Bat Cave/Haunted Painting

Date: 8/4/2025

The title sounds so Halloweeny! There was a point in the dream where I put on an episode of a current favorite show, there seemed to be new episodes out but I was maybe rewatching old episodes before taking part in the new ones. In the show, there was a haunted painting in the apartment of the characters. The painting made bad things happen for them etc etc. Every time the painting was on the screen, I looked away, I didn't want to see it! I was intrigued by the show and wanted to watch but didn't want to put my eyes on a cursed object lol. The show kind of went through a story of how they came to have it and there was a romance at some point. I can't really remember but it was like I watched one or two episodes while remembering the past episodes as well. At another point in the dream, I am laying in a bed that seems to be inside a shed. The shed doors are open and it also seems very elevated, somehow like 30 or 40 feet up above a small lake. I'm looking down from the bed at a group - with many friends in it - surrounding an island in the middle of this small lake/pond. They are gathered together at the edge of the island and I see a flicker of movement above them. I think "omg they are bats!". The bats begin to fly up above the ground and towards me but the group all have their phones in their hands and they don't notice them. I wish that I somehow could tell them about them but I'm too far away. The bats fly into the shed and land on the wall just inside above the door. I am in my bed admiring them with awe. I think they are much smaller than I thought and I am observing them and feeling so grateful for their visit. While looking at the bats, I notice a very tiny one, a baby, reaching and reaching, wiggling and looking. Then a mama goes over to the baby bat and scoops her into its arms. I immediately have a vision of my own mother grabbing my face and giving me hard kisses all over my face and head. She would do this in real life and it was really funny. Kind of like smothering your kid in kisses for a laugh, in a way where they can't run away!! That's it! The end :)