Fragments of Nonsensical Plots

It's like channel-flipping! Some caught my attention more than others. This is what happens when you wait too long.

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I was talking with Seth, a little kid from my church. I don't remember exactly what was going on, but I do remember that I was able to build the perfect set of abs by doing push-ups, somehow.

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I was with my family when a tornado touched down. Of course, I decided to bolt for what was supposed to be the basement. It's funny how you see places in your dreams that are supposed to be from real life, except they look nothing like the real thing. Apparently my house had a cellar rather than a normal basement. I hid in a little corner, waiting for the tornado to pass. It didn't take long, though, for my subconscious to decide that the tornado was no longer a threat. It was much more important to watch my 6'5" cousin climb up a wall Mission Impossible style as my grandparents cheered him on.

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Dreams put together facts in the oddest ways. My brother and I were, for some reason, on some sort of trip with Phil Keith, Cornerstone's athletic trainer. At a stop in the middle of our journey to some important event, Phil got a call. A GRTS van had gotten in an accident while carrying 12 students/faculty members. One of the passengers, Katy Beachy (who is neither a seminary student nor a friend of mine--in all actuality, I only know her name), was in critical condition. With her life hanging on the line, they decided the best thing to do was to get the athletic trainer for life-saving medical treatment. As he headed back (apparently with no vehicle), he allowed me to use his motorcycle to get to my incredibly important meeting (though I still have no idea what it was about). I think my subconscious needs to learn some common sense. If it's going break the laws of physics and logic, it could at least let me fly for once.

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Random campground scene

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My friend Nate and I were at Best Buy. We had just decided that we were going to pool our money to buy an XBox 360, because our first one had broken. We were never able to buy it.

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Back to the tornado. Different tornado. My house again. Wrong house, again. My brother, sister, mother, and I were staring out the window at the coming storm. I noticed an odd patch of cloudless, green sky. I instantly knew that that must indicate a tornado, so I bolted downstairs. This introduces another dream law.

Dream Law #2: When the dreamer knows that something will happen, it will happen. This is called the Cause & Effect law when partnered with Law #1 (previously mentioned). Basically, any time a thought enters the dreamer's mind, that thought becomes a cause which produces whatever the thought visualized (the effect). This usually happens when a possibility would be harmful to the user.

Well, once I got downstairs, I realized I needed to help my family downstairs. So I rushed back upstairs to find that they were completely capable of walking downstairs themselves. And down we went. We huddled in our respective corners as we watched the tornado touch down and pass us by. Just when we thought we were safe, the main tornado shot out a second tornado toward our house (which was completely open at the back, meaning we were exposed to the tornado--yet another lapse in logic). It almost sucked our dog in, but I grabbed her by the leg and pulled her to me as a helicopter was dragged into the vortex.

After the tornado passed, we discovered that the whole first floor of our house was wiped out. This meant that we had to seek food and shelter elsewhere (more dream logic). So out we went. Apparently, Stevens had also been affected by the tornado and was in search of shelter. Finally, we arrived at the shelter, which was slightly reminiscent of the Super Dome after Katrina.

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Woah, double rainbow all the way! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI There were three, four, eight, then seventeen rainbows in the sky. As we all stood in wonder, we noticed that the actual rainbows were but ten feet away from the bridge on which we were standing. As we stared in awe at the rainbow, it dematerialized before our eyes. It turned into a sort of metal structure shaped somewhat like chicken wire. Then it crumbled. It was pretty trippy.

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Lebron James had just won the championship, which made our little knick-knack even more valuable. It was a guitar case autographed by the King himself. Inside it was a French Horn (???) used by Lebron James when he was a kid. Also inside the case was a Consumers Energy bill and some other papers.

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It was a an odd baseball game. I wasn't very good at baseball. But the bases were loaded and I was up. I knew I was up because I batted right after the 70-year-old woman, who was right after the 70-year-old man. They were both better than me. I spent the next five to ten minutes looking for the right bat. The strange thing was that every bat was curved, bent, or twisted in odd ways. I settled for a bat that had a pretty significant curve. I never got to bat, though.

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Too bad these are just fragments. They all would have been so... boring.