Shoot out at the wishing well.

Something about boarding the train to Disney? I don’t remember the lead-in now or maybe there wasn’t one other than that. I’m in a house with ?my family watching television. The news cuts in to the program and warns of an escaped convict. The convict is considered dangerous. He’s in my house and i go into another room – a bedroom - to get a hand gun i know is in the drawer of the side table beside the bed. It’s a small black gun ?22 cal? I make sure it’s got bullets and leave the room in search of the criminal. He’s standing in the front yard in front of an old well (the kind with a bucket on a chain that you have to lower down into the water). The yard is dusty and dry. It’s some kind of farm. We stand face to face but several paces apart, like in a duel. I have no fear of him and shoot him in the upper chest with my gun. He seems surprised but doesn’t fall. I shoot again and hit him closer to the heart and he falls. I watch for a moment and go back into the house. I can tell by the rattling sound that i need to get more bullets. Back in the room where i got the gun i find a bag that i think has the bullets and take it back to the kitchen to reload. The bag is full of ‘shot’ and i start to pour it into the chamber but realize it won’t work like that and i need bullets. I pour the shot back into the bag and put the bag back in the drawer where i found it. I return to where the criminal is and see that he’s still not dead so, at point blank range, i shoot him in the temple. It doesn’t seem to affect him and i shoot him in the eye.

Now i’m in the woods. The criminal is somewhere ahead of me and i intend to find him and shoot him again to make him stay down.


I think the house was the old Olson farm in Minnesota. The criminal was a thug and i didn’t feel any remorse at shooting him but i did feel remorse that my bullets weren’t killing him cleanly and that i was making him suffer. The place in the woods where i was pursuing the man was a ‘living’ version of a scene from World Of Warcraft. It’s heading south along the hills outside the town of Auberdine. The dream was triggered by watching old Law&Order episodes in the morning and the movie Surrogates just before bed.