hallucinations and zombies
So I had some interersting dreams last night.
The first one I was at a party, which turned into a party at my house. I meet this guy there who then proceeds to tell me he's in love with me. He then also states that he knows it's sudden and he knows he's married and also 34. For some reason, dream me doesn't mind at all. Some crazy romance drama movie shit happens in the middle that I don't really remember until we're all camping and the wife starts to freak out. She accidentally shoots herself in the foot and we call an ambulance for her.
Me and the guy decide to leave together and never come back.
Then as I'm getting ready to leave the "camera" pans out to show this mutilated body in the river up a ways from our campsite. It's no one I recognize. Farther up are police discussing the body and comparing notes. There's guts and blood everywhere. There's this flashback of the guy standing over the body before cutting back to me getting in the car with him and us driving away.
As it turns out, this guy is a serial killer and he charms his way from woman to woman (without killing them) so that he can move from state to state killing people.
In my next dream I was an art thief trying to sell this multimillion dollar painting with my business partner except that she kept trying to lead us into a zombie outbreak so that I would die and she could keep all the money for herself. It was weird because the dream replayed maybe three or four times. The first time she got me to the outbreak. The second time I was late and she left without me. Etc... The last time my alarm went off so music started playing. That was when something really weird happened, something that actually kind of freaked me out.
So I "woke" up as in I knew I should wake up and at this point I'm not sure if I was really awake and having a hypnagogic hallucination or if I was still dreaming but lucid dreaming. Anyway...I was IN my room and my music was playing except this zombie was laying right next to me and she bit me on the arm. I tried to knock her away but I was completely paralyzed. I couldn't move any of my limbs. So I kept telling myself to wake up and whenever I'd get closer to it the zombie would move away from me but whenever I started slipping back into sleep she'd come at me again, her mouth getting closer and closer to my fingers or my leg or my face. I would try and move my arms but they just wouldn't go. They'd sort of twitch but I couldn't lift them. I knew they weren't asleep because I was aware of them and I could've sworn I was awake because I was in my room with the alarm going off and it's kind of dark because it's 6:30 in the morning.
But in front of me was this sort of image of this zombie girl and as I got more and more awake she started becoming less and less real until I really woke up and then she was gone and I was just staring at my bookshelf going, "what the fuck was that?"
It was like I was simultaneously suffering all the symptoms of narcolepsy without actually having narcolepsy. There was sleep paralysis, cataplexy, and hypnagogic hallucinations. The weirdest thing is how I really just can't be sure if it was all a dream and I woke up eventually or if I was sort of awake but my brain wasn't done with REM sleep yet. I knew she wasn't real and I knew I was dreaming, which isn't abnormal since I lucid dream a lot, but this time I couldn't be sure if I was actually seeing a zombie in my room for some reason or if I was just dreaming I was seeing a zombie in my room.
At first I was freaking out because I really didn't want to be bitten by this zombie again and I couldn't move at all and she was going to get me. Then I started telling myself she wasn't real and that it didn't matter if she bit me because zombies didn't exist and I started to calm down more and she started getting fainter and then I "woke up."
Crazy.
The first one I was at a party, which turned into a party at my house. I meet this guy there who then proceeds to tell me he's in love with me. He then also states that he knows it's sudden and he knows he's married and also 34. For some reason, dream me doesn't mind at all. Some crazy romance drama movie shit happens in the middle that I don't really remember until we're all camping and the wife starts to freak out. She accidentally shoots herself in the foot and we call an ambulance for her.
Me and the guy decide to leave together and never come back.
Then as I'm getting ready to leave the "camera" pans out to show this mutilated body in the river up a ways from our campsite. It's no one I recognize. Farther up are police discussing the body and comparing notes. There's guts and blood everywhere. There's this flashback of the guy standing over the body before cutting back to me getting in the car with him and us driving away.
As it turns out, this guy is a serial killer and he charms his way from woman to woman (without killing them) so that he can move from state to state killing people.
In my next dream I was an art thief trying to sell this multimillion dollar painting with my business partner except that she kept trying to lead us into a zombie outbreak so that I would die and she could keep all the money for herself. It was weird because the dream replayed maybe three or four times. The first time she got me to the outbreak. The second time I was late and she left without me. Etc... The last time my alarm went off so music started playing. That was when something really weird happened, something that actually kind of freaked me out.
So I "woke" up as in I knew I should wake up and at this point I'm not sure if I was really awake and having a hypnagogic hallucination or if I was still dreaming but lucid dreaming. Anyway...I was IN my room and my music was playing except this zombie was laying right next to me and she bit me on the arm. I tried to knock her away but I was completely paralyzed. I couldn't move any of my limbs. So I kept telling myself to wake up and whenever I'd get closer to it the zombie would move away from me but whenever I started slipping back into sleep she'd come at me again, her mouth getting closer and closer to my fingers or my leg or my face. I would try and move my arms but they just wouldn't go. They'd sort of twitch but I couldn't lift them. I knew they weren't asleep because I was aware of them and I could've sworn I was awake because I was in my room with the alarm going off and it's kind of dark because it's 6:30 in the morning.
But in front of me was this sort of image of this zombie girl and as I got more and more awake she started becoming less and less real until I really woke up and then she was gone and I was just staring at my bookshelf going, "what the fuck was that?"
It was like I was simultaneously suffering all the symptoms of narcolepsy without actually having narcolepsy. There was sleep paralysis, cataplexy, and hypnagogic hallucinations. The weirdest thing is how I really just can't be sure if it was all a dream and I woke up eventually or if I was sort of awake but my brain wasn't done with REM sleep yet. I knew she wasn't real and I knew I was dreaming, which isn't abnormal since I lucid dream a lot, but this time I couldn't be sure if I was actually seeing a zombie in my room for some reason or if I was just dreaming I was seeing a zombie in my room.
At first I was freaking out because I really didn't want to be bitten by this zombie again and I couldn't move at all and she was going to get me. Then I started telling myself she wasn't real and that it didn't matter if she bit me because zombies didn't exist and I started to calm down more and she started getting fainter and then I "woke up."
Crazy.