Running Down a Dream

Yeah running down a dream
That never would come to me
Working on a mystery
Going wherever it leads
Running down a dream

I rolled on as the sky grew dark
I put the pedal down to make some time
There’s something good waiting down this road
I’m picking up whatever is mine
    ~Tom Petty

It’s been a while since I’ve been able to remember my dreams when I wake up in the morning.  Usually when I remember, I write them down here and in my dream diary.  But in the past few months, I seem to remember nothing when I wake up, or the dreams are not worth writing down.  Then last night, I had two weird ones.

In the first dream, I’m in some kind of classroom.  The bell rings and I’m walking out with my friend R2.  As we walk out, we’re talking about a party we went to the weekend before that a friend of ours threw and how much fun we had.  We all of a sudden see our friend Melanie who I haven’t seen since high school graudation in real life.  She’s talking about a party that she’s going to have and she’s inviting us to go along.  All of a sudden my friend R2 turns into my friend Ang…well, not turns into per se, but R2 was standing next to me, but then when I turned again, it seems to be Ang who’s with me.  Anyway, Mel tells us about her party and then asks me why I’m not having one.  I tell her that I can’t have one at home because of my parents but that I’m planning on having one back in the dorm…or wait, do I mean my apartment.  It’s like I’m confused in my dream.  Am I still in highschool?  College?  Or do I live in an apartment and not in any kind of school at all.  Confused, Ang and I with books in hand start walking down a dark stair case.  The stairs don’t seem to end.  We keep going down and down the turning stair cases, one after another.  After like 8 stories, we finally come to the bottom, but now, we’re in a dark tunnel.  I’m in front of Ang and I make it out of the dark tunnel into a lobby area that is well lit.  I turn to see where Ang is and I see her being chased by a female vampire who strikes her down.  Then she comes after me.  All of a sudden, she has two other friends and she tells them to hold me while she tries to bite me.  The two come up in front of me and each take one of my out stretched arms.  But then all of a sudden as the vampire is about to bite me, I realize that this is too ridiculous to be real and that it must be a dream.  So I well at Ang behind me to throw ninja stars at the girls holding me and she does.  I kick the vampiress in front of me and Ang and I run out of the room.  There is another vampiress outside but we kill her too and use her body to block the door.  We bend her arms around the handles of the door so they can’t get out and come after us.  We run towards our car but I can’t remember where I parked it.  All of a sudden a little girl comes running after us, but we think she’s one of them.  She catches us to us as the vamipes make it out of the building and start coming towards us.  The little girl hands Ang the keys to our car and Ang opens the door and tells me to drive.  But the vampires catch up to us as we get inside the car when again in my dream I realize it’s a dream and I’m like there is no way I can let these things actually get me.  I get in the car and back up and run one of them over before speeding away out of the parking lot.

Second dream: I’m at a party where a bunch of my old college friends are also at.  We’re all sitting around drinking and my friend Bryan points out that with all the kegs and alocohol, the cost came out to be $96.  I take that to mean per person and I freak out inside.  First of all, I don’t have a job and I don’t have a lot of expendable cash. HL starts to write him a check and he says he won’t take checks.  I realize that I have no cash in my purse and even if I did, it wouldn’t be enough.  Kevin drives us to an ATM machine.  i’m thinking that I only have $50 in one account and that I have some more in a savings account so I’ll have to get $50 from each.  Well, the ATM machine is broken when I get up there.  It’s like eating up my card and when it pushes if back out, it’s all falling apart.  The ATM shows that there is something wrong with it and that I have to go to the window next door.  There is a huge line at the window and the guy behind it isn’t the friendliest.  Not only that, when you hand him your card, he’s asking for pin numbers out loud and everyone is hearing it.  The lady in line next to me says that she doesn’t want anyone to know her financial business and I agree.  I dont’ want anyone to  know how much I have in the bank and I don’t want to say my pin number out loud.  Then I realize that I don’t even remember one of them.  I"m freaking out.  Finally, right before it’s my turn, the guy closes the window.  The doors match the color of the wall, so I can’t even tell where the window is.  The lady behind me tells me to go up there anyway.  I’m a little weirded out and don’t know what to do.  She seems annoyed and is acting like it’s my fault that the line isn’t moving and tells me to just walk up there and open the window otherwise the guy won’t even know that we are waiting out here.  I change my mind.  This all seems to strange.  I walk back to the car where everyone else is waiting and I tell Bry that I will pay him back later.

There’s no point to either of those dreams though in each, I get why I dreamed them.  Except for the vampire part.  I have no idea where that came from.  But the cool part of that one is that at parts, I knew it was a dream and I could manipulate it to go my way.  But that feeling only lasted for like a second before I forgot that it was a dream again.