A nightmare last night.
My dreams are "told" like movies. So I see myself in the third person, as if a camera is looking at me as opposed to through my eyes.
ANYWAY, my dream was playing out like a commercial. A girl from France was talking about how much she loved this particular state. Taglines ran across the "screen" as she spoke, and pictures of this state flashed up behind her as she talked. It was like watching a commercial ad. There were several "scenes" with her riding on a horse, kayaking, etc. And she finished up with a stupid smile and some ridiculous hook phrase.
Next up was me. And I was going to do my "act" for New Mexico. There wasn't a camera on me, per se, but somehow I knew I had to do just as good as the French girl.
So I'm talking about the landscape. The "screen" flashes a picture of a cliff while I talk, then moves back to where I'm standing in the desert. I step on a scorpion-looking-lizard. It's little stinger gets stuck in my toe and I casually flick the thing away. I smile and continue talking--the show must go on.
Banners are running across my face. Cheesy music is playing in the background. I take another step and end up stepping on another lizard-scorpion thing. (This animal is purely fictional...lizards don't have stingers) and I try to play it off like before. I kick my foot, but this one has its stinger deep in my toe. I shake my foot again, this time in panic, I can't falter in front of the "camera!" I grimace, smile, try inconspicuously shaking my foot behind me but it's no good. And then all at once I'm seized with this unimaginable pain in my foot.
I scream and look down. The lizard-scorpion thing is biting my toes, twisting and contorting--thus wrenching it's stinger deeper into my big toe. Blood is bubbling out of my toe--a neon red color.
At this point I forget about the "commercial" and try to pry the thing off of my foot, but it won't budge. To my horror, this lizard is biting off my toes and chewing on them. It spits the severed toe on the ground and attacks the next toe while I fall down screaming.
The ground is wet from all this blood spurting out from my foot. I'm kicking my legs, trying to grope away. And seriously, the pain was unimaginable. At some point I realize that this lizard is venomous because I begin to feel like I'm hallucinating. I see a moon in the sky although it's in the middle of the afternoon. I see a trailer driving upside down over the horizon. I hear kids laughing but I don't see any kids nearby.
Finally, I realize I'm dreaming. At this point my dream has reached such absurdity I try to wake myself up. I try calling my bf's name, I try to move. Then sleep paralysis kicks in and I start panicking. I think I screamed myself awake. I was covered in sweat.
Oddly enough, when I looked over at my bf, it appeared he was having a nightmare too. He was twitching violently and moaning in his sleep. And in an instant he's awake and we're both blinking at each other in the dark.
Talk about...weird!