The Great Escape

Dream 9.19.2018

          A nearby forest is on fire and spreading fast. Our community comes together and escapes the coming blaze. Some of us are riding in a van. Others, including myself, are in an open trailer. We pass by my dad's house, which is a tent. We tell the driver to stop. The leaders tell us that we must keep moving. We stop anyway. I run into the tent to gather some personal items, and soon we are back on the road. We drive through unique areas and walk through different buildings.

          All of us stay in a shelter. My sister Amy is here. Without warning, ballistic missiles fall from the sky. Many hide under their beds for a last-ditch effort at survival. I do the same. I survive the first batch of air attacks, but more are coming. Once again, those of us who are still alive are back on the move. We crowd into a bus and drive away from the war zone.

          I become separated from the group. I go one way, thinking it's the right way, but then I watch as the bus speeds the other direction. It goes too fast, and I cannot catch up. I stand in the middle of a highway writing a story about an old woman who has a stalker. The man comes to her house often, and he is hostile. She locks the doors and readies her shotgun, in case it comes to that. One day the man arrives. I have yet to write the ending. Dream ends.

I wake up

Extermination

Nightmare 4.5.2018

I am shopping at a grocery store. While browsing the frozen foods aisle, I hear scurrying behind me and a strange moaning sound. I look and see two men with masks. One man wears a dirty, hockey goalie mask, like Jason Voorhees. I overhear several shoppers make suspicious comments that today there is supposed to be a shooting at this grocery store. I don't know if this information is true or false, but I hurry up and grab the last few items that I need. Several times I leave my cart and start walking to the exit but then change my mind and return to my shopping. I finish up and walk to the check-outs. At first, it looks as if no check-out is open. All the lights are off. Then, a woman in the dark says that her lane is open. It is so dark, I can't see my groceries or the lady checking me out.

Two guys from my high school class, (we'll call them) Bob and Jay, are planning on shooting up the local grocery store. I help them. We stand by the junk food. Bob tells me just to open whatever I want and eat it. He points to a box of snack cakes with colorful sprinkles. I start knocking packages off the shelf. We pull handguns from our clothes and carefully jog through the supermarket. When we see a person, we kill them. I find it hard to aim the pistol, but I still murder a few unsuspecting shoppers. Someone alerts the police. They show up through a side door. When I see them, I shoot at them, and they shoot at me. The thought that I could die crosses my mind. A load of shopping carts separates us. I raise up and shoot, but I miss. I sneak around the carts so they can't see me. I pop up near them. I mow down one and then the other. I pick up one of the officer's shotguns and run around the store murdering innocent people.

There are two female officers on one island I am on the next. I hear them talking. The shelves near me hold thousands of bottles of wine and other alcoholic beverages. I start taking the bottles and throwing them at the officers. I slowly walk forward as I throw, hoping that I'm getting closer to their position, as I can only hear them. At the end of the aisle, I pop out. The two officers are standing with their shopping carts about fifteen feet apart. I shoot one and then the other.

There is a hallway at the side of the store. There are no lights, but I can see that there are a few rooms and a ladder leading up. I climb the ladder to see where it leads. It leads to nowhere. Later that night, Bob and Jay will throw a grenade up the ladder and create a hole. They will then climb into the hole, which is giving off toxic gas. They will wait there until they die. I will hide down in the room below them. The toxicity of the gas will not harm me.

My mom and I are shopping at a grocery store at around 1 AM. I tell her about a dream I had where a mass shooting took place at the supermarket at 1:30 AM. She pulls out her cell phone and calls the police. I become stressed with her, telling her that it was only a dream. She calls the police anyway. They arrive and arrest the alleged shooter. Dream ends.

I wake up

Bang! Bang!

Nightmare 1.17.2018

I go to my dialysis treatment, like I do every other day, like I have for the past four years. During this treatment, I am given a lunch break, which I spend sitting in my Jeep. Out of the woods behind the clinic, comes a man and a woman. The woman walks several steps behind the man. The man walks in a suspicious manner. Like he's been taking speed. The way in which he walks and the look of his face reminds me of someone I worked with several years ago. A man who unsettled me. A man whose cogs weren't all spinning at the same tempo. A man who openly told me that he beat his wife and laughed about it. No remorse appearing on his drugged face.

I watch the couple in the darkened parking lot walk past my Jeep and toward the McDonald's and gas station. Not long after that, I return to treatment. I can't help but acknowledge a creeping thought in my mind that I will see the man from the parking lot again. But this time in a more troubling fashion.

My seat in the clinic is facing a window to the outside. The window looks out to an apartment complex. The apartment building is very close to the clinic, only fifteen feet or so. Something dramatic is happening in one of the apartments. A small crowd gathers at the front door. Someone is having a medical emergency. I expect to see an ambulance at any time. My nurse has told me that I will have a short treatment today due to the holiday. I won't put up a fuss over that.

I see the man from the parking lot. He walks in front of a window in the clinic, puts a gun to his chin, aimed up and pulls the trigger. Everyone in the clinic witnesses his death. A new girl at the clinic walks near me and I tell her to take me off of the machine, to end my treatment. She tells me that she won't do that because I just started. This pisses me off because I know that I've been running for at least two hours and the nurse told me it would be a short treatment. I continue arguing with the new girl elevating my discourse to cussing. She refuses.

A police officer walks next to my chair, raises a shotgun at the patient behind me and shoots. I know I am next. Somehow, I manage to unhook myself from the machine and get free. I don't think I am shot. Dream ends.

I wake up

Natural Born Killer

Nightmare 9/22/2017

Somebody I used to know, a boy named Kirk, has told me of his evil intentions. He is going to come to school with a shotgun and party hardy. He wants a massacre.

The day comes.

My class is standing by the entrance of the school when Kirk pulls out his weapon. He starts shooting. Students run in every direction. I run outside. In the parking lot, there are several other students with guns shooting the running ones. I find out later that all of the guns are fake including Kirk's.

The day comes. For real.

Students from my class are standing in the senior hallway when Kirk pulls out his shotgun. He starts shooting. It's hard to explain the dread that comes with the thought that you are about to die. I slip by Kirk and run outside. He doesn't notice. I run across the street and the student parking lot to a field where I have a couple of tents set up. I hide until the madness is done. I can still hear the gunshots. 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

Robot Village

Dream 9/8/2015

I'm working on an assembly line.

     The warehouse is a three story open room. A dangerous man sneaks in while we work. He wants to hurt whoever he can. He chases someone. Like a stampede, we all start running. He chases me. He shoots and kills with a sawed off shotgun.

     Outside the warehouse is The Honor Academy Internship. Dave Hasz gives a speech by the pool. Everyone shows up. The HA has built a village around the pool. Me and my friends go exploring. We find a little cottage with a basement, but the basement is huge, like you would find in a hospital, except its dirty and old. We're looking for clues as if we're on a treasure hunt, but the clues are scary and gross (unfortunately I can't remember any of them.)

     My cousin DJ and I continue exploring outside. There are a hundred little cottages in this village but over to the very back corner is a large building. We're told not to go into it. DJ and I walk to the front door and peek in. There are a lot of people, except they aren't people, they're ROBOTS!!! We run to the backside of the building and check that door. There isn't anybody to be seen so we sneak in. We roam the halls like mice, trying not to be caught. Eventually, we are spotted by a robot and chased through the halls. We try to take an awkward path to throw him off. We enter a room and turn off the lights. We never see him again.
   
     We stay quiet for a while until we hear an aerobics class happening outside in the hallway. We search for another exit and find two. A staircase leads from the dark room up to the second floor. I run up to the door and peek out, an aerobics class is taking place up there as well. The second option is another door down the stairs. We pop our heads out to see. A woman finds us. She tells us that she is on our side. She gives us ID cards and a fake history written up for us. She also tells us that we've been assigned spouses and that we need to go find them.
   
     DJ and I start walking down the hallway for everyone to see, but if anyone asks, we do have ID badges. We try to blend in. The robots walk funny, kicking their feet out real far whenever they take a step. DJ and I imitate them. I look forward and then back at DJ, but when I do, he is gone. 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.

War Is Hell

Dream 2-13-14 

We're in another country. Possibly France. I think it is World War II.

My company and I are cautiously sneaking through an empty European village. It's downcast and raining. We're in the top floor of a second story building. I think I hear the enemy creeping around on the outside balcony. I ask a fellow soldier to hand me his 9mm. I load a fresh magazine. I'm hoping the girls in the company are impressed with my gun skills. I peek out the door. I see a German. I shoot! I miss. I shoot again! I miss again. This gun isn't working for me. I take a shotgun from the girl behind me. I pump. I peek around the corner. The enemy is in my sights. I shoot. Target terminated. 

Our company moves on. Now in another building, we split up. My group of men wait on the second floor of this building while the other group completes their mission. We're here in case they need backup. by myself, I walk down the stairs. I find a kitchen. It isn't my kitchen but since the town is empty I feel that I can take what I want. I take some food and bring it back to my group of men.

I look out the second story window across the small village. I see the rest of our company running back to the rendezvous point. I jump from the second story window to the wet ground below. I begin to catch up to my company taking out the enemy as I go. Dream ends.

I wake up.