Movie Dreams

I have had three movie type dreams (where I was only watching and not involved) this week:

The first movie dream involved Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas (I think this may have been influenced by the fact that I had watched Jewel of the Nile recently) as a couple who lived in an idealistic house in the woods. Somehow Michael Douglas got to thinking that Kathleen was responsible for all these killings that had been taking place around the town they lived near, so he killed her and buried her in a ravine near the house.

Well, of course, the murders kept happening, so Michael started to get paranoid and delusional. Every time someone new was killed, he had to go back to the ravine and dig her up to make sure she was still there and 'behaving' herself. What was really disturbing was that every time he'd uncover her face, her eyes would snap open and stare at him. They were starting to be that gross milky cataract white dead people's eyes are in the movies. And her eyes would move to wherever he went, staring accusingly at him. Pretty creepy! Finally I was able to wake up, but not before I got the impression that he had been killing people all along, as an alternate personality, and that he was now lonely and haunted by having killed his wife.

The next dream involved Jennifer Aniston and Bruce Willis. Well, Bruce was there in the second half. The first half involved Jennifer running around my parents' neighborhood trying to get away from zombies, until she finally was able to steal a car to get away. For some reason, she went to Portland, where she met up with Bruce, with whom she had had a previous relationship (in Friends, of course), as well as a toddler daughter from that relationship that was in his custody.

There were zombies in Portland too, so the three of them raced around trying to avoid getting killed and all that, and ended up at OHSU, where they believed the zombies hadn't infiltrated yet. This was apparent because all the doctors and nurses were bustling around, going about their day, as if they had never even heard of zombies. But wait, it turns out that ALL of the people Jennifer Aniston thought were normal were in fact very fresh and well-acted zombies, including Bruce Willis, who intended to turn her into a zombie as well so they could raise their daughter to teenage hood before turning her into a zombie too. But Jennifer got away, and made it to some other city that had no zombies. The end of the dream consisted of somewhat-rotted Bruce talking to his (few years older but still alive) daughter, telling her they were going to meet Mommy now, and Jennifer showing up in the doorway finally dead now too.

The last dream involved two characters from a story I have been writing off and on for several years. In the story, they are a forensic pathologist and a detective from Australia who have been working a serial killer case together and happen to have fallen in love. In my dream, however, they are young new parents who have somehow been blamed for some serious crime activity, like robbing a bank or something (of course they didn't do it though!).

So in the dream, the crime had already happened, and now they were on the run from the law, trying to be parents to their infant, and trying to survive (they now had no home, no money, no family to take them in, etc). They went to a pawnshop to pawn what items of value they did still have (their rings and some silverware, don't ask me); Dominic the father taking their daughter around to look at stuff in the pawnshop while Scarlett made the transaction. Unfortunately, the pawnbroker watches television and recognized them, and called the police when he went into the back room for a moment. The police showed up, and Scarlett had to get to the car while Dominic had to carefully get their baby to safety and meet her later. I woke up before finishing this dream, so who knows how it went.

Interesting, huh? I don't know what my problem is, or if I even have one.