I had a dream.
SCS > 08-11-2020, 05:26 AM
I've always been fascinated by dreams, and it's always fun to hear about other people's dreams and discuss.
I've had far too many strange dreams to count or even begin to tell them all. Most of my strangest and most vivid dreams were in my childhood. Most of my most disturbing dreams occurred back when I was 15 - 17 and was going through extreme stress in my life then. Thankfully I'm long past that and have been in a great place for a long time now. As I'm 23 now. Started getting a much more positive attitude when I was around 18, and hit adulthood at 19 as that's when I moved out and had to take on full adult responsibilities and life skills. Have learned and grown as a person enormously between then and now.
I'll go ahead and summarize some of my most interesting dreams that come to mind. I have many more so may share more later.
From my childhood:
One of the most mysterious dreams I ever had was a reoccurring-narrative dream that took place across 3 nights in a row. Each dream began where the last left off. This reoccurring-narrative phenomenon is extremely rare for me and has almost never occurred outside of this one instance. It began in my old elementary school's gym. An anomalous entryway was present in one of the walls. It was ringed by torches and appeared as an ancient stairway descending into ruins. The pathway lead into a seemingly endless mansion with blue carpets and glass-covered museum-style displays (displaying what, I do not remember). The first and second nights largely consisted of me wandering the endless mansion. Unfortunately I do not recall most details. I remember being afraid to some extent, and feeling trapped and claustrophobic, and a need to escape. The 2nd or 3rd night involved an anomalous scene wherein I saw an extended hallway from an exterior view despite simultaneously still being trapped within the mansion. The hallway appeared as an isolated yet connected component set remotely in an autumnal forest or large park. The 3rd dream saw me exit the mansion, by what means I do not recall. But I vividly recall seeing a large playground/park-like area with an autumnal setting. I remember seeing Jesus Christ kneeling or sitting on the playground sand, surrounded by numerous children. I felt a sense of peace and joy wash over me. Separately, I disjointedly recall seeing a 2D/cartoony image fill my vision of a school bus. For context, I am a Christian. I do not know if this dream had a special meaning or purpose beyond standard dream mechanics. It is a mystery to me.
From my adolescence:
I had a dream where I had apparently died at an unknown time and by an unknown cause.
I was walking around my old high school as a ghost. There was a large crowd of kids in front of the school, with 2 of the school's security guards keeping watch. No one could see me so it was as if I were not there. Paradoxically, a news reporter came to interview me about what it was like to be a ghost. The dream transitioned, and I was running around a field/hills area, running around and amongst large crowds without being noticed, and feeling (a misguided and flawed) peace at being invisible from the judgement of others regarding any aspect of my appearance or personality. The dream transitioned, and I was running through darkened hallways of the high school. There was an alarm sounding, and a feeling that there was some sort of anomalous catastrophe or even apocalyptic event. I saw a man in a hazmat suit with anomalous, futuristic and ghostbusterlike technology waving at me in the hall. The dream transitioned, and I was in an empty computer lab in the school. The room was partially dark, but initially had a disjointed sense of unconscious normality. This rapidly changed as I suddenly felt an invisible but evil, demonic presence in the room that surged toward me. It felt like I was drowning and being crushed under magnetic waves, seized by an immediate urge to run and scream but unable to do so. The dream transitioned again, and I was in an unknown store with my parents, away from the school. The store's exact nature was unclear but seemed to carry outdoors or automotive supplies, and was gated by something similar to a garage door. It was unclear at that moment whether I was alive or dead, but my consciousness and timeline seemed (at minimum superficially) disconnected from the school events. The dream transitioned again suddenly with an underlying feeling of deep terror and wrongness. My visual perception was disconnected from my body, and the entire view in the dream consisted of 4 different images arrayed in a 2x2 square 2D pattern. Each image seemed to be of a hilltop, each connected but occurring in different times or even different "universes" or some other incomprehensible vast difference paradoxically connected simultaneously. These attributes were displayed by seasonal and color-based differences in each image. Each image displayed a symbol. I had the distinct feeling that this symbol was evil and seemed related to the end of the world although that part was certainly deception. I will not describe the symbol as I have an intrinsic feeling that it is dangerous. The same symbol ended up appearing in multiple different dreams I had over time and each time was associated with demonic activity in the dream. Through research I have discovered other people have encountered this symbol in dreams or paranormal experiences. It is not any commonly known or recognized symbol.
I can't remember very many interesting dreams from my adulthood, so I'll round this off for now but may share more later.