4/11/2023 in Dreams

Last night’s dream was extremely confusing, the timeline jumped around a lot and the sequence of events was blurry, even while I was still dreaming. Dreams have always been hard for me to remember, but I jotted down notes about this one when I woke up so that I could remember it later. Now I’m eating dinner and fleshing everything out while I listen to some jazz, it’s nice! I’ll try to piece everything that happened in each setting together, instead of hopping back and forth.

The City:
I knew that my boyfriend was coming to visit me and meet my family, but it wasn’t my current town, or hometown, or his town, etc. I don’t know where it was, it was some giant city that only extended out so far, the edges turning into a dark void - most settings in my dreams are like this, like the edge is the physical boundary of my brain or something.

I was with someone that I don’t know, we’ll call her X, I guess. Me and X were at a gigantic building in this massive, desolate city. It’s like a zombie apocalypse? They’re really smart zombies, practically people - I don’t really know what they were, some cross between TLOU zombies, WWZ zombies, and some other kind of just sentient evil ex-humans. I was a spy, and X was too, but we worked for different agencies (not opposing ones though, we knew each other well and were friends). There was a lot of zombie survival on my own, we had to split up and make our way into the building. I don’t remember any combat, but there was a LOT of sneaking around and being generally fearful of being caught.

I finally made it inside of the building after maybe an hour of going around, dodging zombies and activating traps to stop/distract them. The building, on the outside, is grey and has lots of windows. It looks like a huge, ultra-wide skyscraper, U-shaped. It’s just as wide on the inside, and pretty dim. Very backrooms-y. I make it up a few floors and run back into X, we team up and keep going up more stairs. The building turns less corporate, more museum - no more grey, but white walls and red carpeting. More and less dangerous as we keep going up: less chance of finding a zombie thing, but more chance of them being like an alpha zombie, super deadly.

Thankfully we finally make it to a high enough floor and run into a team of government agents. They tell us that we can leave, and we know it’s a polite warning to get our asses out of there to let them do their thing. X and I are stuck at one end of the U-shape, I remember looking around and there were two options. 1) Go left and keep climbing higher, getting ourselves into the end of the U and finding out what’s at the top of the building, or 2) turn around and go back past the agents, back down towards the zombies and danger of the empty city. We wait for a minute until all the agents are distracted and leave us behind, then exchange a look and take off towards the left, to see what else the building had to offer.

We went up maybe one flight of stairs and ran into what looked like an exit door, but it had a giant poster for the original Pokemon movie outside of it, with lights above the poster to light it up. Underneath it had a place for letter tiles, which was currently occupied by little tiles saying “Pokemon: Next showing, 1994”. It is important to note that this dream did not occur in 1994 - it was happening sometime in the future, possibly 2030s.

We open the door and sure enough, it is a theater. A relatively small one, shaped like a stretched-out trapezoid, seats narrower closer to the screen. The room, just like the rest of the building, was stark-white with red carpets. I remember the seats being white, with red cushions. Strangely, it was not off-putting to see this, although recalling it now creeps me out a bit. After seeing the theater and taking it in, I felt more and more like we shouldn’t be there, and turned to X to tell her we should get going and continue up more floors. I remember turning to walk out of the room, and then nothing else from that dream.

The Parent’s House/Boyfriend:
We are at my parent’s current house, the place I spent 7 years of my life at before moving out for college. My boyfriend is with me (at the end of the dream, he appears less like himself and more like a stranger, but I still know it is him). Rather than getting a hotel, we have opted to sleep in the “bonus” room, a.k.a. the entertainment room/my mom’s furniture refurbishing room. It has a small twin mattress that I can barely fit on myself, let alone me and a 6‘3 man. I have slept on that mattress several times in real life and it’s decently comfortable, but impossible to fit more than one person on. Not sure why we chose that over getting a hotel, lol.

I am ready for bed, my younger siblings are already in bed, and my parents are not at the house for some reason - that was never made clear to me. I’m naked and getting comfortable under the covers, as I normally do in real life, especially with my boyfriend (I sleep with more clothes when I’m alone, as I don’t really care either way). He wasn’t in the room yet and I didn’t know why, since he was supposed to be getting into bed with me. I wasn’t upset, he was doing his own thing and I knew he’d be in bed eventually, I figured he need some alone time. I suddenly heard him making noise outside the door, and messing with the locks on the garage door (the bonus room door is right across from the garage door). I panicked, because I knew he was unlocking the garage door for my parents to be able to come in, but our house alarm was set and he had no idea it was on.

Through my panic, I managed to grab some sort of cover (unsure if it was a blanket, or clothes, it was unclear in the dream). Even though the alarm had already been activated by him opening the door, I managed to get over to the alarm in time and disarmed it. I then went back into the bonus room. (Dream skipped here, nothing happened).

I walked upstairs to try to find my boyfriend, and found him sitting in my parent’s TV room, that’s attached to their bedroom (we call it “the blue room” because the walls are painted blue). He was sitting in the dark, I don’t remember him being on his phone or anything, just sitting there. I get him to get up and go get ready for bed, and follow him downstairs. (Weird dream skip happens here). I’m back upstairs looking for something, like a comb or something for the shower, and open my parent’s door. They’re getting undressed to go shower themselves, and grab towels to cover themselves. I cover my eyes so I don’t see my dad, and make my way over to my mom to ask if she had seen my (whatever I was looking for). She said no, and I saw something crawling in her. I start to freak out and ask why they’re showering, and my dad explains that my mom had fleas so they had to shower. I go “alright then” and leave the room. (Another weird dream skip).

Nothing related to my parents happens at this point, but I get a very short (like 2-minute) dream about my boyfriend. He doesn’t look like himself, but I know it’s him because it’s close enough. He made a post on instagram (which he doesn’t have irl) and was talking about his depression and anxiety (which he also does not have irl). It was heartbreaking and I felt so bad for him, but he started to talk about the things that have helped him, and that I had helped him get more comfortable and start breaking out of his shell a little more. This is unfortunately where the dream suddenly got too convoluted - too many sudden details, I got confused and woke up.