Last night I had a super crazy dream so I thought I would share it.
It started out in a class that was being held in the living room inside the house that I grew up in (In Pico Rivera). There were kids there all getting seated and ready for a class to begin. My niece was there along with her friend and her mother. I caught my niece's friend, Ellie's, attention as I had this really weird kitty ear headband that had pens in the sides of the headband arms. When you wore it, it recorded everything that was happening (sound) and when you said 'release pen' the pen popped out of the band behind the ear. It was a really odd invention that I was super excited about. I let her borrow it and went looking for a pencil.
I was looking through the writing instruments and found a really nice Prismacolor coloring pencil that belonged to an old coworker. It had her name etched in it. I went to get a pencil and accidentally broke my pencil with my thumb... I crushed the lead at the tip. So I went to go sharpen it and the teacher (who was Mona from 'Friends') told me that she really liked my sister's eyeliner and that it looked cute with her big hoop earrings. The earrings were pretty big and were covered in a floral fabric. Then she started asking me if I had some kind of reptile. I have no pets but I told her to ask my sister, since she had a few. So class was waiting on the kids to get seated and the teacher went over to talk to my sister.
I noticed that Lucy's friend, Ellie was missing. While my sister and the teacher were distracted by their conversation, I went looking for Ellie so I could tell her to get seated. So I started to look outside. It was night time and dark, with light from string lights and 2 lamp posts that lined the walkway in front of the house that lead to the street. The front yard of the house is strangely not a flat yard but a hill and the walkway to the street was winding. I saw from afar, a red car that Ellie just got into. I screamed, "NO, ELLIE!" and I started running towards the car.
My feet were getting really heavy (as they do in dreams). By the time I was able to get over the steep hilly walkway to the front of the house, (the distance was dream warped. Like it isn't far at all but it took forever and all my effort to get out there.) the man in the car was driving up and down the street at full speed and was purposefully spinning out and shredding his tires. Was he trying to show off? Was he trying to show her a bit of fun? He spun out right in front of me. Smoke sifted out from the tires and from beneath the car. The man stepped out but didn't move from his door. I asked him, "Why are you doing this!? What do you think you're doing!?". At this point he said, "I...HAVE to. There Is no other way." Across the street was a giant hill. On the other side it was a pit. A steep empty plain filled with piles of junk and red dirt. If you tried to drive over you could die. He kept saying that he had to and repeated himself as he plopped back into his car. He muttered "No one can know... it's the only way". No one could know what? I couldn't see Ellie.
He revved his engine and sped off away from me toward the culdesac. I heard him turn around from the squeal of his tires. I started heading across the street towards the hill. Then the hill started spouting lava like the spouts from a water show! Lines of it shot straight up and then stopped and then began again! They were coming from the tops of the hill and a couple were in the street. I backed up, fearful of coming in contact with it or even the spray! I've seen what it can do to a person, I knew I couldn't get near it. But I had to stop him. I saw him coming. I watched in fear as he careened through the dirt and rode up the hill. He was almost right in front of me. In a flash he drove up the hill and right over the lava as it shot up the moment he passed over. He spun out and came to a halt, his car became engulfed in flames. When the car was spinning out I saw him and a few other items (was it Ellie??) fly out of the car at an enormous height to the other side and down to the cavernous depths of that mysterious pit. The lava stopped.
I started running over to the car and it was empty and burnt to a crisp. I saw that on the other side of the hill there was a huge gap between two parts of the land. On the floor there was a very shiny pipe pan-flute laying in the dirt. I started running towards it to see it closer. As I ran towards it, my view and perception started altering. The closer I got to the pipe the closer the land from the other side of gap seemed to get but only near the pan-flute. The pan-flute started getting bigger and it started looking like it was sitting up vertically and tall. As I got closer and closer it started looking like a gate door! There was no gate, save for the separation of land (the gap). If you looked over the edge you would certainly see that there was no end to the bottom of the gap and that the only way to get across was to keep running towards that gate that I thought was a pan-flute just a few moments ago. As I ran, the land indeed did meet but it was a very narrow bridge over to the other side. I carefully stepped across the bridge and it led to another area with another drop. I looked over.
This drop didn't look hard to jump down. I sat on my bottom with my legs hanging over the edge and slid myself down. As I slid down the ground began to have water lines... as though there was a pool of water. I started getting a very eerie feeling...as though this was a trick meant to scare me. I started feeling like I was not wanted here. Like I did not belong... like something or like this place needed me to not continue on and to return from where I came. I was convinced that I needed to know what was over here though! Would I find the driver? Would I find Ellie? What did he mean that he HAD to? I trudged forward. While I wasn't wet I felt the sensation of resistance when walking in the 'water'. I started to see things on the ground. In the distance I saw two large things, they were dark. There were other things next to them but it had to be him! It had to be her!
I ran over as fast as I could. It was him!! He was burnt very badly, nearly black. He started making noises. I screamed at him, "WHY?? WHAT IS THIS PLACE? WHY DID YOU DO THIS?" He softly said with the last of the air in his lungs. "Things here cannot be taken. These things would ruin me if taken.' And he passed on. What was he talking about? I surveyed the area around him and saw what looked like junk. A wallet.. a bag with some things in it.. pictures... laptops.. personal items and other junk that looked like clothing. I didn't see the second lump that looked like a body anymore... it was gone. I looked up from the wallet I had picked up and his body was gone too.. I started looking through the things that I knew to be his (I saw them when he got out of his car).. I wanted to know what needed to be hidden.. What was this stuff??
I started looking in the big gray bag that was his.. There were valuables in there.. and shoes.. women's shoes.. I started pulling them out. I was thinking, these must have belonged to his girlfriend... I should take them back.. As I started cradling a few things in my arm to take, these flowers with teeth started sprouting up from the ground! Dirt flew and soiled me as they sprouted out with force. They were popping up everywhere!! They looked like Piranha Plants from Super Mario Brothers, but REAL and viscious! One lurched at me and opened it's huge mouth lined with what looked like shark teeth! I ducked and rolled out of the way. More were growing.. I heard them hiss, ' You cannot take anything!' I dropped everything and ran.
I ran through these flowers as they were sprouting from the ground each with with more force than the last. I was running as fast as I could towards the gate. I started seeing shadows pop up on each side of me.. they were a short distance away and were chasing me from the sides as I ran towards the gate. I was almost there! I looked back as I ran and there was SO MUCH JUNK starting to sink deeper and the vast field started to swell up with shadows and flickers. The 'water' was gone so I could run much faster. I was almost there! Just as the shadows started to encircle me I dove into a roll and just barely made it across the bridge. It was silent for no more than 5 seconds. Then sound started flowing back into my ears. I could hear my sister. She was running to me screaming, "ARE YOU OK? WHAT HAPPENED?? WHERE IS ELLIE?" I passed out.
I woke up from the dream... and boy did I have to pee. lol
