this has been an awesome week... i spent more time than usual sitting around in the quad on campus and just watching people run around... it was weird becuase God brought some people into my days who i used to be friends with but hadnt seen in a long time and He blessed me with good conversation. buck seemed to be thrown back into the mix, wich i like becuase i have missed buck. i also spent some time talking to a kid (not a kid anymore) who we used to babysit years ago. it has been an awesome week...
my car boke down earlier this week, in case you hadnt picked that up by now... dad says something with the transmission isnt working. but, God provided me with a job this week also, so i now have the means to fix my car.
im really excited. im really excited about whats going on in my life, especially about what happened this week. it has just been a really great week...
now, does anyone read the dreams that i write down on here? i know they can be quite long... but they are really bizarre... i dont know where i come up with this stuff... by the way, they are totally open to interpratation. the one i had last night, i recognize a lot of stuff from things that happened or things that i saw or things that have flown through my brain this last week or two...but really... its just so weird...
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last night i dreamed i was some sort of a samuri... i was at the mall with a few freinds and it was very early in the morning time. like, 3:00 am. it was very dark and there was only a custodian there waxing the floors. my samuri friends and i made our way outside and realized we were on the side of a hill at the ocean. we could see the sky turning yellowish as the sun was beginning to come up.
my comrads and i began to feel sleepy, as we were on a long tiring quest of some sort and hadnt rested for days. so we all lay down on some grass by the ocean and took out our "mexico blankets" (those colorful woven blankets you can buy anywhere in mexico for pretty cheap) and went to sleep. i stayed awake for a while though, becuase i was the leader and i had to keep a look out.
as i lay there on the ground, my blanket covering my head, i peeked out through a hole and saw the sky turning a surreal purpilsih pink as the sun came up... and then, off in the near distance, i saw a rocket ship landing on a hill. as it slowly landed, i felt an uneasy feeling coming over my stomach. i watched as three robot like women jumped out of the rocket and began to make their way towards me and my sleeping comrades. after careful consideration, i thought it best to play possum, and quickly threw the blanket over my head and pretended to be asleep.
i could hear the footsteps of the robot girls aproaching us and as they got closer, they spoke in some strange robot dialect. they stoped at our camp and i knew they were talking about us. i then felt one of them lift the blanket from my head and poke at me with her hard, mechanical foot. starttled, i jumped up and yelled at the rest of my samuri friends to wake up immediatly. as fast as lightening, they were up (samuris are light sleepers, they have to be), swords drawn , and ready to defend themselves no matter what the battle.
the robot women were obviously looking for us, i could tell by the devious and pleased looks on their faces when they saw us and recognized us. one of them chuckled a bit and with a quick motion of her hand, drew a small sword and cut the throat of one of my comrades. imraged, i hurled myself forward onto her and began thrashing violently in hopes of destroying her in anyway possible.
the battle began. there were only about four of us samuris left to beat the three robot women. the battle moved somehow into the ocean. out of the corner of my eye, i could see them in the water, fighting eachother... my friends being cut up and slashed, but somehow they were winning. one by one the robot women were disarmed and beaten down.
i found myself standing on some sort of construction site then, walking along a plank in the air. there were planks everywhere around me, to get from one place to another. below me was the grassy ground beside the ocean where my exhausted samuri comrades had won the fight against the robot women. the sky was still purple-pink and there were whispy cream colored clouds floating lazely along above me.
then i heard a noise behind me. i jumped around to see another robot. this time, not quite a woman, not quite a man either... just a robot. the robot weilded a knife and was slowly walking towards me with a sly grin on its face. i braced myself, not ready for the attack. suddenly i heard a shout from behind me again. i turned slightely and saw a young man. i recognized this man, but i didnt know from where, his face was strangely familiar, though i wasnt sure if i knew him or not. he was standing there, holding up a sword. i felt as though he were on my side, so i turned back to the robot, who longed at me. i ducked and it fell on top of me and began to try to stab me through with its knife. weak from the previouse battle, i struggled emensly to doge the swinging knife. then it hit me. the knife. right through the left side of my chest, near the shoulder, but still dangerously near my heart. i screamed, airy and silent. but i could also hear the yell of my strange friend as he jumped forward and stabbed the robot three times in places i could not see. but i felt the weight of the robot being lifted off of me, and then i felt myself being lifted off the ground as well.
i must have passed out from the pain, becuase when i awoke, i was by the ocean beneith a high cliff. i was resting against my stranger friend who was patting some sort of wet stuff on my wound. i recognized it as aloe from an aloe vera plant that i had seen earlier. the cool wet plant soothed my aching wound. the ocean waves lapped up gently against the beach and off in the distance, to my right, i saw a sort of colony. built on the water on docks. there were several small buildings and wooden dock pathways that winded around them. i saw my samuri friends walking around, tending to different things around the small colony. i glanced up at my friend, the one who had saved me and was now tending to me and still did not recognize him. he smiled a little at me and told me i would be alright. his smile seemed to sooth my pain just as the aloe did and before i knew it i was walking along the boardwalks in the colony with my friend beside me.
everyone recognized me and seemed to have a reverance for me as one would have for a leader. all the people on the dock colony were bruised and battered, as if they too had partaken in the battle aginst the robot invaders. i smiled at each one as i strolled by. my strange friend by my side felt comfortable. although i didnt know who he was, he was a comfort to me. im not sure, but i think we were holding hands.
as i strolled around observing the place, in the distance i saw a disturbance in the water. we walked quickly to the side of the farthest pier and i saw submarine type ships rising out of the water. on top of one of them i recognized one of the samuri whp had fought bravely beside me earlier. beside him, there stood a robot. i did not understand what was happening, as the submarine ships got closer to the dock. all at once, at least three dozen robots emerged out of the ships and stormed the dock colony. my friend and i were suprised and when the one who had fought beside me earler, stepped off his submarine along with the robot, i asked him what the meaning of all this was, to wich he calmly replyed, he and the robots were taking over. he had been working for the robots all along acting as their spy.
at the end of the dream, i just remember sitting beside my nameless, stranger friend, the both of us submitted to the will of the robots on the one who betrayed me before. i remember we were tied up, but together. and i also remember knowing that the wheels in our heads were spinning... trying to figure out a way to overthrow the new rule of the dock colony. all around us the robots forced people to do work and labor... pushing and hitting them... one of them even shot one of the people. i remember watching it and knowing, that we would find a way to restore peace and tranquility to the dock colony.
