For the last few months, Larissa and I have been in the habit of telling each other any dreams that we remember from the night before. My dreams usually involve flying, people from my highschool who I haven’t seen or thought about in 12 years, and infant children who think and speak like adults. Larissa’s dreams mostly involve her workplace. I’m not sure which one of us is more normal, in this regard…
Anyway, I decided that from time to time, I’d post dreams that I remember on this blog. Some will be amusing, some will be disturbing.
Last night I had a particularly disturbing dream. I rarely have nightmares, and even when I do, I just wake up feeling creeped-out, not “afraid”. Last night’s dream was creepy. Here’s what I remember:
John Campea was landing a fighter jet vertically (like a helicopter) on the sand of a beach where I was chatting with a friend, and when he got out, he was sweating like a chess-club geek at prom. I remember thinking that he rented that jet from one of those “fighter-jet-rental-companies”, and that I should take one out for a spin too. Then I thought “Wait a sec, there’s a good chance that I could kill myself”.
Okay, so seeing a sweaty John Campea wasn’t the freaky part. The next thing I remember, I was reading a comic book about a hospital in Algeria, and a doctor in the comic contracted some horrible disease that was causing parts of his body to melt away. This was very graphically displayed in the comic, and it was told over the course of 3 or 4 pages, until he was a puddle of blood and liquified tissue. Then his secretary started melting as well. I started asking myself “Who would make a comic about this?!”
After that, all the people who had melted were in Hell, and not looking much better than they did earlier in the story. At this point in my dream I thought to myself “Why are the characters in this story ending up in Hell?”, so I flipped back a few pages in the comic to see if I had missed an important plot point. Then I woke up.
I think the lesson to be learned from this story is: If you have a dream involving John Campea, you might as well just wake up and start your day early, because the dream is only going to go downhill from there.
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