts unknown for reasons unknown. The bus station looks much like a Sam's Club. The seats of the bus are set up more like a roller coaster. My teacher walks to the bathroom while I check out the vending machine. The choices in the machine are odd. Usually you will get the offer of a bag of chips or a candy bar, in this machine they are offering entire boxes of granola bars and big bags of chips. Each selection is six dollars. I skip that.

     When my teacher returns, he tells me that bus riders are very nice but if you start acting like a jerk, they are vicious. The bus takes off. Dream ends.

I wake up.

SuperGirl and DeadMan

Dream 1/24/17

I know a girl who has super powers. I'm not sure what they are, although, I think that she can fly. We sit in an abandoned baseball stadium that looks partly demolished. She flies from her seat to the outside of the stadium. I run to find her.

There is a bad guy. He dies. Then, like out of a horror movie, his rotting corpse gets up and comes after me. I run a very long distance. He never stops coming for me. I run through houses and crawl through windows, anything to throw him off my trail.

I'm in a basement. The basement has a bar. Will Smith is standing behind the bar. Dream ends.

I wake up

Now and Then

Dream 10/4/2015

The school that I went to in my youth has changed.

     Today we go and see what is different. Instead of an emphasis on education and spiritual growth, we find the opposite. The small brick building has been opened up to fit the large 5 story water slide and roller coaster. I see a room filled with pinball machines and arcade games. When you walk up the stairs of the water slide, you get to another part of the school. There we find a bar that serves Mountain Dew and Pepsi. There is a button on the opposite side of the bar where you find a wall covered in flatscreen TV's. If you push the button, the bar will disappear and turn into a regular classroom. I am pissed at what I see. The school that once taught me how to live is nothing more than a day at a fun park. My mom and I decide to leave. We slide down the water slide which barely has any water. Dream ends.

I wake up

Graduation Day

Dream 9/24/2014

It's Graduation Day. The senior students are sitting in classroom desks. The parents are crowded in a corner, watching. The classroom seems a bit small for a graduation service. A teacher starts handing out papers containing our grade point averages. A sick feeling enters my stomach when I read a -50 on mine. My friend Tim has a +1500. A squirrely fellow sitting next to me received a -45. I don't feel as bad. After all, misery loves company.

My friend Kasey tells me that I'll most likely fail to graduate and need to go to summer school and the deadline for the application is tomorrow. My heart sinks even more so. I slip my head into my hands. I look at my mom in the corner with the happy smile on her face. She doesn't even know that her little boy is about to disappoint her.

The service starts. They begin to call out the names of the graduating class. I await to hear if my name is to be called. Suddenly, I look and see above the chalkboard are a list of names from left to right of those being called out. I scan through them once, twice and a third time. I see a "Keith" but the last name isn't "Laverty." It isn't me. I'm not there. I've failed myself. I've failed my mom. It's over. She knows by this time that something is wrong. The smile is no longer there. They've finished calling names. Mine wasn't one of them.

I want this sick feeling to go away. I sneak out of the school. I meet some friends at a bar to have a drink. Joel, Leah and another fellow whom I've never seen. I meet them at a table and tell them about my day. I sit down and say, "well, I didn't graduate high school." Leah responds, "so now you gonna roam the empty halls with the kings?" I drink my coke. Dream ends

I wake up 

The Duel

Dream 2-15-14

I have a jetpack. I'm flying through a city. I come to the edge of the city where begins a desert wasteland. About a hundred yards into the desert is a hut. Hearsay tells me that the government will pay me to live there. I want to confirm this. Next to the desert is a very tall building. At the top is an open bar. I fly up to the bar and see an old friend of mine named Kirk. I ask him if I may speak to his boss. His boss and I converse about the hut. Everything works out. I have myself a new home.

As I live my desert life in the hut, I notice that a giant, evil robot is loitering on my land. I walk out to confront him. A duel begins. I choose my first set of weapons, two swords in either hand. I fight with the swords for a bit, but they do no damage to my metal foe. I then pull two handguns. At this time, a few robotic minions, no where near the size of the the giant come to attack me. I run down into a ravine to fight them off. After destroying the little ones, I turn my focus back toward the giant. I pull out a shotgun. We battle it out. From what I know, the fight continues today. Dream ends. 

I wake up.

Hotel

Dream 12-20-13

I'm in a hotel.

 I don't know which floor I am on, but I know it's not the first floor. At one end of the hallway, down on the right, is my home. That is also where my mom lives. At the other end of the hall is a food court, on both sides. Lining the left side of the hallway wall, on the other side of my house, are four restaurants that have gone out of business. One of the four restaurants is actually a bar that my friend Joel once performed in. Joel is a musician. He is also visiting today.

Joel and I walk down to my house so he can see my mom. While we are there, I tell him that he once played in the bar down the hall. He becomes very quiet and gets emotional. I walk with him down to the bar. We stand in the doorway and reminisce. In a flash, Joel walks out of the bar and goes to one of the buffets in the the food court.

Joel meets the man who owns the bar. The owner gives us the dime tour of his bar. He shows us all the bands and artists pictures on the wall. I remember seeing Gene Simmons from KISS. He mentions that he printed all of these posters out of his computer which is a very old model that would never have the ability to do such a thing. I don't know if he is kidding or not.

Joel and I and a few other friends who just appeared walk back down to the food court. We stand in line to the buffet. Joel mentions that this man in a few minutes is going to turn on the music and that he is going to dance. One by one each of us says aloud, "I'm gonna dance too." In the line to the buffet, one of the cooks asks, "what can I get for you." I respond, "just a roll please." she says in a rude manner, "this is a buffet, you can't just get a roll." I'm a little setback. I answer, "damn.. okay then." She starts to put a bunch of food on my plate. Across the room are friends that I hung out with years before. They are drenched with water. I don't say anything to them. They walk away.

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Things change quite rapidly. Almost like a different story. The man in charge (whoever that is) tells one of us to kill the other (I'm not included in this mess). So, three of us step into an elevator that is in the bar, and place a plastic clothes bin on our head. Suddenly we are not in the elevator but rather in the shallow waters of the ocean on a beach. One of my friends says to the other, "you need to drown, that's what the man told me to do." We eventually come to the conclusion that no one is going to die today. We throw off the plastic clothes bin and look around. We know the man in charge is on the beach making sure the job gets done, however, he isn't on this part of the sand, so we run. My friends find a van and get in it, however, some things in this story change.

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My friends drive away, but we are no longer on a beach, we are in a hallway with wooden floors. I am a normal sized person and my friends are itty bitty. They are driving a hot wheels car. We have miles of hallway to go before we get back to the hotel lobby. Spread across every hallway floor are toys, mostly other hot wheel cars but also other toys. My friends keep driving. I run behind them. Someone mentions that the man in charge and his goons are behind us in his own car. He isn't in sight, I just hope we can keep the speed and never see him. I close doors as we go, so to slow the bad man down. We come to a bathroom and the car stops. "Look at that," someone says. Behind the toilet is a giant black spider. I get my friends out of the van they are in and rush down the hall to find another hot wheels car. I find one that opens from the top. It looks like a fast car. They get in. They start to drive. It is a fast car, so fast that I can't even keep up. They drive out of sight. All I can hear is the buzz of the little engine in the distance. Dream ends.

I wake up.