Zombies!

You know, the zombie apocalypse is all fun and games, until people start getting killed… Trust me, I would know.

Last night I had a dream that it was the zombie apocalypse. The weird thing about it (OK, weirder than the fact that I had a dream like that) was that it lasted throughout the entire night. At first it wasn’t that bad. It started out with me discovering that we had strange creatures amongst us, but nobody caught on with the fact that they were zombies. They were acting almost normal and looked just like humans, and no one could figure out where they had come from. Then I sat down and talked to the leader, because I had somehow realised that they had, in fact, come from outer space. I remember laughing hysterically in my dream when the leader understood that I had found out. But then the dream turned into a nightmare. Once their cover was blown, they turned into the zombies that we are all accustomed to – rotten, blood-thirsty, flesh-eating monsters. And the first people they went after were my family. Not cool, dudes. Things got way out of control; we were all split up, the zombies were everywhere, and my older sister and me became zombie-fighting experts (only now can I see the resemblance between us and the Winchester brothers, by the way). But when other members of my family were getting killed, I met my father back at our house, which was momentarily zombie-free (it was pretty much their head quarters, because it was where we were when I talked to the leader and started the apocalypse) and had a breakdown because things were so hard and it seemed impossible to win. At that point I woke up, because the nightmare was so “real”, and I couldn’t take it any more. But once I was awake and realised that it had only been a dream, I turned over and went back to sleep, with the dream still fresh in mind. Normally when I have nightmares I go back to sleep and have a decent sleep for the rest of the night. But not this time. The moment I went back to sleep, I arrived straight back into the same situation, pulling my act together after the breakdown and going back to killing zombies. It was like I entered another dimension in my dreams.

After several turns in the plot, where I discovered that my father had been turned into a zombie but acted “normal” like the original zombies had done at first, and he and some other “normal” zombies had started cutting down the forest to get to something in the earth, my sister and I were briefly re-united with one of my brothers and our mother, chased by zombies, split up and hid in a dark, abandoned building until night came. When we went outside, we met many other survivors, but no zombies. They had disappeared, and the streets lay deserted and the buildings in ruins. People started gathering in large groups and walked along the empty streets, and more people kept joining in. When morning came, so many people had gathered that they started organising themselves, rounding up the few zombies they could find and killing them. We were just starting to believe that we had won, when all of a sudden there was a massive zombie attack, and many of the “people” turned out to be zombies acting normal, and the death toll was higher than ever. After this, I can’t remember any more, so I guess it’s safe to assume that I was killed, and the world came to an end. Needless to say, I woke up, just lying there staring at the ceiling, trying to figure out what the f**k made me have a dream/nightmare like that. It was so real and terribly detailed the whole time, it almost always made “sense” and didn’t have huge gaps where the setting/situation just changed, as it often does in dreams; there was dialogue, fight scenes, change between night and day, sounds and strong emotions involved, not to mention a beginning, middle and an end.

It is beyond a doubt the strangest dream I have ever had. It was like watching a movie in my head all night, with me as one of the main characters. If this was my unconscious speaking, then I’m slightly scared of my sanity. Or maybe it was trying to give me a plot for a movie? Who knows. Either way, it was terrifying.