Date: 8/4/2019
By banditø
So as far back as I can remember, this dream started out with me lying on a bed in a mysterious, dark room. At first it was creepy. The room had double utility doors with mesh wire in the window parts, and looking out them I could see silhouettes of peoples heads mulling around out there. I felt slightly afraid, like okay where is this going? Occasionally the faces would turn to look at me and they were real people filing through in a line. Pretty sure it was one way glass though, and they couldn’t see in, and only I could see out. Then, my manager came in and was like cmon, you’re on. So I was like okay, I’m the lead singer in a band. That works. The last of the people were trickling in as I walked into the venue. It was a big venue, mind you, but only about 50 people were there watching me, looking kinda disinterested. I danced around, dashed through the empty aisles, and sang and rapped to the songs, trying my dear best to be interesting, occasionally interacting with the audience and bringing up some emo girl with purple hair on stage. I remember my voice sounded like NF. Pretty sure I brought that up to the audience. At one point I was on the stage and I was like “give it up for my drummer... Ross!” And then I paused and let them cheer lamely. “Give it up for... my bassist... Rory!” I made up those names on the spot, too. This was a weird transition. Pretty sure I was running down a snow covered highway surrounded by pine forests? That might’ve been a transition later on though. Then, I’m pretty sure after the concert, I kinda became a normal person again. I emerged into the lunchroom of my old school and sat at a table with some of my old classmates. Mindy Kaling - is that her name? The actor of Kelley Kapoor from the office, who keeps popping up in Instagram ads - was there at our table. We acted chill but then one person asked for a photo and then we all did. Pretty sure it was kinda a reception party at this point? Anyway when it came my turn for a picture, of course it took awhile because everything messed up and the pictures didn’t turn out right. Mindy was kinda getting annoyed, I was embarrassed, not great. Then it got scary, we were all walking through the halls towards the side door when an alarm went off that said “Code 1.” Everything became misty and greenish black, it was obvious that toxic waste had been released into the building. I felt kinda suffocated, some teacher rushed by towards the door with his mouth covered by his hand so I did that too. People were basically stampeding towards the door and finally I made it out. Man, it was half a nightmare basically. I don’t know the transition here, it may have been the snowy highway thing. I’d also like to point out that at some time I was petting my unshaven legs in dismay, they were full on furry. Having to shave your legs sucks. This part is really fuzzy, no pun intended. We were with some weird camp thing in the snowy forest, there were some counselors nearby but they weren’t really watching us that closely. Somewhere in the wood there were two statues of green endermen from Minecraft made out of weird connector thingies. (Ive never even played Minecraft before) Being teenagers, we knocked them down. The counselors were like cmon but we didn’t care, pretty sure there were other decorations like a snowman. Then for some reason I was lying on the ground, I might’ve been tired from perhaps using my powers to knock it down. Anyway this dude kinda like my crush, definitely a representation of him so I’ll call him crushdude, came over and was like what are you doing. For some reason we kinda bonded there. Again, I don’t remember that well. At first I’m pretty sure it was art class but it quickly turned into a weird camp thing. They split us into teams, pretty sure there were three. Each of the teams had different personalities. The blue team was shy and quiet and introspective, basically me. My old, shy friends yeeted over there and I almost joined them, I remember lots of kids from my old school there. The yellow team was more social, and filled with kids from my new school, including my crush. I decided to break the mold and join them, I didn’t want to be classified as shy anymore. Besides, they were clearly having more fun! Crushdude and I got pretty close pretty fast, to the point where there was a love interest going on. We had fun together, at one point someone dragged out an orange canoe and I’m pretty sure we were going canoeing. I showed crushdude how i could fly and he was pretty impressed as I jumped between the trees. However, things went downhill pretty fast. Somehow there was a clone of mine, and there was a mighty switcheroo. At first crushdude still wanted to hang out with me and was frustrated with the change, but he quickly grew adjusted to this clone of mine and liked her a lot better. Every time the clone saw me, she would shoot lasers from her eyes to try and eliminate me. At first crushdude was like no but he quickly encouraged the clone. I flew around and dodged, but was growing more despaired and frustrated so I flew into the small town. I would climb up street lamps and then jump off of them and fly around, passerby watched me like wut. All this time crushdude was having a swell old time with my clone, I needed a plan to get him back. I flew into the mall area, and flew up to this ledge type thing. I expected the man sitting there to be like wow how are you flying? But to my surprise he could fly too, and he followed me as I flew out of the mall. Apparently he owned some esteemed flight school where he taught people to fly. I already knew how to fly however, so it was his turn to be surprised. He commented on my technique, saying I was a natural. That was nothing he could teach, I was better than him at it. I continued to try to reclaim crushdude but he wanted the clone instead of me. ————————— This is obviously super symbolic for me and it’s pretty interesting. At my old school I was always trying to impress but no one really bought it. I always embarrassed myself trying to fit in. It became too toxic of a school so I left for a new school where everyone was great and social. I had to abandon my old shy and anxious self for the sake of being confident and social. My crush and I became boyfriend and girlfriend but when I became vulnerable and showed my true, shy self, he preferred the happy, social fake face I put on. This was pretty interesting for me to interpret so if anyone made it this far I hope you liked it!