nightmare

I didn't remember what my dream is when I woke up, only just that it involved a person. Earlier today I had flashbacks of the dream. I now remember one scene of the dream.Scene:
I feel terribly alone. I'm in woods, I think it's central park. I see a person, but just like my last dream, the "lag" had returned. I moved closer to the person. The lag was changing the person's gender from female to male on and off. Before I woke up it stopped at female and I still can barely see the person's face. I feel terrified. I feel as though something terrifying will happen. Suddenly,(Just like a movie trailer when it zooms up on a demon-like girl) I zoomed toward the girl. Just as I start wake up I only get to see the pale, white girls' mouth and the bottom of her nose(I could not see her eyes) she was smirking guilty-like. The girl had the same jacket on as the girl I liked in the fifth grade when we really started talking.<END OF DREAM>

My sister called my outside to show me something and it was horrible. There was a net over the pool and there was a dead blue jay stuck in it. There was a beaten and bloody dead blue jay slammed against the roof. To make things worse there was a nest of 7 blue jays that just hatched and 3 eggs, one hatching. It was their nest. We picked it up and took it to school with us incase someone knew what we could do with it. No one even noticed us though so we found no help. I woke up after that, crying because I'm a giant animal lover.

Two-two scratches at the door. The sliding glass door. I let him in. I am so happy and shocked. No one else seems to want to give this miraculous event any attention. Am I lucid? I pick him up and give him all of my love. He seems disturbed, not himself. I am reminded of Buffy's second coming (laugh out loud). He is in pain. I now notice a large hole on the right lower side of his tummy. Holding him, cradling him in my arms, I turn to my family for some help or advice. Something! They all look down, shaking heads nay. They tell me that he may be alive and that there may be hope, but it is not “RIGHT”. They gave me the feeling that helping save Two-two was immoral or corrupt. I turn to Brian, the same reaction from him. A sad, firm, absolute; NO. I am so distraught, lost, speechless. I've snapped. I'm yelling and screaming and raising hell. My heart is broken.

1st dream
I woke up in dream and did 3 different reality checks and they all checked out I wasn't dreaming. I walked over to Pruzels cage and saw she looked lonely. I ran over to the pet store and bought an adult male budgie and took him home to Pruzel. They were instant friends and did everything together. I woke up soon though and she was alone sleeping.

2nd dream
I was playing minecraft pocket edition on the couch in my living room. I was yelling at it for a long time. My mansion in survival mode was being overrun by aggressive spiders and I kept getting defeated. I couldn't get my diamond sword back and more just kept coming! I woke up after my diamond sword was gone...

10.11.2012

Dream Views Shuts Down (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Alex decides to close the DV forums, and Opheliablue makes the announcement that DV will be closing soon.

It remains inaccessible for a few minutes, then I checked on Meta to find Alex made a thread stating what happened. He decided to sell it to a person who's French.

Alex didn't state why he had to leave, but I guess he was going to leave everything to the French guy's hands now.

Eventually, the same French guy who is now admin is using the site for a French class, not for lucid dreaming overall. I get irritated, and there's a bunch of threads that seem to be deleted since it's not related to French class at all.

I looked at the Notifications section on top of the screen, and saw I have a few likes received. There's one like where I made some post that had some naked lady with her breasts covered by hands. I think I made the post in response to someone who did post pictures of breasts.

The other likes looked like I posted in threads that died a long time ago.

Then after all that, the dream shifts to me being outside now, and it seems that the area I'm in has Europe vibe to it. It's a completely new environment to me, and I'm presuming it have a France vibe to it.

The concrete had rock material fused together, like those little bumps you see formed close together. I realize that I'm sitting down a small bleacher bench while looking at some people to the right/left of me.

These looked like randomly generated DCs, and then I come to the realization that the new admin really didn't buy Dream Views to sustain the forum, but to make a new site for French classes.

I end up leaving, and I think I see SpaceCowboyDave leaving before me in this weird area.

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10.11.2012

I Have SpiderMan Powers and Facing Huge Ghost Rider (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

WOAH...

I'm inside of an area that's reminiscent of the LOZ: Windwaker's section where you would face Puppet Ganon, except that the area has shades of brown, mostly because the surface of the whole area seem to be made of wood.

There's these wooden surfaces that would be on some parts of the wall that were surprisingly stable. There was a long wooden path high on the wall you could walk on the right side of the area as well.

The walls have a lighter hue of brown, but since this area has a dark vibe to it, it isn't noticeable immediately. There's a few torches lighting up the place, but it doesn't really make most parts any clearer to see. This place also seem to be reminiscent to Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones' area where the Prince had to move a statue before the place burns to a crisp.

I seem to be flinging around the place like I have Spiderman's abilities to web-shoot and swing. I do this for a while, and I hear Amon's voice from The Legend of Korra. He comes out of of this black and opaque opening, and he starts saying some things to me.

I can't recall what he said, but he does have my attention for sure. I eventually get on the lowest surface in this area, and I was somewhat close to Amon. I get a little scared, and decided to quickly jump and web-swing again away from him.

The dream shifts to where a HUGE ass creature forms, and it looks a lot like Ghost Rider, except it's 1,000 x bigger. I don't know what to do except to keep flinging webs and swinging at random areas.

It doesn't seem the Ghost Rider thing isn't concentrated at me at the initial periods of it manifesting. It seemed to be attacking some random people in what I thought was an empty area with just me inside.

After a while I get so scared that I decided to hide behind a wall on the same long wooden path on the right that I stated before. I seem to have found the Ghost Rider Giant's blind-spot. The wall I was behind I think let to an exit, but I decided to stay there.

While I'm hiding behind it, I can still see what's happening behind me. The Ghost Rider Giant starts punching the walls randomly, probably aiming for more randomly generated dream characters. It tries to get me, but it simply is not able to get through small spaces.

After that, I don't know what happens, hell, I don't even know if I can even kill this thing.

It just appears out of nowhere....what the hell.

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10.11.2012

Ordering Breakfast Tacos (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I'm with my mother, and we're inside of a store that probably sell Hispanic food. It's similar to the environment you see in Starbucks, but that was probably because I wasn't paying attention to the rest of the store with my peripheral vision to the left.

I just stood near the cashier, and waited with my mother. When she received her order of what seems to be Sausage and Potatoes wrapped in Tortillas, I told her that I would like a Breakfast Taco. She looks at me as if she's a little annoyed that I didn't tell her sooner, but she quickly changes her demeanor from irritated to kind towards the employee.

It takes quite a while for the order to be finished, and I was wondering if they forgot or something. I was looking at some Asian man wearing a dress shirt and probably dark brown dress pants as well. It seems he's writing on something, and when I take a little peak, he seems to be writing on a PINK Intuos4 Tablet.

He's writing on it with a ball-point pen without the ball-point in it instead of a tablet pen. The tablet seems to respond to this object that shouldn't even make any kind of response. I think there was another Intuos4 near the cashier counter, and I started to touch it.

Man, that tablet is very sensitive, it picks up my movements with my finger pretty well, and the harder I press on it, the large the cursor increases. I take my fingers off the active base of the tablet product after playing with it for maybe 15-30 seconds.

My order finally comes, and it's inside a brown lunch bag. I take a peak inside, and there's two breakfast Tacos for myself. I also feel that I could've been younger in this dream, like 14 years old or so rather than 19 years of age.

The breakfast tacos looked very enticing as well...the eggs, potatoes, and whatever meat is in there (sausage or bacon) closely packed together. The eggs seemed to be the main thing that attracted me, they were so fluffy and yellow.

The dream starts as I'm in my room and I'm playing on a console connected to my TV. On the console I'm playing slender which apparently in my dream had been adapted for console. I think "this game isn't so scarey, I wont be scared that easily" not even more than a few second into the game just thinking about the possibility of being scared sets off my paranoia as has happened plenty of times in waking life when alone and in a dimly lit room. I turn off the game, the room is suddenly darker for the TV being off.

I have a false awakening and I'm in bed,I reach for my dimmer switch that I keep in my bed and hold in the button trying to brighten the lights. Of course it doesn't work. The switch is acting up, so I keep at it and eventually get it bright enough that I am satisfied with the brightness enough to get off the bed to turn on the main ceiling lights.

I get up and within the dream I hallucinate a man hanging upside down from the ceiling facing away from me. He's in black and white and seems to be sort of folded in on himself. To skinny even his head, and his shoulders are close together, his arms go into his waist from wrist down and doesn't have any visible hands. I'm having a hard time moving around at this point but I figure if I move I can break the hallucination, but as this was actually a dream it didn't break. I wasn't in a hypnogogic state as I believed in the dream. I bat at the man with my right hand and it goes through his head. He seems to flicker as if a horror movie effect from the Ring or something.

I walk past him and try to turn another light on. Again the light is acting up and I don't seem to notice that I'm in a different room then I was a second ago, then I am back where I was and try for the light I was originally going for. It too is acting up, but after a few flicking of the switch it finally turns on, but a bit dimmer than it should be.

I head for the stairs and find myself at the top not noticing within the dream the chronological gaps or being out of place suddenly from where I was. I hear something and as this point am pretty scared. I turn around and hear someone coming in through the backdoor in the basement. I turn around and look down the steps, they are shorter then they were before I went to go up them as they are in waking life. I bend my knees reading to pounce down the steps the moment I see the intruder and take them out, being confident at the time that the adrenaline would give me enough strength even if it was a larger man or two men about my size.

It's neither though and I don't have to pounce. It's my mom and a friend of hers I've never seen. My mom is in semi-Gothic makeup and clothing and her friend is in an outfit made of pleather. I'm relieved that it's not an intruder that I'd have to fight. I think I recall my mom saying something like what would you have done if it actually had been a intruder larger then myself. I replied saying that I think I would have been able to take them do to the adrenaline pumping through me at the moment.

I also think that later I should call the government and inform them an the hallucinations I was having, just having been evaluated since I have been applying for disability and not having any mention of the kind of hallucination I believed to be experiencing to the doctor who evaluated me.

I hop downstairs and we move to the other side of the basement. Never actually having moved through the door going to the other side of the basement I find myself there with them. It's no longer the basement and there is a fourth person with us. A very large muscular man. There is no instruction in any sense. He wasn't there and then he was,again not noticing the chronological gaps, talking to him as if he had been introduced earlier.

I hop where I'm going rather then walk, I hop very far on one stride and gravities effect on me seem to be less do to the adrenaline I believed to be pumping through me and this seems to make perfect sense at the time.

My mom and her friend make there way to a table the big guy ether falling behind or no longer existing in the dream since I stopped thinking about him. I make my way to a somewhat older looking elf with a monocle in a lawn chair. I see his deathly sick wife laying down a little bit away from where most of this was happening. I can't discern whether she is human or elf but it never occurred to me to wonder that in the dream anyway.

I seem to have vague memories of him and pose a question "what if a man could go back in time?". I ask this believing that it was in his power to travel with us in time, to save his wife. Although I don't believe that to be my true motive for trying to provoke him. He instantly reacts negatively, but then he seems to dualisticly hold a bit of a gollum-esk argument with himself without me having to throw much into the conversation. I notice that he has some small fangs as he speaks.

Likely my motivation for trying to provoke the fellow with the monocle into time travel was my belief that somehow I could attempt to attain immortality if I did travel in time with him.

[Monday, October 8th, 2012]
Being chased by a muscular clown with a hammer. We were inside a spooky mansion with Alex, Nathan, and Scooby and the Gang. We were
playing a game (we were being forced to) where the clown would chased us and try to hammer the shit out of us. We take turns- first up is Fred.
He's terrified, but we all watch as the Clown chases him off. I hold a paper in my hand. It shows a list of everyone in the house. Fred's name is lit
up. After awhile, it becomes crossed off. Suddenly, another person's name lights up and it starts again. I notice there is a door out of the room I'm
in and I sneak off with a few other people. There's a tall chain-link fenced backyard here- I climb up to the top to show everyone a way to get out.
No one is behind me now; I walk back inside and there's Shaggy and Scooby!

The paper was shining again, this time with Shaggy and Scooby's names lit up. The clown is coming for us- "COME ON GUYS, FOLLOW ME!"
We all somehow make it up the fence pretty fast and drop down. We sneak to the front yard where Shaggy and Scooby for some apparently
reason re-enter the house. "They're gonners..." I think to myself. I run to a bush to hide for awhile and I look around. We're in Arizona- the desert.
The setting reminds me of Congress. Just then the paper goes dark again. But my name isn't lighting up. I walk back to the house, confused, when
suddenly it lights up again. The front door opens wide and the clown walks out smiling, a sledgehammer on his shoulder. I sprint for the backyard
fence to try and climb it. I have abnormally high reflexes and speed and can move on the fence faster than humanly possible. I try to trick the
clown by pretending to drop into the backyard, and instead running back to the front yard but he sees my manuever. He compliments me, "AHH,
that's a smart move! Too bad though!"

<My dream ends before the clown can hit me.>

Heres the start of what will hopefully take me to full lucid dreaming.

This dream is from two nights ago.

Id consider it a nightmare, but since it was more than 24 hours ago, the details are vauge. I was unfamiliar with the location for the most part, but for some reason it reminds me of my stay in St. Lucia about a month or so ago. It was a sinister setting, and I believe I was being chased by som sort of apparition. Blue... floating. Amorphous. But I feared it. I wanted to run away. I dont remember it emitting any particular sounds, but it was indeed pursuing me as I ran. The only real thing that I could remember is that I started to run down a corridor, and it became darker and darker.... but I was gaining distance from whatever I was running from. As I was running I looked behind me and could see the blue appartiton fading away in the distance... and this brought me comfort.... However, as I turned around to look towards where I was running, there it was, right in front of me. It scared the shit out of me. I yelled "no!", and that became audible in the real world as I woke up. Thats all I remember. I believe I looked around, checked the time, and went back to sleep.

10.09.2012

Girl watched DBZ Hentai (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

There's a girl who looks like someone in waking life from my Organic chemistry Lab, and she's in the ROTC or Corp Cadet as well. She's wearing a dark greed cadet uniform with some fancy badges on her chest. We're sitting at a lunch table on the opposite sides.

She's a few seats to the right of me on the other side, and I seem to be alone, but I to distract myself, I just listen to the people on the right, and the girl. The girl is bragging how she looked at DBZ Hentai all day, and starts making fun of herself, even doing a pretentious crying reaction.

Then the dream shifts or resets where she said that I would sit next to her?

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10.09.2012

Mall with Parents (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I'm inside of a mall, and I'm walking with my father and mother, and my father asks what would be his favorite kind of food, and I make an assumption that it's Whataburger.

He then says, "No your real father,"

Wait....what?

I'm a bit puzzled when he told me that, and then passed it off and said "Panda Express." I don't know why I'm saying these things, since I don't know what the hell he likes, and my mother looks at me weird when I said that fast food place, like she's surprised or something. I see some different Asian restaurant outlet when I declared it.

As I'm following my parents, I think, I see two men to my right stilling on some rotatable stools, and the one on the right looked very familiar, at least based on the profile view I saw him in. It ends up being "Rup" (nicknaming) that I know in waking life. The other person on the left is probably a relative or friend of his, but I don't know his name.

Father shakes hands with Rup and the other guy, and I do the same. When I get to the other guy by saying,

"I'm Brandon," I move my ears closer to wait to hear what his name is.

He says it, but I can't recall what he stated, and he declared that we've met before, when I used to be quiet.

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm............don't think you were around when I decided to be quiet as a child....

The mall has a lot of contrasting colors, the most apparent being Blue and Red.

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10.09.2012

x+ y^2 Equation (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I'm going inside of a classroom, and I see an African American male teacher who is fairly tall, about 6'6''-7 feet tall. He's wearing long sports pants, and a shirt. He seems to be doing last minute reviewing for the class before the exam starts.

A student queries on a concept on what they would use for some random equation I can't recall too well. The teacher was in the middle of passing out something that seemed to be given in the order of colors ranging from yellow, red, and blue while the student was asking the question. The colors are probably just different exam forms.

The teacher then shows how to do the problem requested, and there's two models where you would graph it. One is a basic line with some points on it, and the other seems to be just half circles curving downward and in a chain.

Then the paper I'm looking at with these models changes into a sepia colored hill slopes with black ink outlining the top and at least some of both sides of each hill-like structure. I guess the black ink with the hill slopes were the answers, so I decided to memorize that before the exam begins.

The teacher finally gets the exams handed out, and I see a yellow paper and small packet handed out to me. I presume this is my exam, and I quickly get rid of all my stuff I took of my backpack to prevent from being accused of cheating.

Then the dream shifts where I still feel I'm taking an exam, and this time, I have a gray laptop open in front of me. It seems to have the same Acer Aspire Series background I currently have in waking life for my Acer Laptop, but I didn't notice it at the time.

I was stumped on a question that had something like:

(X value here) + (Y squared) = Value here

I seem to have difficulty remembering a basic concept here, and I just stare at the laptop like an idiot. There's a person sitting next to me on the right. I didn't want to pay attention to her too much, so I kept her within my peripheral vision, so I can't recall her visage too well.

Something about her makes me presume she must be an Asian female that I knew in waking life, so let's call her "Jen"

I wasn't sure why Jen was looking at my laptop, considering we're still taking an exam, but it seems she doesn't care, and is looking at my laptop still for some weird reason.

It gets irritating and makes me nervous because I had feelings that she was looking to see how I'm having trouble figuring out what would've been a simple problem if I didn't have basic logic eradicated in this dream.

I tried entering a random equation of x+4^2 = something, but it doesn't help, even though the problem is clearly an x+y squared format....

*sigh*

I started to tense up more, and to prevent myself from looking like an idiot to Jen, a DC that just happens to conform to the body composition and visage of her, I clicked a forward arrow button on the bottom right to move on to the next problem, and planned to go back to the one I stumped on later on.

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10.09.2012

Windwaker Windfall Island Possessed??? (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I seem to be controlling Toon Link from The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker, and he's walking around in the front section of Windfall Island, and everyone's eyes look weird.

They all have some kind of dark orange aura around their pupils, and every time I go near an NPC, they always come up with the response,

"I remember!"

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE...It's LIKE A FUCKING CREEPYPASTA of Majora's mask or something, except it's just for Windwaker....holy shit......................

Instead of using them using the typical response in white font on a black box with the green circle thing on the bottom from the actual game, it's on the blue-violet type of box that would show up if you were to get an item or it couldn't be used.

After looking around a bit more, I feel I finally like I'm really just playing Windwaker as a game through a gaming console, and I see one person's eyes who are normal, but they quickly enter some building.

From the quick glance I took, it was Orca from Outset Island in the game, and I quickly go into the random house/store (which seems to be the bomb shop in Windfall placed near the water instead of the hill).

I finally see Orca to my left on the other side of a small border that's like 2 feet tall. He has no shirt on, just like in the game and concept art, and his the blue pants or whatever along with holding his long spear too.

I try to catch up to him, but it seems he breaks some vases that concealed a portal that looked a lot like the Twilight Portal Midna uses in Twilight Princess to warp to several main areas.

He uses it, and I don't know where the fuck that portal is headed, and I can't remember if I decided to chase him.

What the hell is going on in this dream?!?!?!

Seemingly possessed people with orange pupils all saying "I remember!" every time I go near them....and then Orca who just magically wants to disappear through a portal on a floor?

UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH, how the hell am I supposed to interpret this?!?!

Bleh, N-REM bullcrap.

Finally I have had a dream! I haven't been able to sleep for 2 days!

I wasin a lodge right by a very snowy mountain getting ready to go out and play in the snow. This old guy, you know the sort, bald with a bit of hair on the sides, hair is white, wearing villager clothes came in. I was instantly teleported without the man onto a bare, stone mountain without snow. A loud voice from nowhere told me to destroy the stone so that it would be flat in the area. The world became minecraft(everything turned to blocks) for a few minutes while I destroyed the stone then I had to destroy some gravel too. After that the old man came and dug out a small hole and put some fake grass in the hole. 90 sheep came hurdling to get onto the giant cliff that was now suddenly above us.
I was told to take the elevator that magically appeared right next to me to gather up all 10 of the remaining sheep. They followed me back to the old guy and I saw that he had started a fire. He yelled "boo" and all the sheep jumped right into the fire and disintegrated. I then woke up.

first half of the dream was pretty cool. i was with damien looiking for a slice of pizza around treasure island and we ended up at a rugby game. i kind ajust msingled my way into it and then struck up a convo with some of the players after. a very nice boy similar to ryan uleg talked with me and said rugby season for golden gate was already in motion.

Later in the dream there was some crazy bitch who was outa control and the solutino for her was to take a bunch of pills and then she llitterally went down a drain and ddiedd, but then somehow ended up reaparing alive but with repulsive injuries like the girl from mean girls.

then i was in a room that held lots of poeple but everyone was trying to get the lighting right cause we thought it was the end f=of the world, even though me and susie new it wasnt. we meditated on purple chakra. the people began joining. we ended up or i did at leas was in a bed full of people and some naked indian girl laid on top of so after i laid on her and almost licked and fucked her but apparently she was new to the program and needed to take the pill that made the red girl really small.

last part of the dream was freaky and i was in like a bar talking with people and cud seee ronal mcdonald across the rooom. there was girl who kept playing a machine as well. mcdonald comes over and shakes my hand very nice guy. he expresses fears bout girl who keeps playing gthe same machine. damien thinkgs shes on to many vikadens. she gets really angry, that the machine breaks, and then somehow startes hanging out with us. she is constantly scratching or talking to people that arnt there. she ends up sitting next to me and trying to scratch me. she thinks the skittles i have are the rainbow and eventuallyl starts chasing mel i have to have ronald mcdonald and my friends restrain her. later ronal mcdonald tries to run from her but she catches up i woke up really scared

No time this morning.

2 nights ago, I dreamed that I went out my front door at night. Immediately, someone to my right was shining a flashlight in my face. I remember a really bright light in my right eye. Before I could even turn and look, I was thrown on a mobile bed. It felt like one of those wheely hospital beds. Anyway, I was being pushed along on this bed fast, but it was completely dark so I couldn't see where I was going or who my captor was. I had a weird moment of semi-lucidity, or perhaps it was just bravery, and I reached my left hand out, waving and slapping at the air, trying to feel for someone to find out who was doing this. I woke myself up, heart-beating fast and all scared. It was still dark out.

Then the annoying part: I was only awake for seconds, then I started feeling vibrations. But I didn't want to lucid dream!! I was too scared too lol. I didn't want to WILD into an LD, then be in a dark bedroom and have to possibly face some creep and not be able to change the dream. Or wake up from it. What a wuss lol. I should know better.

Some other nonlucids last night and this morning but I'm outta time.

Well, I did just as the title tells. I was sprinting down the street with a big, metal sledgehammer. I chased everyone there, broke into houses and stores and chased the people in there too. Everyone had to evacuate the whole town.
I woke up after my dog turned into a human with a bigger sledgehammer and chased the evacuated citizens. Crazy night

We were in class and we were doing math. After that it was game day in gym and our teacher said she would show us a new game but its a secret. At gym the teacher showed us a new device and we all had to input our names then it would scan us and create our level. After we each put in our names it started buzzing and we were teleported to a very long room with a bridge across a deep ravine. I was up 5th and my best friend was up last (27th). Most people got an extremely windy bridge and 3 of them fell to their doom.
My bridge had quickly rising lava and was very unstable. I managed to get across in time though. More windy bridges and more deaths of my classmates until my best friend. She didn't have wind or lava so I was wondering what her challenge was. She started hitting the air and screaming "They won't leave me alone!" She eventually got so fed up with these hallucinations that she jumped off the side of the bridge. But there wasn't a deep ravine. It was shallow and just painted expertly to look deep. I jumped down there with her and helped her out. She shook her head until she told me that "they" were gone.
We got back to class but there were only 17 of us. The teacher took out Ooccoo from the legend of Zelda series. But Ooccoo had open, red eyes and told us that she was watching all those challenges and she thought that every death was funny. She said that Ooccoo Jr. would have made it past all those challenges in a snap. But the last thing is that everything she saw was in black, white, and red.
I then woke up after maybe 5 seconds of being lucid at the end there making myself say "I think I have to wake up for school."

I was watching a movie with my mother. It was an abstract, independent horror film. It was disturbing in a very unusual way and it was black and white.

I become a part of the horror movie. I am now the main character.

I'm in a dark room. It's so dark I can't even see the walls. All that I can see is a little girl playing with a doll. But there is something standing behind her. It has long claws and burnt, black skin.

It reaches around her, she screams. The creature crushes the little girl's bones with his strength, and squeezes her until blood begins to drip out of her like a squeezed orange.



His black claws are so long that they encompass her entire body, squeezing every last drip of life out of her.

I am surrounded in the dark by this horrific creature. I run into the darkness.

I witness many deaths from this creature.

I find myself in a small castle. A symphony is playing in the middle of the room. There isn't any audience, just the symphony.

I listen to the man who plays the cello. The sound of his cello reverberates on every wall and comes back to my ears as perfection. He seems to lead the symphony with the melody of his cello.

I sense a change of atmosphere.

I am standing next to the staircase, above the symphony. I had been watching the man with the cello for so long that I had forgotten about the darkness, but felt it again.

I looked to my left and down the stone hallway. For a moment I thought I saw a presence. Things were turning black and white again, and the symphony began to slide their perfect melody into something darker.

"Not the cello player, not the cello player!" I think to myself, longing for whatever is coming to avoid him and his enchanting music.

I don't know where the creature is, but I can sense that it is getting closer.

I hear footsteps to my left. But then I hear them to my right.

I quickly glance to make sure everyone in the symphony is still alive, but when I look back up I see the darkness is beginning to return.

"Not the cello player, not him!" I scream in my mind.

I hear the clawing of the creature's claws against the marble. But I still can't tell where he is. I can feel him approaching. I hear his groan.

He appears below me, having crawled up the staircase's wall.

"It's not him I want, it's you," his raspy dark voice echoes towards me from the lowest layers of hell.

I paralyze in fear.

"And - It's you that is the monster, my dear."

Truth hit me like a bullet. It was me that had killed all of those innocent people, but I blocked that memory from my mind and replaced it with something that I could reason with. Because I had committed crimes only a monster could live with.

"And so I've clawed my way up from hell to drag you back down with me," the angel of darkness sneered.

I immediately woke up and was frozen in heavy sleep paralysis. My room was warping around me.

I slipped back into the darkness and continued to run, darkness chasing darkness.

I woke back up to sleep paralysis and eventually managed to get out of it.

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