I just woke up from a dream and I also remember one from earlier this night/morning. Since it's 5 minutes before my alarm is supposed to go off I figured I'd type some of it down.
The first dream concerned me watching video clips on TV or the internet... kind of a comedy channel. It may have started as if it were on the internet but it ended with it on DirecTV. At any rate the last clip we saw was an old Abbot and Costello movie. The scene was in a bar. It may have been a western or 30's mob movie or a Mexican revolution kind of thing. I think mostly it was western without but with some anachronisms. At any rate, they were celebrating defeating the bad guys. There was some singing and at some point some of the people watching it with me laughed at some of the antics. Then the bad guys (or the relatives of those who were defeated) came in and shot everyone dead... including the sheriff and his deputy who tried to shoot their way in. There was this feeble, thin old guy who was struggling to arm his rifle by pumping it like a single pump BB gun rifle. He finally got it pumped and a hand reached in (we were looking from a first person perspective... remember we were watching this and not participating) grabbed his gun, and shot him with it. Some how it'd become an automatic rifle. So basically this comedy movie ended with the bad guys killing everyone. I thought it was a real downer of an ending for a comedy but also found it darkly funny for that reason. I would have liked to seen the rest of it.
The other big dream I had (and I think there were several other dreams or parts of these dreams that don't relate to the main story) started with a girl. A young girl went to school in the cave under a giant tree. It was an ordinary middle school except for the location. She was a bit of a nerd and got picked on some. I can't remember the reason but at some point she became sad and all the other kids were leaving. The tree (apparently an old, male tree) asked her what was wrong and she answered him. His response was to grow his roots over the entrances and exits trapping all the kids and employees inside. They continued like this for weeks with the tree basically playing god. No one could enter or leave the school so it had to become a bit of a culture of its own. I think maybe the tree let the girl out the first day and asked her to bring some stuff back. The parents weren't happy, but I guess no one but the local authorities believed them. No efforts were made to rescue the kids for some reason. Apparently communications weren't cut and somehow the tree had email because he was reported as requesting that emails be sent to someone else because it was spending all his time answering emails instead of being able to go dormant, whither and die. As I said there were other scenes not related to the storyline. At some point most of the kids were in one area and the tree was talking to the girl he apparently liked enough to do this to all the kids. He asked about the videos he requested that she bring. She evaded the question somehow. He announced to everyone that the video on Ethiopia would be shown. I think she said something to him, correcting him. At some point he started to rant. He said something about Galileo; presumably something about him being wrong. She said something to refute the nonsense the old tree was spewing and he grabbed her with a root (What else would he grab her with? He was a tree) and lifted her in the air. He was going to punish her in some way not nice I'm sure. By this point we know the tree is insane (as if there was any doubt before) and not the kindly old gent we initially thought he was. [yeah, poor sentence, so what.] This girl, who was once the timid misfit now rallied the kids to fight against and defeat the tree that held them captive. The loner became the leader. I don't know if the kids actually prevailed. I think they did. I saw a line of them facing the roots kind of sneering at them. I'm guessing they attacked them eventually, killing the tree and securing their freedom.
The story would make more sense if the kids were mice. I can imagine a children's book based on it then.
Now it's 38 minutes after my alarm went off. I have to get moving if I'm going to make my goal of being on the road to MD to PA by 8am. That's why I don't write down dreams. It takes too long. I left out stuff too. :)
Oh, I also had a dream where you bought a DVD player, I bought a large, flat panel TV and we sat cozily on the couch watching a video. Weird, huh?
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