Hacktrix

Normal text Dream Lucid

This is the entire dream as I remember it. It consisted of lots of different scenes, most of which seem unrelated.

The dream begins. I am one of a group of about seven people, all of us scientists. We are in some kind of laboratory workplace where we work. But something is wrong - we've discovered that one of our co-workers has been affected in some way by one of our experiments, and he is now a murderous psychopath. He walks in and starts talking to one of the female members of our team, trying to persaude her to stay behind after work; we know the real reason why he asking and manage to escape. We manage to lock ourselves in a bathroom. The murderous one is outside the door, some 20 feet away. One of the team doesn't make it in time and is stabbed. We watch through a crack in the door, but there's nothing we can do.

The dream cuts to a new scene. Us survivors have managed to escape the building unharmed and we are walking down the street, feeling pretty pleased with ourselves. It's night and the street is dimly lit - tall brick buildings line either side of the street. We get to a crossroads where we are surprised by a crowd of about 20 people coming the other way. But they're not just passing by, they came to stop us. As we stop, more crowds of people come from the left and right, and from behind us. It's an ambush. There is a brief conversation with one of the leaders of the ambush. I don't remember it word for word, but he makes it clear that they're here to stop us. "We can't let you do that", he says. Suddenly the crowd swarms inwards; some of my coworkers are being wrestled to the ground by three or more men. I sprint through the crowds into a corner and use my speed to hoist myself up onto the top of a wall. It is about a foot thick with a drop on either side and I follow it carefully round the side of a building. I look down and the wall is easily high enough to kill me if I fell. The wall forms a kind of rectangle against a building, with a drop on either side. Men from the ambush are starting to follow me round the wall - some of them slip off toward the building - the rectangle forms a small garden for a block of flats. The drop on that side is not as high as the other but still a good 20 feet. The two that slip off are killed by the fall. I decide I need to get out of here and so climb down carefully, into the little walled garden. More men are climbing down after me.

I look for an exit but see only a little tunnel facing into the building in the corner of the garden. I run over to it, but it is almost completely bricked up. It is circular, about 2 feet in diameter. I pull at the bricks and they start to come out, but it is too slow. Instead I start pushing inwards, and push the whole layer of bricks into the tunnel using my head. It seems one of my coworkers made it the same way as me, and we both turn a corner in the little tunnel and escape out the other side.

This is the next major scene change. The inside of the tunnel is like white plastic, very clean. I exit and am faced with a mobile operating system - I am literally looking at Google. I tell myself there's something not quite right about that, at which point it turns into a room, or rather three rooms. They are arranged in a line, and all the walls and ceiling are made of this white plastic-like material. There is a room on the left and a room on the right. I have a look at the left one first. It is spherical, and there is clutter everywhere - it looks lived in. Maybe a children's bedroom? There is a cupboard on the right. I walk back and into the room on the right of where I came in. This is a large room, normally shaped. There is a large TV on a table in one corner and near to it is a big old TV with a GameCube hooked up to it. As I turn around to leave, I see more, similar stuff on the floor.

The owner of the room has arrived back. I sprint back to the first room, and climb into the cupboard, pulling a blanket over me. The friend who followed me in re-appears and climbs in to hide as well. The owner opens the cupboard and sees my friend; he doesn't really react though, just closes the door again.

Suddenly I can tell that an exit has been opened - possibly due to a loudspeaker announcement? Previously there was no way to get out of the three-room suite; I've forgotten about the tunnel I used to enter, so it disappears. Anyway, me and my friend climb out and go to the other room - a pair of black stairs as appeared going upwards. We climb them and come out in a large office building. Suddenly the other co-workers are there too - I just assume we all made it. We have no idea how to get out of this office building, so we wander around that level for a while. The building has very high ceilings, a green carpet and featureless walls. We walk down a long corridor and find another set of stairs going up - we climb them. At the top is a corridor exactly the same as the one below. There is, however, an office leading off the main corridor. I am about to lead us into it when I hear voices - I stop and listen. I hear two men talking, one fo them says "Haha, they think they're free."

They are talking about us, I am sure of it. And what's more, they know exactly where we are. I creep back down the stairs and am wondering what to do, when I have an idea. I follow a green sign for a fire exit; it points at a large wooden door. I pull it open and inside is a toilet, not obvious exit whatsoever. Nontheless, I pull two of my friends (that's all that would fit) in with me and close the door. I then hit the big circular green button with the fire escape logo on, hoping it would give us an exit and not set off a fire alarm.

Immediately after pressing the button, the floor dropped down from the walls like a hatch. We plummet down into darkness. I honestly can't tell if we're moving or not, and it's taking a long time to do anything. Just as me and my friends start wondering if we're gonna be stuck here, we feel the floor beneath our feet - we're in some kind of foyer. There is a receptionist behind a desk, and one of my schoolfriends playing on a GameBoy. The rest of the group arrives next to us and we walk out the front door, onto a busy daytime street in London. We've escaped! Our group has grown to about 20 people, and I remember one of my teachers from school congratulating me.


Now we have the major plot shift of the dream. It is still one dream and flows smoothly from that last scene to the next, but almost all of the plot is forgotten.

I am now with two friends from real life, not imaginary characters. We are on some kind of island, and they are looking for a swimming pool/leisure center. This entire phase of the dream is weird: it is both real (we actually act it out) and it is in a computer game, and we control it with the arrow keys. There are elements of both.

Despite the swimming pool being apparently quite close, we get in a gyrocopter (yes, a gyrocopter) and start scanning the coast of the island. my friend is both flying the copter round a real island and controlling it with arrow keys round an island from a video game; the gyrocopter is red and yellow.

After painstakingly searching about half of the coast and crashing the gyrocopter, I tell my friend to give the controls to me. We get back in a new gyrocopter (respawning on the game) and I crash it almost immediately, as the up arrow makes the copter go down, and vice versa.

I get back in the copter for third time, and have slightly more success, but end up crashing it near a bank. The dream now switches 100% back to the 'real world' view. I figure we should ask the men in the bank for directions, but upon approaching, a security guard runs out and tells me not to come any closer. It's fair enough, I suppose, I did almost just crash a gyrocopter into the roof of his bank. I call him over and he comes to talk to me and my friends. I take pains to ascertain that he speaks Italian (I have no idea why, because I don't), and then ask him in slow English where the leisure center is. He gives us directions: "just over there, cross the road and then go back"

We follow his directions and reach a busy roundabout - suddenly we have 10 people in our party, spread out into groups of two or three. I am at the front, and I cross the road leading in to the roundabout first; I reach the grassy patch on the other side, then set off from the same way I have just walked, leaving the others to catch me up.

I reach a collection of brick buildings; it looks like I'm at the back of the leisure center, as it looks run down. After some searching, though, I find the entrance to the changing rooms; a dim room with wooden cubicles for changing. The cubicles have swinging doors like you see in the bars in western movies. I get changed, and then me and my dad (he's suddenly there too) walk through into the leisure center. The dream is beginning to fade. The center is a fairly large square room; my dad gets in a hot tub/jacuzzi that is playing music, this all seems normal. I remember commenting on how jacuzzis always play exactly the same song, and I remember walking toward a shower. Then the dream ends and I wake up.

And the funny thing was, when I first woke up I had no recall. Then I remembered one fact, and slowly this entire story unravelled itself for me

DREAMSIGNS:
Really? There are so many dreamsigns here that I'm not going to list them all - I honestly don't see anything that would definately not be a dreamsign! I'm not going to list everything, but ones that stand out are the constantly changing numbers of people in my groups and the gyrocopter.

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