Cliff hanger of a dream!

Lately I have been having a hard time with sleep. Either I get too much of it or not enough. I just have not been able to find a happy medium.
I am sure that the majority of it is related to my CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome), but I do believe that my 3pm-12am work shift is not exactly helping much either.

Two nights ago I didn't sleep at all. Finally around 6am I was able to crash out for about 6 hours. I got out of bed only because I didn't want to sleep the entire day away and accomplish nothing.

Last night I was feeling really tired and thought I'd finally be able to get a decent nights sleep. I took my sleeping pill in hopes of sleeping solid through the night.

NOT!!!!

I woke up around 2:30am from a really messed up dream with a pounding headache.
Sadly it was the headache that woke me up, not the dream.

I figured what the heck. I'm awake so why not share my warped dream.
Keep in mind that I didn't do anything out of the ordinary to spark this odd dream. My dreamer's dictionaries and encyclopedia don't even fully cover any of its meaning.

All I did yesterday was eat, put some stuff in my storage shed, watch some True Blood, and watched "The Hulk" That is IT! Nothing at all dealing remotely close to my dream.

So here it is......

I dreamt that I was in some sort of alternate universe that was very much like the reality that we live in. A few things seemed slightly off the normal radar. Bananas were orange in color, my house was blue instead of cream colored, my hair was long, my boyfriend was skinny and pale, and my parents were no longer living for some reason.

One day I was sitting down at my kitchen table dissecting a broad-band radio trying to figure out what was wrong with it. I managed to figure out that one of the resistors in the circuitry had blown and when it did part of the traces on the circuit board were damaged. As a result it took out the crystal in the radio and damaged it.

I went to Radioshack (The sign was blue instead of red) and grabbed a pack of resistors. (Ever try buying one separate? It's basically almost impossible) I then remembered that I had seen a special diode that wad damaged and grabbed one of those off of the nearby rack. I  then went over to the giant catalog of special order parts and looked through it ti try to find a crystal that operates at the same frequency to replace the damaged on. I could not find one, but I did find a crystal that could be de-amplified to get the right one. I wrote down the stock number and went back to the little gadgets second and got a little tiny black chip known as a "gate" to alter the signal enough.
I paid the clerk and went home.
That day I went to work as usual. Same job, same everything.
That night when I got home though I decided to work on the radio and began installing the parts.
I soldered on some solder to fix the damaged traces on the board so that it could jump to where it needed to go to finish making the connection. Then I went to work with installing the parts where they needed to go and attached the "gate" near the crystal.
Finally I was done and went about testing it with a multimeter. I noticed that the signal coming out of the "gate' was a positive value instead of a negative one, but curiosity got the best of me.
I put the cover back on the radio just to keep it from getting damaged and turned the switch and tried to tune to a particular channel.
All the sudden my TV and satellite TV receiver turn on. Some late night cartoon on Adult Swim was on the screen and the image began to flicker.
Next thing you know my tele is going bonkers and the screen filled out with lots of different codes. Some of them were binary and some were in hexadecimal.
Wondering what the radio did to my TV I sat down in from of the set with a notebook and a sheet of paper and began writing down the codes looking for a pattern.
I found one.
It translated to  "Saturated fat's are a myth"
What the hell? I figured that couldn't be right. I must have messed up a part of the translation.
I began to write down more codes as the showed up. I translated what I had.
"Sex is for everyone" , "Child labor made items rock.", "Drugs are the new hip."
I went at this for quite a few hours.
Then all of the sudden the screen flickered and
"We know who you are. We will get you." Showed on the screen.
Scared and confused I quickly turned the radio off, yanked my receiver from the wall and unplugged my TV.
I wasn't sure what kind of mess I had gotten myself into, but I was sure it wasn't good.

I ran into the bedroom and began backing my backpack. I grabbed another set of clothes, my Swiss army blade, and some granola bars. My boyfriend woke up hearing me cussing and screaming and asked what the heck was going on.
He laughed at me. Told me I was being ridiculous and that someone was playing a joke on  me. I tried to convince him to get dressed and grab what he needed and to come with me.
Instead of agreeing he rolled over and went back to sleep.

All the sudden I heard jets flying closer and closer. I didn't have time to stay and to convince my love to come if I wanted to live.

I grabbed my keys and darted out the from door. I got in my car quickly and sped off. Just as I hit the highway I heard a loud boom and the ground shook valiantly. I pulled over to look and right where my house would have been was a giant plume of smoke heading into the heavens.
I began to cry and collapsed to the pavement. I regretting leaving and not staying to die with my love.
It was too late now. There was no turning back.
My survival instincts kicked in. I got back in my car and sped off heading south,
When I finally reached a small town I pulled in and looked around for a different vehicle. I figured if these crazy people know who I am they then could easily find out what I drive.
A ranch hand got out of his pickup and went into a small grocery store across the street, He left his vehicle running.
I darted across the street and quickly got in and drove off. 'Hey!!!" I could hear being yelled as I was pulling out of the gravel parking lot.
I am not sure how long I was driving, but I had completely ran out of granola bars and the tank was running low on gas.
I pulled off to the side of the road. I was in the middle of some strange Forrest. People not looking anything like they do back home were making their way up the tiny isolated road. With them were a few goats and donkeys.
Somehow I realized that I had driven so far south that I was in Mexico or at least somewhere near it.
I wanted to the travelers to come my direction and asked them where the nearest village was.
They didn't know English, but motioned for me to follow them.
What felt like many hours later we arrived at a small town.
The goats and donkeys were put into some sort of barn type building. One of the older men who was amongst the travelers motioned for me to come with him.
I followed him across a few streets and up a narrow alleyway to the back door of some building.  He knocked said something and the door opened.
He lead me in and this friend of mine that I haven't seen in years was sitting at the other end of the room.
We exchanged hellos, and what the heck are you doing heres.
We talked until the wee hours of the morning. By which time I had explained what had happened that had me on the run. My friend was kind in her words and said she has heard of such things before, She offered me a place to sleep and her help in the morning.
I didn't sleep.

Next day she took me out on a hike winding through a vast canyon. She stopped in from of a crack in the side of  valley wall, smiled and walked inside. i followed.

The crack got darker and darker, then all the sudden lighter and lighter. As we approached the light i realized the walls were no longer rock, but metal, then I noticed the light was coming from a single bulb hanging down from the ceiling. We reached a door.
My friend found a keypad nearby and entered some code. The door slid open and we walked inside.

The rest of the dream is a bit of a blur here. It's a lot to remember! What else do you expect?

All I remember is that it looked like some sort of secret factory and they were manufacturing "gates" and taking apart radios and putting them inside.

I was introduced to some man I've never seen before and he took me on a tour of the facilities and explained the chips and radios.
Bottom line..... The government was working on a top secret project to brainwash Americans using subliminal messages.
First they were testing it out trying to get people to buy certain products, then they had stepped it up to telling people how to act and what to do.

I asked how this all was being done. The strange man told me that Satellites in space used for satellite TV are carrying the messages down to earth and the codes are being encrypted into the programs people watch.

I just couldn't comprehend it all. Why me? What's so damn important that they felt it necessary to try to kill me?

I was then shown into what looked like some sort of laboratory with humans witting in padded cells with one side being glass of some sort. Some were curled up into balls on the floor shaking in fear. Some were reading books or sleeping. One looked at me. His eyes scared me. The muscles in his neck bulged. He ripped his shirt off and ran at the glass. WHAM! He we down was out cold. I asked what was with the people. Why were they being held.
The government had experimented on them. using the strange technology and had programmed the as unstoppable solders.
They had escaped and seeked refuge. Over time some of them began to loose their minds. The ones that seemed fine agreed that all of them should be locked up for observation as to not hurt innocent people.
At that point one reading a book got off the floor and walked up to the glass and began telling his story.

Right as he was getting to the most crucial point the ceiling shook and began to collapse. A piece of debris hit me in the head.


Sorry to leave you all hanging, but this is where I woke up with the headache. *shrug.*
What can I say? I want to know what else happens too, but apparently the imaginary debris had
to wake me up with a headache so I don't know if I'll ever find out the rest.

Stupid imaginary objects just have to ruin it for everyone. Geez!