The dream began somewhere clinical, the dream did not give any indication of the type of setting I was in but it felt like a mental institute. I don’t know who I was, but I did not feel like me. I felt scared, I needed to get out. There was no colour, everything was just white. I could feel someone coming after me, but before I could the dream changed.
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There I was somewhere hot, there was three of us, but I still was not me – I was someone else. Lava was being spat at us, it was like we were sitting on the edge of a volcano. One of the boys got too close, and it was spat in his eyes, he was screaming so much, and I was trying so hard to save everyone’s eyes. But before I could, the dream changed.
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I was in school, the layout was very similar to my university.
It was Christmas time and I was so excited, most of the students had gone home – but I decided to stick around, there was snow on the floor.
One of the buildings had a massive Christmas tree, with cards under it. The cards were six-foot-high, they were huge. I asked a cafe worker if I could have one because I could not wait, she said it was okay. The cards did not have names on, so I randomly tugged one out from the middle of the pile – they were so heavy. I took the card outside, once outside I was holding an envelope and it was a standard card size. I took two cards out, one was addressed to me and the other to my friend, who was now standing next to me. I gave my friend her card and I had mine, we walked to the university’s gym while reading. I don’t remember what the card said exactly, but it mentioned a hospital, I was really sad – someone was dying. The name ‘Frankie’ was mentioned, but I don’t know if that was my friend’s name or the dying person. My friend told me not to be sad and it was going to be okay.
We both walked into the gym, and I immediately sat on the gym’s floor, before quickly getting back up again after noticing the number of people here – I was shocked to see how many people had actually turned up. Everyone lined up, making a rectangular shape in our lines. I stood at the back, on the left side, second to the end. An older man stood in front of us all, he had a lot of power, he was in a black and white tux. The man spoke about electricity and how much the university was using, and how much the students use, he listed different ways, such as charging our phones at uni. The man said if we use too much, more than our world can handle then we will destroy it. While he spoke about this I could see the world, bars were coming out of it. The man said today we would go to medium power, but if something happens we will have to stop.
A large flag was passed over for us all to hold up, but I was too short to reach it and hold it with everyone else.
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Then I was in a house. It was my old house, the one I lived when I was a kid.
I was sitting on the sofa, I was not doing anything.
I watched as my auntie was walking up and down the living room, in a ballgown. The dress was green and massive, I could not see my aunties face but I knew it was her. The back of the dress had a very detailed pattern with little jewels around the pattern. I knew she was not comfortable in the dress, but she left the house anyway.
Then, what felt like only a minute later, there was a knock at the door. Everyone in the house went still, it was like time had stopped. Until a strange man walked downstairs to open the door. My auntie ran in, she was wearing a different dress: a simple dress, baby pink. She was clearly more comfortable wearing this. She was rambling and saying show she did not like the other dress and she wanted to wear her dressing gown instead. Her sister replied with “at least you have your swimming costume on underneath if you want to change”.
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Then me, my aunt, my grandad and my nan were walking. Just walking through a field, up to a path by the road. That is all, I felt confused – I did not know where we were doing. I could see all the cars driving by, all of the trees and the wire fence beside us. The path split into two ways, I wanted to walk the left path, while my family went right, but they stopped me – they would not allow me, they said if I did then I would be in so much trouble. I followed them and asked them why I could not, as I could see others on that path, they would not give me an answer.