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Dream 49 pt. 2

The same cat sits on a nearby fence watching me as time slowed down. It speaks into my mind, 'you have lost, it will claim you through the agreement you made at the beginning.'

The cat has always been around saving me from the anger of the thing within the earth that wants me, but at a cost. A cost I can no longer pay.

Then I realize something. 'Wait can I give up all my memories of being with you up to this point for more time, one last time?'

The cat looks up with genuine amusement, 'Sure'.

Time continues again.

I jumped into a nearby car and hotwired it, driving with one destination in mind. The Airport.

The cat ran alongside me, watching this play out.

The lightning started up again, beginning to gain on me because of the country roads, but once I hit the highway I could speed off into the distance leaving it following at a steady pace.

'Good, I thought I would need a lead'.

I make it into the airport, which is in scrambles from an emergency evacuation order, sneaking past security in the turmoil and making my way to the end of the terminal. I got on a plane and walled up to the captain. 'This is a life or death situation for both of us, please can you fly the plane away from here?'

He responded with a firm no.

Before he could turn away though, the cat beside me stood up on its hind legs, its eyes glowing white, 'I am the father of Jesus of Nazareth, you will fly this plane away from here' it lied.

It was effective though and the pilot dashed into the cockpit and started up the plane, through the window I could see the lightning making its way over here through the planes on the side of the terminal, the planes exploding along the way.

We made it to the runway, with the control tower already exploded, and took off without guidance with the lightning hot on our tail. Once we made it up into the sky, the lightning couldn't keep up but we could still see it in the distance.

I asked the cat 'how long must we fly for?'.

'Till neither it not I can see each other,' the cat responded.

After an hour plane flight, the cat said it was good now.

We landed in a corn field and when I tried to remember the name of the town we had left, neither the pilot nor I could. It was as if it was wiped off the map. I sat there for a bit before asking, 'what now?'

The cat simply replied, 'now you can live.'

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Dream 49 pt. 1

I found myself on the run from Texas law enforcement, grabbing a bottle of water from a nearby gas station and getting on my horse. I booked it across the fields, making sure to keep out of people's property. Because of this, the cop that was after me started gaining on me.

The cop tried to get the farmers to help impede my progress but the farmers did want to because I hadn't gone on their property.

I started making my way across a reddish prairie with the cop hot on my tail when suddenly this blood-red hand reached out of the ground and grabbed the cop, pulling him into the earth.

There was an eerie burrowing as if something just below the surface was tunneling towards me at a fast pace. It got to me and time slowed down as it grabbed me.

A voice whispered in my ear, 'do you want to give up your last memories to buy yourself some more time?'

I shouted 'yes'.

The hand retreated into the earth and a black cat on a fence held up an hourglass in one paw, an empty crystal skull in the other.

I forgot why I was here and what my name was- all I know is I have to run. I got back on my horse and we headed fast towards a cliff. The horse stopped right at the edge, flinging me over the edge into an endless grey void.

Various floating walkways go off unconnected into the distance as far as I can see. They had substances on them that are bubbling violently.

I was able to grab one of these platforms as I fell past and carefully made my way across the repeating platforms.

Eventually, I reached a key and out of instinct grabbed it and jump, holding the key like a hang glider. I floated down and landed in my house. I don't recognize it but the setting makes sense somehow.

I got up and looked around. I heard arguing and someone say that my grades have been certified. I feel the air build up with static and run out of the house.

A large bolt of lightning strikes the house, creating a large hole in the roof. Though the lightning doesn't discharge into the ground but instead builds up inside it, making the house glow like a red hot piece of metal.

I run.

The lightning spreads out, crackling and zapping everything it touches with mini explosions along its length. It makes its way towards me, almost hitting me from the fence. It moves like an intelligent snake.

One more lash out and it is going to hit me.

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Dream 48

In order to determine if our universe should have more good in it or bad, the gods set up hundreds of pocket dimensions that had a few people that wanted to fulfill some evil goal, and if they succeeded that dimension would be marked with a devil emoji and if not then it would be marked with an angel emoji. The majority wins. Some of the evil goals were simple, some were not.

One pocket dimension had a charismatic person tasked with convincing 50 people to cut into their own bodies anywhere. One had an evil white dragon tasked with playing king of the hill against some other monsters where the hill was Devils Tower (in Wyoming). Another was the one I was in.

A person was tasked with convincing 4 people to willingly enter an area with a deadly SCP and have those 4 people die. She chose a deadly maze dimension SCP.

Me and 4 other people just finished a mission when one of them spoke up that we needed to report it at a different location for security reasons.

She was a higher rank than us, so we agreed. She piloted the boat over to a beachside resort that was deserted, due to being Secured to keep people from the SCP.

I asked why we were at an SCP location to meet and she said that the room of that cabin was bigger on the inside than the outside. Before heading inside, I said if this is a trap I would personally shoot her when I exited.

She asked, "With what gun? Hmmm?"

I flipped her off and walked inside with the rest of my group. It looked like a nice kitchen and living room area, just with no signs of anyone else (except a large black bear that was sitting on a countertop in the kitchen, eating strawberry jam out of a big glass jar). I tried the front door but it was locked. We noticed some writing on the floor that was raised as if large foam letters were pushing up the carpet.

The first section of words read: 'Welcome, please follow all directions and you will be allowed to leave.' Next to that, another section held a different message, which read: 'one step down, one step up, one step down, one step up, and one step to the right.' That section of wording was duplicated but read to the left instead of the right as the last step.

We stared at the three sets of wording on the floor.

Someone suggested we split up, as we would cover more ground in two groups of two. The other two agreed, but I did not like the idea.

Fred and Alex went over to the stairs leading down in the back of the room and followed the step directions for up/down/right. And Sharlene and I took the step directions for the other one. Upon finishing the directions, the two boys disappeared and when we finished following the directions, we reappeared back at the start of the room.

Fred and Alex were nowhere in sight.

I noticed a calendar by the front door (which was still locked) and it was one day ahead of the date on my phone. I remembered hearing about this SCP where it is a maze and the calendar counts successes and restarts on a failure.

The two of us looked around- it was pretty much identical to the previous room. There was still text in the living room, made out of the raised carpet, but it had different words.

It said don't step on anything other than carpet.

I remembered that if you stood on the wrong spot, the maze SCP would kill you with a swinging axe that came out of a nearby wall like a medieval trap.

We make our way to the exit of the room and saw another set of stairs instructions by the stairs. It continued with these weird instructions for another 20 rooms when the generic room instructions are don't let the bear touch you. We looked around and noticed the front door is replaced with a hallway and saw a slow-moving red-eyed black bear that was walking towards us. We quickly got out of that room.

More rooms and more instructions came and went- and the rooms started looking different. One had a bed in the middle of the room, one had metal welded walls, one had a goose stuck to the wall with knives.

In room 70, the enemy to avoid was a small creepy toy doll.

We walked into the room and went to read the exit conditions and the doll had teleported closer when we looked back at it. We finished reading when Sharlene felt a needle poke her leg. We looked down to see the doll, it laughed for a few seconds before disappearing.

A watch appeared on her wrist, seeming to be counting down from 1 hour.

She said she felt a little lightheaded.

We started to rush through the rooms and they started to getting weirder and weirder.

On room 98, the walls were covered in blood-red cobwebs and the floor was made of random 10 inch patches of metal, wood, carpet, and blood.

We both noticed that we started standing on wood so we only step on wood till we see the instructions which confirmed to only stand on wood. The exit instructions are for each person to cut off one finger and drip blood on the railing with a knife that was conveniently close by.

I cut off my left ring finger and she did the same.

We followed the exit instructions and teleported again, but to a room that looked like the first room.

Her watch read 2 minutes.

We saw a sign hanging from the ceiling that read: 'Congrats you can leave but only together.'

I thanked the SCP and asked it if it could lend me a gun.

The sign changed to read: 'No.'

I pleaded with it, saying I would throw the gun back in shortly and would talk to my superiors about people being sent in here in the future.

The sign changed once more to read: 'You promise?'

I nodded and a pistol appeared in front of me. I grabbed it and booked it out of there with Sharlene and saw the lady who tricked us.

As she was saying: "How the hell, it's only been a few minutes?" I shot her and tossed the gun back in.

The two boys on my team were never heard from again and I upheld my promise to bring it up with my superiors about people entering, but they dismissed it like I expected them to.

This pocket dimension was marked off with a Angel emoji.

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Dream 47

My father and I were invited to view a research facility that studied stuff underwater and also prepped astronauts with the help of the giant pools it had. It was pretty impressive and we even got to see the pool with the equipment in it for the astronauts.

My father wanted to wait for me in the car after the tour ended but I stayed around to ask questions.

The manager who gave us the tour was this buff older man who only wore swim trunks and pince-nez glasses. He was very smart and polite answering my questions to the best he could.

One of my questions got interrupted by a turtle person (who looked similar to a Teenage mutant ninja turtle) who burst through a side door with cuts on their arms.

I rushed over to help them, bandaging the cuts and when I was done, they thanked me by giving me a heavy thermos in gratitude.

They said it was their latest invention, the 'get-away-from-evil-underwater-things-inator'. They explained it was filled with fake human meat and super pressurized air to escape anything wanting to eat me underwater.

I thanked him and headed outside to get in the car.

Some years later I was in the US Olympic training center under the guidance of a suave Jamaican trainer. We were doing some training on paddleboards and were given a break so I drifted a bit out to sea.

Suddenly, the paddleboard got dragged underwater and I fell underwater with it. I saw what looked like a mermaid straight out of a fairy tale except for her mouth we filled with rows and rows of shark teeth visible through her massive smile and she had these long clawed hands which were currently clutching my paddleboard.

I opened the thermos, pointing the opening straight at her, and got launched out of the water back towards shore. I swam swiftly back to the training location and grabbed a backup paddleboard.

For the next set of training drills, we had to paddle around a small mound of sand multiple times. I was mentally and physically exhausted from the earlier experience and the trainer noticed. He approached me afterward, asking what was up and I told him I almost got eaten by a mermaid.

He thought I had gone and done drugs in the middle of training so he ordered a drug test. After I came back clean he was still skeptical but ordered everyone to not venture too far into the ocean just in case.

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Dream 46

I shared history class with a friend that was shorter than me and who always wore a different green hat each day.

The teacher in that class was probably a vampire because he was obsessed with history and could teach it like he was there and he also volunteered at the blood drive. I know this because one time one of the nurses came into the class saying they needed his help because they were understaffed. After some back and forth he said yes if she finished teaching us on Tchaikovsky. She agreed so he left and she took over for the day. She wasn't terrible but she was definitely not a history major.

Winter break rolled around and my short friend offered me to join him at his home over break so I said sure. Turns out he was one of Santa's elves, so we went to the north pole.

I got on bad terms with this balding manager in Santa's workshop, so I pranked him a lot. I decided to prank him around Christmas time by dropping Santa himself on his desk from the air vent above. However, the manager happened to be cleaning his gun and shot Santa reflexively.

I was mortified.

The manager just calmly looked over to my friend who had helped me with my prank and said, "Gather the elves, we need to replace Santa."

Turns out they replace Santa by having all the elves dress up as Santa and the first person whose costume is good enough to make the judge do a double-take becomes Santa.

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Dream 45

I was sitting in a public park with my friend who looked like a grey-skinned Shrek.

We had just looked all over for places giving free clothes because we are poor and homeless. We got up to continue looking around when we saw some girls sitting down with their travel bags in the street, cars going around them.

I asked them what they are doing, to which the girl that seemed to be the leader of the group responded that they have claimed the law of the jungle to have this part of public land for the night.

The law of the jungle is a law the king made to appease the displaced locals of the kingdom that they would always be able to stay the night on public property.

I sat down on the grass near them for a bit before all of us decided that we needed food.

My friend lead us to a stadium where some horses are roaming free in the dirt field in the center. My friend picks up the biggest horse like it is a large pillow, kills it, and starts to cook it over a fire he made.

As he is doing this, a salesperson enters the top of the stadium with a potential buyer and a horse in tow. The horse is the first to see what is happening in the center of the stadium and chooses at this moment to rebel and free itself. It tosses its head to knock the salesperson's into a nearby pretzel stand, causing the salesperson to die instantly. The horse runs away free, causing a commotion.

My friend, the girls, and I all run away after eating- back to their spot they claimed and spent the night.

The next day the news was talking about what happened the night before, blaming it on a goblin attack, with the general public seeming to want to ban goblins from the city in response.

We all thought this was unfair and went to the king to petition against it.

On the way, we saw a very hungover businessman arguing with another more composed businessman as they were descending an escalator. The composed gentleman seemed concerned for the hungover man, so I walked over to talk to them. It turns out the hungover man (named Evan) was having a terrible time in business and got laid off recently. I offered to help him so that the composed man could get to a meeting. I yelled after the other businessman as he was leaving that he is a great friend and person.

The man as he is leaving yells back, "Thank you, I needed that."

My friend from before wanted to go to the king and call him a pussy for considering excluding goblins from the city, but Evan tried to be the voice of reason by saying that is not how you go to a king to petition him to change his mind. We ask him what he has in mind and he responds. "A great plan that requires alcohol." He pulls out a big bottle of whiskey and we head over to the king's petition chamber.

After waiting a bit we are allowed to see the king.

We enter and Evan sits down against the wall by the entrance and starts drinking the alcohol. My friend sees this and immediately walks up to the king and calls him a pussy for listening to the goblin hate.

The king gets furious at getting insulted but before he can do or say anything, the now-drunk Evan gets up and runs over to the king's desk. He starts punching the air in front of the king and kicks the emergency help button off the desk. He then looks expectantly at my other friend who is completely clueless as to what's going on. Evan winks, to which my friend seems to realize something.

My friend then hugs Evan (who is still drunk) and cries over his shoulder about how wrong calling the king a pussy is and how he should have listened to the man's words of advice.

The king looks confused at all of us but then bursts out laughing.

Our antics entertained him enough that we were not executed for our recklessness and instead we were allowed to explain to him that goblins should not be banned from the city. He ended up agreeing with us and assigned all of us to be goblin diplomats giving us enough money to buy clothes.

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Dream 44

I had the night shift at the sheriff's office which is usually uneventful. This night I got a call from a local campground just up the road. The voice on the phone was a little girl's voice saying there are bad men trying to hurt her and other campers.

I got in one of the sheriff's cars and drove over quickly. When I got there the camp was silent.

There are some more permanent buildings, some tents, and a beach that I remember trying to pass a swim check at when I was a camper but a squid tried drowning me which caused the check to be a failure. I hadn't gone in the water at the beach since the incident.

I saw a flickering light in one of the buildings, so I drew my gun pointed downward at the ready. The glass is covered with curtains or something so I went to the front door. I quietly opened it to go inside and saw a lounge area mostly shrouded in darkness, other than the ceiling lamp which was swinging gently in the middle of the room sheading dim light on a skull resting on a table. I looked around and I saw a young girl sitting on the outside of the window on my left, looking right at me.

She was wearing a simple red dress and black bow on her head with a smile that was curved past what it should have been, stretched across most of her face. There was this mist flowing around her that looked as if it was coming from the window, spilling down both sides (both outside and into the room) even though the window was closed.

I tensed up after taking in the scene and asked her if she was the one who called me here.

She replied simply. "Yes, because I have a present for you."

The mist flowing from the window crept up the table and touched the skull, which started humming. It then started sliding across the table towards me. As it moved off the table it started floating up to about shoulder height.

I smacked it with my pistol, breaking a good portion of the skull which seemed to agitate it. It hummed louder, moving faster, trying to get to my face and I smacked it again, breaking the rest of it.

Looking over the bone pieces on the floor in front of me, I saw the mist creeping to the back of the room where a silhouette of a person was leaning against the wall.

I slowly walked over towards it and make out a skeleton propped up against the wall with its head missing, because its head was probably in broken pieces on the ground.

The ribs started twitching and in terror, I shot it. This caused a commotion to be heard outside. As I was dodging flying ribs and skeletal hands trying to grab me, the front door opened to reveal camp staff that had their own guns.

Not wanting to explain myself to them at this point in time, I grabbed the skeleton and tossed it over to them, then left out the back door. I heard some screams that got cut short as I was running away. I stopped to catch my breath against another building when the same child appeared floating a bit in front of me, the mist coming from her somehow proffering a simple red key. I stared at her and the key, unsure.

She spoke again. "As a reward, it opens the cabin we are next to which should reveal more about what happened here".

I took the key, but as soon as I touch it, I teleported to the beach with the girl's laughter ringing in my ears, the dark water looking hungry and bottomless in the night.

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Dream 43.5

Hawkeye and Superman were arguing inside of a lighthouse, inside the bottom while there was slamming sounds coming from the wooden double doors leading into the lighthouse.

Hawkeye, in an epiphiny of how he could prove he was the best superhero of the two, said that he could sense enemies all around himself.

To which Superman replied: "I can see all around me." And as he said this, two mirrors ejected from a holster on his back, popping up to float in front of him like the rearveiw mirrors on a motorcyle. The mirrors had small rockets on the bottom that kept them afloat.

Hawkeye just laughed. "Well those better prove themselves useful." Then he threw open the doors before Superman could react.

Glassy-eyed townfolk swarmed into the lighthouse, the two superheros starting to fight their way through the mob to get outside.

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Dream 43

As I was sitting around my house wondering what to do, my best freind from high school that I hadn't seen in a while rang my doorbell. I got up to greet him and he invited me to come join him at a game festival in the nearby mall.

I accepted and joined him and his father in their car, driving over to the mall.

We got there and there were parking spots labeled with various genders and races, but we end up parking in the one labeled 'tiefling'. There was a waiting line outside of the building where the security guards had us wait to see if we were showing any symptoms of Covid as well as making sure we had masks on.

I waited my turn and then headed inside. I saw people at some tables playing a card game I liked but I had left my deck at home. I looked around for an extra deck but I realized I had to go home to get my deck in order to join them.

My friend sat down and joined them, but noticed I hadn't and asked me what I was going to do.

I said I would be right back.

As I went go to teleport back home I heard a whisper. "Come home my child."

I sighed and teleported to a location away from people and buildings instead of going back to my house. Right as I arrived on the grassy hill that was marked by a nearby cairn, I got whisked away to another location. It looked like everything around me was made of smokey grey clouds and I was swimming through them as if they were water. A tidal wave made entirely of clouds was motionless several feet away from me.

"Welcome home my child." The same voice whispered.

"You are still great but we have to catch up some other time." I said as I ducked under the top layer of clouds. I landed in a superhero pose on the grassy hill from before, causing a shockwave to ripple outwards and knock over the nearby trees, as well as the cairn. I teleported to my house and got my deck of cards and then teleported back to the mall.

The teleport spot was on the other side of the mall so I walked on a stone pathway outside to get back to my friend's table and had to go through the Covid checkpoint again.

I got inside and played multiple games uninterrupted.

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Dream 42

I found myself at an obstacle course in the ocean by Greenland. Three friends and I donned wetsuits and walked to the start. Each obstacle only had to be cleared by at least one person in the party. 

We started off just running on floating ice pieces and then reached an obstacle to jump over. Next we had to jump from ice floe to ice floe with another obstacle being an ice wall we had to climb over. 

My grasp slipped near the top of the ice wall and I fell into the water, which wasn’t as cold as I thought it would be, because I was wearing a wetsuit. When I surfaced, I notified the lifeguard of my fall in the water over the radio and they asked if I was okay. I was. 

The lifeguard paddled over to see how I was and as they were doing so, my friends made it over the ice wall, so I joined them on the next ice floe. 

They were chatting about how the English language evolved from Latin in a ABJ pattern. 

I just nodded and we continued jumping from ice floe to ice floe. 

The lifeguard made it over to us as we reached the next big obstacle. She looked over us, nodded, and started paddling away. 

The next obstacle was metal rungs built into a snow wall with each having a word written clearly on the snow next to it. The words ‘American’, ‘butchered’, and ‘janitize’ (from the ABJ pattern we were talking about earlier) were written on the snow, next to a few rungs, so I used them to climb up just to be safe. 

After getting up, there was a slide that went right to the front door of a floating school. We slid down and opened the front doors to find a bunch of kids around 6 years of age and two adults meandering about. 

A teacher-looking person said, "listen up class we have to scatter and hide long enough for this group not to find us." She then started a countdown and everyone including her scattered. 

We waited for the countdown to finish and then ran around trying to find them in all the rooms. 

I had found 3 children when I noticed a door ajar to the basement. I looked in the nearby rooms, finding one more child hiding, before going back to the basement to look. A kid was just standing, motionless at the bottom of the stairs with the rest of the basement obscured in fog.

When I ran down and tagged him, he beamed. "Its targeting you now, you better run. Also don't look at it, or you’ll die." He then ran up the stairs and out of the basement.

I could feel a presence in the basement with me so I started trying to run up the stairs feeling like I was running through molasses with how hard it was to move forward. I made it three steps and felt the entity move the same distance. I got out of the basement and didn't see anyone around, so I closed the basement door without turning my head and continued slow running. it eventually opened the door behind me and some fog started to seep along the floor. 

As it exited the basement, the area around it made a sound as if reality was breaking where it walked. 

I felt with all the running I had done that it had gotten slightly easier to run from so I could take 4 steps for every 3 steps it took. As I neared the group of people at the entrance I heard them talking about we needed to run away from the distortion without looking at it. 

They were preparing to open the doors and leave when I rounded the corner. The other adult that had hid with the children looked over at me and was relieved I was still alive but then the thing also rounded the corner and the adult screamed. The teacher shouted for everyone to close their eyes as the creature darted past me toward the adult that had made eye contact with it and started clawing at him. 

After a short time there was silence and everyone opened their eyes to the shredded body of the adult, the thing having disappeared. We all ran out of the building but the good news was that my group passed the obstacle course with a record time.

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Dream 41

I saw my friend getting ready to fight an enemy. I stopped him and asked if he had his damage buffs up. 

He said ‘no’ so we went to his house and put them up on from a menu outside the house. I noticed he was ahead of me in the game story by a chapter, so I asked him what the next chapter was about and he responded, "you get to fight enemies on the moon!" and he showed me what the level looked like. 

I went to my house to progress in the story and found my fairy guardian- who had silver skin with seafoam green clothes and wings- waiting. 

We went to the courtyard to practice more with my sword and shield but we got ambushed. These enemies had obsidian-looking swords and shields whereas I had a opal sword and shield. They looked like skeletons and crawled out of the ground, though some stayed partially in the ground, swinging their sword at me when I got close. 

I couldn't break their shields with my sword like I was used to on other enemies so I looked to the fairy for help. 

She motioned for me to come over to her and when I got there, she teleported both of us away to a cave by the ocean coast. She explained we needed to get to the next area to get weapons to fight these enemies. 

We looked around the cave a bit and I took my shoes off to feel the sand. There didn't seem to be anything interesting other than the wooden patio we teleported to in the middle of the cave. 

The fairy then said that she didn't sense any off-worldness here so she teleported us to another almost identical coastal cave before I could say anything about getting my shoes. We arrived at this cave without my shoes in sight. She says not here either but we are getting closer as she teleports us to another cave that would be identical except for a glowing purple-black pentagram by the water. 

“This should be a fresh portal and it should also be the one I sent Linda from HR through. We should be seeing her come out any minute.” The fairy said.

As I scanned around, I saw a figure standing ankle deep in the waves, and when I pointed it out the fairy exclaimed, "That must be her!" 

We ran over to see a zombie woman turn around and start floating off the ground in a cross-legged sitting pose. 

The fairy poked her and said, "She has seen better days but should be fine." We go over to the portal and hop in to find ourselves in a version of ancient Rome. The fairy leads me over to a booth that registers people to be taught by renowned fighters. 

I selected a Celtic-looking fighter but the fairy stops me before I can continue past that selection. "I am tired from all the story progress we did and I promised a friend I would help her prank her class, do you want to join me?" 

I said ‘sure’ and she teleported us to a college campus and the fairy turned into an average student of Chinese descent. She made sure I knew to sit in the front next to her and then led the way inside one of the classrooms. 

We sat down in the front by the window and the student teacher started handing out quizzes starting with the two of us that were 4 pages long. When the teacher said start, everyone flipped their quiz over. The instructions on our quizzes said to take your time and make it seem a bit tricky but all you have to do to pass the quiz is to choose one of the patterns below and fill in the multiple choice with that pattern and also to not make eye contact with the back row of students. 

I chose a pattern and filled it out. I waited a bit after my companion had finished to turn in mine. As I left I saw the last row of students looking like they were really struggling.

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Dream 40

I was standing on a rooftop patio that my parents’ house had, with my mother, when a flash of light appeared in the distance on top of the nearby mountain. I ducked behind the patio wall before a nuclear blast came rippling across the landscape, knocking out all the electronics. 

However, my mother wasn't protected by the wall I was behind and got hit from the waist up by the radiation from the blast. It almost killed her if not for some mold that grew in her throat, stomach, and lungs that she said she could feel sustaining her. 

As we walked into town we saw trees and grass had grown all over the place. We went to a small store and I gave the person working there a $10 bill for some sugar cookies. I offered one to my mother but she said her stomach grumbled angrily at the sight of it. We then went to a food court that had a bunch of different meat options which my mother salivated at and her eyes started glowing a faint red. 

I looked up at some commotion behind the counter to see a man with similarly glowing red eyes who didn’t look like he should be there, walking hungrily towards an obese food worker. I yelled, "run away from him!" 

To which he replied: "The best I can do is a light jog." 

The two disappeared into the kitchen. 

I ran around the counter to follow them but by the time I got there, the first man and another with the same red eyes were pulling a metal cage that had wheels on the bottom out the back door with the person inside it. I was about to chase after them when I got stopped by the chefs who wanted to know what I knew and what the two red-eyed people were. 

They noticed my mother had the same eyes and had us sit down at a table in the back. They asked my mother questions and had a few mounds of cooked dough with one that had meat in it. After every question they had her pick out one to eat, but she kept on grabbing one ball of dough without meat and was disappointed when she bit into it. The questions asked ranged from what we knew to why we were there. 

I finally helped my mom pick the one that I noticed the chef had put the meat into and when she ate it, she got more relaxed even though she was relatively calm before. Then my mom and I left to explore the rest of the city.

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Dream 39

After walking about the hedge maze a while, I came across a giant opening, finding a bunch of other people gathered around a pile of weapons and a notice board. 

The board stated that to continue through the maze, we had to defeat the giant stone guardian in front of us. I looked up and saw a statue of a cyclops in front of us, standing in front of a shiny gate built into the hedge. 

After more people filtered in and got ready, we grabbed our weapons before getting situated. 

I grabbed a rifle and hid behind a low stone wall in front of the statue. 

The cyclops awakened and its name appeared above it like a glowing video game boss name:  EyeEye AyeAye Gatedefender. 

We started to attack it and it defended our attacks while standing in place, choosing to charge up a beam attack named EyeEye Devastation at one of the platforms people were standing on, blasting some people off with a wave of energy from its eye, though most jumped off before it hit. The cyclops started charging another attack named AyeAye Devastation at the spot I was in which was in front of another platform of people. 

I ran out of the way as it screamed a sonic wave at the platform. 

After that, we easily defeated it and looked around as the gate still stood closed. Someone found a note that spawned under the boss saying the gate was made of ice, so we broke the gate and moved on through the maze.

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Dream 38

Francel and Lee just finished their underwater training course and had made it back to New York City just before a blizzard hit. They ran inside a nearby hotel and decided to travel to the basement. There was a giant ballroom on the bottom floor with a side door in the back. 

The two kids walked through the side door and found another kid looking through what seemed to be a magical laboratory. 

The other kid was wearing shorts and no shoes, which was weird for the weather outside, and looked up when the two entered. "You shouldn’t know this place exists or be able to find this unless you have magic powers too. So what are you here for, is it his famous rabbit?" 

Lee and Francel looked at each other, confused, and Francel spoke up. "We didn't know this place existed until just now and the same for magic existing. But we are curious why a rabbit would be famous." 

The kid pointed over at a cage with a rabbit in it, "that right there is the rabbit and if you don't know, don't open the cage if you value your lives." He then grabbed a book off the table along with some notes and started to leave. 

Francel spoke up as he was about to open the door. "Wait, are you looking for a job? We were planning on finding people to join forces to create an adventurers guild." 

The kid responded nonchalantly. "Sure, I am not in any organization right now. Also, you may call me Metash. I plan on attending an auction and if you want to be adventurers, I recommend you and other people you find go there as well." He gave an odd smile and dashed out the door. 

The two kids shrugged at each other and started looking through the secret lab. It looked like a wizard had been studying alchemy here, but they were interrupted in their search with the sounds of someone walking down the staircase in the ballroom. 

Lee peeked out the door and saw a woman who also noticed him. 

She leaked malice into the air with every step she took and gave a wicked smile when she spotted him.

He quickly closed the door and explained it to Francel, who had an idea. Francel took the cage with the rabbit to the door, releasing it into the ballroom, to which sounds of ferocious fighting started up. 

The two kids snuck out of the room and broke the doorknob on the way out to hinder anyone that would try to go into the room. They made it upstairs to a casino where they spotted a man in a plain white shirt staring off at a man in a black coat who had a similar aura of malice. Lee and Francel caught the attention of the plain shirt guy and offered him the same job offer. He looked between the man in the coat and the two kids before accepting, snapping his fingers.

The lights broke.

The man grabbed both of them, running towards the exit to the hotel, and when they were outside the hotel they saw the police barricading the hotel.

It seemed the police were stopping everyone from passing, as Metash was outside still wearing shorts and no shoes, even in the foot of snow on the ground. 

"Stop and put your hands up, we have caught wind of a disturbance at this location," a police officer said on a megaphone. 

Metash just looked back at the other three. "Think of a spot we are safe at." Then he swiftly pulled out a thick book and cast something, transforming into an older wizard as a purple door appeared in front of them.

They were pulled through the door, arriving in front of Francels' father's empty shop in the city. 

Getting inside and comfortable, the fireplace starting to heat up the cool air, the man in the plain white shirt spoke up while glaring at Metash. "Why did you hire this monster?" 

Lee looked at Metash who had turned back into a child and seemed to be looking over some notes. "Are you saying that because he wears no winter clothing?" 

"No, he is saying that because I have outstanding library fines from taking a book with me as I left." Metash and the plain-shirt man stared at each other until the doorbell rang, startling everyone.

An old man was outside at the door and as Lee opened the door, he spoke. "I thought I would give a tip to you new adventurers about the location where something is going to happen before the auction later this week." He handed an address to Lee and then walked off.

Lee showed the address to the rest of them and they went to find that it led to an opera house. 

They got their seats only to see that there were two familiar people on the stage in the midst of the other performers dressed in black- the woman and man from earlier- only now the woman has visible scratches on her face. 

As the performance started, they started feeling tired and noticed other viewers also felt the same, doing whatever they could to stay awake. Once everyone in the audience but the four new friends fell asleep, the lights went out. 

Metash produced a small flame to look around, but everyone else had vanished.

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Dream 37

I was walking up to meet my gay friend who is one of the 7 head spiritual leaders. The other 6 (dressed in monk-like robes) are arguing with my friend (who is wearing normal clothes) and when I approached them, I found out that he was trying to get them to replace the dead plant in the spiritual garden. The garden had 4 cylindrical needle bushes and 7 red orchards, one of the bushes appearing to be dead and drooping against its neighbor. 

My friend had brought a replacement, which was where the argument had stemmed from, as the one he brought was a female plant while all the current plants were male just like all the spiritual leaders. 

I joined in to defend my friend's decision and we all came to the agreement that the choice of the new plant would be put to a vote. The head leader stipulates that if the vote is to put a male plant in, then the plant my friend brought will be killed. I force him to accept my request that the current needle bush be used to make cookies. We shook on those terms and then headed over to the local grocery store to get baking ingredients. After everything was set up for baking, I started to explain the health benefits of using female and male plants together to reduce the pollen pollution while the spiritual leaders and I are cutting up the dead needle bush to make the cookies. 

Once we are done, my friend’s husband shows up with higher-quality cookies that didn’t have needles in them. The head leader complained that the nice cookies are against the terms of our agreement, but I pointed out that nothing in the arrangement said we couldn't try and convince people to our side, just that we had to have a fair vote for the trial. 

He tried to explain to the other spiritual leaders that they needed to stick to tradition, but they were eating the amazing cookies we brought. 

The votes were counted at 5 in favor of the new female needle bush and 2 against so we had a grand ceremony of placing the new needle bush in and the head spiritual leader left in disgust before the ceremony started. 

Heading home, I opened my front door and was greeted by my two kittens at the door, getting a call from my father as I stepped inside. "The harvest moon and orangeish glow of the setting sun makes it look like the start of an apocalypse movie," he joked.

I responded dryly. "What gave it away? Roving bandits? Power outages?"

Right then and there, the power went out.

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Dream 36

There was a big meet up of treasure hunters at this massive ancient mansion that was rumored to have 30 million dollars worth of treasure somewhere in the basement. I joined the hunt and got a huge room to stay the night in with my family that’s as spacious as a small house. We were watching a movie and my eyes caught on where a spider was creeping along the floorboards, finding a banana that I just now noticed. 

The spider animated the banana and after the rest of my family had gone to bed, it tried to make off with its now-live prey. I took a roll of newspaper and tried to squash the spider but ended up missing, chasing it around until I made enough noise to wake up my uncle. The spider (dragging the banana) jumped on his face right as I smacked it with my newspaper, killing it, but also hitting my uncle's face. 

Unfazed, he just responds with "what's up, why all the ruckus." 

I start backing up to the small scale theater stage inside the room that was behind me and climbed up some boxes in the shape of a pyramid while responding with, "you aren't normally this calm did the spider get to you?" 

I threw the newspaper at him, hitting him in the face, but my uncle didn’t pay it any mind and kept walking closer. I backed up onto the boxes some more when suddenly, the box I was standing on broke- causing me to fall down a chute that felt like it was a few floors long. I landed in pitch blackness and as I was feeling around for any objects or walls, I heard a voice speak up. 

"Do you need help, mortal?"

"I do?” Fear colored my voice. 

The unknown female voice continued. "Have no fear, I mean you no harm. I just offer my powers to help you find the treasure and defeat the enemies you will encounter along the way."

"What is the price?" I asked, to which the voice responded softly. 

"20 million of the 30 million in the treasure vault and some time to be alive again, is all I ask."

"Deal, I agree to those terms," I said as I sealed the contract. 

The woman (who is a witch) that emerged from the corner of the room touched my shoulder and I felt knowledge flow into me, granting me her demon eye and the ability to communicate directly with her through whispering in my mind. Using the demon eye, I saw a door’s outline in the dark on the nearby wall. Opening the door, I found some theater kids chatting in a hallway. 

As I tried to sneak by them, one noticed me and came over. "You found the treasure didn't you?" He asked accusingly, to which I just shook my head no. 

"Don't let him look you directly in the eye, or do, it makes no difference to me." The witch whispered in my mind flippantly.

As I am about to ask why the kid turned my face to him to look me in the eyes, which caused my demon eye to emit a red flash of light, petrifying him. I ran up the stairs before the rest of the theater kids noticed the state their friend was in while asking the witch if she was Medusa. She responded with a yes but said it was a bit more complicated than the myths made it out to be, and that there are other witches coming here for the treasure as well. 

Making my way through the house I saw a door ajar with a bloody handprint on it. I peeked inside and saw the walls and floor were splattered with blood and assorted body parts, bloody footprints leading from the window to the door. 

"That is the crime of one of my sister witches, who is less of a fan of you mortals than I," Medusa explained. 

I continued to a terrace that had a staircase that led to the roof. By this time the sun was rising, shedding light on a bunch of people gathered on the roof in anticipation of a show that was getting set up on the grounds below. My stomach rumbled so I went over to buy some food from a conveniently placed hot dog stand on the roof. 

"Now what?" 

Medusa responded idly. "Well, either we can wait for a sister witch to murder everyone trying to find the entrance or we can find the entrance, starting a fight ourselves." 

I climbed back down the staircase and headed back inside, looking around when I noticed a lever hidden in a bookshelf with my demon eye. Pulling the book with the lever in it, I proceeded to get flipped to the other side of the bookshelf. Seeing a door with a handprint sensor in it, I went to try my own handprint, but before I could touch the sensor, Medusa screamed in my head. 

"Wait! Don’t do that!” She appeared next to me. "Don't look at me as I do this." She placed her hand on the sensor with a satisfying click. The door swung open and she disappeared again. 

"What was that?" I asked, to which she responded with, "we witches are the rightful heir to our grandmother's treasure." 

We walked down a winding staircase to find an old lady hunched over a gilded coffin and she turned around saying, "you think you can steal my treasure, mortal? I'll-" 

She was cut off as she made eye contact with me and turned to stone. 

Inside the coffin are thousands of diamonds, which I then split into thirds and took one-third of them. The demon eye disappeared and I hear a whisper behind me. 

"Thank you. With your help, humanity is less doomed." 

I walked away, not wanting to look and see her eyes, leaving the house for good.

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Dream 35

I hadn’t done much in high school, but with college that was going to change. I got into one of the 12 fancy collages that specialize in a field, except the one I went to specializes in what was left over (so everything the other colleges didn’t specialize in). 

The building looked like it had won an award for fanciest sustainable building with lots of glass and plants built into the architecture. 

I approached the entrance to find a walkway of glass set into the ground covering a koi pond. The first thing I saw inside was people were already startang to use the fitness center, walking further into the building to the dorms and finding that since the rooms were assigned by last name my room was in the middle of the hallway. 

The classes were engaging, but I was more excited about the first football game of the year as my school came out of the game with a stunning victory. When the game was over and I was leaving, I happened to see a namazu (a dog-sized catfish that walks on two legs) out of the corner of my eye, walking home happily. 

As it was walking, it spotted me, pausing with a dumbfounded look on it’s face for a moment, which is all I need to pick it up and start running back to my appartment. 

Its voice was a squeal. "I am a fire type, I will burn you! Put me down before you get hurt!" 

I responded that I am a night type, and to go ahead and try. 

It sucked in a gulp of air in a valiant show of force, but when it blew the air out, nothing happened. Deciding to instead try to play dead, I placed it in the basin of a nearby water fountain so it would have to wake up. 

After that it grudgingly accepted my friendship and I taught it how to actually breathe fire among others things and got it approved as a pet for my dorm room.