Shooting in Anaheim

Date: 10/19/2016

By jessiemarz

I took a nap around 2 pm today and this was what I can remember of my dream: I was on a class trip (back in high school) and we some how ended up in a Harkins movie theater. The place was dark and filled to the brim with students from school. All of a sudden I hear a blood-curdling scream come from a few rows back. Everyone ignores it. Then a man says it's time to do a Q and A (in the dark). And as he's answering questions from the audience, the scream happens again. I look behind me and see that my old friend from high school (Jordan F.) is standing there with her boyfriend and he has a gun to his head, threatening to shoot. Well the school security guards saw what was going on and told everyone to stay quiet and stay where there were sitting. The guy doing the Q and A keeps going with questions when a kid sitting next to me raises his hand and says "shouldn't we run out if he has a gun?" And the guy was like "EVERYONE RUN" and everyone started running out of the side door of the theater and the kid with the gun is sitting there shaking and crying. Well for whatever reason, I was paralyzed in fear and was too afraid to move in case he shot me. Well I was the last one in the theater and the security guards were yelling at me. I stood up to go and my legs felt like they were attached to cement blocks so I could hardly move. I remember being carried by my old teacher out into the lobby of the theater. And then the next thing I remember is I was getting into my truck to drive away and I was so flustered that I turned the wrong way to go home. (I live in Arizona, but at some point in the dream I turned from being there to being in Anaheim, CA.) So I was driving and driving and crying and I saw an exit sign that said "Disneyland" with an arrow. And I could see the rides from under the overpass but I didn't decide to turn that way because it was like really late at night, so I waited for the next exit and turn there. And the first thing I see is a gas station, like maybe a Circle K or something. I go inside and I realize that my phone is completely dead, my truck is on empty and I have no money with me. So I start crying and having an anxiety attack in front of all of these people. I guess at some point some time had passed because I remember walking into a connected cafe (it was connected to the gas station) and seeing the morning light coming through the blinds and seeing Disneyland just about to open. I look over to the family who is seated at a table and through sniffles I say to the little girl (it was a little girl, mom and grandma) "are you going to Disneyland today? And she said "yes! I'm so excited!" Then a total change happened where I was all of a sudden standing in a huge 5 or 6 story mall (I dream about this mall a lot). I am with my sister and we are going up and down elevators and escalators to avoid my grandma. And then I woke up.