Dream Journal Ultimate
Date: 5/15/2018
By fluffytree
In my first dream I was in back in some room with a group of people watching some horror movie. It wasn't anything I'd ever seen but it did have a girl in it that looked like Sadako from the Ring so I assumed maybe it was the most recent movie that's on my backlog of movies to check out that I hadn't gotten to yet. I was sitting in the back but eventually got up to go stand in the hall near some other guy. Not sure why I was here but I think I was getting kind of stir crazy from sitting for so long. Suddenly a dark shadowy face came out of the screen and flew down the same hall we were at and right past us. It looked like Sadako's head but gigantic and black as if covered in oil. Her face was contorted into a screaming expression but very little sound was coming out. She moved on past us thankfully but a second exact head came from the same direction moments later and tried to possess us I would assume. We put our hands up and it seemed to keep her out. We also covered our nose and mouth so she couldn't get inside us that way as well. Frustrated, she moved on while screaming loudly. Then David Haller from the show Legion (Professor X's son from X-Men) comes walking from that same direction saying, "dammit he got out again... I need to fix this." I immediately know he's talking about the Shadow King, the main antagonist of the show who's a powerful psychic mutant/entity that can take multiple forms and personalities. He goes after him and I follow. Me and him are now outside near some beach where David walks up to some strange red machine of some sort that kinda looked like a smaller version of the thing Eggman rides around in in the Sonic games, but it looks jankier and more like something that could actually exist irl. He gets in powers it on and I barely have time to climb in before it blasts off into the sky like a rocket. He starts flying it upside down even while hundreds of feet above the ocean causing me to almost completely fall out. I'm hanging on by my fingertips begging him to please turn the thing back to the proper position before I fall to my death. He agrees, but not until a minute later. What a prick, lol. We're now on some private island near some very tall yellow grass steadily trying to avoid stepping in any kind of shadows. David never actually explains it but judging from his actions I deduce that the Shadow King can infiltrate your mind through any shadow so I try my best to follow his lead. Unfortunately I accidentally hit a shadow that was really hard to miss anyway because we were jumping in between spots of light coming through nearby tree foliage. I thought and hoped it was okay, but David was gone now and even though the world looked exactly the same, the birds had stopped chirping. I'm pretty sure my mind has been possessed by Shadow King and this is all a very convincing illusion I'm trapped in. I curse myself for being so careless and then "wake up" in a different dream entirely. Now I'm in my old apartment from Maryland and the same people from the last dream are here as well as my mom, two twin siblings, and their dad as well. I look around to see if anythings changed since the last time I was here waay back in '95 when we moved and not much has. The complex has wifi now and it does look cleaner but it still has a roach problem and I can't believe in all these years they haven't exterminated the source of the problem which is probably some nest within the building walls or even underground. I guess the management deems that too expensive though. I go out on the balcony to hang with the others for a bit and remember how many happy times I had here as a child. Everything looked so real and it felt like nostalgia overload. But the dream scenery started changing and I found myself whisked away to yet another dream reality. In my next one I woke up falsely to find myself at home. It was really late at night and everyone was asleep except my sister and Natasha's mom from my high school days. Why she was in this dream I have no clue since I haven't thought about her or her daughter in some time. But I discovered her when I went to use the bathroom and found her with her eyes closed while laying naked in the bathtub taking a bath. I was so confused but immediately felt awkward and said sorry before averting my eyes and darting back out. But minutes later I ended up going right back in again and this time she opened her eyes and gasped while covering herself with her hands. I apologized again saying I thought she was finished. She said something in response but I can't remember. I was still very curious why her of all people was in my house spending the night and taking a bath no less. I drifted off to another dream before I could get answers though. Now I'm driving through some unfamiliar suburb that was moderately far from where I live. I'd been trailing my mom and family driving a separate car as we were off to find a house to look at. We're moving in a couple months irl so we've been doing alot of house hunting lately. Anyway I think I lost sight of them and got completely lost period. I couldn't really check my phone to get my bearings either because I was on the road and there was a good bit of traffic around. I needed to find someplace to pull over or at least get to a red light. Eventually I did get to a stop sign at least but still not enough time to look at my phone so I pulled over on the next street as best I could even though it was also fairly busy. I opened up the Waze app and hit the home option that would lead me straight home and found I was at least an hour away. Before I set off I notice some people outside my window waving to get my attention. I then recognized them as some from the group I met at the start of all my dreams this session and also from the previous one as well. I fumble to roll down the passenger window and one of them stuck his head in saying hi and how nice my car was. Then they asked if they could get a ride to some coffee shop where the next part of the meetup was. I didn't recall but maybe everyone was gonna go there after leaving my old apartment and of course I'd vanished into thin air before telling anyone whether I was going with or not. I'm extremely shy and anti-social by default so the chances of me going with them before would've been close to zero. It is however not too far from my house and I can't be rude so I agree to giving them a ride. My old classmate and good friend Alex from high school is randomly there too. He pokes his head in to look at the car and nods with approval but doesn't wanna get in. It's really not a big deal. I'm flattered but they're acting like I'm driving a Lamborghini instead of a fairly normal looking 2013 Hyundai Sonata. I'm drive off after everyone is in and am really nervous because I've never driven with anyone in my car except my family. Maybe that's kinda sad for a 35 yo man but again, extremely shy and bad social anxiety so there ya go. Everyone is talking and laughing normally and no one knows how much I'm struggling right now to even appear normal because I'm freaking out with anxiety on the inside. Why did I have to turn down that particular road where they were and stop right by them? I guess it can't be helped though... I manage to get the address to the place inputted into my phone and got on the freeway following the directions. My anxiety got so bad it ended up actually waking me up though. When I went back to sleep I was staying in some dorm room downtown so I guess I was back in college. I had unwittingly joined some student fashion group and it really wasn't my thing because I'm an Illustrator for things like sci-fi, fantasy, anime, etc and not into fashion at all, but I didn't know how to get out of it without seeming rude. Speaking up is a big problem I have irl so of course it's the same in the dream realm. To top it off this group was doing a play in front of the entire school tonight. The event being held wasn't gonna just be about the play but had other things going on where the play was just a small blip that was apart of it. Everybody was excited but me and I ended up wandering away and just hoping no one would remember me. This is how I would quit the group, in the most nonconfrontational way possible. I went back to my room thinking no one would notice I wasn't there later, but I felt kinda bad because I was tired of hiding and running away all the time. I still didn't wanna participate, but maybe I could at least go to the thing anyway to see what it was all about. But I knew I wouldn't have the courage so I simply stayed in my room looking out the window at the beautiful night city skyline. How I could be up so high when I was only on the 3rd floor I do not know. Blame it on dream physics. Then I got a knock on the door. I reluctantly opened it to find it was one of the girls from the group. I forget her name but she was very short and petite and very cute with her curly red hair. She actually looked more like a real life version of Ed from Cowboy Bebop. She had a similar quirky personality as well and said she came to check on me to see if I was coming to the fashion play. I decided to just open up since I strangely felt comfortable around this girl I'd never even properly met until now. I told her I wasn't going and she smiled cos she knew I wasn't. She wanted me to come though and knew I wouldn't have unless someone showed that they cared about me coming and that I mattered. Who was this girl? She seemed so intuitive and I haven't really met anyone like her who seemed to understand me so well just from a first time meeting. I actually ended up deciding to go and asked her what time it started so I can get dressed and all that. She says it's at 7:19pm so casually. I look at my watch and it's that exact time. So now that we'll be majorly late I start wondering what's the point anymore but she assures me it'll be fine cos we're talking about college kids here. Most are gonna show up late and it's not like we'll be the only ones. I reluctantly agree again but then I wake up before I get to hang out with her some more unfortunately.