Hotel Horror

Date: 3/21/2021

I arrive at a hotel by bus. I had been talking to a woman on the bus and it’s unclear if we’re staying together, but she takes off. I’m on my own. I go to the laundry room, but all the machines are occupied. There are DVDs on the floor, and I browse until I find something I haven’t seen yet. I put my sheets into a washer and insert change, but only get half the time I’m promised. I play with my cat who’s in the laundry room, then close the door while I go downstairs to get a room. Two people are at the front desk. They greet me in German - we’re in Switzerland. I ask for a room for the night and they don’t know if one is available. They say they’ll look on the top floor. I go to follow them. I lose them in a crowd. On an elevator, a drunk couple get on and start berating me. I look straight ahead, but eventually yell back at the woman. She becomes a metal pole (???). The doors open, I get off, but this is the last I see of me. The rest of the dream is fragments, as if filmed on security cameras. The top floor is taken over by a drunk mob, as if on spring break. A man destroys a statue, chasing after jewels that fall off and falls down. A group watches a movie on the big screen, with one watcher narrating everything onscreen. Hotel employees discuss if they need to address the “double strength” rumour. A man walks a giant cat on a leash, but it just had the head of a housecat. The cat lays down and roars. Mirrored, we see an actual wild cat roar. This is also in a crowd, but on a bus. A man at the front of the bus makes elaborate prayer motions with his hands, copied by the crowd all dressed in white. I recognize that this is a cult, preparing to attack the hotel. There will be violence. I wake up right before anything happens.