Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

I had the weirdest dream. It started out like the movie Tremors, except in the woods at a pond instead of the desert/mountains. Out of six people, three females got eaten, then another because she wouldn't listen to the last two, a male and a female. They go running to an area that's mainly rocks, with a few giant, old trees. They get in the trees and warn other people there not to go on the ground, and to be quiet, because they're drawn to sound.

So now, these trees are suddenly in the middle of a valley, almost like a cave. There's only one main way in, and then a smaller series of caves that lead in through the back. And the people that were in the trees now number in the hundreds. These worm things are sending in other monsters to attack. The people believe the monsters are going to send their smaller force through the back to distract the defenders from the front.

The people, by the way, are mostly women who have small knives that give them extra strength when they're drawn.

So the monsters attack from the back as expected. They're small and easy to stop, or so they appear. They have eyes attached to long stalks that come out of their heads, and someone grabs the stalks and tries to cut through them, only to have their knife completely dulled while not even cutting through the thing. That's when they realize the small monsters ARE the main force.

At this point, I'm there, and I'm the one who realizes what's happening. So I run to the front entrance, which turns out to be the Garden Center at work, and you and Laura are there. I look past you and see that there's nothing wrong out front. I tell you we need to get out as soon as possible, and run and get in a car. Apparently I'm planning to come back for you.

I go through a messed up parking lot, and when I get back to where I'm going, it's more like a school, and someone tells me that they're broadcasting that the whole thing was made up, because the monster things have secretly taken over the area, and they're interviewing everyone to be sure they get rid of people who know too much. Which means I have to pretend I don't know what's going on.

They sit me in front of this class room and start asking me questions. They ask if I'm really 16 and I say yes. (Why am I 16?) They don't believe me until I point out someone else they've interviewed already who looks my age who is also 16.

After that, we're trying to pretend things are normal when there's a news broadcast that someone went crazy, bit someone, then jumped off a building to their death.

At this point, I realize people are becoming zombies, and I run off to find you. Suddenly, it's work again instead of a school, and I see you walking to the back to go on a break. I take off running down the aisle to try to catch up to you and get you out with me.

Then it gets even stranger. There are these giant animal deities out in nature now. They normally watch over the forest animals, but whatever is infecting the people is infecting them, too. We witness a giant cat deity (standing on two legs, mostly white fur with this black v shape across its face) look down at a tiny animal that's looking up at it all lovingly, and it just steps on it out of spite.

Someone is also telling us that the infection is being spread by the animals, and telling us how you can tell they're about to attack you. But they're demonstrating it with a cat, and the cat is beginning to do the things they're telling us about. We're trying to tell the person to watch out because it's going to hurt them, but they're not listening to us.

It's right about here that I woke up, and there was a stray cat outside yelling/meowing really loud.