Longest Dream

Date: 3/1/2022

Had a crazy movie-like dream that repeated itself with different timelines and through other people's perspective. It takes place in the same building but it was different each time. There was so much going on that I have to break it up in chronological order. There's the main and side story but everything happens at the same time, almost, not sure. SIDE TIMELINE (The Studio) In the beginning I was at a dance studio. I get drawn to the corner where there was a radio playing a poem. As more people trickled into the class, I'm listening to this strange poem that I realize is about me. It was a criticism about my life but it was insightful. The class is now packed and the instructor, who is Will Smith apparently, shows up and we begin our stretching. The place is packed, everyone keeps bumbing n accidentally hitting each other. I started out in the front of the class but shimmied to back to avoid the stretching chaos. In the back, a guy farts and I flee to the corner where the radio was playing. MAIN TIMELINE (Fire in studio) I'm sitting in the corner, this time there's no one speaking on the radio. A small guy with a shiny spoon comes and sits very close to me (I'll refer to him as Spoon-guy). He's in all white, very young looking. He then begin's reciting the same poem that was playing earlier. He repeated it verbatim but his tone was different. Instead of criticising my life's story, he was very obviously insulting it. I'm asking him why he's talking to me like this and he ignores me and carries on reciting the poem. He finishes, and then actually insults me, then a fight begins. There's people hold me back but no one's holding Spoon-guy back so he's all up in my face. Still insulting me. He swings at me with the spoon, break free and arm and grab the spoon from him. I hit him in the head with the spoon, he's still talking, I hit him again and again and again. This guy still doesn't shut up about me. He pulls out a fork but I quickly grab it out of his hand and I stab him. Meanwhile, the whole studio is in shambles. Everyone's trashing the place. I watched as two guys run into a washroom and start a fire. In the dream I have a memory of this particular fire that will destroy this whole building and claim 2 lives. One of them (an odd detail but vivid memory) is an old man who was sleeping and couldn't escape. I rush into the washroom and find where the fire was. It was a small ember but I couldn't put it out. I splashed some water on it but it might as well have been gasoline because it became a roaring flame. MAIN TIMELINE pt. 2 (Resident) The dream cuts to me in an apartment I don't recognize. Even though the dream changed, I was sure about two things. I knew the fire hasn't started but soon will and also this time things can be different if I do something about it. I was a kid in this timeline and one of the first things I noticed was how exhausted I felt. I ran out into the halls looking for a fire alarm to pull and couldn't find one. I ran back inside and see my mom, who looked like my real mom but years younger, was holding a child. My sister came out of the other room looking about the same but she's clearly older than me here. They see my panic and I'm shouting fire fire. No explanation, no questions, we all start making our way out of the building. We were on the higher floors. I specifically remember my sister (amidst this panic) saying "I read you shouldn't take the stairs" and me shouting "No, it's the elevators you should avoid". We're going down, flight after flight and I'm still searching for an alarm to trigger. I felt so tired and sleepy the whole time. Then we see two guys coming up the stairs. I tell them the whole situation, about the fire that probably started by now and I even told them to find the old man that was sleeping so he can live this time. Behind us, a woman comes down the steps and immediately locks eyes with one of the guys I was talking to. They were siblings. She flips out on her brother and I don't remember what she said exactly but she knew what was going on. She said something like "Why are you always high every time this happens". I felt defeated knowing the old man probably wouldn't make it again. The dream cuts again SIDE TIMELINE (The Sister) When the dream changed this time, I became a spectator. I watched the two siblings from the staircase talking to each other in their apartment. The sister was asking very specific questions about one of her brother's female friends and then got defensive when her brother asked if she was romantically interested in the friend. The brother leaves after saying that his friend is around the block if she's interested. Turns out the friend was a lady of the night and sister didn't know. After a while the sister also leaves the apartment and that's when she runs into me as the kid in the stairs while I'm explaining everything to her brother. I don't know how but by now she knew about the fire and when she starts getting mad at her brother, it seemed like she's been through the timelines like I have. The dream kind of did a loop back to the beginning but I never got to see how it ended. There was a moment outside, during the timeline I was spectating, about the lady of the night and random characters.