Friday, October 18, 2013

Too Much Walking Dead?


I had the weirdest dream last night. My father had died and we were all at the funeral home, when Dad sat up in his coffin. He wasn't all zombified or gross or anything. Just confused. We told him to lie down, but he wasn't having it. So we helped him up and he shambled around the funeral home, then down the street, then back home. We didn't have the heart to tell him he was dead – I mean, how do you break that to someone? Awkward, right?

It reminded me of a story Dave likes to tell. His parents used to butcher their own chickens and it's apparently true that when you chop off the head of a chicken it continues to run around the yard for a bit. This one day their friends were over visiting and for some reason they were watching Dave's dad kill chickens. Maybe there was nothing on TV, who knows. It's not my idea of a good time, watching someone kill chickens, but hey, if it floats your boat ...

Well, this one hen lost her head then ran, spurting blood, over to the visitors, where she proceeded to corner the woman against a fence.

"Get it away!" she screeched. The woman, not the hen. "Do something! Kill it!"

"It's already dead!" howled Dave's father. "What more can I do????"

Last I saw my dead dad he was sitting on the couch, watching the news.


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  1. Wouldn't you like to get that dream analyzed. PS...you are now added as an author on my blog so let me know what day you would like to use.

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    1. What day works best for you? Sometime next week? Maybe Monday? I'm pretty much free every day! How bout I write something up and send it your way!

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    2. Any day is fine with me. You can, I think, go directly on to my blog and post it yourself or you can send it in email form and I will paste and copy. Your choice. Just let me know what you decide and I will post something to let folks know what is coming.

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  2. Having been part of the chicken slaughter process, I know it well.

    I love your Dad dream. Somehow it makes me feel good. ??

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    1. Aww, I'm glad it does Susan. I love dreaming about my late father. It makes me feel good, too.

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  3. I find it so amazing that during a dream no matter how implausible the situation, it doesn't seem odd at all ... until we wake up.
    BTW, have you seen the movie Death at a Funeral? Your dream sort of fits into that story.

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    1. No! I haven't seen that movie... will look it up, though. Maybe it's on Netflix.

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    2. Oooo, Peter Dinklage from Game of Thrones is in that movie. Now I must see it for sure!

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  4. Chased her into a corner - that's hilarious.
    Wonder if your dad will get it when The Walking Dead comes on? Probably not...

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    1. Er, don't think so because he really is dead... *awkward* LOL!!!

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  5. Maybe it's a industrial breed thing, but the ones I've seen beheaded just flop around. I call it the Dead Chicken Dance. Then, of course, there was the saga of Mike the Headless Chicken…

    Funny we both had stories about dead poultry this week!

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    1. Personally I've never seen a chicken beheading but if I did I'm pretty sure I'd never, ever visit the Colonel again. So either it's one of Dave's tall tales, or it's true - organic farm-raised cluckers got better moves...

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  6. Aren't our dreams just straight up crazy sometimes?

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  7. So that's what's going on. The road super told me today he dreamed last night his mother died (she didn't) picking pumpkins and she fell over a cliff.

    I'll ask him his walking dead habits.

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    1. She was picking pumpkins and fell over a cliff??????? Forgive me but I laffed my socks off when I read that!!!! (I love that road super of yours, by the way... sunflower-pumpkin rescuer that he is)

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  8. That is messed up about the chickens....I've heard that, hence 'running around like a chicken with it's head cut off'...lol Dreams can be so weird! Mine always are!

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    1. Ever dreamed of giant squirrels? They're the weirdest...

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  9. I do like to be visited in my dreams by people I will not see otherwise.

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    1. I do, too.... but I like it better when they stay put!!!!

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  10. Only dreams of a writer could have these weird dreams lol ! Maybe this is where Steven King gets his stuff , from weird dreams ! Yes it is true of the chicken . I was raised on a farm and lived off of our live stock and land and have had a few headless chickens run around after . It is due to the nervous system and shock to the other parts of the body a huge twitch if you will lol ! And yup that's where the saying running around like a chicken with it's head chopped off came from , to many of us farmers have seen it not to believe it lol ! Thanks for sharing ... I think lol Have a good weekend !

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  11. Think of all the turkeys that are walking dead leading up to Thanksgiving.

    the Ol'Buzzard

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  12. My grandfather did that periodically when he had a farm, and yes a chicken would do that.

    As to dreams, I've had dreams of my late mother periodically, and during the dream, it never occurs to me that she's gone.

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  13. I had a dream where a fellow who had been like a grandfather to me came to my window and indicated that I needed to join him in the back yard. I did. He was sitting at the picnic table, in the sun, looking younger than he did when I knew him. He didn't say a word, but he somehow made me understand that everything was all right, that I did not need to worry. (I had been grieving... I was fifteen at the time and had been having nightmares. They never came back.)

    Do you suppose the beheaded chicken boogie is where the dance 'the Funky Chicken' came from?

    Diana at About Myself By Myself

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