Dream a little dream
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 8:01AM
Joe Reiter

Usually I have dreams involving the apocalypse, death, chaos, people on fire, etc. Not really sure why and I'm not anxious to solve the mystery by talking to a therapist.

Last night I got a break from those dreams. Instead, I was in a field with a couple of people, there was a gunshot, and I went running towards an old abandoned-looking 19th century house, which I was warned away from by an old man. I ignored him and went inside, and found a woman who looked like Yvonne DeCarlo on the Munsters telling me I couldn't leave until the next day, assuming I 'passed' the test. When I tried to leave the house I couldn't get past the threshold, and saw the people I had been with standing over my body. The gunshot had hit me and I was dying, and my spirit was inside the house. The old man explained to me that I had to avoid any contact with Yvonne DeCarlo's daughter or else it would be taken as a sign of interest and lead to an engagement. I survived the night in the house somehow, but right as it was time for me to leave the girl approached me and squeezed my hand. Yvonne DeCarlo showed up and pronounced us engaged and that I would never leave the house. I tried to escape, but once again I was blocked from leaving. A sheet was placed over my body in the field and I knew I was dead and would spend eternity in this house, so I threw a bunch of candles at the wooden support beams and burned the place to the ground.

Maybe I need lithium.

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