Date: 2/15/2023
By ailehpo
Ok so I was at a house that was apparently supposed to be my house. My brother and mother was also there. I was looking through a stack of portable cassettes that I had found in a dusty box in the attic. There was one without a case, but instead of a traditional cassette, it looked like a tiny record (like for a record player) about the size of my hand. The edges were ragged bc it had been exposed to the elements. I was like I wonder if this will play. I put it into my Walkman (which had a screen for some reason, like a camera) and it started playing some movie. It said at the top “Back to the Future” so I thought it was that. But instead it showed some guy in like ancient Roman clothes looking over a field. He was buff and oiled up, he kind of looked like he was out of a gay porno. He was talking with another guy. I was like “oh, I don’t remember back to the future as well as I thought I did. I guess they went to Ancient Rome.” I remember the guy saying “we gotta make sure we invent Christianity”. I showed it to my brother and I was like “lol guess what movie this is”. And we watched it together for a while. It kept switching into snippets of other random made-up movies from the 60s-80s with similar vibes. We were like when is it gonna show Marty McFly. At some point my mom called over and told us about some hacker children, that were targeting people and they were dangerous. I think she was watching the news. We were like “k cool,” and continued watching our “movie”. I remember at one point I walked over to a corner besides the bed/couch and there were little nails on the ground….me and my brother and my mom were like wtf…who spilled sharp nails here…was someone trying to hurt us? Was someone trying to kill my dog, bc he liked to curl up in that area? I was getting paranoid bc things were like, weird and off (duh, of course they were, it’s a dream). I got up and saw a cop car parked in the grass of our yard. The cop was walking to our door. She had a shaving foam-like substance on her in patches around her body, she’d been covered in it for some reason. My mom was like thank god someone is here, things have been weird in the past few days. I stepped outside, and at this point I also saw a school bus parked in our driveway. I started saying something to the cop, and she said “you need to leave NOW. These children are dangerous. They will take your information and make it like you never existed.” I was confused and started asking questions, and she said “run far away you stupid bitch! If you don’t it’s over!! They’re gonna get to you!! Dumbass!!” And I was like okay she’s acting suspicious. How do I know SHE isn’t working for these “children”. She ran off out of our yard and I was like fuck. Went inside and tried to lock the door, which, for some reason, had decided to get all buggy then. I think some children came out of the bus and started watching around our yard. They were definitely still children, like 10-12 years old, maybe early teens, but they were all a lot smaller and shorter than average for their age. Like, a little past my hip, maybe. Another school bus pulled up and more children came out. Some went off to different houses in our middle-class neighborhood. Some randomly walked around our yard, almost like they were inspecting it. Somehow I found myself out in the yard again. Idk why, they weren’t banging at our door or anything. I think I just wanted to try to run, maybe. I saw one of the children taking a picture of our license plate. I was like wtf do I do. They weren’t swarming at me, most of them were kind of ignoring me, glancing up at me occasionally, but they were evenly spread across our ENTIRE neighborhood, so even if I ran there’s no way I could get past all of them. Eventually one took my hand and was like “let’s go.” I was scared asf but I had no choice. We walked down the street, a few other of the children behind and in front of us. I was being led to my death, or something far worse. I talked with the child a bit and was asking questions and trying to figure out what they would do to me. I don’t remember what he said, but he would talk in a very rehearsed, cold tone. But almost nonchalant. I was like wtf….how do I get out of here. I fell a few steps behind the child who was walking me and next to another child. I lifted up his t-shirt from the back so that his back was exposed. I noticed a seam, almost like a pocket, in the skin of his back. I pulled up on it and the top of his skin started coming off. Underneath it was a white, plastic-y substance. It was almost as if someone had taken a mannequin, then put it in a large sock that went to his back, and then put another sock over the top of his head to cover the remaining half of the skin. It seemed like these children were dolls, almost. I took off the skin which killed (?) him, or at least decommissioned him, and then I snuck away. I think I went down a sewer, which led me to the second phase. In the second phase of my dream, I had made it to the world of these children. I was hiding, because duh. Everyone looked average human height, so maybe they just had a different growth rate, or maybe the children had been from a different place. Anyways, now I was in the land of these people. I think I called them elves in my dream, but also used “fae” and “mermaids” occasionally. They were very similar looking to us. These people moved a lot by diving underwater. They could spend a lot of time underwater without coming up for air. I think I went into like, another sewer drain-like thing, and it led me to this man-made underground flooded area. There were some pockets to come up for air in. Almost giving that one MGS2 level in the way I had to navigate the areas. There were long seaweed growing in most of these dark, underwater areas. I hid behind it whenever an elf would swim past me. Either they didn’t notice me, or they didn’t notice I was human. Eventually, while I was coming up for water, I was spotted by an elf. (I actually don’t remember if I met her before I first went into the water and then she showed me the way to the water area, or if I met her when I was already in the water. I’m taking creative liberties here.) She was probably about my age. She looked like a nice horse girl. Maybe like Milly from Trigun or maybe like Mercedes from Fire Emblem. I don’t even play fire emblem, my friend does. Sandy, armpit-length hair. She had the body of an athlete. I begged her to spare me. Luckily, she was very nice and not xenophobic and didn’t like, report me or whatever. Bc if they realized I was human, bad things would have happened, I guess. We talked. In this place, people could talk underwater, and I could understand what they were saying very well. She led me and had me swim thru these areas. Eventually we went above water, and into some office building where her mom worked a desk job in this giant call center-like room. We kind of briskly went around the perimeter of the room, but people could still see me, so I wonder what it was about me that would’ve given away the fact that I wasn’t an elf. Did they have pointy ears and I didn’t? Were our bodies built a little differently? Idk. We went up to her mothers desk. She was a chubby southern middle-aged woman with light skin and curly brown hair. She looked like one of those overly-nice doctor’s office check in people. Maybe like…that one dentist I had a while back who told me about her daughter.., The girl explained the situation to her mother in hushed tones. She smiled at me warmly, completely understanding the situation. She had us go to a safe place, maybe their house or some closed office room. I felt like she almost teleported us there, maybe? We went down to a water area once again. At one point I was alone and a group swam past me. I was kind of against the wall and there was seaweed in front of me but they could still obviously see me. They didn’t stop or anything though. I guess they thought I was some loner elf. The girl introduced me to her friend. She kind of looked like Alya from Miraculous Ladybug. Big square glasses. Like mine. [Finish later]