Dream - January 7, 2011

This is kind of long, but very bizarre and I'd say, worth the read:

Me, my sisters, Shaun, Alex and Nate move into a big house together. There’s a large pool in the backyard. Me, Shaun, Court, Nate and Penny are sitting up on what looks like a very, very tall lifeguard station. I try to get down but get tangled. Shaun helps me loose and we both jump with Penny into the water. We move through the air as if in slow motion and slide easily into the water. There’s hardly any resistance. The water was clear before but as we swim around more, we realize how dirty it is. We all emerge from the water, including Alex who seems to have appeared out of nowhere. We walk back to the house. I pause for a moment in the small woods on the way back as if unable to move and Alex has to lead me back.

Later, we’re out by the pool again trying to decide if one of the driveways in the back is ours or the neighbors’. One of the neighbors from the yellow house emerges and starts talking to us. He looks like a zombie—his skin is blue and pale and peeling, his eyes are bloodshot, his teeth are yellow, his clothes are ratty. Then two more of them walk out looking the same. They talk normally though, making small talk with us, but they seem a little off. I whisper to Hilary that I think our neighbors are zombies or aliens. Then they invite us to go for a ride in their car. It’s a mint green color and looks vintage. Hilary somehow disappears (I think she went back into the house) and everyone else but me gets into the car. I run after the car, worried that they’re taking Shaun captive. I keep up with it at first but it slowly drives faster. A police car is chasing after me but then it turns suddenly and stops the pursuit. By this time, I’ve lost the car and it’s turned into night. Suddenly, there are scattered bright lights as if coming from no direction. People and pine trees covered in gold and silver tinsel begin appearing in the field I’m in. I’m worried because I don’t see Shaun. A few minutes later, I get a text from him that says “Where are you?”

Suddenly, the scene shifts to someone’s house. There are a lot of people—it looks like a party. There are couches and drinks and people decorating a Christmas tree. A guy who looks a lot like my friend Teddy is helping decorate. I know a lot of people there, including Grace B and Jessica K from high school. I suddenly become worried because I can’t find Amanda, although she hasn’t appeared in the dream before. I’m worried that she was abducted too.

I don’t really know how to describe it but there are periodical shifts in the party where the wind picks up (even though we’re inside) and new people appear or disappear and everyone is in a temporary state of euphoria. The strange thing is though, everything that appears is in their current living state, except for one—Jessica K’s dog who had recently died (in the dream) but now returned in puppy form. Grace and I surround the puppy and pet him in our euphoric state. But once the shift ends, I become worried again, wondering where Shaun and Amanda are. Then Amanda suddenly walks into the room and Grace points her out. I run up and give her a hug. She says hello like nothing happened. Then I remember the text Shaun sent me and open my phone. I start to type, “I’m near the Christmas tree,” but when I look up, I realize the room has expanded and there are two Christmas trees now. I become discouraged, but then I see him across the room and run up and hug him, relieved.

There’s a time lapse and a lot of the people have filtered out. There’s a guy sitting on one couch and a couple sitting on the couch across from them. We are all trying to figure out how we got here. Then I remember that I was dreaming about the guy on the couch, telling him that we couldn’t be together because I didn’t like him that much, it was just my mom who wanted us together (although this doesn’t seem to fit with the earlier part of the dream). The guy remembers (I think his name is Jeff or Jerry and he looks a lot like Paul Rudd). He says “Well, if this is all just a dream or another dimension, then I’m just a guy and you’re just a girl, so it doesn’t matter if we don’t like each other.” By this time, the couple on the other couch start unbuttoning their shirts and kissing each other. The guy looks at me salaciously and I’m tempted to start taking my clothes off too, but I decide against it.

I don’t quite remember how the dream ends. I think I see Shaun again and leave the house with him. The neighbors are nowhere to be seen.


In a dream the previous night, I dreamt that me, my sisters and a large group of other people were attacked by tigers in the backyard of my grandma’s house. But later in the dream, the tigers transform into people, barbaric and confused.


I should really start having my dreams analyzed.