Man what a dream last night. Wish I hadn't woken up before the end. This has to be the weirdest one yet.

The setting was a space ship crashing on some god forsaken planet. A dried up desert planet. Crew and passengers of the ship are overrun by undead zombies (how cliché). I won't go into all the details... it was exciting though, lots of chasing, crew getting picked off, one of them (I think it was me actually) was some kind of double agent working for the evil government (Apparently I wasn't briefed very well).

There were a few things that made this dream unique from a story telling perspective. The first was drama. There was a part where some of the passengers were trying to escape from the cargo hold. One of them was about to open a door and the audience (yes, for some reason the dream was in a theater with an audience) the audience gasped and screamed "don't open that door!".... sure enough the stupid character opens the door and an "undead" jumps out, scares the crap out of everyone and then...

... camera cut? Scene change? What the heck? I will never know what happened now.

So it cuts to my character and the pilot running for our lives to... some sort of escape shuttle. Lots of missing bits. I must have gone for popcorn and missed a lot. They get to the ship and take off. Camera pans out from the window of the ship with the 3 surviving characters, credits roll. Movie is over.

The second interesting element were the dramatic camera angles and overall cinematic quality of the dream. The direction wasn't "great", obviously one of those "B" type sci-fi movies that go to DVD as soon as they hit the theaters... but still I hadn't seen this in my dreams before. I could even see the "wide screen" strips at the top and bottom...

... but here's where it gets really interesting. Second part of the dream is an ACTUAL sequel of the first. It starts off right where the first part ended... but... DIFFERENT ACTORS. No kidding. I'm "watching" this movie in my dream and I notice that the female pilot of the ship is a different "actor". The other guy in the back you know is going to die right away, he's a different actor from the first part. Apparently my character (yes, I'm in the audience AND in the movie... this is a dream) was the only one to sign up for the sequels. In the first part I was more "in" the movie. The sequel, I'm still in the movie but I'm watching from the audience.

In part two they are trying to leave but are contacted by... oh lord... watching too much A-Team and Battlestar Galactica... so the escaping heroes are contacted by a school teacher and all her young students still trapped on the planet and threatened by the undead. We of course must go back and save them.

First off, I would never write a plot that stupid. Why are there children on a god forsaken desert planet? Why didn't the teacher call them in part 1? How did a bunch of children survive when highly trained experts got picked off one by one?

Anyway, we all will have to make up our own endings. I didn't see how it turns out. I woke up shortly after the escape shuttle returns to the planet to rescue the children. The last image in my head is looking up to to the transparent bubble escape hatch opening and and all the characters dramatically framed in the doorway opening looking down from inside the ship beckoning to the teacher and students with wind rushing in and blowing their hair very dramatically. If it were me, this would be one of those "trailer shots" for the previews. Freaky weird dream... bad script, bad acting, bad writing... but still fun while it lasted.

I hate dreams like this. I would like just for once, to know how it ends!

-vern

OK- No more hot sauce on Vern's tacos...

I like to bug people by letting them finish their description of some wild, Freudian bizarre-ass dream and I'll simply reply...'Oh-yeah- I had that dream once. I'm way ahead of you. Wait till tonight, it gets weirder!'

Ah! That's why you weren't in the second movie.

Sounds like a fun dream and well remembered. I always forget the details after initially waking. But I do also have continuous dreams on different nights/same night. And I always seem to know they're dreams and so even in a nightmare, I know I can just wake up if I see something really freaky.

I always have a full head of rich, thick beautiful hair in my dreams. That is a reoccurring dream for me. In my dream all my hair has grown back and I am so happy. It is so long I have to worry about what style and how to part it.

I do have the occasional "night terror". Infrequently. those really suck. I have to get up and watch a Disney movie just to feel safe again. The worst ones involve strange tiny bald aliens with small pointy teeth that peek their heads around the door to my bedroom..... <shiver>

-vern