LadybirdBeetle1

(I had this dream and wrote it down a few days ago, but only remembered dreamviews just now.)

"This was part of a very very long dream, but I only remember the tail end. We were in an Asian country, some mix of China and Korea, with a situation like Germany with the Jews. We weren't the targeted group, but we did have some in our blood (most citizens did). There was a ton of long-term knowledge, stuff where when I woke up I truly believed was real historical buildings and other facts that I lived in the dream. The most rememberable and most important, was that there was what reminds you of an Indian palace, a death-maze that soldiers would chase/herd traitors or pre-refugees to. The king/leader built this, and believed it to be his mercy. Once herded there, the soldiers were no longer chasing to immediately kill or capture, the people would just die themselves. The way it worked is that there are all these golden trumpet-shaped spires/points, thick from the ground, and curved at the tips. There was some sort of suction to the design so that the runner gets run into one of these, and is basically forced upward until they can no longer breathe. Their last view is looking down on the king's city.

This wasn't terribly significant to me at the time, because there were many other things like this in my long-term memory.

Anyways, where I solidly remember from, we were supposed to meet up with an informant who would help us get what we needed, to get out.

The room where we met, There was a staircase, it was all white, four walls were glass. We met them (there was one main guy and one or two lookouts), but I don't remember much of our interaction except that it was very short and pretending, as the windows were glass and basically at an intersection.
I do know we needed an item, and we had to get it ourselves. We were to meet them at the border, or at some other place on the way to it, and we didn't have much time. They told us where to find the item.
We talked fast and then started out pretty urgently, because we felt time ticking away and almost like they were already on to us.

We went in the mall, I don't completely remember what happened. We did something for a short amount of time, then went upstairs to a/the shop owned by the king/person. Mom looked for the item while I waited for her and looked at dresses. They were really good prices, and I found myself looking for a dress for Racquel, and a shirt-dress for myself. (We had planned that I would buy some things, so it would be less suspicious.) I remember being excited despite the situation we were in, because we never got new things.
Here, it could have stopped being a nightmare. But I was too scared for it to slip into just shopping, so when we approached to buy our items, they knew.
I wanted to bolt right then, but it was so so important that we get that item.

We were informed that our payment could not go through and to try buying different items (They had a certain look when they said this, and it made me know they knew.) or try to checkout at an all-purpose register. You could tell they themselves were very scared and wouldn't risk appearing sympathetic or like they knew what was happening. It was terrifying knowing that leaving us to be devoured was what I would have done too.

Mom and I were both really scared. But she decided to do the courageous thing and try to checkout downstairs (and to the right).
But I looked outside and took her arm and told her to just leave. I started walking faster because I knew they knew.
We took the things we didn't buy. I was calmly scared they'd stop us, but without it, even if we lived past this, we couldn't get away if we didn't have it.

We got outside and we tried to look normal. I knew no one in the store would chase us, except to watch us, and that they had called for the people, so I hoped, maybe if we put some distance between us and the store.

As we went further, people walking or reading newspapers slowly became informants walking or reading newspapers, and we slowly started throwing out the "act normal" idea and going faster.
(at some point there was a mother and baby with a father who had turned on them. They were mostly white, and they were part of the group the government was purging. We didn't talk or make eye contact or try to help eachother. We were headed the same direction though, they were slower than us and we passed them)

A short time of this fast walking and we were spotted and chased. We starting running as fast as we could.

We ran for a time, until we got to what I thought was a parking garage. As we entered it, I felt something grab my left hand, and it was the baby, and the mom running with us. I remember I was twisted in a weird way and was trying to run and hold the baby's hand and Mom's at the same time. I remember seeing the soldiers right behind us, and they almost got Mom. She looked like she might stop and give up, so I clung to her hand as we ran.
We came to where there were infinite-looking upward slides, and we scrambled up the second slant (the first was very obviously the widest, each one to the right being smaller, but the mother and baby had gone up there and I wouldn't have hesitated to run over them if we were stuck in the same tube.) I remember there was a left and right sidewalk. On the left it was like normal walkway, the right was an up-moving ramp.
I tried the up-moving ramp, but almost slipped so decided on just running.We were getting higher and Mom looked more defeated the farther we went.
Near the middle, she tripped on something and she didn't get up, just lay there. I was dragging her frantically, contemplating leaving her behind. It was way too slow, and they were still chasing us. So I didn't really notice the space getting smaller and smaller.
Mom had basically given up hope. She was acting like we were already dead, and it irritated me so much. When I realized why, it had gotten so small and vertical. I was first so frantic and hurrying so fast I tried to shove my way up even with my arms folded (like praying mantis) in front of me. But I was feeling the dread, and was starting to realize what had just happened. So I went back a few feet down.
I let go of mom's hand, and she started sobbing. She stayed just at my feet, luckily not sliding down anymore when I let go, but it didn't matter anymore. I put my arms flat streamlined with my body and pushed myself with my feet to the opening. The tunnel curved in a sickening way, and I could see down on the beautiful city through the end of the curved golden trumpet."

Then I woke up.

Hunter, Arthur, and I in an old fashioned carriage on our way to the winter retreat. I lost my shoes. The driver was an obligator (from the mistborn series) so we were on edge. When we got to the ferry loading place, we got out to either switch carriages, walk to the retreat center a bit away, or get on the ferry. We looked for my shoes for a bit, but couldn't find them.

We apparently got to the retreat center.

I was barefoot, but at some points, shoes would flicker/appear on my feet.
At the retreat center, a giant sparkling mansion version of our church (with a gift and coffee shop, sushi bar/restaurant, plus clothing/jewelry stores in the basement[like the hotel in Las Vegas]).There was a singing competition under a big chandelier where teams of three sat atop eachother's shoulders to sing. The mics were also stacked somehow. I didn't join, but wanted to very much. I talked with four-year-old Zoey at the back of the sushi bar, watching the sparkling competition. Sam was watching me somewhat creepily, so I left to look for Hunter and Arthur. I found them in the arcade (highschool room), but they were swiveled around in their seat either watching the singing, or just talking. I came up, and mentioned the singers actually weren't horrible. They nodded, then noticed what that implied and laughed and laughingly said that was terrible! Hunter and I got up and...

I woke up eventually from my alarm, but wanted to continue the dream, so I went back to sleep.

On our way back from the winter retreat, or maybe still on the way there, I was with Steven, Chrissy, and Monz in an old carriage. Steven was driving.
We came to a giant store in a strip mall, (I recognized the store from our first drive?) And Chrissy suggested going in to buy shoes. When we got out of the car, I noticed I had my brown boots on my feet. They were way too small, and hurt, so I kept going. We went in, (it was beautiful!!) (the whole place was made with shiny mahogany-colored wood) (I've been in the building before in a different dream, but this time it was in a strip mall and was being used, as last time it was being renovated) The first row/aisle/was filled with baby clothes that could only fit barbies. I commented, joking to Chrissy that we shouldn't let Monz come in here. Right after, Monz walked in. There weren't any shoes, as far as I could tell, but we stayed a while (as we often do in real life) exploring the prettiness of it. Dream faded

I was in a non-lucid wandering the halls of a giant mansion (lower levels seemed to be underground [i.e. packed clay walls] and floorplan like ant's nest). I realized I was dreaming. Went looking for a room with a window, instead found a room with a blue bed (it was basically Stephen's room, but in the underground clay ant style). Lay down, closed my eyes and warped to a room with an open blinded window (like the Yaes'), (in a real building, either the upstairs levels, or a different building). It was around 15:00. Flew down/out of the window and landed on the ground. (I was on the second or third story. There were two stories above me) The building I had been in was the hotel/restaurant we took the bike trip pictures at, but the back, rather than the front. I saw Stephen, caught up with him, told him I could fly He said, "Nice!" After asking him to fly, he told me he hadn't learned to fly with me yet, so he needed help. I held onto his hand and we tried to levitate at the same time. We/he were too heavy. Almost woke up. I decided I should get on his back and have him fly. Success! As we flew up, it became evening/night. The lights from the houses were really pretty, and all different colors. I got off Stephen's back and flew beside/in front of him. We were flying over the Lakedale lake (the hotel I came out of was positioned around where the girls' tents were). The island at Lakedale became the little island near the rope swing. The land beyond it was rocky, the water was cold and dark, some ice, and snow on the land and the ice. I saw Selah while flying, flew lower, caught her hand and we kept flying. (We talked for a bit, but I don't remember what we said. Some things about the bike trip and about the scenery) We flew above the old castle they hiked to (on the bike trip), all covered in snow. I think I was planning to drop Selah on the castle turret, Aaand dream faded.

I was in the family room of my (real-life) house with a stout, strong man with an orange beard (like Gimley from LOTR, but a little taller than me) and another 18 yr. or-so blond anime boy (who I felt was named Louis, but I didn't ask).
I knew they were my friends/companions. I somehow got my in-dream eyes open (using a method I read the day before). I was on the floor (due to method) my brothers in front of me playing cars. It looked to be about 14 hours. I got up, took a frisbee and pretended it was a circular tablet and clicked on it as if it was. I clicked on the spot where I wanted "fly app" to be. To use fly app, you turn it over (screen touching your head) and think "go" to fly straight up. I pushed (or broke) out of the glass of the sliding door, got outside. My backyard was a meadow/prairie type, 4 times its real size. It was bright outside, blue sky with clouds and glimpses of planets through the clouds. I do a senses test (which makes me very happy). I try to teleport to a hill (cut out of a mountain) in sight that had snow-covered prarie grass on it. We succesfully teleport! Apparently someone is chasing us (dog-aliens who walk on two legs. Have rayguns)(Dream turns to semi-lucid) We take flight into space by using my tablet on my head, Gimli-guy hugging my waist, "Louis" holding onto my knees. (Flying is quite hard, considering the speed and the fact that I can't see where I'm going plus some complications from my buddies' arguing) We can breathe in space. We look for a safe/suitable planet (apparently there were big aliens on all the big planets). We pick out a small planet of the cluster of 15? Planets around us, Fly towards it, turns out to be Earth. We fly back, land on the moon. Which is like a half-sphere with a map on the top (where we landed) apparently most of it was claimed by a vicious alien colony, so we flew away. Picked a purple planet next. To land, had to close eyes and imagine being on it. (Since the outside I landed on was like a hard, giant [but not as big as the real planet] sphere that could not be entered without teleportation)

Eyes open in a room like my family room, remodeled with a stage, screens, and as a larger room. My sister was with me, there were 7? teens a few years older than me asking us to join their practice for God's Rods (a club at our church). We agreed. My sister did horribly (I had the feeling two of the boys liked her). I nailed it. My friends (Gimli-guy and Louis) were in the adjoining kitchen (preparing snacks?)

A while later, I look out the glass sliding door window and see the dog-aliens, but just normal dogs on four feet.

I forgot the rest, but know there wasn't much more.