All right- I guess I should go first. Hopefully it makes sense- you know how dreams can go.....
The Dream
This dream actually scared the shit out of me. Here goes:
I was wandering about an environment that must have been LV 426. I was in a building that was straight out of Hadley’s Hope. Metallic, grilled floors and plain grayish walls……with smatterings of what looked like blood everywhere. I could hear a Xenomorph nearby screeching with heavy footsteps- it was looking for me. I found a storage box to hide behind in hopes to regain my breath while the xenomorph found somewhere else to go. The footsteps grew louder and faster and were honing in on my location. There was nowhere else to go. I was screwed.
I awoke in darkness in my bed shaking and sweating. It was 0330- time to get ready for work. I got out of bed and started my routine. The S3- shit, shower and shave. Hopefully the stimulation of the second S wouldn’t elicit a recurrence of the first, as it sometimes does- there was no time. I felt so tired, as if I never actually got any sleep. I decided that I had good attendance at work with tons of sick time, so I decided to blow off work that day. Screw it. Back to bed.
I awoke to daylight shining through my bedroom window and knew that daylight meant I was WAY behind getting to work- forgetting that I blew it off earlier. I was in a panic and still felt dazed and tired, yet scared that I was running late- this was not like me!
I felt a bit better hearing the coffee pot hissing away in the kitchen- coffee- the savior! At least I remembered to set the pot the night before.
I rushed to the kitchen for a quick cup to dissolve the cobwebs from my brain. As I approached the kitchen, the hissing grew louder and took on a sort of animalistic quality. Maybe the coffee pot needs cleaning again. As I rounded the corner and entered the kitchen, a tall black slimy Xenomorph towered over me. It had no eyes, but I knew it was looking right at me. For some reason, I noticed some silly magnets on the refrigerator right next to the creature. Trane Heating Co and China Express Take Out stuck out for some reason. I was held captive staring at the Xenomorph’s inner mouth slowly emerged and then quickly snapped at me.
I stirred in bed soaked in sweat in darkness. My clock radio read 0323. I realized that I had experienced dreams within a dream- or waking dreams. I was not late at all. Everything seemed so vivid and real that I had to sit a moment to convince myself that this was the case. My dog was lying at the foot of the bed sleeping away. I heard the coffee pot hissing. Yeah- it was just a coffee pot. Damn- it was only a Monday morning.