An old movie-like dream
I had this very long dream in the summer of 2002. The only reason why I can remember so many details from it is because I began to write it down right after I woke up. So here it is:
Johnny Boy has just violated his parole from a 15-year sentence, in which he has only served 10 years for good behavior. Johnny Boy gets bailed out by his apparent lover who has to put up the house for bail since it was so high from Johnny’s violation of his parole. The two drive off to their house. There Johnny Boy says he needs to drive around a little bit so he can clear his mind and relax for a while. After he promises not to do anything “stupid” again, he is off and deep into his own thoughts. He thinks to himself for longer and longer, pondering why he steals and how he ended up in the situation he was in now. He knows that when he is tried again, he will be thrown back in prison for even longer than his sentence was. Johnny Boy finally conjures up the memory of his tormented childhood; one he spent mostly in an orphanage where every person was abusive towards him. He remembers all this and that all the children at the orphanage were equally as abused and that they continue to belong to that orphanage until they are released at the age of 18. This was the story of Johnny Boy’s life, and he planned on taking his revenge on the people who virtually led him to his life of crime. Johnny takes a gun to the orphanage of his youth, a large run-down building just outside the state border (where technically Johnny was already jumping bail). Johnny Boy storms into the place and infiltrates it as tactfully as he can. After he sees that the conditions which the children live in are no different from the time he lived there, he plans to attack and detain all the orderlies who committed these atrocities. The orderlies, some of whom (while they were 10 years older) were the same ones who abused him, are all tied up in one way or another, but none are killed. In a fit of panic, one little girl, who secretly keeps as a pet a little hamster which she hasn’t named yet, calls the police saying that a certain “Johnny Boy” is there. Later, Johnny befriends all the children in the orphanage and makes his way into the headmaster of the orphanage’s office. In there, Johnny boy gets into a scuffle with the man and remembers how much he himself used to abuse Johnny in his own ways. The fact that he was rich and that he ignored what was going on in the orphanage for mere humanitarian tax cuts for his business was its own form of abuse. This enrages Johnny and drives him to shoot and kill the owner. Meanwhile the state police have pulled up Johnny’s file and are on the way to the orphanage. When they are close to arriving, the little girl explains worriedly to Johnny that she had called the police while she was distressed before, when she didn’t know who he was or what he was doing. Johnny says it’s ok and asks for quick way out where he can gain access to the headmaster’s car. By then, Johnny has looted the headmaster’s “laundered” money which was partially liquidated in his safe; it was quite a lot of money. He makes out with the money and the car just in time, as the police arrive right after he leaves. Right after he leaves, the little girl picks up her hamster and says “hmmm, Johnny Boy… It’s about time you got a name…” So, when the police asks the children about this alleged “Johnny Boy” in the building, they all deny it and all the little girl does is hold up the hamster saying that it’s the only Johnny Boy she knows. The dream closes with Johnny Boy driving off in the car, with enough money in hand to start a new life.
Johnny Boy has just violated his parole from a 15-year sentence, in which he has only served 10 years for good behavior. Johnny Boy gets bailed out by his apparent lover who has to put up the house for bail since it was so high from Johnny’s violation of his parole. The two drive off to their house. There Johnny Boy says he needs to drive around a little bit so he can clear his mind and relax for a while. After he promises not to do anything “stupid” again, he is off and deep into his own thoughts. He thinks to himself for longer and longer, pondering why he steals and how he ended up in the situation he was in now. He knows that when he is tried again, he will be thrown back in prison for even longer than his sentence was. Johnny Boy finally conjures up the memory of his tormented childhood; one he spent mostly in an orphanage where every person was abusive towards him. He remembers all this and that all the children at the orphanage were equally as abused and that they continue to belong to that orphanage until they are released at the age of 18. This was the story of Johnny Boy’s life, and he planned on taking his revenge on the people who virtually led him to his life of crime. Johnny takes a gun to the orphanage of his youth, a large run-down building just outside the state border (where technically Johnny was already jumping bail). Johnny Boy storms into the place and infiltrates it as tactfully as he can. After he sees that the conditions which the children live in are no different from the time he lived there, he plans to attack and detain all the orderlies who committed these atrocities. The orderlies, some of whom (while they were 10 years older) were the same ones who abused him, are all tied up in one way or another, but none are killed. In a fit of panic, one little girl, who secretly keeps as a pet a little hamster which she hasn’t named yet, calls the police saying that a certain “Johnny Boy” is there. Later, Johnny befriends all the children in the orphanage and makes his way into the headmaster of the orphanage’s office. In there, Johnny boy gets into a scuffle with the man and remembers how much he himself used to abuse Johnny in his own ways. The fact that he was rich and that he ignored what was going on in the orphanage for mere humanitarian tax cuts for his business was its own form of abuse. This enrages Johnny and drives him to shoot and kill the owner. Meanwhile the state police have pulled up Johnny’s file and are on the way to the orphanage. When they are close to arriving, the little girl explains worriedly to Johnny that she had called the police while she was distressed before, when she didn’t know who he was or what he was doing. Johnny says it’s ok and asks for quick way out where he can gain access to the headmaster’s car. By then, Johnny has looted the headmaster’s “laundered” money which was partially liquidated in his safe; it was quite a lot of money. He makes out with the money and the car just in time, as the police arrive right after he leaves. Right after he leaves, the little girl picks up her hamster and says “hmmm, Johnny Boy… It’s about time you got a name…” So, when the police asks the children about this alleged “Johnny Boy” in the building, they all deny it and all the little girl does is hold up the hamster saying that it’s the only Johnny Boy she knows. The dream closes with Johnny Boy driving off in the car, with enough money in hand to start a new life.
posted by T at 6:55 PM
2 Comments:
oh, so there is an orphan trend now. :) cute dream. yours always seem to make more sense than mine.
I'm going with brain droppings... thanks for your comments. Sorry if I seem like I've fallen off the face of the earth, but I'm laptopless at the moment and haven't had a single chance to check anything online, much less update any blogs. Talk to you guys sooner than later, I hope : )
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