Good Wayne

Friday, October 29, 2004

Dream Sequence

I had this dream last night were I was living at a marina. It was someplace tropical, or at least very warm. There were tons of boats and docks and it reminded me of the opening to Gilligan's Island, where they show you were the boat left from.

Strangely, I was also a woman, but it didn't seem to have any bearing on the story. At first, I was living with some strangers and it was a big house. There was a dog, I can't recall if it was any specific dog, just that it was brown and black. I would leave the slide-door open and the dog would run outside. I'd have to go after it and try to haul it back home.

When I did, the house was much smaller now. Like an apartment, two small rooms and a kitchette. There were mattresses on the living room floor and now it belonged to two aunts - then it switched to an aunt and an uncle. The "owners" seemed to bounce between those two sets throughout the dream.

At the house, the lights were off. And that's what it was at first, no power. Or the power had run out. It started to take on this run-down feel; the world had run down. And then some things just stopped, because time had now run out.

Water coming out of the faucet, just sat there frozen in time. I was at the sink trying to get something to drink and it was like a still image of a stream of water coming out of the long neck of the tap. I reached down and touched it, and it was like jelly. I could interact with it, but it wasn't moving anymore.

Everything had stopped like that. My aunt-aunt/aunt-uncle were also stopped. They lay on the mattresses in the living room as if they were dead, but they weren't. I played with some salt and poured it out watching it slow to a stop in mid-air.

Eventually I was outside again. There were other people coming from the other side of town. They, like me, were able to move outside of the stopped time. They were very angry and seemed to blame me for what was happening, but it's a bit fuzzy. They came onto the lawn and were shouting and ranting, but I can't make it out.

Dr Silverberg shows up. This is the guy from the Terminator movies (Earl Boen) - I just looked it up and his name was Silberman in the movies, but in my dream he was Silverberg. He makes the crowd go away. Like they should just go home and wait, because it will be over soon.

He comes into my house, with my frozen relatives and tells me that we're caught in a bubble of time and we need to get out before it's too late. The only way out is to take the monorail over a few blocks. So, we walk down to the monorail station. It's sunny and hot, there's no breeze, but the palm trees are swaying anyway.

Silverberg looks up at the monorail, it's shiny white with a blue stripe. The whole station is sea-blue and made of cement and crushed rock, giving it that by-the-ocean feel. The Doctor stops me from going up the stairs. I look up and Koko the gorilla is in the driver's compartment. She's wicked pissed off. Throwing a tantrum and roaring from the window. I think she's holding a doll or a kitten or something small and fuzzy.

Silverberg decides we can't leave if Koko is still in the driver's seat. I agree. So we go to the zoo or the office and there's a tranquilizer gun. This happens quickly, and we're back at the station. Koko is still raving from the monorail window.

The doctor hands me the rifle and as I start to take aim, everything begins to appear like it's outlined in pencil. I put the gun down and I look at it. Immediately, it starts to outline itself in pencil. The colors start getting flat and fade.

Silverberg says something like time is about to run out.

I run to a mirror, I'm still female -I don't look like anyone I know- and I have 70's Fara Fawcett hair, blonde and wingy. Each of the wings starts to outline in thick, pencil strokes. And it starts to become something from that Ah-Ha video, the doctor is frantic about time coming to an end. I start away from the mirror, very afraid...

Then I wake up.

posted by Evil Wayne | 11:18 AM

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