2017/07/06

## Dream Description

In the beginning of the apocalypse, many people tried escaping towns and banding together in the forest. One such band was attacked on the first day. Not solely by zombies. A group of people in a white minivan went around killing other survivors. The zombies would steal cellphones and weapons and destroy them so people couldn't fight back. I was part of the band along with my mom and stepdad. I had driven my Cadillac and she had driven her black car. I met up with her and found a pump shotgun with a pistol grip as well as a Motorola cellphone that hadn't been destroyed but the battery died as I was trying to make a call. I grabbed a bunch of broken cellphones and chargers as well as wallets (so I could be rich when the whole thing was over) to try to get a charged battery. We ended up taking an abandoned dark SUV instead of our cars. I stuffed my keys in my pocket, threw my chargers in the back seat and jumped in after them.

We lived as scavengers out of our car for a while but then we decided to go into town. The first building on the outskirts of downtown was an old antique store that had been converted into a trading post and clinic. It was run by a woman and her young son. My mom was going to go inside to trade and since I was the only one with a gun I told her I'd guard the door.

Don't remember much in between these scenes, just that we were scavenging the original group of cars for stuff and that most of the cars were already looked thru so I cut X's in the passenger seats to indicate that I'd scavenged them. I got ambushed while doing this.

I ended up getting captured by the white van group along with the other guy that drove with us (some Asian dude with long hair) who was apparently my best friend. He brought us to his house which was a ski resort next to Mt. Everest (idek). He forced us to climb it or die. About 2/3 up an explosion caused an avalanche which knocked me down a bit but sent the Asian guy almost all the way to the bottom. I had to choose to continue without him or wait for him to get up top again. I climbed it without him then parachuted down. The bad dude congratulated me for leaving behind my friend and offered me the parachute as a reward but I chose to take the climbing pole (3 foot-ish metal rod with an L at the end) to use as my melee weapon. We then walked into his garage where there was a white ~2006 impala sitting behind his truck with the hood open. There was gore and guts all in the engine area. We talked and I was trying not to die so I told him we had a lot in common and that I understood why he killed people that first night. They would have just looted more and killed all the game. He was glad I understood. I then told him I knew he was a cannibal and that I couldn't support that. He was fine with that saying more for him. I then somehow managed to steal the impala and escape into the woods.

I got out of the car once I thought I was safe. Bad idea. I saw the zombies rushing my car (zombies seem to be all small animals and children in this dream). I jumped in and tried to lock all the doors but I was too slow and they piled in. I had my climbing tool but there was no way I could kill them all. I sat very still in the passenger seat while they climbed all over me. Eventually all but three of them left (2 little girls and a small dog) in the back seat. One of the little girls started talking to me saying how they wouldn't kill me but I realized it was a ruse to let the other girl unlock all the doors. I ordered them to get out while threatening them with the weapon. They got out and I quickly locked all the doors but they could still open the doors. I yelled at them saying they couldn't open them while locked, that just wasn't how it worked. I got into the drivers seat and tried to find the keys while still yelling at the zombies. I turned off the parking break and the car began to roll down the hill with the zombies walking after mocking me for being out of gas. I finally found the key and started the car. The zombies started screaming that I didn't have gas but I peeled out of there. I ran out of gas near an old farm house so I went to scavenge. I found a bunch of batteries which I took. I spotted some gas cans which I grabbed and went to go back to my car. I suddenly saw a truck pulling a bunch of shopping carts to block off the road. The driver was the white van guy. I realized I couldn't get to the impala so I took the farmers red truck instead. I tried sneakily driving away but the guy noticed me so I floored it down the highway and drove thru a hole in the brush between the right and left highways in an attempt to lose him. I eventually saw his pickup catching up to me but I was almost in town so I managed to make it to the clinic where he couldn't kill me. He pulled up alongside my truck and he and a woman got out. I said "You're the white van people" and they're like "yeah we are and you're Matt Ryan". I didn't know how they could know my name so I said "Are you FBI, CIA or something?". They laughed and said "Have you posted a picture on social media lately?" (I had). Then the clinic woman came out and told me and the guy we had medical bills to pay (me 20$ and him 100$). I asked her if she has a place I could plug in my phone. She said for a price. I didn't have much on me (2 pairs of earbuds, a bunch of batteries, several pencils, markers, pens.) Luckily for me her son had broken his earbuds and was willing to offer me 100$ for those and 8 AAA batteries. I agreed.

I think the dream ended there.