May 4, 2004

• I think I’ve been seeing too many Van Helsing previews. Monday night I had a dream featuring a vampire and last night it was werewolves. lol

  
  

  Monday night I dreamed some university was handing out four full scholarships. First one girl was named prematurely, but it turned out to have been a mistake. Then four people were named, three men and one woman (me). The woman who was wrongly named as a winner won a consolation prize of an Xbox.

  
  

  One of the men was a vampire. Everyone knew it, but no one seemed to have a problem with it. Until the murders began, that is.

  
  

  But I get ahead of myself…

  
  

  Included in the prize was a house for each of the winners to live in while they attended school. So I invited the girl who had been wrongly named to live with me. She was really bitter about the scholarship, but didn’t seem to hold it against me, and we became friends. She was still attending the university; she just had to pay her own way. I felt really guitly for my part, because I didn’t recall having entered to receive a scholarship of any kind. But the weird thing is, I was remotely witness to the selection of the winners in my dream, so I know they just turned to a page of the phone book and randomly selected the first four names at the top of the second column on the second page.

  
  

  Soon there were some murders on campus, all students, and one of the first was one of my fellow scholarship winners. Everyone suspected the vampire fellow, but for my part, I suspected my roommate, especially after she disappeared.

  
  

  So we had this really gorgeous house out in the middle of the woods. For some reason, I invited the two remaining scholarship winners out to the house to help me search for my missing friend. We searched high and low, but no one could find her. Finally exhausted, I opened a mini-fridge to get some drinks for us and gallons of water, ice, and the severed remains of what appeared to be my former housemate poured out.

  
  

  Which made me switch my suspicion to the vampire guy along with everyone else, especially since he just happened to be out of the room when the body parts appeared. I and the other scholarship winner went through the woods in search of the vampire guy to confront him, but then my companion disappeared too.

  
  

  So I was wondering through the woods in the middle of the night hunting a vampire. (I think I must lose IQ points in my sleep.) Anyway I was meekly wandering around the woods, when who should I meet but my former roommate, armed with an axe and dismembering my missing co-scholarship winner! It turns out it was some other woman’s body in the mini-fridge! Who knew?

  
  

  When she saw me, she hefted the axe with a look of maniacly glee and said she’d been waiting to kill me for last, but since I was there why not get it out of the way. I asked her why as I thought we were friends, and she said I only wanted to be friends because of her Xbox! lol I turned around to run and collided with the vampire guy who knocked me to the side, grabbed the axe, and chopped off the maniac’s head. Yay! Way to go vampire guy! lol It turned out he was just really ticked about the “racial profiling” that was going on with him as the main suspect of the slayings and wanted to get even.

  
  

  **

  
  

  Then last night I had a much shorter dream. A group of space werewolves called Lycans crashlanded in the woods. They decided to try and blend in with humanity to keep under the radar of the local authorities while they tried to fix their ship. So my family was living in a trailer and a family of Lycans bought the trailer right next to us. No one knew they were werewolves, because despite their cute wolfie ears, they supposedly looked just like everyone else. (Maybe I was the only one who could see the ears?) The father of the family looked just like an older, bulkier Inuyasha! lol (An Anime cartoon shown on the Cartoon network’s adult swim for those who don’t know.)

  
  

  So I became friends with the family and much bizarre inter-species hilarity ensued. Like when the oldest boy tried to fix the outdoor water faucet for both houses and ended up turning the front yard into a huge mud puddle which his sister took great joy in leaping into repeatedly.

  
  

  I was the only one who knew that they were really aliens because I was friends with the brother and sister and tried to help them fit in better. There parents didn’t know I knew they were werewolves, but they were nice enough. Most of their people stayed out in the woods and worked on the ship, but the father got a job as a highschool teacher, and I think the mother was a botanist or vet.

  
  

  The Lycans started coming out the woods and doing horrible things though, and my friends and their parents couldn’t figure out what was going on because they were a peaceful people. The mother thought it might be an earth disease like rabies that was making them go crazy. But the father thought it might be a computer virus that they had caught from the corrupted ship’s computer and went out to the ship to try and figure things out. When he came back, he was just as nutty and violent as the others. He kidnapped his wife to the ship, while I and my friends hid out in the woods.

  
  

  We decided that I should fix the ship because I should probably be immune to the computer virus being non-Lycan. So we snuck on board and I sat in this padded chair which was where the pilot would normally sit to guide the ship. A VR helmet came down over my head.

  
  

  Then it was like the scene from Lawnmower Man where everything is flying at your head. It was all strange glowing green and red symbols in loops and patterns. (Really, given my passion for symbols it was a lot of fun. heh) So I set the pattern right and saved the Lycans who all went back to normal once the symbols were back in order.

  
  

  **

  
  

  So that’s it. Two bizarre dreams for your reading pleasure.

  
  

  Now, for a final round of three questions, I received these questions from SilverRavenKat.

  
  

  1. If you could be any animal in the world, which one would you be and why?

  
  

  If I could be any animal, I would be a Raven. They’re the smartest of birds, and they have a great sense of humor.

  
  

  2. If you were secluded on an island with any two books of your choosing which two would you chose?

  
  

  Gah, only two???????? Well, let’s be practical. If I was secluded on an island, I assume I would be marooned, so one of the books would have to be on the subject of the native flora so i could feed myself. The other, well, I think I would want The Hobbit, so I’d have something fun to read while waiting for rescue.

  
  

  3. What is the greatest moment of your life?

  
  

  I don’t think it’s happened yet… I really can’t think of anything that I would consider great or defining. What a horribly boring person I am. No wonder my dreams are so outre.

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