Being Taken Hostage at my Grandmother's House...

Date: 5/11/2019

By AJacobs

This was presumed around college for some of the dream. I was able to drive around the Chevy Aveo a little. I remember it being parked by Graeters and the library. At one point, I was at what was basically my grandma's house. I was there with like three other kids. The entry hall is the same but flipped, it was a two story building (unlike real life). The walkway to the door (and staircase) was where the kitchen should be. At one point, we were all talking and we saw this guy walking up the walkway. We made sure the door was locked and ran back to the computer room. I wasn't scared at first, I figured a few locked doors would stop him... I was wrong. Presumably there was another door at the bottom of the stairs. We heard that slam open. We scrambled and worried as i assured my friends we could indeed climb out the window here in the computer room (it was on ground floor, like real life, unlike the entry hall). I thought I closed and locked the computer room door like three times, but it wouldn't stay closed. One of my friends was trying to correct how I was closing the door, but she wasn't successful at closing and locking it either. It just kept swinging open again. Then we heard him climbing the stairs before slamming open the door to the entry hall. We barely had managed to get the window a few inches open when he walked in. We were taken hostage very matter of factly. I think then there may have been two henchmen as well. We were backed away from the window and watched. We waited... there was small talk I think with our captors. I think they had a demand of ransom money they were trying to obtain. We were whisked into the hallway right outside the computer room where we stood and waited. At one point I think there was either a really large dog or a small bear that just came to us. I pet it, scared at first, before snuggling it. It was definitely a threat to the captors if we chose to rebel and fight. This sequence just ended at somepoint. I don't remember a climax or the ransom being paid. I probably woke up and fell back to sleep where it had resolved. Later were more activities around school and driving. My dad was there. I was walking to some ROTC event. At first, I was worried I needed to be in uniform, but then i saw no il ne else was in uniform. I passed Anderson who waved me towards this clearing in the trees after this residential neighborhood. While headed towards the clearing and most of the other cadets, the Lieutenant Colonel said something about caps. Then I noticed everyone else was wearing baseball caps (and I think they were mostly yellow for some reason). I turned around and walked back to Anderson and asked if I could go back and get a cap. He said no, there wasn't time. So then I went back towards the clearing and everyone else. Then I woke up...