the gated community

Date: 8/28/2016

There's a group of houses surrounding an empty lot. I took a bus to get here with some friends, I don't know any of them but I want to take care of them. I'm not sure what has happened in the dream prior to this. For some reason, we're sitting in the parking lot amongst our things, packed bags, and blankets. I forget what we were talking about, but when dusk hits I suggest that we gather our things and go before it gets too dark out. Suddenly, I look up at the houses and I notice something isn't right. I walk up to one and they all seem vacant. The houses were full of furniture of course; but they were vacant in the sense that it seemed like no one was really living there. I panic. I look through the first person's mail, when suddenly, the sun starts rising. I look back and I don't know where my friends are. I see a group of people walking down the block, they must be from the neighborhood. I sit down on the front houses steps to make it seem as if I lived there, and I was not an intruder. I am somehow aware that these people aren't "people", and whenever these people greet each other, they wave very awkwardly. The group of people notice me sitting on the porch, and I start waving. At first they smile, but as they approach their smile dims. They suddenly stop past the gate. They are out of my line of sight, but I can hear them talking about something. I know that they know that I am not one of them, and I sit there, wondering where I went wrong. One of the women from the group enters the gate with a syringe in her hand, looking directly at me, saying "it's okay". I scream, and begin to run. I run into the house's backyard, and begin to climb the fence. In this dream, I am a very good climber. I climb the fence, leap towards the next house's fence, and continue this for about three houses. The woman is still chasing me. I climb a house, to get to a high platform, and for some reason this house has many adornments and ornaments on shelves that make it very noisy for me to climb, and gives away my location. I begin leaping from rooftop to rooftop; I know she is still chasing me. I get onto the ground when I see the end, and I am suddenly greeted by a giant gate that I have no way of climbing, and three people from that same group corner me, and one of them sticks me with the syringe as I cry and scream. The syringe is filled with a very small amount of a red liquid, and I pass out. I awaken to a shut mouth. I am in an office filled with people. Whenever I want to say something that I would normally say, it does not come out. I can only speak like these people. I am unable to communicate with anyone that I am trapped. there is also a shroud of darkness that covers my eyes. I am no longer able to tell between them and normal people in the office. Whatever mission I had coming here, I have failed, and I know it. All I remember that was left in the dream, was me trying to get out and trying to communicate even though I couldn't.