A Nightmare Nightmare's are rare for me. It was frightening at the time but now just interesting in retrospect. I am outside and it is night. It is a scene like Night of the Living Dead. I am on the back porch of an old house. There is a low fence around the backyard, maybe a graveyard. Beyond that is a bit of grassy field and then a dense forest. I am with some other people but I do not remember who they are. So, I am in the ominous setting and monsters start walking out of the forest and walk slowly toward me and the old house. It is just like the zombie mode of Call of Duty. They are not really monsters. I know they are people dressed up in Halloween costumes. There are some ghosts, zombies, and guys dressed like <PERSON>. The ones I remember most clearly are the big pumpkins. You know those pumpkin trashbags you fill with leaves and put on your lawn for Halloween? Like that except it is walking slowly toward me. Mostly I recall that the other people with me are very frightened. I am trying to keep them calm. I reassure them that they are just kids playing a Halloween prank and nothing bad is going to happen. As the monsters get close, they seem to give up because we are not afraid and they go away. But new waves keep coming from out of the woods and we are all getting more and more nervous. Finally, I have have enough and want to leave. I yell at the monsters, telling them I know they are just people dressed in costumes. I walk away from the house and find a parking lot. I see my car and pull out my keys. But as I am walking, the people are following me and I overhear them talking. They failed to frighten me with their costumes but now they are getting violent. They pull out hatchets and start swinging at me. Now I am really scared. I duck their swings as I try to open the lock on my car door. I wake up. I was pretty scared for several minutes as I could not get the memory of the dream out of my head. I guess my interpretation of dream is that the violence of normal people is more frightening that the scariest monsters or places.
Place withheld · 2011-04-30 · from the DREAMVIEWS archive
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