The Ooze

Dreamt February 2002





First off, nothing in the dream bared resemblence to anyone or anyplace I knew in real life. It
seemed the people, places, and relationships I had with them were completely made up.

The dream starts out in the evening. Me and my father in the dream went out into the front
yard to do some yard work. We were standing on the driveway when I noticed some odd looking
plants on the sides of the driveway. They had teeth and were oozing some whiteish-green liquid.
I had some kind of cutting tool in my hand so i started hacking at the leaf teeth. They started
grabbing for my father and I was also in trouble so I took off running into the house while my
father was being pinned down by the ooze. I locked the doors of the house and ran upstairs to
my room and hid. Everyone else seemed to be asleep or gone. 

Eventually I fell asleep until morning. I woke and went back outside. The whole family was
there: my father who was laying on the driveway, my mother, my sister, and me. The others were
helping my father to his feet, and he seemed unharmed. Then a strange old guy walked over to
us. He had a lot of wierd stuff to say. He said that the ooze was some kind of ancient ghost
haunting the house. The ooze would get inside someone and change them. Apparently it also only
attacked at night (or in the evening I suppose). The strange guy did something and got the ooze
out of my father. The ooze ran off and was gone. Everyone was relieved and the old man then
continued his talking. The creature's whole goal was to change everyone and each one infected
can change another, like a disease. He kept talking for awhile.

Then the dreamed jumped to night-time again. All of us, except the strange guy who doesnt live
there, were going around the house and sealing up any openings that the ooze might get it.
Everyone but me was satisfied that the house was secure and went to bed. I looked around
downstairs and wandered alone between rooms. I was walking by the stairs when I slipped on a
small glob of ooze. I fell to the floor and looked at it. A lot of ooze then proceded to come
out of everywhere and engulfed me...

I woke up in the morning up still laying on the floor. Nobody else was awake yet. I felt normal,
but at the same time not normal. I still felt like me but my mind was filled with the thoughts
of wanting to spread this "gift" to others. Some of the effects I noticed was: increased
strength, the ability to jump very high, the ability to squeeze through tight spaces, and my
eyes would also glow a soft white every once and awhile. It was pretty strange.

Anyways, I went outside and then the rest of my family woke and came outside to join me. We
were all standing out on the driveway. My father and mother realized what had happened and said
they were sorry and upset. My sister remained a short distance away and didn't say anything.
Then the strange old guy came back over to us. For some reason he said I was uncureable. My
parents and the old guy then got into a lengthy discussion. One of them finally looked over at
my sister and wondered if the ooze had gotten her too. She continued to stand there quietly.

Finally the old guy stated that I might have to be destroyed (killed) to stop the disease from
spreading. My father and mother didn't want to do that and they all continued their discissions.
Meanwhile, I walked over to a tree and leaped up to one of the highest branches and sat there
(at least a 20 foot jump). My sister then walked over to the tree and jumped up as well. Now
it was obvious to everyone that the ooze had gotten her too. We both sat up in the tree
together while the others talked. My sister started giggling about something and it caused me
to laugh as well. So we were both up there laughing. 

Somehow evening arrived once more and my father and mother finally decided that my sister and
I had to be destroyed. I didn't understand why. I was still basically me, just with neat
abilities. I couldn't see why everyone wouldn't want to be like us. (But I suppose my views
were bias considering I was one of the "creatures" now). My sister and I got out of the tree
and decided that we needed to run away to save ourselves. She ran off in one direction and I
ran off in another. 

My father and mother hired a bounty hunter to track me down. The bounty hunter looked like
some large woman bowler. She had a bowling bag (with heavy ball inside) as a weapon to swing
and she was really mean. She came at me with the bag and I ducked. We had a brief fight. I
then ran off again and hopped over some fences trying to escape. I found myself in a garage
with no viable exit until I noticed a small vent and climbed my way through. I kept running
and eventually seemed to lose the hunter. I didn't see her again. At some point I went back
home and hid in the backyard while watching my parents doing stuff inside. I just sat there
looking in and feeling all alone as night fell. 

Then all of a sudden I'm awake and I see my clock saying 11am. Must have been a long dream...