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

King Kong

Dream 2/15/2016

Me and three other friends are putting on three plays for an audience.

Mike, from Breaking Bad, picks us up in his car and takes us to a hotel where we are to perform. The first play is outside on a stage. I didn't even look at my lines. I have the script with me. We struggle through the first two skits. The final skit takes place on the roof of the hotel. I ask my sister if she'll be in it. She agrees.

We get to the roof and there is no audience. The show must go on! We start to perform. King Kong appears on the roof. He picks up my sister and throws her off the building. She lands in the river. I tell Kong that he wasn't supposed to do that. I can see in his face that he feels bad. He climbs down the building and swims to where she is. He brings her back. We continue the play for the audience that isn't there. Dream ends.

I wake up

Barbecue

Dream 2/12/2016

I've returned to the Honor Academy.

I walk through the campus and see friends who I haven't seen for seven years. I meet new people as well. I start questioning the decision to return. Maybe I should've gone to Bethel instead.

My family comes to pick me up. We stop near a hospital and start grilling out on the grass. I go for a walk for a moment of solitude. I look back at the barbecue site and see black smoke billowing up. I run to where my brother-in-law was grilling and find my mom's Prius destroyed by fire.

We drive away. The fire has spread from the barbecue site to the hospital.

We pass oncoming fire trucks as we go. We see lines of people evacuating from the building. Hundreds of people watch from the street as the hospital goes up in flames. Dream ends.

I wake up

The Gates of Hell

Dream 2/10/2016

Tim, Josh and I walk down a dark hallway. There is a light at the end.

At the end of the hallway are four doors and four switches. It is a puzzle. We must hit the switches in the right order to get through. We figure it out. Suddenly, we are in an arcade. Video games everywhere. I play a basketball game. The game is curved instead of straight. I miss every shot. Tim and Josh move on to the next level. I don't want to miss anything so I stay. The next group of people enter the arcade. I miss Tim and Josh so I move on to the next level.

Suddenly I am in a house where every room has a table with junk food on it. In this house, there is no discernible path from A to B, it's several paths all leading to rooms with a table with junk food on top (Think of the food scene from the movie "Hook").

Eventually, I find a stairway leading down. I enter I giant room with white walls. Inside this room are several small rooms with no ceiling. Inside these small rooms are portals. I know of a girl that went missing by jumping through a giant red portal in the back. It is said that the red portal only leads to one place, Hell. I am not supposed to be in this place, as there are guards patrolling the area. All of a sudden, the girl that went missing grabs my hand and starts leading me to the back of the room without being caught by the guards. We make it to the room. In front of us lies a giant portal with what looks like red electricity and fire. We enter. Dream ends.

I wake up 

Megalodon

Dream 2/9/2016

I am swimming in the deep ocean.

This is a game but I am here. I search the waters for sharks. Each shark I discover is bigger than the last. I stand on the ocean floor when a hole opens up and lets out an enormous air pocket. Billions of bubbles rise to the surface. Just then, through the tower of bubbles swims a Megalodon. I am so scared, I can't think or move. He swims over me. Dream ends

I wake up

The Practice

Dream 2/8/2016

Girls from my class are playing a pickup game of basketball. I decide to join in on the fun.

     As I'm playing, I look over to the bleachers and see my baseball coach, Mr. Allen. I walk over to him. He tells me that he has a special baseball glove for me and he wants me to be his relief pitcher in the 9th inning. The glove is quite small and is covered in Velcro. My friend, Tim, tells me that we should go practice.

     We board a school bus and take off looking for a nice patch of land to throw the ball around. We drive through some poverty stricken neighborhoods and then drive out to the country. All we see are corn fields and the occasional 100 year old barn with the roof caved in. We find a place to practice next to an abandoned house. The house looks like it was burned up in a fire. We explore. We encounter ghosts of the people who used to live here. The ghosts are hostile. Dream ends.

I wake up

The Art of War

Dream 2/7/2016

I've joined America's ARMY. They've shipped me off to a foreign land. I'm not sure what country I'm in. All I know is I am near Germany.

I'm heading up a team of undercover agents. They fill several seats apart from each other in a European diner. The mission is undisclosed. I walk down the aisle of the diner eyeing every agent. Speaking with a look. They know what to do.  Bullets shred through the diner walls leaving dust and debris everywhere. We've been compromised. The agents get up and try to escape. I help everyone that I can.

I walk through the barracks and find my bed. I lie down. The Soldiers are called to attention. I stay in bed. I peek through my covers and see the soldiers standing like statues at the end of their beds. The leader walks in. He questions why I am in bed. The others vouch for me being sick.

My kidneys don't work so I have to dialyze my blood. My nurse, Laurie, is here, she too is a soldier. A nurse I have never seen comes to my bedside and shoves a needle the size of a roofing nail into my arm. It's clear she doesn't know my access as she is pushing the needle in the wrong direction. She gives up and tells me to do it myself. I ask Laurie to do it. She comes over and fixes what the other nurse royally screwed up. Blood starts pumping through the line.

We are all awakened by the sound of gunfire. I undo my dialysis lines. The needle is still in my arm. I grab a handgun and move toward the window where Laurie has a sniper rifle. We start taking out men who encroach on our position. I find that my handgun is not effective for long range. I grab a rifle and one man at a time, I shoot. I kill many of them. We fight until the job is done. Dream ends

"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting the ultimate practitioner." -Cormac McCarthy

I wake up

Popcorn

Dream 2/5/2016

     I'm out on the town with some friends when I see two girls from my church walk into a Michael's. I leave my friends to pursue the girls. I spot them in a checkout line which is really a "check in" line because the Michael's is actually a movie theater. I say hi to the girls. They don't seem to care. They are very heavy set and not very attractive. One of them is prettier than the other. I don't know if I am pursuing her because I'm slightly attracted to her or because I feel that she has no friends and I feel sorry for her. They buy a ticket for a movie called, "Pilgrim." I've never heard of it but I buy a ticket as well.

     I buy a tub of popcorn, because you can't very well watch a movie without a buttered tub of popcorn. I walk into the theater. It's big and crowded. One of those theaters that you used to see a lot more of, the one with a balcony and a ton of chairs. I walk down one aisle but I don't see them. I start down another when I spot them in the back. I sit with them. They don't seem pleased. The movie starts. It's a cartoon but boring as hell. I can see why I never heard of it. All we need now is angry moviegoers throwing buttered popcorn at the screen.

     The girls invite me back to their place. They are having a bunch of people sleepover. On the way there they talk about video games they play. The games they are talking about are twenty years old, it's as if they haven't discovered the newer PS4 or XBOX1. We get to their house and it is a mansion. It looks like a fancy hotel. The girls have four swimming pools in their bedroom. One pool for each sibling. I am in shock. This was a surprise ending. Dream ends.

I wake up

Gatti's

Dream 2/5/2016     

     My mom and I are walking down a street when she sees a hang out spot that she remembers from when she was a teenager. The place is called "Gatti's." The sign is scrambled with letters, a person could hardly make out the name. We walk inside. 

     The place is crowded with people hungry for pizza. Not an empty table in sight. We walk through the restaurant. My mom remembers what it was like to be young. We walk down a set of stairs to the basement. 

     We come upon a gymnasium full of people. Everyone is cheering in the stands. A man walks onto a stage and waves to the crowd. The cheers rise even more. The man tells jokes. My mom and I walk over to the stage to get a better view.

     When the man is done, we leave. Outside we run into a familiar face. I tell them that they have to try Gatti's. Dream ends.

I wake up

Newt

Dream 1/24/2016

I go to the movies with my mom. I get a large Coke to quench my thirst during the movie. As I sip on the drink, I notice that the taste isn't quite right, but I figure it's nothing and I drink the rest.

After the movie is over, I remove the lid from the cup. At the bottom of the cup is a newt, curled up, looking afraid. After a minute of being completely grossed out, I try to remove him, but he hisses at me. I take him out with some paper towel. He wiggles and hisses and tries to bite me. Dream ends.

I wake up

Amish Paradise

Dream 11/18/2015

My family has moved to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

We live in a trailer park. Everyone in the park is friendly and community oriented. My mom joins a group of friends. They want to take her to their clubhouse. I have a bad feeling. As they walk through a field to their club, I run up to my mom and tell her that they are an evil cult. My mom and I run away. Afraid that the cult is chasing us, we hide under a neighbors porch.

Someone is coming. We hear them approaching. A girl lowers her head to see us under the porch. It isn't a cult member, it's a friend of mine that I knew once upon a time in Texas. She brings us to her trailer and lets us clean up. She gives us fresh clothes to wear.

We get in her car and drive. We drive near an amusement park located on a cliff. It was once a great place but has recently started deteriorating. We return to the trailer park.

I go hang out with my Amish friend. His father tells me to grab the net in the shed and catch some fish for dinner. A pond is directly in front of their home. I take the net to the pond and drop it in the water. A grizzly bear sneaks up on me. I run to the Amish home. All of us stand on the porch watching the bear. A baby bear walks up to the porch. We play with it. The Amish father says that he'll catch the fish.

Neighbors from all over the park come to the pond to watch the Amish man fish while avoiding ferocious grizzlies. A man standing next to me says, "hey Keith, haven't seen you in a long time." It startles me because not many people know me. I turn to see who it is. It's a man that I knew back in Anderson, Indiana when I was young. Back then was was socially awkward and nerdy. He's changed a lot. He has gauges in his ears and wears a hoodie.

The Amish man catches the fish. Tables are set up outside the house. The Amish family cooks delicious food. The neighbors find a place to sit and we eat together. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Lucky Strikes

Dream 11/14/2015

I'm eight years old and playing in a baseball league.

It's my turn up at-bat. I completely and utterly strikeout. I see the disappointment on my teammates faces as I return to the dugout. We lose the game.

The coach thinks that we need more practice with our batting game, so he takes us to the batting cages. My teammates are upset with me. They give me glares and talk behind my back. I walk into the batting cage. I miss the first two pitches but hit the next eight. I walk out. My coach proudly says that I bat 80%. I walk over to the bleachers, where my team was sitting and yell, "losers!" I look and see that my team is gone and the bleachers are full of police officers. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Magic Swirling Ship

Dream 11/13/2015

I'm in the upstairs of my old church in Anderson, Indiana.

Me and three other guys are having a Bible study. The man leading the study tells us to turn our Bibles to the book of "Amarish." I've never heard of that book before. I look through my Bible but can't find it. I ask the leader if the book is in the new or old testament. He helps me find it.

My friend Joel, points to the dark ceiling and says, "I want one of those, but they're pretty expensive." I look but see nothing. Although I see nothing I know what he is talking about. It's a magic pirate ship, floating in the sky. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Leatherface

Dream 11/13/2015

I get into a fight with my dad and punch him.

Before he can retaliate, I speed out the door and run away. My friend, Derek, and I go to an arcade. Derek's family is there. My cousin is there as well. He spends his time at the arcade trying to crack a code on a computer.

In a nearby auditorium, Gunnar Hansen is giving a speech. I walk in and listen for a bit. Gunnar becomes angry that nobody cares that he once played the legendary horror icon, Leatherface, in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." He puts on his mask, grabs a baby chainsaw and starts chasing us. We board a bus outside and take off. Leatherface chases us. Somewhere down the road, something goes awry and the bus tips over. Leatherface jumps on top of the fallen bus and tries desperately to get in to hurt any of us. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Cul De Sac

Dream 11/13/2015

I live in a beat up camper in a field at the end of a cul de sac.

My aunt and cousin live up the street. I enter my aunts trailer. She tells me that her daughter, my cousin, has moved out of her trailer and I can now move in. I walk down to the now vacant trailer. I move in. One night, I am sitting in my recliner having dialysis. My nurse tells me that their is a shot that the gov't will pay me $1,000.00 to take. I tell her to give it to me.

A woman walks into my trailer. She tells me she is from Bethel church and I need to come to her house tonight. I think she will heal me. As my nurse gives me the shot, I fall asleep. I wake up the next morning, having never gone to that stranger lady's house and I can't help but wonder what would've happened if I did. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Super

Dream 11/11/2015

I am in a trio of superheroes.

One has the ability to change the size of anything or anyone he encounters. I have a jetpack. I don't know what the other's ability is.

The arch villain is chasing us through town. We enter a warehouse. He tries to get in but the other hero causes him to grow so that he can't fit through the door. We run forward through the warehouse. we find an air vent in the floor. The other hero shrinks us and we slip through the vent. The villain has his sidekick chase after us.

We find a toy car in the vent. Being the size of ants, we climb into the toy car and drive through the air ducts. The villain sidekick somehow changes size and starts chasing us through the ducts. A family reunion is happening in one of the tunnels. We avoid it. I can hear the sidekick behind us saying, "Oh, the family reunion. I've anticipated that," like he's got something up his sleeve.

We exit the vent to find the villain inside the warehouse. He stands on the catwalk above looking down at us. We are under his control somehow. I left my jetpack at home so I ask the other hero to make me grow so that I can beat the villains face off. Dream ends.

I wake up.

American Sniper

Dream 11/11/2015

I'm in a town called Macy's. An area where people are scarcely seen.

I sit in the second story of a small building. Why am I here? I don't know. What is the name of the person that is with me? I don't know. Why is there a rotting human carcass on the floor? I don't know.

I pick up a handgun lying on the floor. I go to the window and fire it into the air. I don't know why. I think it was an accident. Something is wrong. People are coming down the street. They are hostile. I look at a pile of empty shells on the floor and rummage through them trying to find one that is unused. I cannot.

I grab the sniper rifle and escape the building with the stranger I am with but he/she is immediately shot and killed. I see someone coming over the hill. I drop to the ground. I see him standing there. I aim my weapon. He comes into my sight. Pull. The. Trigger. BANG!!! The lifeless body drops to the ground. I get up and run.

I see a jeep. I run to it. "Press circle to enter vehicle," comes up onto the screen. I press square. After that doesn't work, I press circle and enter the vehicle. I drive like a maniac down the road toward the part of town where people can be found. I come to a stop near a creek. I step out and grab the rifle. I aim down stream where I see mermaids. I shoot several times trying to kill them but they just won't die. Dream ends

I wake up

Apocalypse Now

Dream 11/9/2015

I overhear someone say that the apocalypse is upon us. A wave of panic washes over me. After the initial fright wears off, I critically think about what to do. I run to a store and buy as many packages of seeds as I can find. After that I decide to buy some rabbits. Dream ends.

I wake up

The Rising Tide

Dream 11/9/2015

We are driving down the highway. I am sitting in the back seat. Coming at us is a hundred foot wave. I can see the top of it through the sunroof. We speed up and ram directly into it. We come out on the other side. Someone in the car says they're glad it was a small wave. Dream ends

I wake up.

In The Arms of Love

Dream 11/3/2015

My family is vacationing in a foreign land. Possibly Europe.

     We walk into a town with snow blanketed streets. A man owns the whole place. He rents apartments out to vacationers. We seem to be the only people staying. My aunts, uncles, and cousins are here as well. Each family gets its own apartment. I walk into mine. It's luxurious. Fit for a king. I walk into the bathroom. It's the size of a gymnasium, with a big open space in the middle and all of the bathtubs, showers, sinks, and toilets line the sides of the room.  Near the entrance of the bathroom sit a few hot tubs where a lot of the family are hanging out.

     My cousin points to a bar on one side of the bathroom. He suggests a drink. I tell him to find the strongest thing they've got. We settle on a bottle called "Cognac Hardline." It sounds like the hard stuff. He pours me a glass, but pours way too much. I tell him to stop. I know I won't finish the glass but that's ok. I take a sip. The drink is so hard that it has no taste. I can't pinpoint the flavor. I take a few more drinks.

     Suddenly, I am a woman and I see myself from a third person view. She is attracted to a man who lives in this town. She sees him in a snowy field dancing by himself. She walks to him. She has had too much Cognac Hardline to walk straight. She collapses into his arms. He doesn't know where she is staying so he carries her through the town. Her half opened eyes catches a glimpse of the architecture as they trod through the streets. It's beautiful. Reminds her of 1930's Krakow, Poland.

     They enter his apartment. His neighbors are having a poker night. Drinking and playing cards. Too loud. He quietly closes their door. He gets to his apartment where he lays her down on the bed. He'll most likely take the couch tonight. Dream ends.

I wake up.