Leonard Bernstein
Este = Erin's little sister
Elliott = highschool friend
The world was going to end so everyone in Kresge gathered in this apartment complex and was having a party. The idea was that impending doom meant no responsibility and we might as well live it up while we can. Eventually everyone started to leave and was talking about what might happen. There was an air of resigned panic and acceptance. I was happy and felt confident.
I went to a different apartment complex and was hanging around in an apartment with a women and her children. The woman had bruises all over her and was beating her kids. I killed her. Another woman showed up and she was kind of trashy looking. I asked her if she was a porn star and she said yes. She gave me a form to fill out.
I was in a different apartment in the same complex with Theo. We had found a dad who was abusing his daughter. When the daughter left Theo killed the dad. We were sitting in the apartment afterward and heard a loud rumbling noise. I looked out the window and saw a silver sports car go by. Theo asked if that sound had something to do with the end of the world. I told him that the sound was just a car going by. There was a knock on the door and when Theo answered it it was the girl with the abusive dad. She was mad that Theo had killed him, and stabbed Theo, once in his feet, once in each arm, and then in the stomach. Theo fell to the ground and was dying.
Erin was running and I caught up with her. We were running along a residential street that overlooked the ocean. It was very beautiful. We got to some of the houses and went inside one, which was Este's apartment. The apartment was very big and had two stories. The second story had really nice posters all over the wall and christmas lights. I complemented Este on her decorating job. There were three elephants in the house. I went downstairs and was talking to an elephant that had a purple hat. I petted it's head and it kissed my stomach.
I went to a place with Theo and the people from my NZ trip. I knew that I had to go there. The room had blue walls and wooden paneling, which an orange carpet. It reminded me of a library. I went there because it was my time to die. I went to the front desk with everyone and one of the ladies working there handed me the form that the porn-star had given me earlier. They asked me to write down when my last menstrual cycle was. I filled it out (and actually wrote down the real date). They asked me the first step: if I had to go to the bathroom. I said that yes I actually did, so my group and I went to the bathrooms. There were multiple bathrooms depending on how badly you had to go. I couldn't find one that fit my actual needs, so I ran down this other corridor to find different bathrooms. I was worried about taking too long or getting separated from my group so I was kind of in a hurry. I came to a bunch of doors that had a boy's name on each one. I went inside one of the doors and saw Elliott in there in his boxers. I wondered if he was a prostitute. I ran past him and told him that I was about to die. He said he didn't care. I went and peed and when I came back I was wearing a silk karate outfit. As I was walking past Elliott to leave he asked if he could just look at me and I said no.
I got back to the front desk and they asked me if I wanted a cookie, which was the second step. They handed me a bag with three sections and I shook the bag for a while to find out which kind of cookie was in each section. Somehow the rattling noise denoted that there was more or less space between the raisins or chocolate chips and I could tell which kind was which. I found a chocolate chip cookie and ate it. As I was standing at the desk handing them my jacket and putting things in envelopes I started to feel very strange. Kind of tingly and excited but at the same time very afraid. I wondered if the cookie was drugged somehow to relax me. I started to feel destined, and like I had to do all of these things, kind of posessed by this feeling of purpose that scared me at the same time. The people at the desk told me I was ready to go now. I took my water bottle and my cell phone and started to walk away. As I was walking away the people at the desk told me to not be afraid and just forget about the past and that everything that mattered was in the future.
I got to the elevator. Theo was sitting there trying to pick his way inside of the elevator, and my NZ group was sitting on the floor scowling at me. I didn't understand why they were mad, and told them that and told them that I hadn't done anything wrong and that everything was going to be fine.
Theo and I were at the elevator alone now. We were naked and had wrapped ourselves together with toilet paper. I finnaly put down my cell phone because I realized since I was going to die I really didn't need it now and that it wasn't going to matter. Thinking about my cell phone made me thing about my sisters and my mom and I immediately tried to push them out of my head because I felt like I could completely break down at any second. Theo and I heard a rumbling sound in the distance and thought that the world must finnaly be ending and that this was the sound of a bomb or some destructive force coming closer to us. We kissed each other and told each other that we loved each other, I was happy to be with him and that I didn't have to be alone. As the rumbling sound got closer we realized it was actually the elevator coming down for us. A light went on and the elevator doors opened.

2 Comments:
Oh my God. That was the most amazing dream i've ever read/heard in my life.
Two things (on a lighter note): 1) i don't get the Leonard Bernstein connection, b) when you said the porn star gave you a form to fill out, i thought it meant a form to apply to become a porn star.
Yeah that was one of my favorite dreams. 1) apparently porn stars have some deep connection with the universe, and b) the leonard bernstein thing is a really vague reference to that REM song (it's the end of the world as we know it).
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