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Escape from Earth Dream

    by Mike Agnew Jr.

My dream last night was interesting.  I woke up a could time but I was able to recollect a lot of it this morning.  I think the main theme was the fact that I had to go to the bathroom.  I eventually made it there in the morning but you will find that most of the dream was me in search for a bathroom...haha...Anyway

The dream started off with me playing XBox at my old house on Cayuga Circle.  I was just chilling in the recliner playing the best game in the world, "Jon and Kate plus 8: the Videogame".  Yes that's right.  You can sit there and argue with Kate all day, setup stuff for the kids to do, and even fight off the paparazzi.  So I'm sitting there picking my favorite come back to Kate's ego-bashing when the kids from my Goddard school video came running in.  They wanted me to dress the kids in different outfits.  "I don't want to do that.  That's boring.  Here you guys play it."  So I got up and walked out of the room.  I was now in the upstairs of the Fieldhouse (previously the Independence Brew Pub) in Philly.  Played a game of pool against some bikers (motorcycle) from any Segal or Jackie Chan movie.  I won without having to break a pool cue over any one's head.  It was actually a quick game with very limited rules.  I'm pretty sure I picked up the side of the table at one point and no one saw a problem with that.  Then it hit me I knew I had to use the bathroom.

So I went down the stairs towards the restrooms.  I went down the first floor but for some reason continued downward to the basement level. (A level that doesn't exist in the real world).  The stairwell was very skinny and claustrophobic.  I hopped down the steps quickly in case someone tried to get up the stairs.  When I got down there I was in the basement of a bar in Conshy...I think its the boathouse...there were more pool tables.  But with no bathrooms..I needed to mosey my way back upstairs.  But when I got back up the stairs I was outside in this huge field.

A lot of people were in this huge field with me.  If I looked left there was a city and if I looked right there was another city.  My whole view felt like I was looking through a fish-eye lens.  Suddenly there were two shots that sounded from the left.  It looked like the right city had fired missiles.  The missiles started to arc towards the left city leaving a trail of smoke in the sky.   The left city retaliated by sending a couple missiles of its own.  I watched to see the missiles collide when I realized that the missile the right city had originally fired were not missile at all but actually planes.  The missiles matched their planes and there was huge explosion in the sky.  We were all standing right in the middle of war zone! With the explosion as a cover, a Concord jet crosses the sky and tries to make an emergency landing on the left city's runway.  The  jet hits the ground hard and fast....too fast...it starts swerving back and forth until it starts lofting into the air and back down again.  We hear the jet engines rev back up to high and the jet spirals back into the air....but it doesn't have enough speed and curves up into the air and then turns back towards us.  It's coming right for us....very LOST, very MIB style.  We all go running out the way and dive behind an embankment as the jet crashes down on its side.  It slides to a stop in the dirt.  As soon as the jet comes to a rest the hatch on the side blows off. A man comes climbing out.  Now I don't know why but we had to avoid this man and not let him find us.  So we ran as fast as we could to another plane.  However this was a special plane as I would soon find out.

It felt like any other plane ride but the plane actually took us to a different planet.  Sorry to say there were no special effects in this part...I assume the cut-backs to the economy have reached my imagination as well.  I could however look out the window and see outer space.  The planet we landed on looked I lot like earth but with a bigger ozone, a couple of rings, and no moon.  When we landed we were, of course, in the wrong spot.  We had to get to another side of the planet and fast.  So we walked because in my dream although the planet is the same size as earth it's curved like a sphere.  As we ran there were highways and traffic jams.  There was a lot of business parks and factories.  Everyone was working and looked pretty pissed.  One thing that was cool...was that the gravity was lighter.  So we were a big group of people just bounding through the world.  It didn't look like anyone else could do this.  There were lots of cars on the highways and they were from all different times.  Old model T's with new BMW's.  I even saw a station wagon with wood paneling, a Woody, and said, " Hey look it's like Mom and Dad Save the World!"  I woke up right after that and said out loud, " Man, I miss that movie."

Now one more cool thing about this dream was that when I fell back asleep I was back on the plane heading towards the planet.  But we ended up landing in a different spot.  And for some fun mind bending as we were hopping to the location again, we passed our first plane.  We also rented a school bus half way.  Never did get to the location.  But the second time I was able to find a port-o-john.  As soon as I slid it to occupied, I woke up and bolted to the bathroom.