Okay I made this account just to post about this dream because I need help deciphering it. I have had this dream I would say 3-5 times in the past few weeks and I always have trouble waking up from it. It also has slight variations in it which I'm not sure if they are important.

The dream always morphs from some other dream I am having. Basically, I start out at some community-type place with a bunch of kids I knew from high school. One guy I used to sing at church with tries to convince me to come to church with him again and I am guilted into it. There are different variations at this point but most recently he tried to ask me to prom and kiss me and I went to church because I felt bad about rejecting him. So I go to this "alternative" teen service in a very plain recreation room of a giant church that basically resembles hogwarts. All of the kids there are people I once went to school with or else I mistake them for those people and later realize they are not the same ones. The girl singing at the service is always, always this girl I was friends with in middle school whose singing and acting I admired in high school even after she transferred schools. She smiles at me and speaks to me after she sings sometimes. The interesting thing about the service is that though I am always invited by someone I know and around people I know I always sit alone (cross legged on the floor like everyone else) and speak to no one, except to exchange a few words with a girl who sits in front of me making a sandwich (in the recent variation she gave me half of her sandwich!) who I think is a good friend from middle school but I later realize it's just someone who looks like her.

This is where it gets weird. I always leave the service in the middle, shortly after the music. I think this may be why Jesus tries to kill me, or simply because I don't worship him, or maybe I did something to desecrate his Hogwarts church? I'm a little fuzzy on this detail as it's hard to remember what happens between me leaving the service and being chased. Anyway, the dream always proceeds with me being chased by a floating figure that looks like the Phantom of the Opera, but I am internally aware this is Jesus or God. He carries a harry-potter-like wand and though I am also aware he is all-knowing and knows where I am always, he chases me throughout various spiral staircases, bathrooms, secret passageways, etc. until he can get a clear shot at me with the wand. I'm not sure if this is an insinuation of a cat and mouse game because I am pretty sure he could just catch up and kill me if he wanted, easily. Also, as the chase ensues, I periodically run into demonic janitors who basically just add to my element of fear.

This part of the dream always starts out with me being chased not as myself, but as various members of my high school graduating class, and only ones I was not very close to. They travel in groups of 2-4 and I always experience this part as though I was one of them, feeling their feelings and thoughts but watching in third person as though a movie. They proceed through the chase -- which at some point always goes through a large three-level concert theatre that is dark, unlit and Victorian style with maroon damask drawings and chairs and dark mahogany wood. This is never where the chase ends, but it is always where the characters and I realize that the chase is futile and we will die at the end.

This part is also weird, kinda hard to explain so bear with me here -- after I watch my classmates be chased from a semi-first person perspective, I switch back to the actual first person (myself, though I am watching myself like third-person) where I am hiding somewhere and realize that I must reveal myself or be responsible for my actions since God is mistakenly chasing them for whatever I did to him (though he is all-knowing about our location for some reason he does not realize he should be chasing me, or maybe he does this to antagonize me more and make me feel guilty for putting these acquaintances in danger? Not sure) at this point I begin to be the one being chased and go through the exact same chase locations. The hogwarts-church seems to be a maze, for even when I find something that should be an exit I find myself re-entering the building. This ensures that I never escape the dream. the dream never ends, I usually wake up before Jesus-Phantom-Wizard catches up to me and kills me. His voice is projected in certain rooms especially the theatre telling me that I will never escape and sometimes laughing. The thing I remember most about this dream is the intense feeling of fear and dread I have for my life.

The dream ended differently this time. I return to the theatre room which was surprisingly now lit up instead of dark, and I immediately begin to sing a praise song before God can enter behind me. I close my eyes and I am crying and sing it loudly with one palm upward to the sky. This was when I woke up, I don't know if this prevented him from killing me or not, I didn't want to praise him but did this in a last effort to spare my life because I don't know what else he wants from me.

So yeah. It's not uncommon for me to have extremely unusual dreams like this incorporating many foreign concepts from my life with vivid emotions. But this one scares me because of the dark and religious nature. A little background, I am a freshman in college, have abandoned religion and have zero desire to return to it. I do not believe this dream is actually about religion, I think it is a metaphor for something else in my life but I need help figuring it out. The phantom of the opera and Harry Potter are both things I enjoy, so it's interesting to me that they are incorporated.

Sorry if the description is hard to follow, I have trouble recounting my dreams and was trying to put it down before I forgot.