"I could feel and taste this dream. So passionate and real... And the bleach. I could taste it..." David Mulhern
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©2001 david mulhern

Middle of the day... the blue sky... and I walk to Mountain Pointe because I need to pick up a yearbook but something strange is going on. It is daylight and every single person I went to high school with is there...

They are all standing in lines wearing ties. I'm pushing my way through these crowds of people, recognizing individual faces as I walk, trying to figure out why they are all here. I guess that they are here to get their pictures taken... but it’s weird, because we’ve all been out of school for so long. Of course, I need to find a place to get away, just like when I was in school.

I begin walking. Through different hallways and through different doors, until I come to a place I shouldn’t be. It is like a library. The librarian helps me find a book. I have to make up a book which I am looking for. I tell her I want to see a book on some animated cartoon series. I can’t find the book myself, but she helps me. It’s made of clay. After I use it, I have to replace it, only it’s shaped all weird. So I have to straighten the book out, but it’s all lumpy. I have trouble getting it back to normal, and it's vin number is rubbed off through the process. I finally get the book back to a somewhat normal state, and I put it back on the shelf.

After leaving the library I end up in a dark series of hallways... it feels like a hospital. It's made of a dark red brick. I'm in a strange teacher's lounge section of the school... it's somewhere I shouldn't be. I end up in the elevator.

The Elevator: Jen and I are going down, floor by floor in the elevator when it begins to slow down. We are just about to the floor we are trying to get to, when the elevator screeches to a halt. It is stopped.

This is the point in the dream when it begins to begins to seem like a movie. Jen and I start kissing at this point. It is movie-like. Passionate.

I kick out the window and look down. I can see the floor directly beneath us, but I know we can’t make it down. I try to find a way out. I pull myself up and look around, and I can see a way for us to jump up on the roof. Only the roof is curved and made of some sort of clay with a weird green paper mache’ moss on it in some places. I go first, and I help jen up. We have to jump across some big spaces to get up to the top of the roof. We have to be careful not to step in the green spaces, because we would fall through. It seems like no one has ever been here before.

Up at the top we discover something very strange. There is a bed. It is part of a little room which blends in with the roof. We start rummaging through the stuff, and I remind everyone to be careful, because we won’t want the owner of the stuff to know we were there.

Then I find the bleach. I realize some person used the bleach in during that day. I also think this person stopped our elevator.

Jen drinks from a container, but I tell her not to swallow. She spits out the bleach. I can taste it in my mouth.

I realized many people had been poisoned that day.

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