A real Halloween nightmare

Date: 10/31/2019

By kbutler

In the dream, I’m laying down in my bed in my apartment. I’m bundled up and I am watching homeland. I’m homeland, Carrie is “found” out as being a spy and the “coats” on the walls turn into people and start to come towards her to attack her. I close the laptop and decide to go to sleep because I am scared. I go into a deep sleep nap inside my dream, so now it’s the kind of dream where I can’t remeber whats real and what’s a dream. Is this me? My dream? Or my nap inside my dream? Theres a bang at my door and I ‘wake up’ I go to my hallway, and there’s a short man standing there but I think (or he tells me) to go back to sleep because I’m dreaming. I go back to bed but I’m scared, I want to wake up so bad and call 911 so I get my phone but I can quite wake up. I’m just holding my phone sleepily trying to type in numbers and finally dial 911 or 913 I can’t remeber but there’s a voice on the other end asking “do you still need assistance?” But I decide to hang up because I’m not really sure what’s going on and I don’t want to make a big fuss out of nothing if it’s nothing. I finally manage to “wake up” but I’m awake in my dream, not in real life. It’s very vivid and just real. I go to my door and the bottom of my door is caved in, it won’t slam closed like it usually does and I try a few times but it shuts without making a sound (it’s broken). I try to flip the lock but I can’t because it’s too broken. I look through the prephole and there are people running / walking away and to there homes. It’s like they can see through the door at me with X-ray vision but I know they can’t see me. I decide to go outside to see what everyone is talking about, is it the same person as me? I go out and a police office finds me, he asks me my name and if anyone has been in my house and I tell him everything and I say yes. He’s big and he’s black and nice so I feel safe. He says they are looking into it and says “you should’ve just called 911 when you thought you heard something” and I feel really sad and emotional because I was too scared to do anythjng. I cry to him and I say “ I know, I’m so sorry, I should’ve pressed send (or talked to them idfk) but couldn’t.” I’m really sad and crying but I assume everything is fine because the police are here. But then a school to my right is being let out in the distance. The kids are running out, sprinting out in their uniforms, running for their lives. One passes me and looks at me and screams “RUN!” I turn around and everything is slow motion movie, I’m running and the police are yelling but out comes this y’all white ex military man carrying a huge rifle. I know exactly what’s about to happen I’ve seen it on the news before but I’d never thought it would happen to me. I almost know I’m going to die. I try to run as fast as I can but I’m locked in slow motion? Real me tries to pinch herself awake but I can’t. Finally my alarm rings and I am able to really wake up. But (now in real life) I have a headache and I’m scared and tired but I don’t want to go back to sleep.