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Things You Should Not Hesitate to Run Away From:

#1. First Appearances. I need to get away, because something horrible is about to happen. 9.

#18. Mortality. I'm a spectator to a previous life, in which I fatally wound my wife trying to protect her. 8.

#31. The Lunar God. The titular character drops by for an unfriendly visit. 4.5.

#78. Exorcisms. I try to banish a spirit in the name of God. It works about as well as you'd expect.

#89. Air Nailers. Oh, look. I'm bleeding. 4.

#140. Ultimate Knowledge. In which I'm confronted by a creepy little demon girl.

#210. Monsters Under the Bed. That hurt. And hurting me is dangerous. For you.

#214. Fire. Nothing but unimaginable pain. For glory. For death.

Special mention for being the stuff of other people's nightmares...

#131. The Otherworld. It's Silent Hill, complete with mutilated talking corpses in bathtubs full of blood.


Dreams That Are Just Awesome:

#75. Seven Minutes in Heaven. Lux is wreaking havoc throughout the universe, and Heaven needs my help to maintain it. Also, angels are dicks.

#44. The Devil You Know. The devil helps out the survivors of the apocalypse. I get shot in the head.

#118. Devil in the Gateway. Castiel gets captured. I offer to help with the rescue. Dean is shocked to discover that Lucifer is already walking the earth.

#119. A Dalliance With the Damned. Sam and Dean want to kill the devil. I "help."

#73. Corporate Sabotage. Superpowered clones try to escape from their captors. I bring backup. Lots and lots of backup.

#84. Character Creation. A wizard violates the laws of nature when he creates human beings from scratch. And then there are zombies. 3.

#100. Conferences (for Assassins). There are a few problems with having a conference for assassins in town...

#120. Mansions of Silence. Behold, my massive HvZ/Star Wars/Fable/White Collar/Inception/Supernatural/Good Omens crossover dream.

#157. Keys to the Kingdom. Or, "Taking over a country in five easy steps."

#203. Worthy. Making an enemy of Thor and wielding Mjolnir against him.

#217. The King of the Forest. The king wears the form of a deer with ten heads. Congratulations. You've just been drafted.


Things to Run Away From Really Fast:

#1: First Appearances. I need to get away, because something horrible is about to happen. First appearance of The Lunar God. 9.

#2: Bureaucratic Hell. My name is Lucifer, and I'm busy. 3.

#3. The Other Mother. I talk to my mom about dream interpretation, but she turns out to be the monster from Coraline. 6.

#4. Doomed Underwater Research Stations. As Shawn Spencer, I argue with Lassiter about how to escape from a flooding underwater station. 3.

#5. High School Classmates Near Water. We're supposed to be swimming, but most of the group is just standing on the shore, crowded together in a circle. 2.

#6. The Narrator. The devil, Sam, curses Sleeping Beauty with infinite will, which backfires when she's faced with a runaway princess several years later. 2.

#7. Bad Fanfiction. As Dean Winchester, I try to find Sam Winchester, only to be thwarted by The Trickster in an alternate dimension. 2.

#8. Mental Institutions with Lax Security. A little girl tries to save her fellow patients, but may actually be the one committing the murders. 2.

#9. Allegiant Little Kids. I hang out with the Nostalgia Chick at my high school; kids throw rocks. 1.

#10. Pissed Off Teachers. As Harry Potter, I participate in a dueling tournament, repeatedly humiliating Snape. Fleur is impressed. 2.

#11. Family Vacations. My dad drives us through a potential horror movie. 2.

#12. Homicidal Robots. As Jubilee (X-Men), I sabotage the Sentinels in a shopping mall. 2.

#13. Third Person Narration. I have an extensive resume: spy, tomb raider, babysitter... 2.

#14. Voices Trying To Limit Your Dream Control. Water grounds my dream-powers and I almost make it to the moon. 2.

#15. Dream-Style Karate Tournaments. I almost forget my kata as I shift through one ridiculous costume after another. 3.5.

#16. Restaurants With Poor Customer Service. Also, Missiles. People fire me; people fire at me. 2.

#17. Hey, but I thought I was supposed to be the - Apparently, there's more than one devil. 2.

#18. Mortality. I'm a spectator to a previous life, in which I fatally wound my wife trying to protect her. 8.

#19. The Ninja Maid. I pose as maid service, and later blackmail an ambassador into an alliance. 2.

#20. Gravity Hack. I drift up a mountain and talk to a minotaur. 1.

#21. Alternate Perspective Disorientation. I'm the devil, I'm a driver, I'm an old lady, and Alice, and I'm talking to the Lunar God. 3.

#22. This is Your Church on Twitter. The best way to escape the clutches of the Catholic Church? Add a twitter feed to their webpage. 3.

#23. Nitwit Protagonists. My dream-avatar would like to solve the murder of her friend, who might not actually be dead yet. 3.

#24. Bible Camp. I go back in time and try not to get exorcized. I also meet Johnny Depp. Kind of. 2.

#25. Nitwit Protagonists Take 2. My protagonists bury the eggs of the monster they just destroyed. 3.

#26. Really Mad Hostages. I've been kidnapped. I attack him with a box-cutter. 3.

#27. Amestrian Conspiracies. I track down Edward Elric to warn him about a massive government conspiracy. Again. 2.

#28. Teletubbies are attacking the earth. 2.

#29. Skinwalkers. I'm a shapeshifter helping the police investigate my own disappearance. 2.

#30. Dude, Where's My Car? I remember my license plate number. 1.

#31. LG's Got a Gun. The Lunar God drops by for an unfriendly visit. 4.5.

#32. City-Fusions. I'm driven through Quickton-Halifax by a crazy person, and we try to find a vegetarian restaurant. 1.

#33. Buffy, When You're Quite Possibly Evil Maybe. I get a bucket of holy water dumped on me. 2.

#33. Unconscious Desire to Move. Again. Now. Family Reunion, a plot to save "the farm". Random lucidity. 1.

#34. Familiar Places. BC tries to steal my digital photos and Castiel wants to go to Halifax. 1.

#35. Failed Interrogations. Why does the Lunar God want to kill me? 3.

#36. A Pirate's Life. You're trying to sell the combined forces of SG-1 and Lucifer into slavery? You should know better. 3.

#37. Demon Barbers, Malfunctioning Portals. Sweeney Todd chases me and I end up on an asteroid. 3.

#38. Murder Mysteries. Main character did it. 2.

#39. Witch Trials. I have to try really hard to not set this DC on fire. 2.

#40. Misogynists, Scientists, Doctors, Little Girls, Monsters, and Faeries. I run away from everything in the title. 2.

#41. Dream Games. We keep breaking the water balloons. 1.

#42. Bees. I run away from them and start jumping down stairwells. 3.

#43. Girlfriends, Dead People. I hang out with a dream-girlfriend and explore a spooky little town. 2.

#44. The Devil You Know. The devil helps out the survivors of the apocalypse. I get shot in the head. 2.

#45. I Am Legend. I kill people. In an alternate dimension, my brother is captured by vampires and my mom has superpowers. 5.

#46. Silence in the Library. The Compendium of All Human Knowledge needs a new Librarian. 2.

#47. Walmart. I try to find Walms in the parking lot. 1.

#48. Dream Goals. Three stories is too far to fall, and I give a pink rose to a pretty girl. 2.

#49. Soylent Green. A man is fed, alive and screaming, into a meat grinder. His son watches impassively. 3.5.

#50. Ghost Ship. I fight a boss battle using bright blue energy. Also, humanity isn't doing so well, post-apocalypse. 3.

#51. Oh, There Goes Gravity. An elementary school, Harry Potter, and PARKOUR! 2.

#52. Puddles. "Derek" thinks my teleportation abilities are lacking. 2.

#53. Lady Gaga. RUN AWAY! 2.

#54. Nail Polish. Do you have an appointment? 2.

#55. Riddles. I confuse "sleep-deprivation induced hallucinations" with "dreams". N/A.

#56. A CAT! Fragmented dreams include vampires, Star Wars, the Twin Towers, and random cat appearances. 3.

#57. Climbing Classes. Buildering on high school buildings. 1.

#58. Q&A. Unprofessional actor is unprofessional. 2.

#59. The Heist. Johanna and I attempt to rob an art gallery, and are thwarted when a little kid kills our catgirl. 3.

#60. The Hunt. Angel and I are tracked down by the Wild Hunt, led by the Faerie Queen Mab. 3.5

#61. Zombieland. Telekinesis + Zombies = Fun. 3.

#62. Penguins. I realize that being chased by mutant penguins isn't nearly as scary as I think it is. 3.

#63. Stray Little Devils. I try to avoid the minions/allies of another Lucifer. 2.

#64. College. I run into Loaf at an art school, and I manage to shapeshift into an animal for the first time. 2.

#65. Time Management. Six. Million. Pokemon. 2.

#66. Choosing Sides. Two southern men argue about the American Civil War. 2.

#67. The Last Unicorn. I'm an ex-unicorn version of Alice in Wonderland fleeing evil, brightly coloured birds.

#68. Girls. Sex dreams followed by aimless wanderings through broken cities.

#69. Welcome to the Jungle. Serenity's crew docks on a jungle planet. As Jayne, I have zany adventures. 3.

#70. Something Blue. I confront a monster, something I see as pure darkness trying to infect me. Unfortunately for it, I have the same power. 6.

#71. Spiral Staircases. I calmly jump into a thirty-story fall, down the center of a spiral staircase. 5.

#72. The Job Site. I run through a construction site and use dark-side force powers on an innocent guard. 2.

#73. Corporate Sabotage. Superpowered clones try to escape from their captors. I bring backup. Lots and lots of backup. 2.

#74. Fighting Fire. I fly around happily, and fight a witch who's trying to burn down a bulletin board. 2.

#75. Seven Minutes in Heaven. Lux is wreaking havoc throughout the universe, and Heaven needs my help to maintain it. Also, angels are dicks. 3.

#76. Swimming Pools. I survived Stonehenge Apocalypse, and all I got was this lousy macro. 1.

#77. Sinking Cars. In which Dad's driving lands the family in deep water. I think I saw this on Mythbusters once. 4.

#78. Exorcisms. I try to banish a spirit in the name of God. It works about as well as you'd expect. 4.

#79. Invasion. Kill them! Kill them all! BWAHAHAHA! Ooh, pretty flowers. 3.

#80. Things Going Badly. With my DCs on a probationary driving period, it's up to me to play chauffeur. Also, black cats and an upcoming apocalypse. 3.

#81. Portals That Still Don't Work. I work on my lucid goals and try to ignore my interfering parents. 2.

#82. Eggplant. I go grocery shopping in the kitchen. 1.

#83. Telephone. Misha Collins advances his plans for world domination. Parents do not approve. 1.

#84. Character Creation. A wizard violates the laws of nature when he creates human beings from scratch. And then there are zombies. 3.

#85. The Road. I walk down an empty road, then go climbing. 2.

#86. Plastic Surgery. In which insane and bloody doctors offer to change my appearance. 2.

#87. Mind Games. A note to our teenage adventure protagonist: we're totally messing with you. 2.

#88. Mr. Hyde. I seem to have a thing for slamming people into walls. I blame Supernatural. 3.

#89. Air Nailers. Oh, look. I'm bleeding. 4.

#90. Hack Writers. I'm the writer and the reader and the characters in the book all at once. 2.

#91. Sensei. Apparently, psychopaths are drawn to the martial arts. 2.

#92. The Devil You Don't. My journey from ambitious underling to rival archangel. 4.

#93. My Driving. A couple of weeks ago, I implemented a new rule: DCs aren't allowed to drive. Apparently, I'm one to talk. 4.

#94. Houses. A house from start to finish. 1.

#95. Perfectly Good Airplanes. I try to find my skydiving class. 1.

#96. Cousins. People who wander into your life claiming to be a long lost relative are not to be trusted. Especially if you're a Winchester. 2.

#97. Telephone, Take 2. Teleporting is hard. 2.

#98. Alligators. I'm attacked by alligators. Then I try to figure out why I'm still in high school. 3.

#99. RPGs. I'm constantly shifting, changing identities, I'm a fugitive, assassin, or maybe I'm playing a computer RPG. 1.

#100. Conferences (for Assassins). There are a few problems with having a conference for assassins in town... 4.

#101. Pots and Kettles. I become convinced that I am a pot. Yes, a pot for cooking things. And the a pot, I begin to dream. 1.

#102. Fluff. I pick up the pillows and throw them into the air, trying to goad them into an attack. 1.

#103. Sears. They'll never let you leave. 2.

#104. Ghosts! I'm the villain of a cartoon, and I'm not moping because I lost. I'm plotting my revenge. Guest starring Serenity. 1.

#105. Butterflies. Time travel, watch where you step. There are also iridescent pebbles, a Triwizard Tournament, and a law against dying your hair which I immediately break. 1.

#106. A Spark. I will not let the spark go out. Also, I feel GREAT. 1.

#107. Lamps. I go to Halifax. Nothing happens. 1.

#108. Zero CCs. Do motorcycle chases ever end well? 3.

#109. Zombies. There are zombies.

#110. Hills. I take invulnerability for granted.

#111. Hazel. I try to figure out this teleporting thing. Hazel helps out, and is all mysterious, and has the wrong colour of hair.

#112. Library Fines. I've been travelling too much and I forgot to return my library books. Also, I am explicitly told to run away really fast from something.

#113. False Awakenings. I contemplate world domination/destruction. Fortunately for the planet, I still can't teleport.

#114. The Beast. She's been kidnapped by a mythological creature, but she's not about to play damsel in distress. Also, reapers, conventions and Harry Potter characters camping.

#115. The Mafia. I make it to the roof. My enemies are right behind me.

#116. Wake Up Calls. I chat with some DCs.

#117. The Test. If all the girls feed the monster a part of our souls, it'll be less likely to kill us, right?

#118. Devil in the Gateway. Castiel gets captured. I offer to help with the rescue. Dean is shocked to discover that Lucifer is already walking the earth.

#119. A Dalliance With the Damned. Sam and Dean want to kill the devil. I "help."

#120. Mansions of Silence. Behold, my massive HvZ/Star Wars/Fable/White Collar/Inception/Supernatural/Good Omens crossover dream.

#121. Repeat. This time, I'm using force powers to fight a monster while wearing an expensive suit and a fedora.

#122. Waiting for a Train. I look for a way to help Diana, but there's nothing I can do.

#123. Deals. Yellow-white stone arches and a clear blue river running through a sandy city.

#124. Potluck. Yawn.

#125. Slipping. It's hard to sing the right notes to your villain song when you're dreaming.

#126. Claustrophobia. Zip ties, prison, multiple differently-aged Dean Winchesters, and a bit of lucidity.

#127. Questions. What one person will pay to keep hidden, others will go to any length to reveal.

#129. Shapeshifting Children. Like calls to like. When a girl is accused of witchcraft, I help her escape her tiny village and teach her to shapeshift.

#130. Mugging the Monster. The monster of the week gets in over its head. There's a reason they call me the Lightbringer.

#131. The Otherworld. It's Silent Hill, complete with mutilated talking corpses in bathtubs full of blood.

#132. Water. Woohoo, whitewater rafting.

#133. Chasing Amy. Cathedrals make for great superhuman parkour fight arenas.

#134. Transformation. In a previous life, I belonged to a school of martial artists... and here, now, this school has shown up in MY city.

#135. Children and Monsters. It calls itself the Devil. It's about to be outclassed.

#136. Black-Barked Trees. Nomad RPG: "You're in a forest, surrounded by black-barked trees. There's a path. It's late summer."

#137. RC Fails. Six fingers. Seems normal.

#138. Echoes. He can see the ghost. I'm just cleaning the eavestroughs.

#139. Cloud Mountains. I'm a passenger in a plane. And now I'm just looking for a mirror in a forest.

#140. Ultimate Knowledge. In which I'm confronted by a creepy little demon girl.

#141. Extranormals. The plan is to enter the house and kill the parents, then ambush the girl when she comes home from school.

#142. Your Heroes. Misha Collins conquers the world one random act of kindness at a time.

#143. Capture the Flag. Jedi Academy-style capture the flag against Darth Vader.

#144. Rabbits. There are adorable white rabbits.

#145. Evangelism. I'm filming a documentary, and have to get some footage in an evangelical, ultra-conservative church.

#146. Arcades. The arcade has a mascot, and of course it's a creepy clown.

#147. The Ford Truck. Every car is a Pinto, and I can walk up walls.

#148. Lost. I'm trapped on an island with my high school classmates, but my enemies have forgotten one very important thing... the rules don't apply to monsters.

#149. Chasing Zoe. There's the aftermath of a party, and I'm looking for Zoe.

#150. Aliens. "You should be quiet." Says one of the aliens. "If you keep screaming, we'll put you in the chambers."

#151. Frappucino. Starbucks Frappucinos are delicious.

#152. Vampires & Unicorns. Don't leave your distractions up to me. Things will get dark.

#153. Thai Food. I find myself in a shared dreaming class. There's a cafeteria.

#154. More Carpet. No, seriously, I stare at the carpet.

#155. Shopping. NOOOOOOO I hate shopping! I'm looking at shoes.

#156. The Demon Boy. I'm maybe supposed to rescue him. Nah, he's just a normal imp. Let's let my childhood wolf friend / slight concern chase him.

#157. Keys to the Kingdom. Or, "Taking over a country in five easy steps."

#158. Soul Eater. My dreams are really, really violent, you guys. (Or, people who deserve to get defenestrated.)

#159. More aliens. "Our benevolent ruler came to know of this society through the storyteller called 'Dan Brown.'"

#160. Caramel Macchiato. Ordering coffee can be complicated.

#161. Air Nailers, Take 2. Sam vs. the Joker. My aim is better this time around.

#162. Energy Beings. We're running. Non-human figures, all of us, made of light, each an almost pure, bright colour.

#163. Corona. "So you want to start a writing group? You realize that you'll be in direct competition with our writing group."

#164. Catch Me If You Can. Harry Potter tries to mess with the fabric of reality, I have diabolical plans, and Dumbledore disapproves as usual.

#165. The Long Haul. An angel and I talk economics. In souls, of course.

#166. Elevators. Her teeth are razor sharp and coming towards my neck - Pause. Play.

#168. Exploding Bridges. I keep a wary eye on the spider droid, but it's smarter to take out the smaller enemies first.

#169. Hostel. No really, it's just a hostel.

#170. Ouroboros. Me and a snake daemon, preparing for some tomb raiding.

#171. Shadows. I can move with a blink through the shadows, and so can my enemy.

#172. Seaweed. Glittering silver fish and mermaids.

#173. Thievery. I shadow my mark through a busy market street—and we run.



#174. Squish. A short one: what happens when a person locks themselves in their own mind?

#175. Coffee. From a time I was working in a coffee shop: customers started showing up in my dreams.

#176. Flight. I can't remember my goals, so I'll run. I love to run in dreams.

#177. Leverage. The Empire takes what it wants; we steal it back for you.

#178. I Spy. She pours cream in her coffee, and I know she's a spy.

#179. Action Movie Physics. Chasing after a femme fatale, with further use of the pause button.

#180. The Road. Short: A dark figure approaches on the highway and I break the dream into a thousand million pieces of jagged glass.

#181. Eternity. Short: the ballroom explodes into chaos as the giant chess set dismembers the guest.

#182. Chupacabra. Short: recording a chupacabra so its soul is trapped for eternity (or until the sequel).

#183. Fish-Eye Lenses. Short: everything is blurry.

#184. Prints. Short: "You can't escape this; your fingerprints are a match," but they aren't any more.

#185. One Way. How can you escape a post-apocalyptic city surrounded by gangs? By bus, of course.

#186. Amber. This is a joke about House MD.

#187. Trinkets. You can't even cast the Killing Curse, Harry.

#188. Sarcophagidae. Three people sit around a table. Two of them are dead. (DO NOT READ if you are afraid of insects.)

#189. Zippo. I don't need a lighter; I have dream powers.

#190. Alexandra. Nikita gunfight.

#193. Objects of Faith. My pendants work on vampires, and I order around some paratroopers. Also: wingsuits!

#194. Old Threads. I start a dream competition too early. Or too late?

#195. Keeping Up Appearances. Aaargh, Moira.

#196. Real Life Creepiness, but the Robots Were Cool. I have a completely awesome dream about a family versus hundreds of insect-like attack robots, and some other stuff happens.

#197. Family Values. Welcome to the Addams Family.

#198. Waterpark in the Sky. Fitz rescues Simmons. Simmons rescues Fitz.

#199. Challenge Accepted. Harry Dresden's been possessed. That never ends well.

#200. Dark Things. One minute you're floating along over a grassy hill, and the next you're going up against a thing tempting travellers into its lair...

#201. U-haul. NO, NOT AGAIN! I just finished moving...

#202. Rock Climbing. Rock walls in libraries, it's a thing.

#203. Worthy. Our heist is interrupted by a fight with Thor, and I'm apparently worthy of weilding Mjolnir. (My brain apparently thought I needed a confidence boost.)

#204. House at the End of the Lane. Note to self: exorcise via magic. Do not attempt to invoke Christian deities.

#205. House at the Start of the Lane. Really? I can't think of anything better to teleport to than my hometown?

#206. The Oracle. I'm on a quest with three companions. Now if I can just get them through this alive...

#207. Citrine and Aventurine. I'm mad at my husband for the way my husband ran a D&D game. Except that I'm dreaming, so that's not really fair, is it?

#208. Coastal GTA. Friends don't let friends steal their cars.

#209. Matilda. The telekinetic protagonist from Matilda gets a teacher.

#210. Monsters Under the Bed. It's a terrifying monster made of fluffy white pillows and a duvet, and it eats people.

#211. Skywalk Restaurants. Investors will love this: it's a restaurant, but instead of the tables being arranged side-by-side, they're stacked on top of one another.

#212. LRT. I jump out of a moving train onto a helicopter. What? It had missiles...

#213. Who's Hunting the Hunters? I'm hunting a vampire, and the vampire hunters are hunting me.

#214. Fire. Not always fun.

#215. Odin's Day. There's a puppet, and my family, and the Addams family. It's weird.