My Dream From The Other Night

The only dreams I bother to share are silly/scary ones in fleeting conversation or absolutely amazing ones told like short stories. This is an example of the second one.

I fell asleep again after waking up for about ten minutes and in moments time started having the sensation of dreaming. There were some hazy moments of me and a group of people observing a large thicket growing on the side of a large mountain. We seemed to be ascending this mountain via a grassy road. Suddenly, it began to become more vivid. 
        I was walking on a dirt road up a mountain toward what looked like a giant telescope at the end of a cliff. There were people walking all around it and many birds were flying overhead. The sun moved through the sky quite quickly, as did the clouds. On the dirty floor were flowers growing through cracks in the sediment, occasionally darkened by the shadow of Daniel, Mandie, and Saren, who walked just behind me towards this telescope. A sign horizontal on the floor is found. It reads "Yield". 

        I turned around, stopped in my tracks, and see that my three friends behind me were holding lamps and trying to plug them into the floor. Their unexplainable manner in doing this, this impossible to describe movement of their bodies and incomprehensible voices, caused what felt like my eyes being sucked back into my brain to occur. My face lost all dimension and feeling as the rest of my body slowly took flight and evaporated with buzzing euphoria. The spectacle before me was dissolved by blocks of color and what could only be described as a concentrated cloud of purple flying insects. Locusts perhaps. I had my entire being enter a sort of out of body state existing in muddy, dusty old womb literally infinitely deep in the freezing earth's crust. My mind searched lifelessly almost for a train of thought to follow. I see a sort of montage of random distorted memories unfurl before me. As these clips of my flawed memory transitioned from one to another, the prior one would descend into my body(?) as the coming one would ascend from it.
        Soon a thought was chosen for me, and all possible lucidity I might have been having was depleted. I was delusional! I was sucked into some variation of Mandie's candlelit room and the wings of a dusty, abandoned theater. Her room stood there amongst broken old mannequins, furniture, and trinkets, as if it were a set waiting to be used. I stood upright on the top bunk of the bed messing with the curtain ropes dangling from the dripping cieling. The flicker upon the moving curtains seemed incredibly fast, eerily so. I look down and see Mandie trying on a wide variety of lavish, dusty veils from a bin. Her hands rubbing the mirror clean every now and again. Daniel stood upon Mandie's bed, sat as usual just below a large, gaping window. Only instead of a car dealership, there was just a twilight horizon slowly changing color, which leaks onto Daniel's back but doesn't travel much farther than that. He was wielding a baseball bat as if it were a golf club and he had his eyes concentrated on the pile of baseballs restlessly sitting on the rattling bed. He does a quick motion and with the bat he sends many baseballs flying into the shadows that hide behind this disquieting flicker, this flicker that paints potential nightmares all over my psyche. Smashes were heard where the balls traveled and we all exchanged laughter. I hopped impossibly from the bottom bunk to the top bunk repeating over and over without actually heeding my words "I can't do this while awake. I can't do this while awake. I can't do this while awake". 

        Doing this, one of my shoes flew off of my feet and landed in an open drawer nearby, which then closed on it's own accord. Mandie backs up towards her desk in fear at this sight. I stop my charade as daniel tries to squeeze open the closet, which proved difficult and strenuous. Without thought of seeing what may come next, I vapidly walk out of the door and into Mandie's living room, where Mandie and Nicole sit happily chatting with Saren tickling daniel on the dining room table. I look up and see that this is all taking place in a theater orchestra with people in high class clothes watching us from above all around. A theater in the round! I quickly forget about this, for I must now get into character. That is what I thought. 

In the middle of the floor was a mini refrigerator, and upon opening it, I saw that it held many fishbowls filled with dozens of goldfishes. Upon turning around, I saw Mandie and Nicole quickly get sucked into the couch cushions. This proved quite horrifying so I stopped paralyzed in my stance. Staring at the couch, i see human hands slowly start scuttling from underneath it. I saw that these arms belonged to a man from the Z realm. He closed his eyes and smiled at me with a little giggle. His hand points towards Mandie's front door and the moment I turn my gaze that way, I see Mr. Celani walk in holding Dusty the dog on a leash. Dusty pulled free from his grasp and ran towards the kitchen. With my eyes following him, I see that he stops and gives forth doggy cries and sadness trembling. Daniel and Saren had both dissapeared. 

Turning back to Mr. Celani, I saw that he was ripping the couch apart revealing many silver springs. He turns back and accuses me of stealing his leads. Looking up, I see that the people in the theater were all running around in circles and hitting one another over the head in a vaudeville fashion. Mr. Celani then affably took my arm and threw me onto the balcony, shattering the glass in front of it. Standing up again, I found that the balcony had become wooden and considerably larger. Beyond it was La Crascenta as seen from Oakmont View late in the night. I knew I was scared for myself, but i couldn't recall why. I felt the calm sound of the crickets all throughout me and there was an eerie calm before the storm. I knew that in moments, something was going to come after me, but at the time I just couldn't recall what it was. My mind seemed to have formed something from thin air at that point, because it must have been really convinced that a problem was to come. I look down on my hands and see many giant purple spiders biting at me rapid fire. I get on my knees and scream in horror. 

        Then i woke up. Laying there in my bed, I gaze at my hands, which have morphed into my bedspread. It occurs to me. I'm still dreaming. Saren then broke down my door and came storming. He was in his Z-realm manifestation, which meant he looked like a homeless pirate from the future. he threw me out of bed and yelled orders to get my shoes on. My windows were breaking all around me as my cieling began to leak. it was so fucking exhilarating!!!!!!!!! He pushes me out into my front yard threw a window after I hastily go my outfit together and rushes me to his car. All around us was chaos. The trees yanked themselves from the soil from which they came and with dirt falling from the dangling roots, they were hurled hundreds of feet into the air and then down onto my neighbor's houses, destroying them. Ahead of me I saw the family parallel to us hastily shoving pets into their car while crying. The doors flew open and I got into the back seat of Saren's car. David Choi was in the passengers seat looking at a crudely drawn map and the whole scenario was rather hectic. At this point it became quite easy to understand that this was all a dream and things began to sizzle a bit! 

I told the other two that i'm dreaming and that the science they were going by didn't actually exist. I told them this and we all seemed to leave our bodies for a moment. We just ragdolled as the car took flight with the trees. Looking out the window with my droopy, dazed eyes, I saw the branches straight ahead floating through the air. I opened the car door and went astray from the others. I was too relaxed for this silliness. Watching the car with Saren & David floating about in their belted seats with gravity gone, I drifted off. It was all so very silent. The trees gave forth no sound as they plummeted towards the earth upon the houses. The crashing below was but a whimper! After some time had passed, after I felt this simplistic buzz all through me quite enough, I lowered myself back to the ground, where Saren and David were waiting for me at CV park. I landed on the day-lit grass and immediately began joking with them and knocking over trash cans. We tore at the ground and tried climbing very treacherous trees, all while I began to notice that the mountains all around us were on fire. Heat waves were all over the air and the others began to perspire, convulse, and tire. I decided to take action by going down to my knees, hiding my arms in my shirt, wiggling about as if at that drum circle, and repeating in my head "Oh! You're Cold! Oh!". 

        After the wiggling had ceased, I saw the flames on the mountains still, but David & Saren were throwing snowballs at one another, laughing and doing impersonations. Really good ones I might add. I began to join them in this gallyvanting, when suddenly they dropped their snowballs and pointed towards the woods. They began running after them and I got confused, along with temporarily loosing my lucidity. I drop to the ground and it begins forming into my bed. Thinking this was my body's way of telling me I was about to wake up, I tried to get back up, only to be held down by forgetting the ambition. Then, Saren jumped into view and took me by the hand. Up I went! He and David were running after something they had seen. It was Gary, my old corn-snake. Chris, I found this over there in the snow. Isn't it yours? This is what Saren said. 

        I take gary and place him on my head where he makes a hat out of himself. Where has David gone? Looking over, i see him digging in the snow gleaming with the reflection of the flames all around. Digging with his hands. We walk over to see what this was all about. He had found coffins. Upon opening, we discovered that Mandie and Daniel were occupying them, perfectly alive. They both arise and begin to run around aimlessly but happily. I stared at a blank spot in the snow and created a huge snowman riding a snow-horse with my mind. The musket he had in his hands was real and it had live ammunition. Saren runs up to me and shows me his palm, which has the letter A on it. He tells me that he was also dreaming and that he had control over things too. He pointed the snowman's aim towards me and the gun fires. Out of my wound comes not blood, but fireworks. Yet I remain unharmed. I took the musket under my control and shot at Saren but missed and hit Mandie. Out of her neck flew those fireworks that spin on the ground, whistle, and send colorful sparks every which way. She laughed and rolled around on the floor among these little guys. Daniel hastily hid in a tree but Saren and I were both firing the gun in random directions and he was eventually hit as well. Flares exploded from his head wound and landed all over the place. David gazed up at the falling flares and exclaims about how excited he is. 

        Then, without much lucidity, I begin sprinting into the distance. The sounds of laughter and screaming around me stopped and turned to calls of my name. Chris? Where are you going? I just kept running towards the distant horizon. Then I woke up.