dreams

1st dream:
Setting: an old, dark apartment. Might have been my grandparents’ old apartment in Hong Kong
People: me and two friends (I don’t remember which ones)

I’m in this apartment getting ready for bed, just kind of wandering around until I get tired and a really powerful vacuous wind pushes me against a corner. I go to another room to investigate and find a huge dark figure has taken my friends through a tiny portal at the base of a large chair. To secure the portal, there is a metal latch shaped similarly to a magnifying glass held in by suction so it would be really difficult to pull away. The figure spots me and chases me around the apartment. The figure slips away and lets me believe that I outrun it. I begin to call everyone on my phone to ask for help to find my friends and everyone is telling me that I am overreacting and that everything is ok. I asked why nobody cared that these two people somehow disappeared inside of the apartment and the only answer I got was that they were ok. After more scrambling around, the two friends somehow returned but were inside of coffin-like beds where there was a heavy lid on top of them, and the dream ends.

2nd dream:
Setting: A large mental health facility for people around my age that operated like a boarding school
People: Lots of kids I don’t know in real life, but lots of friends in the dream

From what I remember, the dream begins with me and a couple of girlfriends sitting in a circle trying to figure out a way for one of our close girlfriends to see her fiancé who is also in the hospital. The school divides the students into squads so that everyone can be efficiently ‘managed’, depending on their mental status. Each group is strictly separated from each other and follows their own schedule throughout the day. We write letters to friends in different squads and find new ways of smuggling them. Today, it is my turn to hide the notes under my shirt and sneak off to a part of the school where I’m not usually allowed. I pretend to leave to see one of the therapists, but instead I pass the note on to another student who is doing the same thing I am as we pass each other in the hallway, who sends it to the right recipient. After I deliver my share of messages, it is time for gym so I lie to a series of hall monitors for them to let me into class. There are many gyms in the school, all enclosed by heavy doors in one hallway. I forget which room it is, so I look through each one looking for a familiar face. I can’t find anyone I know, so I make a wild guess of which room is mine and happen to be right. The kids inside are playing some sort of game where they shoot off a gun with a racquetball ball as bullets to try to hit certain targets, kind of like dodgeball. I find my friends and tell them everything was sent out. As I joined the group, they began talking about the final test that is administered to determine whether or not we should be released. An instructor will tether us to the ground as we’re standing, similar to the way that the end credits are in Mortal Kombat, and we pass if react the right way without freaking out.
Then I woke up.

--adela