Amandaceline

In my dream, my sister is having nightmares that seem to get worse when I'm there. We are both on a bus, and we start out talking and as I glance around, everything seems fine and the bus if filled with cute guys. Suddenly I look over to my left and there are three sinister men wearing black suits and shades. I am unnerved and mention them to C, but as I turn around to mention them to her I realise that the cute guys from before are gone and behind us there are more frightening men in suits. One of them sits down beside me and I jerk away. I see that Cathy is terrified and for some reason I am too so I suddenly wish a trapdoor would just open up under us so taht we could escape; and it does, making us tumble out onto a wide, black asphalt road with tenebrous forests on either side. By this point I've realised that C is afraid of the dark, and she's made me afraid too, so I think "Sh** this is black too" and C screams as another man dressed in black appears by some shrubs.
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The next thing I remember, C is holding my DS and with it is trying to eject me from the nightmare/game/whatever I thought it was. She seems distraught and adamant about getting me out of the game/nightmare. I step onto the DS and the next thing I remember I believe I have woken up but am still in the dream.
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In the same dream, I am in another of C's nightmares which starts out fine, in a jungle with colourful and zany creatures in it. C suddenly tells me that she fears sheep and as I look around for sheep in the jungle, sheep are there. Small ones, large splayed ones, colourful yet malign sheep hybrids. The quantity of bright disorientating beings around me multiplies as we run, making me feel ill and feverish and inducing fear and the belief that I am making this nightmare worse by being in it. I whip my head around and come face to face with a dingy, yet also sickening neon green, purple and blue zombie girl. The shock makes merealise that I am dreaming. Yet I am still terrified and cannot seem to banish the creatures. C yells 'I know!'and we keep running until the surroundings melt ito white; I am too disorientated to pick up details. My DS is on the floor again and C is agitated and tries to force me out of the nightmare with the DS. I wake.


I normally don't update my DJ but this is a rather significant dream for me. This is my first nightmare in years; I'm not sure if I should class it as a nightmare or not because I don't know what a nightmare should feel like and I did awaken feeling a bit frightened.

I would love some outside opinions on analysing the dream.

Notes:

I have also had other dream fragments that are unrelated to this dream.

C told me once that she used to have frequent nightmares as a child and she was able to naturally lucid dream and instead of trying to control the dream, she would use a red button on her wrist to escape and awaken. I think the DS console was similar to that button defense mechanism and it was brought about by C being in the dream and my mind remembering the comment she'd made about the button on her wrist, and as I've not had a nightmare in years I think C was a guide for me and helped me to escape.

C's (and my) fear of black, although odd is not irrational and could have been caused by my darkening my room before sleep last night rather than leaving the shutters open and it was unnerving. The fear of sheep, however, seems completely irrational as I'd never been afraid of them in RL. The Bus could have been brought about because the night before I had taken a bus with my two sisters and C's boyfriend at night, and I realised that public transport was so stifled and lifeless, with the people on the bus not acknowledging each others' presence, but I also thought it was very relaxing. The fear of the dark could also be due to the fact that I had gone trick-or-treating last night in the dark and cold and on occasion wondered if I was dreaming; an odd occurrence seeing as I've barely been doing RCs and so have not had many LDs.

I think C could be the side of me that is afraid of things, and that is why when she became frightened by the black and the sheep I subsequently became frightened too.

I would love some opinions.
Thanks,
Amanda (14)

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I am coming down from a spiraling tower, were I am fighting a miniature Tom Riddle. I win and go down into a sewer where I see Georgia with an ancient queen sculpture.

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I live in a bad area, go to a bad school, and am shunned and hated. I am in assembly and pop balloons to disrupt it. I remember seeing a sign for my town, which is tacky and neon.
I visit someone's home and a museum, where white, dusty relics reside. I am shocked that someone is treating me nicely. I go out to the balcony over the lake with my friend, where cool fresh air blows across my face.

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I am hanging from the high ceiling beams of a large, abandoned building, a heavy camera in the right pocket of my bulky jacket. I am trying to save vital footage, but the large, spindly spiders under me clamber on top of each other to reach me. I, in exhaustion, let go and and consumed into the masses of spiders below. I feel spindly legs all over me and think that I am about to die, when I realise that I'm not going to give up without a fight. I jump up and kick off my attackers as I wade and run over to the lady on the other side of the room. Suddenly one side of the large room is open, and the sea tide comes into the building. Under the moonlit, dark sky, the spiders wash away as I see a man with an odd oval, spherical and opaque golden yellow head rushing in and out with the tide. I join the creature in the water, feeling the gentle ebb of the waves and I am almost pulled in.
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I go to another room where there is a Mcdonalds. I buy two single fries after I borrow a 3 pound worth Mastercard.
I meet Naruto, less anime and more realistically, and we talk.
Suddenly, as I sit at a table an old, wise couple walk up to me and ask me if I am dreaming.
I attempt to push my hand through a wall, but fail so I deny the thought.
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Cathy is performing a song to the old couple on a Songbird ocarina. It looks odd, with odd fingerings and no sound comes out. It looks beautiful however, an angelic ceramic white. I try to play 'everybody wants to be a cat' from Aristocats, but fail. Adina plays my plastic STL ocarina for the couple as I attempt to play Greensleeves on Cathy's.

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I am lucid and in my living room. I have a shakespeare performance coming up in real life and I think, 'Hey, why not practice here where no one can hear me?' I say my lines for the Duchess of York, like 'Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end' and I bore myself.

School has been closed for a year, and my family are living in a ragged shack in the middle of a barren, desert-like dirt landscape. The school had moved to be a community center for Ghanaian children. Mr B comes to help me and my sister with Shakespease. Skye has moved to SBE school and tells me about it. My mother buys a plastic ocarina and juice.

I have lost my Akatsuki uniform. I found my top but need two more pieces of clothing.
There is a large lion chasing me. I distract him by running into a dead lion museum.
I run into a house, run upstairs and look out the window. The lion is outside so I slide down the room to escape.

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I am in the school foyer, about to walk home, when I see an ocarina teacher selling cheap ocarinas. I want to buy one but I had jsut bought a drink from student services.
I am shopping at Aldi, before I walk home. It is windy and a long thin tree is about to fall. I strip the tree from its branches.

There are riots behind a gate, so I retreat back to safety.

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I have just moved to a new town, where my family and I have moved into a drab, grey apartment. I went next door to visit the neighbors, and to offer to babysit to earn some pocket money.
For some reason, I realised I was dreaming (Light switch failure?) and suddenly the world around me burst into colour, green paint lining the room and cyan skies above. Everything was so vibrant and vivid. I spin around to increase clarity as the scene changes and I jump out the window.
I attempt to fly, but fail and freefall to the ground. I land with little impact, by an abandoned warehouse by a lime green field and try to materialise a broom. One appears, but I cannot fly.

I give up and head out across the fields into town. I see hordes of civilians rushing somewhere, and I want to find out why so I run with superspeed to catch up. I gain tunnel vision and everyone else around me are blurs in slow motion. I join the crowd and run ahead to the front where a little brunette girl names pandora is dancing, skipping and selling her charms as the villagers follow behind her. I'm not too impressed and I hold out my hand with the intent to create some charms. Suddenly I feel as if weighted objects are tumbling out of my hand and into my hand, as long, lime and rose green tubes charms appear in my hand, almost jumbled masses before they form into charms.
I try to create something else, but black liquid oil pours into my hands and a bystander claims that it is liquid chakra.
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I am in a comfy, rustic log cabin with a roaring fire and musky green sofas. Some of my friends are there. I tell Skye that she is dreaming andshe looks shocked, mutters "oh crap" and fades away. Kyra doesn't believe me, even after I grow an extra arm and can see myself in the third person, almost ghostly.
I grow bored and soon find the world fading so i spin and walk into a grey room with machinery. Wake.

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I am driving up with my family, up to a magnificent, victorian mansion decorated with massive, striking red Swarovski crystals. It looks a little creepy.
I feel like I am roleplaying with my family. We progress through dark, dank stone rooms with metal rings half buried in the stone floor, used for cleansing. We also move through musty, faded victorian style bedrooms, yet we come across no one.

I open a door. There is a woman bound to a chair in the middle, in a bad state. I know it's a trap, but we walk in anyway and the lady turns into a rotting skeleton who chases us out of the room. In RPG style my family try to defeat the skeleton, as our gold coins increase.

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I am on a beach, learning how to fly a broomstick. I can only fly for a few seconds before falling.
I walk down to the still blue ocean water. Faded, faraway sounds of soft laughter can be heard, but my focus is on a large scallop shell submerged in the water. I reach out to touch the shell, when I hear an urgent, sharp voice say "Don't touch the shell! It's a sign!"
I touch the shell and all of a sudden the clouds in the sky over cast and move overhead fast, as if in time lapse. The clouds swirl and head towards where the whole ocean is being sucked into a massive, stormy maelstrom. It is magnificent, the water is draining, leaning barren land and the clouds get sucked in.
Reality is collapsing as I am sucked into the maelstrom...



I open my eyes to find myself face to face with a being. We are in a small room, with a round tube-like table in the middle. There are others with me. The man talks, and gives us gifts. I receive tacky pink beads in a box.
I can't tell if this figure is God, or the devil, or something else as he sends us on our way.

I am in a shopping mall, staring in a shop window. I can see my reflection, and people pass by behind me, shopping and going about their everyday lives. Yet I stand, as if in a trance. I look like a girl from my school, Sophie, except with long, rough, spiky hair that is black with red streaks.

I am depressed. At this moment I am aware of my waking life, but I think that I have died and reincarnated as a new person. I feel depressed that my previous life was for nothing, and that everything I have achieved is for naught. I go to my new house with my new family. I don't remember their faces. depression weighs heavily on me as I contemplate my wasted previous life.
End.

I look our the window and there is a bootsale. My mother and little sister tell me to come out, but I am in my pajamas. They tell me to come out anyway.

I am playing hide and seek on a team. We are in a maze, competing against troll-like monsters for P.E. Mad-eye Moody is our teacher. Our form tutor is busy so Mad-Eye took over. He tells us tactics for playing against the monsters in the cave mazes, because we were all being wimps and were only playing in the fields. He tells us to stick in pairs, and dig ditches to catch the monsters in.

I am in some kind of tournament. I am fighting a boy, and can't bring myself to kill him so I force him to surrender by holding a knife to his throat. I win. For the next round, me and the other girls pick boys to fight, to receive corresponding bracelets as prizes.
I don't choose and instead walk around with one of the opposing boys. I insult him, accidentally by calling him a girl, and he does something weird to me, casting a spell or something of the sort.

Next thing, I am in school toilets. I look in the mirror. My hair is in a crown up-do and I have eyes that look like yellow illusion/miracle beads. I pass this off as the result of what the boy had done to me earlier, and I move on.


Me and my sister are outside Tescos, and are sitting by a massive ditch filled with stinging nettles. Someone on the other side of he ditch tries to get my attention, but we are separated by the nettles.
End.

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I have moved back to my old house in Worcester. Everything is in shades of grey, and the house is mouldy and damp. It is my birthday, yet the atmosphere is crushingly depressing.

I have moved to a new school. The secretary and headteacher are nasty and take advantage of the girls. Everything around me is grey and a little blurry.

Next I am at the beach; grey waves crashing onto grey beaches with grey overcast clouds up ahead and a chill breeze. I am listening to music with some other girls as an escape. We are on the internet as we can only find internet signal on the beach