A Whacked Dream

*** Dreamt June 15-16, 2008 ***

I was at this REALLY tiny shack that was located near the field behind my grandparents house. Inside the shack everything was black, white, and gray. The interior consisted of a small bedroom with a rather large, comfy-looking, white bed in it that pretty much filled the entire room, and a hall that had a closet at one end and a swinging door that led to a kitchen at the other. This was being used as the set of "Fear Tactics"....which was knock off of "Scare Tactics" (For those unaware, "Scare Tactics" was his terribly evil show on the Sci-Fi Channel where they would just scare the crap out of the people....think of "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes", but instead of funny pranks, they would make the target of the gag think he/she was witnessing an alien landing or a haunting or other freaky stuff....I think the show got sued by several of the people they'd punk'd so they ended up getting pulled off the air). Anyway, I was in the crew of this show, but I wanted to try it out anyway to see how it would feel if I were the victim of the prank.

The prank we were going to pull was the person would walk down the hall towards the kitchen area, then somebody would emerge from the kitchen area wielding a knife and come at them. (Yes, our prank - apparently - was to make the person think they were about to be MURDERED! ...can you smell a law-suit on this one?). So I did it...I walked down the hall, and right as I got to the kitchen door it swung open and there was Johnny Depp with a huge cleaver. I was freaked! I backed away as quickly as I could until I got to the closet at the end of the hall, which I promptly climbed into to hide. Right about then the target of our prank came in the house, but I was now trapped in the closet so they wouldn't see me.

The stunt went down as planned, Johnny Depp came at 'em with a knife, they freaked, we all had a good laugh. When it was over I came out and found the cast and crew all out there. Among them now was actress Helena Bonham Carter...I'm not sure what role she'd played in it, but there she was. As we were discussing the prank we decided this was going to make for a really great episode of the new show "Whacked!!", which was billed as "the ongoing adventures of Sweeney Todd". That's why Helena Bonham Carter was there...we were filming "Whacked"...not "Fear Tactics" at all, it turns out.

I decided to go pay my grandparents a visit since they lived so close, when I got there I found most of my family there watching TV, and right then a commercial for "Whacked!!" came on. I was so excited!! I told them all that I was in the show and that I got killed in the pilot episode. They were all very proud.

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Okay...not the wild & craziest dream I've ever had, but for some reason I haven't been remembering a lot of my dreams lately. This dream is, however, an excellent example of how in dreams things can change at the drop of a hat and it all seems to make perfect sense. We were definitely filming "Fear Tactics" and then all of the sudden it was now "Whacked!!"...which was never explained to me, but I completely knew what "Whacked!!" was.

Tut, tut, it looks like rain...

I get SO annoyed at bad weather. It just sucks the energy right out of me and I want to sit around and be grumpy. I'm especially annoyed at the moment because (per my last post), I'd just gotten into the swing of being more active, and then all of this dreariness started looming over us in Logan. Sure, I could go the gym & be active, but being stuck inside isn't what I want...I want to be outside walking or running. Saturday, Sunday, & Monday I went on the nicest walks around town...no where in particular...just briskly walking around for an hour or so, and it was great. But the last 3 days it keeps being all drizzley and nasty...I hate it.

It's kind of a strange thing how glancing outside has the power to change one's mood so profoundly. Stranger still is when the weather changes quite rapidly on you, and your mood follows. I definitely feel different when it's raining vs when it's sunny...even if I'm indoors. The most striking example of this was when I used to work in a windowless part of the building at SDL...there'd be days where when I got to work and it was cloudy and raining, so I'd be in a "rainy" mood all day, then suddenly I'd pass a window and see that it was now sunny outside, and I could practically feel my mood re-adjusting itself to match the weather. It's like when you go to the movies in the afternoon & you expect it to be night when you walk outside, but when you exit and all that sunlight so unexpectedly hits you, you have to sortof re-adjust your state of mind to be in a day-time mood instead of a night-time mood.

Am I the only one who experiences this? I can't be, right?