Written by Rod, June 2009
This is a favourite one of mine from from years ago,
I used it in a D&D game, and have plans to maybe include it in a weird story. I
was a kid on a foreign-exchange trip in Japan , and was on the train with a
load of Japanese school kids, we came to a halt in the countryside and everyone
started getting off the train. We were on one side of a huge valley, in the
centre of which was some massive construction work going on, except all the
girders, and cranes, and stuff were all different colours, like lego blocks.
Lots of workmen in yellow hard hats were busy at work, but dominating the scene
was this humongous big brain, hovering over the valley. It had tendrils /
nerves coming from it, and I noticed that each one was attached to one of the
workers, like it was controlling them. Then more tendrils started coming
towards my group on the valley side, and there was panic. Some people / kids
were taken straight away, but myself and a group of other kids got the doors closed.
We made our way through the train to the end, and then outside. We ran around
the edge of the valley, trying to keep out of sight, till we came to some
little creatures, who turned out to be Ewoks from Star Wars, who were fighting
off the tendrils, and we joined in. Then the dream shifted slightly, the way
that dreams do, and I was myself as an adult and jumping off a huge cliff and
landing on the Millennium Falcon (also from Star Wars!) I felt relief at having
escaped, but then as the spaceship went up through the atmosphere into space I
became panicky and was suffocating. I woke up with a start!
As I say, I used the brain valley thing in a D&D game as
it inspired me. I love weird stuff like that, and my dreams are often a source
of inspiration for me. The thing that makes my scary dreams really scary though
is the weird, surreal atmosphere and also the scary, ominous music which I get.
When I was a bit younger I used to wake up and go straight on my keyboard or
guitar and try to remember it and work it out. A couple of my earlier songs
I've written feature some weird dream music, especially this one I called Him
From Below, which was a dream (and subsequent song) based on the author HP
Lovecraft's weird world full of Gothic horror and subterranean, ancient evil
Gods.
In that particular dream, which I must have had when I was
only about 16 or 17, I was going through underground tunnels and everything was
covered in slime, and it was even all over me, dripping off. It was quite
claustrophobic and a bit suffocating, and there was panicky overtones because I
couldn't find the way out of where ever I was. Eventually I came to a large
cavern, filled with the jelly-like slime, and there was some massive
octopus-like creature with loads of tentacles, and it was sort of humming - the
humming was both it breathing and speaking at the same time and it was
describing all the possible and horrible things it could do to me. And that's when
the scary music started, and I was suddenly in a car, driving frantically away
from a cottage in the middle of nowhere. The cottage exploded behind me and all
slime and big huge tentacles gushed out of it and started chasing the car I was
driving, which promptly started running out of petrol. Not sure what happened
next, but in the next bit of the dream I was in a city, wearing white robes
with a red eye painted on the front, and I was shouting stuff about the end of
the world and trying to hand out leaflets to passers by, who were beating me up
all the time, whenever I tried to talk to them... And that was that dream.
To touch on a few other disturbing, weird ones I have had
quickly... Getting shot in the head twice whilst lost in a big industrial
estate and looking for my way back into town, seeing myself with multiple head
wounds and acting as if nothing had happened... being stabbed slowly in the
boys loos at school by some big fat ginger kid, and dying slowly to the music
of "morning has broken"... waking up one morning and everyone else
except me had no skin, their organs were all visible, and they just carried on
as normal as if everything was okay... and a horrible recurring dream I had for
many years when younger about awful things coming on the TV late at night, and
the remote control won't work to switch it off, and so I try to unplug it, but
the TV doesn't go off even after that, and it get's louder, and the freaky
music starts and I am forced to watch - usually it's stuff like brain surgery
or an amputation or execution, etc...
It is nice sometimes when you awaken in the night in the
middle of a dream, and then pick up where you left off upon going back to
sleep. Unless it's a nasty dream, in which case you don't want it to carry on!
If you keep a dream diary for long enough, you will find that many of your
dreams repeat or continue themselves at some point in your life, it's very
interesting.
I find it's always the case that when I need to get up for
the loo in the night I am always dreaming about going to the loo or trying to
find a toilet just before waking up!! A very odd dream I had a few times years
ago involved me relieving myself in public places, but instead of pee, loads of
little streamers came out, like when you let off a party popper, and all the
people around started clapping and laughing! Bizarre... :-))
OK, I will shut up now.
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