Fever Dreams

I was just beginning to feel a little better Friday night. I watched Sweeney Todd while I paid some bills in the office, then fell asleep for an hour on the couch while I watched The Mist. I got into work early, stopped for a cup of hot chocolate, and headed home. Figuring I was tired enough to get three or four hours of sleep I was in bed fifteen seconds after I opened the door (trust me I counted).

This is when the first dreams started.

1)I'm in bed sleeping in the middle of the day. Rare, but exactly what I was really doing at the moment. It's hot, and suddenly I hear water running. As I climb out of bed I realize the entire orientation of the house is off. This is not what my real house looks like, but in my dream I know it is my house. I walk into the bathroom (a much cleaner bathroom than mine) only to find that the water is pouring out of the ceiling, and moments later I dodge a myriad of pipes crashing through onto the floor. Oddly enough the water doesn't seem to be running any faster, but still leaks through the ceiling. I go to head upstairs, but the stairs are not where they are supposed to be and I'm starting to realize this is much larger than my normal house. When I finally get up there I see my tenants just going into there apartment. I call out to them and we have a brief discussion about the weather before they go in. I have totally forgotten about the running water. I jump from the second floor to the first floor to the basement without taking any steps or opening any doors. I'm not searching for the water shut off valve but before I can turn it I find myself back in the kitchen. Outside the window I can see a girls high school soccer team starting to practice in my backyard. I hope none of them notice the house because suddenly I have no pants and all the windows are two stories high. Dream one ends.

Short Random Forgettable Dreams Fill The Space. Vaguely recall one being about aliens.

2) I'm driving down a dirt road, it seems familiar, yet I don't know where I am. First I am alone. Then there are others in the car with me. When I get where I'm going I am alone again. It is a dark square unremarkable building in the middle of a small clearing in an otherwise heavy wood. There are people standing around outside, like they're waiting for the place to open. I don't have a key, but someone calls me boss and then we're inside. It's somewhere between a bar a stripclub a library and a movie theater. In other words all my favorite places combined. I recall thinking this was the kind of dream I need to have more of. Fuck that water leaking through the ceiling dream. This could be the shit. There are these little black curtained cubicles throughout the dark room. There's that cheesy neon mood lighting they use in these sort of places. Well dressed waitresses and waiters bring drinks and fancy food arrangements around and slip them through the curtains. I'm sitting in one of these curtains with a girl. I'm confused. I know her, this actually doesn't even seem like much of a stretch for us, but I don't know her. I can't place who she is, or how she fits in my life. We're talking, drinking. Laughing. Suddenly she closes her eyes and its like she's gone. I shake her gently. Her eyes snap open and she tells me to hurry up and get in there. What? She closes her eyes again, so do I. Suddenly I see what she's talking about. We're in a movie. It's like we're both observing and playing parts. Making decisions and being swept up in them as well. It's like a video game almost, except she's literally there, next to me. Something shakes us, we're back and laughing. A man is standing in the cubicle calling me boss and telling me there is something wrong in the kitchen. I apologize to the girl and leave.

At this point I wake up in the real world, my cell is ringing, one of the guys from work wants to know where the pizza I gave him last week came from. What?

Since I'm already up now I get some pizza myself, watch the end of The Mist and then watch some tv before beginning to clean up the house a bit. I had DVRed Next last week and finally got around to watching it. It was total crap. I had also DVRed Venus last week so I watched that too. It was amazing. I've seen a lot of really good movies in the last few months. But I think Venus is one of the tops.

I watched a little of Die Hard with A Vengeance on TNT before calling it a night. Watching Die Hard on TNT is like masturbating with a barbed wire glove. Sure it involves one of your favorite things, but it's still guaranteed to make you miserable.

That was the greatest analogy ever.

I'm out.