The Art of Dreaming

Converge

"I reckon you ain't familiar with these here parts." a glitchy face man told me.

He pulled out a shovel from his back and started to dig me out of the snow. There were a group of snow rabbits hopping around close by. One would stand up on their hindfeet and another would charge into their stomach with the head. The one standing up would fall backwards and the game would begin again. I started to eat my carrot as this snow cowboy dug me out of the snow. 

"Ana won so shu?" he asked me.

"I'll feel around for some jewelry while I'm waiting." I told him.

The snow was freezing my hands and I felt around in it for this jewelry he wanted me to find. I felt nothing but snow though. The wind knocked some of the snow he was shoveling into my face. I didn't even make a fuss about it, I just shivered and waited. The ground started to shake and the cowboy toppled over. A wall with a design carved into it rose from the snow and stood ten feet high. The movement of the wall had loosened the snow and I easily climbed out of my hole. I approached the wall and felt the relief that was carved into it. It was an armchair. I climbed into it and seized up in panic for a second as it toppled backwards. I was sliding down the snowy slope headfirst on my back. I landed with a splash. The water wasn't deep so I could stand up in it.

"Don't turn around in the waterslide." A blurred face waterpark attendant told me.

It looked like he was surrounded by his family. I toweled off and got dressed in my uniform. My unit was taking pictures for graduation. It was the early second millennium BC. There was a line for a large metal disc mirror. One of the other militia members waved at me to join him. Everything started moving in slow motion when I tried. It felt like it took 90 seconds to take one step. Wolves came running through the pillars and attacked. I jumped in one's mouth and landed perfectly after my flying trapeze routine. I walked out in my large top hat and red jacket yelling to the crowd. 

"The avatar of the imagination. Mind yourself now, go get ready for the next part." I said.

At that I hurried out of the ring and into the back tents where the other performers were waiting for their part of the show. There were clowns, tightrope walkers, jugglers, contortionists and more. I walked past a coconut that was walking out and into the acrobat's tent. I had to powder my nose and my cheeks, my forehead and my ears. I kept applying and reapplying powder till the entire room was a cloud of powder. I reached for the blue powder and the yellow power. I started applying the powder to the powder in the air. I applied pink powder to the green powder. All I could see was a white cloud and colors. 

I stepped out of the room and sat down to check the computer screen. It had mined 100 words since I went to get my toothbrush. I grabbed the handle and gave my teeth a few scrubs. The computer started to speak; Word no. 24 - Electrical. At that I felt an electric shock come through the computer and into my body. I started bouncing up and down so much that my toothbrush started doing the rubber pencil trick. The computer spoke again, Word no. 24 - Electrical, completed. I could relax again. I wasn't being shocked anymore. A bunch of screens popped up on my desktop, the blurred faces of old men and women. They were congratulating me on my success with the word mining. Fifty percent done, well done. That's all they kept saying. The electric shock made me feel like beer tastes if that makes any sense. I didn't dream of continuing this kind of work for much longer. I found a ladder in the corner and climbed it. It ended up leading to the roof. The sun was rising and it was a noisy morning, all of the birds were singing. I laid in the flowers and yelled with their singing. A bird landed beside me and yelled back at me with an very good impersonation of my voice. Then another bird landed by me and did the same thing. Soon I was surrounded by birds that were yelling at me in my own voice. Except for one, it was an ostrich. 

I grabbed a bird and placed it on the ostrich. The large flightless bird seemed to smile at me before jumping off of the roof and into town. In the nest it was sitting on were two blue socks.