dream log 90

the most complete dreams i've been able to remember, and both of them are nightmares. genuinely unnerving and all. but i'm okay sharing them.

so, the first nightmare is...

we're in a city far away from actual home. south carolina, except that's not the city's actual name, i think. it's not the entire state. but it is a big city.

i'm on the beach, trying to catch sea turtles that look very adorable, and i turn around to my left, and over there, a lot of children and people are playing around with this HUGE octopus. it's the size of a house, and the children are playing around with its tentacles.

...until people start screaming and running away, and failing to escape because the giant octopus (kraken?!) keeps snatching them away and tossing them in its similarly big beak. i'm far enough that it doesn't take notice of me, fortunately.

you'd think that was a big enough disaster, right? WRONG. because i turn back to the ocean again, and i see this very tall, very thick, wall of black ice - not the invisible ice, the ice that looks BLACK because it's legitimately scary. it's a glacier that's somehow surrounding the entire city on all sides. every single beachgoer is now running away, some not being able to swim fast enough in time and getting caught by the black, fast-moving glacier.

so by this point, literally everything looks like what it would be in a, say, movie about a dystopia, or maybe sharknado, or something. i keep thinking it's real, because of course, i don't and can't lucid dream.

after a few shots and glimpses of people huddling up in their homes and getting crushed by this incoming glacier, the dream goes back to me, where i'm running around a very fancy hotel and i keep seeing people still in chaos. i find the stairs and bolt the hell down very fast; i don't even know WHY i was up there.

then it changes to me and my family living in this very small house on the edge of a river. it looks kind of run-down and waterlogged, but it appears to be far away enough from the glacier. i keep trying to sleep, but i just can't. i'm so scared. the glacier could get us at any time, be it day or night, without mercy.

so i don't sleep. i wake up in real life, and i keep trying to go back to sleep, and i keep seeing these images, until another nightmare comes to claim them.

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this second nightmare is, thankfully, much shorter than the first one, and it has a somewhat happy ending.

i'm sitting in class at school, and i feel like peeing, so i tell the teacher i have to go and walk out of the building to find the restroom.

but when i open the door into the other building, three boys - who, in this school, are known as the very worst bullies and harassers - corner me. i try to get away, but they realize i was going to the restroom, and begin to drag me there, and i can't get away or do much other than flail around.

fortunately, i'm still near the windows where people can see me, so i turn around and yell and wave my hands, trying my best to look very distressed, and it works. i get the attention of two female teachers, one of whom runs inside and shoos the boys away.

but this part bothered me the most - when she's done with them, she turns to me and tells me, "they shouldn't bother you anymore, but they may come back, so you run inside and go for the very last stall." this implied that she wouldn't be staying here to protect me, which hurt a bit.

i run inside despite my terror and do my business in peace, so at least i know the boys didn't return.