DREAMS FROM THE BRAIN OF MATTHEW JAMES
PHANTASMAGORIUM
A DREAM WRITTEN BY HIS OWN HAND UPON WORDPRESS
A strange account of a dream about the natural vegetation freezing process and the Second Coming. The order of the dream was like a short film glossed in sepia.
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1800 and Froze to Death
1 It was cold and I was on the floor—with knee to chin—accessorizing this huge puzzle of a jigsaw puzzle. The room was unknown to me, for I think a girl lived there. A guy of brown skin and unibrow entered the room and trampled my neatly organized puzzle. He walked to the TV covered by a huge glass box and turned on the latest rap video. I got up to show him my dance moves. My moves were grand, for I was graced with the rhythm of P-diddy. To show him I was serious, I threw my hands in the air and gesticulated like a mad man. He was calling me Kwakaa and laughing while he imitated my moves. He then turned to me and told me, “Dancing with the Stars is a great show.” I replied, “It’s huge!” Then we lifted up the glass box to reveal the TV screen. I asked, “Does your sister move this by herself every time she wants to watch TV?” He said, “No, she has a roommate.” I nodded with understanding and we watched.
2 Moments later I found myself in the hallway just outside the room. I was looking through this cabinet for some book, I don’t remember which. I stumbled across this old black book made of fine leather. It was entitled Christian Interpretations of the Sword, with the letters in cursive and colored in gold. I remembered I borrowed this book from a friend, and I needed to give it back. I dusted it off with my hand and opened it ever so gently.
3 I saw snow, exceedingly white snow. It was as if I were watching TV, and the camera was tracking along a row of huge carrots being buried in the snow by hand. Old ladies were educating me about the preservation of harvest by way of natural freezing. It was as if I were there, in my snow boots, walking with them; for they were showing me the ways of burying carrots and other fresh vegetables. They told me that they used soap on the carrots to keep them clean from the various insects and bugs. Then I thought about human contamination. “What do you do about vandalism?” I asked. “Well, here we don’t have to worry about that,” they said as a matter of fact. I kept envisioning humans defiling the fresh vegetation with a warm golden excretion. They taught me everything I needed to know about the natural freezing preservation process, and I thanked them for their time and consideration.
4 Now, it was colder than before, and I could feel a presence of devious mischief in the air. For it was time for me to practice what I had just learned. Each lady was lined up on the ground supine, with their bodies nowhere to be found. They explained to me that it was their time to be preserved for the Second Coming. I approached each head and buried it under the snow as they were still instructing me on correct technique. After each head I buried, the weirder I felt. On the one hand, I was doing them a favor, by doing what I was told. But on the other hand, I was killing these poor nice ladies—who for whatever reason weren’t already dead from being severed from their bodies. I reached the end, where there was a casket leaning against a stake, and said a little prayer for them, “Father, do thy bidding, for your kingdom shall come.”