Easter Services went well… nothing bad… had 5,800 people…. or so I hear… I never saw any since I was back in my media room….
OK…. so get this… I’m walking back to my room after class and what do I see? Two pirates walking out of an elevator carrying a video camera…. I knew one of them from past classes…. but my only words to them were “OK… I don’t care what you’re doing…. THAT’S SWEET….” They just thanked me and kept on walking… Campus life provides such crazy times…. I love it… Heck… speaking of crazy times, at lunch today two guys were sitting at the table and had a cell phone with the pay-phone by Wal-Mart’s number programmed onto it…. so they called…. no one answered unfortunately… but had they, the idea was to confuse them by immediately saying, “Welcome to Wal-Mart, how can I help you?” or…. “Need a cart?” Man… Luke… there’s a video idea in there somewhere….
NOW, it’s time for you to hear my crazily detailed insane dream I had last night…. this is SO odd… normally you can pinpoint where certain aspects of your real life came into dream form…but all of this is totally random… check it:
So Luke and I are standing in the desert under a bright sun… on a fenced in tennis court… surrounded by sand mounds, we chuck a golf ball and a broken hockey stick as far as we can into the sandy horizon… Then we decided we needed to go get the ball… We both take off running and I’m winning when I realize that it rolled over a hill into a pond. Yes… a pond in the desert… Luke is all gung-ho, no problem and just does a cannon ball into it… clothes and all…. After a few seconds he never re-surfaces and I get worried tha the was knocked out or stuck…. Then I see him fighting to surface but we realize that it’s quicksand…. so I start to run to get the broken hockey stick we threw to pull him out but it’s too far away… I turn back and see him fighting to stand up… the sand is covering him like a membrane that won’t break… like he’s behind a wall of plastic…. then his hand breaks through and I grab onto him while laying down… I pull him out and by this point he’s unconscious… I stand up and have one arm around his chest when all of a sudden a flood hits and the entire desert is under 5 feet of water with an insane current…. SO NOW I’m dragging Luke back to the tennis courts (that aren’t under water… the fence kept it out… figure that one out…) and fighting against all this water… I’m inching my way there, barely staying on my feet while carrying Luke with me… I remember this taking a really LONG time… finally we get back and collapse on the court. Some random stranger lady is there and asks if she should call for help since Luke was out cold….. but then Luke says, “No….”
The next thing I remember is waking up in a van. Luke and I are sitting in this van driven by a guy I’ve never seen…. the woman in the passenger seat is the same woman who asked us if we needed help…. I’m in the bench seat directly behind the driver and Luke is laying in the back…. I ask the driver and lady where we are…. they say we’re about 6 miles from where we last were awake…. We were on a highway…. kidnapped…. I got really angry that they had taken us and I was yelling at them when they said that they were sorry, but they had to take us…. they never explained why. I looked out the side window and I saw the flood still raging on as a really fast current ripped trees and plants out and pulled power lines down…. I watched them vanish in seconds… I knew that we couldn’t stop and get out or the flood would kill us… but we were safe on the road…. the road was dry… I wanted the people to turn around and take us back because there were people back there that “needed us”…. The people said they couldn’t stop… we were chasing the storm that was behind all of this madness…. It was just ahead. I fell asleep again.
I woke up sitting in the van at a gas station…. (no flood….) The driver was getting back in and shut the door… he handed me some pills… They were baby tylenol… for infants… yet… giant chewables… They looked like flattened eggs…. He said to take 4 of them…. I said ok… but instead put them in a container I had and acted like I ate them… I didn’t trust this guy…. Lights out.
I awake again on the highway with the flood killing everything it can… Ahead I see the road… a bridge? No longer are we talking real world… this is straight outta some video game…. It looks fake… It’s a clear bridge with lines on the sides to keep you on it… the lines are bright blue on the left and bright white on the right, but the road isn’t flat…. it is straight across, but the surface is twisted like a strand of DNA…. never upside-down, but extremely tilted back and forth… I know that at the speed we’re going, which had to be in the 80s… we weren’t going to stay on the bridge…. Sure enough we hit a few hard bumps and are airborn… Faling off of the left side of the bridge into a canyon… below is a lake… FAR below….. “HOLD ON TIGHT!” the driver yells… Scared outta my wits I grab the seat and wait…. we crash into the lake and start to sink… we hit with such velocity that we never stopped moving downward until we were 100 ft below the surface or so… I hold my breath as the van fills with water and I swim out a side window to the surface….. As I’m swimming I can see brown cliff walls… clear water… green surface glare under the sun….
THEN…. my alarm goes off…. I wake up… in real life… totally confused…. how’s THAT for a dream? BUT here’s the kick… my alarm was set for 12:00pm…. It was 12:45pm…. which meant it had auto snoozed 5 times…. and I never heard a thing…. If you know me, you know I’m the lightest sleeper in the world… I wake up when someone walks into the room silently…. so was I SO out of it that I never heard it? Or was I abducted by aliens and all that was implanted in my brain and I was returned when my alarm was going off for the 5th time???? YOU decide….
Mood: Creeped out…. but having fun…
Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers – My Friends
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So uhhh… I guess I drown in the van… thanks for NOT saving my life after all you jerk!
Ha ha, thanks for the creepiest feeling that I’ve had in years!
no…. I don’t know what happened to everyone else… we were all awake (you included) when we hit the water…. so…. you probably swam your lazy butt up there yourself…. …. wuss…. Like I gotta do EVERYTHING for you…. pssh….
Wal-Mart rocks my world.
Wow Brent.. You Win.
In the desert, eh? Good thing you weren’t riding on a “horse with no name”.. Or maybe you were.. That would explain EVERYTHING…
Thanks for the laugh. Made for a good writing break…