Date: 05-04-2017
Dream inception again last night. A dream within a dream. It started like this. I was in my childhood bedroom on my bunk bed. My mother told me she was going shopping in the city centre. I remained in bed. Outside the house I had constructed some kind of security system, with various sensors. It allowed me to register whether someone was entering our property, and I had set up triggers for sounds to play when someone would. From here I fell asleep on my childhood bed, and had another dream.
This dream was truly bizarre. I dreamt I was part of a team of specialists that were going to travel to another dimension to look into a prehistoric animal that had gone extinct in our dimension but not theirs. We wanted to find out if this animal belonged in the clade of the dinosaurs or whether it was something else altogether. But we had to be really careful in that other dimension, as the people in that dimension had become ‘unstable’ due to a genetic experiment.
We travelled to the other dimension by means unknown. As we arrived there, people were out on the streets in daytime, walking around like the zombies from ‘The Walking Dead’ series. But they weren’t zombies. They were people, but they were utterly stupid, though some seemed quite normal. But what made them so dangerous was that when they were startled or got scared, or something unexpected happened near them, they could explode. I don’t mean they would get mad, I mean their body would actually expand followed by an explosion. And not some whimsy firecracker, no; they exploded like dynamite. It was loud, violent, and very dangerous as it was easily lethal for anyone around.
As we had arrived we had arrived in a mass of these zombies. We mimicked their behaviour as to not scare them. They made the same sounds as the zombies from the afore mentioned series, and they drooled, but otherwise looked like completely normal people to us. But they were so utterly stupid. They would walk around together in groups, and when one passed a parked car, it would point to it and exclaim: “CARRRRRRR. CARRRRRR.” And the others in the group would confirm this statement: “YES. CARRR. CARRRRR.” That’s how they walked around and acted.
We just mimicked their behaviour as we moved about, until we arrived at a square where there was a podium. On the stage was someone who was clearly leaps smarter than the crowd of zombies that had gathered in front of the stage. This fellow was apparently teaching them the alphabet. He had a microphone, and to his left and right stood a stack of stage speakers, and behind him was a large screen where all the letters of the alphabet were being projected on. He walked around with a pointing stick, and touched the letter D, stating through the microphone: “The letter D.” The zombie people – who were not even looking at him or the screen, but were instead just wondering around aimlessly – would repeat: “DEEEE. DEEEE. DEEEE.”
It turned out the guy who was giving this reading lesson was also our contact in this dimension. He was going to help us. Apparently it was illegal for us to come there. He had found us a place where we could spend the night. It was a student dorm flat, so the people inside that building were on average a bit smarter than those we had encountered outside on the street. But even though they were smarter, there was still the danger of them exploding on sudden events. The guy ended his lesson and got off stage. He came to us, greeted us, and gave us tips and instructions on where we would go and how best to behave. He would take the lead, and we all continued our imbecilic routine.
Part of it was actually quite funny, if it wasn’t for the danger of exploding people. We arrived at the dorm flat where we (a group of 6 to 8, I’m not sure exactly) were going to spend the night in one big room. The room was L shaped, and had two entry doors on the inside of the L shape, that both gave access to the same hallway. We had brought with us 4 “traps” that we had to put down on the ground. Each trap would emit a V shape with lasers, and if someone entered the opening of that V shape two things would happen:
1. The device would start beeping
2. The person inside the V shape would be frozen in place
But of course these devices were not made for this dimension, and it was possible that if one of them went off we actually had to run for our lives because of an imminent explosion that could follow. It was truly illogical to have brought those devices, but that’s what happened. So we went to sleep, and of course the students of this dorm curiously came looking at us. They were the cutest looking girls! We struck up a conversation with them, but they weren’t very bright at all. Compared to us, they were like children, and they reasoned like children in many ways. But in this realm they were the smarter ones. In the land of the blind… I guess.
And, yes, of course sometimes one of them would wonder into those fancy traps despite our warnings to stay clear of them. As they got stuck in the beam, they seemed to go into some kind of epileptic seizure, making sounds like they were being electrocuted, looking all frightened. When that happened one of us would rush to the device to quickly switch it off, or turn it away from them. And as soon as we did that, it seemed like they instantly completely had forgotten it happened. Like *having terrifying seizure* CLICK device off “Hey who are you, what do you study?” Like nothing happened! Truly bizarre.
But after a while they left and most of our group couldn’t sleep, including me. We wanted to go outside and satisfy our curiosity about this dimension, but two of our party were asleep. We didn’t want to wake them, so we decided to place all four traps in such a way they had the largest possible range, so that anyone trapped in them would be as far away from our sleeping comrades as possible. I set them up, and found them to be complicated devices with many switches, dials, and buttons. But I succeeded.
Now we proceeded outside. It was now truly nighttime and this world was even scarier than it had been during the day. There were monsters everywhere, dinosaurs the size of houses, that kind of world. But they left all the zombie people alone. Didn’t touch them, didn’t trample them, didn’t even look at them. I thought to myself that because of natural selection the big animals had learned not to try and eat them, cause they would explode in their bellies.
We arrived at some shopping centre, and wondered around. Going inside any of the shops was too dangerous though. We were slowly getting used to how utterly different this world was from ours when we were all shocked by what sounded like an enormous explosion in the not too far distance. We looked into the direction of where the sound emanated from, and saw a huge fireball rise from the student dorm flat where we were staying. That’s where two of our team members and our stuff was at. We panicked.
Now what? It didn’t take long for the sound of approaching sirens to be heard. Not just that, the emergency alarm also started sounding. This situation was beginning to get very dangerous. People panicked on the streets. Everyone could blow up at any time. A small contingent of soldiers with super weapons was deployed on the street by the authorities. They were a bit like “the Ginyu Force” of Dragon Ball Z; a small group of special warriors. They had been tasked to come to this region because the authorities had been informed of our illegal presence in their dimension and in response had tasked their best team to find us.
The authorities were apparently people that were about as smart as us, though undoubtedly corrupt to the core as most their countrymen were barely smart enough to properly wipe their own asses. This specialised team of soldiers started following us. Each of them looked differently, with their own capabilities and unique weapons. They were about as strong and smart as us, and we both had fancy weapons. I recall one of them had a kind of freeze ray weapon. But my weapon was very sweet too. It was a big weapon with two settings; one continuous blue energy beam, and the second firing small orange plasma balls in bursts of four like an energy machine gun.
I fired away at them. While we were battling them it turned out we had been betrayed by one of my house mates in our dimension! That’s how the authority knew about us, despite us being so stealthy and careful. We didn’t want to do so much damage to the infrastructure of this dimension. We came here for research, not to fight. We wanted to get home now. To get home we had to go to a specific spot, where a portal would open which would lead back to our own dimension. We succeeded and I woke up, back in my childhood bunk bed.
Mom had returned from shopping, and she told me some of the sensors of my security system had worked, cause on her return she had heard a sound come from the bushes. What I had done was rig a sound sensor to trigger a sound if it detected sound above a certain decibel level. When it did it would play the sound of a growling dog. It was supposed to scare unknowing people away, but the way my mom related her account of this back to me, made me realise it wasn’t scary at all, but perhaps only slightly comedic.
She said: “Yeah, and then I took a few steps onto the driveway, and I heard a tiny dog in the bushes.” And just after she had said this, I heard my brother mimic the sound on the other side of the door, where in the door crack he made a soft repeating growling noise, as to drive the point home in a comedic way how utterly ineffective my idea was. Grrrr… Grrrr… Grrrr… That little jackass, haha! He kept repeating to make the sound. Grrrr… Grrrr… Grrrr… Until I slowly woke up in my own bed, and heard the sound still. It was my wife snoring softly.
When my brother heard this, it made him laugh. It was quite funny.
