I have not posted in a while here partly because we’ve had a trip to Hawaii and bought a house this year. I’ve had several posts that I thought about doing, but here I am the morning after having a very strange dream, so I’ve decided to post about it.
My dream must have been inspired by Stephen King’s Langoliers because part of my dream was that I was watching part 1 of a new movie version of the Langoliers. And it did seem to be loosely inspired by it in some ways.
Basically I dreamed that I was visiting my hometown. It is the 20 year anniversary of my high school graduation and my grandmother passed away in June, so it has been on my mind to visit, and I am guessing that is why I saw family members and former classmates in my dream.
The location of the dream was my former babysitter’s house. In real life their family no longer lives there, but in my dream they were still living there. Everyone had gathered at the house for a kind of celebration. But my former babysitter’s husband said that there were monsters in the house, that got into the house through somewhere in the basement. And my response was that yes I remembered them from when I was little and I did believe they were real. In real life of course I have no memory of this, but in the dream it seemed reasonable.
The monsters were human shaped but their skin and faces looked different. Maybe they looked like some kind of TV alien or lizard person. They were from a different plane of existence, kind of like the Langoliers. The monsters were from another dimension that overlapped with ours and normally they went about their business without interaction with us. They didn’t realize that we could see them, because normally nobody did except for the oddly sensitive child. And we were all trying to pretend that we didn’t see them, though obviously we could.
We weren’t sure how they were getting into our plane of existence but there was some kind of crack or rift somewhere in the basement of the house that was allowing them to pass through into our world. In the dream they existed in basically every house but none of the other houses had a point where they could pass through. The trouble was that when they could pass into our plane they could physically touch us and that they were a threat to us. If they stayed on their own plane they would be very unlikely to interact with us at all.
Since we knew something was odd we were all hoping to leave the house the following day. For whatever reason though we were having a party at the house and gathering there for the night so that we could all go to the airport together the following day. We were going to escape to Cocomo. It was at this party that I saw my old classmates and my uncle and other people. We were making matching Cocomo hats for the trip and having food and drinks when we saw a person moving through the floorboards. He was also from the other dimension and he was shocked that we could see him. He asked me to bring him a drink but to pretend like I wasn’t doing it for him. He said if the monsters got wind that we could see him they’d know we could see them, too. And if that happened, they’d be set in motion to do something.
People were going to bed and I think the monsters had figured it out. For some reason all the planes that were traveling over the area had navigation system errors and crashed. And the airport was total chaos and closed down. I looked out the window and saw the monsters surrounding the house. I thought, why did we have to have the party here? Why didn’t we go to Cocomo yesterday?
At that point, I woke up thinking that part 1 was over. I have no idea what part 2 would have been like, though.
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