In many facets of life I was dealt a poor hand. I'm not particularly attractive, I suffer from chronic low self-esteem, I'm terribly poor, and I don't have any defining traits or skills which set me apart from the rest of the masses. However; I do possess an uncanny ability to remember my dreams. I often remember dreams from separate REM sequences, especially since I am a light sleeper and likely to be awakened, however briefly, during nREM because a housefly ran into a window two doors down.
The following was a dream that occurred during the summer of 2010. I wrote it down originally as a Dream Interpretation question on Yahoo Answers, but failed to get any responses because of its length. You're welcome to make your own interpretation if you like, although the overriding themes of being hunted and apocalyptic destruction of mankind make its meaning pretty obvious to me.
This was the second dream I had during a night of nightmares: it began with a teenage boy who I believe had some kind of mental incapacity or possibly brain damage. He couldn't speak but he loved to swim. I think I may have been one of his case workers, or maybe observing his case-worker (I don't know). Anyway, the boy's DNA was cross-genetically modified with a dolphin so that he would be able to communicate better. His habitat was in an oblong, underground facility with a large swimming area running down the middle. At first, everything seemed to be going well, but then the Dolphin/Boy got angry and very violent. He would leap out of the water and attack workers, dragging them into the water to eat them. He also learned to spit projectiles out of his mouth like bullets. I observed all of these atrocities from a third-person perspective, as though I was watching it on TV.
Eventually, it was down to me and one other scientist. We raced upstairs, away from the murderous dolphin hybrid, and we ended up inside my childhood home. It was about this time that Dolphin/Boy began to shape-shift, and he became a completely terrestrial monster of huge proportions with a gaping mouth and lots of teeth. He was incredibly strong and coming after us. The other scientist and I knew our only means of escape was to get into the Hummer and drive as fast as we could away from our terrible creation. The Hummer was parked at the end of the driveway. We just barely got inside when the monster started charging after us.
I gunned the ignition and sped off away from the house. At the end of the street, I noticed that the usual stand of trees had been completely removed. Beyond was a wide field full of large animals. There were wooly mammoths and giant boars and even some dinosaurs. The animals had found voices of their own and were yelling at us and charging the Hummer. They did not like what humans had done to the Earth, and were reclaiming it for their own. The mammoths were trampling down all the cities and buildings to make land for grazing. The boar and dinosaurs had hunted men to the brink of extinction. In my fright, I crashed the car into a rock, and as soon as we were out of it, a great herd of animals can and smashed it to pieces. They were very upset that humans had come into this land.
One of their leaders was a bird-like animal about eight feet tall who stood erect. I pleaded my case to him. I told him that humans were just as much a part of the Earth as the animals were, and that although we had made mistakes, we still had a right to live. He said that there was a part of the land his people had not touched yet, and that we could go there, but we had to hurry, or else he might eat us. The other scientist and I had very little time before the animals were allowed to kill us, so we ran. It was turning quickly into night. At the crest of a hill, we looked down into a broad valley bordered by trees. Instinctively, we knew that if we made it to the treeline, we would be safe.
I turned to her and said: "Even if we make it that far, there's no guarantee we'll survive." I had only a pocket knife and a cell phone on me; no tools, no shelter, no clothes except for what was on my back. We had no food or water, and it was getting very dark. "We have to try," she said, "It's our only chance." Into the night we ran, stopping occasionally to climb trees and look around. The animals there were much smaller and they mostly just ignored us. I wondered how long it would take for our terrible creation to find us, and if the other animals would stop him or kill him. We were hiding from a stegosaurus when I woke up.
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