Photo House

I was walking down Lake Rd, just outside of Millersport Ohio, looking for a place where I could stay. (Apparently I was homeless... *shrug*) I had just passed the home of one of my old friends from school, when I came upon a somewhat empty old house sitting on the edge of their property. I looked in the windows and saw that it wasn't completely abandoned, because it still had some appliances and furniture inside - but it hadn't been used in many months.

I went inside and began looking through some of the drawers in a large table that was located near the front of the house. It seemed as if this house was once used as a stopping area for people travelling on Lake Rd. Almost like a rest area or toll stop, there was even a small parking area outside where cars could pull in and stop if they wanted to. As I was saying, in the drawers of this table I found a bunch of photographs. Some of them were older, but some of them looked like they were taken quite recently. A few of them even featured people I know... April, Toni, Wendi, etc. It looked as if they may have been prints made from some sort of attraction or kiosk where you could have your picture taken while on your journey. I even recognized some of the pictures as ones that I had taken, but here they had been changed slightly - enough to make them look different from the originals.

Michigan Stonehenge

I was attending the re-opening of the "Stonehenge" rock formations, after it had been closed for a year due to renovations. Apparently I was there for more than just a visit, though, as I was sitting on top of one of the rocks - smashing it with a big stone in order to crack it. I had split one of the big rock displays nearly in two before I hopped down from the top and began to walk around with a small tour group.

We all walked by the big stone that I had cracked, but nobody said anything about it, and I was a bit disappointed. Our tour continued away from the Stonehenge formation and into a foggy field that was full of skulls and human bones. (It was getting dark now, and the field was thick with fog - making it hard to see more than ten or twenty feet in front of us.) We made our way across the field, stepping on and crunching the human bones, until we made it to an abandoned cement building. Our guide told us that we were crossing into Michigan now, and most of them had made their way into the building before I became stuck on some of the bones we were walking on.

There was a good deal of water on the ground, and I had accidently stepped on a partially submerged skeleton and had gotten my pantleg caught on one of the rib bones. Someone grabbed my hand and helped pull me off of the bones and into the building. We entered through a basement door, and once inside we had to cross the basement (which was chest high in water and decayed bodies) in order to get to another floor. I commented to another person in the tour about how disgusting it was, being in that water, since it appeared that dozens of bodies had decayed in it - almost making a "soup" of stinky death.

We made it through the flooded basement and up into one of the other rooms, when it was now only me and one other person taking the tour. As we rounded a corner, we saw two human heads (one male, one female) floating in the distance, arguing with each other. They were slightly transparent, as if ghosts - but with no bodies. I began shouting at the floating heads, and they heard me and approached us through a narrow hallway connecting the rooms that we were in. The heads floated right up to us, and despite them still arguing with each other and looking at us ocassionally, it seemed as if they were in another "realm" and didn't really notice that we were there. Despite my best efforts to talk to them, they remained unaware of our presence.

We moved on, and upstairs into one of the top floors of the abandoned house - where we ran into Heather, one of my wife's friends. She opened the door to what looked like a laundry chute, in order to let us out of the house. We slide through the door and down some stairs into a kitchen. We had now left the abandoned house, and were in a house where people were milling about, preparing for a wedding. We left without anyone paying us much attention at all.

Sorta Superman

Apparently I had just gone through some sort of process that gave me back my "superman powers" and I was headed to the local airport terminal to stop General Zod and his buddies. I got to the airport and found them waiting outside, along with Misty and Genesee waiting inside.

When I walked up to Zod, and the building, I tested out my new powers by punching the wall. It was made of thick panes of glass, which shattered easily when I hit them. They didn't break into sharp pieces though... more like those little bits of plastic used in a Lite Brite. This had me so fascinated, I just forgot about the bad guys and started punching all of the walls and windows. Misty was behind another set of thick glass wall, and I punched through it and grabbed her - and pulled her back through the glass to "rescue her" from her little holding cell.

After that I started to just play around, since I was still amazed that I could do all of what I was doing without getting hurt. I found a big window that I could run and jump through, doing a barrel-roll as I broke through it. The other people in the airport were wondering what I was doing, and Genesee actually yelled at me because a little baby was watching me - and she thought that it might try to do the same thing I was doing, jumping through plate glass windows. Right after that, Genesee went over to the food stand an ordered herself an italian sub... but before I could tell her what I wanted, a long line formed so I just went outside into the food court by myself and waited for her.

Club Hills

Ibra and I were hired as doormen for a local club that was opening. It was actually located in the lobby of the Hills store, which was in the River Valley Mall. It wasn't actually it's own place, either... the club was only open after the store had closed each night. We stood outside, sorting and handing out flyers to let everyone know about the club. Ibra was only giving invitations to certain people, while I was just giving them to anyone that passed by.

We went inside a little early, in order to get the place ready for the night, and Tabatha was there to help us out. Two of the pop machines were flipped over onto their tops, and we were working with those, trying to get them fixed in time for the opening. Tabatha was only trying to get pop out of them though, not really helping to fix them. I saw my cousin Jim, standing in line to checkout from the store, and he ended up helping us repair the pop machines.

When the doors opened, about a dozen people came in - most of them guys. They all rushed to get seats around the lobby, which was now serving as the dance floor. Apparently none of those people came to dance, but instead to watch the women that would be there dancing. Nothing was going on up front, so Ibra and I went to the back of the store to work on some other stuff, where I ran into Dennis's wife. She was working on stocking some shelves, and she was telling me how Dennis had already quit his new job and was now just sitting at home all day and night. She knew I was headed back to the games department, so she was giving me some trivia questions to include in one of the games that Hill's was selling.

I made it back to the games, and I found Johnny Benson sitting on the floor - writing out Nascar trivia questions for that same game. He remarked how none of the questions that Dennis's wife gave me were any good, and that he was the only one that would know good Nascar questions.

Squishy Slug Death

I was in my basement, where me and someone else were hiding from some evil things that were lurking around upstairs. I remarked how it felt like a videogame I had played once before, where you had to start off in the basement and kill these giant slug-like things that would come down and try to kill you. Well, as soon as I said that, the slugs actually started coming the stairs. I did what I would have done in the videogame, grabbing a big board and started smacking at the slugs. I hit the first one and it instantly died, popping open and then shrivling away. However, when I hit the second one with the board - it didn't die. It split into two sections, each of which continued to grow into an even bigger slug.

My friend and I kept trying to hit the slugs, but it wasn't working anymore... so we had to think of something else. I grabbed one with my bare hands and started smashing it against the floor. Each time it hit the floor it would shrink a little in size, with good and pieces flying off... almost like nasty black jello or pudding. I killed one slug that way, but by time I had done that - the other had grown to almost the size of a chair. Luckily, my friend (I'm still not sure who it was) figured out that if you got water on them, they'd shrivel up and die. We forced the last big slug into a big trash bag and then drug it over under the water spout and filled the bag with water - and watched the last slug melt away into a big sloppy bag of water and black smelly goo.

Back At The Old Store

Armond had opened up another discount store, and rehired all of his old employees (including me) to run it again. The store was brand new, but it was laid out almost exactly like his original store was many years ago. All of us employees hadn't seen each other for several years, so everyone looked a little bit different - but still kinda the same. I was taking a break before the store opened, drinking some sort of smoothy drink that we were selling for a dollar, and I was thinking to myself (in the dream) that this was too weird and that I must be dreaming. However, I convinced myself that I wasn't dreaming, and in fact I really did go back to work for Armond in one of his stores.