We Sleep To Dream

Filming a movie of sorts, a mystical type thriller, lots of people I don’t know and a few that I do

(bestie, her other bestie, my roommates and my love interest) that totally had a Joss Whedon inspired Buffy sort of feel to it.

There were a complicated series of tunnels that have some sort of color code and markings that everyone else seems to be really good at navigating but I have no idea where they lead or why. they were mossy on the walls and wet on the floor and had ladders leading to portholes that you could come up out of to wherever they went to

cut to a scene of the movie, there is a weird swampy island in the middle of the sea, the ground was firm enough to walk on but it moved around with the waves of the water - it’s very dark, the movie characters are all positioned and anxious to capture a monster that is supposed to be around that island. suddenly, it bursts up through the ground near one of the characters and that person is immediately killed, and the creature lets out an ear piercing shriek

everyone starts to fight the thing but they just can’t beat it, it seems. the scene ends and the director yells CUT

then I think that I’m waking up, I open my eyes and Ray is in my room telling me “Wait til you see this, it’s awesome” and I drop back into the dream, back on the swampy island, only this time it’s day and I can see the cast and crew of the movie clearly

Sarah walks up to me and puts her arms around me, I feel safe and happy. suddenly the creature bursts up through the island again, only this time it’s not part of the film. everyone starts freaking out and running around and screaming, jumping on the boats that brought us there. I know that that will not solve anything, we will just be chased by the thing, so I grab this giant sword that just so happened to be laying next to me, Sarah also grabs one. and she and I go to town on that motherfucker. We cut its head and arms off as everyone cheered. cut back to me waking up in my room again, Sarah is standing there smiling, offering me a bong hit and Ray is also there saying “I told you so!”

then all I can see is the island and everyone cheering as it slowly melts away into the distance… I slowly wake up to the sound of Sarah’s voice telling me she misses me

then I actually wake up.

- Jeru

This dream has been happening a lot lately. 

Things turn dark and grey and screaming can be heard in the background. A tear runs down my cheek. The wind feels cold against my skin… I can FEEL the gooseflesh along the lengths of my arms as if it were real. I feel so cold and alone…

Then suddenly vision of someone on the horizon as the sun slowly starts to creep its way back into view, almost as if she is the one making the sun return… I can see her long hair blowing in the wind, which starts to feel warm again almost immediately as well. Her smiling eyes seem to glow as she welcomes me with open arms. Flashing images of colors, twisting around each other… glimpses of this lover and myself in a passionate embrace. Close ups of smiling eyes and mouths, the sound of kisses and laughter bubbling up everywhere. 

I wake up, expecting her to be there next to me and am immediately disappointed to find my bed sans lover. It leaves me in a weird mood for a few hours and often a panic attack of some sort, so I usually try to meditate after this dream occurs.

- Jeru

I had a dream the other night that a friend of mine (not sure who) was being abused by someone of unidentifiable gender. I see weird closeups of the violence happening, almost like I’m the one doing it but somehow I know it’s not me in the dream… I know that I’m watching it happen, almost as if I am a camera in the violent person’s clothing. Then the view changes and I come charging in trying to defend the person being hurt, which ends up pissing off the violent person and they turn and start being violent to me. I can’t remember how the dream ends or if I just wake up in the middle of it. I’ve had it twice this week.

I told a friend about this dream and she said she’d had it the night before.

- Jeru

There is one dream I have about once a month since before I can remember, sometimes I have it more often. It’s from the first person perspective, meaning I see things like I do when I’m awake. I am running through a forest. It’s muddy and there are lots of twisted tree roots sticking out of the ground everywhere. Leaves and mud are on my hands and bare feet. I can see that I have long hair, about hip length and it is slightly copper in color. There are leaves in my hair, twisted up in a wreath with daisies and other wildflowers. I’m definitely running from something… not sure exactly what but this dream always makes me wake up having a panic attack. It’s mostly flashes of images: my hand touching a tree as I gasp for air, slipping and falling in the mud and struggling to get back up, flashes of views of the forest - trees, leaves, tree roots, mist, etc and visions of my feet running through the woods for what seems like forever. I finally come to a clearing where I lay down in the cool clean grass and the sun shines. Then I wake up. Every time.

- Jeru