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So I had a creepy dream last night. It appeared to be based on the book Peeps and it featured everybody's favorite Keavy.
So in this dream, there was some disease destroying society, basically. It may or may not have been parasitic in nature, I'm not sure. If you got the full-blown disease it was a definite death sentence, and it wouldn't take very long to kill you either. But it was also possible to be a carrier - you'd be infected with the disease but it wouldn't kill you. Carriers would become crazed and violent, although some were better at hiding it than others. Some of them could seem pretty normal, but once they got you close enough they'd bite you or something. Parasitic mind control sort of thing - the parasite makes people violent so they'll spread it. The disease was really easy to transmit - a bite or a kiss would do it, but it could be even less contact than that. There was medication for it that would completely control it, you wouldn't be at all violent, but you had to act VERY quickly for the medication to work.
I think there was something about it being transmitted by slugs. And there was also some reason why it was "supposed" to happen. In the book Peeps, which this is clearly based on because it's very similar, the carriers are sort of super human and they're needed to fight these monsters that would otherwise probably destroy humanity. I think it may have been something similar in my dream but I don't really know.
For some reason, there was a colony of slugs being raised in my basement. This was supposed to be happening, and it had something to do with a controlled spread of the disease. The slugs were behind screens, and we sort of just had one crop of slugs after another down there. And then one day I went down to check on them and somehow everything had gotten out of control. A lot of them were WAY too big - the largest slugs were about 7 inches long and 2 inches across. And a lot of them were OUTSIDE of the screens. Most were just clinging to the outside of the screens but a few were starting to ooze away. Something was clearly very wrong and it was obvious that the spread of the disease was going to be out of control. But I had no idea what to do and I was so freaked out and disgusted by the giant slugs invading my house that I just panicked and ran upstairs. I told somebody (possible Keavy) that something was wrong, and whoever it was went downstairs to check and basically had the same reaction I did. She agreed that something was very, very wrong but neither of us knew what to do and I think we sort of just decided to ignore it because we just couldn't deal with it.
I decided to go for a walk...I think I was initially intending to catch the bus to school, because apparently I was still in high school. I started walking down the street and I think the bus came before I got to the corner and I ran but didn't make it. So I kept walking and a car drove past and slowed way down and the driver rolled down the window. He asked if I wanted a ride anywhere but I said no. I was so creeped out by this - he was acting so normal but I was pretty sure he was actually a carrier and was trying to lure me closer so he could attack.
Farther down the street I saw a woman who seemed pretty nice and normal. I don't remember if I was actually talking to her or not, but we had at least acknowledged each other. Then I saw the bus coming - I don't know if it turned around and came back or if I saw it on the next street or what, but I said "OH, my school bus!" and started to head towards it. And then it swerved back and forth across the street and crashed into a house or something and I realized that whoever was driving must have been a carrier who'd gone crazy. I sort of said "...maybe I shouldn't go to school" and the woman agreed.
At this point I was getting really panicked because it was obvious that everything was falling apart and basically society as a whole was going to hell all around me. I started running back up the street. When I got to my house, there was a little girl sort of wandering around between the next house and mine. This girl was the younger sister of someone I went to high school with. She lived in the neighborhood but not in that house, but I'm not sure if maybe she did live there in the dream because I wasn't TOO weirded out by the fact that she was there. She was sort of wandering around looking lost so I knew something was up, but I guess I felt bad for her since she was so young and I foolishly approached her. I said something like "It's Emily, right? Emily, you should go home." I don't know what she said after that, but whatever it was made me go a little closer...and then she attacked. She launched herself and managed to land what was basically a bizarre sort of kiss. Her mouth only barely touched me and really briefly but I had a feeling it was enough.
I ran inside, panicking beyond belief. I found Keavy (who apparently lived with me) and somehow communicated to her that I thought I might have been infected - I'm sure I can't have been very coherant. Keavy held on to me and tried to calm me down and told me that I needed to pay attention to any problems I might have with my vision, because that would be the first symptom. I think she started getting some medication ready then (I'm pretty sure Keavy was like a doctor or something in the dream so I was really lucky).
Almost immediately everything went suddenly black. I started screaming and panicking so hard, it was seriously lucky that Keavy even understood what had happened because I was NOT calm enough to really communicate anything. My vision went black, then came back and was all sort of wavy and blurry I think, and then went black again. Keavy came over and tried to calm me down again and said that I needed to keep my eyes moving or else they'd like...harden...and I'd lose my sight permanently. I think I misunderstood at first because I was so panicked and thought that I should try to move my eyeballs with my hands, because I remember rubbing my eyes really hard. Then I realized what she meant and started rolling my eyes all over and looking in every direction like a crazy person. With everything black this felt so creepy and I couldn't even tell for sure that I was moving my eyes, but I think Keavy said I was doing it well.
She gave me some kind of medication - I don't remember if it was an injection or something I swallowed or what. It seemed like things started to clear up right away - I'm pretty sure my vision came back, and I think the crazy hysterical panic also lifted a bit. I'm not sure if that was just because my vision came back and I realized that I must be a carrier and not actually going to die from it, or if the hysteria itself was in part a symptom of the disease too.
Anyway, Keavy totally saved my life and was the best dream-Keavy ever. SUCH a creepy dream. And the weird part was, it wasn't a nightmare - as in, it didn't wake me up in that awful panicky state like nightmares do. But now looking back on it it's SO creepy. And the period of time right after I went blind when I knew for sure I was infected and didn't know if I would just be a carrier or if I was about to die a horrible death in the next few minutes...yeah, that was terrifying.
So in this dream, there was some disease destroying society, basically. It may or may not have been parasitic in nature, I'm not sure. If you got the full-blown disease it was a definite death sentence, and it wouldn't take very long to kill you either. But it was also possible to be a carrier - you'd be infected with the disease but it wouldn't kill you. Carriers would become crazed and violent, although some were better at hiding it than others. Some of them could seem pretty normal, but once they got you close enough they'd bite you or something. Parasitic mind control sort of thing - the parasite makes people violent so they'll spread it. The disease was really easy to transmit - a bite or a kiss would do it, but it could be even less contact than that. There was medication for it that would completely control it, you wouldn't be at all violent, but you had to act VERY quickly for the medication to work.
I think there was something about it being transmitted by slugs. And there was also some reason why it was "supposed" to happen. In the book Peeps, which this is clearly based on because it's very similar, the carriers are sort of super human and they're needed to fight these monsters that would otherwise probably destroy humanity. I think it may have been something similar in my dream but I don't really know.
For some reason, there was a colony of slugs being raised in my basement. This was supposed to be happening, and it had something to do with a controlled spread of the disease. The slugs were behind screens, and we sort of just had one crop of slugs after another down there. And then one day I went down to check on them and somehow everything had gotten out of control. A lot of them were WAY too big - the largest slugs were about 7 inches long and 2 inches across. And a lot of them were OUTSIDE of the screens. Most were just clinging to the outside of the screens but a few were starting to ooze away. Something was clearly very wrong and it was obvious that the spread of the disease was going to be out of control. But I had no idea what to do and I was so freaked out and disgusted by the giant slugs invading my house that I just panicked and ran upstairs. I told somebody (possible Keavy) that something was wrong, and whoever it was went downstairs to check and basically had the same reaction I did. She agreed that something was very, very wrong but neither of us knew what to do and I think we sort of just decided to ignore it because we just couldn't deal with it.
I decided to go for a walk...I think I was initially intending to catch the bus to school, because apparently I was still in high school. I started walking down the street and I think the bus came before I got to the corner and I ran but didn't make it. So I kept walking and a car drove past and slowed way down and the driver rolled down the window. He asked if I wanted a ride anywhere but I said no. I was so creeped out by this - he was acting so normal but I was pretty sure he was actually a carrier and was trying to lure me closer so he could attack.
Farther down the street I saw a woman who seemed pretty nice and normal. I don't remember if I was actually talking to her or not, but we had at least acknowledged each other. Then I saw the bus coming - I don't know if it turned around and came back or if I saw it on the next street or what, but I said "OH, my school bus!" and started to head towards it. And then it swerved back and forth across the street and crashed into a house or something and I realized that whoever was driving must have been a carrier who'd gone crazy. I sort of said "...maybe I shouldn't go to school" and the woman agreed.
At this point I was getting really panicked because it was obvious that everything was falling apart and basically society as a whole was going to hell all around me. I started running back up the street. When I got to my house, there was a little girl sort of wandering around between the next house and mine. This girl was the younger sister of someone I went to high school with. She lived in the neighborhood but not in that house, but I'm not sure if maybe she did live there in the dream because I wasn't TOO weirded out by the fact that she was there. She was sort of wandering around looking lost so I knew something was up, but I guess I felt bad for her since she was so young and I foolishly approached her. I said something like "It's Emily, right? Emily, you should go home." I don't know what she said after that, but whatever it was made me go a little closer...and then she attacked. She launched herself and managed to land what was basically a bizarre sort of kiss. Her mouth only barely touched me and really briefly but I had a feeling it was enough.
I ran inside, panicking beyond belief. I found Keavy (who apparently lived with me) and somehow communicated to her that I thought I might have been infected - I'm sure I can't have been very coherant. Keavy held on to me and tried to calm me down and told me that I needed to pay attention to any problems I might have with my vision, because that would be the first symptom. I think she started getting some medication ready then (I'm pretty sure Keavy was like a doctor or something in the dream so I was really lucky).
Almost immediately everything went suddenly black. I started screaming and panicking so hard, it was seriously lucky that Keavy even understood what had happened because I was NOT calm enough to really communicate anything. My vision went black, then came back and was all sort of wavy and blurry I think, and then went black again. Keavy came over and tried to calm me down again and said that I needed to keep my eyes moving or else they'd like...harden...and I'd lose my sight permanently. I think I misunderstood at first because I was so panicked and thought that I should try to move my eyeballs with my hands, because I remember rubbing my eyes really hard. Then I realized what she meant and started rolling my eyes all over and looking in every direction like a crazy person. With everything black this felt so creepy and I couldn't even tell for sure that I was moving my eyes, but I think Keavy said I was doing it well.
She gave me some kind of medication - I don't remember if it was an injection or something I swallowed or what. It seemed like things started to clear up right away - I'm pretty sure my vision came back, and I think the crazy hysterical panic also lifted a bit. I'm not sure if that was just because my vision came back and I realized that I must be a carrier and not actually going to die from it, or if the hysteria itself was in part a symptom of the disease too.
Anyway, Keavy totally saved my life and was the best dream-Keavy ever. SUCH a creepy dream. And the weird part was, it wasn't a nightmare - as in, it didn't wake me up in that awful panicky state like nightmares do. But now looking back on it it's SO creepy. And the period of time right after I went blind when I knew for sure I was infected and didn't know if I would just be a carrier or if I was about to die a horrible death in the next few minutes...yeah, that was terrifying.