Ancient death cult preschool

Date: 8/19/2019

(This Dream was long, I’m adding more as I have time over the day) I’m watching in third person. Nothing seems sinister to the parents or kids, but it feels like a movie, because I can tell something is wrong, as the viewer. Parents are dropping their kids off at their preschool; there are ten kids, ten parents. One parent has a nine year old daughter with her. Her son is named Thomas. It seems that all of the families are new and it’s the first day. There are two teachers, the head teacher Martha and a young woman named Janice. The school is a one story house, with two outdoor areas in front and back, and a back house. The house is rustic and one long curving hall with a kitchen in the center and several rooms off the one hall. Some of the rooms connect to one another. Apparently the kids sometimes stay overnight here, because there are bunk beds in the rooms. Three of the kids (a girl named Luna, Thomas, and a boy named Marcus) notice over a period of a week that something is weird about the teachers. During an overnight stay, Luna and Thomas (who share a room) sneak out to the hall and hear muffled voices from the dining hall. The teachers are engaged in a ritual, slowly circling the table. On it is a child’s skull, it looks old. Martha retrieves from a white velvet pouch two short pieces cut from bamboo poles. Janice takes them and gently slots them into the eye sockets. Janice, her voice shaking, blurts out “finally we can complete the ritual”. Martha shushes her. The kids hastily return to their beds. Over the following weeks, more strange and sinister things happen. Luna and Thomas tell Marcus about what they saw, and Marcus tells his father but he doesn’t believe him. Janice is terrorizing one of the girls at the school, coaching her into thinking everything is in her head/no one will believe her. Our three main kids try to help her, and succeed; her mother arrives one afternoon and tells Martha she will remove her from the school. Martha barely keeps it together; some days later, she invites the mother to discuss it in private, citing hopes of changing her mind... and she drowns her in the basin of the bathroom sink. She has Janice store the body, saying it will be a suitable replacement for the ritual. (I’m going to condense the dream a bit from here on) The remaining children grow fearful, and several other parents attempt to meet with the teachers one evening. The disappearance of the mother is questioned by Marcus’s father, who now believes his son’s fears. Thomas’s mother is among those confronting the teachers. Janice slips away during the confrontation. Martha decides to accelerate her plan. Janice shuts off all the electricity and fills the main hall with smoke. The parents get separated, several are separated from their children. Coughing and calling their children’s names, they spread out, searching. Martha finds Thomas and drags him through the side doors of the rooms to a hidden chamber. It’s lit by white candles, and features a white stone slab. She straps him to it and brings out the pouch containing the bamboo. She tells Thomas about the ritual; every 99 years, their cult enacts a ritual in which they make three sacrifices; one by water, one by fire, and one by earth. The three sacrifices enable them to create a vessel for their child-seer god. By plucking out Thomas’s eyes, she claims, they can invite their god to channel it’s being into his body. She tells Thomas that their group has been tracking his lineage and are confident he is meant to be the vessel. Meanwhile, Thomas’s mother is searching for him. It’s implied that she has some kind of supernatural sight, as she suddenly knows where he is, and she finds the hidden room. She rushes in as Martha is leaning over her son with the sharpened bamboo. The dream cuts to the chaos outside of the chamber; most of the kids are all safe outside of the school, and most of the parents, but Janice had murdered one of the dads by trapping him in some kind of cage and immolating him. It’s gruesome. Luna and Marcus are too late to save their classmate’s father, but they hit Janice with a heavy object (a bookend or something, I don’t remember) and she is knocked unconscious. The kids make their way outside to join the group. Returning to Thomas, his mother, and Martha: The mother struggles with Martha, wrestling her to the ground and hitting her in the face until she ceases to respond. Thomas and his mother escape and rejoin the group outside. Everyone has left, and night fully fell hours ago. Martha awakens and dizzily gets up. She walks through the house and finds the room with the charred corpse in a cage, and a still-unconscious Janice. Martha realizes they failed to complete the ritual, and, angrily blaming Janice, drags her outside. She digs a deep hole and, laughing, buries Janice alive. Janice rouses as she’s being buried and screams and begs as she is covered in dirt. Thomas is home with his mother and sister; everyone is terribly traumatized, but they discuss moving on from the experience. Unnoticed by his mother, Thomas’s eyes cloud over strangely.