Regular readers will know I’ve struggled with writers block when it comes to updating this blog, however I feel should probably share some of strange dreams with you, here is a selection from the last week or so;
The Google Head
I was working for google, although I didn’t realise it at the time. All day at work I’d had a spot on the side of my head, my temple. It was one of those really annoying spots that grows under the skin, you can’t squeeze them cause it hurts too much and it would break the skin, sometimes they just dissapear other times they break out are are MASSIVE.
Anyway I was working, and messing with this spot all day. I headed to the toilets and squeezed it, it was massive and some people where watching me saying how much blood there was, I looked around and I was covered in blood, blood everywhere.
There was now a big hole in the side of my head, and out of it popped a metal ball. I went back into the office and my boss told me I had to write to warn everyone about it on the official Google Blog.
The Running Man
Myself and good mate Lee were running, just running, for what seemed like a really long time. It turns out we were in a computer game, an old platform game, but we weren’t running at all, the world was moving under our feed, we were in the same position.
The Big House
I let myself into a big house, from the outside it was the same manor house that overlooked the Caravan site we used to stay at as kids, from the inside it was all modern. I walked around for a while and found my way following signs to a pub, when I got to the a big gallery/landing area the path to the pub had been blocked by large fallen bricks, there was a sign pointing to an alternavtive route. I walked back and was in the entrance lobby of the house and I heard voices, it was the owner and a vistor – he was telling him about the house, I raced to run out of the door but they were coming in that way, so I went to hide in the a bathroom but it was locked, I hid behind the door. They came in and headed into the main throng of the house, I tried to get out of the front door but it was locked so I headed to a side corrador. I could see another open door at the end of this corridor but I had to creep past a small sleeping dog. I did so, but got half way down this corridor when I knocked over a mop. The dog woke, gathered his thoughts and began to follow me down this long room, the room got longer, the dog got bigger by now it was a blood hound and was chasing me down. I ran as fast as I could to get out of the door and I woke up, out of breath.
Mexico
I was driving through Mexico in an old American muscle car, I pulled over and a man sent me down some side street where there was an arcade game, I played the game for a while. It was a Ninja, and I wasn’t controlling him on the screen but on the rooftoops of the street in front of me. It was all cool until some cowboys came onto the scene and started shooting at Ninja and then at me. I started shooting back (not sure when I got the gun!) and legged it to the car.
So there you have it, some of my recent dreams. I think I might be a bit mad, am I the only person who has crazy dreams like this and can remember them so vividly? I suppose it’s better than dreaming about a nuclear holoucaust.
…and no, I don’t eat cheese before I go to bed.
That Google dream is fairly mental.
I don’t usually remember my dreams, if it’s a more unusual one I generally just wake up really confused and unsettled but still couldn’t describe what happened… except for one.
I used to have this dream quite often as a kid, but very rarely now.
There are two components to it: 1) a large joint of meat, a shoulder of beef I think. The big cut that is in a cone shape; 2) those small plastic flags that schools use to mark out jumps in the long jump pit. The flags in this dream are always yellow.
No background, no scenery, no floor or anything else.
The flags are arranged in a big rectangle and my point of view is as if I am stood looking at them and they are in a field (but there is no field), as opposed to looking straight down from overhead.
The meat now does circuits around the outside of the flags. not too fast at first, but speeding up a little with every circuit and the rectangle of little plastic flags gets smaller and smaller until it all goes *bink* and disappears.
Then it all starts again.
It used to scare the shit out of me, and still un-nerves me now.