Dream Journal

I was in a university class where the professor was showing clips of stereotypical New York guys with heavy accents just doing random things, like we were studying their behavior. A student raises his hand and says "Fuhged aboud it!" with perfect pronounciation and the professor swooned.

I was in a small group that was trying to run away from something, avoiding detection. We moved at night and hunkered down wherever we could during the day. This particular night we were preparing to leave a large dilapidated theater when gunfire erupted some distance away. As we ran for our lives I turned back and saw a mushroom cloud on the horizon and a military force fighting something huge. Turns out what we were running from was none other than Godzilla.

For some reason I was desperately looking for a lost baby in a strange house. Every room was a unique environment - a desert, a ballroom, a store. The baby kept evading me because it was 6 feet tall and could run really fast.

I was in what appeared to be a skyscraper, on an upper floor, the side was sheared off so I could see outside. A vast, stretching desert of sand and tiny bits of ruins. Very windy. Everything was tinted orange. I got the feeling that I was in danger from some kind of enemy but I didn't see any.

Inside was some kind of water heater/filter tank connected to a system of pipes that ran throughout the building. There was a faucet connected to the tank leaking drops of water, so I knew it had to be connected to some great reservoir. I desperately tried to fix the machine to start the pumps again but woke up before I got anywhere.

My whole body was filled with small worms. They crawled under my skin in winding lines. My arms and legs were covered in long roads of worms going about their business.

I had to obtain some official personal documents from a government office. The only way to do that was to use a weird vending/claw machine that accepted quarters. Everyone in the office was mad at me because I didn't understand the controls.

I was a child in a kindergarten classroom, seated on the floor around a teacher. She was teaching us about something I did not have the capacity to fully comprehend; it was not appropriate for children and I felt very scared and confused. The other kids were asking questions which she answered truthfully, but again we were far too young to understand. I don't know what the actual topic was, but it felt illegal or wrong to learn about.

I woke up and thought it must be late in the day since it was already light out. As I came to I realized it was unnaturally bright, and hot. I could hear screaming and gunfire outside. My husband burst into the room looking panicked, insisting we had to leave because people were trying to break in. This was upsetting, not because the world had ended overnight, but because this was the morning of a major video game realease I was looking forward to and now I couldn't play it lol.

I'm in a large warehouse - dimly-lit, grimy, high ceilings - filled with a maze of toilet stalls. The stall walls were only waist high.

I desperately have to go. The toilets are gross and the low walls offer no privacy so I keep searching. There are people in some of the stalls, completely uncaring about each other but when I walk by they stop whatever they're doing to stare at me in disgust. They hate me for a reason I don't know.

I never find a toilet to use.

To paint a picture, I lived in a gated community at the time, neat rows of townhouses accessed by a winding road surrounded by forest (technically swamp). This road with the gate was the only way in or out. Very fancy.

In this dream, I calmly left my house and started taking a walk through the neighborhood toward the access road. Weather was overcast but it was warm and I felt very calm. Once I passed the homes and made it to the road, which again was surrounded on all sides by forest and swamp, I realized the trees were much taller than normal. I had to crane my neck to see the top. Draped among the branches were the eviscerated corpses of several abnormally large animals - lions and zebras mostly. The only noise down this road was the groaning of the trees in the wind being weighed down by these animals. The rest of the dream would be me just walking down this road forever until I woke up. I was never scared of this dream, though I remember being annoyed after having it for months.

My grandparents and I were sitting at their dining table, in a house that was a mirrored version of their actual house. I was sitting opposite the doorway to the dining room, and could see a wall. On the bottom half of the wall was a decorative grate.

I kept staring at this grate, absolutely transfixed by it. It took over my hearing and vision, zooming in and blocking out all sound other than a whooshing noise and light static. My grandparents told me to ignore it and eat my food. But I kept staring because something was very wrong. My sister wasn't there at the table with us and somehow I could tell she was in the basement. I couldn't verbalize my feelings and my grandparents were getting increasingly angry, insisting nothing was wrong and to ignore the grate. Just me staring at this grate until I woke up.

(My grandparents were wonderful, lovely people. My sister is fine and was never locked in a basement.)

This one is super weird because for a very long time I was convinced that this wasn't a dream. My memory of it is very vivid. Takes place in the same house as Animals in the Trees.

I went through a phase where I would get up in the middle of the night to sneak into our kitchen and eat snacks. This particular night I started the ritual as usual - woke up, made sure my sister was sound asleep, and slid out of my bed and onto all fours to creep out of our bedroom. Crawling around like a little creature was quieter, plus I wanted to stay low because I had to pass my parents' bedroom to get to the kitchen and their door was open sometimes.

My bedroom door was kept closed but I knew how to open it silently. It opened into a small hallway and I was surprised to see light coming from the living room. I didn't hear anything to suggest someone was up and thought a light was left on.

Our couch was one of those big L-shaped couches and one side of it sort of closed off the living room. You had to walk behind the back of it to get into the living room and then into the kitchen. My dad had a recliner that was against the opposite wall, facing the couch and the doorway to the hall.

I crawled out of my room, down the hall, and stopped behind the back of the couch to listen. Hearing nothing, I peeked around the corner and saw my dad sitting in his recliner, eyes wide open and just staring straight at me. But only with his eyes. His face and body were straight forward and unmoving, but his eyes were already looking directly into mine, as if he knew I was coming. I knew I would be in trouble and braced myself, trying to think of some excuse, but he didn't say anything. I stood up and his eyes just followed mine, but the rest of his body didn't move at all. He was like one of those paintings where the eyes seem to follow you around the room.

Being a dumb kid I didn't know what to do so I got back on all fours (his eyes still locked onto me) and crawled back to my room, shut the door, and got in bed. I laid there for ages just listening. Eventually I fell asleep. The next morning everything was normal and my dad never said anything to me about sneaking around or being out of bed.

I know now that it had to have been a dream, but back then I was sure this event was real. It stopped me from sneaking around at night.

I am moving forward at an impossible speed in an empty, black void. The only sound is air passing by my ears but I am not physically there, at least I have no body.

Something else was moving toward me, at the same speed. I couldn't see it but I just knew. After an eternity over an infinite distance I saw a white speck and was filled with dread. It took another eternity but suddenly, with a loud bang or pop, the object reaches me. It's a doll's head just floating in the void. I always woke up here absolutely terrified.