So here I am, enjoying these warm summer days when it hits. Out of nowhere...
It's October 31st, roughly 5:00 pm and dusk is approaching fast. And there I am, caught completely off-guard. Completely oblivious to the sudden realization that nothing has been set up in the front yard. Not one prop lit, not one tombstone placed, not one jack-o-lantern carved. The paralyzing panic is real. It's too late now. There's no way I can make it. I'm going to miss Halloween...
I jolt violently from a deep sleep, sitting up in a sweat, trying to make sense of the completely dark room around me. After a few quick, shallow breaths it all becomes clearer. Sitting in the darkness of my bedroom on a summer July morning, I realize that I just had "my Halloween nightmare." Again.
It's been a few years since I've experienced my nightmare, but the thoughts of the upcoming haunt season (buried deep in the back of my brain while I take time away to enjoy the summer) have finally boiled back to the top. A warning that it is time to get back to work. Especially with the added pressure of haunt season number twenty and a need to do something really big.
I decided to take the summer off completely to prevent mental and physical haunt fatigue, and it was working rather well, but the internal alarm has sounded. Time to get back to it. Three months until the big night. It's now time to start planning, time to start sketching, time to start creating again.
It's time to fire up this old blog for another run in to the Halloween season. I have been sitting on a handful of posts, so I'll be dropping them shortly. It's the perfect way to get things going again. Come hang out for the annual black-and-orange transformation, I think it's going to be a great one! So much to do, so much to share.
102 days to go until All Hallow's Eve. Let's do this...
3 comments:
We have those kind of nightmare dreams 2 or 3 times a year! The common themes are 1) it's late afternoon on Halloween and we forgot set up the haunt, 2) it's Halloween and we forgot to carve the jack-o-lanterns, 3) it's Halloween and we didn't remember to buy any pumpkins. The weird thing is either these events are occurring at our former house, or bizarre locations/homes that are totally fictional. One of those nightmares took place at what was a narrow shop with display windows on a main street we were living in. Most likely our subconscious running through the "to do" lists for the Halloween haunt.
Ha! Eve, we have the same haunter dreams buried deep in our subconscious!
So funny - I will not be here this year at Halloween so I thought I would avoid the dream. But last night, it happened. Trick or treaters coming in 15 minutes. No candy and no decorations up and I have promised a haunted house. It is PTSD at it's finest. Then I woke up and remembered I will be down under for Halloween and Creepmas. Have a happy 20th celebration.
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