Swimming with The Sharks

Dream 2/24/2015

We are at a public pool, only, this pool is a bit more sophisticated.

It's partly indoor and outdoor. The slide is actually a small building that you take the indoor stairs to get to the top. And if you want a real thrill, there is a cliff jump above the slide. Good luck.

I take the slide. It's packed with people. I crash into the water with super speed. I jump up in celebration. A bunch of older guys see me. They start pointing and laughing. I try to ignore them. I get out of the pool and they follow me. They grab me, push me to the ground and start kicking me. All because they believe I'm not cool enough.

Days later, my brother-in-law, Chad wants to go back to the pool. I tell him I don't want to but I don't have the guts to tell him why. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Home Sweet Home

Dream 2/19/2015

My family and me are searching for a new church and home. We can't find what we are looking for so we step through another dimension 

The land is bone dry. Red sand lay everywhere.

The family splits up. We all search on our own. I come across an old, abandoned farm. I walk into the house. I find no one. The house is full of furniture as if someone is living there. I think to myself, "this would be a good house to live in." 

Suddenly, evil spirits appear and start attacking me. I fight back. I know that I will not win, that I am going to die, so I run out of the house as fast as I can. I make it to safety. I look back to find that they are not chasing me.

I head toward the rest of my family.

I find them in a church. It must be Sunday because the pews are full of people. I realize this is one of those churches where everyone dresses up and they all say 'amen' in unison and everything smells like Winterfresh gum. I find a seat next to my sister. The preacher steps to the podium. 

Our mom stumbles down the middle aisle and passes us up. She looks at a group of strangers and slurs, "Isn't this place great." She had more booze in her than the Jersey Shore.

Embarrassed, my sister and I grab my mom and take her out a side door. "This is.. a really.. (burp) great place," she says as we leave. 

We continue searching for our new home. Dream ends

I wake up.

Boom!

Dream 2/18/2015

The city, in which I stand, has been destroyed.

Buildings have been reduced to rubble. In the rubble we hide. We know it is coming. We feel the vibrations of it's footsteps. Boom. Boom. One after another, we feel it. Boom. Boom. It gets stronger and stronger.

We see it.

A Tyrannosaurus Rex. 

I watch the children as the warrior fights the giant beast. They fight. Blood falls. He slays the dinosaur. It falls dead to the ground. We celebrate with silence. 

Boom. Boom. Boom.

We feel it. We hear it. It's coming, again. We see it miles away, destroying buildings in its path. 

It's coming. Dream ends

I wake up.

Alone

Dream 2/11/2015

I'm the night security guard at a work site. 

Tonight, a large festival is happening on the site. I walk around and meet all the people. 

It gets late. Everyone leaves. I walk around an abandoned site. All alone. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Departure

Dream 2/10/2015

A boat is leaving to take mankind to another world.

My family and everyone I know make it to the boat. My friends Sam, Derek and I miss it. We figure we'll find a way to the other world somehow but until then, we're going to go through all of the abandoned houses and shops and take what we want. 

While looting a Bass Pro Shop, I find a baseball glove, bat and ball. The three of us decide to play an inning or two. We never figure out how to get to the other world. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Bewitched

Dream 2/9/2015

My mom, sister, sister's friend and I are visiting the witches district of the city.

My sister's friend is a witch herself. She needs to buy some things. We tag along.

We drive through the Jurassic Park gate, which is the entrance to the district. We walk around the different shops. All except for the witch feel like a fish out of water. I buy a bouncy ball.

Later on that day I visit a friend of mine. I have a crush on her but she has a boyfriend. I tell her about the witches district. She is amused. Both of us have our favorite treat with us. She has a smores candy bar. I have a peaches and creme-filled doughnut. We trade. I take a bite out of the candy bar and she takes a bite out of the doughnut. She regrets the taste and quickly hands the doughnut back to me. She takes the candy bar back. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Damaged

Dream 2/8/2015

It's September 11, 2001. 

I visiting my sister and her husband. We hang around their house which is located right next to one of the World Trade Centers' 'twin towers.'

After the attacks on the buildings, we hear a loud rumbling, like a train. The tower begins to collapse. It damages the house. Dream ends.

I wake up.

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