I Found The Dead

Em (wife) and I were looking around at a large house that we were considering buying. I think we were there with a real estate agent and a couple of family members, and as we were walking around the house, we were taking pictures.

The house reminded me of a church somewhat like Pleasant Valley Church. The first picture that we took was from the entry way of the main living area which happened to be the most like the sanctuary. That's really the only area I remember taking pictures of, although I know I took lots of pictures throughout the visit. I don't even remember most of the visit.

At the end, Em and I had taken the memory card out of her digital camera and we were loading the pictures on a computer in order to look better at the house and come to a decision about whether or not to buy it.

The first picture loaded, and when I saw it, it scared me so badly that I woke up. It was the first picture of the sanctuary, and even though when I took the picture there wasn't anyone in there, the picture showed hundreds of people all standing in the sanctuary, packed together, and facing me as I took the picture. They were the spirits of the dead from the cemetery. They all had short dark hair, but varied as much as a normal crowd in every other way. There were men, women, children, young, and old. They were all pale and had dark circles around their eyes. All of their eyes looked into mine as I saw the picture.

Evil Rogue Angelics

I was in mom's most recent room (at the top of the stairs and to the left) at grandmamma's house, and it had grown to be very large, about 40 feet square or so. I'm not sure exactly what was going on or how it started, but after a very short amount of time there were these beings in the room called "Rogues."

These Rogues basically angelic in form, but I knew that they were evil at heart. They were all circled around the room, and there were supposed to be thirteen of them. I didn't count, but I just knew how many there were. They had white feathery wings, and their faces were stretched back towards the back of their heads. They all had these huge grins on their faces, and their mouths stretched back along with the rest of their faces so that the corners of their mouths were back by their back molars. Their teeth, though very white, were very sharp and ragged. Their noses were flat, and their eyes were white and glowing. Their eyes were also stretched back a good bit, making them hardly more than slits with bright white light shining out from behind them. Their hair was strange. It was almost like a cartoon. It was black, and it was supposed to be in dreadlocks or long Pollyanna type curls, but they were all too perfect in shape, and looked more like cylinders than curls or dreads.

They all stood around in a giant circle, staring blankly, yet intently, at the floor in the middle of them. It was like they were just waiting for something, but not really looking at anything or for anything. None of them acknowledged my presence, and part of me was glad.

I decided to leave and go get Em, my wife, to show her these Rogues. I left the room and turned left, as if I were going to go into my old upstairs bedroom. There was no door on that room, and as I went in, it looked more like a large lobby to a skyscraper type of office building or hotel than a bedroom. I went forward, and there was an elevator there.

I opened the elevator doors and went in, but it was weird. Rather than getting into the elevator car, I was supposed to reach up and hold onto the top edge of the outside of it and ride it by hanging on. As I grabbed hold, the whole car skewed to about a 45 degree angle (so it looked more like a rhombus than a rectangle) away from me so that I was kind of laying against the leaning surface, and the elevator started to head up in that same angled direction.

I started out on the second floor of the house, but this elevator "only" went up to the ninth floor. I had to get off there and take the express elevator up to the 47th floor where Em was staying. When I got up to that floor, there were a bunch of young women (college age) running around in the halls and having a fit because I was there. Evidently this was supposed to be like a women's college dorm or something, and technically I wasn't allowed in there. I went straight ahead down the hallway, ignoring all the upset women, and turned right. After going about halfway down that hallway, I turned left into Em's room. I think the door was already open. I grabbed Em's hand and told her she had to come with me to see these things.

We were suddenly back downstairs in the middle of mom's expanded room, and the Rogues were still standing around as before. I'm not sure if Em said something or if I suddenly just realized, but I came to understand that Em couldn't see the Rogues at all, although I'm not sure that she didn't believe me.

As I started walking around the Rogues, looking at each one, but none of them looking at me, I started to realize other things. First, a small number of these Rogues (less than half, so maybe five or six) were stapled by their wings to what appeared to be poster board. To the right (my right, their left) of each of these few Rogues, they had copies of themselves standing next to them and stapled to the same piece of poster board. The copies were facing in the exact same way as the originals, looking at the same spot in the middle of them all.

Another thing that I realized was that these copies and the poster board was invisible to all the other Rogues in the room. Even the ones who had copies didn't know any of the others had copies. So for every copy, there were only two people who knew that they were there: that Rogue that it belonged to and myself. I somehow understood that these copies were there for the benefit of the Rogue it belonged to, and was going to help them in overthrowing the other Rogues, although I'm not sure in what way or how two could over throw thirteen plus another four or five unknown copies.

The third thing that I realized was that these copies were not yet endowed with any sort of mental capacity. They were just physical copies. They were known to me as "copies" and not "clones" because a clone could be seen as being a mentally and spiritually complete clone of the original Rogue. They were under complete control of the Rogue to which they belonged.

Upon realizing all of these things at once, they all started to move. The Rogues and their secret copies started circling the room, and then after a moment they started leaving the room through the wall that would be at the "front" of the house. They left in single file form, except for those who had the copies of themselves. They, of course, left in pairs since they were stapled to one another via the poster board.

As they left the room through the wall, I saw that a door had opened in the wall and led to a transparent walkway or stairs that curved up slightly and to the left. The wall became mostly transparent to me, and I could see a world of clear columns, pagodas, temples and such that they were leaving into. Everything in that world was transparent, seemingly made of glass.

As they walked up their pathway/stairs, I think I got the impression that they were boarding a pirate ship that they had come in on, although I don't recall actually seeing one.

Friends with Benjamin Linus

I think it started out that I was watching TV, and there was supposed to be a five minute segment about the show Lost and some behind the scenes footage and stuff. I got upset about something, and I think it had to do with that they were trying to say that part of the story was something that it wasn't. I was afraid of them misleading people, I think, and making people think that the show was dumb because of it. Then somehow along the way, it turned out the segment unexpectedly grew to a full 30 minute show or something.

While I was watching it, I think it changed slowly so that now I was part of the show, and it was no longer a segment about the actors or the show, but it was now supposed to be real, and I was part of the group that was stuck on the island.

There was a group of the Others there, and Benjamin Linus (their implied "leader" on the show) was there as well. I think they were trying to make us work and keep us imprisoned, like they do on the show, but they were allowing us more freedom in moving around. At one point I was going through what looked like a big stone temple with metal doors and stone columns lit by torches, and I think that I somehow suddenly realized what was going on. At first I was outraged at them for making us stay there and treating us like work horses or something.

I was then able to have some sort of conversation with Ben, and somehow during the course of it, we got to be friends. He was scared about his tumor, and I was trying to comfort him, and he wound up letting everyone go. I decided to hang around voluntarily for a while. At one point I passed by him in a narrow hallway, and as we passed, I turned and patted him on the back as a kind of assurance that everything was going to be alright.

Cleaning the Garage

I was at Mike's (former stepfather) house, and I was outside in the driveway and close to the garage. Em (wife), mom, Eric and Matthew (brothers) were there, too. We were working on cleaning out the garage.

We had a bunch of stuff outside in the driveway, and we were all sort of buzzing around, and all of a sudden Sarah (ex-girlfriend) showed up. She kept trying to take over the whole operation of cleaning out the garage, telling us all what to do and how to do it, but I don't think Em realized who it was at first. After she realized, though, she laid into Sarah pretty good for even showing up, let alone telling us all what to do and how to do it.

Matthew In The Pit

I was in a large field like area, and in the middle of it there was a building that was a little bit like an open air stable or pavilion. It was mainly a roof on posts, and it was about 50 feet square. Underneath it, the ground had a lot of hay and dirt, and it seemed like it should have been used for animals to stay in.

In the middle of this, there was a large stone mound. It was circular and about 20 feet across. It was fairly short, coming in at about only four feet tall. It had the feel of being like a large brick oven.

I was expecting my brother Matthew to show up, and my wife Emily was there with me. I think we waited around for a moment, looking at the stone structure, and Matthew suddenly came up out of a side door in the structure. We greeted each other warmly, and in talking with him, we found out that he had built this structure for me as some sort of "studio" or "get away" room. I thought the notion of him making this for me was great, but I thought that I would never make any real use of it because it was too short for me to even stand up in.

I went around to where Matthew had come out of the thing, and I saw that the door was recessed into an entry way in the side of it, and had steps in front of it that went down about three or four feet into the ground. All of it was made of stone. The door was at the bottom of the steps and was very solid, like a heavy stone or steel door.

I went down the steps, and I had a flashlight with me. The door was open, and I pointed the flashlight into dark room. I had expected to see something that looked like a root cellar that was too short to even stand up in, but I was surprised to see that it was a full eight feet tall, and the inside was all metallic and smooth and finished. I thanked Matthew for doing this awesome thing for me, and I was excited to get started using it.

Then the three of us left as if we were going to go visit mom in grandmamma's old house.

The Lava Tree

This one was a bit weird in that it was really quite a bit like watching a movie rather than being a part of the goings on.

There was a guy that lived alone in the woods, and he had a bit of a quirky personality. He reminded me a bit of Mark Wahlburg. He was living in a house that was supposed to be like Mike's (former step-father) house. In this version of the house, though, the basement was very different. Instead of being four and a half to five feet tall, it was a full eight or nine feet tall, or maybe even ten. Also, instead of it being under the middle of the house, it was under the bedroom on the front end of the house that used to be my room.

In the basement, in the corner closest to grandmamma's house, was a large tree trunk growing out of the floor. It was ten to twelve feet across and hollow with a cross formation in the middle, so there were actually four hollow "sections" in the trunk. Deep down in the hollow parts, below the level of the basement floor, were pools of lava.

The man went down into the basement at one point, and he had to chop off the top part of the trunk that was coming out of the floor because the tree would grow in spurts periodically. Whenever it grew, there was a loud mechanic thunk, and it would suddenly be about a foot taller. It did this every few hours.

Then we were outside, and a young-ish business looking woman with her hair up in a bun showed up and was interested in the man. They wound up walking around and looking at various things throughout the house. After a short bit she brought up something about the fact that he lived off deep in the woods somewhere, and the way she said it was trying to imply that he was creepy for being that way. He seemed to want to make a decent impression with the woman, and he wound up kind of stumbling his way though the conversation, trying to keep her interested.

I'm not sure if the woman was still around for this or not, but I started seeing some of the chores that he had to do periodically around the house. One of the main ones was that he had to go into the basement once a week and chop down the lava tree and take it outside because otherwise it would wind up growing up through the house. The math for this doesn't work out, of course, if it grows a foot every couple of hours and the basement is only about ten feet tall at best, but oh well... that's the way it was. I saw him outside with an axe and chains and stuff from chopping down the tree, and I wondered how me moves such a heavy tree to get it outside all by himself to chop it up.

Then the scene switched back in time, and I saw the first time that he discovered the way that the tree behaved. I think he had either been outside or in the room above the basement, and he heard the clunking sound of the tree growing. The higher it grew the faster it would grow until the mechanical thunks were coming about once a second. The tree started to push it's way up through the wooden floor planks of the bedroom and come up through the tree. He ran downstairs into the basement to start chopping it down as fast as he could.

After he was done chopping down the tree and had it back under control, the house needed to be repaired. Andy Griffith, Opie, and Aunt Bea were there, and there was a large warehouse area that was, I believe, in another part of the basement. They had a lot of large crane-like machinery, and Andy was trying to go around and inspect things (I think both the machinery AND the house) while Opie made notes about his observations.

Aunt Bea was wandering around and saying how she was worried that she wasn't doing anything to help, and she went over and tried to take Opie's job. Opie told her to ask Andy if she's doing the right thing, and he told them both that they're fine and repeated to them what they're each supposed to be doing.

Pretending To Be Sick With Leather Pants From Mexico

[Once again I hesitated to write this down when I had it, so it's a bit vague]

Em (wife) and I were up late and we were talking in our bedroom. At some point, she decided to go take a shower, and evidently the sound of the shower woke up her parents in the guest room, and they came in and were mad at us for not being asleep.

In order to cover up for the whole thing, I decided to tell them that I was sick and that's why we're still up. They left and wound up having some sort of party in our house with a few couples that they knew and invited over despite the fact that they had just jumped on us for being up really late.

Then it was early in the morning, and Em is telling me about Matthew (my brother) is selling leather pants from Mexico. Shortly after, Matthew showed up on his own and told me the same thing. He was acting all silly and goofy about it, but I don't remember exactly how.

Then I started getting ready for work. Victoria (wife of Doug, a co-worker of mine) was there, and we were talking about the TV show Lost. While we were talking, the TV was on, and we saw a show where we recognized Jodi Sweetin's (Stephanie from Full House) "real life" sister.

Then there were another couple of people around, and they were talking about Lost, too. While they were talking, I started seeing the scenery of the Lost island, but it looked more like the island that Link is from in the video game Zelda: Windwaker.

Victoria was supposed to be getting ready for work, too, I think, but she was being VERY slow with it. I started talking to Em about how Victoria is never punctual with anything. Finally I told Victoria that I had to leave in fifteen minutes, and if she wanted a ride to work or home, she would have to be ready by then. She started getting all huffy about having to hurry and my threatening to leave her there, and then the dream ended.