omg! i HAVE to tell you about this stupid dream i had, in my delusional state of fever and phlegm-hackiness....
so, there is apparently this religion called "eden-poh" and one of my old school friends from back home just converted to it (let's call her LHL). To help her figure out if this was the right religion for her and ensure that she has all the spiritual needs to embrace this religion, my other friend (lets call her NYY) wanted to throw a party to do just that. Apparently you can buy some kit to help out with this spiritual embracing and all we needed was someone's home to do it in (NYY's parent's house) and one of those really old movie reels to play the kit on. So NYY sent out a bunch of invitation to a bunch of us girls and we were allowed to bring a bunch of guests if we wanted to, and i thought, what the heck right-ive never heard of this "eden-poh" religion and i figured that itd be an entertaining show. I brought my husband, siblings, and parents along for the ride.
So we get to NYY's place, everybody was there except for LHL (apparently she was en-route). After waiting for a while, everybody got really antzy and NYY's mom suggested we play the movie while we waited for LHL. So off went the lights, and on went the movie - it started out with a historical background on how this religion (or "belief system") was founded. It apparently originated in the 1800s by some dude that appeared to be wearing african safari hunting clothes, with a tall hat, a whispery moustache, and a face that reminds me of one of those really old colonial british faces. He was sitting in an abandoned house, when he was approached by these "eden-poh" spirits ... and some things happened (it looked like he was being warped by some ghosts to us on the screen) - but according to the movie, only true believers will be able to get over the fact that these are the true "eden-poh" spirits, and something will apparently "click" within themselves, while being warped by these ghosts. Non-believers will just honestly freak out.
So then after that, the movie went on to showing a bunch of images. Now this was the freaky part. These images started out with black and white shadowy pictures of what seemed to be portraits, first on the top left corner, a horrible distorted image of a "scrooge" look-a-like, replaced by what reminds me of the "magic mirror" from snow white (except the dude in the mirror looked like he wanted to escape and do some damage onto whomever that just used him to make stupid predictions), and that image was then replaced by a few others that had similar thematic creepiness. Shortly after the images played, a ghost came on screen (or what they call the "eden-poh" master spirit). He was grotesque looking, skin the color of cement, clothed in tattered white, bound by heavy chains. He had a message for the people watching - that he too is watching...
Now, at this point in time, everybody in the house watching this creepy movie decided we had had enough and wanted to stop the movie. It was the weirdest thing that I had ever seen myself, and I was glad to have the lights back on. Immediately after the movie ended however, NYY's dad frantically called NYY over to a wall by the movie reel, and together they put their ears on the wall. And as soon as they did that, the both of them jumped backwards, and her dad screamed "Oh-my-gawd - that ghost is in the wall!!!!"
I, who was sitting closest in the corner of the room, looked back at the wall, and inconveniently, saw a hole in the wall (the size of a squished quarter), and immediately stood up. As I stared intently, I thought I saw gleaming silvery eyes and a hint of whisperey moustache - so heck, I jumped out of my seat, grabbed my brother with me......
.. and I woke up! Almost laughing! OMG - what a fucking crazy dream! Mike came into the bedroom to check up on my fever (which had miraculously evaporated over night, thanks to some sweating-in-sleep), and I had to quickly relive the dream, so as I retell the story to him, I was laughing my ass off till I cried.... oh geesh... wtf??!!!
so, there is apparently this religion called "eden-poh" and one of my old school friends from back home just converted to it (let's call her LHL). To help her figure out if this was the right religion for her and ensure that she has all the spiritual needs to embrace this religion, my other friend (lets call her NYY) wanted to throw a party to do just that. Apparently you can buy some kit to help out with this spiritual embracing and all we needed was someone's home to do it in (NYY's parent's house) and one of those really old movie reels to play the kit on. So NYY sent out a bunch of invitation to a bunch of us girls and we were allowed to bring a bunch of guests if we wanted to, and i thought, what the heck right-ive never heard of this "eden-poh" religion and i figured that itd be an entertaining show. I brought my husband, siblings, and parents along for the ride.
So we get to NYY's place, everybody was there except for LHL (apparently she was en-route). After waiting for a while, everybody got really antzy and NYY's mom suggested we play the movie while we waited for LHL. So off went the lights, and on went the movie - it started out with a historical background on how this religion (or "belief system") was founded. It apparently originated in the 1800s by some dude that appeared to be wearing african safari hunting clothes, with a tall hat, a whispery moustache, and a face that reminds me of one of those really old colonial british faces. He was sitting in an abandoned house, when he was approached by these "eden-poh" spirits ... and some things happened (it looked like he was being warped by some ghosts to us on the screen) - but according to the movie, only true believers will be able to get over the fact that these are the true "eden-poh" spirits, and something will apparently "click" within themselves, while being warped by these ghosts. Non-believers will just honestly freak out.
So then after that, the movie went on to showing a bunch of images. Now this was the freaky part. These images started out with black and white shadowy pictures of what seemed to be portraits, first on the top left corner, a horrible distorted image of a "scrooge" look-a-like, replaced by what reminds me of the "magic mirror" from snow white (except the dude in the mirror looked like he wanted to escape and do some damage onto whomever that just used him to make stupid predictions), and that image was then replaced by a few others that had similar thematic creepiness. Shortly after the images played, a ghost came on screen (or what they call the "eden-poh" master spirit). He was grotesque looking, skin the color of cement, clothed in tattered white, bound by heavy chains. He had a message for the people watching - that he too is watching...
Now, at this point in time, everybody in the house watching this creepy movie decided we had had enough and wanted to stop the movie. It was the weirdest thing that I had ever seen myself, and I was glad to have the lights back on. Immediately after the movie ended however, NYY's dad frantically called NYY over to a wall by the movie reel, and together they put their ears on the wall. And as soon as they did that, the both of them jumped backwards, and her dad screamed "Oh-my-gawd - that ghost is in the wall!!!!"
I, who was sitting closest in the corner of the room, looked back at the wall, and inconveniently, saw a hole in the wall (the size of a squished quarter), and immediately stood up. As I stared intently, I thought I saw gleaming silvery eyes and a hint of whisperey moustache - so heck, I jumped out of my seat, grabbed my brother with me......
.. and I woke up! Almost laughing! OMG - what a fucking crazy dream! Mike came into the bedroom to check up on my fever (which had miraculously evaporated over night, thanks to some sweating-in-sleep), and I had to quickly relive the dream, so as I retell the story to him, I was laughing my ass off till I cried.... oh geesh... wtf??!!!