Tonight i went to see the movie 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'. I went in with extremely low expectations. It did not seem like the type of movie i would like. However two hours later and i was convinced otherwise. It was a really good movie. Then when Matt told me about the other planet of the apes movie,it blew my mind.

Im sure everyone has had one of those experiences. Where they read something or watch a movie and then when they find out the end it gives them chills. The fact that its so well written and everything just comes together. Its like the story goes full circle and you may wonder why the story started how it did but you understand it all once its done. Or maybe it will take a few watches or reads to finally figure out the meaning. And it when you finally reach that moment of understanding you have this 'mind blowing' experience. For example the Devil and God cd by Brand New has provided me a few of those enlightening experiences. Two songs in particular would be Degausser and Limousine. I still get shivers from limousine when i listen to it. If you are unfamiliar with the song listen to it. Then find out the story behind it. I could tell you what its about, but im already planning on this to be another long entry.

It is that that inspires me. When I write, i want my writings to be the same way. It would be nice to blow the readers mind. Yes i am aware that i put waayyyy too much details into my stories all the time. Its pretty much what im known for. In my mind however i feel its all necessary to tell the story correctly. I really wish i was able to write a masterpiece like planet of the apes, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings etc. But that could never happen. Im a terrible writer. English was by far my worst subject in school. Im a terrible speeler, grammer is sucks, my vocabulary is...hmm whats the word im looking for.. bad? and punctuation? Dont get me,. started on that.! I suppose it doesnt help that ive only completely read ONE book my entire life. That being Harry Potter 2. I have no answer to why i was never interested in reading. Book reports in school? I either read through a goosebumps choose your own adventure and died after 15 pages and made up a report on it pretending it was a whole book, or read the back of a goosebumps book and wrote the report on it.. Does that make me a cheater? Should i have never had passed grade 5? Well thats a totally different topic.

Really what this entry is leading up to is a dream that i had months ago. This dream managed to give me this previously mentioned 'mind blowing' experience. I woke up and couldnt believe how good of a dream it was. How it all came together. Usually in dreams its just random events put together that make no sense, but this dream was different. In essence i guess i am the writer of this story, yet im not sure what the meaning of it all is. I dont know the meaning of something i created! I think thats what made it so memorable.

But anyways enough of this philosophy stuff, time to get to the dream. Im telling it in dream form so it may not 100% make sense but if tweaked around, i think is an awesome story:

It begins with me in the hospital. I am there because I hurt my wrist while skateboarding. Since the injury is not at all serious I have been waiting for three hours so far to see a doctor. Needless to say I am getting pretty hungry at this point. Luckily there is a McDonalds in the mall right near this hospital. I decide to leave and figure my wrist isnt that bad. On my way out I bump into my cousin Jared. He seems to be just leaving the hospital as well. Not entirely sure why he was there. My guess was he was there either because he Overdosed on some drugs or too much alcohol, pretty much some kind of substance abuse. He decides to come with me to the mall to get food. We leave the hospital and this hospital is completely surronded by flowers. It looked very nice, they were yellow and orange. The quickest way to this mall was to cut through this garden of flowers. So we hopped on our skooters and went straight through (thats what i mean by it doesnt make 100% sense... skooters? who still does that). People started to get angry with us and it seemed people were vastly overreacting. We even had the police after us. Luckily the police officer was on foot and we had out skooters so we got away. Plus he got held up because he caught some other guy taking the short cut through the flowers.

We make it to the mall now and are about to get food. I bump into Kathryn while there (girl i dated back in 08ish who is studying science at the u of m). Havent talked to her in a few years now. She looks very excited to see me. She starts talking to me about seeing her in Cancun... but i dont remember this happening at all. Apparently we spent a night together in Mexico and i guess i was too drunk or something to remember. We didnt have long to talk anyway because she was only on break. Turns out she works at the hospital now. Sounds like she is a scientist there working on an alergy relief medicine. She wont give me any details though and she quickly runs back to the hospital.

This is where things begin to get a little weird. We find out that something went wrong over at the hospital and now there is like a zombie outbreak. The zombies have made it to the mall already but their numbers are still small. It is difficult to tell who is a zombie and who is still fine. The zombies didnt look like the stereotypical zombie. You could kind of tell if they were a zombie by the way they acted and by their eyes. Their eyes would glow a yellow color in the dark and they were much faster moving then the stereotyped zombies. We tried fighting them off as their numbers increased rapidly. My cousin and i found this huge muscular guy who stuck with us and was protecting us. We did have guns but the bullets hardly effected the zombies. We held them off for as long as we could but their numbers kept increasing as they took more and more humans. We decided that our only option now was to hide. We found what we thought was an excellent hiding place but in no time at all the zombies had found us! We thought for sure we would be safe. In disbelief i shouted 'How could they find us so quickly!!' The zombies all replied to my rhetorical question with 'The seeds'. Turns out the pollen from the flowers, when breathed in by humans was implanted inside the human like a seed. It was possible for the zombies to track the humans as long as they had the seeds inside them.

We managed to escape these zombies by running away. Over the PA there was an announcment made saying they have a solution and for everyone to go to a particular store in the mall. So all the humans made their way towards this store. On our way there i felt something touching my back. I looked behind and realized it was the big strong guy who was 'helping us'. He was trying to steal from my backpack. Because he did that he was shunned from the rest of the survivors and he was not aloud to come with us to find out 'the solution'.

Everyone had now made it to this store and we went to the back stock room. There were quite a few people here. The guy who made the announcement about the solution was a well dressed man. He looked like a confident business man. The strange thing was that he was standing next to a zombie. The zombie wasnt attacking anyone however. The man told us that our answer was behind this door! It was like a huge safe or something. He put in a code and began to open it as we all anxiously awaited. My original thought was that it was going to be a way to escape, to a place where there were no zombies. However it was not like that at all. Behind the door was two sepereate compartments or shelves. They were extremely large and one was up high and the other was at the bottom. I was kind of like a massive filing cabinet.

The mans proposed 'solution' was to have everyone climb into these shelves (men in the top, women in the lower one). These shelves would somehow keep people alive and we were supposed to stay in there possibly forever or until the zombies died out from lack of food.

Like sheep everyone piled into this thing. The zombie was helping the men into the top one. He was apparently a friendly zombie. As the people got in this man just watched with a smile on his face, completely calm. Then all of a sudden someone tried getting in the door to the back room. I ran and grabbed the door to keep it shut. On the other side was the big muscluar guy trying to get in. He was screaming as 3 zombies attacked him. I tried my best to keep the door closed but he pulled so hard that the door ripped right off the hinges. The zombies had ripped his legs off now and started on his arm. By now everyone had gotten into the vault except for the business man, the friendly zombie myself and my cousin. The three zombies came after my cousin and i now. We treid holding them off by fighting but it wasnt doing anything. I then noticed some scissors on the ground so i grabbed them and started stabbing the zombies. It didnt effect them at all. The scissors would make holes in their skin but they would just laugh. They didnt bleed or anything. So i started stabbing their eyes. I carved out around their retnas of all of them. They just smmiled but left us alone now. They turned around and walked out. It seemed like these zombies had the ability to regenerate so they knew that in time they would get their sight back.

Now it was just the four of us again well and i suppose the dead corpse of the muscle guy. The business man told me to hurry up and get in the vault. My cousin hopped on the zombies back and went in. The man then inserted a disk into this vault. I asked why he did that. He said that it will cause the people to go into a dream like state and live out thier lives 'normally' in the vault. I told him that was bogus I didnt want to be part of some pseudo life in some altered stated of mind for the rest of my life. I would rather face the zombies! He replied with... How is this any different then the way people are living their lives now?

Then i awoke.

It really gave me a lot to think about.. but before you read ahead about my thoughts, I would like to hear yours. I mean if you even managed to read this far into it.

The first thing i wondered was what he meant by the last thing he said... I think he means that people drink and take drugs all the time in order to escape reailty so how would this be any different. Which then made me think of my cousin and the possible reason for him being in the hospital.. My cousin Jared used to be my best friend and weve really grown apart. Thats fine and all but what i dont like is what he has gotten himself into. He was brought up in a good home that taught him good values so its tough to see him gettin high and drunk all the time and getting in trouble with the law. I fear that he is going to find himself seriously injured or dead if he keeps up what he is doing, but this is all drifting away from the dream i suppose

The Second thing i wondered was why was the zombie friendly and helping us.. Could it be because this business man was actually going to use us as food for the zombies? Was he going to breed us like a farm to feed them? hmmm that would explain why men went in one part and women in the other.

Another thing that I wondered was, how the outbreak even started. I think it started at the hospital becasue of the aleregy testing. Throughout the dream i kept having these flash back moments, just quick memories of that night spent with Kathryn in Mexico. Putting the small flashbacks together I think what happened was we were just careless in our drunken escapade and accidently / unknowingly altered the alergy prototype.

So ya that was my very vivid dream. Not exactly the most polished awesome story ever but it was definetly the best dream i have ever had.