08/11/02
Beware Clowns Bearing Candy

I had a REALLY wonko dream. Firstly I was at school--elementary school, again!--and it was time to go home. I was with a group of other kids...followed them out to the buses in a hurry, so as not to be left behind. The bus we went to was a short one, and it already had the seats mostly full--only room for about two or three more, and there must have been at least five of us. A couple got on but I wasn't fast enough...darn it. The driver was my old driver, who was SUCH a misogynist. Couldn't stand him. Anyway. I thought of crowding my way on, then considered my pride and stayed behind the line. He shut the door and took off. The others with me might have been confused...we seemed to be teenagers...but I said, "I can walk it," and started to walk home from there.

I CAN walk it, now that I know I can! It would take me a half hour or so, and I didn't want to. *sigh* But I could do it, so I did.

The others stayed behind a bit before possibly following. They weren't as certain about their endurance as I was, but they decided to go anyway. For once I had an advantage! I got a head start...I feel it may have started to rain or I had to pass across some water or something...I had second thoughts, but went on. I got a good head start and went walking down the highway toward home. I think I passed some other students who had been dropped off the bus not too far away (lazy asses!!) and they were getting on bikes that were there waiting for them. I got home...I feel I walked in a weird direction, across the yard...I had kept looking behind me to make sure I was far ahead, so reached home early. I went in and Ma was home. It was 7:14, I think. AM, I believe...but technically it was around three or four in the afternoon, as I had departed school around three PM and it took me only fifteen minutes to get home! Wow! And I had no blisters. :) When I got home it was again sunny and bright.

Dream switched a bit here. Don't know how, but I noticed kids gathering at the end of our driveway, dressed brightly, streamers on bikes, chattering, typical kids. Why were they gathering? I didn't like them being so close to our house. They were waiting for something. It's like this happened several times so I saw the pattern. A white van/truck pulled in, driven by a clown...and ewww...did he have a creepy evil look to him. *shudder* I realized he was driving a candy cart. Like an ice cream truck, only for candy. Every day the kids gathered and the truck stopped and they bought candy to eat. It was like a ritual almost, by now. I just hadn't noticed it before. I'd just been too bothered by the gaggles of kids hanging about all the time, to wonder why they were gathering.

I think I briefly conversed with Ma about this. I was careful to keep away from the windows...I do remember at one part of the dream I was busy on the computer and kept hearing knocking on the window right near it, and glanced at it to see somebody PART THE BLINDS FROM THE OUTSIDE! and peer in to see me! They kept knocking! I waited until they pulled their hand away before sneaking away from the computer as if I had not seen them. Someone else was at the door, doing the same...and at the other windows...God, it was that same old dream again (see "Return Of The Watchers"), everybody looking in at me, trying to get me to come to them or to let them in...I HATED it! I crept into the bathroom where I knew I would be safe, but still, at least one person had seen me...would they ever leave me alone?

Anyway...I was careful now to keep out of sight of the clown driver. I had a bad feeling about him and told Ma so. I went into my bedroom and from my window watched the kids begin to gather again; I remember seeing three. Small group, considering, yet it was still early. One older than the other two, I believe. They weren't boisterous and gabby as they had been before; now they were glassy eyed and dazed looking, out of it. Yet still they came to await the candy cart. Now I KNEW what must be happening. That clown guy was DRUGGING them! The candy had drugs in it. The kids built up a dependence on the candy, and now they came even though they were out of it (dazed, numbed). That was the second effect of the candy, to dull the mind and decrease suspicions. I had no idea what the clown intended to do with the kids next, but it couldn't be good. I was glad I had never succumbed to this by buying and consuming any candy, but I didn't know what to do about all the others he'd gotten to.

!! Freakish dream. Dad said a noisy car drove by, and asked me if it woke me up, and Ma's cousin was in the basement because his own truck had broken down outside, so I wonder if those influenced my dream in any way. Ugh. Horrible clown.



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