Dreamlog: The Planet of the Apes

This is the first installment of the logging of my dreams. I've had what I would call some strange dreams over my 26 years of existence, and I figured it would be a good idea to get them in some form of writing before I forget them all together. Keep in mind, a lot of these are contextual and may not make a whole lot of sense to the reader, but here goes...

This is the earliest of the weird dreams that I can remember. I had this dream at around 12 or 13 years old.

It started out with me finding myself on a beach, with nobody else in sight. I was wearing khaki shorts, a yellow t-shirt and no shoes. The beach was about 60 feet wide, and the sand was a fairly normal, yellowish color like you'd find almost anywhere. The sky was blue with some wispy clouds, and it was warm. The Ocean was to my left and was blue and calm, and to my right was cliff face made of mostly dirt and almost no rocks that rose about 80 feet out of the sand. All in all, it was a very peaceful and beautiful place to be.

I started walking down the beach without even turning to see if the scenery was any different behind me. I walked for about ten minutes (dream time, that is. who knows how long that ten minutes was in real time) when I saw something ahead of me in the distance. I walked warily closer to find out what it was. There was a slight hill on the beach that I got low behind when I was about 20 yards away, and looked in awe at a rather well organized meeting of apes.

There were three or four rows of folding chairs arranged in a semicircle around a portable stage with a metal podium. The folding chairs were occupied by chimpanzees who looked rather as they did in the movies, and on the stage was an orangutan leading the meeting. I couldn't hear what was being discussed but for some reason I knew it was about me. I wanted to get to a place where I could hear them better, and I thought that maybe their voices would carry up the side of the cliff and would be clear at the top.

I decided to sneak past them by going out close to the water line to get around them, as the apes were gathered about ten feet from the cliff. I kept close to the ground as I moved past them, and it seemed to work. None of them turned to look, and the orangutan was busy engaging them.

Around a hundred yards further, the cliff gradually sloped down to the level of the beach, and I started to walk up the grassy slope, back toward the meeting site. I found them again, still talking away, only now they were about 80 feet below me. I walked to about three feet from the edge of the dirt cliff, to look and listen. Something was buzzing in the back of my head. It was my brain, talking to me. It said "You shouldn't get too close to the edge, it could be dangerous." I was too interested to heed the warning, and for the first time I wasn't scared of the height, so I shuffled closer, to about six inches from the edge. I stood there for about two or three minutes trying to hear them talk when I felt the dirt under my feet shift. "Damned brain always has to be right." I said aloud.

The top of the cliff was a slight overhang, and just as my brain said "You should step back now" it gave way. I was now falling in what felt like slow motion, I could feel the wind rushing past my face and whipping at my clothes as I watched the ape meeting get closer and closer. About halfway through my fall reality started to set in. My brain was talking to me again, "Surviving a fall from this height isn't very likely" it said. I was going to say something snappy back to my brain but I didn't have time. the ground was getting close, and fast. I looked at my feet and prepared for pain.

I saw my toes break the sand's soft surface, and gritted my teeth...
I hit. There was no pain. My knees did not buckle. I was standing perfectly upright.
I was pleasantly shocked at this, I looked up with a "that wasn't so bad" smirk on my face, only to see the orangutan and all the chimps staring at me disapprovingly.

I woke up.
I opened my eyes and laid in my bed with a bewildered look on my face.