The Abstract

Date: 5/31/2019

This was a dream in the middle of several strange dreams I was having in a 12 hour period. Almost all of which were nightmares. The Abstract is a place you go when you die, with many colors outlining that various parts of the landscapes. It’s a violent gory and pretty scary place, that has the color scheme of a McDonald’s play place. And is much like a maze like it too. The Abstract has many rules to follow for every little part you go to, and if you don’t follow these rules, you die, again. And again and again until you know every little rule, many of which make absolutely no sense. It is a painful nightmare zone that feel as though it has no escape. And it doesn’t, the only way I escaped was restarting my dream. The characters that appeared in The Abstract was a cowboy and a younger boy that was apart of his posse that he was raising. The story of the dream actually didn’t start at The Abstract, but instead started in another dream chapter of the multiple dreams I was having during this long sleep. Starting with a winter campsite of various western characters trying to survive, to which a giant comes and destroys their lively hoods. To a a bunch of cowboys raising a child, just got out of a painful confrontation, and are spending some money trying to pick up some supplies and hormones at a nearby shop. This is when a man comes running in, shouting hysterically that he had just started a war. To which everyone goes running away, knowing that they could be next. The boy and the older cowboy get separated, the boy assumed to be alone, and the cowboy distressed about this. The Dream doesn’t follow the boy but instead the cowboy and his posse. They find themselves a dark pitch black place. The cowboy ranting about how they’re doomed, then running into a violent thorny trap, and dying, to the horror and dismay of his friends. He wakes up in The Abstract, the boy finding him there, excited to see him again, and telling him to run from an “enchantress”. This part is a bit upsetting because it tells us that the boy had died offscreen and before the cowboy had died, telling us that there was no hope of the cowboy ever finding him anyways. It’s more upsetting when, because the cowboy seems to not know at all what the rules of The Abstract are, he shortly dies after arriving. And this distressed the boy, as he’s been here longer, but couldn’t possibly explain the rules of The Abstract. The rest of this dream is that of the boy wishing to revive and find this parental figure of his but having a hard time doing so. He goes through much torture doing. The Abstract terrifies me as silly as it sounds. The rules and events are unpredictable, those there are often disfigured from the torture of trial and error. There’s multiple stories from different people in The Abstract that my dream followed. And the rules they had to figure out and obey, along with the places were somewhat disturbing to me. Yellow caves with spikes that if you didn’t follow the right paths you’d have your eyes gouged out by a strange woman. Red walls where you had to climb it correctly or else you’d fall to your death. Blue bridges that you’d have run fast enough and put your foot in the right spots or else a strange giant creature would swallow you whole. Don’t touch the black vines in these purples grounds or else they’d tie you up and hold you there forever. There were multi colored places such as a house in which you’d have to hide or act right or else the 60 foot tall family members would punish you violently, and if you escaped through a window you’d just be in the same house but upside down. Again, all of these sound very silly on paper, but in the dream it was like I was seeing a child wonder around a nightmarish McDonald’s play pin and chuckee cheese arcade, where you made the wrong turn or lost the game you’d meet a violent fate. In The Abstract the sky was dark and the landscape was filled with bright colors, but maybe the darkness was actually the only place you’d be safe. Edit: hi! thanks for the likes on this. this is what made wanna start a dream journal because I thought this world my dream made up was so strange and interesting. I wanna say sorry it’s a little poorly written and I couldn’t really capture what it felt like, I have a hard time describing my dreams. I’m really happy this is in the top of the week and month! If you like my dream journal entries or want me to go more in depth with this dream (I left out some detail) don’t be afraid to leave a comment!!