nightmare-ish
*I have a celebrity visiting at my house. It’s kind of a big deal, but I don’t want to make a big deal out of it, so I’m acting completely casual – it seems he has been here before. This morning he is going through my cupboards and looking at what there is to eat for cereal. He picks up a box of granola/cornflake type cereal that I just recently purchased. I let him know I haven’t tried it yet, so I don’t know if it’s any good or if he’ll like it, but he’s welcome to check it out. He opens the box and pours some into his hand to try a bite. I look beyond him to the window looking out to the street… everything seems very brown or soot covered. There’s been some kind of apocalypse type event (war or natural disaster) We are without a lot of modern conveniences. People are scared of each other, though resources (food, water) don’t appear to be difficult to get – it’s just that nobody talks to or interacts with anybody else. If you go out into the street and you are not a regular, or outside at a time of day that you are familiar with, you are afraid of being attacked. I realize that we are out of something needed for breakfast, and I sigh and head out the door. I duck a lot, run whenever in exposed areas, dive behind buildings. I get to an old brick building next to the water, large wooden doors are open. I can smell something unusual from this building… I look around and see some people casually walking down the street, some people seem to be looking for something, others are driving shopping carts quickly down the road, racing around corners to duck for cover. I duck into this building, and find a man building a machine. He has been working on it for a while, the unusual smell I noticed is some kind of chemical. He seems completely relaxed about the situation outside, and I wonder if he is just high – he should be scared. But he is convinced that this device – which is some kind of man-powered flying machine – will work, and get him out of this area and over to where society is still normal.
