Running Away from Church Performance

Date: 5/12/2022

I dreamt that my family was putting on a show at a church. In my head in the dream, I had certain understandings of the church I was performing for and, in real life, it was a church I had been to and participated in. In the dream, this was like an event with multiple churches though. It seemed like we were all getting ready to perform like backstage, which in real life, wasn’t totally out of the norm in some way. My mom was the only one that wasn’t performing, and it seemed like she had been helping put the whole program together. Once again, not out of the norm for real life. It now seemed as if most of the performances and presentations were done. I don’t remember any, but it seemed that way. So at this point I’m in the audience and it’s really dark like a show would be. All of a sudden, the announcers call my moms name over the loud speaker. They’re announcing like, “aaaand now, special guest” etc. There’s flashing strobe lights effects, smoke coming up from the stage, and I thought they wanted my mom to come up from the bottom of the stage lol. So they’re giving her this grand introduction. Instead of rising from the stage, my mom walks up to the stage because she was also in the audience. It was funny watching her because she’s short and she tried getting up on stage in one step instead of taking the steps up to the stage. My dad soon after follows behind her in support. So when they get up on stage, I guess they’re performance was about fighting because they both run on the stage in opposite directions towards the other performers on stage, and try to clothesline them! If you don’t know what that is, it’s a wrestling move. My dad connects, but when my mom tries to clothesline someone, she ends up falling on her back accidentally. So I come out of the crowd because I’m not sure if I should help her or let the show go on. By the time I get to the stage, she’s back up and running. The next thing I know, she has an umbrella in her hand that hasn’t been opened. My dream switches from my point of view into this being like a documentary. I’m watching the same thing, but it’s black and white and as if I’m watching on a screen. There’s also now a narrator talking about how “this is the problem with churches” type of talk. I see my mom throw the umbrella at the guy she tried to clothesline. From my moms reaction on her face, she didn’t mean to do as much damage to the guy that she did. However, she still has a serious face on and looking for her next target. The next scene in what’s now this black & white documentary shows a scene with a swat team coming in. At this point they show the swat team taking some guys head and ramming it against the wall. I then think that I have to get out of here. The point of view is back to me and I can see that I’m running, trying to get out of this place. The setting changes to a building, one that I’ve seen in several other dreams. As I’m trying to run away, some Yakuza gang is after me, not letting me escape. They make some electric barrier film outside of the building so I can’t get out. So I’m on the bottom floor running trying to get out. I am then forced to go upstairs and I’m thinking, “how am I gonna get out of here”. I end up in a room and where two girls are sitting. They seem to know that I’m trying to get away, but just stare and do nothing to help me. I find a window with an opening just out of the way of the electric barrier. I then go to climb down the building out of the window, which is scary because it’s barely any space climbing down. I end up making it out and I’m in a wide open space. Then, some sort of flying monster is in the distance. It throws some sort of mystical circle blade my way. I have enough space to dodge the blade, and the blade turns the corner. I ended up running in the direction of the blade, because it’s away from the monster. This is all I remember. Thinking about it this morning, there were quite a few metaphorical insights that I could take from this.