Luck Be A Lady

A Dream From My Past

      I am involved in a talent show. We are three contestants left in the show and the next round is "50's Music." We have to dress and sing as a person from the era. Simon Cowell is one of the judges.

     Our dressing room is an old gas station, but instead of aisles of candy, chips, and car accessories. The room is filled with clothing and props, it's sort of thrown together disorderly like a thrift shop. Time is running out and I can't come up with an idea for my song.

     But instantly I see a fedora laying on a shelf. I grab it, thinking that I may be able to get away with doing a Frank Sinatra song. I search the aisles and find a three piece suit. Perfect. Now I am ready. The only Sinatra song that I can ponder up is "Luck Be A Lady." Dream ends.

I wake up

Demonic Tronic

Dream 1/11/2016

A man stands up on stage. His face is painted like the wrestler "Sting." His face changes like a picture slideshow, every three seconds his head is something different. With each new change, his face becomes scarier and more creepy until he has long, matted, hair, pale skin, cat's eyes and slobber dripping from his mouth, running down his chin. He goes by the name, Marilyn Manson. He and his band play. As he moves eerily on stage, a commentator talks about how he is demon possessed. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Lawbreaker

Dream 11/1/16

I'm driving with some friends to a mall. When approaching an intersection, the light goes from green to yellow. I speed up. Red. I stop before the white line, but then decide that I don't want to wait, so I drive through the red light, somehow avoiding a collision. I'm terrified that a cop will pull me over.

We stop at Arby's to satisfy our hunger. I order a loaded Italian combo, but instead of curly fries I get a large order of Jalapeno Bites, a Mountain Dew to drink and a cherry turnover. My friends are standing by a coat rack flexing, talking about how they both have girly arms. After we get done with our food, I walk up to pay for the meal. The line is long, my friends convince me that I've already paid, but in the back of my mind, I know that I haven't. Once again, I am afraid that the cops are coming to get me. Dream ends.

 I wake up

Leap

Dream 10/17/2016

     A guy that I work with, a person that my mind created and I walk down to the bridge that crosses the Ohio river. We dare each other to jump. It's a 70-ft drop. My work buddy has a leg cast that covers the entirety of his leg. He climbs up onto the edge of the bridge and makes the leap to the water below. Me and the remaining guy don't think he made it. The 70-ft drop was iffy enough, but the fact that his leg was already messed up brings doubt to my mind. We hear cheering below. We look down and see our friend climb up onto a smaller bridge, raise his arms in the air and give us the "okay." Dream ends.

I wake up

Bigfoot Comes To Manhattan

Dream 10/12/2016

Standing on some large rocks near a harbor, along with a group of classmates, I look into a nearby forest and see three Bigfoot. They aren't the size that I expected, quite small actually. I start cautiously walking over to where the wooded area begins. A few men from my class run directly to the Sasquatches. The animals become territorial and start to growl. As the men run back to the class, I look one Sasquatch in the eye and beat my chest. It becomes violent and runs toward me. I run away, passing my class up. The beast retreats back to the forest.

As my class walks behind me, I start climbing the World Trade Center, but notice that one of the towers is laying down and pieces of the building is broken up. I hear newscasters talk about the towers and an event that happened or is happening. I climb down and find my car. I drive away from the WTC, but as I do, I feel a rumbling. In the rear view mirror, I can see the remaining tower collapsing and a wave of darkness rushing toward my moving vehicle. The cloud of dust and debris overtakes me. I can't see enough to drive, so I stop completely.

Suddenly, I am no longer on a street but in a luxurious hallway. Possibly a fancy hotel. As I exit the building, I run into an old friend, someone I haven't seen in years. He is holding a new baby. The baby has brown, almost burnt skin and several white spots along her body. Actually, to be completely honest, she looks no different than a large, soft pretzel. My friend and I finish talking and then I exit the building. Dream ends.

I wake up

10 Seconds

Dream 10/6/2016

I took a 10 second piss. But it wasn't a dream. But it was. But it won't be. Make sense? Of course not. Dream ends.

I wake up

Red Balloon

Dream 8/30/2016

My sister, brother-in-law, nephews and me are driving a pickup truck down the road that runs past my childhood church.

My sister and nephews are in the cab of the truck, while I sit in the bed and my brother-in-law, Chad, is floating, crossed legged, down the road behind us. I hold a red balloon by the string in my hands. I slowly release the string little bits at a time until I am at the end. The balloon catches the wind and begins to pull me out of the truck.

A white car is driving right behind Chad and is annoyed at the pace we are going. It speeds up and swerves around us like a drunk, crazy person. I let go of my balloon. My sister stops the truck. I jump out and chase the car as far as I can screaming, "You piece of shit! YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" The car drives off into the distance.

I begin to walk back when I see Chad lying lifeless on the pavement. Dream ends.

I wake up

Blood Curdling

Dream 8/22/2016

I'm working at IHOP, being trained as an egg cook. A young, Mexican man is teaching me his culinary ways when all of a sudden, I hear the sound of a girl screaming at the top of her lungs. Dream ends.

I wake up

Gonna Make You Sweat

Nightmare 8/18/2016

     I'm eating at a restaurant late at night. The place is packed with people. I finish up and walk outside to my Jeep. I find it strange that the only vehicle in the parking lot is my Jeep, however, the restaurant is full.

     I go to start my car and it won't turn. It's dead. I walk inside and ask a man, sitting by himself, if I can get a jump. He says, "ok," wipes his face with a napkin and walks outside with me. A few guys follow. He asks me, "so you need gas money?" I tell him that I need him to jump start my Jeep. I ask him if he has jumper cables. When we walk out to the parking lot, we find my Jeep already started and turned sideways inside the parking space. I'm suddenly overcome with fear, I know something is wrong. One of the guys climbs in the vehicle while me and the others stand back. Suddenly a person appears from the darkened back seat with a butchers knife and stabs the man in the back. The man screams. The person in the shadows holds the knife in the restaurant goers back and starts to twist it. The man in the front seat screams even more so. Dream ends.

I wake up

Carrey Me Home

Dream 8/17/2016

I'm sitting at a picnic table with Jim Carrey. I tell him that my mom loves the movies "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Dumb and Dumber."

With a confused look on his face, he asks, "so which of my movies do conservatives like?" I tell him the two I already mentioned. He continues, "and liberals?" I know the answer but I can't remember the title. I fumble my words for a moment when Jimbo realizes the answer. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," he says, still a confused look on his face.

Jim and I enter a building where a reception is currently happening. I coach him, "now remember, go up there and do some dialogue from 'Dumb and Dumber.'"

Suddenly, Jim turns into my friend, Joel, and the reception turns into a quiet funeral. Joel gets up on the stage and starts in on his comedy routine, "When the goin' gets goin'," he says, "you gotta keep on goin'." Dream ends

I wake up

Planes Walker

Dream 8/2/2016

The town I live in doesn't have any automobiles. A few friends and I build a life-sized, working tie fighter out of paper. When it's finished I fly it down a country road toward the gate to another dimension. I stop right before the gate and meet with some friends.

A buddy of mine complains that his tie fighter isn't accurate enough. We all walk through the gate, which looks like many trees huddled together. As we go, I look up and it looks as if every ray of sun has gathered in one spot. My friend tells me not to go to the sun spot, if I do, I will die like all the others. We make it to the other side. It doesn't look much different than where I came from. Fields of green and gold. I see a few farm houses off in the distance. I think I am in Vermont. Dream ends.

I wake up

Castlevania

Dream 7-26-2016

Today is special. We've all, friends and family, gathered at my friends ranch for the day
to have a good time. It's time to take this party up a notch. My friends dad orders a large house-like water slide structure. It looks like a castle. To get to the top, one can either attempt the two yellow ladders reaching five or six stories up. Or you can walk the ever long ramp to the top.
Around fifty teenagers and young adults start up the ramps to the top. There are several pathways. I take one in which I am by myself for the most part.

The structure doesn't seem at all like a water slide. The hallways are long, wide and tall. And everything is made of stainless steel. We get to the top and try to slide down but the water isn't working. Water is supposed to fall from the ceiling all through-out the steel caste, but it doesn't causing everyone who tries to come to a screeching hault.

So instead of sliding, we make the water slide into a house, calling dibs on the rooms we like and taking ownership of it. I get a small room in the corner away from all the noise. It's comfy and cozy with a nice view of the gas station outside. I walk down the hallway and find a row of beds full of jocksters holding their trophies, as if that isn't cliche. I tell them that this is beginning to look like a frat house.

I walk outside and find lines of people playing catch. My dad is at the end of the row tossing a ball with one of the more troubled individuals here. My dad throws the ball a little too hard and it falls into a large bush. This kid goes to find it. Dream ends.

I wake up

Titanic

A dream from my past

A museum is excavating the historic, sunken steamer at the bottom of the north Atlantic, and piece by piece, tearing her apart to be rebuilt on land.

They request the help of several school kids at my elementary school. The kids line up in the shape of the ship to give the experts a visual of where the pieces should be assembled.

I am wholly against the idea of destroying the ship to rebuild it. I stand in the midst of the children and the museum staff and speak my mind on the matter. "You are grave robbers," I say, "that was the last place that many people saw before their death and you're going to take it from them. They're still down there. Their bones and dust is settled all around that ship and you're going to take it and all it's valuables and leave their remains in the deep darkness til the end of time." I shame them for what they're doing, bunch of grave robbers. Dream ends.

I wake up

The Secret Room

Dream 6/18/2016

I once heard that there was a secret room in my school that had been blocked off. Today I'm going to find it.

I grab the blueprints to my school and start investigating. I search and search but cannot find the hidden room. Then suddenly a man knocks down some drywall, revealing the room behind it. We walk inside and find years of school artifacts long forgotten. We rummage through everything. I find pictures of the old school administrator who hasn't been there for years. I find the podium that speakers used to stand at during chapels. I find my mom's Prius, WHAT?!? What is my mom's car doing in this secret room that's been sealed off for years. I look in the trunk of her car and find baby kittens. Their eyes are barely open. Right then, my aunt walks in and tells us that we must leave, "this room is not a place that we are allowed to be," she says. I ask why? What's wrong with us just looking at all this old stuff? It seems that whenever kids want to do something fun, adults come in and ruin it. She doesn't have an answer to my question, so we continue to look. Dream ends.

I wake up

The Dark Road Home

Dream 6/18/2016

A few of my classmates and me are coming back from a field trip. 

We stop at a gas station. The teacher asks me to go in and get her a bottle of Bud Light and a pack of ice. I go inside and look for both items. I look through all the beer and can't find one bottle of Bud Light. I ask an employee for help. He points to a refrigerator at the end of the store and tells me that the beverage is in there. I look in the frig' but there is nothing but bait and frozen meat. I keep looking. Dennis from my dialysis clinic appears next to me. We greet each other. I tell him what I'm looking for. He grabs a six pack of 8 oz beers that aren't Bud Light. He takes three bottles out, opens one and hands them to me. I give up and head to the cashier. The cashier rings me up and asks me if that's all, I tell him to hang on and I grab a Snickers. "Now I'm good." 

Some girls from the van come in and grab the stuff off the counter and head back outside as if they were annoyed that I was taking so long. I run outside and tell them that I forgot the ice. They become upset and run back inside. 

The teacher is taking each of the students home. We head out to Middletown to my house. The road is closed so we have to park and walk. We start down the dark country road. A car crashes through the "Road Closed" sign. Then another car does the same thing. I tell the teacher that they didn't put enough reflectors on the signs. We turn down my road. I talk about my neighborhood as if it's haunted. Each house has it's own haunting. Some houses we see ghosts, others we just hear noises. But the house next to mine is the one I'm most concerned about. A dog lives there, I believe it's demon possessed. We quietly pass by the house, but not without waking the beast. We hear the growl, then we see it's bloodthirsty eyes. Everyone is scared including myself. Dream ends.

I wake up

Billie Jean

Dream 6/18/2016

My class is preparing to give a performance to our families. The principal of our school is teaching us the dance routine to the song "Billie Jean" by the king of pop himself, Michael Jackson.

The entire class stands on stage as the audience awaits the dance. The music starts. We all begin to move. I realize that I don't have a fedora, which is essential to the song. I go on without it. I learned this dance perfectly back in the early 2000's with my cousin DJ, but the dance the principal taught is slightly watered down. I accidentally revert back to the original dance rather than the watered down version and begin to mess things up on stage. Everyone starts to forget their moves and the whole performance comes to a grinding halt. Dream ends.

I wake up

Vacation

Dream 6/7/2016

On a trip to Florida, I discover an awkward secret about my father.

We've rented cabins on the beach. We're staying in the same cabin that my dad stayed in on his vacation not long ago. While sitting on a boulder in the front yard, a blonde girl approaches me. She's a local. Instantly, I recognize that she's the girl my dad's been sleeping with. My dad is in his late fifties. This girl looks younger than me. It can't be love, my dad's not that nice. Gold digger, definitely.

I avoid the girl and walk to the back of the cabin onto a deck overlooking the ocean. The ocean will be my therapy. The way in which the waves crash onto the sand, without a break, and the seagulls speaking their minds off in the distance, somehow brings me peace. But the sunset is my craving. Watching it go to sleep under the green waters is like watching a thousand romances. It warms my skin  Dream ends.

I wake up

The Fourth Kind

Nightmare 5/31/2016

I live in a house in the countryside.

Aliens allow me to fly. I spread my arms and fly around the town, looking at old churches and schools. I come back home.

It's dusk. My sister, Kristen, is walking the dogs down the gravel driveway. The rest of my family is inside the house. The electricity cuts out and then comes right back on again . I hear my mom's blood curdling scream. I look toward the house. The shades are closed so I can't see inside. I look over toward Kristen, She shoots into the sky like something took her by the arm and yanked her out of this world at light speed.

Something strange is happening to me. I know that I'm about to be abducted. I hear the sound of my surroundings speeding up. A force grabs my body and I too am taken. Although the view from outer space is beautiful, the fear I feel is unlike anything I've experienced before. Dream ends.

I wake up

Beam Me Up

Dream 5/26/2016

I live in an advanced age. It is now possible to travel to other planets with ease, like you were taking a weekend trip to the beach.

My friend, Gary, and I travel to another planet. On this planet there are countries and continents just like Earth. When there, we take a bus to the different towns in the area. I tell Gary of my brilliant idea to stuff sand, dirt and water from different planets into glass bottles, label them and sell them.

We travel back to Earth. We shop at Lowe's. The entire time we are there, I am holding something in my hand. I can't quite remember what it was, but I think it was a doll. Strange, huh? Dream ends.

I wake up

The War in the Stars

Dream 5/21/2016

I'm in the field next to my old church in Anderson, Indiana. In between the church and the woods, I pitch a tent. A fancy igloo, no ice. The pastors daughter, Carrie, visits my igloo. She tells me about her new house, which she built where the gazebo used to be. We decide to go see Star Wars: Episode 8. The movie theater is where her house is. In the movie, Lando Calrissian has converted to the dark side and is now a storm trooper. He's played by Denzel Washington. Darth Vader is the main villain of the film, which is odd considering he's supposed to be dead.

Next, we watch Star Wars: Episode 9 which is entitled, "The Hard One." During the movie, the theater workers pause the film and demand our attention at the front of the room. They tell us that the upcoming scene has been difficult for some viewers, causing extreme nausea and sickness. It would help if we put a brass key next to our head during the scene and that will eliminate any chance of sickness. Carrie leaves the theater, I think to go find a key in her car. They resume the movie. The scene is of Luke Skywalker in a strange ship gunner pod. It's extremely fast. He is strapped into a speed absorbent harness. People get sick because the speed of the moment feels real. They feel as if they are there. Although it doesn't show, I think that Luke dies in this episode, considering it's called, "The Hard One." Dream ends.

I wake up