People I used to know.

Hello All,

This is my first time posting or even asking about one of my dreams but as it was so unusual I thought I would ask. I have nightmares, I never dream. My nightmares are usually vivid, violent, terrifying to the point of causing physical distress. I have had them ever since I was a small child, it's just part of my life :-) So when I have what people would consider a "dream" I get a little concerned.

I dreamt last night about everyone who had at one point in my life been close to me, but are no longer part of my life now. Old friends from High school, old lovers and family who have passed away. I am fortunate that my dreams/nightmares have a narrative which makes them easy to follow. I was having dinner with my family (Mum, Dad, Brother & sister), whom I no longer live with and rarely see. I spent most of the evening talking to my (Now dead) mother. I was going to attend a comic book convention the next day with my friends from high school (I am now in my 30's).

It suddenly cut to the next day. I had four close friends in high school, two of whom I am still friends with and the other two I have not seen since. The two I have not seen since where the ones I spent most of the day with and talking to.

We where all having something to eat in the cafe when one of my friends said he had met this girl and that they where flirting etc. The girl in question was an old lover whom I met on the internet in my early 20's. They where looking across the room at each other etc. But I was texting her under the table asking how she liked my friend etc. At this point the other of my forgotten high school friends came over and said he two had met a girl and that they where really hitting it off. When he called her over she was the other big "love of my life".

On the way home both of them where gloating about how they had gotten the girls I let slip away and that they bet they could make it work with them where I failed. With internet girl I didn't really care, but the other girl. Well I took that bet knowing deep down that she still loved me and that it would never work out between them.

Jump again to the next day. I am in a holiday cottage with my family, but I am in my room talking to the girl from the day before (Not internet girl) and we are talking about how we will always be friends. we start flirting and playing like old times, but when she tries to kiss me I run away and hide in a cupboard, only for my family to come and find me, all alone. With no sign of anyone else having been their.

The thing that struck me most about the dream was how I interacted with the people, it was the way I had at the time. Not the way I would now, if that makes sense. Also while there where other people in the dream that I still see/know now. They where almost background characters.

It was almost as if something had gone into my memory and pulled out a bunch of old photos and showed them to me. I got a warm happy feeling inside, like being a child again. Although the people where from various points in my life.

I hope that makes sense and is enough information. As I said I wouldn't normally ask but as it's not the usual nightmare I was curious.

Thanks.

P.S If this was the usual, I imagine it would be us all sitting around some gothic dinner table surrounded by mist and darkness. Each person talking normally, laughing and joking with me. But they would all be rotting corpses. Flesh hanging off the bones, blood and weeping sores etc.