The Predator Outside The Door

     I'm hanging out with Ian from the Youtube channel idubbbzTV. His bedroom has a large bed and a ball pit. We walk out to where my extended family is gathering. The family takes a stroll outside. Suddenly, a wolf shows up to the party. The family panics. All throughout the front yard is a maze of gates and kennels. I start throwing rocks toward the inside of the labyrinth. The wolf hears the noise and races toward it. My family runs for the house. I keep throwing rocks away from them to steer clear the wolf. We make it inside.

     The house is divided into two sections. Like a duplex. The wolf is outside the door. A young girl opens the door and runs laughing as she goes. I think she sees this as a game of tag or chase. The wolf is distracted by me standing at the door, calling for the girl to come back. She comes back, but as she opens the door to this side of the house, she accidentally opens the entrance to the other part of the house where my cat, Tandy, resides. I immediately run into the other house and see Tandy in the wolf's mouth. I start raging against the wolf, and he lets the cat free.

     I return to the gathering. I need to call my cousin, who lives in another state. Because of electricity issues, I have to use an old, WW3 walkie talkie. I try to call but have trouble contacting her.

I wake up

Cupcake

Dream 11/8/2017

I'm working at a company called QRS. It is a recycling center. I am doing the landscaping. I bring my cat, Tandy, and let him run around. I have to admit, I am very nervous that Tandy will run away or get run over by a large piece of equipment. I keep an eye on him.

I start by mowing a hill. When I am done, I need to walk over to the hill on the other side and grab a flat wooden board. Then, I need to completely cover the wood with cupcakes and lay it on the freshly mowed grass. Then, the girls, I think they are cheerleaders, will come and take the board with cupcakes and return it to their building. I do this. When I am done, the hill is completely covered with boards, which are covered in cupcakes.

I walk over to the building where a bunch of men are working. I plan on mowing this area now. A bunch of cardboard is covering the grassy area, so I move it. I then get a call from my mom telling me that she is going to pick me up and I need to finish what I am doing. I look around and try to figure which is the most important area to mow. I settle on the front yard but then a guy named Ben tells me to mow another area. As he wishes.

I start mowing the area that Ben wants me to, which is the hill that I first mowed, just further down. As soon as I start the mower and move forward, I run over something. I cut the engine. My cousin, Quinn, runs over from the main building. I look at the object that I hit. I looks like some kind of Maritime equipment. Quinn makes it to where I am. I apologize to him. I offer to pay for the object that I destroyed. He says that it's okay but I know it isn't. I can see on his face that he is upset.

Later that day, my family, including Quinn, and me are over at the barn where the cheerleaders took the cupcakes. I don't see any cupcakes though. Just a bunch of farm equipment. Quinn points to an area of woods and reminds me of seeing something scary there. He then walks me deep inside the barn and shows me a room. The room is scary. I feel a heaviness here. I'm unnerved. I tell Quinn that I once walked in here with the lights out and I was alone. I didn't notice it until now, but Quinn seems a bit sinister. Just in the way he is talking and the look in his eyes. He isn't completely there. Something isn't right.

When the sun has gone down, my mom and I need to return to the barn. Maybe we want to see the scary room again. We try to turn on the lights but are unable to. We walk to the circuit breaker and try the lights there. For some reason, the lights will not turn on. Dream ends.

I wake up

Sleep Talk Halloween Special

For the first time in the history of the Sleep Talk blog, I am going to document another person's dreams, my mothers.

In the year 1996, my mom and me were sitting on my bed talking and she decided to tell me of a series of nightmares that she had had several years earlier, before I was born. When she told me the dreams, I was so unnerved that I jolted out of my bed and left the room. Since that night, I have never forgotten them.

The series of nightmares occurred within a week in the year 1987. At the time, my father worked nights and my mom was home alone with my older sister, Kristen,  a newborn.

The following is told by my mother's perspective.


First Night

I'm lying in bed late at night. My husband is at work. I am alone. I hear the front door slam downstairs. Dream ends.

Second Night

I'm lying in bed late at night. My husband is at work. I am alone. I hear the front door slam downstairs. I hear footsteps trudging up the stairs toward my bedroom. Dream ends.

Third Night

I'm lying in bed late at night. My husband is at work. I am alone. I hear the front door slam downstairs. I turn over in my bed and through the darkness, see a man sitting on a stool in the corner of my room. I can't make out his face. I hear footsteps trudging up the stairs. I hear someone come into my room. He walks over to my bed. I turn over, look up and see a man standing by my bedside. He gets in bed with me. Dream ends.

Fourth Night

I'm lying in bed late at night. My husband is asleep next to me. I look and see a man standing in the doorway to the hall. Dream ends.

I wake up



On the fourth night, my mom was so startled from her dream, she woke up screaming. My dad calmed her. They then walked through the house and prayed over each room. After that night, the series of nightmares ended.

Happy Halloween From Sleep Talk

Tandy

Dream 9/23/2017

     My mom bought me a cat for $80.00. I love the cat. I named him Tandy. He is very mischievous. So much so that he pushes my mom's buttons. My mom becomes so annoyed with the cat that she gives him away without my knowledge. When I find out that he is gone, I am very angry. I go off on my mom. I cuss her out. "Why would you buy me a cat for $80.00 and then just a few weeks later get rid of him?" I loved that cat. And now he is gone.

     My oldest sister, Amy, tries to make me feel better by giving me a framed plaque of a college sports team. The coach on the plaque is my brother-in-law, Andy, but under his picture it reads, "Spicy." Amy tells me that I can't show this to anyone because nobody knows yet that Andy will be the coach. It's a secret. Dream ends.

I wake up

Here Kitty Kitty

Dream 3/30/2017

     I'm driving over to my sister's house. She lives with a nice family. When I'm walking up to her door, I see a mother cat and her kitten walking beside her. I think they are Himalayan. I pick them up and put them in my Jeep. I also see my recently deceased cat, Rupert, walking around outside my sisters house. I put him in my Jeep as well.

     The nice family is home but my sister isn't so I decide to leave. The cats open up my door and jump out, so I run to grab them and put them back. Somehow, in the driveway, I have been blocked in by a camper. I try to squeeze through but then I hit the family's water pump next to the driveway. I get out, jump in my sisters truck, back it up a bit to make space, return to my Jeep and drive away.

     Later, in my sister's house, the nice family and my sister and dad stand around talking about the cats that I found outside. They talk about a black cat and how talented he is. They say that he can open doors. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Miscellaneous

Dream 3/24/2017

     I'm hanging out inside a barn with a friend. The friend's cat is roaming the barn. The little fur ball is nineteen years old. My friend tells me that the cat and his dad used to cuddle together. A giant, hairy, red and black spider starts approaching us. My friend tells me that the spider and the cat have been friends for years. I'm a bit uneasy about the spider. Wherever I walk, the eight-legged freak follows me.

     I walk to my dad's camper. He tells me that he is thinking about getting back into church and possibly preaching again. I ask him why. He tells me that it all started the other night when his neighbor Tony came over for a bonfire and Tony started preaching.

     Inside our school there is a legend that in the basement there is a secret door that will lead to a tunnel system under the city. We roam the basement but cannot find the door.

     We rent the movie "Never Been Kissed." We know a teacher at our school who we want to reenact the movie with. We go out shopping for her. In a store front, we find mannequin heads with crazy hairstyles. We choose the one with blonde dreadlocks. We dye our teachers hair black and white but never give her dreadlocks. I have to live with my teacher. She tells me to always be quiet in her house because she doesn't want her neighbors to know she is here.

     The teacher has a small gathering at her house. "Never Been Kissed" is playing on the television. I see my friend Kevin who was in the barn earlier. I ask him why he left the barn. He said it smells really bad. I tell him that I will help him clean it up so that it won't smell anymore. Dream ends.

I wake up.

Australia

Dream 10/01/2015

I'm in the "land down under" with my family.

     We are staying in a log cabin in the wilderness. My brother-in-law and I are in the front room when a bear busts through the front door. He comes for me. I jump around to avoid his bite. I get him back out the door and lay my body against it so he can't break through. He tries and tries but I keep on resisting. After a while, I fall asleep against the door.

     When I wake up, I see the bear asleep on our living room floor. I look at my brother-in-law with eyes that say, "how could you have let him in?" I feel my body, particularly my face to make sure the bear didn't eat my ear or nose while I slept..

     My sister catches my attention. She tells me to guess what she had found. I have no idea. In a little grocery bag was a yellow-haired kitten that she had lost named Angel. Glitter covered its fur. It had an uncanny resemblance to a cat that she had recently ran over with her car. That cat was named Olaf. Someone suggests that we go out to eat. I couldn't agree more. Dream ends.

I wake up

Rupert

Dream 2-16-14

My friends and I drive to The Incredible Pizza Company to have an evening of fun. The place is packed with people. We don't stay. We leave.

A couple days later, I am at a friends house. He has a small, pet bird. I have my cat, Rupert, with me. My cat chases after the bird and eats it. My friend is furious beyond words. He stabs Rupert with a knife. I take the cat and run.

I run back to The Incredible Pizza Company. There is barely anyone here. Many of the games that were there earlier are now gone. I can't very well hide here so I get back into my car and drive off. I drive down the road trying to find my way home. I don't know if Rupert is going to survive his injuries.

I see red and blue flashing lights turn on behind me. I pull over. Three men get out of the car and approach mine. One of the men immediately ask me to get out of the car. I ask to see their credentials. They get angry with me and demand I exit the vehicle. I know something isn't right. I ask them if they want to see the kidney transplant scar on my left side. They do. I show them. They find it cool. I ask them if they would like to see the bigger scar on my right side. They're excited. I tell them that It would be easier for me to show them if they were on the passenger side of the vehicle. They begin to walk around. As they do, I shift the car into drive and get out of there. They don't attempt to chase me. Dream ends.

I wake up.