Wierd Ass Dream "Demon Hunter"

I've always had pretty vivid dreams but lately they are getting WAAY more involved and intense. So, i've started writing them down. As of late they've ranged from not so crazy (such as being naked at your own birthday party) to REALLY wacky (such as being shot and killed by Harvey Keitel [ and his accomplices Kevin Costner and Kevin Bacon]). Anyway, the text below is my recount of the most recent dream I had. I illustrated some of the characters i encountered in it. I plan to do more since it was so visually fantastic.

The Dream

It was set in a post Rapture world. Most of the humans have been killed or taken. It's a Godless land.

I start the dream running in the night. I have this memory of a great demon uprising where most of us were killed and it's been many years since that. I've somehow managed to survive.

However, I'm still new to this strange dangerous world and I don't posses core instincts to survive yet.

It's night, full bright moon, and I'm running barefoot. I hear a high pitched wheezing behind me, chasing me. I turn to look and see a little root-like creature about 3-4ft tall with razor sharp teeth and no eyes. I think he might be made of wood. I'm freaking out. "what the fuck is this thing?"

Although he's chasing me, I'm faster. After putting a little ground between us i start to calm down. I just don't know where I can hide to be safe, can he sense me? Will he eventually catch up to me if I stop?

I pass through a stone wall doorway and start to slow. The moonlight is spilling into the doorway creating long shadows that seem to reach for me. Then i hear the panting again, this time faster paced. I turn and the little beast is sprinting straight for me, faster than i could run! Fight or Flight?

Fight.

I start wondering how i could fight him, but he just jets past me. I think he looked scared. What's he running from? Not wanting to confront it, i duck into a shadow and wait. From the moonlight in the door i see a human figure approach. It's a little boy but something is off… he has a muddy pillow case tied around his eyes and he's sprinting after the thing with inhuman speed.

I appear to be in an abandoned apartment complex because they rounded the corner into an alley-like entrance way. My heart is pounding away. I'm scared as shit. I run past the opening only to glance over and see the little boy holding the creatures head to the concrete and chewing on it. I'm really freaking out now.

I cut into the apartments thinking their cluster of units will serve me refuge. I find a door that is sufficiently random enough and break in. All the lights are on and none of the interior doors have doorknobs. It appears to be a townhouse and the downstairs consists of a hallway with 8 rooms (presumably bedrooms), 4 rooms on each side.

The first thought was to find shoes. I'm too vulnerable barefoot so i start rummaging for shoes. Every room is a mess as though the people living there took what they could and left. I find what I'm looking for in the last room on the right; a pile of shoes and boots. I grabbed a pair of thick brown socks with teal stripes. (Strangely they were without a heel). After tossing aside a few pairs of boots, I find a pair that fit fairly well.

As I was tying them I heard some girls arguing upstairs. They sounded young, adolescent or younger. Just as I was about to go up there to meet them I heard a footstep outside the door. I peered through the knob hole and it was the little boy and he had something in his hand. A knife perhaps, i couldn't tell. I see him head up the stairs. I knew he was going to hurt them.

I opened the door and crept after him. The first step in those boots felt amazing. Something changed and I didn’t know what. i stalked the kid, up the stairs without sound. He was moving slowly, like his legs didn’t want to comply. As we rounded the corner of the stairs and he stops for a second, almost sensing me... decides it's nothing and keeps creeping toward the sound of the girls.

Then one of them came out into the upstairs hallway and looked at us. Her eyes were terrified, she wasn't sure who was the threat. I acted. I pointed at her and said, "GET BACK IN THAT ROOM!"

The kid turns his head completely, bares his teeth and darts into the room on his left. i didn't know why he's running from me but I'm wasn't going to let him get away. As soon as i enter the room he turns into a fist-sized tick and i see him crawl out of a small window opening. I throw it open just in time to see him flip across to the opposite wall. A 30ft tall redbrick wall, 5 ft away.

Without thinking I jump the gap, find a foot and handhold and within two leaps I've scaled the wall.

I felt like a god! Instantly, it was day and i find a construction worker on the other side of the wall. I ask him if he's seen a giant tick and he says "yea, just went into this crack here... lemme fish it out for you."

He grabs a trowel and slips it into the muddy crack and pulls out a bunch of gunk. A spider crawls on his finger and know it's the fucking child-demon. The worker winces and flicks the spider back on the brick. Says, "uh oh, that was poisonous wasn't it?" and passes out. I grab a ball-pin hammer that was on the tope of the wall and smash the thing as fast as i could. At the last second it turned into a hard shelled larvae of some sort. The exoskeleton cracked and juice sprayed all over me, my face, lips etc. I thought i might be killed if it got in my mouth.

Exhausted, I follow a path tp a small human encampment. They called themselves the "Stranded" (Gears of War reference) and they appeared to be a community of survivors banding together to defend against the demons. The demons were relentlessly trying to get into the camp. To destroy everyone.

The current threat at the camp were shape-shifters who took human form. Although, they never got it quite right, they were getting better. Suddenly, the closing bell for the workers sounded and they started filing into their bunker for the night. The two men on the end seemed off to me and after staring at them i saw that they were demons. I tried to warn the rest but they took no heed and when the bunker doors closed i heard screams. i assumed they had all died.

That when i decided to keep moving, and woke up.

Regarding this difficult matter of Dark Matter

BORING ALERT: For those of you who could care less about astrophysics or anything relating to the cosmos, just stop reading right now.

So I woke up this morning at around 1:30am with a possible solution to this whole "Accelerating Universe" thing. (For those of you unfamiliar with what I'm talking about see waaay below). So struck was I to find out if I was right, or more likely, totally wrong I wrote my thoughts to me personal Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. (If you currently don't have a favorite astrophysicist you should get one - I vote for Neil!)

I just sent it this morning so i don't expect a response right away but I'm excited to see if he has anything to say about it!

Here's my email to him:

Mr. Tyson,

I was thinking heavily on this mysterious problem of Dark Energy that seems to be accelerating our universe outward. At around 1:30am a possible explanation popped into my head. I'm sure this may have already been considered and, likely, found untrue.

I was reading a summary of Einstein's Theory of relativity when I came across a thought inducing sentence: "…space and time emerged from Einstein's reworking as malleable constructs whose form and appearance depend on one's state of motion."

This whole "appearance depending on one's state of motion" thing got me thinking. Perhaps the universe isn't actually speeding up but rather, we're slowing down? I'm not great at analogies but I'm going to give it a shot.

Think about two Yo-Yo's. One has a longer string than the other. That string could represent gravity, the longer the string, the weaker the gravity. The actual Yo-Yo represents a sphere of space (extended from the Universal Center) or a body of mass. If you release each Yo-Yo from it's starting point (Big Bang) the two would see themselves accelerating toward earth at the same rate. However, when the shorter yo-yo reaches the end of its string it begins to decelerate. If you were standing on the shorter yo-yo, it would appear as though the longer yo-yo were speeding away with a sudden boost in acceleration when in fact the observer has simply slowed.

I know it's not completely polished but it was something that made me think "What would Neil say?"

I would be honored with your thoughts on my amateur-ish Eureka moment!

Cheers!

Benito Segovia

On the topic of the accelerating universe: It's pretty commonly accepted that we all emerged from this Big Bang thing and ever since we've been rocketing away from the Universal core at approximately the same speed as everything else. Well, many wondered how long we could keep expanding until our own collective gravity slowed us down, eventually stopped us, and reversed the direction everything was moving.

Recent observations have found that instead of the universe grinding to a halt, it seems to be accelerating further outward. This has confounded physicists to a point of coming up with something called Dark Matter being held responsible for the massive amount of gravity required to power this kind of acceleration. Dark Matter and Dark Energy are now hotly debated and no proof of their existence yet exists.

Anyway, here's hoping he responds.