This entry is transcribed directly from my written journal, and may have weird formatting/phrasing because of it.

I was a mouse/watching a mouse (or some small rodent) trying to make its way through a factory/video game type setting (??)/warzone. War zone setting = “deep winter”. “I” was caught by humans when “I” was trying to keep from freezing by hiding in the pocket of a soldier’s jacket/shirt…

This entry is transcribed directly from my written journal, and may have weird formatting/phrasing because of it.

Some sort of police/detective squad trying to find/stop a serial bomber. At one point “I” went to negotiate [something] with a guy wearing a brown trenchcoat and a weird devil/demon mask. He was a guy who we knew, who was always pulling dumb stunts to try and get attention.

This entry is transcribed directly from my written journal, and may have weird formatting/phrasing because of it.

Zombies. 2 continuous but slightly different storylines. No on familiar/form real life except me.

First: Civilian-style house, large, seemed summer in style, with a large hilly yard, nice grass. I think there was a large pond/small lake in back, and trees all around, but not necessarily forest. Beginning of outbreak. Pets disappearing in treeline. One instance was a dog that a rescue party was sent after. 3 or 4 people. I think that’s when we started to realize what was going on…
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Second: I ended up in a military-style training course to learn defense and offence vs. zombies. We (or sometimes just me, I think) were in cammies. It seemed a little like school, and I remember thinking that most everyone seemed very young…
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Third: The environment looked like the insides of some sort of weird alien ship or something, all dark and chitinous-looking metal, with round, curving halls. I got the feeling that this was the origin of the zombie plague…

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Imagine the world recovering from the ravages of zombie apocalypse. The walking dead still exist, but their numbers are small enough that you’re more likely to find them wandering around alone or in pairs. Nobody spends a great deal of time outside anymore, and if they did, they wouldn’t be caught dead without at least a sturdy Lil’ Slugger (ha! or maybe they would)…

I had a surreal and very disturbing dream this morning that someone I know (in real life) through other friends died suddenly of a disease that could’ve been cured if it had been caught. I was devastated because I hadn’t gotten to know them better, and they had seemed like such a cool person, and I worried for their best friend who’d been left with what seemed like a mountain of responsibilities. That was really all the dream was about, but I woke up shaken. The worst of it faded pretty quickly, but the images have stuck with me all day for some reason, like eerie shadows. Makes it feel like today should be one of those cool, overcast, rainy days.

Note: This is a cleaned up/edited “flash fiction” version of a dream. Effort has been made to stay as true to the dream itself as possible.

Just when I thought we would never be done with walking, the undergrowth cleared, and there, finally, terrifying, was the beast. It stood watching us as if it had been waiting all along for our arrival. Its red aura painted a wicked, pulsing light on the trees around it, their bark seeming to ripple and wither away in its glow…

I had to make myself wake up this afternoon. Not in a “Ugh, I don’t wanna wake uuuup” kinda way. More in a “Holy crap, this dream is freaking me the HELL out, and I just wanna make sure I’m actually dreaming” kinda way. The very basic of it is that some computer genius had inadvertently produced a new type of computer that became a vector for some kind of weird alien techno-organic virus that has the ability to spread through both electronics and living creatures.

Yeah…

I was married (or at least it seemed that way) to a guy that I’d dated (in real life) in high school, who had, at the time, been a somewhat unsavory character, but in the dream was a decent if slightly mislead guy (the broody, intense, “bad-boy” type). We were living in this tiny apartment — like it consisted of a galley kitchen, 1 bathroom (with only a standing shower, sink, and toilet), living/sleeping area and a strip of about 6′ of extra space for..whatever I guess that spanned the width of the apartment, with really dim lights…

It seemed I was traveling through a kind-of-village in the woods somewhere. Heh, I remember thinking as an aside that it reminded me of a NERO campsite. Somewhere along the way I met two other people. A guy, who’s name, I think, was Iyuki (did I mention that this whole dream reminded me of some weird anime? everyone wore kimonos — including me — and even faces reminded me of anime), and some other girl who faded into the background and disappeared as quickly as she showed up…