The Happening Redone

Have you seen The Happening? It shook me up when biff and I went to see it in the theater. It's a whole lotta suicide up in that film.

So, last night, after finally cleaning the green off my fingers and arms and countertop and sweatshirt (there was a small accident with green paint last night) I went to bed. And dream I did. Not so pleasant. I mean, it scared the crap out of me. But, looking back at it now it wasn't so scary, it was just strange.

There's something in the air. And it's turning people to zombie-like creatures as they are in The Happening. In other words, suicidal non-people. Only I don't get affected. I just look around and get frightened by the evil that's going on. Still... I wander around thinking they're going to kill me. But, they have no interest in that, they want to just kill themselves. That makes me want to kill myself. I don't want to be left all alone after witnessing this horror. For a moment I think I feel something and I'm turning into one of them. So, I wander with them and try to find some creative way of doing myself in. Then I realize it's just like the time I took herbal x and didn't feel anything besides what I wanted to feel. Could have just been the lithium I was feeling. Anyway, in the dream I realize I'm not feeling anything.

But, again, I don't want to live through this. So I make one lame ass attempt (almost as lame as using a tractor like in the movie - that one was kind of silly looking) of swinging a metal edged window scraper toward my throat figuring it would cut the jugular. No go. It just sort of bounced back. I couldn't do it. The only thing I could do is pretend for a while. That I was one of them. And hope to get caught by their own suicide. Maybe if I stand close enough to one...

Towards the end I did come across a few others that weren't feeling the zombiness either. Then I woke up.

Moral of the story: (as my co-worker came up with) In a society of suicidal self mutilating zombies, you just want to fit in.