Friday, March 03, 2006

I had to write it down

I had an extremely vivid dream last night. I was living with this couple, on a cliff, high above a white sandy beach and a crystal clear, blue-green ocean that stretched on forever. I got the sense that we were living a more primitive life as there really wasn't any clothing and I had the feeling that the couple had plans to repopulate the earth, thus, I will now call them Adam and Eve. They had a modern house with modern things but it was definitely in another time period or universe. Half the time I felt like I was experiencing what was going on and the other half I was only narrating. Apparently, the couple had saved me and nursed me back to life and I had amnesia so I couldn't remember life before them.

On this particular day, we were sitting on the edge of the cliff when we saw two adolescent boys swimming up to our beach below. "Don't they know this is a private beach?" Eve asked, as she wiped sand off of the cliff which traveled directly down to the water to assault the faces of the two boys, causing them to retreat back into the ocean. With a childlike curiosity, Adam and Eve started to descend down the cliff to watch the boys swim out; only once they were a safe distance away.

I followed them and upon reaching the beach we noticed a man paddling around the side of the cliff, in a sort of lay down leaf boat, very close to the shore. As he got out of the boat and walked to the beach we saw what a goliath he was. He was around 7 feet tall with long, brown, wavy hair and shiny, tan, bodybuilder muscles. Cautiously, Adam and Eve started climbing back up the cliff, glancing back now and then with fear radiating from their faces. I wasn't sure why they were so afraid, yet I climbed back up the cliff anyway.

When we made it to the top and Adam and Eve rushed towards these mountain bikes laying in the yard as Eve shouted "We bike away, Stephanie, we bike away!" Adam took off easily, but Eve almost got swiped up by the goliath's monster hands as she was mounting her bike. I thought that was a ridiculous plan, especially with the car sitting in the driveway, though I wasn't sure if I knew how to drive a car or if I even knew where the keys were.

I decided I would try to outsmart the giant rather than outrun him. I made a mad dash for the front of the house and burst in through the garage door slamming it behind me. It was just like stupid horror movies where the victim is running their ass off and the predator is walking at an average, even slow, pace, but somehow still manages to keep up. I ran down into the basement and into what I knew was my room. I knew there was a space in the closet, a sort of cubby, that I could slip into where he wouldn't find me. I carefully squeezed past all of the hanging items in the closet, there was one of those shoe-holder hangers closing me in. I half knelt, half stood in the small, slanted space.

I heard him enter the room, grunting around like a giant would. He stuck his hand in the closet and reached back, his fingers only centimeters from my face -- again, just like a movie. I closed my eyes and didn't breath and when I opened them the hand was gone and I heard him leave my room. My last thoughts were about how long I'd have to wait in there before I was sure he was gone or before Adam and Eve came back, and then I thought maybe I should escape from Adam and Eve altogether... go explore this strange place and try to figure out what the hell was going on.

Then I woke up.

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