Zombie dreams

[starlady]

This morning I dreamed of the zombie apocalypse.

I used to have a lot of long, involved dreams in college, when I usually went straight from doing homework to sleeping, for not very long. I've been getting back into a similar pattern since the end of last month, which is, I think, why I had this particular Technicolor epic playing in my brain today.

So the zombie apocalypse! We jumped straight into in medias res, when we joined my dreaming self along with some guy--an ally, clearly--in my garage, watching a zombie flail around. It being afternoon, and zombies being lethal only at night, we were perfectly safe. It transpires that zombies are merely slow and fuddled during the daylight, and that it's possible for someone to be infected--a future zombie--without realizing it. So after I woke up at 4:30 am and then went back to sleep, in the dream my friends and I decided that the thing to do was host a dinner party for everyone we knew and then lock the doors after the dessert course and kill all the zombies and infected people. In retrospect, this dream has clearly been influenced by Sherlock Holmes. The dinner party was wonderful, as befits the last occasion a group of friends will ever celebrate together. I remember clearly showing those friends and guests of ours who weren't either infected or in on the killing plan out the door, and then going back inside and locking it behind me. The confusion of those people who didn't know they were already infected was painful. I woke up to go to work before we got very far along into the "kill them all" portion of the evening/dream, which is fine by me, but I also think that we were winning, which is good.

So, in conclusion: Maybe I should give myself a mental breather of 15 minutes or so between stopping work on the Holmes WIP and going to bed tonight.

Comments

[kwviola.livejournal.com]

My conclusion: Watch out for any future dinner parties.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

It's only a problem if you're infected!

[kwviola.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, I would be the type to not know if I am or not. Is dinner worth the risk?
Haha.

[zahrawithaz.livejournal.com]

I am impressed you could retain all these plot points long enough to share! (I often have long, involved, plotty dreams, but they evaporate quickly.)

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

At one point I wrote 2/3 of a book based exclusively on a dream that I had. Sometimes the details fade, but usually they are more than vivid enough to survive until I write them down. Though I do usually lose some little bits.

[socair.livejournal.com]

I've had one zombie dream, but I still have no idea where the hell it came from. My dreams tend to be nightmares, just plain trippy, or a combination of the two. I only remember them if something wakes me up suddenly, though, for which I think I'm grateful...

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

The fact that I'm remembering them so vividly is a sign that I am not sleeping very deeply.

[atthis.livejournal.com]

And this is why I love you. Glad you woke up before murdering any close friends. The most exciting thing I dreamed last night was that they put in a giant Starbucks where the Uptown Diner got torn down. Which would be pretty exciting actually.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it would.

Um, what can I say. Thinking about Holmes and Irene taking dinner at a hotel in Montepellier --> zombie apocalypse dinner party! Yes, totally! Sometimes my brain surprises even me.

[sparowhawk.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Seems like you've been dreaming the way I do again. I can't say I've ever dreamed of zombies. Glad you were winning by the time you woke up.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Zombies are a new one. I am usually an anti-government rebel or a secret agent of some kind, but the zombies are new.