woke up real early today. It’s 7:35 now. this not smoking weed thing really does reduce the amount of sleep I need.
Had a dream last night that me and a small tactical team were stalking some bad guy. I’m sure this was inspired by the level I was playing last night in Terminator Resistance where you have to chase after The Infiltrator. First we were outside chasing and strategizing, each of us in a different spot, trying to head him off. One of the guys I’m working with is like this priest/pope kind of dude, who’s all about God and peace. Then the enemy went into a train station thinking he would sneak on a train, but he didn’t realize we had the ability to shut down and lock the station, so that’s what we did. We shut down all the trains and locked him inside the train station so we could capture him in a controlled environment. (this is what I do if there’s a fly in my house. I lure him into the bathroom by turning off all the lights except the bathroom, then I lock myself in there and swing the fly swatter til I get him).
So the bad guy is locked in the train station now, so we go inside but discover the train station is actually a huge movie theatre that only plays Harry Potter films. It’s filled with children. It gets hairy for a minute, but somehow we manage to capture this guy alive, without injuring a single child and without getting hurt ourselves.
Next I’m like an observer watching this bad guy who I realize is Saddam Hussein. We have him locked in this jail cell that has a tiny stream running through it. The pope guy goes into the cell. I don’t think what he’s doing is authorized but I don’t tell on him and just watch to see what he does. He locked himself in the cell with Saddam and tells him that they are going to sit there and talk until they can work things out and find peace or some kind of understanding with each other. But he doesn’t realize that Saddam doesn’t speak English.
The pope is also eating a sandwich, but doing it with no hands, and eating in such a way as to look super cool and intimidating. He’s got like this sandwich holder that keeps the sandwich lifted off the floor and lets him eat it with no hands. I notice that there’s no lettuce or veggies on the sandwich. It’s all meat and cheese. But every other sandwich he’s eaten in front of me had veggies on it and I realized that he had only been eating it that way to impress me but now that he thought he wasn’t being watched, he ate one with no veggies.
He keeps trying to talk to Saddam but they don’t speak the same language. So the pope pulls out a grenade, removes the pin and hands it to Saddam, allowing him to grab the handle so it doesn’t explode. I’m sure I got this from watching the rather disturbing trailer for Far Cry 6 where the guy from Breaking Bad gives that child a grenade and pulls the pin and shows him how to hold the handle so it doesn’t go off.
So Saddam has this grenade in his hand now and he just kind of stares at the pope and does not initially squeeze the handle so it looks like he’s just going to let it explode, killing both of them. That’s when I woke up and couldn’t get back to sleep.
It’s weird, I’ve spent half my life just not really having dreams at all, or very very rarely. Now every night I go into some other world. It’s often just blips. I’ll get up to go pee, thinking about the dream but then forget everything but vague feelings. This one was a bit more clear. wonder if it has some kind of deeper meaning.
