Date: 12/30/2018
By oliviaellen
So I wouldn’t exactly call this dream a nightmare but it was so realistic that it was terrifying Through my university I signed up for a study abroad trip except for abroad meant the surface of the moon, where we apparently had a whole campus. It was launching day and I was in the building saying goodbye to my parents and I was pretending not to be scared because they spent so much money on this trip and they were excited for me. My mom was worried but my dad wasn’t. Finally, a buzzer went off and all the parents were being shooed out of the room and I felt like a child suddenly and did not want to let my parents go. I held onto them as long as I could and when they finally had to go I cried out to them that I’ll text them as soon as I can. Then all the students were taken from this room into a shower room, where news was broken that there may have been a murder on the moon campus, and all of us students just kind of looked at each other. I had befriended a few girls after this point, so I was kind of clinging to them for comfort so I was looking to them. We were given space clothes after showering. Then, it was time to set up for launch. All of our things were taken from us and presumably loaded onto the rocket. We were taken to this big room full of chairs and I was separated from my group which scared me because that was my last bit of comfort to cling to. I was sat next to this girl I didn’t know and I started talking to her out of sheer fear and trying to distract myself. I waited and waited in that chair, watching the rest of the students pile in and get situated. Some seemed terrified like me, others seemed excited. Then, the moment I dreaded came. The middle of this room was the entrance to the ship, and the chairs started moving row by row into the ship on a conveyer belt. Eventually my row started moving, and my heart dropped. I pulled out my phone and texted my mom one last time before the launch saying I loved her and I’ll miss her and that I’m scared. My mind was racing and all I could think about was the ship crashing or something bad happening. I actually was so scared that I woke up. It was so realistic I can’t even explain it because I know I would be that scared if I wS about to get on a rocket to the moon