Dream Reaction - Editor getting Chloroformed - Pledging the Sorority - N.C.U.

This was an email that the editor, S.G. sent me about a dream she had… or was it something more than a dream…

(Editors Note: "no I remember this, I'm pretty sure it was just a dream :oP")

(Authors Note: "This was in fact... NOT a dream. She was hypnotized by me to live this out as a fantasy and wake up remembering it as a dream.")

“Does it mean I'm editing too much if i start having dreams about what I'm editing? I mean like actual scenes from the stories, not being chased around by punctuation marks or stuff like that :oP 

I've been meaning to get to these for a few days, but I had a couple short dreams this week...really really short, honestly. And it was kind of amusing because both of them were, i swear, taken from pledging the sorority (probably because that's the last one i've been editing, but i digress). I'll be brief with both, because they're honestly a little fuzzy at this point, but the first one i had was earlier in the week. From what i can remember, and honestly the first thing i remember, was opening the door of a college dorm room. When i opened it, it was basically like as if i was opening it on the scene of laura being 'chloroformed'...she was already face down on the bed with trisha leaning over and whispering in her ear, while the other two were just watching them with this mixture of confusion and interest on their faces. It took a moment, but finally one of them must have heard the door open and looked over at me (carly? maybe? i'm just going to use the story names because it's easier for my brain)...at that point i was just sort of watching what was happening and couldn't really pull myself away, maybe because of being intrigued, maybe because it was more like one of those situations where you know you shouldn't be watching but you can't really pull yourself away from watching it. I snapped out of it and looked over to see that both of them were now looking at me, confused, and i kind of just stammered over my words and tried to excuse myself and leave the room. But at that point trisha had caught wind of what was happening and looked up at the rest of us with kind of a devious expression on her face. When I tried to back up and out of the room, i found that the door was closed behind me (no idea how that happened but like i said some of this is fuzzy at this point). I pointed over to laura and asked if she was alright and trisha commented something about her being fine and just sleeping off the effects of some chloroform (commenting this completely offhandedly, by the way). I must have given her a strange look because the grin on her face got even more devious as she moved over to her dresser, opened it up, and pulled out another sock, then closed the drawer and looked at the others. I made a comment about the chloroform that i don't remember, and i'm not sure what on my face gave it away, but she started moving towards me and talking about how it wasn't really chloroform of course, then held up the sock and started explaining about the state laura was in and how in her mind the sock that was under her face, just like the one she was holding, smelled like it to her. 

There was a conversation that went back and forth for a few minutes, and i don't know why i even stayed in the room that long to be honest, i just kept indulging her in the explanation she was giving me about the scent of the chloroform that laura couldn't help but breathe in while she had that sock near her. It all seemed...odd, at best, to me, and i kept trying to keep my attention focused on the other two, who were switching between watching me and looking back over at laura every now and then to verify that she was still completely unconscious, and also on trisha who kept going on and on about the sock and how odd it must have seemed, but also kept describing the smell in a lot of detail. I swore for a moment that i could smell something like what she was describing, but i shook my head a bit and it disappeared, which helped because my head was also feeling fuzzy at that point too. I made another comment about letting them get back to whatever it was that they were doing, before trisha stopped and asked if i wanted a better explanation...against my better judgement i asked what she meant, which only made her move closer to me. Somewhere along the line, i'd lost track of the sock she was holding, and i watched as she moved out of my line of sight...but before i could turn around to keep an eye on her, i felt her hand move around my waist and hold me back against her. I tried to move my head, to turn around and face her, but i didn't get far before she slapped a wet cloth against my face...of course it wasn't actually a wet cloth soaked in chloroform, that was just what i was expecting it to be in my mind, so that was what i felt and smelled. The smell from it filled my nose immediately and i started to struggle against her, but it didn't do much good...she held me in place pretty firmly and shifted the cloth over my mouth so it wouldn't cover my nose completely. With each passing second i felt myself getting weaker and my body was heavier to move...my arms felt like they weighed a ton, but i still tried to move them up to push away the 'rag'...vaguely i think i heard her and the others giggling, but the edges of my vision were starting to fade and the smell was getting stronger. Pretty soon after that i felt like i could barely stand up straight and started to sag back against her...and within a few more moments everything started fading to black completely as my eyes rolled up into my head a bit and fluttered closed. 

So like i said, it was basically like something straight out of the story...i don't know if there was more to it that i don't remember or what, but i was confused and also a little entertained by the fact that i basically inserted myself into the story just to get chloroformed :oP Maybe i just had it on the brain from reading and editing the story? Maybe i just have an overactive imagination? either was i thought it was kinda funny, there was another one too that i think was basically just getting sprayed with the water bottle too and 'knocked out' by the gas in that, but this was the one i remembered more of. Go figure.”