Train and Trolley

My father aspired to emulate Evel Knievel, planning to launch a train across a thousand-foot gap in the tracks. I had originally agreed to join the stunt, but fear of death compelled me to back out. On the day of the event, another person and I ran several miles along the beach to secure a prime vantage point. Miraculously, my father succeeded.

That same day, another spectacle unfolded on the artificial island where we were stationed: a trolley ascending one of its extended hillsides. Tragically, one of the women aboard perished. I found this perplexing, as the trolley posed no apparent risk—it climbed slowly and steadily up the incline.

I wake up. 

The Underground

Nightmare 1.1.2018

My mother and I visit the cinema to see a scary movie. The movie feels real. As if we are there. In fact, we are in some way. At one point we are with a team of scientists and military in a forgotten underground that is seemingly haunted. The scientists know there is an evil presence down here. They study in one area. My mom and I disappear for a second. When we come back to the underground area, the scientists are gone. I look around and see scientific equipment working. I immediately understand that the evil presence is about to show up. Although this is a movie, I know that somehow it is real. I tell my mom to log off right now. She does so. I watch her disappear in front of my eyes. Just as my mom disappears, the evil presence appears as a dash of white light. I run down the hall and find the scientists and the military.

We walk back toward the entrance. Someone is complaining about me being here. A scientist woman responds that down in the underground she has met ghosts and giants, so me being here doesn't seem like a big deal.

Back to reality, I'm sitting in a movie theater, although it is very small. The size of a single office space. Only one other person is viewing the movie alongside me. An older woman. We never speak. Just a few polite glances. At 7:30, I am ready to walk out of the movie. I feel bad that my mom is waiting outside. Just then, an usher walks in and tells us that they've corrected the movie. I didn't know anything was wrong with it. I sit back down and finish the movie.

When the screening is over, I walk out to a fast food restaurant where my mom is waiting. I order food, chicken tenders.

We arrive at an underground terminal on a subway train. We leave our luggage in the train cars because we are staying the night in the terminal. It really scares me to walk out, late at night, to the trains. The lights are off, the air is cold and everything is quiet. I run out there real quick to grab something and I run back to the terminal. Later on, I play with the control buttons and move some of the trains forward on the tracks. When I walk back to the terminal, I see a bunch of friends from high school. We hang out for a minute in an arcade in the terminal. Dream ends.

I wake up

OIL!

Dream 8/27/2017

I am a fisherman. My friend Tim, the captain of this fine ship, is taking the fishing vessel back to harbor. When we get there, I see my dad and my uncle standing on shore. He has come to pick me up from work. Before the boat comes to a complete stop, I jump onto the dock but notice that I am attached to a chain on the boat. I quickly jump back onto the boat to unchain myself. It takes a very long time.

The next thing I remember is waking up underground. Something big has happened but I am not sure of what. At some points underground I am being carried and at other points I am walking on my own. One thing is for sure, I was in some sort of accident. I overhear my mom say that my uncle and cousin were killed while looking into a well of oil. The experience was too much for them to handle. My mom laughs while telling me this.

I am brought to a hospital which is on a train. I feel like I am dying. The nurses start me on an IV and I begin to feel drowsy.

I wake up on the moving train but I am the only person on board. Somehow, I am given information. Maybe I've heard it on a radio or TV. The information is this. Downtown, a large oil geyser has erupted. Oil is shooting about thirty stories into the sky. Fire has come into contact with the geyser and set it ablaze. When I hear this information, I look out the window. Across the cityscape, I can see the geyser. It is so big. It takes my breath from me. What a sight to see.

The oil and fire are shooting fire balls randomly across the city. I stand at the back of the train and notice the balls of fire are inching their way toward me. One hits so close I can feel the heat. I know the next one will hit the train. I fall to the floor and curl up under a seat. The fire ball never hits. Dream ends

I wake up

-Awkward Things-

Dream 3/15/2017

     I'm a part of a program put on by my school. We have never practiced. The program is a train wreck. It's full of awkward silences where the conductor is showing students the lines they never rehearsed. During one of these awkward silences, I grab the conductors attention and double check my lines. She says that she will signal me when it's my turn. The audience sits in their seats quietly except after every students disastrous run through of their lines, they stand up in a roar of applause. Pity applause. After the show, I call my friend Milo Yiannopoulos and tell him what happened. He gets a total kick out of the whole thing.

     Later on, I am trying to convince a stranger that VHS is far better than Blu-ray. I am looking out the window when the world starts to shake. An earthquake is happening. I yell to my mom to get under the doorway in the kitchen. She does. We both do. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Pass The Tardy Sauce

Dream 2/25/2017

     I'm in the boys bathroom at Liberty Christian High School. While sitting on the toilet I watch a movie on my smartphone. The stall doesn't have a door but rather a curtain. When a student walks in, I show him the movie that I'm watching. Straight ahead, outside the stall is the wall of urinals. For some reason, there is a TV on the urinal directly in front of me. I switch video from my phone onto the TV and watch it that way. In the end, I finish up and leave the bathroom.

     I walk down to the communications/praise and worship classroom where I find my friend Aaron. We talk for a moment when I look at the clock and see that it is 9:42 AM. All of a sudden, anxiety hits my stomach like a train. I was in the bathroom for way too long. I ask him what class period it is. He tells me that it's Mr. Feeny's class. I stress out. He tells me just go out to the hallway. When I do, I see that it is between class periods. Straightaway I lose most of the anxiety in my stomach but I'll still have some explaining to do. Dream ends.

I wake up.