InsaniKey 2

I awoke with a blanket covering my face and the words from the dream still echoing in my head, they were meaningless to me. The word Saturday written vertically down a long banner hung high up on a wall stuck out in my head and would eventually be the only thing I remembered about that dream. I threw the blanket off my head and looked at the ceiling.

“Aliens?” Ashley’s deep groggy voice asked.

“Huh?” I looked at his bed, noticing I was still wearing my wristbands and bandana from last night.

“Did you dream about aliens again?” He looked at the ceiling pensively.

“No, it was this weird castle dream.” I closed my eyes for a moment. I could picture the deep red carpet covering a stone floored hallway. The stone walls were barely visible at the edges of the picture in my head; from the tops of pillars hung the a few banners with unfamiliar symbols and words I couldn’t read except for the only one I remembered. It was shaped like a long downward pointing triangle with the word Saturday scrawled in an Old English font.

“Was it the vampire castle?” Ashley asked.

With my eyes still closed, still virtually standing in that part of the dream, I looked around. There was a suit of armor, possibly a banquet hall in the distance, I could feel the presence of people all around me but nobody was in sight. “No.” I answered quietly, trying to capture any meaningful image from the dream.

“It’s just a dream.” Ashley said dismissively. “I wouldn’t think about it too much.”

“There’s something important about it.” I was convinced. But what was it? Castles? Vampires? Feeling small in the presence of something big and unknown? Banners with dates? Banquets?

“Wait.” Ashley said. “Back up to the part about the unknown.”

“Oh.” I said, feeling slightly embarrassed. “I didn’t know I was thinking out loud.”

“You said something about the presence of something big and unknown.” He continued. “Wouldn’t that be the same as the alien dreams?”

“Ugh.” I sighed and rolled onto my side. “It was that same huge castle I’ve dreamt about before.” I rolled my eyes.

“I think your dreams represent something bigger than castles.” Ashley reflected.

“I don’t believe in aliens.” I said defensively.

“You sure about that?” Ashley smirked.

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