memoriesfromthevoid

[memoriesfromthevoid]

prank gone wrong...

today i had one of the worst nightmares i’ve had in a while. i was in a banquet hall / church that i had never been before, though it eerily felt like i had so many memories there already. anyway, it was the type of banquet hall where you celebrate birthdays, debuts, marriages, and all that good stuff. it had a lot of hallways and rooms to go in and out of but i didn’t think too much if it. my family was celebrating a birthday (i think). i went to go grab something from one of the rooms where we put all our personal belongings. i was walking down the hall and was admiring pictures from past events, two of them happened to be my sister’s debut (a filipino celebration of a daughter’s 18th birthday) and my cousins. though we never celebrated them there, it felt like we did. i passed by a room where they were holding mass and didn’t think too much of it. i grabbed what i needed to and started heading back. all of a sudden everything turned quiet. i could hear myself breathing. i turned the corner to see where the room that mass was being held in to be pitch black, the priest gone and the candles blown out. then, someone dressed up as a scary nun, you know like the ones from the movies (i think it’s called The Nun?) anyway, i closed my eyes and screamed bloody murder but knew deep down it was my sister and friends playing a prank on me so i was just trying to shake the feeling until someone came out and started laughing at me, recording my reaction....nothing happened. the person who was dressed up continuously stared me down and handed me a laptop (wtf?) the laptop opened up to a google form saying that i had to find the clues and face my fears to get out of the situation i was in, almost like an escape room or a maze. i thought this was all a joke so i went outside to see what was going on (the person dressed up had magically vanished). i went outside to find the courtyard COMPLETELY empty. it was the strangest thing to see. yet, i saw another person dressed up in a similar costume walking towards me, and i immediately ran back inside. on the google form it gave me an option to state my reason of why i wanted to the simulation to stop, and as i’m typing my reason, the computer crashes and i can’t open any other applications or use it to message anyone. the screen says “find your own way out.” i could hear my sister and friends laughing but i don’t know where it’s coming from. at this point i’m sobbing because i am absolutely terrified and have no idea what to do or where to go other than to scream “make it stop! make it stop! it’s not funny anymore!” in my physical body outside of the dream i can feel myself flipping and turning in my bed, snorting and sobbing - for a split second i wonder to myself “can my roommate hear me?” - and back to the dream i go. as quietly as i can, i walk around the halls trying to find an exit. i hear someone running around closing all the doors that could lead to my possible escape, so i go out to the courtyard. to my surprise there are more people dressed as scary nuns RUNNING towards me. i run inside and find a bathroom or closet (i can’t remember which) and lock myself inside. crying and screaming for help, it seems that no one is coming to find me. i ultimately give up and believe that no one is going to stop this prank and that this was how i was going to die....i’m finally able to wake up, my whole body tensed in a pool of sweat and tears, covers wrapped tightly around me, and my stuffed toys all over the room. i laid in my bed for about an hour after that with my eyes closed, scared that if i turned around, someone would pop up behind me in a scary nun costume.