Temptation

Had another crazy dream last night. It seemed kind of standard... but it's the little details that kind of throw me sometimes. This was the dream I had between when I woke at three and woke up again at six that day. Honestly... of all the random weapons to pull out...

After the Roman Civ test, my friends and I went to the pit as usual. Got in my car, started driving down Ramsey Lake road when something darted out infront of us. It smashed into the lumina and I stopped... it barely dented my front end but it was a heap of flesh... vaguely human... very odd.

It came about that everyone was infected by these parasitic aliens and they were trying to capture us because we weren't infected yet. There was a lot of driving around in the lumina... we were trying to get to this underground resistance group. A few scenes involved getting gas or food which was... not so good. Heh. There was one really weird part - We drove through a carnival and stopped at this popcorn/cotton candy kiosk [in the car]. Jo was in the back and told me to roll down the window - he gave the woman at the counter a little teapot looking thing and told her to fill it up. She was the fat creature with smeared make up on her eyes and lips wearing a red and white pinstripe uniform. She filled it up, eyeing us suspiciously, and as we drove off, Jo put this 'gas" in the car. I really... didn't get it but oh well. 'nother scene had Tiff in the front seat while some infected humans attacked the car. We manage to break free and drive off but I tell her to roll down the window, she asks me why and I show her the still wriggling hand severed below the elbow and I toss it out her window. Eventually though we get caught, they smash the windows and whatnot, then we end up in this great mechanical hall with people milling about on either side... well, that's where I wake up anyway. This great big alien she-bitch is mere feet from me and she inches closer as I wake up. She kinda reminds of Queen Slug-for-a-Butt... Earthworm Jim villain... stop looking at me like that. Anyway, the thing speaks.

"Don't you see, Ashley? A world without pain, without anger - a world of peace." She motions to my friends, now sedated and glassy-eyed... infected. Totally oblivious to the world. The alien keeps trying to convince me to go willingly... "go with the flow" I guess... and I just snarl at her, crying, spitting at the beast. My desire walks up behind me and gently drags his teeth along my neck, whispering, "We would be really happy together - it'll only hurt for a second." I shove him away and end up falling on my knees, just sobbing, defeated. The alien takes me up in her tentacles and holds me close to her face... or... what I presume was her face. In response to her temptations, I tell her that the human psyche is, essentially, emotionally chaotic. Much of my short life, what made me, was suffering - and I fucking enjoyed it.

She tries to tempt me again and I stab her in one of her bulbous eyes with... er... a dead canary. Ha. Don't ask. Everyone's freed of the parasite since we killed the "queen bee" and all is right... 'cept me... 'cause that alien had bad breath. Ha.