Tuesday, December 30, 2008

I dreamed I was watching the Olympics - ice hockey I think. I was sitting with / dating maybe? the guy from The Cutting Edge. A player collapsed on the ice so there was a break in the action and I wandered out into the hall.

I'm now in a dorm suite with an Asian man. He's participating in some sort of mathematics/science portion of the Olympics and is going to go compete in a little while. He's showing me a song he's written and we're realizing we're interested in one another. We're sitting fairly closely and my knee is touching his leg. He backs off suddenly and I worry that I've breached some sort of cultural taboo. I start to worry about his parents' acceptance of me as we've sort of decided to be together.

His girlfriend comes out of the other room to tell him it's time to dress and it occurs to me that both of us will have to break off our relationships. We're all headed out into the hallway/stairwell when they carry the fallen hockey player by. It's an old-fashioned stretcher - canvas with a wood pole on either side. It's carried by a person I don't really see on the back and the doctor/CDC guy from the beginning of XF:FTF. The player is dark-skinned and wearing a black parka, the fur-lined hood of which is mostly pulled over his face.

We go down a floor into a corridor that I somehow know is the music building from my college but it's got science labs in it now (and doesn't look anything like the music building from my college). The walls are cement block and the doors are like metal fire doors. A scientist comes screaming out of the elevator - his eyes are all oily and black (more XF stuff there) and he's crazed with fear. He grabs my arm and his fingernails dig in, leaving oily black dents. I break free and start scrubbing at my arm while he runs wildly down the hall. Most of the black comes off. I dart into one of the offices so that he can't find me. It's a weird warren and has some sort of furnace in it - looks like someone converted a boiler room into an office. There's some sort of notice about using fire to suppress intruders printed on a light blue piece of copy paper and posted above the furnace but it warns you need some sort of protective something that I don't have. I can hear the scientist running back up the hallway, trying doors, anything to get the black out of him. I round the corner in the office (it's L-shaped) and quick throw the lock. I think I'm safe but it seems it's the lunatic's office and he has the key. He heard me throw the lock so he knows there's someone in there and unlocks the door.

I run by him as he opens the door. He's carrying a butcher knife and keeps stabbing at me as we run. I'm screaming at the security guard at the end of the hallway by the elevator that the scientist has gone crazy and is trying to kill me.

2 comments:

smileymamaT said...

You seem to have a recurring "being killed at the end of the month" theme! I looked up the being attacked with a knife thing, and the interpretations vary widely. One said "To dream that you are wounded with a knife, foretells domestic troubles, in which disobedient children will figure largely." But there are so many books and sites on this, could just be some late night pizza? :)

PeppyPilotGirl said...

That's really interesting - I hadn't noticed they were at the end of the month. I'll bet it's related, then, to the fact that I do the bills at the end of the month. I stress about it for days. As for disobedient children, well, I *do* have a 3 year old! ;-) (Unfortunately, no late night pizza for me. Acid reflux sucks!)