One Really Messed Up Bad Dream that I Hope to Never Have Ever Again. Ever.

At 2am, my eyes were open and my heart was pulsating. Another bad dream. Nightmare? Yep. The visions in my dreams are entirely apocalyptic but what's worse is that my dreams always find a way to become darker, more insidious, and more disturbing. Yet, despite the seemingly endless nightmares that my mind conjures, what makes it so awful is how it could be real. In fact, all of my dreams are in the context of real life, even if that life is similar to my own. I wonder what this means, I truly do. To say it is due to what my daily activities, well, I live a very dull life. I wake up, brush my teeth, shower, get dressed, eat food, and go to work. At work, I sit in front of a computer all day. After work, I return home, cook some dinner, take another shower and answer questions on Yahoo Answers all night until I get sleepy. That or play online poker (not real money) or read up on new cell phones or technology stuff through a bunch of random blogs. Going to the grocery store is the one bi-weekly activity that stretches beyond my normal routine. And yet, my dreams are so vivid and even realistically horrifying that if I stopped to describe the setting and the people, I'm certain there would be an actual place identical to what my mind saw. I wouldn't be surprised if Hollywood made a horror movie out of what I dreamt! I mean, horror movies have got nothing on my brain. I just hope that the events never happen!

So, if I explain what I dreamt last night you'll understand. Things began with a small man-made creek behind a woman's house. It was a small farm-town in the heart of America. A sleeper town, if you will. The woman was a young and beautiful researcher who had been studying fish and fish behavior for all her life. As part of her studies, she filled the creek behind her this house with pirahnas. Her perspective was that pirahnas were capable of sentient thought if they could just get enough food. The fact that they were extremely active and had high metabolic rates was just due to their active lifestyles further fueling their hunger (please note that I do not know if this is true or not, but it was a hypothesis that was discovered while I was dreaming). Unlike dogs who could never stop eating, pirahnas knew when enough was enough but could never achieve that state due to their level of activity. Furthermore, the environment for which they live in require them to be together in groups, much like schools of fish. Once all of them were full, they would all be able to communicate with the human world. Therefore, as a scientist and as a researcher, she figured she would prove her theory.

In my dream, it began respectably. She threw in meat purchased from grocery stores and observed the fish. Nothing new. Then, she moved on to larger quantities. Nothing. The other thing that was growing was her obsession to prove her theory. She began to go around and steal animals like horses and cows and then threw those into the creek when she ran out of grant money. I could feel my body break out in a cold sweat. These were still living and breathing creatures! And when they were thrown into the creek...

I snapped awake at this point. It was still dark out and I thought, "Man, I don't want to go back to THAT dream again. I think I'll go eat something." Leaving my room, I poured a glass of milk and had some toast with butter. Finishing relatively quickly and washing the empty plate and glass, I returned to my bed expecting to dream of something new and different. 45 minutes have since elapsed but it wasn't even 3am yet. So, I returned comfortably to my bed and before long, was out cold.

As if my dream were reality and could not be stopped by being awake, things picked up and continued right where they left off. By this point however, the woman completely lost sight of her theory and developed an obsession with just seeing things thrown into the creek. Living things. She even abducted people and threw them into the creek! The thing that made it scary was that I could feel the fear, frustration, angst and pain of each person she abducted and threw in. I could even feel each pirahna's bite in my skin and the eery warmth of my blood when it entwined with the water in the creek. Upon dying, I became a spectre that took over the next victim's body the second after it hit the creek. A painfully infinite loop...

At first, she would bound and gag me. Then it escalated into drugging me into a comatose state and then she ultimately just gave up on that, smacked me in the head with some blunt object and just threw me. All the while, I wondered where her strength came from. I always felt like she had help but could never see...

Once when I fell in the water while conscious, I thought, "This must be a dream! This can't be happening! Surprisingly, I didn't wake up. The pain, the hurt, everything felt so real. And I felt so powerless. I even thought somebody would eventually come and save me. No such luck. In one such death, I saw that the local townsfolk came by to be an audience to my killing. It was as an endorsed event as if this killing was punishment for a crime... though whether or not I committed it as the victim (not suspect) was not essential. Still, never once did the person thrown into the creek do anything bad or unlawful. They were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Since I was conscious this time, I even thought, "But... wait... the sheriff's supposed to be helping me and arresting her... Not watching as I drown and die..."

Then one day, it started to rain. It rained extremely hard. There was thunder, clouds, and all things dark. I was a new and different person but was now bound to a pole in a barn before I was to be thrown into the creek. Looks like it's turning into a flood! I saw water rising quickly from my feet to my waist. Within seconds, I was engulfed entirely in water and drowning. I was panicking but was still tied down. Was it really raining that hard?The door of the barn then gave way and I could see a dark horde come bolting straight at me like a swarm of locusts. And they were singing! They were singing an operatic tune acapella! But... they were the pirahnas! So... the doctor woman was right? Having fed on human flesh for generations, did they evolve?! Maybe I was delusional from asphyxiation but the second their razor sharp teeth pierced my skin, I realized that even if they could interact with humans on the same level understanding, they would not be able to control their desire to consume. The time of humans was coming to an end and all things aquatic, especially these fiercely intelligent pirahnas, would come to dominate the world. And though I'm dying inevitably, I wonder if the townspeople already went or if they are still scrambling to surivive above the flood of the rain. Still... what beautiful singing.

And during this epiphanous death, I was awakened by my operatic acapella tune coming from my phone. Thank all religions and deities and all things wonderful that the nightmare could finally come to an end! My heart was still beating quickly, my head was beneath my pillow and I could barely breathe because I was entangled with blanket.

Whew... But what's up with that anyways? What a weird dream! I mean, I know that I sometimes continue dreams when I awaken in the middle of the night and go back to sleep, but they rarely continue on the same path. Furthermore, I am (strangely enough) usually aware of when I am dreaming so I can usually control it. This night however...

Needless to say, I was a zombie when I arrived to work and remained a zombie regardless of how many cups of coffee I had throughout the day. Everything seemed so real, yet so much like a dream. I don't even know how real this is right now. I'm half-way expecting some really crazy-strong but attractive woman with long hair to barge into my house, drug me, and then throw me into a creek out in the middle of nowhere. Man... I think I should pick up jogging or something... My brain is obviously trying to make up for all of my inactivity and coming up with exercises of its own. Why it can't dream of the next awesome invention that'll help people on this planet though... Sheesh.