Good Wayne

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Dream Sequence

I was at my parent house.

I had been away for some time [1] and had no idea what was going on initially. My parents house was converted into a sort of way station for people passing through. Each room was full of cots and people sleeping here and there.

I vaguely recall family members, but I'm not sure if they were running the place, guests or just around. Either way, they weren't there very long.

I was given a cot up in the spare bedroom's closet, which had become big enough to fit a cot (in the real world, it's about as big as a shoebox). The closet was still that Neco-wafer pink it was when we moved in to the house back in '72. However, when I got to the cot, someone else was in it. Specifically, an old girlfriend (I'm keeping her name to myself thank-you-very-much).

So we started talking and I asked her what was going on and she seemed surprised I didn't know. Some time ago, an asteroid hit somewhere west of Boston. Only it turned out not to be an asteroid, but some kind of organic spacecraft. It also delivered a message that several, large killer asteroids were coming and that it was going to grow several spacecrafts that would save some of the population of the planet.

The house had become a processing point for those people boarding the closest spacecraft.

Things are a little sketchy from there. I wasn't on the list of people being saved, but she was. However, she wouldn't leave my side. I wandered around a bit and somehow ended up in a bladeless helicopter (so a hovercopter). I flew it out to where the ship was being constructed.

It was in the middle of a large wooded area and looked like an enormous twisting, tapered spire rising out of a large circular base. Sort of like a

I flew in closer and it was composed of lots of rounded, honeycomb holes. As I neared one, a sort slug-like creature poked out. It was gray and brown with a network of white veins over its skin, but no eyes only a large mouth. The mouth opened and a white, circular object fell out and immediately sprouted thin, white spider legs. It scurried off, climbing the ship where there were others near the top, building the spacecraft.

The old girlfriend was spooked and said something to the effect that we needed to warn everyone.

I pulled the hovercopter away and raced back to the house. I'm unclear now why I felt like I needed to warn people. There was something about the slug and the spiders that felt was wrong.

Unfortunately, when we got back, most of the people were gone. We stood in the street near the house and she shouted that she could see the ships. I turned around and looked.

The first one, was the one we had just seen. A swirling spire on a base. It spun slowly as it quietly drifted overhead. They were all quite, actually.

The next one, looked like an inverted bowl. But instead of being smooth, it too was swirled with those rounded honeycombs, as it was grown in a spiral. They looked as if they were made from metal, sliver and shiny.

A scant few people were milling about in the streets watching. I knew that we were the ones being left behind and there was this feeling of dread. The girlfriend clung to me--she was converted from going to staying.

Another ship followed that was a tube, like a sausage, with a sharp steel plow on the front. It was sort of like the end of Close Encounters where all the ships are wildly different, except in this case they weren't flashing lights or glowy.

There was at least one more in the distance, but the radio woke me up.

[1] I'm not sure where I was supposed to have been, but it would appear that Not On Earth is a good guess.

posted by Evil Wayne | 1:54 PM

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