I just had possibly the most shockingly vivid, real-seeming dreams of my life. I woke up from it at 9:00am(a good two or three hours before I would normally get up on a day like this) and immeadiately had to go downstairs and tell my dad the whole thing.
Part of this was based around some old Spider-Man novel that, in the dream, I'd read several years previously. It was by this really cool old author who wasn't as famous as a lot of Marvel authors but had a brilliant, smug style and was praised as a writer and as a person by everyone else in the industry(I remembered the novel having an intro by John Romita Sr. that raved about the guy). My dad had also met and gotten to have a big talk with him in the past, around the time both of us read the book, which I thought was awesome. Now that I'm awake, I think all of this, the author himself, his writing style and my dad's meeting him, were all based on Kurt Vonnegut.
In the dream, my family and that of my best friend, who I haven't seen since late August but in the dream had a few days off from University to visit this place, were visiting this small town somewhere in Canada. My friend had a great-uncle who ran the town's big supermarket/shopping mall(still an independant, mom-n-pop affair). It turned out this famous lightbulb in the store, which had been burning for 30-odd years, had been personally screwed in by the aformentioned Spider-Man author, who lived in the town. I tried to use this to jog my best friend's memory - he'd read the novel too but couldn't really remember it.
At one point in the dream I was reading another book by this author, but it was more like I was in the book. It involved a con man attempting to cheat Death, Death being played by, I kid you not, Cillian Murphy, and Death catching up to the man after all these years to collect his due. I experienced the climax of the story from the perspective of the con man, who had acquired a jetpack and was attempting to outfly Death, who was gliding through the air after him, reaching out from billowing black robes and staring with bright red eyes and the face of.... Cillian Murphy. After an incredible mid-air chase near a seaside cliff and beach during a thunderstorm at night, Death caught up with the man just as I left the guy's body/perspective, all this fading away as I floated down and landed in this big banquet the town was having.
At the banquet, me and my best friend were sitting at a table with two other girls: the girl I briefly dated right after Prom who had had a crush on me for two years, and her best friend, who is also cool. It was obviously a little awkward at first, but the four of us ended up getting along great together and having a really good time. This questionarre had been sent to all the kids their by our high school, and we were filling it out with joke answers. One of the questions was "aliases?". I thought for a second and was about to write "Lt. Flex Plexico" when the girl I dated suggested the exact same thing. I was amazed and told her I was just about to write that and we all laughed. Then I looked in her eyes and it pained me to see what she was thinking.... "See? We go so well together."... and it felt like I was teasing her by having a moment of synergy like that, because I still didn't really want to be with her. The feeling from that moment is still so real and vivid to me.
The next day, I was helping my friend's great-uncle, the one who owned the big supermarket. He had white hair and a mustache and was pretty old, easily in his 80s, and a little senile. Somehow, I realized that this was.... Ewan McGregor. Yeah. It was like he'd somehow gotten senile and aged extremely fast, and it was this big sad situation given who he had been. This concept is less bizarre than it sounds, as I read
this article last night(look at #16 on this list). This didn't have a lot to do with him in the dream either. It was just something I somehow knew about him. He looked more like Christopher Plummer.
Anyway, I was helping the old guy do various things, mostly just supporting him as he walked. He said he had to go to the bathroom so I walked him to the door and he went in. I looked away for a few seconds and then looked back, only to see him drop his pants and sit down.... on a six-inch-long rusty nail sticking straight up from the floor a foot in front of the toilet.
I was the only one right there, so I had to immeadiately pull him up off the nail. He was just staring with shock, but not making a sound. I thought for a second and told him to lie flat down on the floor. I could see blood pooling underneath him. There was an old rotary phone on the desk beside me and I used it to call 9-1-1. "Wow, this is my first 911 call", I thought. As soon as the operator picked up, a team of EMT's ran into the room and began to take care of the old guy. I began to say "Oh, nevermind, your people are here already." but the operator said they still needed directions to the place.
I walked out of the room and still had to give the operator detailed instructions on how to get an ambulance to the store. I had to describe how there were only automatic doors on one side of the building, the opposite side from the main road, because it was "a small town and they could only afford one set of them"(my own words in the dream).
Anyway, that all got sorted out, and then I ran into my best friend and his mom, getting ready to leave soon because he had to go back to University. They were going to take the train, but we still had "six or seven minutes to hang out". We started to walk down a bike path, playing a mocking two-man game of tag. This turned into us improvising a whole hilarious skit, as we tend to do quite often, about steroid use improving your tag performance and the same in many other sports. It's funnier than it sounds. We were both laughing hysterically at this, and that's when I woke up.
I just sat there for a minute amused by all this, when suddenly it fully hit me that none of this, none of it, had happened in real life, and no one would remember it but me, even the incredible thing with the old man and the nail and having to make my first 911 call. The fact that none of this had happened it real life
traumatized me.
As much as I remember, there was still another part early on in the dream which involved attempting to watch this episode of
The Simpsons during a big party that took place on a frozen lake which I barely remember. Still, this was probably the most vivid, detailed, lingering dream I've had in years and years and I'm blown away by it. Thank you for your time.