Parties, Tornados, and Surprises

Date: 12/19/2021

The dream started out with an unwanted party. My daughter, husband, and I were living in a nice highrise. All of a sudden, a bunch of my husband's friends were in the apartment drinking and partying really loud. I argued with him that our daughter was trying to sleep, and asked him to make his friends leave. He said he would, but it seemed more and more people arrived. My daughter woke up, so I carried her around the apartment with me while I tried to tidy up, with the help of my step-sister who just showed up out of nowhere. Worried murmurs about a severe thunderstorm with tornado potential broke out through the crowd. I went to the window to look out on the town and there was a massive tornado in the center of town. Everyone started rushing down the stairs to escape. My husband, step-sister, daughter and I ran down the stairs to meet my mom, step-father, and my other sister. We all packed into a car and started driving around town, trying to exit. All of the streets we needed to take to escape were blocked, as they lead right to the tornado. We gave up and drove back to the highrise. The trapped occupants of the city dug access to underneath the building. I was skeptical about taking shelter there - what if the building collapsed? There wasn't enough time to find an alternative, so we hid under the building. At this point, my husband had vanished. He wasn't killed, there wasn't any drama, he just wasn't there anymore in the dream. Once underneath, we all waited to hear the tornado pass. After only a moment, we heard calls from the surface that the tornado passed. As we came up to the surface, we assumed it missed up since we didn't hear anything, but that was not true. The building and the whole town were wrecked. Assessing the building, it was going to be a challenge to get back up to my apartment as many of the stairways had blown away. Local authorities had already gone inside to create bridges and pathways to safely return to the apartments (yes, I understand there's absolutely no logic in going into a structurally unsound building but my dream self clearly did not 😂). Some people tried to climb up this glass fixtures that were purely for decoration to avoid waiting to in line. Unfortunately, each trial was met by the glass breaking under their weight, one person falling through, while the other person grabbed at them to try and held which ended up decapitating the person falling. The other person would just sit there, then, holding a bloody head and crying. Going in, I was terrified. There were pathways where only so many people could walk at a time for fear that too much weight would make the pathway or fabric bridge collapse. With each floor, there was a new pathway. I held my daughter close, and she fell asleep. Crossing one of the bridges, the fabric gave way and bridge collapsed. I grabbed tight to the fabric connecting to the stable floor, and an officer successfully grabbed the other side. As the authorities tried to re-attach it before I slipped or dropped my daughter, I saw what was below us: an ocean's worth of flooding. If I couldn't hold on, my daughter and I would certainly die. Luckily, the authorities attached the other half of the bridge successfully and we crossed to the other side. Upon reaching the other side, a male friend from high school (who has started to randomly appear in my dreams) suddenly appeared and said, "There you are! I was so worried." I was confused, but he seemed so calm, relieved, and as though he was just... supposed to be there. He scooped up Daniella to give me a break, and once the rest of my family was across, we all chatted about how crazy the situation was. I was still greatly confused, which I think was my waking self beginning to seep in because I woke up shortly after.