It's become a running joke between my husband and I, that I have intensely bizarre dreams after eating a Walery's pizza. Something in that spicy pepperoni sets my imagination to whirling and I wake up in awe of myself, and usually sort of peeved that I'm missing out on the rest of the story. I will often try to go back to sleep in exactly the same position I was in, hoping to pick up where I left off.
Bill is often put in the unenviable position of having to listen to me rattle off these crazy adventures. Most of the time, he just mutters something like "We'd better lay off the Walery's..." or something completely unhelpful. If he's feeling chipper, he'll sometimes try to interpret them for me. "The barking dog signifies your irritation at bill collectors, and the blue diamond embedded in the tree symbolizes your angst about moving from our home on Blue Sapphire drive, as you felt like you had roots there..." blah blah blah. It's usually amusing, and sometimes, when the dream is really odd, and he gets to interpreting, I decide to leave out one or more of the weirdest details, for fear that he'll realize that I'm completely bonkers, and he'll run screaming into the night.
Here's one I'll share with you dear reader...and if you feel like you want a crack at getting inside my head, you just jot your interpretations below. Oh, and before I start, I should mention that we've introduced a new dream generator. This whopper was brought to us by hot, buttered popcorn. Munched with real butter, whilst watching an episode of Glee.
It begins with Bill, Casadie and I driving down Lancaster drive here in Salem. We are on a publicity tour for Casadie, as she has just finished being the voice of the girl in "Bolt." In the dream, I was describing her part as "she's the voice of Hannah Montana", so that's how I know it was the Bolt movie. Anyway....as we were driving, we turned onto Center street, and passed Roth's supermarket. Behind Roth's, I saw a HUGE grizzly bear. I pointed it out to Bill and Casadie, and then we saw the Papa grizzly, and two babies. Bill and I discussed that Salem's animal control was so abysmally underfunded that even Grizzlies got to walk around unimpeded. We weren't particularly worried, but more fascinated by seeing them up close. Our hotel was directly behind Roth's (whoo hoo..spectacular location, Disney..thanks! *rampant sarcasm alert*), and our room was on the 7th or 8th floor. While Bill napped on the bed (typical), Casadie and I looked out our window to see if we could still see the grizzlies. We noticed a huge menagerie of woodland-type animals; Moose, raccoons, skunks, etc...and a huge crowd was growing. Somehow, the random grizzly sighting had morphed into some sort of forest-themed petting zoo. Casadie and I wandered down, and got our pictures taken with the animals. They all appeared to be unrestrained, and when I voiced some concern to the manager, he pointed out the invisible fencing (very tron-like). This satisfied me, and we went back to the room. Here, my dream went from a vivid but fairly normal to completely wacky.
The next thing that happened was that I was looking out the side window (we had a corner room, ) and I could hear/feel something huge approaching (think Jurassic park-type tension) Out of the woods, came a HUGE animal/monster thing that was on two legs. It didn't walk, however, it sort of hopped. Like a kangaroo I guess.?? and it was approaching the other wing of the hotel. Everyone was in danger! I watched in horror as this huge creature made it way to eat us all. To describe it is difficult..I have a very clear picture in my mind, and if I had any drawing ability whatsoever, I'd upload something...but alas, you'll have to settle for my descriptive skills. Start with an image in your head of the abominable snowman from Monsters Inc. That was the approximate body/head proportions and the right shape...It was roughly 40 ft tall...and dark brown. Furry all over, but it's head had more hair, kind of like a big, spiky mane. It was wearing some sort of clothes, but there was no detail there. It looked awful. and mean. and hungry.
It hopped right up to the building, and glared inside at the -what I assumed to be-terrified occupants. I watched horror as he opened his mouth, teeth bared, and then proceeded to vomit all over the side of the building. He then turned and hopped his nasty self over to our building...his height put him mouth-nose to our window, and yes, he proceeded to vomit again, all down the side of our hotel. I was screaming for Bill and Casadie to wake up, because i was certain that once he emptied his stomach, he was going on a feeding frenzy and we were the targets.
It was at this terrifying, unfortunate moment......that I woke up. I woke up saying WHAT....THE....HELL...WAS .....THAT???????? I just laid there for the longest time, trying to figure out what had just happened. Here it is...over a week later, and I'm STILL trying to figure it out. Every night, I nervously go to bed, wondering if he'll make another appearance.
I'm flummoxed on this one, friends and readers. Help me out. Give me your wildest interpretation theories below. I'm looking forward to your input on my mental state. I think. *be gentle..I turn 40 on Friday..I'm fragile this week!* (that can't POSSIBLY fit into this dream, can it??)
