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[Dream Occurrence: 8 June 2020 ~1:30-7:15AM]
I was transported to another world, and this was the first time I was fully grounded and present in it. It was also the first in a long time I’ve felt a true fear. I truly feared for my life. It’s hard to explain. It was just so scary, but I felt so alive. I could somehow control time, and I would have died if I couldn’t. Although I guess I wasn’t fully controlling time, just that I could rewind it and retry until I figured out how to get past the dangerous puzzle.
Then here were 3 groups. One were my friends, or at least they were helping me. I didn’t know them, but they seemed to know me. I was dropped into their world, and all I could do was trust them. Next, there were these other people. They were their own faction, and for some reason, there was conflict between us. However our conflict wasn’t absolute, meaning they didn’t hate us just for existing. Rather, we had something they wanted.
Part of my mission was to deliver something to them, along with those who were helping me. But when we took it to them, they turned on us. I guess they didn’t want to pay for whatever we brought. There was a fight, and the my reason we won was my rewind ability that let me retry. But even with that, I didn’t understand my powers enough to use them well, or maybe I was just too overwhelmed.
Then something like a god stepped in to save me. He had absolute control over time. He freezed everything except us two, gave me some encouraging and calming words, and somehow rewrote the script of both mine and everyone else’s actions. He basically guided me on how to defeat these people along with those who were helping me.
Finally, there was third, and most odd, entity. I had seen it twice before, earlier in this dream. It wasn’t alive, nor human. Maybe I could call it alive, but it had no spirit. They were depicted as robotic arms with three claw-like appendages and a red eye in the center that scanned their surroundings. If I got caught in their gaze, they would come after me.
Fortunately, they never caught me because of my rewind ability, I was truly terrified of what would happen if they ever did. When confronting the other real people was intense, I recognized that they could kill me. Yet there was something about those robotic arms that I knew a terrible fate far worse than death would happen if they ever caught me. On top of that, there was no way to fight them, or at least I hadn’t yet learned how. All I could do was hide in fear, hoping they gave up looking.
The first time I encountered these robotic arms, it felt like I was being trained to use my ability. They were much limited in their reach and mobility, so it was relatively easy. This was also before I met my “friends.” But the second time encountering them was when I felt true terror. The robotic entity came into this warehouse-like area my “friends” & I were in. What terrified me about it was how the robotic arm had a woman’s face plastered on it. It was trying to trick me, but I was certain from the moment I saw it that it was not a person. And what was truly terrifying was the uncertainty around “why?”
With the real people, I knew what they wanted. Although it may be contrary to me & acting selfishly, it was still understandable. But this fake woman – this robot – tried to comfort me with the face of a loving woman like a facade to hide what it wants. But I knew the moment she got close to me, I would be grabbed and pulled into a fate far worse than death.
I don’t know what that fate would be, but I was terrified no matter, whatever horror it turned to be. So I used my rewind ability to send her out of the warehouse, though I knew I was only buying time. The robot came right back, but this time without the face. It must have become aware that I was aware of it, so then got rid of all pretenses. However, I was able to hide, and it eventually left. But I can’t stress enough about the fear I felt. But even with this terrible and intense fear, it’s nothing compared to the next time I encountered it.
Then there was traveling to two major destinations in between. The first is where the fight with the real people happened. After, we journeyed to a more city-like area. The blocks & alleys leading to our destination were in disrepair, looking almost apocalyptic, while the main city area was pristine, looking almost utopian, though it felt oddly empty.
A strange moment occurs when I meet someone there from my world. It was Ben. He was different from the other people from this world. He had an awareness and understanding similar to me, but I could tell he was more familiar with its workings than me. I don’t know for certain, but it felt like he had similar powers to my rewind ability. What followed came the start of the most terrifying part.
All of the people’s faces besides mine and Ben’s went blank, and on their shirt it said, “data corrupted.” Then a woman showed up on a tv screen and started asking questions. Everyone was answering. Even Ben was, but not as a “corrupted data” person, instead a real one hiding among them. However I couldn’t understand the questions. Now I was failing at all of the questions, but Ben had already gotten enough experience here to answer them correctly.
My failure was now drawing attention to me, and I started to feel anxious, so I started walking around and over people to try to escape the room with the woman on the screen. And though the people were relatively mindless, my actions drew the attention of the woman. She stopped asking questions and turned to me. Then she said this was my final chance, and that’s when I realized she was one of the robots too, but one in a full-body disguise. It wasn’t just a talking head, but instead a full body.
I had been identified. I was not one of the mindless persons with corrupted data. Ben also was a person like me, but he was able to hide among them. The woman then began talking to me, but I realized she was just trying to distract me so that the robotic arms had time to sneak up and grab me. Luckily, I noticed in time to use my ability to rewind, but it was only barely.
One thing I began noticing was how I’m was starting to have more control and understanding of my ability. I could rewind further back, but there was still a limit. Then, when I reached that limit, time could still remain paused, giving me time I could think of a plan. Now I was able to act faster, not distracted by the fake woman’s words. I was running towards a hiding spot, and though I was still fearful, I was relatively confident I had found a place to hide. I just needed to get there before the robotic arms saw me and could grab me.
I was almost there, but then my alarm went off in my world. It was a vibrating alarm, so the entire world I was in began shaking like an earthquake. But that’s when I recognized the vibration pattern, and it brought me back to my own reality. The fear was gone, but I don’t know if I was ready to come back yet. I was confident I had found a place to hide. So, although I had true fear in me for the first time for years, it felt interesting.
I wanted to explore the world, its people, my abilities, and these oppressive & terrifying robots that masqueraded as us. I don’t know if I ever will go back. It would probably be safer if I didn’t. Yet all I could think about was how interesting it was, and now I felt curiosity drawing me back towards it. How I longed to learn and understand this strange and mysterious reality.
& so, for now, this is all of what I can remotely remember from that dream. It has been a very long time since remembering a dream feeling this intense and vivid. And it has been an even longer time since I remember feeling such an odd and visceral fear.
In addition to the main dream, I had two dreams earlier in the night, though remembering them is much more foggy. In one of the dreams, it was similar but safer to the main dream. It felt set up, almost like a playground, where I could test my abilities. There were a few people there. Although I thought they were real when inside the moment, now I’m thinking of how, just maybe, they were like those “corrupted data” ones I would meet at the end.
Then, in another dream, I was someone who was not me. Once again, it’s kinda hard to explain. I was a young girl, surrounded by an empty and destroyed village. Looking back, I don’t know if I was alive or dead. I had a vision of the past of what happened to destroy the city. It was a terrible and gruesome scene. Spears came flying down, impaling all those around me. I, too, was impaled, but at the last moment before I think I died, I called to a guardian that materialized and protected me. He sliced the spears out of the air and then defeated the invaders as they came in to finish the job.
The vision of the past then ended, and I was in the destroyed village once again. Yet now there was another girl, and though I didn’t know her, the girl who I was in the dream knew this other girl. She was an old friend of hers. Someone who was also somehow able to survive the genocide of our people and the destruction of our home. I still felt the guardian with me as well, although he wasn’t physically there. But I knew I could summon him, confident he would keep me safe.
♡Sugar☆World☮ 