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    What would you do?

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    bennettb6
    , 02-24-2011 at 03:50 AM (423 Views)
    Due to a completely fucked sleeping schedule, I haven't had a good dream recall let alone a lucid in a long time.

    This one was definitely memorable though. Not necessarily in a good way.

    After going on a starbucks run with my friend S (who has just gone through, yet another, serious breakup) I find out that the US government is after him. Why? For cheating on his girlfriend (which he did not do in reality). The sentence? He's going to be executed. Bit of a harsh verdict, but I don't think anything of it due to dream logic. I see him tied to a chair in the stairwell of our dorm building and suddenly I have a gun. I know that I have to shoot him or else bad things are going to happen. Not exactly sure what, but I believe the government was going to torture S. I aim the gun at him and question whether I can really do it. When I finally work up the courage to pull the trigger, I hear a click. The gun is empty. The whole time S sits there saying nothing. This makes me a killer AND my friend is still going to be tortured. I drop the gun and sit in the corner, almost crying.

    I find out that if I can find a key I can at least save him from being tortured. I spend a large portion of the dream looking for a key until I found out that my friend P has a massive tank of water in her room which i have to stick my arm into to get the key. I use it and unlock a little medicine cabinet on the wall near the stairwell and it's filled with poisons and various little weapons. I'm still reluctant, so my other friend Andrew grabs a knife and joyfully goes to do the job for me. I spend time ruminating about the US government and how all he did was cheat on his girl. I wake up in a pretty bad mood.

    Also, I think this dream was stuck somewhere in between my looking for the key. I'm hanging out with this kid from back in high school who I had absolutely despised. Me and him are going to the gym and then going to get jobs together at some place called Jelly Donut. I'm not getting along with him (as usual) but for some reason he's convinced me that we will both get jobs if we go together. Weird.

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    Updated 03-22-2011 at 09:13 PM by 42157

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    Comments

    1. HeritageDreamer's Avatar
      That sounds really stressful. I'm going to analyze this for fun.

      You had to make a very difficult decision that seemed wrong (shooting your friend) for an ultimate greater good. Have you ever had to make a decision like that in real life? I don't mean to shoot someone, but to do something you didn't want because you knew it was for your own good?

      Maybe the US government represents some sort of higher power like a teacher, a parent, perhaps even your school system that is unfair. I personally hated the school system at the college I attended.

      This sounds like a thriller movie type of dream. I kind of like those. I get a lot of zombie dreams.
    2. The Sandman's Avatar
      Man! That was a great read. Too bad it had to be such a sucky dream! I like your dream logic line. I wonder if you just coined that term? It should be in the dictionary. So, the government was going to kill your friend for cheating on his girl? Um, yea. That sucks! :-)
    3. bennettb6's Avatar
      Glad people are enjoying my entries.

      I've never been one for dream analysis, but i HAVE had to make a lot of difficult decisions at college. Still, I think the main cause was the fact that I felt so bad for my friend with all the shit he's been going through lately, and that I haven't really been able to help him. I think that's the kind of thing that REALLY affects your dreams.

      To Rman, I don't think I've heard it anywhere before. Just seems to be an appropriate term for it, eh? And yeah, shit happens