Suddenly….
I’m in a plane, I think, but its a big one, and looks like a big room inside. Not round at all, and i can’t hear anything to make you think you are in a plane. I’m sitting at a workstation, papers and electronics are scattered out all around me. I’m in an army, but I don’t want to be here, but everyone is pitching in right now, due to the big war going on. There are others here, like me, and the room is busy. We’re coming into it now, a skirmish, but we’re on the backside of it, not directly in ‘harms way’. The guy in charge is up on a raised platform, and he’s watching out the window. Something is happening outside.
Skip ahead… Now i’m up in arms with some of the other guys in the room, and we’re very unhappy with the guy in charge. How could he do that? We could have helped. We had the technology here to have helped. Sure, it would have meant us sticking our neck way out, but we would have been alright. I’m frothing inside with a rage about this, and I’m about to burst, but he’s trying to calm us down, telling us we have our orders and we must stick to them for the good of the whole. Screw the whole. I’m tired of not doing anything when we could do something.
Skip again. I’ve come unhinged, and I’m yelling at this guy. Others agree with me, but they are letting me do the talking, they don’t want to get on the loosing side of this little ‘battle’. I’m yelling how sometimes orders have to be bent, especially when we could have helped with little undue hardship on ourselves. I’m upset, but inside I know this guy is really right about the orders, and I know that these are just words. The phrase ‘catch 22′ filters into my head, and I realize I am trapped here with these thoughts, I can’t make headway towards anything. What the hell can I do? The guy is somewhat cowering in front of me, listening, but I can tell that he’s just going to ignore me.
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And then the phone goes off, and I wake up. I tried hard to get back into that dream. What the heck was so wrong? Could I win this arguement? It was gone, and now I’m just day dreaming outcomes, not actually in the dream anymore. I keep up the daydream for a bit, seeing if I can kick back into sleep and then….
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So there I am, up in the mountains, like, high mountains, lots of trees. I have a big metal building here, I own it, I spend a lot of time here, with a big roll up door in the back, and the inside is like a huge shop or garage. There is stuff everywhere, all very active, not dusty, smells like oily things. I’ve come up here to see the construction that is going on down past my shop, lots of construction, for a project i’m not entirely happy about, might have been something about government installations (like military or something, not sure). Anyway, I’m about to leave, go back down off this mountain to… somewhere… and I’m shutting stuff off and walking to the front door of the shop and I smell this smoke, like solder smoke. I turn back and as I walk to the back of the shop, the smell is getting stronger, i’m getting worried. This is my shop, why is it starting to smell so strongly of smoke? I note the back door is partially open, the smoke is coming in under it. I open it up, and look out at the trees, which are a good ways away from me, but they quickly turn into thick forest, and then I see it. Little pools of flame dancing through the trees, only a spot or two, coming towards me.
I grab a fire extinguisher, and using that I attempt to put out the closest ones, but they put themselves out as they get close, the ground must be wet here. I take the fire extinguisher and aim it high at the distant trees, somehow thinking I can put out the trees. As I do this, they begin to get redder, oranger, more of them are going up.
And then it gets weird.
I’m standing here, squirting this fire extinguisher, thinking I can stay here and make a stand and protect my shop, when out of the trees, running fast, bursts a skeleton of a human, still kind of red, as if he used to have meat on him not long ago, and he’s been in the fire. There might have been more than one, but this ‘guy’ is the only one that pays attention to me. He’s coming at me fast, but I let it go, still running the fire extinguisher, confused but not scared of what is happening. As he gets close, he yells at me, ‘You fool! That will never work! C’mon, follow me you have to get out of here!’. I stare as he bursts past me, considering what he is saying, look back at the fire, it’s getting closer, vague panic starting to well up inside me, the flames are now on three sides, I can almost feel the heat.
I look back at the skeleton, and he’s moving fast, and he turns and yells again, ‘C’mon if you want to live, c’mon now!’. I drop the fire extinguisher, and turn and run after him. It’s getting pretty dark, i’m having trouble following him, as he seems to be able to move like a rabbit through the fallen trees and bushes, but he’s singing a song, something bright and cheery, and it makes me think of Tom Bumbadil (sp?) out of The Hobbit for some reason, and I know in my heart he is doing this so I can hear him and try to stay up. I’ve run for a while, but I still know where I am, sort of, and I burst into a clearing. Suddenly, a white skeleton bursts out of the trees on the other side and runs past me, back the other way. I’m distracted, was this my guy? He was like bright white bones, not kind of reddish like the first guy. Have I been duped? I stop, and turn around, and realize I don’t hear the singing anymore, and I’m not sure where I am. The fire is no where to be seen, but I can hear something…
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And then the phone rings again and I wake up.
What the hell was that? It wasn’t really a nightmare, I wasn’t all that scared of these skeletons, just confused by the whole thing. I just had to get it written down before it left me. This was the second lucid dream I had last night, the first one I’m loosing fast. I got out of bed after this, 3 phone calls later, its 11:30am, I went to bed around 5 for no good reason. I want to ride my motorcycle today really bad…
Anyway, I just had to type these out. Do you think they mean anything? I’m confused, I usually don’t have these kinds of dreams, usually mine are more of adventure kind of dreams, I think…
Run!
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