Friday, July 17, 2009

The One with the Big Mob Shooting

I first remember being in a building in the center of the Westfield State College campus with Angelo - perhaps in the dining commons. Angelo worked at the college or was going to school there now and we were talking about it. He was saying that the campus was so big that he didn't know where anything was. I was saying that no, the campus is very small. He mentioned the student center (I think he had yet to see it) and I responded, "It's right there! I can see it from here!"

I decided to take him and some other student (I didn't recognize him) around, and said that it would be nice to see Stanley Park. Even though Angelo said he had been there before, we decided to head in that direction anyway. I think at one point we were in a car, but at another point the three of us were flying above Western avenue. There were a bunch of cops in the street like there would be for a big event, but then we noticed there were a whole bunch of guys dressed like old-style mobsters with small machine guns in the street, just kind of in a neat line going down the length of the street.

The other student and I were wondering what they were doing and were concerned, but Angelo was acting like a kid, making gestures and kind of yelling at the mobsters like it was all a game or a joke. We were flying down the length of the street for a bit when I heard something like, "Ok guys get ready." I yelled, "Let's get the hell out of here!" and somehow directed Angelo down a side street.

We started flying down the side street and kind of crashing into branches and stuff and ended up having to run. I remember pushing off tree branches with my legs to fly faster. At one point, I heard someone yelling, "OK, pull the rope!! Pull the rope!!" Although we couldn't see or hear directly, we knew that they had starting shooting and something else was going on, too. I never actually saw anyone in the dream get shot, though.

We ended up going into a big house (like a three family house) where two Asian boys lived (Tony and Jaycen?) and told them something was going on and we all ran up to the attic to hide. Someone from our group said to be quiet, but it seemed like the shooters were coming into houses, like they were just trying to kill everyone.

At this point, I think I woke up briefly and my heart was pounding. I fell back to sleep and all of a sudden the shooting was over but I was in the same dream, but someone I was now disguised as a small black cat. I remember running around the town trying to figure out a place go to. I ended up in some small apartment at the top floor of another multiple family house, turning on the TV briefly, but then leaving again for some reason. I remember seeing car lights (at this point it was dark) and crouching down and seeing cars drive by but then when I looked closer, they were like mechanically driven with statues in the car, almost so it would seem like the town was still populated. Some of the "people" in the cars, buses and such looked like the guys from the Blue Man Group.

A bunch of young people walked buy, and one girl made those kissing sounds when she saw me because she wanted to pet me. When she approached, I just ran away.

Now at this point in the dream, I started to find out more about what happened. I remember being in a hotel-like building and hearing the "Pull the rope!" line again. It seems l thought it was going to be like Ghost Ship and people would be somehow cut in half by the rope, but instead the rope was catching people in multiple, big nets. I don't know what was going to happen to the people in the nets. But they were shooting, too, and some people were trying to stop the nets. At one point, my friend Lissa ran by pulling a rope, and she was being heroic trying to save people.