posted on Sep, 29 2022 @ 11:14 AM
Now I have time to explain why this thread exist.
I normally do not have any vivid or lucid dreams, it's very seldom I can remember them in any detail at all and often forget them. I am aware that
this happens from time to time though, without an external impulse. I do not have insomnia currently, I go to bed and I may dream and remember parts
of it, but this time was very different.
It stuck out to me and, wouldn't say haunted, but kept my brain busy the last days. This dream was staged as in, a repeating theme leveling up in
difficulty, it felt, similar to what other members already wrote, like a test, apocalyptic. I made tactical decisions and even reflected on things
during the dream.
I was with a group of people and we looked for shelter from another group that I call from now on "seekers". The theme was always the same, we had to
hide. Nobody in the dream said we have to, but it was the general consensus. Nobody was in panic (at first). The objective, that nobody told us, was
to hide. My daughter was with me and the whole dream itself restarted several times.
Like someone hit a reset button but the difficulty of the quest to hide and the danger and thoroughness the other group showed rose with every stage /
level. At least six iterations. It wasn't people I can't tell you what these being were, they were bipedal, that's all I have ever seen from them.
The little house we had for hiding, where everyone would lookout for places in a stern hurry but not panic yet, grew over time until it was as big as
a zepelin hangar in size, with partly a lot of open space. Like a house inside a house. I took lessons with me from stage to stage, like not to hide
in the ground level floor, where a lot of people were fighting over places to hide.
At some point I began to reflect inside the dream: Why is this repeating? What is the sense of it and how does the other group's MO work? Why are they
after us? Then, a clear voice told me "one knows, the rest feels". I reflected about what that could mean and I thought, maybe it's like, one member
of our group is an involuntary spy. Like, if the one sees the hiding places, the other group knows. And the rest of us, all we can do is feel out the
best places. I hid my daughter and turned around to find a good spot where I can intervene if she would be found. As I turn around, everything get's
dark and I look at the house itself. Turn around again in search of my daughter's hiding place but it was all just darkness.
I then reflected like, what do I do outside? I noticed something hanging from my shoulder. I had a single bolt rifle with me and it was dark. I did
not feel like I wasn't aligned with the group anymore, so a protective sense overtook me, as I knew the "danger" is far away yet and my daughter is
safe, I now have time to tactically assess the situation. I remember noticing that I never had a weapon before in the other stages, that I could
remember about.
I was walking around the house and remember spotting a broken window and thought that's an angle of attack I have to tell the group about. Then
suddenly, panic as I was walking up a hill and a leopard ran towards me, some of the group behind me. They screamed at me to shoot it and I tried to
get it into my view of scope but then noticed, it only appeared to come after me, but it didn't. As I was not looking straight at it but it moved
diagonal into my direction.
Decided this was not a threat and put down the rifle, other's still angry at me for not shooting but all that leopard wanted to get into the bushes.
Then panic rose inside myself too, because I thought, well, if that leopard hides instead of attacking, maybe I should trust it's instinct and get
inside the house now too. Other group was known to approach but not here yet, like, visible in the distance.
I went inside and checked out the room with the broken window and shouted inside whoever hides here needs to get out now. A sense of dread as I locked
the door and tried to evaluate that if people hide, how many of the group would be lost because they can't escape. But I was determined and with
almost cold logic, I shut and locked the door after nobody answered.
Then I proceeded upwards, where I hid my daughter before checking on her and went up another few floors to get away from ground level as much as
possible. This was the longest sequence of these staged dreams. I reached the roof top that had gravel on the top and was aware how it makes noise
when I step on it. I was trying to make out a good hiding spot for my daughter in the dark and when I stepped onto the roof and made the first noise,
it was like a floodlight was turned on. I then had a talk with an androgynous, human like being just a bit taller than myself.
I then heard the same voice I heard before ("one knows, other's feel") and it asked my why I am trying to hide and not fight. I reflected a bit and
said it feels like this is a strange game and the other group has no choice either and I was not harmed yet and did not hear of any harm done to
others, so there is no reason to preemptively fight. Because it just repeated over and over, I had no possibility to exit this ever repeating, more
demanding situation. I then woke up. Not in terror but greatly disturbed by the vivid dream.
I never ever in my life had a dream that was so vivid where I can tell about what I thought during that dream. I was not aware it's a dream. This kept
me busy in my thoughts the last days. Already the next day, as my subconscious mind was probably looking for external patterns what could be
responsible for this (spicy food? A discussion I had? etc), I read that Jupiter was closest in like almost 60 years.
I discarded the thought it is the reason and went on with my day. Then by accident, I stumbled over a link a member posted about an electromagnetic
storm that hit Earths magnetic field in the exact night this happened to me, around the time I was having that dream. I remember waking up around
2:30AM when it supposedly was the strongest.
Now, I am not saying that it was this magnetic field anomaly or Jupiter, but I thought, if it was something external that influenced me, maybe other's
had similar experience or even a similar dream / task. It sure felt like a test of sorts, like another member wrote.
That's basically the reason this thread exists. I am surprised at the answers here (bit creeped too) but at the same time aware that the human mind is
always looking for explanations. Such a thread would bring out many people that had a vivid exceptional dream during that night, just because I asked
for it. Statistically it is irrelevant because of the test size and hear-say character of all of this.
But it was a curiosity on my mind. I am grateful for all the members showing up and answering. I know I will probably never know if it was just random
or not, but it was a curiosity.
That's my stance on the whole topic.