. . . oOog. . . nightmares

[xiphias]

I've been having particularly vivid dreams recently, which is mostly okay, except when they're nightmares.

This one involved zombies. I can remember a lot of details -- the psycho scientist who locked several of his rivals in a room and infected one of them with the virus; the city being divided into "safe zones" and "dangerous zones", in which the zombies didn't go into the zones that were marked with green pylons set into the pavement, and little kids had internalized this so well that even toddlers running around wouldn't cross those lines; the fact that the local high school dance was being held, of course, at the pier which was in the dangerous zone -- but which also had polar bears, who were every bit as dangerous as the zombies, and I KNEW that, at some point, I'd be finding myself having to thread my way through the polar bears while being chased by zombies, and hoping to get the bears and zombies to attack each other.

I didn't sleep real well after the nightmares started.

Comments

[yehoshua.livejournal.com]

I just have to marvel at how different people's nightmares are. My nightmare the last few nights have all involved work. Last night I couldn't get on the VPN quickly enough, so we lost $biggest_customer and there was badness. Loads of badness.

Seriously, I woke up in a panic and went online just to confirm that I could, and to make sure the SOC hadn't been calling me and me sleeping through it.

[redknight.livejournal.com]

I always start to worry when I begin having nightmares about work...

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I wanna see the movie, but it isn't likely to happen.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

There were a lot of bits that only make dream-logic sense, such as the only train out of town that also functioned as an amusement part ride, which went through the non-safe zone with an expected number of passengers getting attacked and zombified per trip, because that increased the excitement level.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Sounds awful. *hug*

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It was.

[amysuemom.livejournal.com]

My nightmares and dreams, when i recall them, are rarely so entertaining !

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't call it "entertaining," personally.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

What is it with all the nightmares recently? Did someone have a battle on a psychic plane nearby or something?*

Here's Frodo with a light for dark places.

*:Not a real question, if anyone was wondering.

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

Yuck.

I'm obviously going to have to go dispense a bunch of pixy dust on you people so you'll have better dreams this evening.

*heads off muttering with an empty burlap sack*

[mattblum.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds horrible. I hope you have much better dreams tonight.

[marquisedea.livejournal.com]

OMG I HATE ZOMBIES!

[felis-sidus.livejournal.com]

I didn't sleep real well after the nightmares started.

Gosh, I can't imagine why...

It does sound pretty horrible, although I agree with nancylebov that it would make a good movie. Zombie movies don't really need to make a lot of real-world sense, and other people's nightmares can be very entertaining. I think it's because we're so very glad they aren't our nightmares.

Here's wishing you especially sweet dreams tonight, to make up for the awful ones. *hug*

[dancing-kiralee.livejournal.com]

My sympathies... I hope you slept better last night.

I know there was a lot of dream-logic that wouldn't hold up in an actual movie, but it does have a lot of interesting ideas. For example the polar bears... or really adding any secondary foe on top of the zombies... zombies are usually used to represent over assimilation into the cultural norm; it would be nice to have a movie that also had creatures representing the opposite - over alienation from the cultural norm (e.g. Rorschach from Watchmen). And the whole idea of wondering whether or not they would attack each other, or go after you (the hero / protaganist) is perfect.

So, as horrifing as it was for you personally, I have to admit I kind of liked the bit with the Polar Bears.

Kiralee