Hitchhiking from College / Taken Hostage by Ex / Alone in Forest

Date: 3/18/2025

By bluefox247

I was leaving college to go home even though I’m done with it now. I had a nostalgic feeling though. 2 old college friends were around while I was packing. Had difficulty holding/gathering all my stuff as theme throughout dream. I got a ride from a van at one point. It was owned by some Chinese people. My mom had also been given a ride but she left behind her crochet and knitting, both the yarn and the WIPs. One was a giraffe animal, maybe a foot or so tall, unfinished, and either a small blanket or large scarf, also still unfinished. They were both the colors of a large blanket I made irl a long time ago: light turquoise/almost aqua/, yellow, pink, and white. The white was always paired with a color on these to give it a delineated effect too. I grab them but it’s hard to keep them in my arms without some unraveling or dropping yarn balls. I desire a basket but most are too tiny. I use one of my own larger ones that already has stuff in it because although still not big enough or the right shape it’s my only option. We also stay at a Chinese family’s apartment. The day has come to leave and we have to go get our stuff from the closet and I am getting confused/annoyed that my family is forgetting important belongings but especially this time because it was a bunch of important valuable items. I grab them all and go. Throughout my whole trip I have a phone but it looks like a prepaid tracphone with a keyboard like the one I had in 2012, but bigger somehow or more modern. I had lots of music on it but instead of Spotify it was more like my Creative Zen as a phone app or something. The music was really nice and helped me pass the time on the trips. My ex takes me hostage at some point and we are at a gas station. ⛽️ There are lots of trucks here and the guy who owns it absolutely sucks or so I think but it turned out all the gas station people were in on keeping me hostage because they were working for my ex. I try to drive around to get gas but these giant ass trucks will always get to the free spot first. One was a giant red truck I think, and others were black. The ex makes fun of me and puts me down to all his gas station hired friends and then I get so sick of his shit I run away out the street but we are in a forest. I take a right out the gas station street and there are pine trees 🌲 and the like everywhere, super dense and thick. There is a street a ways away on my left after that and I go into it just as it gets incredibly dark outside. All I have is my backpack and music and stuff. So I investigate the area and it’s just a pavilion with a bunch of lamps strewn everywhere, maybe some unlit candles. One of the lamps is a fake electric candle but it keeps flickering off every time I look at it, so my vision is super frustrating for what feels like 10 minutes. I’m just trying to see anything for that long. I pick up the candle (long tall type), its bulb flickers off. I look away, in my peripheral is nice and bright. Eventually I get some light but I don’t know how. Maybe from an emergency light in my backpack. I take my phone out but it’s broken. I think it was fixable because it was only external pieces needing to be snapped back into place but I couldn’t get it easily at all. I must have though because I ended up calling help and listening to music again. The hostage situation was deemed legal for some reason and I had to stay hidden. My ex wanted money from government but the government was slow and didn’t care about me that much. I kept wishing a person who was significant in my life would show up but he never did. I was okay though as I was planning how to survive alone in the forest for the rest of my life. The pavillion I found was well hidden for the most part at least at night and it had a ton of power outlets/a surge supply below one of its countertop wooden tables. I woke up before I could go on any forest hobo adventure, because I had to pee.