Treatment

Dream 3/11/2018

I have dialysis treatment. The clinic is inside an arcade. Earlier, I played a game in a secret corner of the arcade. The game wanted me to place three objects in the right order; a lion (yellow), electricity (blue) and fire (red).

Halfway through my treatment, I do something in which I am not supposed to do. I unhook myself from the dialyzer machine. Much of my blood is still in the device and will most likely clot. The lack of blood in my body causes me weakness.

I walk to the arcade game in the secret corner. After a few tries of putting the three objects in the wrong order, I finally get it correct. For my reward, I am given a car in another arcade game that looks like a leopard made by Hot Wheels.

I leave the clinic/arcade and find myself on a dusty road in the middle of nowhere. My weakness is causing me trouble. I hitch a ride from a passing stranger, who takes me back to a different clinic. I walk through the door, where the nurses can see me, and collapse onto the floor. "I need treatment," I say in a hushed but urgent voice. Dream ends.

I wake up

The Underground

Nightmare 1.1.2018

My mother and I visit the cinema to see a scary movie. The movie feels real. As if we are there. In fact, we are in some way. At one point we are with a team of scientists and military in a forgotten underground that is seemingly haunted. The scientists know there is an evil presence down here. They study in one area. My mom and I disappear for a second. When we come back to the underground area, the scientists are gone. I look around and see scientific equipment working. I immediately understand that the evil presence is about to show up. Although this is a movie, I know that somehow it is real. I tell my mom to log off right now. She does so. I watch her disappear in front of my eyes. Just as my mom disappears, the evil presence appears as a dash of white light. I run down the hall and find the scientists and the military.

We walk back toward the entrance. Someone is complaining about me being here. A scientist woman responds that down in the underground she has met ghosts and giants, so me being here doesn't seem like a big deal.

Back to reality, I'm sitting in a movie theater, although it is very small. The size of a single office space. Only one other person is viewing the movie alongside me. An older woman. We never speak. Just a few polite glances. At 7:30, I am ready to walk out of the movie. I feel bad that my mom is waiting outside. Just then, an usher walks in and tells us that they've corrected the movie. I didn't know anything was wrong with it. I sit back down and finish the movie.

When the screening is over, I walk out to a fast food restaurant where my mom is waiting. I order food, chicken tenders.

We arrive at an underground terminal on a subway train. We leave our luggage in the train cars because we are staying the night in the terminal. It really scares me to walk out, late at night, to the trains. The lights are off, the air is cold and everything is quiet. I run out there real quick to grab something and I run back to the terminal. Later on, I play with the control buttons and move some of the trains forward on the tracks. When I walk back to the terminal, I see a bunch of friends from high school. We hang out for a minute in an arcade in the terminal. Dream ends.

I wake up

Security #2

Dream 9/5/2017

I am a part of the security team for one of the presidents speeches. John McCain is head of security. He's dyed his hair dark brown. It looks awkward. An Asian man tries to get past security with a silenced pistol. My friend, Tim, tries to wrestle the gun away from him but falls backward. I jump in and wrestle the man. We eventually get the gun away from him and take him away.

I am wearing dress pants and no shirt. Tim needed a shirt and jacket to wear so I let him borrow mine. I walk outside. I stroll the city streets looking for a store that can sell me a T-shirt. I know there is a mall nearby but I don't know how to get there. I look at the different stores as I pass them. Pizza shops, arcades, toy stores, pizza shops. There are a lot of pizza restaurants in this city.

I see my friend, Derek, walking toward me. I walk with him. He needs to get to the police station to do research on the Asian man with the silenced pistol. We hop in his car and drive. I look up at the Salesforce Tower in downtown Indianapolis. "You know what freaks me out?" I ask Derek. "Being on the top floor of that building. Derek shivers as if he can't stand the thought. "I hate heights," he tells me. I continue, "I went up there once, by myself, and that was the moment that I knew I was afraid of heights." Derek jumps in, "I couldn't go up there by myself."

We make it to the police station. We enter the place. The main room has several tables spread out, like a lunchroom. Dozens of police are sitting at the tables while others are walking around. The place is busy. Derek finds a computer, he sits down and begins researching. I hover over Derek's shoulder, my eyes pacing the computer screen. Just then, I look back and see the Asian man from the presidents speech. How did he get free? He pulls a gun. I once again try to wrestle the gun away from the man. Dream ends.

I wake up

Cinema Confusion

Dream 5/11/2017

My sister and me are watching a movie at the cinema. During the movie, Kristen, my sister, has to step out for a moment. I am unaware of where she has gone.

The movie that I'm watching is scary. I'm not sure whether or not it is considered a horror movie, but it scares me for some reason so I step out. Right outside of the theater is an arcade. I find my sister in the arcade. I tell her that I want to play some games but I need to find an ATM to get some cash and to first check my balance, to be sure I have enough money in the bank. My balance shows that I have $8,000.00 dollars in it. I have no earthly clue where that money came from. I even check my debit cart to be sure that it is mine. It is.

I exit the cinema, leaving my sister there by herself. I find my mom at home. She finds a movie ticket that says "Egypt 1." She asks if I saw the movie called "Egypt 1." I freak out and say no. I have no idea where that ticket came from. My mom and I get into the car and drive toward the movie theater to find my sister. At one point we make a wrong turn and drive down a dead end road. We turn back around. Dream ends.

I wake up.

American Life

Dream 2/23/2017

     I'm in an arcade in the mall. I step into a photo booth and snap a picture of myself. I reach into the drop box where the picture should appear and find several photos of previous picture takers along with napkins and an envelope. I take the envelope. Inside I find a load of money. I fold the envelope in half and slide it into my pocket with the full intention of taking it to the mall security office so it can be returned to its rightful owners.

I leave the mall.

     I'm exploring the barn at my Middletown, Indiana house. I walk over to a shelf and inside a box find stacks of home videos. I am ecstatic because I thought they had been destroyed.

     Walking down a street, I come across a dark, Gothic mansion. Locals call it Thorn Mansion. Somehow I find myself inside the large house. I find no one except for a wax statue of a man. The house hold lots of interesting artifacts but nothing to keep me here, so I leave.

     Someone plays a video game that I used to know. It looks so familiar. It is called "American Life." I used to play it at my cousin's house in Illinois. The game consists of the player creating towns and watching them grow and interacting with people and houses.

     My jeans lay on the floor. Inside one of the pockets I find the envelope full of money. I start looking through the bills and notice that much of the money is foreign. I don't recognize the currency at all.

     Some friends and I search for a restaurant to eat. The driver and I agree that we should eat at either Arbys or Jimmy Johns. My friend Adam says that he's craving Taco Bell. Also he is broke so I need to pay for his food. We decide to eat at Taco Bell. Dream ends.

I WAKE UP

The Gates of Hell

Dream 2/10/2016

Tim, Josh and I walk down a dark hallway. There is a light at the end.

At the end of the hallway are four doors and four switches. It is a puzzle. We must hit the switches in the right order to get through. We figure it out. Suddenly, we are in an arcade. Video games everywhere. I play a basketball game. The game is curved instead of straight. I miss every shot. Tim and Josh move on to the next level. I don't want to miss anything so I stay. The next group of people enter the arcade. I miss Tim and Josh so I move on to the next level.

Suddenly I am in a house where every room has a table with junk food on it. In this house, there is no discernible path from A to B, it's several paths all leading to rooms with a table with junk food on top (Think of the food scene from the movie "Hook").

Eventually, I find a stairway leading down. I enter I giant room with white walls. Inside this room are several small rooms with no ceiling. Inside these small rooms are portals. I know of a girl that went missing by jumping through a giant red portal in the back. It is said that the red portal only leads to one place, Hell. I am not supposed to be in this place, as there are guards patrolling the area. All of a sudden, the girl that went missing grabs my hand and starts leading me to the back of the room without being caught by the guards. We make it to the room. In front of us lies a giant portal with what looks like red electricity and fire. We enter. Dream ends.

I wake up 

Leatherface

Dream 11/13/2015

I get into a fight with my dad and punch him.

Before he can retaliate, I speed out the door and run away. My friend, Derek, and I go to an arcade. Derek's family is there. My cousin is there as well. He spends his time at the arcade trying to crack a code on a computer.

In a nearby auditorium, Gunnar Hansen is giving a speech. I walk in and listen for a bit. Gunnar becomes angry that nobody cares that he once played the legendary horror icon, Leatherface, in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." He puts on his mask, grabs a baby chainsaw and starts chasing us. We board a bus outside and take off. Leatherface chases us. Somewhere down the road, something goes awry and the bus tips over. Leatherface jumps on top of the fallen bus and tries desperately to get in to hurt any of us. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Now and Then

Dream 10/4/2015

The school that I went to in my youth has changed.

     Today we go and see what is different. Instead of an emphasis on education and spiritual growth, we find the opposite. The small brick building has been opened up to fit the large 5 story water slide and roller coaster. I see a room filled with pinball machines and arcade games. When you walk up the stairs of the water slide, you get to another part of the school. There we find a bar that serves Mountain Dew and Pepsi. There is a button on the opposite side of the bar where you find a wall covered in flatscreen TV's. If you push the button, the bar will disappear and turn into a regular classroom. I am pissed at what I see. The school that once taught me how to live is nothing more than a day at a fun park. My mom and I decide to leave. We slide down the water slide which barely has any water. Dream ends.

I wake up