I just woke up from a dream in which I was at a sort of party or retreat. It was a party but it was an overnight getaway where we were at a sort of venue where there were arcade games and lounge areas. I was with friends and an extended network of friends.
We were there to play a game. The point of the game was to kill, stay alive and be the last person standing. Each of us was had a supernatural killing power but we didn't know what it was or when that power would activate. If you were the killer you would either have to kill everyone else or be killed by the rest of the party. Unless you were "the killer" (the one whose power was activated) we couldn't just start killing people, you had to be enjoying the party until someone started slashing people or something.
I was pretty confident that I would be one of the last people standing but there were some players I was concerned about because they seemed to be really looking forward to playing, though everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves at the party. After being the one to drive a bunch nails into Coco and force her over a ledge, I started thinking "okay, she's really dead now, the game is over for her but she's also never going to be alive again" and it was then I realized that this game kind of sucks... It's not like I had wanted to play, it felt more like I was at this place and everyone else started showing up and in order to not die myself, I just had to kill. And I was really good at killing.
So some background: this is the second time this week that I've had a dream where I've been killing people I knew. The other night I had a dream that people were turning into zombies and I had to kill them. This included friends, co-workers and family. I don't know what this means, if anything. I've had killing dreams before but they weren't so frequent. I'm not really worried about it because they haven't really been nightmarish, I'm not too incredibly frightened while they are happening. I think it's more the "this is what has to be done" mentality, with a very slight remorse or sadness that I've just killed someone that bothers me. Why does it have to be killing? Why does it have to be people I know? I have noticed that in all the dreams, I'm killing for survival, not just killing for the sake of killing. Hopefully it's not a premonition of what is to come.
We were there to play a game. The point of the game was to kill, stay alive and be the last person standing. Each of us was had a supernatural killing power but we didn't know what it was or when that power would activate. If you were the killer you would either have to kill everyone else or be killed by the rest of the party. Unless you were "the killer" (the one whose power was activated) we couldn't just start killing people, you had to be enjoying the party until someone started slashing people or something.
I was pretty confident that I would be one of the last people standing but there were some players I was concerned about because they seemed to be really looking forward to playing, though everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves at the party. After being the one to drive a bunch nails into Coco and force her over a ledge, I started thinking "okay, she's really dead now, the game is over for her but she's also never going to be alive again" and it was then I realized that this game kind of sucks... It's not like I had wanted to play, it felt more like I was at this place and everyone else started showing up and in order to not die myself, I just had to kill. And I was really good at killing.
So some background: this is the second time this week that I've had a dream where I've been killing people I knew. The other night I had a dream that people were turning into zombies and I had to kill them. This included friends, co-workers and family. I don't know what this means, if anything. I've had killing dreams before but they weren't so frequent. I'm not really worried about it because they haven't really been nightmarish, I'm not too incredibly frightened while they are happening. I think it's more the "this is what has to be done" mentality, with a very slight remorse or sadness that I've just killed someone that bothers me. Why does it have to be killing? Why does it have to be people I know? I have noticed that in all the dreams, I'm killing for survival, not just killing for the sake of killing. Hopefully it's not a premonition of what is to come.
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I had a dream last night I went back to work at City Beat. But they were running it out of someones basement and only had three computers. Plus everyone I knew who had worked there was gone and the publisher was getting fired as I was setting up my old desk.