July 9th: The Haze

Hannah, her husband Mike, Jason, and I were in Florida at a really nice hotel on the beach. We were getting ready to go out, and had just reached the lobby when chaos erupted from the sky. Huge dragons appeared and began to destroy the whole city. Fire exploded from their mouths and noses as buildings burnt, and people screamed, and panicked and ran. The hotel staff locked the lobby doors, but there was already a crowd. We stood at the window and watched in terror. At some point, I decided I would ask the bellhop if I need a new parking pass, since we obviously weren’t going anywhere. He said that since this was the end of the world, he really didn’t think it mattered. Suddenly, the building across the street explodes toward us. Through the rubble, and dust we see a dragon has been knocked through the building by an angel. They look like old testament angels, in white gowns, carrying trumpets, their bearded faces all alike.
I look over to see an enormous building sized bulldog charging towards the plate glass window of the lobby. An angel blasts him with his trumpet just in time, and the dog goes flying into a Border’s bookstore. When the angels have finished slaying the dragons, they retreat back to heaven and leave us to our ravaged earth.
As we exit the hotel and explore our new surroundings to make sure there isn’t anyone who needs help, we hear someone telling us that the rapture is coming. But that the sinners will be taken first. Actually, we hear it more telepathically than audibly. No sooner did we hear it then, I look around and all the men have disappeared. Hannah and I have no more than two seconds to look at each other when swarms of locust bugs appear out of thin air. I duck and run into a stadium’s locker facilities. Inside it is dark and women are screaming, and water is running rainbow colors. Sarah is on the floor, crying and tells me as I run by, not to touch the water because it will give you troll skin. The inner part of the locker room is a cave and there, I wait with my cats until the bedlam is over.
All of the sudden, it is. And I am transported back to the hotel room where it is checkout time. We get in the car and begin to drive to a toll bridge that I know is a shortcut back home. Jason gets us to the shortcut toll bridge through an awesome shortcut he finds. But they won’t let us through. As we are being told we cannot pass, I see a newspaper in one of the guard’s hands. On the front page is an article detailing the dragon attack. It tells of a certain plant that produces certain spores that were all released on one day either to attract the dragons or to make us all hallucinate the attack. They call it ‘The Haze’ and tell us we all need to buy a certain weed killer in order to kill all these flowers so that this never happens again.
Because we cannot pass through the tolls, we return to the beach. We attend a party on a large boat, tied to the dock. On the horizon, I see a huge explosion of water like someone has detonated a bomb under the ocean’s surface. A massive tidal wave begins to roll toward us. I start to freak out. My Pop tells me it’s going to be okay and begins to delegate orders to ready the boat for the wave, but I can see the fear in Memaw’s eyes. The wave ends up rolling under us, without much ado. But as I turn my eyes back toward the horizon, I see yellow orbs begin to erupt from the second explosion of water. Another wave is coming. People start to scream. I run to close the windows and am able to close them just in time. But the door is open and with a sickening realization and a bit of hyperventilation, I wake up.

Seriously. I dreamed that on Friday night after eating pizza from a restaurant that will forever hence be known to me as, Revelations Pizza. I actually wake up and fall back asleep several times during the night only to return to this same awesomely terrifying, and messed up dream! I love it.