Vortexia's Secret

i don't think any person can make me laugh as hard as my pups does. her expressions, the way she moves... she knows she's adorable, she knows how to make people laugh, and she just hams it up. oh, she kills me!

so i had this really creepy dream last night that i still can't quite shake. i was with my cousins at this religious event that we were invited to by one of my cousin's friends. turns out it was more like a cult with human sacrifices. there was a huuuuuuge turn out, and at one point, sort of like a communion break, everybody started filing out of sight by rows. it was to an outside annex area. as i got restless waiting for our turn, i started to notice something odd... the first huge group went out to the area surrounded by these people dressed head to toe in white outfits. they were kind of like indian garments, gauzy and silky fabric, but had bright white jewels decorating them. their faces were covered, and in the small openings for them to breathe and see, their faces were painted white.

then there was kind of a break and a shift change between that group and ours. a new group of guards came out to surround that annex area. they were also dressed in the white garments, but their faces were painted jet black in the openings. i started to feel very uneasy, but as i looked around, i seemed to be the only one. everyone else around us was laughing and joking around and smoking cigarettes as they waited. i noticed two things: that everybody in the second group except for myself and my cousins (who were visitors) were asian, and that we were the only ones not smoking. then all of a sudden, my cousin passed out candy cigarettes to us so we could pretend to "fit in." i tried to laugh it off with them and forget my uneasy feeling. finally it was our turn to go into the annex. when we walked in was the first time i could really see the area. it was more like a corrall area that blocked us in. as the last people came in, the guards closed in and we could see that they were all wielding clubs. everybody else seemed slow to react and much more trusting. i realized what was about to happen, and did the duck and cover thing, pulling some obscure suggestion from the past that you pull yourself into a ball to protect your vital organs and cover your neck with your hands so you're less likely to get spinal cord damage. thankfully i was more in the middle of the area, but i had just balled up on the ground as the others realized and were clubbed in such a way that they fell to their knees.

at that point i woke up to my alarm and complete panic. my heart was pounding. i was so upset and frantic. i was disturbed that i would ever have such horrendous dreams. and that feeling of knowing i was about to have true bodily harm and the people causing it would be unrelenting was so real and scary.