Dream Journal Ultimate
Date: 12/31/2018
By lmarally42
I can’t remember how this dream started, but I think in the beginning of this dream I had a husband & a baby who were taken away from me. Next thing I remember was that I snuck away into some sort of orphanage or maybe a high school. I looked around for a place to hide until I found this group of kids playing a game on a booth table (like those booth tables at restaurants). In a panic, I asked the group of kids if they could hide me. At first they were skeptical, but they saw that I looked innocent & that I was holding a small dog (idk where the dog came from, it just randomly appeared in my hand mid-dream. It was a small dog; like a Maltese). So a red-haired girl from the group invited me inside their booth table. She told me to lay flat across the row where she was sitting, and then she put a black cloth over my head. A few minutes later, a man walked into the large, wooden door entrance of the dining area, and started asking random kids around if they happened to see an adult woman walk into their school. Eventually, through a small hole in the cloth, I saw his fancy black shoes approach the kids at my table. He asked them if they had seen me, but the kids said no. After skeptically lingering for a few more seconds, the man finally walked away. About an hour passed & the red-haired girl told me that the man was no longer there. I still felt skeptical about it though, so I hesitated to get up from underneath the cloth; but she insisted that I would be okay. Surely enough, a few minutes later the man walked back into the cafeteria, but this time it was too late for me to hide. I turned around ready to throw the cloth over myself again, but the man had already seen me. He briskly approached me and said something like “Aha! I caught you! You must come with me now!” In a panic, the only escape plan I could think of was to blend in. So I spoke in a high pitched voice, adjusted my posture, and walked in a lazy manner as if I were a high school student. I responded to the man and said “Sir, I don’t know what you’re talking about; I’m just a student here”. Taken aback the man responded “Stop! I KNOW it’s you! Don’t try to fool me!” But I simply innocently batted my eyes back at him. (Given even though I’m nearly 20, I look 16 anyways so that’s why this whole plan worked). He looked around and saw all the children of the school staring at him in concern and moving closer. Freaked out by the children (I’m assuming this man hates kids) he said “Fine! You’re lucky this time. But don’t think I’m done with you. I WILL get you!” Next the scene panned over to a ballet show that the students were hosting. All the students had to participate in the show in some sort of way. However, my new friends helped hide me backstage by draping a thin white cloth over me & placing me behind some of the props/awards. As the show progressed, props had to be moved around & I felt more and more vulnerable with each disappearing prop. Eventually, towards the end of the show, there was hardly anything left covering me aside from the thin veil-like cloth & a single award table. I could even see the audience through the veil. While scanning the audience to satisfy my paranoia, sure enough, the man (who at this point began to look similar to Neil Patrick Harris’ Count Olaf) was sitting there in the audience. Then I accidentally made eye contact with him & he creepily winked and smiled at me. The next scene panned over to an art class. All the students were gathered in a room sitting in a semi-circle & we were told told to pick a random painting from the jar of paintings for our project. When it was my turn to pick from the jar, I drew out the painting “Birth of Venus”. I remember I was still skeptical about the man, so in my head I tried plotting ways I could hide if the man were to walk in the room. I thought maybe I could hide behind one of the large paintings they were passing around in class. A few minutes went by and sure enough the man entered the classroom. He told the teacher that he was a school inspector and wanted to observe the classroom function. So the teacher invited him to join the class, and unsurprisingly he chose to sit on the floor next to me. He turned to me and gave me the coldest smile that sent chills up my spine. I didn’t know what to do next. I tried plotting a million different escape plans in my head, starting with the pair of scissors I saw on the ground next to him. ** But then at this point in my dream I was so terrified that I woke up ** *** I feel like this dream was a weird mix of the Netflix shows “Series of Unfortunate Events” (bc of the whole Count Olaf figure following me around with a bunch of kids) & “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” (bc the atmosphere & school gave me similar vibes to their Magic school in the show). Also the last art room scene was definitely my brain subconsciously thinking about the most recent art class assignment I had to do in real life bc I researched “The Birth of Venus” not too long ago ***