East of East St. Louis

dream lucid not part of the dream, but talking about it

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In the first dream I am in an odd place - almost like a futuristic petting zoo. It's part of a big mall and I know it's floating for some reason. But in any case, I'm petting the reptiles, the snakes in particular. It's pretty neat. At one point I have a snake wrapped around me, and I'm having fun. But I put the snake back and look around some more.

I find a place with a lot of water for some reason. As I'm wading through the water, I see someone jerking around and suddenly being dragged, screaming. Two more people follow, and I ask a DC why nobody is doing anything. "People don't come back if they do." he says, simply.

I have to try. For some reason, I have a weapon on me. I wade through the water and look through the hole people went through first before going in. I'm doing it quickly. I don't see anything, and I call out "Hello? Are you in there?"

"Yes!" comes a scared voice. "Yes, please help me!"

I slide through the small opening and look around. I'm in a bathroom. The prisoners are stuck in the stalls, and there's three of them.

I see what's coming, though. I grip the weapon and ready myself for it - it looks like some kind of alligator, but the tail is far too long and the teeth and muzzle too long, too. Worrying? I'd say so.

I have a gun and I fire at it. It's wounded, and I fire a few more rounds, trying to get at the head. Oddly, there's no blood, but I don't wait to stick around when it stops moving.

I go to the stalls and get the prisoners out. They're scared and weary, and it's two females and one male. We get out of there as fast as we can.

Man, I get a lot of water in my dreams. Maybe I just like taking showers?

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I'm wearing Hogwarts robes and getting ready for Hebrew Studies. I'm extremely nervous, and for some reason it's Snape that's teaching the class. As well, I'm sitting in the teacher's seat because there's no other seats - I think something blew up and destroyed a couple of chairs, so they're making do.

I keep looking at the page, and it just keeps changing on me. I keep thinking in the dream that I haven't been to class and this is why I'm so bad at this.

But the girls in the back row keep muttering to themselves. They glance over at each other, and Snape turns on them, growling insults. Something, however, is said to Snape that pisses him off, and he asks the class, flatly, "The kids that want a clear soda, go get one."

We all raise our hands and we all run out as fast as we can. I want to know what's going on, though, because the girls didn't seem quite right.

I ask a witch next to me to give me supersenses to hear what's going on. She shrugs and does - and the following scene happened in fricking comic book format.

The three girls change into some kind of shadow creepy creature. Snape snarrowed his eyes and pulled out his wand, waving it and starting to chant. The shadow creatures try to swarm around him, but he succeeds in scaring them off. The girls vanish, and we're allowed back into the room.

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The shadow things remind me of the creatures in John Dies At the End. Okay, I've been kinda obsessed with the book, so. It's fair that they'd show up in the book.