Just a (Zombie) Dream

Lately, I have been having some strange dreams. This one is all about our favorite infected villains that want to eat our brains!

In the dream, a young woman and her relatives decide to go back to the Philippines for a family reunion. Meeting with her eccentric, stunt choreographer young brother; a food blogging, famous chef of a cousin and his somewhat, now-spoiled and crazy mother, they meet in Shanghai—where the cousin works—and rides an airplane back home. Unbeknownst to all the passengers, a terrorist had injected a victim an unknown serum that transforms him into a rabid, blood-hungry being! Having bitten a steward’s ear already and was actually in the only toilet room in the plane, the young woman—who needed to pee—had no choice but to defend herself. Armed with childhood folk stories about the undead and other monsters; a teenage experience about her school being almost taken over by a horde of psychotic mutants, caused by an underground WWII Japanese Bio-warfare research and too much horror-survival video games and movies with her brother, the young woman was able to tackle and, finally, behead the creature. Thanks to her brother’s advice (“Be Water, My Sister!!!”), no thanks to her cousin—who was calmly eating yoghurt while watching the whole spectacle—the young woman’s victory over the creature was filmed by fellow passengers. The captain of the plane lands them in Taiwan first, to see if anyone was hurt. Both the Taiwanese armada and an international super soldier group investigate the airplane, while the young woman and her relatives escape. The young woman’s fight against the creature was posted online minutes later.

The dream jumps to an emergency evacuation action, where the young woman, her brother and two relatives are being huddled in line to ride public vans and other transportation to one of the supposed Zombie-free zones in the Philippines. With her two relatives and brother forced comically to sit uncomfortably together in the first row of seats, the young woman sits next to a young man in the second row. He appears to be a “Chopsuey” Asian, with dark tanned skin and long, wavy black hair.

He is amused that the location is actually a beach (in the dream, the name of the beach kept shifting from Palm Beach, Laguna Springs, Costa De Luna to Republic Sun) and had been looking for a way to spend a good vacation time from work when the outbreak happened. The young woman sees that many of the tourists—and even some soldiers—were still having fun despite the presence of the outbreak. The cousin comments how the tourists were surfing improperly (“Dapat wala silang suot! Yun yun eh!”), which was met by a groan from the brother. The cousin’s mother keeps asking if they will find a souvenir shop.

The dream jumps again, revealing that the rented hotel suite already has five more guests inside. Although the suite is one of the biggest in the hotel, it was clear that they would have difficulty sharing and keeping privacy. The cousin’s mother is already complaining (she was complaining how the service is very lousy and how one of the guest’s hair looks like a crab that was grilled and turned into a chicken), which led into an argument amongst her, her son and two more guests. The young woman and her brother apologize for the other guests and they instead went to the entertainment room and shut the door behind them. The young man she met on the van is also one of the guests who are with her and her brother in the entertainment room. They begin to talk with each other as he tells her that he recognizes her from the video posted online. He tells her that she is brave, to which she blushes from but tells him she was able to do it because she knew how to defend herself. The dream jumps into the young man’s flashback, revealing his true identity: he is one of the super soldiers tasked to locate the terrorists calling themselves “The Malay Descendants” and end the outbreak. Before they were called by Taiwan to aid them in investigating the airplane and its passengers, the young man and his three partners are briefed by their commander on what their special mission will be: the four must go undercover as civilians to find suspects, who could be possible members of the terrorist group. The commanders’ sources told them that one of the locations where the outbreak will not possibly occur is in the beach (Palm Beach/Laguna Springs, whatever) because an indigenous clan residing said beach has a strong lineage of undead fighters and had been protecting their island home for centuries. He further comments that two of their famous generals were descendants of the clan and knew the art of undead warfare; he tells them that they must respect the clan and they can ask for assistance through them if necessary. The young man and his team are then ordered to go and donned their protective army gear. Before he joins the rest of the investigative squad, however, he sees the young woman and her family stealthily escaping the airport. He realizes that she has been compromised, but the young man ignores her instead, recognizing her form the online video of her recent zombie kill posted minutes ago, and heads off. The dream jumps back to the hotel. It is already night and, although patrollers warned all tourists to stay indoors, the young woman went out to shore, not wanting to stay cooped up in the suite. The young man had followed her and decided to accompany her in the beach. Enjoying a nightly stroll, the two suddenly bonded with each other and the young man confessed that he is no ordinary tourist and that he had been tasked to protect the safe zones and look for possible suspects. He thought he was lucky that he was assigned to stay in a beach and was able to meet the young woman. The dream jumps again and it is daytime. The tourists go about their ways while the patrollers continue to scour the area. The young woman's brother was languidly taking a shower near the beach area, when a scream pierces the happiness of the day. Zombies were suddenly coming in! The patrollers and the natives of the island were now in full battle mode! Everything is in chaos! The brother then grabs a giant beach umbrella and started fending off the zombies, along with the soldiers and the island natives! Then before I could finally finish off the dream,my alarm sounds off and I wake up from the crazy, random dream.