Voices

09-21-2012 -- VERY strange dream. I am having some political discussions with some liberal friends right before bed, who I strongly disagree with, then I go to sleep. I suddenly find myself waking to a very Mindwarp* situation. There is a loud, commanding voice giving me orders in my dark, empty room (in the Hickory house). I look around the room carefully, and eventually find some sort of squak box / monitoring device has been installed on the blinds in my room, while I slept. This voice is promoting a very socialist agenda, and threatening me with what will be done to me if I do not follow it is orders. It gives lots of orders, but most I cannot remember. The one I can remember is that I was to hold myself back because my sister is not as talented as I am, and I am not allowed to do better than her. [Has nothing to do with my real life sister.] As this this is going on, there is a really weird game show on the TV in my room. It is a game that involves people trying to solve charades by other people that they can neither see nor hear, which makes it really tough. At the moment, Wink <PERSON> is the contestant, who is trying to solve charades being performed by ... Wink <PERSON>?!? Somehow they have moved him in time so he is playing against himself! I approach the box, rip it off the blinds, and start to break it apart, and it threatens me ever more fiercely, ordering me not to separate the broken pieces, though I am obviously going to do so. Finally, it produces a line of tiny glowing hieroglyphics that look like human figures. I have to figure out the meaning, but they are too tiny, there is no way to decode them. Somehow throughout this entire thing I have not been myself, but <PERSON>. They have come and taken me away to prison because I did not obey the voice, and they have thrown me into a very large bathroom with four or five big nude criminals, then turned the lights out. Obviously a scary situation. I rush to the door, still nude, and open it so there is some light to see by. I find myself in a locker room, and start opening lockers until I find one with my clothes in it, and start dressing as quickly as possible, hoping to get out of here before anything more happens to me. Semi-short, but intense dream. *[Five or six years ago I had a very strange real-life situation happen. Kind of scared me for an evening. Had no idea what was going on. Had been renting a room from some people for just a couple of months. This room was lined with shelves near the ceiling that had tons of kid toys on them. One night I went to bed, and was fast asleep when I woke to hear this loud, deep voice seeming to come from nowhere, saying something along the lines of "Prepare for Mind Warp!" I was suddenly wide awake in my room, quite scared by this mystery voice, not sure if I was awake, asleep, or insane. I would turned the light on, there was nobody in the room. The TV was off. I had no radio. Nothing! I sat there hyperventilating for a minute or two, turned the light off, and tried to go back to sleep, when the same voice returned again, saying something about mindwarp over or something. (It is been several years, I no longer remember the closing phrase nearly as well.) Terribly frightening. Got up the next morning and searched the room carefully, and found a battery-powered game called Mind Warp that spoke when activated. Whatever it was, exactly, it was a toy I would never heard of, and therefore very frightening to suddenly hear in the middle of the night. That toy was quickly relocated out of my room. Anyway, that was the Mind Warp story referenced in the dream.]