Last night, I dreamed I was trapped in a house with two friends. The house was full of traps we had to avoid and monsters that would kill us. Towards the end, we had to place one of four books face-down on a screen. If we chose the wrong one, the screen would turn into a camera, and all the monsters in the house would know where we were.
After one botched attempt, we chose the right book, and the screen opened, revealing a slide to safety. Unfortunately, after dashing out of the house, my friends got angry and started trying to break off parts of the entryway. They got too close, the door slammed, and they were trapped, killed and eaten.
I ran away, only to discover that the entire world had been taken over by monsters and vampires and it was hopeless.
What is up with that? Why don’t I dream about the collapse of our economy, or about any of the horrific news items on CNN? Contrary to popular belief, I am not actually six. (You tell people you like ponies and unicorns and they label you a first grader for life.)
Does anyone else still have monster dreams? I get attacked by vampires, possessed acquaintances, psycho killers and monsters in my dreams pretty frequently. The other night I had a flying dream, but I spend the whole time trying to fly away from this vengeance-crazed man who kept stabbing at me with razors.
I’m almost never myself in dreams, but no matter who you are, it’s still not pleasant to be chased and mutilated. I read Jane Austen and end up dreaming the zombie version. Do you remember your dreams? What weird things do you dream about?
ShareThis
5 comments ↓
OMG! I had to comment on this post because I have so many weird dreams and often remember them, so they haunt me pretty much all day. I always try to look up their meanings, but I'm often disappointed by the explanations.
I used to have this recurring dream where I was driving and I would get really tired and curl up in the front seat and the car would be swerving everywhere on a dark road. I would wake up (in my dream) just in time to see myself and the car careening toward a huge stone wall but I was so tired that I was powerless to stop the collision. As you can imagine, this was terrifying.
But at least you got out alive in your dream. Perhaps the monsters are from video/computer games? I'd rather dream about that than economic collapse since that's our living nightmare :-)
Note to self: Stop using bed as storage location for razors.
This is entirely possible – as I type this, I'm watching Jon shoot mutilated post-apocalypse citizens. Although, when I used to play WoW, I would have these really empowering dreams where I had awesome super powers and could smite down the monsters in question. I kind of miss that.
Dreams where you wake up in your dream as so disorienting. I suggest playing Katamari Damacy or GTA4 until driving into things becomes routine – possibly your subconscious will start recognizing the situation, and instead of being terrifying, you will be happy, since each time you collide, you're collecting points.
This is entirely possible – as I type this, I'm watching Jon shoot mutilated post-apocalypse citizens. Although, when I used to play WoW, I would have these really empowering dreams where I had awesome super powers and could smite down the monsters in question. I kind of miss that.
Dreams where you wake up in your dream are so disorienting. I suggest playing Katamari Damacy or GTA4 until driving into things becomes routine – possibly your subconscious will start recognizing the situation, and instead of being terrifying, you will be happy, since each time you collide, you're collecting points.
Yeah, you've really got to cut that out. Did you see what I did there? CUT that out? Hahahahaha.
Okay, I don't blame you for leaving razors in the bed.
Leave a Comment