Psych Ward

I had this dream last night that I was in a Psychiatric Hospital.  A locked down facility.

I started in one ward that was extremely reminiscent of the house I grew up in.  Same backyard, same garage, same everything.  My little sister Mim was in there with me.  We were not happy that we were there, and for some reason it seems like it was forced upon me, not my choice and I had no say.  We waited until everyone was supposed to head inside from the outdoor area and then bolted through the back garage door and out the front of the garage.  Once outside we started talking about what was going to happen now.

I decided I was going down to the maximum security facility down the road to figure out what was going on.  Mim decided to run the other direction.  I run down the street I grew up on and come to another house that is bigger, higher security facility.  There are a whole slew of people there, and some  familiar faces too.  It turns out that some of the people I work with are actually security guards and facility members at both places.  They’re trying to keep me from entering this psychiatric ward.  I threaten to hurt one the guards if she touches me and run past the door into the facility.

Once past the door the whole facility is just an outdoor lot.  Its heavily wooded and fenced in.  I start to sprint around the outer edges of the facility, I see a swing set, a tree house type thing, and some other normal backyard items.  People are all over the place but just sort of walking around like drugged up zombies.  I eventually make it to the far back of the lot and jump the fence.  I walk down this small hill and see a giant stadium set up.  Banners read 2011 Olympics.  The whole place is empty.  Olympic pools, a track, thousands and thousands of empty stadium seats.  Not a soul in sight.  I eventually see a man far in the distance just entering the stadium.  He looks like an ant because he is so far away.

I run back up the hill.  All of the drugged up people are leaning up against the fence looking at me.  I jump back over the fence and head to the far back left corner.  Here there are hanging sheets of fabric blocking the view just past the fence.  I hop over and through some of the sheets (I hear someone scream NO just as I do).  It opens up to another arena.  This one is a hockey rink.  Down on the ice is a table with four men at it, they are getting ready to film a sports talk show.  Everyone is coming in from the far end of the stadium.  I start heading to wear the people come in, everyone who enters gets a shirt that is sealed in a clear plastic bag.  I eventually get handed my own shirt that I just hang onto and don’t put on or even open.

A second table with four men seated at it is set up just at the bottom of the seating area.  These are the local sport talk people doing their show before the national sports talk show goes on.  I’m about to take a seat when a rather rotund man grabs me.  He tells me I’m perfect and need to sit next to this thing he created.  Some piece of art or fashion or something.  I don’t know what it is because he has it covered with a sheet.  Next to it is a chair that he wants me to sit in.  Its right in the aisle where people walk.  Despite knowing that is where he wants me to sit, and having problem sitting there, we walk by his art masterpiece and down the aisle.  He says I might need a different color shirt (referring to the shirt I’m carrying in the clear plastic).  We walk through an archway and past some people checking tickets and letting everyone in.  I can see further outside the stadium now.  Its still my neighborhood I grew up in.  I see a restroom and say “Oh good, I’ve got to use the bathroom.”  The guy next to me says “No you don’t, I do.” and goes in and locks the door.  I walk back into the stadium aisle and past a Man|Woman Restroom sign but decide that’s for people with children and I shouldn’t use it.  I keep walking and then…. I wake.

Messed up dream.

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– Get Up, Dropkick Murphys
– Minority, Green Day
– King of The Road, Piebald
– Story of My Life, Social Distortion
– Radio, Rancid
– Bombtrack, Rage Against The Machine
– Johnny Quest Thinks We’re Sellouts, Less Than Jake
– Sound System, Operation Ivy
– Shoulder to the Wheel, Saves the Day
– I Wanna Know About U, The (International) Noise Conspiracy
– Radar, Kicks

Hostage

I had a really weird dream last night.  I fell asleep watching Batman (the Tim Burton Michael Keaton one), so that might explain some of it somehow.

I am locked up in a one person hospital room.  There is a man hooked up into to a whole bunch of machines in there with me.  If he’s not in a coma he’s definitely hurt bad or unresponsive.  That wasn’t my doing though.  I seem to think one of two things, or both at different points in the dream.  He’s either a) a person that killed my parents, or b) he is my father.  I remember both of those from during my dream, but it was always the same person in the hospital bed.

Two security men show up outside of the door.  I don’t remember knocking them out, but I do remember opening the door and taking their guns and extra clips.  I go back inside the room, lock the door behind me, and start doing some research on a laptop computer in the room.  The tv in the room is showing a news station, the story was about some crime in the same city I am in, but it doesn’t seem to be related to me, or the man in the hospital bed.

Eventually police arrive outside the door.  They don’t announce themselves, but I know they are there.  I open the door and walk right up to two of them and take their guns out of their holsters along with extra clips, and take a third gun off of an unconcious officer on the ground.  Its weird because the hallway is filled with police officers (or swat or some sort of law agency) but no one is stopping me.  No one is even moving.  Its not that they are frozen, I remember actually looking into the eyes of one of the officers as took his gun, his eyes were following me, but he didn’t move at all.  I head back into the room and lock the door.

Inside the room I decide to look at the man again.  He’s definitely not awake.  At this point I don’t even care about him, like I barely know who he is.  I sit down and decide to reload all of the guns.  They don’t fire bullets.  All of the clips are actually rolls of quarters.  Its not as they are toy guns, but they’re meant to stun as opposed to kill apparently.  As I fiddle with them I come to realize I have not idea how to reload them, so I decide to look it up on the internet (still have my laptop).  It was fairly easy to find the information, the guns all had the serial IP 804A on them (weird that I remember that, google IP 804A now and top listing is a site for office chairs).  The guns can apparently fire all sort of things, wads of paper, buckshot, quarters, marbles, bullets, and more.  I stick with loading in the quarters.

At this  point the tv is showing an image of the hospital I’m in, but it is on mute and I can’t tell what it is saying.  I look to the door and see something coming in under the door.  It was a giant tray of food.  I hadn’t asked for food, I haven’t even talked to the police yet, but there it is.  There is a note, but I have no real recollection of what it says.  Under the note is a newspaper though.  I pick it up and it is a Catholic paper all about how suicide, murder, and hostage taking is wrong.  Its not a pamphlet though, it is a series of articles written by different reporters.  I find myself strangely fascinated by it, and read for a while (I don’t find myself agreeing with it, or laughing at it, or even having an opinion about it… just that I enjoyed reading it).  Now I can hear some of the officers outside the door.  They seem to be in good spirits and someone is laughing.  I don’t seem to be swayed by this at all.  I’m not angry, not upset, not happy either.  I just am in this situation.

And then I wake….