The Demo Was Dumb

The other night I had a dream. Unlike the other dream I wrote up, this one was pretty cool.

I can't remember the beginning of the dream, but the ending is still pretty clear.

I was in a labrynthine underground military base. Everything was malfunctioning and breaking down while creatures were attacking people. This was triggered by me playing the Doom 3 demo, which sucked.

I never saw any of the creatures as I snuck around in the shadows, but I heard them. Eventually I came to a room with a ton of water pipes of all sizes winding through it, making the whole room some weird jungle gym. Off of one pipe near the ceiling was a soldier, hanging by his bound wrists. He was blabbering about the creatures, clearly at the end of his sanity.

At one point some of the faucets on the pipes started to drip, and the hanging soldier starts screaming. "Don't turn on the water again! They come to the water!," he screamed. With that, the faucets opened, causing the room to explode with water. I was instantly drenched as a scrambled through the water, straining to see. Somehow I could hear the creatures approaching over the roar of the water, so I frantically started climbing the pipes to try and get as high off the ground as possible. Once I got as high as I could go, I just held on and closed my eyes.

Eventually all the water stopped, and there was no noise apart from a few drops and a weeping soldier. I continued sneaking my way through the base.

It wasn't long before I was in a room with two high ranking generals. We had barricaded ourselves in, and had started talking to each other. It was then that I realized one of the generals was Brian Cox, who has become one of my favorite actors (making this the first dream of mine with a celebrity). He was sitting in a chair, facing an illuminated picture of a sunny landscape on the wall. "Just like I'm back in the 50's," he reminisced, "Driving along in my Chevy, not a care in the world."

He had already realized that this was the end. We weren't leaving this place. "At least we can be thankful for what lives we did have," said the other. "We've all had our good times, and our women to hold."

"I wish I had one to hold," I said, and at that time an old friend of mine appeared. It was Chuck, who was shot in the face as a child.

"You are a fool," he said to me. "You didn't pursue when you should've and it all slipped away. Now look at you. Destined to rot in this hell hole."

Then I woke up. Overall a pretty cool dream with all the sneaking around and talking with Brian Cox, but the ending was weird and kind of sucked.