Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007
The Truth Is Out There!
Today, I make the crossover from young to old. I have hit the quarter century mark, and from everything I’ve heard, it all goes down hill from here. How do the rest of you old people out there handle it? :D I kid, I kid.
So what do I have planned for this, the day of my birth? Not much. Luckily I have the day (3-day weekend and I worked on Saturday), but I’ve already spent the first half of the morning cleaning. I think in a bit I’m going to go shopping with all the gift cards I received for Christmas.
Al called me yesterday to apologize for Saturday’s fiasco and to make plans to do something with me tonight. It was really sweet of him, considering that it wasn’t his fault. He was one of the people who wanted to stay, but he didn’t drive and didn’t have his house keys, so he was at the whim of the person with the car. And he felt bad.
It’s so weird, that after our little incident (well, big, if you catch my drift hehe), we’ve been a lot closer as friends. We talked over it and left it as what it was, just good sex, and got back on the friendship track. And it’s been good for me to know that I can count on him to be a good friend to me, which is something I need.
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If y'all weren't watching Twenty-f0ur last night, then you missed an amazing ten minutes of television. Hot Damn!
And if you didn’t see I Luv N Y, then you missed out on one of the most hilarious things I have ever seen in my life. A little something referred to as a “Mangent.” NY’s mom will always have a space in my heart for saying that one of the guys had a gray, mossy type stuff growing between his things. It was just too much, y’all.
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I forgot to mention last entry that the toe-massaging thing worked; the reflexology. I wasn't going to try it at first, but since two people recommended it, I decided to. I rubbed my right middle toe for about a minute before I gave up cause it felt weird. But when I woke up the following morning, and my sinuses had tried up. There was no more runny nose. I was still a bit stuffy, but I wasn't leaking at all. So I rubbed that toe again, and the next day my breathing was even better! I'm not quite a true believer yet, but it's something to explore.
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Alrighty then. Friday night, I could not sleep at all. I was wide awake, so I messed around on the internet and watched some bad movies on the SciFi channel. I love SciFi, but you wouldn’t believe the shit they show really late at night. But I digress.
Finally, at around 5 am, I decided to try to force my self to get some sleep. I had to go to work in four hours, and dealing with 35 teenagers on no sleep is not an enjoyable experience. Been there, done that.
I turn off all the lights and the TV and wrap myself up in my blanket. And within minutes, I’m having this crazy ass dream. Now the thing that’s weird about that is that when I usually dream, I don’t realize I’m dreaming while the dream is going on, and when I wake up, I don’t even remember that I had the dream until something triggers my memory. But during this dream, I knew that I was dreaming, and my conscious mind was shaping the dream. Plus, it was overly vivid; like all bright colors and loud sounds and bold scents. In the dream, I was driving along a curvy mountainside, road, in a Jeep Cher0kee, when suddenly the car loses control. Next thing I know, both the car and I are in the sky falling toward the ocean. Somehow I manage to get out of the car and I start free falling, and I know that if it the water how I was falling, stomach first, that that would be the end of me. So I tried to make myself vertical so I would hit feet first, but something wouldn’t let me. I get closer and closer and right as I’m about to make a deadly belly flop, I wake up.
When I wake up, I’m on my back, my knees are bent, my arms are bent at my chest and my hands are in fists. I try to move my arms and legs but they are frozen in place. I try to unmake my fists but those are frozen too! It feels like something is holding me down or that I’m strapped down, but I look and there’s nothing.
At this point, I just think that maybe my extremities have fallen asleep, which happens to me frequently, especially in my arms, because I tend to sleep on top them instead of leaving them at my side. I decide to try and sit up instead. I start to lift my head up, and as I do, I feel like a shock in between my eyes and there’s a flash of light. Now, I’m just like, what the FUCK is going on!!!! I lay there for a few minutes and decide to try again sitting up again. As I lift my head a second time, I get another shock, a little stronger than the first one, and another flash of light. I put my head back down and I start to freak the fuck out. I start desperately trying to free my legs and arms from their frozen state, but I didn’t lift my head up again. You only got to shock me twice to know not to repeat the behavior! (If only my cat would learn the same lesson.) I struggle and struggle and at one point I close my eyes. And when I opened them again, I was laying on my side in the fetal position.
My first thought was, “holy shit, I think I was just abducted!” I turned over to look at the time because the entire episode had felt like it was only 15 minutes. It was 6 am; a whole hour had passed. The really weird part was that I was in my room the entire time. But during the time I was frozen, it looked like my room, but it didn’t feel like I was there. It felt kind of like being on a set, where you know that what you’re seeing is really a façade and that there’s something else behind the walls.
Needless to say I was very freaked out. But I didn’t move or go to sleep until around 7:30, when I felt like I wasn’t been watched anymore. And this is coming from someone who grew up in a house with ghosts!
I’m not a true believer, but at the same time, I’m not a disbeliever, if that makes sense. And know that I’ve had this strange-ass experience, I don’t know what to think. I do know that I look/sound insane when I tell people about my “abduction”. You should have seen the looks I got at the Museum when I was telling my story. But you guys can feel free to make your own call.
summerroll at 11:31 a.m.