Dreams of a Stranger

By K.V.S.A.N

The mysterious author of Dreams of a Stranger advises: reader beware.

Unconstrained by interpretation or explanation, the lucid dreams and nightmares catalogued herein are hectic, morbid, and disturbing. From a mind overcome by night terrors, each dated entry is a challenge. Do you dare escape into such an estranging dreamscape of darkness and light?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
• Release date: Aug 31, 2023
• ISBN: 9781662942990

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Dream World

21 November 2017 Nightmare

I was in the detention center. I was looking for Connie. I saw her and went smiling to say hello. Her face was filled with anger. She was coming towards me and I realized I was in trouble. I started to try and flee but she grabbed me and threw me into a wall. The wall broke and I quickly got up and tried running, she kept kicking and punching me every time she caught up.

Eventually I managed to escape and the scene changed to some weird prison common area. I relax to see Connie again and she goes right in front of me and blocks me off. Her face then turns more robotic and I panic. Another Connie, this one human, helps the other to put me on the table. They claw into my back, and I feel it as if it was real.

I’m screaming in pain and fear. Next thing I knew I was branded in the center of my back. The pain was so intense. I managed to escape and went to this oasis-like place that was nearby.

I put most of my body in the water surrounding the oasis, which slowly cools my body and takes the pain away. I wake. (Sometimes after I wake from dreams where I feel the pain, I check my body for marks. In this case, my whole back was red.)

22 November 2017

I was at my trimary school. There was this whole tournament thing going on. Who could be the creepiest or something along those lines. I found Bucky, and I sat with him while I waited for the next contest within the tournament.

As this tournament was going on, a tournament at my Mt. house was happening. The tournament in my house was supposed to be something Pokémon based, and whoever was there trying to win was failing miserably over and over again. Eventually in the school tournament, I played anyone who was to end up in 3rd place. I won for whatever team I was supposed to be on every time.

Out of the blue, Bailey shows up. I stared at her for a long time and I knew my infatuation with her was acting up.

(Me being socially stupid) I go to try and kiss her, ultimately fail and get a warning from the principal afterwards. I went to go hang with Bucky again as I looked around. I see Bailey close by behind us. Bucky being the sweetest guy ever comes up with this plan to try and make her jealous.

Bucky kisses me, (my mind made it clear I looked like a hoe to her as a result). I give up with her and focus on the game Bucky’s playing on some type of counsel. When he lets me try playing, I am terrible at playing it. Out of boredom, I leave and clean up some things. For some reason, Bailey is in every area I’m in.

She and I ended up in some big old house. We’re in a room and I try explaining to her about my infatuation with her. I said how I wanted to be like a coat to her. Not really noticed, but you feel the love vibrate off. I’m failing at trying to explain it though. She looks cold so I take off my coat and leave the room. I decide to pack my stuff and write a letter in which she’ll read later.

Except I don’t have the supplies on me. I go to a room that has the supplies for the letter but I hear the shower running.

I curse to myself and tiptoe run, get the supplies, leave. Write the letter and go back to the room. Right as I enter the doorway, I see Bailey in a towel.

I freeze, becoming bright red thinking, Oh Shit! I apologize quickly, looking away. Except, she’s acting really chill about the situation. I go to leave, but she says I can stay.

I explained this time what I meant about how I wanted to love her. We are close together and I wanted to cuddle but I refused and left. She follows me after she changed and begs me to take her somewhere. After a while I say, Ok we’ll sneak out and I’ll drive. We do just that. As I drive, she makes me almost crash the car several times by pushing the steering wheel. Eventually we got to this golfing place that has several gates to enter each course.

She wouldn’t let me stop the car, putting her foot between mine and the brakes. I end up going right through the gates. Cops show up and I get out of the car, making sure Bailey is safe somewhere playing golf. I start getting shot at. As if it’s a game file, a screen pops up and shows a previous save file. I click it and end up at the part right before arriving into the golf place.

I slam on the breaks before Bailey has the chance to stop me and make sure she doesn’t go running off. She was acting like a puppy, full of energy, no care given, does what it wants. After managing to get her to stay on a course that’s not too fast, violent or crazy, I wake.

23 November 2017

I dreamed of Ivan calling the cops on me. We got into a small brawl in the car, which resulted in him calling the cops. As the cops arrived, the dog that was in our car ran off. Ivan and I kept arguing until I was in the cop car. Later Carlin showed up to the place I was in and we argued. I had an IPod that I was messaging others on, but that got taken away as evidence.

I had videos of bits and pieces of what happened on the IPod. Carlin said take everything away from me. I kept trying to fight for myself but I eventually snapped, I give up! I said I’d take the time needed to serve.

With that, they took blood and 2 other fluids from my body with needles. One of them was clear, while the other was yellow; both came out of my shoulder though.

My nose bled at the beginning of the arrest. They then cuffed me to a wooden post that was on like a dock area where water was underneath it. They gave me a wooden fork and I woke up.

25 November 2017 Nightmare

I was in the detention center, other people were there. I was waiting alone for the officer to come. I got into this self- brawl; I was getting dragged towards the front of the unit. Others showed up again and I was still getting dragged by nothing. Imari kept yelling at me and I kept trying to explain what was happening.

Eventually I was able to stop being dragged, and sat and stayed still. I was waiting for my honours snack and Connie showed up to break Imari, who was breaking Mabel. All of them are annoyed because they saw me. They stayed away from me for the most part. (Other things happened but I didn’t write it down.) I woke up after some time passed and Connie came again.

25 November 2017

I was in the detention center again. We were all play fighting and showing off our strength. Eventually drama happens and a military guy shows up. We all mimic his stories, which turned into a contest of who can mimic better. My team won. We got pizza and really high tech phones (like C.I.A F.B.I type of high tech) and chilled afterwards. I woke up after a while.

26 November 2017

I was in my Mt. house, Carlin was there. We were in the process of moving. I went to eat my cereal before getting to work and then realized I’m drenched with a towel wrapped around me, I had clothes on though. I go dry off on something I leaned on. As I was drying off, the towel was smearing blood. I removed the towel, confused, and rubbed the towel on a leather wall like thing (It didn’t touch the ceiling).

I’m still soaked to a degree. Carlin comes after I throw away a mattress and a block thing. She asked what I ate, and I replied, Cereal.

She walks over to the two bowls on the table and asks why I didn’t eat. I replied, I ate Coco Puffs. She went to a fruity pebbles bowl and asked what I ate again. I say, Fruity pebbles, correcting myself from Coco Puffs. I woke up annoyed.

26 November 2017 Nightmare

I was on a ship, playing some type of game. I forgot where I was for a moment and panicked. We eventually got off the ship and I calmed down. I was with the people from camp. One person made fun of me and the camp counselor told them to stop. They didn’t stop though.

I went back onto the ship and we were strapped up into these mini-ships, almost like an autopilot ride. We were taken somewhere. We moved around to below the main floor. After being unstrapped, I explored. There was this glass wall that Showed fish.

It was a video projection; you saw SpongeBob and the fish from Finding Nemo every so often. I continued to explore and saw a few people I knew. I tried talking to them but they ignored me. I ended up clinging to a counselor I knew. Soon I gathered bravery again and explored. I find this little girl as she’s attaching this thing to the ship's wall.

I look at what she’s attaching to see it’s a knife ready to come down on someone. I leave to hear the machine turn on. I quickly race back and try to turn it off before it hits someone. I manage to turn it off, but as soon as my hand moves away, a blade comes down and cuts it deeply.

The staff see’s the machine and removes it from the ship along with the little girl. Selena Gomez shows up all worried right as they take the girl away. As the little girl leaves, she cuts my hand and arm. It needed 5 stitches. Selena was blaming herself. The counselor I clung to comes and takes me to the nurse.

Then this kid has a silvery mud like thing on his finger. He was bleeding it. I walk with him but then he gets mad out of nowhere and stabs me with a knife.

I run away as a guy with a guitar stops the boy by slamming his guitar harshly in the face. Soon all hell breaks loose. All the kids try killing everyone, and everyone that isn’t a kid tries killing the kids as a way to calm it down.

The kids killed a lot of people. As each person the kids killed died, I felt exactly how they died. I’m in so much pain. When the kids start losing the war I wake up.

27 November 2017

The dream was simply words floating around. I was trying to figure out Connie’s real name. All different names came and left. Her voice echoed saying it was melior. She said it translated to suck my dick. After she said that, I woke up.

29 November 2017 Nightmare

I was in the residential. It started off with me writing to Connie about some person. He had white hair, a scar over his right eye, which allowed its evil to escape. As I was filling in the eyes, my body began to jerk and I started having this seizure.

I fell off my bed and tried screaming, but only my normal voice came out. I crawled trying to get out of my room begging anyone that could hear for help. Right before I made it out, the scenery changed to the F.L.R house I once had.

Instinctively I looked for Ivan. (It was after my parent’s divorce. Yes, I was aware of the timeline). I found him, but he started attacking me. As he attacks the background changes to all different colours of red. Ivan’s face changes to this mostly bald older looking man.

He screams trying to kill me; I call out to God now for help but the word God wouldn’t come out of my mouth. I tried to befriend the demon. I scream angrily, Bless your soul! but without God’s name seemed to be useless. After a few minutes, I manage to call out God’s name. God didn’t seem to want to help.

I’m panicking. I put my hand in its mouth and tried ripping its jaw off. That seemed to give me an advantage, but it was hard as he kept pulling my hands away. He turns into a baby, but I knew this was a parlor trick and grabbed its jaw and tried ripping it off.

Then the scene changes to this image showing Romulus and Remus drinking from its mother wolf. The scene changes back and the baby turns back into a man.

I then saw a group of people in a circle, like a cult ritual being made. They were shadow- like people. They then all move in unison and attack me. I fight back still asking God for help. I suddenly woke up, as if that was God’s way of helping me.

1 December 2017 Nightmare

(This was a summary; I left out a lot since I was running out of paper at the time.) It started with magical things. I was trying to figure out my family's past, talking to others. One person's face gets all cut up and a creepy little person breaks their face open, climbing out of their face. The scenery changed to being in camp. As time went on, all the little kids tried killing all the counselors. Somewhere down the line, I woke. (I didn’t write anything after the little kids part, I literally wrote Blah blah I woke up after that.)

2 December 2017

This was Transformers themed. I was in some type of room as a storm was raging outside. This plane comes into view in one of the windows in my room. It goes around each window and they start to crack. 2 Black planes come and go near the big plane.

They have these robots on the black planes, and humans on the big plane. Robots start and try entering the bigger plane. I take out a Bazooka and shoot one of the black planes down. I go on this laptop and type up some signals. I hear on a nearby radio, Enemy down!

After that, it skips to the next day. The Decepticons symbol was placed on so many objects. Any object that had this symbol got possessed and tried killing humans. I take a Decepticon symbol and put it on this drone. At first, it tried really hard to kill me, but it confused itself with a warplane.

It thought it had missiles. I grabbed its wing and put the drone on the ground, then used it for whatever I needed it for. (The drone probably got discouraged and that’s why it worked with me.) I woke up after that.

3 December 2017

I was a boy in this dream. I was trying to help this other guy get this girl by writing notes to her.

4 December 2017

This dream that themed off the Icarly team. They were in a building, and Fred got attacked. Fred then gets dragged around places and I follow him though all the different places, until we end up at a zoo. He ends up inside an enclosure with a deer. Fred and the deer then go to attack each other, but just suddenly stop. I stare confused and wake up.

5 December 2017 Nightmare

The dream focused on 2 families. One family was rich and posh, while the other was just an average family. The first time the two families met, the average family felt awkward, while the rich family snicker. The average family kind of just stood there as the other family entered their house.

The average family then is on their way to visit the rich family by train. The average family ate a lot on the train, to the point that they actually were noticeably thicker than when they were first seen. The family enters the rich family's home and they sit. At first the rich mother snickers, but then feels awkward after getting a better look at the family.

They start to talk to each other. As they talk, 2 really fancy plants come into the room. The plants start talking to each other and the rich family listens quietly. The mother of the average family ends up in an argument with one of the plants to the point where she loses herself.

As she lost herself for that split second, she shouted and just blew up like a popped balloon. She then turns into an actual popped balloon. Both families rush over and try to make her keep air but they failed and wept at the loss.

They went to this boat at the end of a dock on their property. As they wept, an orca came and started weeping with them. I get on the boat and it suddenly turns into 2 sharks. The orca starts creating a whirlpool by swimming in circles really fast.

The sharks and I are slowly getting pulled towards the edge of the whirlpool, getting closer to the orca’s mouth. I’m now pushing myself against the orca telling it to calm down. It didn’t calm down. I almost entered its mouth but both the sharks and orca turned into different creatures.

They all wanted to kill me though. I heard these voices saying, Take her out! (Or something like that). I was apparently a person with Alzheimer’s and I had a specific person to talk to.

I got pulled out of whatever the last scene was (I don’t remember what happened exactly right after).

I was then in some type of school gym place. Part of the gym was blocked off by these black walls. Animals started appearing, singing and dancing as if in a performance. (I forgot the first 2 animals) There was an elephant with jump ropes, then these people with long hair. After them were these 2 lions and a hyena. The hyena stole the lion’s food, which caused the lions to start this huge chase between the hyena and us.

I ended up getting dragged by the lions somewhere along the lines, but was still standing. Then it turned into a boy, dog, and some guy. The guy tried stealing the ball the boy was throwing to the dog.

They passed the ball to me a few times before it changed again. This time it turned into spiders and ants. There were these people that skated around, crawling their fingers on me as if the spiders and ants were on me.

I saw this screen with the rich family going through this sewer-like tunnel to the dock. Then the spiders and ants came out and crawled on them, trying to kill them. Then I was at the edge of a cliff. My instincts said the orca would appear and readied myself for the orca. The orca shows, but ends up turning into this alien robot and it tries to eat me. After punching it hard in the nose, I wake up.

6 December 2017

The beginning of it was a nightmare; it was a family civil war. Near the end of the family’s inner war, it showed the father and his baby. The dad took the kid, acted like the war was over, and started driving home. He then kicks the kid off of a cliff and the father speeds up to get home.

Nature then turned against him. When he tried to get home by boat, the tides got really rough and sharks came and tried biting him. As the father is getting attacked, the baby skids down the cliff and enters this rough river.

The river sends the baby so fast to the father. The baby now had a chainsaw, which it used to kill the sharks attacking the father. He kept missing one shark though, which ended up eating the father.

Then a bigger creature ate both the shark and baby in one bite. The view zoomed out to be in my old house in my parents’ room. I was then playing this monkey game. It had creepy monkeys and a lot of lasers. (It was something like which one was holding the first laser). I eventually didn’t care and just shot at a few.

They came to life and attacked me; I managed to shoot them all down. I finished the rest of the monkeys off, won the game, and left the room. I ran into Carlin, who asked if I liked the monkey game. I replied that it was easy. I went back to their room to play a nice adventure game only to wake up.

8 December 2017 Nightmare

I was in F.L.R house, watching this horror movie. I was sitting between Carlin and Ivan. Ivan grabs me, lifts me into the air and makes it seem like he’s going to rip me in two. I screamed and got out of his hold. He apologized for it and we watched a new horror film. I start to fall asleep within my dream, but there’s this huge pain in my back.

I wake up from my dream nap to see a dog biting me. I scream trying to pull him off. My parents wake up and get the dog off. Ivan and Marque attacked the pit bull that attacked me. Carlin tells me it’s alright and takes me to my room.

(I woke up for real during the dream, but it continued as soon as I fell back asleep). The pain in my back appears again and I start screaming in pain. (Dream inside a dream inception). People wake me up; telling me it’s just a dream. This process repeats 2 more times. The 3rd time, I’m now in the living room and Marque was trying to bite me.

Ivan tries blocking him, but fails. Marque bites me a few times and I wake after the 4th or 5th bite.

10 December 2017 Nightmare

I was in Mt. House. I was having trouble sleeping in my bed. My body started shaking and fell to the floor. Everything was darkening itself, slowly turning black. I panicked and ran to my parents’ room and told them what happened. They said I could sleep with them. I slept at the edge of the bed and napped.

When I woke, I had 2 white spoons in my hand. Every time I put them together, they made noise. I panicked and held them as tight together as possible, hoping that they’d silence that way. I ended up waking my parents, and Ivan flips out screaming. I get sent to my room. As I entered my room, my dog came in and started barking.

My body starts shaking again. I went to run out of my room, but something grabbed my foot. I screamed and Carlin rushed over but something slammed my door shut and she couldn’t open it. I asked God for help and the dark entity released me. We all raced to our neighbours’ two doors down.

I was so scared I actually ran, while my parents drove. My hand was all cut up and Carlin told me to calm down. We explained to our neighbour what was going on and we asked if we could stay for 2 weeks and a half. They said we could. We had no clothes though and had to go back to get them.

I volunteered Ivan to get them on his own, Carlin said that wasn’t nice and that she’d go with him.

We all ended up going back to the house, but Carlin was the only one to actually go back into the house. As soon as she closed the door, the house was engulfed in flames. Ivan and I raced to get Carlin