Last night, I had another strange dream.
I was at some tropical resort with my co-workers, and everything looked pristine and beautiful - until further scrutiny.
The bungalows that we were supposed to be staying were thatched with palm tree leaves, and the walls were made of dried bamboo and other reeds. However, everything was completely dessicated and the little hut suggested an ancient termite colony that abandoned it after they had their fill.
That was ok I had guessed, so I threw my backpack down on my assigned cot, and headed outside for a swim. The water in the pool was crystal clear, though the fence and planks surrounding it looked rather questionable. Some of my co-workers were precariously balancing on one of the makeshift rotten wooden planks over the water, and as I approached, one co-worker told me that it wouldn't hold my weight.
I tried to be careful, and scooted along the outside rim of the pool, though every time I tried to grab ahold of the old wooden and spider web-covered railing to catch my balance, I would see little egg sacs where I wanted to place my hand. My co-worker told me not to touch the sacs because they would burst and let little spiderlings out all over the place.
Needless to say, I had to grab onto something or risk falling into the deep pool, which now looked bottomless and very, very dark. There was something that looked like a giant albino shark with a huge fin of some sort circling around, waiting for a fresh human like yours truly to fall in.
Well, I grabbed the rail, and a horde of little spiders swarmed over my hand. I went to jump to the plank where my co-worker was warning me about it not being able to hold weight, and she screamed as I jumped. I landed, and tried to kick off of it really quick, all ninja style, though the board collapsed under me and brought me crashing down into the dark pool with the circling albino shark.
I hit the water hard, and it was cold. I swam up to the surface, trying to claw my way out of the pool, but as I did so, the remnants of the other planks and railings fell toward the water, bringing wood panels, tangles of spider webs, and lots of spiderlings with it. A plank hit my head, and I went under the surface again, only to see the white shark speed toward me. I tried to swim op again, but debris was still falling everywhere and I couldn't get out of the water.
Then I woke up. I have a bad headache too, and it doesn't help that I'm here at work, either.
Posted by Tony at March 7, 2004 04:00 PM | TrackBack