This was based on a weird dream I had once. In March, 2000. Well, I seldom have crazy dreams and I was bored again today so I decided to create a piece on it. The following is very slightly edited from the mail I'd sent some friends about it.

Okay, it starts out very stupid. Dramatic. Like... hmm. There's this guy who formulates some way to take over the world I think. Or at least to mass-kill. I'm not sure which. And then apparently he's someone I know, because I knew about his mass-killing spree but didn't really care. Apparently the killing method involves chlorine. I remember that clearly. No idea why. Anyhow, yeah. Then the killed person will turn yellow/green. Weird.

Anyway, yeah. So he's on this killing spree. Then there I am watching TV. Then the guy kills someone next to me, the body falls to the ground and starts turning yellow/green. And the voice sounds like it was stuck when the person was killed, the person keeps burbling the same thing over and over again. Can't remember what he's saying. Anyhow, the voice fades (nearly goes away), then starts getting stronger again. Like he's not dead. Yup! Undead yellow chlorine person. Gah.

Then that yellow thing started chasing me. Wanted to kill me, I think. I don't know why I suddenly dreamed of such a thing, must be all those horror flicks screening around that time. However, that doesn't really make sense since I didn't watch a single one of them. Anyway, well. Errr. There was some merry little chase and I ran to my room and locked myself up and yah. Thought I was safe. Though still very very scared. Then I turned on the aircon.

MISTAKE! Wah. Err. Okay, this really makes no sense, but apparently in my dream for some reason the aircon had some element of chlorine to it. What, it blew chlorine? No idea. Basically the room was then filled with chlorine, then the chlorine yellow guy appeared again. Because it was able to teleport inside the room when there was chlorine inside? Yah. Errr. Very weird. Then i turned around to try to exit through the other door, then he somehow duplicated himself and there he was! 2 chlorine guys, guarding both exits! Then I can't remember what happened, I remember somehow ending up jumping over the railing and dropping to my death. which is once more illogical, there's only one floor to drop, I prob won't die. but I did.

PART TWO!!! (where the picture comes in)
Okay here is the weird part. Like, after I fell to my death, I'd expected everything to fade. But for some reason I had this bird's eye view of myself. Lying there in a puddle of blood. Nothing was fading. Then I did something, I dunno what. Probably started thinking or something. Then this screen appeared.

Not on TV or anything lar, just some screen in front of me. Yah! Then at the bottom left or something was the word 'Life' scrawled in red text. Probably to emulate blood. Then 3 options appeared on the screen. 3 lines of text, then I could choose an option. The 3 were something like, continue, restart, wish. Okay wish doesn't exactly fit but I'd explain in a moment.

I'd discussed with a classmate before how cool it'd be if life were a game and we could save/load easily. Well, this was something like that I suppose. Except I didn't see a load command.

Anyhow, yeah. The first 2 options I mentioned are self-explanatory I suppose. Restart would be to be reborn I suppose, though I don't believe in that. Hmm. Play on would be to get up and continue living, wounded? I suppose. Then wish! Weird. It doesn't make sense now of course, but at that time I understood it to mean, to return to the human world to carry out those last wishes which were not accomplished.

Oh well here's the soppy part I suppose. I returned to the world to tell my mum that I loved her. I hugged her and told her that I think. I remember something weird like there was paint on my mum's back when I hugged her or something, but anyway, yeah, I did that. And I don't remember her being surprised to see me, so I suppose I appeared not like a ghost or whatever. Hmm. Weird.

Of course, that's all a dream. Haha... I can't even remember when I woke up. Oh! I remember some other scene. That mad killer I knew about apparently killed a lot of my other schoolmates. I remember meeting two other schoolmates while I was washing my hands or something. Haha... So weird. Then I asked them how the world was or something, how my family was, etc. Hmm.

So stupid! Now that I think about it. but then, when I just woke up, I was extremely extremely extremely frightened okay... around 3-4am. So I paged some people in fright. All of them had their alert switched off. Anyhow. Wheee. What a weird dream.

You can say that again.