Last night I had a very intriguing dream with a clear storyline, in which my adult self (the person looked and acted like me and my dream was from their perspective but it seemed to be like a camera following them round however they had the face and physique of a young adult - I am a teenager) was somehow trapped in a large building that seemed to be an old manor house (but some rooms appeared to be offices with shutter blinds and desks) with about six other strangers. I encountered these other people in various rooms and helped and hid with some of them, while avoiding others and merely locking myself in a room so as to keep myself safe. Various aspects of a house were trying to kill off those of us locked in it by supernatural means - for instance at one point in the dream I walked into a room where two adult males were standing; in the corridor outside many pairs of clones identical to these men were walking into the room and filling it up and a stream of pairs all completely identical were continuously entering the room, as if it was Noah's Ark except the pairs were all identical to these 2 men. The men were only distinguishable from the clones as they were confused and panicking. Although they looked alike and were standing close together in the room, when I asked them in the dream they maintained that they were not brothers and seemed very forceful when asserting they didn't know each other, as if they were hiding something. I told them I had been in this house before and took them into another room and locked the door so we would be safe for a very short while. In the dream I was attracted to one of them and he seemed to reciprocate my feelings as he tried to kiss me a few times. On the floor of the house I was on I only encountered four other people: the two men/brothers, another man being mauled by small supernatural creatures and a third man watching this mauling in the corridor in horror. I recall passing this scene and locking myself in a dark room that had a window into the corridor with office-like shutter blinds but only feeling slightly scared at the time, rather than terrified and confused as the other four people in the dream were. I remember being aware of the situation or at least keeping my cool in the dream while still being frightened. I get the feeling I had been in this house previously in the dream-world but had escaped and now found myself there again with a different group of people.

In another section of the dream, I was in the same house (the 'house' was still trying to kill us) with different people. This time it took place on the ground floor or underground. I was riding what most closely resembled a ghost train with five others, who had also been forced to the situation. As we rode round the dark old rooms in terror the man at the front was grabbed by a rabid creature and pulled out of the cart and attacked by it; the creature was pulling the man's limbs off. As disturbing as it seems now that I describe it I don't think I was phased or disgusted in the dream, but I was somewhat scared whereas the other riders were screaming and panicking. I remember thinking in the dream, "the person at the front is always killed first," so I clearly had had some prior experience of the situation and therefore chose to sit in the middle of the cart so I was surrounded both front and behind.

I am not sure whether this was a lucid dream as I don't think I was aware I was dreaming, however I had the ability to think and analyse the situation at hand and also had slight power to choose where to go. For instance, when the two men were asserting they were strangers to each other I was questioning to myself why they would want to hide being siblings and grew suspicious of them. In the dream itself I had fleeting suspicions that they would attack me even though they seemed at first to be normal civilians in the same situation as I was.


I've described that as well as I could, so I'm sorry if it's entirely incomprehensible. The guide thread says to tell a little bit about yourself, so I'm a fifteen year old girl (in the dream I was an older version of myself) and still in school. I enjoy watching films (wondering whether my dream was merely an amalgamation of film plots) a lot and have been doing so recently as I'm on break from school. I can sometimes be quite cynical and fall into lapses where I feel disillusioned about life - though I think most teenagers go through this phase. I come from a stable home and have a fairly normal life with a few friends who I suspect secretly all dislike each other... get good grades at school etc. I think that was all entirely irrelevant to the dream but I doubt the dream is actually relevant to anything in my life. I'm wondering whether it could tell something about my current feelings.

I have a few questions about this dream:

1. Can anyone offer an interpretation or their thoughts on it, or was it merely meaningless?
2. Was it a lucid dream? I don't think I was aware I was dreaming and don't think I could fully control what I was doing however as I have already said I did have the ability to analyse and think in the dream.

If you managed all that, thank you for reading.