Jaron's Dreams
| December 18, 2009, 8:17 AM Jaron's Olde Dreams #5: The Stump Man |
| Alright ladies and gents,
The dating of this dream is a little more difficult than the others, because I had it when I was at grandma's old house (a very common setting for a lot of my dreams). I'm thinking it happened between 1988 and 1991. And it might have even happened in that transition period between when we lived in a single wide trailer and when we lived in a double wide trailer which would make it either late 1989 or early 1990. In any case, in grandma's house there is a bed in the living room which Holly, Christy, and I would sleep in when we slept over as little kids. It was a fold-out bed from a couch, and it was located in a living room-ish area that we knew as the "game" room. We slept with our backs to a staircase, and there was a little open area under the staircase where all the toys were kept. I fell asleep there and had a dream that there was a monster behind the couch, a stump man. He came up out of the floor, but but remained attached to the floor. He was thimble shaped and stood about a foot and a half high and had an 8 to 12 inch diameter. He was brown like a tree trunk. He had a mouth, a big wooden looking nose, white eyes, and no appendages. I was freaked out by his presence. At any given moment he could pop back down into the ground and pop out somewhere else in the room. He might have done this in one or two other places. I went outside of grandma's house to go home and get away from the stump man. It was late at night and the wind was blowing the trees. I turned to look back at grandma's house, and the stump man outside in front of the house. He was sticking further out of the ground than ever, and I could see hundreds of roots underneath of him jetting out in every direction. "His roots go everywhere," I thought to myself. I think the stump man was inspired by that thing that popped out of Lord Morley's coffin in the movie "The Private Eyes." That thing used to terrify me as a kid. That's about it! Creepy, eh? Next time it will be the "fish down the steps" dream. |