The Deadly Game
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I was walking through the small, main street of the town I used to live in. However, the street had not been subjected to the inevitable changes of time and had remained exactly how I remember it from over ten years ago. As I walked down the street, I realised how quiet it was and how it was beginning to fall into decadence. I was struck by an overwhelming feeling of desolation.I stopped by a hairdressing salon (I think I was working there) and the manager was sitting at till and counting the takings for the day. She was the only person in there and the place was rather run down. The manager stood up with the money in a small, transparent plastic bank bag and said the takings for the day was £890. I remember thinking that was rather good.
So she walks out the salon and up the street, leaving the place unattended. I walked out after her and started to follow her.
Everything changes and I'm standing in the front garden of my old house, except it now looks like a post-war slum. A bald haggard stumbles towards me; he is covered in cuts and wearing dirty, ripped clothes (he looks a bit like Freddy Krueger). It's too late when I realise that he's a zombie. I somehow manage to get rescued and I'm standing in a large wooden shack.
An unidentifiable man (never seen him before) explains to me that the street is infested with zombies but we can make a game of it. Everything changes again and I become the unidentifiable man; I'm jumping really high through the street to get away from the Freddy Krueger zombie. At first, I'm soaring over fences and it's just a great feeling because Freddy Zombie can't keep up; a couple of times, I lose focus and can't jump as high so he catches up. I look down and I can myself (as I am in real life) standing outside the shack with Newman from Seinfeld and Régine from the band Arcade Fire. I'm distracted by the observers and I do another weak jump but Freddy Zombie does one that covers so much ground that he's about a hand's length away. I realise that I'm in trouble and I muster all my strength to do another high jump.
I'm back in the shack and I'm myself again. It's only Newman and I. He gives me a small plastic card (it looks like a credit card) and says that if I press the button when outside, I will be warped back into the shack but I only be safe until dawn because the power will wear off and the zombies can come in. So I go outside to try and play this dangerous zombie game. There aren't any zombies around but I can see Régine and she is wearing a pink dress and a black backpack. I'm really terrified and I run over to her. I get out my warp card as we become surrounded by zombies but no matter how much I press it, it doesn't work until they get closer and closer.
We get warped back into a cell in the wooden shack and Régine seems half-happy that she's safe but half-angry as if I was exaggerating the danger. She tells me that it's an hour to dawn as a zombie comes into the shack and we're safe. The zombie is actually Kramer from Seinfeld and he calls my name and tells me that we would be better to run because when it's dawn he won't be able to hold himself back. He starts smashing his arms through the wooden walls of the cell and grabs onto me. I realise that I need to run so I push open the door and dodge him. I go through a door and I'm in one of the narrow hallways from the mansion in the first Resident Evil game. I look behind me and Régine isn't there.
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I listen to a lot of Arcade Fire and watch a lot of Seinfeld at the moment. It was a really vivid dream and it's the first time I've completely remembered a dream in a year :\
