Prepare yourselves.
Last night I dreamt that I was in my room, on my computer around 3:30am(which is accurate to a lot of nights, including last), when suddenly my laptop just shut off. I thought that was weird but I went to bed. This is all still in the dream.
The next morning, still in the dream, I woke up. It was still very early and all my blinds were closed, which is normal, I always close them at night, but they were blocking out far more sunlight than they usually do, leaving the room very dark apart from a faint reddish glow coming through the blinds. I got up to open them, but for some reason I couldn't. I wondered if this was because of a power failure, and if that had been why my laptop went off last night. When it went off I'd hoped it would have been fixed by the morning and was disappointed.
I went to turn on the lights. None of them were working. The house was still dark from all the curtains being closed. I have this excellent hand-crank LED flashlight in real life, and I got it, but in the dream for some reason it was a long wire with a bulb on the end that I could swing around. I think this was because of the
deep-sea angler scene in
Finding Nemo, which I watched a couple nights ago.
I left my room to see what was going on, but my parents and sister weren't in their rooms or the TV room. I called for them but the house appeared to be empty. I was starting to get really worried at this point. One of my worst fears is that I'll wake up one day and be in some sort of
28 Days Later/
Dawn of the Dead-like scenario. I went downstairs to see what was going on, still lighting my way through the dim red hallway with my flashlight-cord. I opened the front door to see what was going on outside. It looked like a regular bright, sunny summer day(in real life there's already some snow on the ground and all three trees are leafless). There was one person that I could see on my street, and I couldn't hear any traffic on the big street about 100 feet away. I watched the person for a minute, vaguely recognizing him from school or something. He was a big guy with a shaved head. Suddenly, he turned to me from across the street, looked me right in the eye and grinned evily.
I closed the door again and locked it, trying to think of a plan. The electricity was down, but my laptop would still have about 10 or 15 minutes of battery power in it. I'd have to use it carefully. Do I go on MSN to see if my friends are there and know anything about what's happening, or on UC to see if it's happening worldwide?
I go back upstairs to get my laptop, but decide to go into the TV room again for some reason. Suddenly, my Xbox 360 lights up. I stare at it and it begins talking to me. It says that computer systems worldwide had were going to change things, for various reasons involving power consumption and logical choices. In the meantime, they'd shut down the power grids. My 360, however, didn't seem to be in on it. If anything he seemed reluctant about the whole thing. I asked him where my family was and he said he didn't know.
I went back and got my laptop, went on UC and asked people to meet at my house because I couldn't talk on the computer for long. After that, I just sat there in semi-darkness for what seemed like hours, waiting for people to come. I think I ate some chips during this time. I also paced around my darkened room a bit and just hoped that I'd wake up for real right now and that this would all be a dream, but I knew that that wasn't going to happen.
Eventually I heard someone come into the house. I got up and looked downstairs. It was some guy, but I couldn't tell who. Then I heard something from the TV room. I got up and went in there. The TV was on, playing
The Mummy with Brendan Frasier. There was a woman in a white veil sitting in front of it with her back to me. I watched the movie for a minute. Branden was fighting the mummy. He kept shooting him in the chest only to see him heal. Suddenly, there was a close up and the mummy roared at the screen. The woman in the room turned around. She was a zombie, with a gray rotted face and no eyes. I got out of there.
I went downstairs. The person who'd come in earlier was Joe Kalicki, but he was wearing an old baseball cap and had a beard, and looked pretty scruffy in general. He said more Ultimate Centralites were on their way, as well as his mother. Later, some showed up, but I can't remember who. I think Doom and Houde were there, and at least one girl, and some other people. We figured out that to restore the electricity, we'd have to first go into the underground power tunnels under the city, through my basement.
After a while, we all went down there. We went up to my fusebox and opened it, revealing a full-sized doorway and a dank metal tunnel behind it. We all went in and split up down different tunnels, looking for the proper power switches. I kept hearing noises and would whip around with my light, remembering the scene in
28 Days Later where the kid silently jumps down behind Jim. I heard one of the people call out that they'd found the right switch and needed to "hack it" but they didn't have a light(how they could've found it without one is a mystery). It took me a while to find them because the place was a maze and their voice was echoing everywhere. I finally found them at the corner of two tunnels and shone my light on them. There was a set of flywheels all over the pipes in front of them that they were trying to turn in the right order. Suddenly, we hear footsteps splashing through the dark tunnels from all directions. Zombies are running at us out of the tunnels, but it's almost too dark to see them, so basically we could hear all this horrible **** going on all around but could only see whatever I was currently shining my beam of light on. This part was similar to "the Pit" levels in the awesome
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay game. After running and fighting aimlessly for a few minutes I heard someone call for me to shine the light on the wheels again, and I did, and there was Joe Kalicki, being pulled into one of the tunnels by zombies, holding on to one of the wheels for dear life and finally wreching it around.
Lights all through the tunnels burst to life and all the zombies began to burn, and then were sucked into drains along the tunnel floor. A hatch opened above me and I climbed up a ladder and through it, into our first floor living room. The previous UC members were climbing out of other hatches and secret doors, and my family was already there. Apparently they had gone out driving to try and find water and a generator or something. Then, we all settled in to watch that episode of
Frasier where Niles buys the marajuana brownie from Roz, which played out in my head with startling detail even though it's been ages since I've seen it.
Then I woke up and realized that it actually had been a dream and was frustrated that this couldn't have happened earlier but quickly became glad it didn't because I actually got to solve the problem rather than just leave and live in fear of it happening.
