It happened again last night. I had another epic dream that was like a very long but better version of the remake of Dawn of the dead, Land of the dead, Pirates of the Caribbean with Johnny Depp, 28 Days Later, and the video game Stubbs the Zombie. I can't exactly remember how the dream started out, but myself and some others I knew were all human (non zombie) and out doing something. Then the reality like the remake for Dawn of the Dead took place (GREAT movie btw, rent it at blockbuster if you want to see a great well done zombie flick) with zombies attacking. A few of us got nailed in the begining but myself and a couple others fought back and took out a ton of them with everything from molotok cocktails, high end construction equipment (smashing the crap out of them), to breaking into a military armory and unleashing massive firepower on them. We eventually died to them though (being eaten alive, it was VERY graphic and horrible, and I even felt it in my dream).
Then I came back as a zombie, along with a couple of my friends. My friends didn't seem to hold onto much of their previous human mind (probably because it was eaten heh), so trying to communicate with them was generally pointless. We shambled along for a while untill we found a town of zombies. It looked like it used to be some kind of islander village, or maybe a renaisance facade town at a theme park. Myself and one or two other zombies who still retained some of their intelligence built a better house than what most of the others had. We had for all intents and purposes, a "family", and while everyone else would go out on hunting trips to bring back humans to eat, I don't recall ever eating anyone/thing in the movie.
I noticed that the female zombies in our family seemed to act differently than me, as in she seemed way too human. After being around here for a while, when I guess she realized I was harmless, she "came out" to me, in that she was still 100% alive/human and that she had just been pretending this whole time, and that if you pretend good enough and keep your wits about you, you can fool all of them. Somehow during the course of this revelation, and the next "dream sequence", I turned full human, but I knew how to pretend I was a zombie, and melted in with the crowd. I had caked congealed bloob all over my face, had drool all over my face, a tilted head, limbs like rubber johnny (like a praying mantis but closely held to my torso), and shuffled with a really bad zombie like gait.
I traveled with the zombie masses (seems we weren't a town anymore, just a large group of zombies shuffling around looking for some people to eat), because there was nowhere else to go. Somehow during our travels, our "leader" was contacted by the leader of one of the two last strongholds of humans left on earth. There were two large groups of humans left, in two areas not too far away from each other, and both controlled a very large, fortified structure each, and they were warring with each other over resources to continue their way of life.
One had a giant many story shopping mall/hotel type thing (like in the most recent Land of the Dead movie with John Leguizomo and Dennis Hopper), and the other group had something similar to a military type stronghold. All of them lived a kind of caste system way of living, with the undesireables more on the outskirts toiling away and trying to survive, while the middle class lived a relatively comfortable existence but their "jobs" were pretty crappy - mostly to serve the higher ups. And the higher up's lived the most oppulent lifestyles of all, with hordes of goods that used to belong only to the most very rich before the planet fell to the undead.
Anyways our "leader" was contacted by the human leader from the Mall/Hotel, and they came to an agreement that if we were to cause constant focused war on his nemesis in the military stronghold, and raid his goods and bring them to him, we would be able to feed on the lower class humans he had way too much of at his mall/hotel stronghold. Apparently he viewed the lower class as scum, and they were greatly outnumbering the upper class and starting to cause revolt against them...basically a classic struggle between have's, and have nots.
We marched towards the mall/hotel stronghold and came up into the area via the hotels main huge dining area. All of the people were frozen with fear and just watched us, but we had strict orders to leave them alone. One zombie couldn't take the temptation and attacked some person, and we immediately tore the zombie apart, and the hotels security came out of nowhere and instantly incinerated the attack victim.
We waited for the leader to speak to the main guy, and the whole time in the dream, now that i'm human again, I was wanting to find ways to kill as many zombies as possible without them being aware it was me, and I desperately wanted to run away up to my new found group of humans and let them know I was also human, but considering I was surrounded by tons of zombies that all looked like me in various ways, and I looked horrible, there was noway I could do it. I was constantly pushing zombies off of very high ledges in hopes that they took brain trauma and "died", pushing some more into industrial machinery and compost machines, all kinds of things.
While walking around the mall waiting for an official makeup of what we have to do, I ran back into that chick I was with earlier when she wasn't a zombie. The problem now though was, she was a zombie now, but was exactly like I was earlier, as in she hated it and was harmless also. I followed her and observed her, and when we were more alone, I bumped her aside into a long hallway and made eye contact with her, and through interpretive gestures and memory of our previous special moments of contact, was able to get across to her that it was me, and that I wasn't a zombie anymore. We were then for all intents and purposes, as much of a couple as a zombie and a non zombie could be. She was like me in that she didn't want to kill anyone, but she had to eat. I would find spare raw human and animal parts and feed her when no other zombies were around, and when I was extremely tired she would hide me under something out of the way so I could get a couple hours of sleep and she would guard my area so I wouldn't be discovered.
We would go off on our "missions" to assault the other human base, but we didn't want to kill any humans, so we would lay in ambush haldway on the way to the other stronghold, and wait for a stragler zombie to come back with goods, and we would jump out and kill him and take his goods. We felt this was better than nothing, and helped take our anger out on the zombies and one by one lessened their numbers.
Our little scheme worked perfectly until for some reason (it wasn't clear why), we had to pick up and move a long distance like a giant pack of buffalo on the plains. I was able to walk with my zombie mate and the rest of the horde before exhaustion took me over. My mate tried to carry me while I was passed out, and the other zombies kept trying to make her drop me because it didn't make sense to them, and exhaustion/sleep was something they only associated living humans with. Finally we hit a large bridge area, and for some reason took a break. My mate laid me down so I could try and get some sleep, she tried to hide me as best as she could with some driftwood and other flotsom. The last thing I remember before I woke up to the pest control lady at the front door, was some extremely blood covered female zombie try to rouse me from my sleep, and I had the very strong impression that my ruse was up...
I felt everything in the dream like it was really taking place, and I had 100% complete free ability to move how I wanted to, and make whatever choices I wanted to. I truely felt like I was really there, and when I woke up, I was crying that I would never see my zombie mate again. I tried to go back to sleep and pick up where I left, because I have been able to do this many times in the past concerning very vivid dreams, but I just couldnt get back to sleep, so here I am now.
Just thought i'd share. As for what I ate before bed: I had 2 pieces of fried chicken for dinner after the gym, then a little while later a big peanut butter and strawberry preverse sandwich with whole milk, and then right before bed I had 3 fuji apples.
