Zombie Dream from 2004

[Hissil]

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This is a dream I had in early 2004, when I was about 12. What’s worth noting about it is I had slept on the couch that night, placing 2 action figures, a cave troll from lord of the rings and a cow next to me. Also I was awaken from the dream abruptly.

It started off as a war. I was in an acid field. I was walking down a long platform and shooting aliens. I had a 9mm in my right hand. The setting is somewhat like the game half life. I had one of the security guards in uniform following me who also had a 9mm. I was Gordon Freeman. The mission was to infiltrate a castle. A large alien spawned and zapped the bridge underneath where the guard was standing. He fell in and was burned by the acid. I shot the alien and continued. As I approached the castle, I saw that it was heavily guarded by aliens. So I entered through the water system in the back. I was inside.

I heard singing, "la la!" It sounded like the king in the shower. I had come here for one reason. To steal the wizard's wand. I was in a large room, there was a very large and deep empty pool in the center of the room. The wand was down there at the bottom. I was about to jump down and get it when I heard screaming. "Stop!" yelled the Prince. He had a different wand, and was shooting some kind of beam at me. I dodged it. Then I shot at the Prince. I missed. The dodging and evading continued for some length of time. I depleted my ammunition and finally jumped down into the pit. So did the prince. His long purple cape was flowing as if there was a strong wind.

(The prince was my cousin Philip, and the king was my uncle steve, who I was living with at the time.)

All of a sudden the king came in naked wrapped in a towel. He began to sing. The Prince turned and yelled something at him. At this point I went to snatch up the wand, but the Prince caught me in time and whipped out a knife. He swiped it and cut me on the arm. He then made a lunge for my stomach but I grabbed his wrist and pointed it towards his leg. I stabbed the knife deep into his leg. He pulled out the blade with incredible force and stabbed it deeply into my leg. We were both on our knees at this point, with both of us bleeding and screaming at each other. His fingers were too bloody to get a grip on the knife, and I plunged it deep into his gut. He froze, blood oozed out of his mouth. I grabbed the wand. I turned around and saw a tunnel. I grabbed the knife too and took off.

There were water pipes everywhere and water dripping. My leg hurt badly and I had to limp sort of. Eventually there was a split in the tunnel. I took the left turn because I heard a cat meow. Soon I pushed out of some dry walling. I then saw a naked girl. This girl I had seen only a few times in real life and as far as I know is the only time she appeared in a dream. She was lying on the floor. Her legs were spread out and she was clutching something in her hands. It was then that I noticed the surroundings I was in. It was a grocery store apparently. I crouched down next to the girl to listen for any signs of breathing wondering if she was alive or dead.. I soon got my answer. There was a groan. Not just any particular groan, but a sickening horrific moan as if it were

… a zombie??? The dead girl soon went to get up. I ran down the aisle and turned right to look at the receptionist. She was an old lady very tall also, but had a bloody and battered face. I then panicked. The lady hopped the desk and charged towards me. I turned to my right, and saw a fat man with a blood soaked shirt charge at me with a shopping cart. I heard another meow. I then turned back to my left. I saw three cats. I knew who they were. Yahoo (my cat, a calico) and Sheba (my grandparent’s old cat, had died years ago), the other was my neighbors, Silky. Silky was the smallest and blackest. The cats took off. I followed them out of the store at a fast pace. Sheba split off so I continued to follow Yahoo and Silky. Silky then disappeared. Yahoo was the only cat left. I followed him to a road. I knew what this road was. It was the road where I am faced with on many other dreams, very bad nightmares (Recurring nightmares of my grandmother trying to kill me, I’ll write about later). Yahoo disappeared then. I was scared all of a sudden. Alone and unarmed, my knife had conveniently disappeared. I saw a sky blue car approach from the left. It had three black guys in it. The car was blasting rap music. I saw they were foaming spit at the mouth. I took off and followed the road to the right. The car followed me. I then crossed the road and ran up a short hill. I saw three people there.

One was Legolas, from lord of the rings. He shot two of the zombies. The other guy looked about 18. He had a 9mm. He shot the driver. The car flipped and crashed. The other person was a beautiful girl. She looked about fifteen. Legolas said something about a person named Blaine, then he said he had to leave. It was at this point that some kind of health system had come into play. According to the dream, we each had two health points. If you were bitten by a zombie, you would lose one health point and "puff up". If you lost two, you would die and become a zombie. I stood there and asked the people some questions. "Who are you?" I asked the male. "My name is James, and this is my sister Jennifer.”

Jennifer at that point revealed she also had a 9mm. James handed me one and said I would need it for when the zombies come. All of a sudden a sickening feeling of doom overcame us. We looked in every direction. We were surrounded… by what seemed like hundreds of zombies. James yelled "open fire!" James was shooting hysterically for all he was worth. We pushed our way east (the direction I had been heading ever since I got to this road, I know that we were heading east down grand river road). All of a sudden a zombie approached James from the left and bit him on the shoulder. James screamed and shot the zombie in the head.

Three more came from in front and bit him, ripping out his intestines. He fell down, dead. I shot many zombies while Jennifer covered us. I grabbed James's 9mm and continued on our way. Soon the zombies were left behind in the distance. We were both very weak. We sat down to rest. Soon Jennifer was crying. I kissed her and told her it would be alright. I told her we would catch up to Legalos and Blaine and we would be safe. This was probably the highest emotional part of the dream.

Soon everything went to hell. A zombie came out of nowhere and bit deep into the back of Jennifer's neck. I was still kissing her. I felt warm blood pour into my own mouth, and watched the life die out of her eyes. Her body slumped down to the ground. I was petrified and couldn't move. I looked at the killer, the dead corpse hovering over Jennifer's dead body. He wanted more. He took a lunge at me and bit my right arm. I flinched with pain. I dropped the gun in my right hand. Then I shot him in the head with the gun in my left hand. Blood blasted out of his head. I was very upset, but still, had the instinct to survive. I ran off further east passing multiple hordes of zombies.

I continued running down the road. The bite stung and puss and blood oozed from my wound. I was beginning to "puff up". I continued to run, nonetheless. It was then that my leg wound caught up with me. I began to limp and decrease in speed. The zombies were getting close. I still had ammo, but wanted to save it for when they got too close. Then I saw something then that made my spirits rise. A large metal gatehouse. Obviously this meant something good because…

Standing in front of it was a human! That’s' right, a normal living human being. He was only about five feet six inches, and had dark brown hair. He held a spear in his right hand. He said he was expecting me, and that I should get inside before the zombies got any closer. He opened the gate and I ran in. I asked, "Hey! Aren't you coming too?" He yelled, "I will be fine." I said, "what's your name?" He yelled, "Tom the gatekeeper." He said I needed to hurry inside and not to worry about him. Suddenly the gate closed. I heard Tom scream, and flesh tearing. I then knew that he had died.

I was inside some sort of fortress with abandoned crude buildings everywhere. The place looked like something you would see out of a medieval movie. I saw a large dark structure made of mud that had stairs leading down into a dark abyss. It may not have been to bright of me, but I went down those stairs and eventually came to a dimly lighted room. It was flooded about two inches with a greenish yellow murky water. I saw Legolas sitting down on the floor. He looked exhausted. I then saw professor (Blaine) in a lab coat. He said, "Gordon Freeman! You made it!" I told him that Tom the gatekeeper was dead. A frown of sadness set upon his face, he then quickly changed his look and asked me if I had retrieved the wand. I said "yes". He then remarked, "excellent! This is very good! Very good!" I looked around.

[Hissil]

Sitting on the floor was one other person. He looked extremely puffed up. I knew who he was though right when I saw him. It was Duke Nukem. He apparently had three health points and had depleted two of them. Legolas still had both of his, as did the professor. I had lost one of mine. Duke Nukem was real bloody and looked like he was sleeping. I knew he was alive though, his chest was moving up and down. The professor took the wand and somehow used it to open a cabinet. "This is very good Gordon, now that you retrieved this we may have saved the world from this zombie virus. As you may know, the mentally retarted king and his son had planned to take over the world with their zombie army, and only the wand could open this safe. Do you know what is in it?” "What?" I asked. He opened the cabinet. Inside was a small vial of sparkling golden liquid.

"The antidote." Unbelievable. “We can replicate this and make enough to preserve all the humans that are not yet infected. If you have been bitten but not killed yet then you take this, and you will become immune." We all took a teaspoon of the liquid. Strangely enough, even though it looked miraculous, it had no taste. I guess in dreams there isn't much stimulation for the taste buds. Blaine then said, "Gordon, you, Legolas, and Duke Nukem must go and retrieve more materials from my laboratory we need to make more of this antidote. I will wait here because it is safe and I cannot fight. It will be long and hard. You are immune to the zombies, ut remember, they can still tear your limbs apart. They will eat you alive if it takes. They don't stop attacking until your infected or dead. "F*** those things!" yelled Duke.

(The following is a post-awakening part and somehow I knew I was waking up yet tried to continue the dream as fast as possible.)

Blaine pointed at the dark tunnel facing us, "beyond that gate is a tunnel that connects to the sewer. You must navigate through it using Legolas's map until you reach the city. Then you must surface and work your way through the streets until you reach my lab. Then you can get the chemicals I need. Once we have enough antidotes we will go to a refuge camp I know of where there are thirteen other survivors. They need the antidote soon because some of them have already been bitten. It is up to you…" We then armed ourselves. Duke and I selected a variety of firearms ranging from pistols to machine guns and grenades. Legolas took up his bow and arrows. For some reason, probably the antidote, we were no longer puffed up. We entered the darkness…

And it is at this point that unfortunately I was awaken from my vivid dream, not by the TV, but by Philip, my cousin. He had played as the character of the prince. How ironic of an ending is that?

[unclesirbobbyrobson]

Its a fascinating dream. I interpret dreams very much in the here and now and this dream seems especially linkerd to recent and very much current events rather than deep seated pyschological problems.. and things that affect you from childhood

I try to search out the most likely thing that triggered your dream. Here there is some very important background info. It maybe strongly linked to that. In that dreams can represent sounds and noises that we hear around us. You were sleeping very lightly as you were probably sleeping very uncommfortably... which often links to dreams linked to light sleep affected by noises around us. Also things that are going on in your head are important... the sort of fantasies that fill your mind.. the random thoughts before sleep.. the things that made you put two random action figures in the position and the reasons why you feel asleep in a very random position

Zombies to me often represent zombie like attitudes. How could that link to your dream. Perhaps tiredness.. acting and feeling like a zombie due to ehaustion. Or perhaps people who are zombie like.. unable to speak and act easily... stuttering and stumbling..

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