Dreampost 3
Three memorable dreams from last night
1.) Basically just me going through a strange version of Dark Souls that my mind has put together. I have been having a lot of dreams like this lately. Basically it’s just as terrifying, tense, and stressful as the video game, except it feels real. This one had elements of J.R.R. Tolkien thrown in towards the end, i.e. large fantasy-themed battles and confrontations, with me on the front lines. Then last thing I remember is an army of pit bulls charging at an army of nondescript zombie dogs.
2.) I am at some kind of cool store in my hometown where you can freely use PCs, like an Internet cafe but better and with really good computers. I go out to my car for a minute to grab something, and when I turn around my boss from my previous job - a respectable but fierce older woman who is not currently fond of me - is hanging out right by the entrance. Obviously I want to avoid speaking with her, so I walk hurriedly across the parking lot towards the strip mall on the other side. The sky is grey with low-hanging clouds, on the verge of raining like most of my dreams that take place in my hometown. The opposite strip mall has a Chipotle and some weird little gym, like Planet Fitness but tiny and with like four machines. I don’t go to Chipotle because in both my dream and in real life I am trying to save money and cultivate healthy eating habits *eyes roll at self* so I go into the gym. I notice my boss is also walking towards the strip mall, and I assume she has no reason to go into the gym, so I hang out just inside the entrance. What do you do when you’re at a gym just to avoid talking to someone and not because you’re actually going to work out? Well I notice my boss walking towards the entrance, her black heels clacking on the pavement, so I rush over to the counter. There simply isn’t enough time to explain the situation - I’m here to avoid someone not to exercise - so I kind of just look at the two staff members with a pleading look as my former boss walks in and starts making very aggressive and judgmental small talk with me AND the staff members, asking me about my new job, etc. Apparently she’s at the gym because she does some kind of weird part-time management and is there to grab a couple things from the back. I sign a weird little piece of paper that gym members sign, because at this point I need to act like I went to the gym on purpose, and I go over to a treadmill and just run until she leaves. It’s at that point I go and explain myself to the nice staff, who totally understand my predicament. I go outside to find that due to construction and renovation, the Internet cafe has been completely demolished, so I go back into the gym and run on the treadmill some more.
3.) My boyfriend and I go to see the new Star Wars movie (The Last Jedi), and despite our enthusiasm it turns out to be absolutely terrible. It’s nothing like any of the previous movies, just a bunch of cameos, trippy graphics, and too many Death Stars. We kept texting and getting up to use the bathroom, and an hour into it we noticed half the audience had left. We wouldn’t leave though because as true Star Wars fans we had to stick it through. The last thing I remember is a Death Star shooting at Earth, which doesn’t make sense because the series takes place in a galaxy far, far away… but the laser doesn’t completely destroy the planet, it just leaves a huge gaping crater, and the Earth gradually crumbles apart. So bad!