On Dreams and Sleep Deprivation

Haven't been sleeping well for the past couple of weeks. Having young, spunky roommates who like to party late, get up early for jobs, and can still get by on a few hours of sleep can do that to ya. But other than being really anxious and fatigued, I've gotten some crazy dreams.

I was in our old house in Plymouth. We were in my parents' bedroom packing everything up to move. I picked up a broken umbrella. i was handing it to my dad when the umbrella got struck by lightning. Apparently this is how zombies are made. So, zombies started crawling all over our house and swarming us. But the zombies were celebrities and characters from movies. Either way, they still wanted our brains. So, my dad was being epic and using an ax to chop down any that came in the room. My mom had a rifle, Sasha had a pistol, and Lise had a mini chainsaw. But I couldn't find a weapon. After I tried in vain to keep the doors and windows closed, I found the broken umbrella again. I picked it up and tried stabbing the closest zombie. Amazingly, all the zombies collapsed and disintegrated. It sounds like a fast and unimpressive dream, but I was terrified for what seemed like hours as we struggled to keep from being brain-burritos.

The second dream was even more terrifying. I was walking around some sort of dance studio with two other girls. At the end of a hallway was this creepy little girl in a blue frilly dress, collapsed on the floor, the dress billowing out around her. We felt funny leaving her all alone in the studio. As we approached, her eyes unfocused, her smile got toothy and lopsided, and she ripped off the dress to reveal a tattered, yellowed dress and two saw-like appendages for arms. She used them like a pair of insect jaws, and the sawblade-like teeth were like shark teeth, jagged and overlapping. So she started running at us and we screamed and ran around the studio. One of my friends got sliced by one of her "arms," and my friend's arm started getting similar spines coming out of her arm. We all ran into a dance classroom and shut the doors. The injured girl started shaking and screaming and transforming. I struggled to hold the door closed, but the creepy jaw-armed girl was so much stronger (even though she didn't have hands...?). As she started chopping at the door, one of my fingers got cut off and my arm burned as it started changing. I struggled to keep her out, but the pain got so overwhelming that I stumbled back. I battled her with my one saw-arm and somehow got her to fall. As she/it hissed and spat, I pinned her down with my foot and tried to chop her head off with my arm. It only left little dents in her scaly skin. I fainted before I saw any other effect. When I came to, my friends and my arm were normal again and the saw-armed creature was grey and dead.

Freaky stuff.