Dreamocalypse

the mess in my mind at night

[dreamocalypse]

Vancouver Vacation

I’m with a group of friends, some recognizable some not. We’re renting a lodge of some sort and vacationing in Vancouver as out of towners. I’m watching a friends small dog for the afternoon and am in a cab heading into the city to explore. I get out of the cab and walk down the street, a blend of Vancouver skyline and European, old world charm, cobblestone streets and brick buildings, not much is familiar. Suddenly I hear the crack of gunshots and people are runnign from a building a block up the street. Turning right I run, picking up the dog, and head for a building to take cover. Once inside I run down a long dark tunnel like hallway with a bunch of people, it’s looking more and more like a transit station. I come up some stairs, carrying the dog and see many men with guns pacing around, being aggressive with the random people here. I’m panicing, making strange choices on where to go and can hardly think. I head towards a staircase going down but a gang of teenage boys dressed as boy scouts are coming up, taking off their costumes, all holding machine guns. It becomes clear I’ve ended up in their meeting place. The following moments are pandamonium, people running, shots being fired and I try for the stairs again, having to pass one of the guys with a gun. For some reason one of the guys passes me a harsh, machine gun looking hand gun. As I run down the stairs I fire shots into the wall in an effort to look like I’m on their side, trying not to hit any of the people also running away. One man walks against the current and I shoot him point blank. At the end of the tunnel theres a rescue effort under way, a helicopter is there to airlift escapees out of the zone. I throw the gun in a garbage bin, noticing their may be a body inside. I try to line up for the helicopter but a woman with a clipboard stops me to ask for payment. Still holding the dog the shock starts to set in, I can hardly talk. Shes asking for cash, collage tuition, any sort of compensation. I look out and notice I’m somewhere in Stanly Park and decide to walk out, the lodge isnt far from here.....back at the lodge theres a dead rotting eagle in the front yard. A raven carefully plucks a feather from the carcass and flys past a murder of crows

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Two Ghosts & A Raven Girl

It doesn’t start here but the memory is fading fast. I’m with B at the house of an old acquaintance. There are craft supplies everywhere; colored paper, glitter tubes, vases, tiny brown bottles and drawers full of more. She’s running a successful business selling framed butterfly’s. She directs our attention to the filthy couch, pointing out with pride her new “vegan” blanket. I want to object to such an asinine concept but stop short noticing how filthy everything is. She has a giant fluffy Old English Sheep dog that runs around and on top of everything. As she prepares two deserts I pick up a magazine and flip through an photo art based editorial featuring perfectly hip looking bundles of sticks and pine needles in white bowls featuring one sparkling Czech crystal. I’m annoyed at how simple it is and that I didn’t think of it and that its in a magazine at all. She takes one of the deserts out of the oven, cut into it and it’s entire insides spill all over the counter so we opt to eat the brownie cake. We decide it’s time to move on and end up in a very open forest. As we cross the fable style bridge B put his hand out to a raven who perches on him for a moment. It flies off and lands right behind me so I reach my hand out to it. A black gloved human hand touches mine, and I look up to see a girl of maybe 20 in a very elaborate bird costume. She’s acting just like a bird and has me convinced until I remember her hand and say “you’re not a crow”. She becomes upset and backs up slowly. She lays back, always looking at me, and begins to take off her feathered pants. It looks either painful or painstaking but as she removes them I notice patterns on her skin that reflect exactly the feathers she’s removing. I look to see if anyone else has noticed when I realize the entire forest floor is covered with girls in various states of costume. One is looking right at me, slowly playing with a knife giving me a menacing glare. I have to pass by her on the path and worry she’ll attack but she never rises. Is this a mental institution? Everyone seems so aggressive yet completely void of intent. This is where I wake for a moment, I get out of my bed with my blanket and start walking down a cement path bordered by trees and the odd street light. I’m around a corner when B calls out for me to come back. I turn around and get into bed. I’m almost asleep when someone bounds up onto the bed over me and straddles B. It’s an older woman, she’s completely naked, straddling Brad and looking right at him, not saying anything but moving so oddly, so sad and somewhat desperate. I’m shocked, not even quite scared I look to him and ask “do you know her?” Unfazed he says “Yes, I do, I found her” At this point we both shift her off of him so she’s slumped against the foot board facing us, her legs still strewn over mine. “Where?” I ask looking at him. His voice trembles as he says ”She was killed” and I look to see her black tongue hanging out of her battered face, her head wobbling like a zombie. B points to the floor beside me and there lies another man, on top of an oversize toy box, battered and dead.

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Kevin, The Devil & The Lion from Narnia

A bunch of people, mostly kids, are in the gym of a church playing some sort of game, throwing stuff at each other. Everyone starts to leave to go get hot dogs at Kevin’s(Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone) house and it ends up being just me and M and Kevin. I throw a few cotton balls at him and he gets upset for some reason and storms up to the second level of the church. M and I are also working on a musical thing of some sort and she tells me we need to pick costumes for our performance. We’re drinking tall cans of cider that turn into short cans of Palm Bay looking at sequined shorts when I start to hear rumblings from upstairs. Kevin is turning into a devil-like beast and is threatening to kill us all, he’s gathering an army and is growing to be 20 feet tall. We leave the church(after being berated by M’s bf for not being profesional enough) and head to Kevin’s house across the street. M dissapears and I try to tell Kevins mom(Catherine O’Hara) and everyone that we’re in big trouble. At first she just keeps asking “where’s Kevin” but when she hears me she yells for Kevins dad(yep, the movie dad) and they start to get super freaked out. When we look over at the church the sky has turned brownish orange and all the windows on the second floor have deep red velvet drapes. Finally I get everyone to take it seriously and we realise we’ll have to fight the Devil and his army(a cross between the flying monkeys from Wizard of Oz and Orcs) but there’s so few of us. We get ready for the attack, knowing we’re going to lose and feeling such dread when the lion from Narnia walks up and pledges his army in our defense, but we need to get the Devil to agree to hold off for a half hour because that’s how long it’ll take everyone from Narnia to get there….

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The Parachute

My dad and I are heading down to Pebble Beach to look for stuff in the rocks when we notice the largest parachute we’ve ever seen. It’s enormouse with a tiny little rattan seat attachment. There’s also several huge black birds in the sky circling the thing for a while, I figure they’re buzzards, waiting for the thing to crash and burn. The birds eventually go down to the beach and the parachute lands in a feild. I try to take as much silk as possible.

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Reaper Bottom

I’ve been put in charge of escorting a kitten and a young girl to a shelter of some sort. On the way we come across The Emerald and they’re having a hiring fair so I start to chat with one of the girls about what it’s like to work there and when I should bring a resume by. It turns out they’ve all been drinking because they’re about to wrap up and head downstairs to the staff christmas party. I’m not sure where the kitten and the girl are at this point so I go along to the party where I know no one but hope to make friends so they’ll hire me. When my friend D shows up I feel super relieved to know someone there but she storms up to me and shoves a book called Reaper Bottom into my hands and tells me that it’s “not acceptable to give a gift like that.” She says some other stuff then turns and walks away as I try to say “I’m sorry.” B and my mom show up, I try to tell B I want to go but he wants to stay so we agree to meet back at home. The Emerald is somehow on Cambie St, which somehow turns into Main St, and I’m suddenly on the southwest corner of Main and 12th with a large group of people when I look up into the sky and see faint lines of moving rainbows (like in jelly fish) in giant ovals in the sky. I stop and look and start to feel super freaked out when a large flame streaks across the sky. It’s clear that WW3 or the apocalypse is upon us and I ask the guy next to me what we should do. He tells me the nail salon across the street is a bunker and everyone starts running. All I can think of is B up at the party. The old man puts his arm around my waist really tight as we’re running but I somehow get him off and push him away….

I try to google Reaper Bottom when I wake up but what I end up with (which of course I can’t find now)is some German book Reaper von something something about the end of the world :/

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6 Girls Falling

I'm somewhere up near Kawkawa Lake and start to have a horrible feeling that my brother is going to hurt himself, specifically that he'll jump to his his death from a staggering height. I get in my car and drive until I feel like I'm in the right spot and stop and get out. I'm on the outskirts of a field very much like the one next to my parents house. I look around for a cliff or tree to try and spot him but nothing is around. Suddenly, about half a kilometre away I see a figure falling fast out of the clouds, but it's not my brother. It's a girl, her back to the ground, arms and legs towards the sky. She hits the ground and I see another not as far away, and then another right above me. Six teenage girls fall right out of the sky all with their back to the ground but the last three or four bounce when they hit the earth and all of them are completely unharmed. 

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Kitten Paws

Kittens are born with long oval-ish paws. The way they end up cute and round is to force them into a small plexiglass box.

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Tony

I'm in the hotel room Brad and I are sharing with a friend. The two have them gone out for a drink at the hall and I'm getting ready. I notice a red dot on the wall, its following me. I duck under the sill of the window to avoid it. A man comes through the door, his name is Tony, he was mentioned to us by a low level drug dealer we bought from the night before. I don't recall what the fuss had been about but we were threatened with "Tony." I ask in a panic where the red light was coming from and he pulls out a large but compact machine gun and shoots all around me. He asks where Brad and our friend is and I try to stall him. He pulls out a large bottle of white wine(made of Punctum grapes) a baguette and some cheese and digs in, he pours me a glass and tells me to stop being so nervous. When he's tired of waiting around he decides to go looking for them and brings me along. We take his car(a lime green mini) and find a few of his men who know they're at the hall and sends them out. We drive around for a bit while he decides what to do with me but I convince him a walk around the lake is worth doing. We go back to the hotel so I can change, he waits outside but I have to keep the door ajar. Once inside I see the shower has been running and see Brad through a crack in the bathroom door. I expect to find him horribly battered but he's only annoyed. I try to tell him that this is very serious but he brushes it off and we start to loudly argue. Tony comes through the front door and slowly picks up a pair of sissors and throws them at Brad. They graze his arm and stick into the wall.....

The next day at work, where we sell Punctum red wine, I tell my boss I had a dream about a wierd guy offering me the white wine not even thinking it existed. He tells me our restaurant mistakingly got a case of Punctum white on my day off

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The Flood

I'm in the house of a neighborhood friend looking out the front window at a field. I'm there with an old friends family. There's a party for someone's birthday, an elderly woman who demands that I find the perfect glass for her port, which proves impossible though the giant ornate china cabinet has every other kind of glass. Everyone is on edge and I learn that a flood is expected due to the heavy rain. I look out the window again and from behind a small cluster of trees the water comes across the field straight for the house. First it just covers the grass but a second wave comes rushing and engulfs the house. It comes up the stairs and fills the bathroom to the ceiling. Just as the panic sets in the water recedes. Someone tells me they won the radio contest and chose the Avril Lavigne CD for me. I call the radio station back and ask if I can switch it.....I walk out of the house and up the stairs of a warehouse to hear a large symphony and choir doing a rendition of "Too High" by Stevie Wonder. I wait until it's finished then enter the room loudly praising the song and regretting how late I am. The scene is dark and the vibe becomes uncomfortable. I feel heavy anxiety, I've done something wrong but I'm not sure what....My brothers and I are at our house in Hope. The sky is red like a storm is brewing. The dog is sick and we've been told to put him down. We're in our dining room, I recognize the vinyl floor and rose colored venetian blinds. Out of nowhere my youngest brother takes a large kitchen knife and repeatedly stabs the dog in the chest. It's horrific but we don't stop him. He finally gives up but the dog is still alive. I take him out side and shoot him with a shot gun. It comes to light my anxiety is warranted, I'm wanted for the murders of Ella Fitzgerald and Tyson(a prep cook I worked with) and I know I'm guilty. I remember the little things I missed when trying to rid myself of evidence, receipts with his bank info, cell phone histories. We're burying the dog in the yard, our cat is also ill, and a detective is on to me. He follows me from here on out through several more scenes, getting particularly close during a trout fishing trip in an ancient Aztec fountain.....   and this is an example of why I'm calling it Dreamocalypse

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The Camen

Home alone I put our cat in a camen skin, cause that's what makes sense, and find that there's a battery pack attached. When you flip the switch it makes the whole thing vibrate... I turn to find myself in a hockey rink, maybe somewhere near Abbotsford. My brothers have played many tournaments here and I'm always there with them and my dad. As we're leaving I decide it's time to take all the stuff I've been stashing in various rink rooms; books, beads and sparkling shoe clips, but I get busted by the manager who assumes I'm stealing. Suddenly we're back at our house in Hope and the authorities are bearing down on us from across the field. I get my mom and the cat in the jalopy and slam it into reverse just as they get to the driveway and speed backwards down the street but they easily cruise up and open the door...