Dream: I'm the King of Zombies

Last night I had a series of dreams that were - for me - amazing.   First I'm rarely IN my dreams, and second I can almost NEVER remember them when I wake up.

Clearly this dream was influenced by recent TV watching, in particular "It" and "Waiting".

ANYway to the dream (as far as I can remember it).

It starts out with me on break from work walking over to a local department/hardware store (sort of like a Home Depot in that I associated the color "orange" with it, but it wasn't any Home Depot I had ever been to  IRL.   I go in through the back/loading dock area, to use the bathroom there (I can only guess that this is because there's no bathroom where I work).   When I come out there's a guy (apparently played by Justin Long) arguing with a customer.  He sees me and mistakes me for another employee of the dream-Home Depot.   He's really nasty about it too.   Apparently he had called for "backup" to deal with this customer and thought I was a manager or something.    So, I tell him I'd be happy to go find the manager and bring him to the situation.

I go get the manager (played by ??) and he comes over to defuse the situation apologizing for the employee, etc. to me.   SOMEHOW this gets into a discussion of patterns of behavior and my wondering if there might be some cause that could be pinpointed.   SOMEHOW I end up with a chart showing that yes - employees somehow have more "incidents" on warmer days, and offer (for a price) to do some consulting for him to see if I can help work out solutions, etc.   He says he'll get back to me.

OK - so I'm leaving (after some time) and going back through the delivery area, the manager comes running in with a box, opens an incinerator and is trying to jam it through the door.   Apparently the box has some batteries in it that are behaving strangely and he's trying to destroy them.

(I can't remember if there's anything else at THIS point...  cut to...)

There's an Asian lady examining some batteries with some gadget saying "See - this is one of the infected ones - you can tell because it's glowing blue and my (gadget name) is really pegged."

SOMEHOW this relates to zombies.   (There's another gap in memory, but somehow we determine that people are being turned into zombies because of exposure to the batteries, but no one we've met so far is infected.)  

Now a guy runs in and say "you should see what's going on outside!" - we go outside (thereby obeying the rule of every monster movie where you - for whatever stupidity - go TOWARDS the problem instead of running for your lives) and there are all these people lying on the ground looking rather zombie-like.   Somehow (another memory gap) we vanquish them, and save the day.

Yay.

We go back into the warehouse area and talk about this when a bunch of zombies attack (they're being chased by soldiers with automatic weapons).   There's your cinematic firefight and at the end there's a lot of dead zombies, and other people who we decide must have also been zombies, and the credits (literally) roll.

At the END of the credits there's that "scene the add in to make sure people sit through the credits" but it's really a sequel that picks up just where the first film left off.   Now - for some reason - I'm being played by Lance Henriksen (I swear - he's in EVERYTHING), and there's this great effect where we go back in time (through a quick succession of cascading images) to a few weeks ago.

NOW I'm in the store in the employee area sitting there while some woman is trying to give me a back rub.  I refuse.  Turns out she's the girlfriend of the guy at the beginning of the story, is in a rock band with her friend (I get the impression she's bisexual), and I notice she has a cut on her arm.   This bothers me.

We flash further back and discover that she cut herself on a broken glass while we're all at their apartment discussing a concert they just gave (that I was at).

Now we flash forward through several sequences - all between "now" and the beginning of the first movie where it's revealed that it's not zombies per se, but more of a "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and I am revealed to be the "king zombie/snatcher" setting things up for the first movie whose sequel is a prequel and presumably going to #3 in the series which is a real sequel.

Weird.

The last part was VERY sped up (which is why I can't remember details) and by this time I have realized that I'm dreaming.   It didn't help that Tammy decided to jump on the bed from the spiral staircase to get momentum to attack Chloe (I think she's feeling neglected by her sister lately) which was a little jarring.    Just when I went BACK to sleep a police siren went by so my dream state and awake state started to blur and I couldn't quite tell if the dream was a dream or memory.   I considered getting up to tell Den about it, but I was briefly concerned that I'd discover that he became a zombie, realized I REALLY had to pee, and then decided that I would just have to deal with the consequences of a zombified Den if I had to.

Fortunately he was up watching TV and I got to tell him all about this, although I had forgotten many of the detail by that point.

That's too bad - I think it would've made a decent film trilogy, though not by SyFy.   They screw everything up, and I'd've ended up being played by Barry Williams or something.