A Dream I Had

This morning I was in a hypnogogic state, exhausted from fitful sleep. I was recovering from broncopnuemonia and my mind kept me awake until the wee hours. When I finally fell into deep slumber, I found myself dreaming.

I dreamed I was in a military school, located somewhere in Durham, a little south of Chico, California. I was in the locker room putting on my uniform and wouldn’t you know it, the damn pants were too small. I looked at the tag: “Houa.” I was always getting his tiny pants. I decided to suit up without them and left the locker room. Roaming the halls, I got smirks as I passed the other cadets.

I thought of trying to blend in and practiced my “hut-huts” while marching down the corridors. I was looking for my class, which seemed to be behind one of many closed doors. The halls emptied and I felt out of place, so I decided to climb up on the roof for a better vantage point.

That’s when I noticed the many plumes of smoke in the distance. The sky was turning gray, and the sun was a deep red color. I lay down on the roof and tried to get comfortable, but my eyes felt like they were being pried open. I had a sense that I should be in class, but in the current state of things maybe being on the roof without pants was just as good an option.

I thought of an idea that I had earlier and wondered if it could have anything to do with all this smoke and apocalyptic gloom.

You see, I had been toying with the idea of constructing a dimensional gateway in my backyard. I got the idea from, I don’t know, too much sci-fi or late night talk radio. It was going to be simple: two painted, yellow concrete pylons, about four feet high and spaced about four feet apart. At certain times, moon phases or equinoxes, the theory went, it would open up, and beings could pass through from one side to the other. What was on the other side was unknown, but I liked to imagine a place called Azure, an endless beach with crystal, turquoise water and shimmering white sand. But really, I didn’t have a clue because all you could see through the pylons was the backyard.

Anyway, it was all in the planning phase and I really needed to research it more.

More later on the nature of the monsters that would come through and that I would have to deal with in the work that I will call the Final Avatar.  Hint: they look ferocious but they like to have their belly rubbed.