Agnew's Mind He's got a long journey ahead of him.

Wizard of Odd Dream – Part 1

    by Mike Agnew Jr.

So I will preface this with the fact that I had a few honey roasted peanuts before bed.  I normally indulge in some oreos and milk and they give me pretty steady dreams.  I will be much more careful next time.

The order of this dream was all over the place but there were a few parts that I was able to remember.  The overall theme was close to Wizard Of OZ meets Never-ending Story meets the Unnecessary violence of Saw2-5.

It started off and I was in the Lansdale Catholic(my old high school) cafeteria.  There was some sort of competition that had just occurred.  My team had lost and the other team went over and started emptying out our lockers as punishment.  I recognized the girl emptying out my locker as Ashley...a girl in my mom's class at Arcadia.  I had only met her once before but she made the cameo so I thought I would give her the plug.  As she emptied out my locker she threw out my tin of Altoids.  Now for some reason, and I blame dream logic for this, I became furious. "She didn't even check if there were still some in there. She probably just assumed it was empty because it didn't rattle. But sometimes Altoids don't. I'm gonna get her for this."  As I walked up to confront her another girl stopped me.    This girl although faceless in my mind now was my first partner I had in this journey...my Scarecrow...

So Scarecrow and I show up at this zoo after nightfall.  All the animals are sleeping.  She tells me we are looking for some life force thing.  I assume its going to be glowing...you know...like most life force things.  So we come up to this fenced in exhibit which is similar to what you would see setup for a pride of lions, big and spacious with plants here and there.  But there are not lions in this exhibit...instead there are these larger than life crocodiles.  There a mix between crocodiles and Falcor from Never-ending story.  Anyway there were 3 of them all sleeping.  I was shocked at how large they were and to be honest a bit scared.  It was like how Dr. Grant felt facing the T-Rex...shocked but still intrigued.   The largest of the 3 started to wake up and looked right at me.  Without hesitation it shot off the ground and into the sky and then swung back around to fly right over our heads.  It was an amazing sight....and then things got weird.  In the spot where the giant crocodile was laying the mud started moving around.  Then something very white and bony was making its way out of the mud.  Finally there was a bright flash of light and there stood this Unicorn.  I know they normally have the sweet connotation of having pixie dust and rainbows around them...well this one was not like the rest.  There was a weird evil feeling around it.  He walked up to me and Scarecrow and said, "You are looking for the (life force thing).  Well I am here to tell you that it does not exist and you will not find it.  Now leave or I will kill you."

Scarecrow turned to me and said, "He's lying and I can show you."  "Do it," I said.  Scarecrow raised her hands towards the Unicorn.  He took this as a threat and started to charge towards us.  Just before he reached us Scarecrow closed her eyes and these blue vapor-like ribbons came out of her hands.  The ribbons caused the Unicorn to start shedding its skin in a very violent way.  There was blood everywhere.  He screamed in agony as his entire body was torn apart and deep in the center there was a white glow.  It was the life force we were looking for.  It slowly drifted from the Unicorns body.  once removed everything went silent.  there was no more screaming.  Scarecrow made a container out of thin air to put the remains of the unicorn in.  The life force floated towards us but neither of us could touch it...it was painful to touch like every muscle in your body tightening at the same time.  So we put the life force back in the container with the rest of the Unicorn and as soon as we did the screaming returned.  The unicorn begged that we remove the life force.  I sealed the lid and the screaming became muffled but I could still feel the screams vibrating the side of the container.

Need to take a break....TinMan and Lion are next...