Call your mom: apocalyptic dream.

I had the strangest dream. It was horrible actually. I dreamed that the world was about to end and I had forgotten to call my mom! Now, I have this terrible feeling she’s dead or something. I tried to call her, but her cell isn’t working, and her machine picks up at home. I feel weird.

It was a long dream. First I just felt the impending sense of doom for this guy who was half a movie character, and half Rudy! HE had gone out to repair some stuff, and I told him not to go! Or maybe I hoped he wouldn’t. The world had ended, but there were stll alot of people and they were always working to repair what had been damaged. He climbed this tall beam to get to this strange  part of a building where there were no walls, only steal beams, although they sparkled like emeralds. On this level was a concrete flooring of some sorts and a huge slope of metallic rafters as if in some kind of theater. I knew it was a movie theater. He pushed a big steel box down the rafters till they picked up momentum and slid the rest of the way down on their own. I got nervous when he did this because I felt that he was going to trip and fall then, but he didn’t.

He worked on some wiring from a box and a flickering movie image began to play. It projected right into open air like a hologram and was bluish. For some reason I was thinking MI:2, maybe because IRL I had told Rudy about how I saw it at the Mann’s just that night. I don’t know if he died or not. I also remember some strange scene where there was some sort of child who liked to sneak around and play and I tried to find her inside this weird giant sea rock that was dried out, full of big holes and put on display in a backyard like my abuelito’s long ago. Too weird.

BIG SHIFT IN SPACE AND TIME: Then I was hanging out on the streets with Rudy and there were quite a few people outside just celebrating or something. It had a New Orleans feel to it, even though there wasn’t much partying. We passed a closed gift shop and I felt disappointed for some reason. I told Rudy I wanted a book. So we went to a library. It was so busy there, and the floors were strange. There would only be a few sqare feet of floor, then the level would sink up or down one step so the level was weird throughout the room. I had a dream in a library very similar to this one before. I felt this sense of urgency at the library. I realized the world was ending in an hour and I was trying to get everything done I had hoped to before the end. Why hadn’t I remembered the world was ending sooner? I was shocked to remember I hadn’t called my mom! I rushed with Rudy across the street to my “house” which was a houselike 2 story apartment guarded by a big barred gate. I struggled to open the gate with a key. As we walked briskly down the curved path towards the house, Rudy asked if I lived in the little house on the left that had a giant door and looked like a fire station. I said yeah, not paying attention, then corrected myself and said no, explaining I lived on the 2nd story of the big apartment bldg. So when we got inside the apartment there were all these people there that I didn’t know! Did I live with them? I don’t know. It was horrible I was trying to call some friend, maybe Kathy Trinh, and I think I said bye to her finally but only after I had to wait for the old man in the living room to finish his call. For some reason I knew EXACTLY when he would finish cause I picked up the phone and ther was a dial tone. When I did, this fat mexican boy (maybe my age) walks in, sees me on the phone and goes “damn!” and stomps away. Guess he needed the phone. I think I may have shrugged “sorry” to him. After I called Kathy I thought maybe I should call my dad. I don’t know WHY. I wanted to save my mom for last. I had realized when at the library that she was probably trying to call me all day and frantic. I felt terrible, but I still wanted to save her for last! I tried to call my dad next, but I heard the voice of Rudy’s cousin Christopher on the line! I hung up the phone. Then after a few seconds of desperation I picked it back up. Maybe Chris knew I was anxious cause he told Lauren (who is Andy’s girlfriend not CHRIS’ girlfriend, but she was Chris’ in this dream) that he had to go do some things and he hoped she didn’t mind if he hung up. She said “Well of COURSE I mind.” But I guess he did anyway, cause I hung up the phone, picked it up a few seconds later and there was a dial tone. I was about to call my dad when I looked over at Rudy who was a few feet away writing down the lyrics to a song on the computer. It was weird cause on the screen was a picture of an aged brown music sheet and he was humming the tune of “The Sound of Silence” so I guess that’s what he was writing the words to. I told him i couldnt believe he was doing that during our last minutes alive. He said he wanted to have the prfect song when the end came. I guess he had the CD too? So then I try to call my dad but I get this weird alarm sound, a constant buzzing like an alarm clock. NO, like a security breach, or emergency alarm. I go “NO!” and try to call again but it doesn’t work. I figure his line is not working so I call my mom, but I get the same alarm! NO!!!!!!!!! The phones are down ALREADY? There’s still 50 minutes left to live! I can’t get a hold of her! What’s worse, she was probably calling me all day, and now we’re both going to die not talking to each other again; this can’t be true! Oh why did I wait this long to call her? How could I FORGET?!?!? NO!!!!

The thought was so disturbing that it woke me up. I felt horrible and very dazed after that. I still feel weird, I tried calling all her numbers but to no avail. I fear the worst. I hope she’s not dead.

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