Monday, January 3, 2011

At least I tried.

If I don't type this up, I'll forget. Here's the dream:
I'm on a base somewhere in Afghanistan, I think. Might have been here in the states. Anyway. Everything's fine and normal, everyone just talking, or filing, or eating, or whatever. Suddenly and silently, there are a small group of intruders in the base. I don't know why, but all weapons are in a room adjacent to the one I am in, and stored in unlocked weapon racks. They are all locked and loaded and ready to go. So me and a couple other soldiers decide to get to that room.
I only have to make it about 25 feet, and I have a little cover to crawl behind. So I decide to get a look at my enemy. There are somewhere between 3-5 girls. YOUNG girls. Like 15, or so. Russian, I think. They were laughing and joking around. In the dream, no one was taking them seriously. I high-crawled to the arms room alone.
They had seen me, and were suddenly trying to come through the door, which didn't have a lock. (Come on! Really? It's an ARMS ROOM. Stupid dream...) So I just held my body against the door until they went away. Then I started searching the racks for 206, my assigned rifle at the time. After locating it, I found that my sling was caught in the rack, so I lost time trying to free it. Shots began firing. Once I finally got it untangled and switched the lever to semi, I moved to the door. I thought I was being sneaky by peering through the hinge-side of the now open door, but they saw me immediately, and began firing at me. So I put my barrel through that crack in the door and rested it on one of the hinges, and took up a good position. In my dream I actually was looking down the barrel, and I centered my sights on one of the girls.
And then I was killed. As this wasn't an actual arms room, just a temporary one, it wasn't reinforced. Metal doors of this sort can't stop most military rounds. A bullet came through the door and got me. Not sure where. Then I woke up, very slowly, and feeling very washed-warm. It was peaceful in a strange way.
I'm not sure the dream has any meaning, or is in any way prophetic, or anything. I just wanted to put it out there, and get your thoughts before I forgot it.