Alone
Had another nightmare last night. I only remember the very end.
I took a date to a scary movie. The movie had a cute gimmick where it would intercut a scene with low-fi, sepia footage of a killer stalking the principal characters. Slightly unnerving. The next gimmick was a bit scarier: The theater had a mechanism to brush something past your feet, like scurrying, triggered to move whenever there was a jump-cut in the killer's motion.
The third gimmick was the worst. When the stalker finally stopped moving, actors jumped out of the aisles, dressed like him, to startle us. One shook me by the shoulders and got in close to my face. At first it was ludicrous, but the actor didn't let up, and I felt panic building. I reached out to grab my date's hand, and she wasn't there.
I woke up gasping, and the dark bedroom was far too similar to a darkened theater, with an empty bed next to me instead of an empty theater seat. It took me a minute to sort out whether I was awake or still asleep.
I went back to sleep with the lights on.
[Please stay for our next film: Deep Throat in Feel-Around!]
I took a date to a scary movie. The movie had a cute gimmick where it would intercut a scene with low-fi, sepia footage of a killer stalking the principal characters. Slightly unnerving. The next gimmick was a bit scarier: The theater had a mechanism to brush something past your feet, like scurrying, triggered to move whenever there was a jump-cut in the killer's motion.
The third gimmick was the worst. When the stalker finally stopped moving, actors jumped out of the aisles, dressed like him, to startle us. One shook me by the shoulders and got in close to my face. At first it was ludicrous, but the actor didn't let up, and I felt panic building. I reached out to grab my date's hand, and she wasn't there.
I woke up gasping, and the dark bedroom was far too similar to a darkened theater, with an empty bed next to me instead of an empty theater seat. It took me a minute to sort out whether I was awake or still asleep.
I went back to sleep with the lights on.
[Please stay for our next film: Deep Throat in Feel-Around!]