Insomnia...

So yet again, I had a godawful night's sleep. I don't know what's the matter with me.

I DID, however, have the weirdest dream I've had in a while.

I dreamt I went to the movie theater to see a new M. Night Shyamalan movie. Like other movie-dreams I've had (it happens fairly frequently), I simultaneously was watching the movie and part of the movie as I sat there.

The movie began with folks in a bar drinking it up and whatnot. E was there. As was a dude who looked remarkably like Kevin Smith. Somehow or another, the Kevin Smith dude gets attacked by a very large snake which begins biting him on the eyes and arms and everything. Everyone stands around helplessly until it starts to slither away and someone grabs it and starts beating it into the ground until it's dead.

I am freaked out and realize we need to get the Kevin Smith dude to the hospital (he's suddenly turned into this meek-looking nerdy skinny twerp of a fella and you can tell he's suffering). I'm trying to get his medical information but can barely make sense of him. So I'm looking up the phone number of his hospital in the phone book and can't find it. I return back to the bar to get more help only to find all the people I'm there with sitting around and having a good ol' time, boozing, laughing, etc. I'm furious (especially at E) for totally ignoring the fact that this kid is dying and start fuming at them. I stomp off and the ambulance comes.

I'm sitting in the ambulance with this kid, feeling slightly claustrophobic as my head keeps hitting the roof as we swerve along the streets. I suddenly get the sense that things are not as they seem--that I am in something very akin to the movie THE GAME where this might all be some sorta set-up b/c the driver looks like someone at the bar.

Suddenly the movie (and the dream) takes this complete left-turn and switches over to a sort of Gothic horror movie. (I'm thinking to myself, "Oh, M. Night. You and your silly twist-endings.") I am outside on some craggy cliff and am trying to get away from this youthful beautiful vampiress who is slicing my throat over and over with her fingernails and teeth and gorging on the blood. She has ice-blond hair that is dyed a brilliant blood red at the roots and in the bangs. She is one of the doomed.

We spend lots of time flying around outside a very large gothic castle, contemplating our doomedness. We are upset by it, though the flying is kinda nice.

Some other random vampire comes and tries to attack us. He does not succeed. I don't know what his motivations are.

Later I stumble across a room in which there are some scientific individuals scraping away at old bones. They are telling me whose bones are all collected there and whatnot and that they are trying to piece the people back together whole.

Suddenly the movie is over and I'm walking down some railroad tracks in the middle of some grassy fields, kinda STAND BY ME-style. I bump into the young girl who plays the vampiress in the movie and lavish praise on her for being such a good actress. She smiles and continues down the tracks. I drift awake.





People shouldn't be forced to get up and go to work the day after they get the softiest most warmly fuzzy flannel sheets ever.

It's just not right.

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