I'd Rather Be Dreaming

[JDBar]

Last night I dreamed I was in the middle of a heavily wooded area. It was gray, and foggy, the classic wooded horror environment. I found myself on the top of a steep slope of mud and branches, which descended into a river. The water was blackened. I looked to my right, and saw a child staring back. He darted away from me, and I chased him. We flew down the slope, I nearly felt like I was going to trip and fall face-first into the ground. He tried to cross the river, but I caught up with him and tackled him into the water. The river was surprisingly deep, I remember being underwater for a moment while I held his face down. His screams sounded absolutely awful, although I took more interest in the bubbles in the water from his thrashing. They were very bright. When his body sank into the water, I got back up and realized there had been a line of children marching through the river the whole time. They didn't seem phased by the death, although some of them did stare at me briefly without stopping. I followed them down-stream, until we reached a tunnel. On one of the tunnel walls was a door, which upon opening I found myself in the kitchen of a restaurant. I think it was a seafood place, which is weird because I don't like seafood. I walked to the front entrance of the restaurant, and saw that it opened up to an amusement park. I met up with my girlfriend here, and we spent a lot of time going on rides. A lot of them were simply over-sized intricate slides. We also shopped around a bit at the gift stores, looking at clothes and stuff. I realized that the authorities were looking for the guy responsible for drowning that child, so I tried not to attract attention to myself. I happened to notice that my father was in the place of one of the cops, even though in reality he's a landscape contractor or something. The dream ended while I was looking at some shirts in a gift shop with my girlfriend. My alarm clock woke me up. I think one of us was drinking a Slushy.

This was the first time I've ever killed someone in a dream.