Chronic dream-scary

Date: 8/16/2016

There's this dream that I've always had ever since I was a little kid...maybe 3. I remember being super scared and always waking up in a cold sweat when the dream is said and done. So here's how it usually goes... I'm on a white sandy beach wearing a yellow one/piece bathing suit (the one I had when I was little) and a stone in my hand. In the distance, I see this big creamy-white, long boulder at the far end of the beach. It's so hot you can see the heat waves coming off it. I walk up to the rock, curious. When I get closer, I realize the boulder has an eye, a fin, and a tail. I suddenly realize it's a beached whale. It's long gone from the summer heat. And it smells really bad. The stone in my hand turns into a bright red Swiss Army knife. I can't stop myself, but I cut the side of the whales belly. Even if I don't want to hurt it. All of a sudden, these giant metal dragonflies start coming out of the carcass! They have razors and blades for teeth and claws, and they bite and claw at me. Dozens of them fly out of the whale, chasing me down the beach as I run for my life! At the end of the beach, there is always a black, metal spiral staircase. And every time I have the dream, I end up in a different house, my aunts house, one of my father's client's houses, or my neighbor's house. I am always coming out of a darkish basement when I enter the house, even if I was just on a really sunny beach. Ok, so here's where things get weird, My parents took me to the British Virgin Islands when I was three. The same year I started to have the dream. The beach in my dream is on a tropical island. Although I have no memory of the BVI, I continue to have that dream! I had it a ton when I was three, a few times when I was six, and a few times when I was nine. And on my 12th birthday, I had the dream, but I was watching my younger self perform it on a local beach near my house. I was sitting in a sailboat, watching in horror as my younger self got bitten until she fell. She didn't reach the staircase. Almost like clockwork, I seem to have this dream once every three years. And believe me, I couldn't make this up if I tried. I'm wondering if I will have this dream when I turn 15