Dream Journal Ultimate
Date: 1/1/2019
By AJacobs
Skip to the end if you want an action scene This whole dream I was some kind of Military Cadet. Except I was younger, we had to have been young teens. Early high school at most perhaps. We wore either BDU camouflage or maybe even an earlier type of uniform maybe that was just green with no camouflage. Starting out, the earliest I remember was being given a mission to find and recover parts of a plane wreck that had blown up above the small island we were on. I either saw the explosion and crash as part of a time-skip beforehand or saw it in a flashback. It was heavily influenced by the breakup of the airliner in the Lost TV Show by JJ Abrams. It was implied that the crash was two or three days ago. For some reason, we had to swim out into the water in order to then get a bird’s eye view of the island as a whole. Our instructor was able to point out parts or at least talk about as we looked at the overhead view of the island. I think he was highlighting parts of the map making them glow as if it were a nicely animated video game briefing. He was noting a trail of large debris (it was a few large pieces) that was clearly visible as a place to start. He tasked us with finding (and maybe recovering) the debris. He then left. Almost immediately, we all swam back to shore and exclaimed we were going to do it tomorrow instead of today/now. I explained my plan of wanting to get a kayak or canoe from the unit’s clerk. Using the kayak/canoe to get out on the water to see the overhead map/satellite view/I-have-no-idea-why-being-on-the-water-allows-you-to-see-it. Then I said we could use a drone (a quadcopter probably) to go close to the debris and photograph it. I’m not sure if we had to recover any of it, I made no plans of that, just of find the pieces. Some other guys agreed and we moved on. I then went to the supply clerk, to the right when coming in from the water. He was wearing pale green clothes reminiscent of WWII or so. He was sitting at a ramshackle wooden table with covering. If it was real life he would be an S-4, although I’m not entirely sure if dream clerk was an officer. I asked him about getting a kayak or canoe. He swore at me for asking and we followed him and ended up in my grandma’s kitchen. The clerk and one of the cadets went outside, I waited in the kitchen (I’m not sure if I thought anything of it). Then there was a spray of gunfire that hits the wall and the clerk comes slamming on a door to the right. He gets inside shortly after and is followed by the cadet who is holding an MP5 submachine gun. I remember being confused in the dream. I was not entirely sure if the cadet threatened the clerk and shot around him, or if they had been shot at. I was fairly sure it was the cadet threatening the clerk though because he seemed to come back inside calmly. I remember walking possibly around a town square or something where everything was old-fashioned except the soldier sitting at a board of security monitors named the MOPP Something-or-other, I think it was orange and black. I made some comment to him about that as we passed by. So maybe that is why we were all in old uniforms and stuff. Because it was supposed to be… pretending to be in the past or something, I don’t know. But I did think of using drones and we had this ‘magical’ satellite view of the island that worked when you went over the water. I think there may have been a scene where it was dark and we were on bleachers looking out on the stormy seas where some people were trying to boat. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Finally, onto some action. We walked out and were talking together. It was like we were walking out of my house. There were SUV’s on the driveway that we were headed into (They may have been Honda Pilots, maybe black). I think there was a guy who seemed like Kennedy, I’m not sure if he looked like him though. We were talking about scopes on the M4 carbines we were carrying. In specific, one was the NACOG, Night ACOG. It seemed to be a thermal view where the reticle and dot sight was like a bright yellow and the view through the sight was all a night-vision washed in red. I kept trying to ask what ACOG stood for. (Upon a google search: Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight, if you’re curious.) There were instructors with us as well. I was on the passenger side of the rear SUV and loading up my M4 when a couple of hostiles appeared in between two houses. Someone called it out. One cadet went to the back of the SUV and went prone with his Nerf Longshot. I quickly followed suit and went prone just to his right and extending my bipod. LOL, we had Nerf Longshots! One of the two hostiles shot at us and one relocated moving behind one of the houses to the next house gap. Nerf bullets went by me and I even moved backwards and sideways out of their way. The other cadets made a few shots but didn’t hit anything. I’m not sure if I fired at first and missed like them. The first hostile who was at the second house gap ran off and the first one ran out of sight as well. The instructors told us something about catching them tomorrow because we failed and the other cadets headed into the SUV’s. I get up, aimed my Longshot and waited. I knew the second hostile would soon appear in the second gap. The instructors were watching me, I was tense. Sure enough, he did. He was running across until he stopped and faced me. He may have brought up his [Nerf] rifle and I let loose my shot. Because it was nerf, and we were perhaps a hundred feet away, I aimed well above his head. My shot sailed up, then down, and to the right, it looked like it maybe grazed his left leg and he ran off. “Hit!” The instructors congratulated me and stated it was a success. I turned around and made a comment to one of the instructors that I thought I had just missed the hostile.