Clowns
I'm sitting in a restaurant with a bunch of close friends.
There are a lot of gaudy multicoloured clowns suspended from the ceiling.
I suddenly realize that 'moments in love' by the Art of Noise is playing.
Everything is in slow motion.
Owls in our toes
Sort of a love story between me and this man
who works at an underwater alternative clothing store.
To get into this store, you have to dive into a lake, and swim to the bottom.
You also need special ID to get in.
One of the men lets me in without this ID.
He's really beautiful; dark, shiny, black ringlets, olive skin-
Then one day I swim to the store, and he's gone.
A gross, rubbery fat man sits in his place
telling me that the 'other guy' got fired.
All of a sudden I'm in the middle of a greatly distorted Carnarvon Park
next to a big black horse.
I get on the horse and ride around the park, then over an electric blue fence.
Next to the fence stand three green queen mothers, all exactly the same.
They smile and wave as I fly past.
I ride over a small bridge and through some trees.
In these trees live two colonies; 'Smart' and 'Stupid'.
I find the man's residence (among the 'Smart) and him inside.
He tells me a story about hanging sheets between the wall and your toes,
so you can catch owls.
Then we fall asleep.
Easter bunnies
I walk past a cross road, and in the intersection is a little girl.
She is carrying a large box with 'Easter bunnies' scribbled on the sides,
and streamers stapled everywhere.
I help her carry the box to a small, green church.
We put the box down, and I look inside.
In the box are three large grey rabbits and a small white one.
The larger rabbits start to shift and change, turning into two cats and a Chihuahua,
I walk into the church, put in my fare, and go to sit in the back of the bus.
Three Rastifarians get on and sit next to me.
Two of the men have long, beaded braids,
the other has long dreadlocks and is named Gala.
The bus drives away.
Nightmare
Millions of dead people are outside of my house, trying to get in.
All of them are screaming and decomposing.
My family is disfigured and distorted.
I run outside and into the fog, which is safe
but it's not, because suddenly I'm being chased by a corpse
who is babbling about wet leaves.
It starts running, screaming "kill the child! kill the child" over and over.
I try to run, but it's as if I'm underwater.
More bodies appear, all mumbling about things.
It becomes hard to breathe. They get closer and closer,
It smells like rot and they all reach their arms out towards me-
then I'm covered in great masses of worms.
They're cold and dirty and have huge mouths with sharp teeth, but that's all; no faces.
The worms are different shades of black and grey.
I start to scream...
[then wake up]
Bathtub
A bunch of friends and I are clothed in tinfoil and sitting in a huge outside bathtub.
Next to us is a large glass box with a fancy cafe inside, and a lot of plants.
A group of Chinese men in business suits are inside the cafe, pointing at us and laughing.
A blue hooker steps out of the glass with one of the men, who is crying,
but the others can't pass through the glass.
We all get out of the tub, pick it up, and hurl it through the window.
There is a blinding flash for an instant.
For a moment the box looks like a bubble, then pops.
Everything vanished- the box, the tub, and all the people,
except for a shadow of me,
like a negative.
Veinsky
I'm in a cottage made of trees, lit only by water candles.
I walk outside.
The birds are flying upside down, and the sky is filled with rainbow veins.
Dry ice
I'm living in a small apartment with Liz, Bruno, and Michael (L).
There are plastic panic dentist chairs everywhere,
and a computer with Haysi Fantayzee programmed onto it.
We're all tired, and watching TV,
which is showing reverse nightmares in flashes.
Liz is standing on a huge staircase holding a piece of dry ice,
which fills the room with blue smoke.
I go to a mirror and put on hundreds and hundreds of layers of mascara,
which makes my eyelashes about four inches long.
Then we're all sitting on the floor, chanting
with blue clouds floating all around us.
The fernsack murders
I'm at some sort of camp.
I don't know anyone, and I feel tense and alien.
There have been several murders, but they're unsolved and ignored.
I'm alone in a large building, in the middle of the night,
listening to the radio in a big, fairly empty room with high ceilings and yellow walls.
A rope hangs from the center of the ceiling, leading to a small lightbulb.
I know who is killing people, and I'm waiting for him.
The last person he murdered was a young girl he was having an affair with.
The man is tall, heavily built, has a stubby nose, heavy salt and pepper facial hair, and cold eyes.
I enter a dark room, reach for the light, then notice a large 'fern sack' hanging from the ceiling.
(a large body bag filled with damp moss and ferns)
It opens, and he steps out, a thick fog substance comes out of his mouth...
[the phone rang and woke me up]
Witchbook
I'm reading 'Witchbook' -a very old collection of black magic spells.
I don't want to, but I have to.
There is a black cat named 'Pain' wandering around.
Two evil sisters; 'Hate' and 'Ignorance' dress me as Bast
and force me onto a sled pulled by seven black rabbits.
On the sled is a large silver bullet encrusted with jewels.
We pass an ice sculpture, then a frozen lake that has 'wrong' words cut into it.
I escape, but by accident I take the bullet with me.
Scrapbook
I'm making clothes with Sara, then my mom (who has really long hair again)
shows up with my brother.
We look through a very old leather bound scrapbook that looks like a box.
It's filled with pictures, old and new.
There are photos of me in a sailor suit (CGIT?), Dan when he was really young,
me in a purple satin dress holding a blue present with a silver bow (to give to Liz),
a really old picture from the war (of 'General W.C. Fields'), and my parents as flower children.
Benjamin's
There is snow everywhere.
I'm skiing around downtown, and there's hardly anyone there.
I'm following tracks and trying not to fall down.
I ski to Benjamin's cafe. The windows on the door are broken
and there are flowers everywhere.
The bar stools are REALLY high,
and the rest of the place is tall, skinny and distorted; seeming twice as big.
Scott is working, and is complaining about the cold weather.
I leave alone and ski down a wide, empty path that has a lot of trees on either side.
Rednecks
I'm in a negative small town.
I see a big truck with a lot of weird stuff piled in the back and a 'for sale'
sign up.
(Like a mini flea market)
I walk over and start picking things up - a small green cat toy,
a bunch of faded photos of a really tall really thin girl (Edie Sedgewick?),
a big army bag with a thin, faded peace symbol sewn onto it,
and other writing that's too faded to read.
The bag is quite heavy. I try to unzip it, but I can't.
Then I'm attacked by a bunch rednecks and run away.
Horror play
I'm at a 'horror play'.
On the stage there is a little, short, skinny man unwrapping a mummy.
There are firecrackers going off and bright flashes of light everywhere.
Some rude Italian chick wants to beat me up,
but I spray perfume all over her and she backs off.
Then my dad and my brother are there.
Everything's all warbled.
It's as if I'm on acid, and I'm trying to act straight.
Plastic circles start flying around everywhere.
An obese woman appears, shouting about her "tour concerts".
There is a black and white photo of Robert Plant on the wall.
I'm trying to sneak into the second show.
Dinosaur
I'm in another country, world, universe...I'm not sure.
Dan and I need new pink, round wheels for this surreal vehicle we have.
I walk over to a beach with pale blue sand and a lot of people wandering around.
Under a bridge I find a IMMENSE dinosaur.
The dinosaur tells me a story, then she starts to cry, and fades away.
Statues
I'm in a huge, empty art gallery, trying to escape from the 'Terrible Woman'.
There are weird paintings, metal sculptures of twisted demon people, trees and plants,
and big lockers that all have paintings of the Mona Lisa on them.
All the Mona's start laughing hysterically.
I go down a flight of stairs and go outside.
A Volkswagon beetle pulls up,
and the Terrible Woman jumps out with two large men.
Grimly (Karen) appears and screams "return to the sanctuary!".
We run inside and hide behind some plants,
holding our breath until they run past us and we can breathe again.
Then I'm alone.
I run outside, passing a giant statue of a really distorted family,
all screaming and laughing at the same time.
I finally get to a GIANT statue, at least the size of a house, called 'Love'.
The statue is two giant figures; one black, one silver,
distorted and merged like mountains.
There are strange metals scattered around the ground.
I climb up into the sculpture and become part of it when I fall asleep.
More rednecks
(similar to Jan. 14)
I'm in a trailer looking at a portfolio of pictures.
The photos show Edie Sedgewick with long, black hair.
Grimly appears, and we are suddenly being chased by rednecks,
because she stole their toy camera.
We are joined by a young pregnant woman, who was raped by her redneck half-brother.
We all dive underwater to hide something under a chair that is at the bottom.
We can all breathe under the water (or don't have to).
Grad night
It's grad night.
There is a ledge in the school where every year the graduating class puts their bottles
and glasses, and the oldest ones are smashed to make room for the new ones.
Liz and I put our red glass goblets there, filled with melted tinfoil.
We leave the school and walk down the street.
There are drunk people everywhere, all laughing and throwing ice cubes.
Liz and I go back to our 'home', the house in Blowing Rock,
only now the house is here in Vancouver.
Photobooth
Dan has wild orange and blonde dreadlock hair extensions.
We spend all our money in a photobooth, taking hundreds of pictures.
I walk to Fiona and Elsie's house, step back outside for a moment,
then turn around to find a million houses,
all exactly alike, so I get lost and can't find their house again.
Then I'm participating in a treasure hunt.
Peter, Alan, Gary, etc. are all there. I'm leading it.
Everyone else seems quite stupid and slow.
Elmer Fudd
I'm in the graveyard across from John Oliver school.
I'm looking at a cement angel whose wings have been broken off.
There is a photograph of a little girl with short blonde hair attached to the grave.
I see two children running away. I chase after them, but they vanish.
I meet up with some friends and we climb into 'The Tree',
which turns into a dragon with very long legs.
Then I'm on a bicycle doubling someone else.
We nearly go off a cliff, then ride into a school and down some stairs.
We pass the 'Foxy Momma' woman who is holding a red T-shirt.
Then I'm in a forest, looking up at a monster Elmer Fudd doll
that is hanging in the air, like a super blimp.
I steal the bathing suit it's wearing and run away.
Then I'm in a shoppe with Liz and Chantelle,
who want to steal rings, tiny metal bicycles, and a plastic telephone.
Reincarnation
There are electrical things killing people.
I run into a room and bolt all the locks on the right side of the door.
The door opens to the left.
I get an image of Steve (K) when he was very young.
He's dressed in skins, killing whales. Blood, bones, and meat everywhere.
An Indian runs up to an old nun and scalps her.
She stands up, bleeding everywhere, red running down her face.
She hands me a cloak. "Bury it, you fool" she hisses "my child is dead."
Mirrors have minds of their own. There are 'opposite twins' there on the other side.
Then I'm on a jungle gym roof.
Liz is there, with long, wavy blue hair.
She jumps off the roof, killing herself and twisting her arm around backwards.
I have to cut her arm off, and as I do, I scream; breaking and dying too.
We are reincarnated as porpoises with swirly tails.
I think that we can stay safe under the water, but somehow we are both killed again,
and transferred to another dimension/plane of existence.
Everything is like a giant perfect oilslick, with swirly colours.
All the souls of this plane are joined and just flow.
Wine
Richard Chamberlain is dressed like a priest and pouring out blueberry wine.
Two drunk women with nearly finished martinis are trying to get some.
He throws a cup of wine at a bright, white, lace wall,
leaving a beautiful blue-purple stain.
Probes
I go to a party, but there are too many 'probes' there.
(People who try to touch you in that 'no' way)
Especially repulsive is a short, wide fellow with buzzed hair.
Then I'm walking down a train track, and meet up with Liz.
We climb onto an overpass that is like a roller coaster.
We're hiding from Dave (J), who has a moustache and is in bad drag.
We get on a bus. Everyone's smoking pot and wearing floppy red hats.
Faces are shifting.
John Travolta
I'm on some ranch with a lot of 'Disco' people.
There is a big dance/party going on.
John Travolta is there, thriving and thinking he's foxy.
He turns into a pervert and starts to chase me.
The ranch catches on fire. Burning people are running everywhere.
[My friend Mira had this SAME dream on the SAME night.
I found this very strange. Very.]
Bathtub house
I'm living in a giant 'bathtub house' with a bunch of hippies.
The house is dirty, but every room has a different bathtub filled with something.
(Flowers, ink, jellybeans, toads, etc.)
There is a huge pipe in the middle of the room; decorated with angels.
People are twisted and violent, and there is a display of screaming dolls.
I try to leave, because things are turning WRONG.
The sky is red and it's raining blood and thorns.
There are two yellow moons in the sky that look like two eyes, weeping.
Trail
Mira, Tori, and I (and sometimes Liz) are hiking up a forest trail.
It's snowing. We get to a clearing. The sun is black, but somehow looks like an egg yolk.
We leave, and I get on a bus with Tori.
There is a black girl on the bus named Michelle.
She looks like Tori, but has pinkish-purple hair.
There is a VIP on the bus in front of us,
but I don't know why he's so damn important.
Nudist colony
I'm at Grimly's house, which is in the middle of a nudist colony,
so we have to run quickly through the yard to catch the bus when we leave.
We go to Tim's mother's house. She tells us he's grown a beard and she hates it.
I back up into a wall and nearly knock down a china plate that is hanging there.
She tells us to come back "after the show".
We leave and walk past a pet store, where Paula works.
Inside is a huge tank of big white fish.
We keep running into Joel and his friends, and eventually go to 'The Wall' with them.
The Wall turns into a house down the street from my parents house,
where there is a formal party going on.
We go in, and I see Happy and Hannie watching us through a window.
Pooh Corner
Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and I are water skiing at Spanish Banks.
Novocaine
Benjamin's cafe is closing. All the staff are on a bridge.
I walk and walk until I get lost.
I find 'Wedding Marchers' and join them.
We raid both a chocolate store and a lingerie store.
I've had a tooth pulled out, and the novocaine is wearing off,
but it feels really funky.
There are children running everywhere.
Drag show
I'm in a huge hotel for a drag show.
Ore room has chocolates on the walls, in the flowers, and in boxes.
There is a very peculiar butler there, names Asteroth.
Sonny comes in and gives me $150 to buy lunch for him and Kitty.
He's wearing a really strange hat, and has a silver fish around his neck.
Then I'm carrying a fancy dress.
Kitty wants it, but knows that it's too small, and is pissed off about this.
Kitty resorts to being sad and bitchy, and is showing a 5:00 shadow.
Cartoongirl
Like a fairietale.
A cartoon girl grows up and lives with two bitch sisters.
A guy; in the form of a bubble, from a different dimension falls in love with her.
They try to break into a whole different dimension with different forms,
by playing blue shades of music on keyboard keys across the two dimensions,
which split into a third, and they escape.
Flood
I'm living in an old house in the country, and it's during a flood.
Someone has channeled the water into their basement to water marijuana plants.
Cary Grant lives in the house next door, and is helping people.
A native boy on a horse is playing Frisbee, and falls, breaking his leg.
A nosy neighbor woman is answering questions, then realizes that her house is on fire.
Flood water is channeled into house water, so the ground dries.
The neighbor woman is shouting "if you have to smoke that stuff I'll get Officer Flannagan!"
Decapitation
A decapitated kid swinging on a swing.
Claire is sitting on a tire swing, watching a TV program called 'Trauma'.
The show consists of perverted cartoons
and a short, violent poetry segment called "II Book".
My inferno
I'm visiting an underwater place for the dead.
I feel like Dante.
I find a clay mannequin with huge, bloodshot eyes.
There are parasites in the water, that cause it to boil.
Orchids
I'm in my old room at my parent's house.
Christopher (R.) is there, and I want him to leave.
He pushes me onto the floor, and orchids start to grow out of his skin.
He pulls the three skin/petals back and starts to bleed.
Amputation
I have had to have my legs amputated from the waist down.
I give the bones to Marcel, who hangs them in his closet.
I drown myself in his bathtub.
Hum
Marcel sends me a videotape of himself and I watch it, missing him.
Then together we're in a big store that is filled with blue light.
Tiny, luminous, white things are floating all around us.
The only sound is a white noise hum,
like the sound of amplified fluorescent lights.
Giant harmonica
I find a giant harmonica at an abandoned bus stop.
I'm trying to decide whether I should take it or not.
Tattoo
I have the face of the Cheshire cat tattooed on my ankle.
I'm repeatedly trying to put a silver pin I have (of a reclining nude woman)
into the washing machine, but it keeps reappearing to my hand.
Zombies
There are shadows all over the ground
that turn out to be from floating bubbles that are covered in blood.
An old couple dies and come back as hard plastic zombies on PCP.
They are insanely slaughtering everyone in sight.
The old man zombie has a power drill in my head.
As I die, I wake up.
[With a horrible migraine, I might add.]
Festival
I'm at a fence/wall at an outdoor festival.
I'm reading messages that are scribbled onto pieces of coloured paper and pinned to the wall.
There are people in odd, colourful costumes; twirling fire, on stilts, hanging from trees, etc.
I buy a popsicle and can smell cotton candy and corndogs.
There are white ribbed paper plates stained with food littering the ground.
I pick them all up and put them in the trash.
There are Gypsy children around,
whose teeth are too big for their mouths, which is extremely creepy.
They're running amok and wearing striped clothing.
There is circus music playing, but it's too fast and too loud.
There is glitter in the air, getting into my eyes.
Chaos
I'm at the old Zen Cafe. Tamea shows up and invites me to her friend's party.
I decline and leave, but change my mind and come back,
but the lights are off, it's cold, and no one's there.
I think to myself "but I was only gone for a minute..."
I reach for my keys and find them gone.
I find them hanging from a tree and return to the cafe to find everyone there again.
I'm wearing a baggy silver sleeveless dress with a big red satin cross on it.
Tamea is wearing flowers and neon red lipstick.
We go to the back of the cafe where the chef shows us around.
On a table are rows and rows of miniature food:
tiny tarts, dipped smarties, Lilliputian sandwiches, etc.
We walk out right as Christine, Alyssa, and Lauren walk in.
Christine smiles. She's wearing a thin, psychedelic skirt, a black T-shirt,
and silver necklaces.
She hugs me right as two cops start waving their guns at a bunch of rowdy little kids.
I'm worried, because I know cops aren't supposed to take out their guns
unless they intend to shoot someone.
Someone hits one of the policemen and utter chaos break loose.
It's as if society's been tightly wound up and waiting for an excuse to blow.
We try to slip out the back door of the cafe, but all we can see there
is a huge open field full of terrible violence and people running everywhere.
It's mostly men that are causing the violence,
and we're scared that they might do something terrible to us.
We start to run.
Neapolitan trampoline
I'm on a ship, jumping up and down on huge, soft balls covered in cloth
with huge black 'ice-cream' lettering on them that says
"chocolate", "vanilla", and "strawberry".
Astral travel with clouds
I'm flying, but without my body.
There is some sort of companion with me.
I'm filled with an intense roller coaster feeling; very intense.
There is the sound of indescribably beautiful music and air rushing past.
I'm flying through different 'cloud planes' and can visit different areas.
The sky is endless and filled with floating 'dreamclouds' that I can stop on and wander through.
[The memory of this dream hit me really hard -like I was there again.]
Scaffolding
I'm on intricate scaffolding with a tall, thin man with ringlets.
We're very high up, and someone near us falls.
I can breathe unbelievably well.
The sun reflects off the silver metal and the man is smiling.
Teeth
It's very late. I'm in bed and someone's with me, but they're asleep.
My tooth falls out, and I crawl blindly around the bed until I find it
and screw it back into my mouth, which hurts.
Then another falls out, and I have to do the same thing.
This is repeated over and over.
Brushing blood
I'm brushing blood out of my hair with a silver brush, but it keeps coming.
I'm looking in a three way mirror, so I can see the back of my head.
I brush and brush, calmly. It doesn't hurt.
Merman
Marcel is a merman, and has no facial hair -not even eyelashes.
He has long, dark hair that falls past his waist.
He's sitting on a beach with blue sand and glacial blue water, which is very warm.
There are a lot of trees around the beach.
I walk out of a cave; hair long and wild.
I'm wrapped in white gauze. It's windy and I'm all movement.
He looks at me and holds up his hand.
Drown
I'm on a raft with a pitch black man who's pushing it along with a staff.
(He's not black in race,but in colour, and very intense)
Then I'm in Marcel's room (which floats on the water).
The walls are covered in letters and poems from bimbo groupie chicks.
He comes home, and I toss him into the water and hold him under until he drowns.
Then the raftman comes back and takes me back across the water.
Snowy nightmare
I'm climbing up a snowy mountain. There is a general 'wrong' feeling.
I'm remembering something Bad.
I'm following footprints in the snow that keep getting smaller and smaller,
and I know that when they get 'too small' that something Really Bad is going to happen,
but I can't stop.
Package
I get a package in the mail.
I open it with a knife and inside there is a large loaf of bread
and a lot of brightly painted beads.
House funeral
I'm at a big 'house funeral' with Darren.
There are a lot of people there, and I keep thinking that I recognize them,
but there's something wrong with their faces.
Darren has gotten really upset about something
and gets into a huge hole under the house, refusing to come out.
He keeps going deeper and deeper until I can't see or hear him.
Then I'm just standing on a big white staircase with hoards of people
that,again, I'm not sure I know.
Bridge over troubled water
A thin board is balanced so that it can be crawled across.
It leads across a straight drop for miles with a muddy river at the bottom
and into a room in an apartment building.
The room has a lot of attic type stuff in it, but not junk.
There are circles of millet in various spots on the floor.
Then it changes to a place I dreamed about a very long time ago.
It's a lonely place, with rocks and rotten wood,
surrounded by the loud sounds of water.
My family is there sometimes, but they're like ghosts.
It's a bad place. Death? Hell? Drowning?
There's a deserted beach, with spikes of rotting wood,
boards, holes, wet sand, creaking noises, burnt things.
I don't want to be here.
Sarge
I'm living with a guy named 'Sarge', a big muscled type with brush cut hair.
His girlfriend has left him and he can't stand it.
Things are fine until the rent is due, when he gives me fake money and plain paper
(and by accident a letter he's written from his girlfriend).
"No wonder she left you!" I shout.
He freaks out and beats me to a pulp, then throws the money at me.
I get away somehow.
Lost beach
I'm at a long lost beach.
A crude carving of a cow sticks out of the sand.
There is a black and white dog running around, barking.
Something is NOT RIGHT.
I reach a deserted beach house next to a broken fence.
The beach is surrounded by a huge fence that I can't get over,
and I wonder how I got there in the first place.
I'm lost.
(Yet I can see downtown Vancouver through the fence,
but from a very strange angle)
Envelope
Michael (L.) mails me an envelope.
Inside is a small branch and live caterpillars and butterflies.
I have a motorcycle and am close enough to where he lives to visit him.
I'm in a strange house that feels like my aunt and uncle's old place in Colorado.
Quicksand Bed
I'm lying in bed with someone (my arm around his waist),
but his back is to me so I don't know who it is, but I'm Close to him.
He has a religious icon tattooed on his spine,
and a drop of sweat is running down her face, so it looks like she's weeping.
Then the bed is like quicksand and we're going under,
and I'm terrified until he turns around and puts his hand behind my head and kisses me.
My eyes are closed and I want to see his face, but I keep forgetting to open my eyes.
I finally do and wake up.
Stuck
I'm balanced atop a very tall chest of drawers.
Each of the drawers is about a foot wide
and has pink cat's paws nailed to it for handles.
I'm very high up and the drawers are moving back and forth.
I know there are children's bodies in some of the drawers.
I'm scared that I'm going to fall.
There are tall trees below me, and a large field.
The field is somehow magnetic,
and I know that even if I manage to get down from the chest of drawers,
I'll still have the problem of getting safely across the field.
I consider tipping myself over so the chest will fall and fling me past the field,
but I'd surely be killed from the fall.
There is a dead body next to a bottle on the ground.
Her naked body is grey and she's been raped.
She's half hidden in a bush.
Someone (not aware of the body) is digging a hold in the dirt nearby.
Then I'm eating chocolate ice-cream,
feeling hopeless and full of vertigo.
Flying
I climb up a fence/flagpole behind Carnarvon school,
let go, and fly away.
Bicycle launch
I'm riding a bicycle through Carnarvon park.
I force the bicycle to take flight by pushing upwards against a chin-up bar.
I fly until I realize I'm not supposed to be able to,
then fall into a very cold water trough under the school windows.
[I woke having to pee horribly]
It
I'm with Liz, and we're both aware that we're dreaming,
but the dream is too solid to get out of.
We're running across a yard, trying to get into a large abandoned mansion.
We get inside the house, which is dark and scary.
We find an antique mirror with flecks missing from it.
If we get very close and look right into the flecks we can see 'It'
(all/god/the knowing/the beyond/soulsuck)
which causes something beyond insanity,
but we aren't pushed that far because we're looking at 'It' as if through a
marble.
It's all distorted and muddled.
Still, it's was too much, and we run and run, trying to get out of the house.
We finally get out and run around the back of the house.
We smash into two mannequins that are "us".
They don't topple, or even move,
and their eyes are made of the parts of the mirror that were missing.
[I was so scared I woke up half crazy]
The Change
Stuart (O.) and I are running away from horrible Unknown Things.
We run across a bridge and into a square hole that's been cut into the dirt behind a hill.
A passageway leads us downwards at an angle
until the dirt becomes cement, and then stone.
The passageway becomes bigger and bigger until we can stand up.
Under the ground is a very solid carved out maze,
something like an anthill, that goes on and on.
This place is for the select people on 'Our Side' after 'The Change'.
We've arrived there at just the right time.
(Before 'The Change', but just barely.)
We help organize things for the time when mass confusion will take over.
There are small channels of water running along the walls in stone gutters.
The stone is very clean and the water is clear and cold.
I dip my fingers into the water and it helps to jolt me into a more alert state,
aware of what's about to happen.
It helps me to prepare myself and clear my head.
(This water seems to erase the dull/numb/static blanket that seems to sit on
our brains
and prevent thoughts most of the time for most of the people.)
This place is for people with a clear mind.
Even (especially) if they're scared or confused.
There are torches along the walls for light
and the air is very pure for being so far underground.
There is the feeling of a brief lull between the previous panic
at the realization that The Change was about to happen,
and the actual Change itself.
A definite 'waiting', with the understanding that the waiting is about to end.
