Weird Dreams

I've been having some dreams. A couple of these dreams had weird things in them that I think could maybe be used in a weird movie.

A couple nights ago I dreamed of light rail trains. I found that there were giant hills and canyons just five minutes away from my house - I had just never gone in that direction before. I went on the train and was pretty blown away. Later in the dream there were a bunch of train accidents and many people died (including me). But before we died in the train wreck- here's where the dream logic comes in - we were all gathered together (by the government?) and given little shovels to dig our own shallow graves. A very orderly process. Then, after our graves had been dug in neat little rows, everyone had to go to government offices to fill out reams of paperwork to have ourselves replaced with exact replicas. Only after filling out all the paperwork and standing in long lines to do so and paying many processing fees to have ourselves replaced, could we actually proceed to perish in the train wreck.

Last night I dreamt all night. Much of my dreams had to do with shopping for wine and cheese and fish and various pickled items. But there was one scary part of the dream. In the dream, there was a scary movie that you could watch at home. It came with a little meat grill (like one of those Foreman grills that closes like a panini maker) and it came with a big piece of ground meat sealed in plastic. When you put the movie in, you were also supposed to remove the meat from the plastic and put it in the meat cooker. Then something terrible would happen. The movie was called The Meatman and basically what would happen is when you put that meat in the cooker and turned on the movie, an actual Meatman would be created in your house from the cooked meat. Once the meat cooker had been turned on, there was no way to stop the process. It was terrifying. I put the movie in and then put the meat in the cooker and then as the movie started and I began to smell that meat cooking, I had to quickly rush out of the apartment and flee with the kids. Yes, it was an apartment, an old apartment in New York. We rushed through the city and would up at a city beach. It was summer.

What a scary movie.

I think both of these ideas could be used in a weird movie. The Meatman would be a hit. It might play on our fear of all that unsafe beef that has been recalled. The train wreck movie could maybe star Kiefer Sutherland or Tom Cruise. Or maybe Tobey McGuire. But probably not Matthew Mcconaughey.