Blueberry Dreams

Later that night, Barbara was just getting ready for bed. She had removed all her clown clothing (it was the only time she ever did during the day), and changed into a surprisingly simple tee-shirt and shorts.

Yawning, Barbara crawled into her bed, still thinking about how to do her Wonka routine. She couldn't completely recreate the movie, she had to find a way to make it her own thing. She had the seltzer, but that wasn't enough.

Laying her head on the pillow, Barbara closed her eyes, and eventually drifted off to sleep.

In her dream, Barbara was sitting in the bleachers of the circus, an onlooker to her own show. Crowds of cheering audience members filled the bleachers.

Just then, the lights dimmed. A single spotlight, light-blue, turned on and shined on the center ring. Barbara was curious to see just what was going to happen.

A few second later, there was activity in the center ring. Barbara's aunt and uncle were entering the ring. They were rolling... something odd. It was a massive blue ball, nearly 15 feet tall wrapped in something pink and purple.

Her aunt and uncle stopped rolling the ball, and a number of clowns Barbara didn't recognize descended from the ceiling. They started bouncing on the ball like it was a trampoline. Even from the bleachers, Barbara could hear some sort of liquid sloshing around in the ball. That's when it hit her: this was a giant blueberry.

The clowns stopped jumping on the ball and landed on the ground. They then slowly turned the ball around. It had two smaller, yet still huge spheres on it that looked like breasts. A screen then descended, and turned on. It showed the top of the ball, and what Barbara saw shocked her: it was her own face, coming out of the blueberry.

Barbara woke up utterly confused. In all her 24 years of living, she'd never had such a weird dream in her life. She looked at the clock next to her bed. 2:44 AM. She then glanced over at the seltzer bottle on her nightstand. The possible cause of her odd dream.

For some odd reason, she wanted to test the bottle. Getting up, she walked over to the bottle. It was full of blue seltzer, so she could take it for a test run, see if it actually worked. However, she decided against it. She didn't want to risk wasting any of the seltzer in the bottle, and even then, the seltzer could be flat.

Shrugging, she went back to bed, and dozed off again. Her dreams this time were blueberry-free.

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