In these dreams I’m shooting zombies, killing attackers and random strangers that break into my house. I always wake up disturbed. So I looked it up this morning and read something about REM sleep behavior disorder, which is when a dreamer acts out their violent dreams by kicking, punching, or even doing more elaborate things like actually handling a gun or jumping out of a window. Anyway a little off topic since none of you were actually “moving” in these dreams. But if you are, perhaps you should look this up. I did, and let me tell you, I’m a bit freaked out now. :/

The second dream happened this morning when I dreamed of being in the home and neighborhood I grew up in. I ran out of my house in order to catch my school bus (I’ve been out of high school for over 12 years now) and I had just missed the bus so I ran after it but it was driving too fast and that’s when I noticed a suspicious car that stopped by the side of the road. It seemed to have stopped when the people inside saw me running. Immediately I thought, “It’s a drive-by….. but I’m not a gang banger,” so of course I ran anyway. I ran rough my backyard toward my the house behind our house. I noticed that the car sped off to chase me around the corner. I ran into my backyard neighbors who looked like high school kids and just so happen to be standing around and that’s when the car fired gun shots in our direction so we all scattered and ran and I hid being a house. Seconds later the car disappered into the neighborhood. Although I was shaken up by the incident I continued trying to find and catch up with the school bus to where I thought was a bus stop. I ran into an old high school girlfriend and few other kids who were (I think) were waiting for the bus. There was this buiding and I had the impression it was used for people to wait on the bus… I was a very wierd setting so it difficult to explain but anyway….. I mingled for a while and after we realized the bus wasn’t coming we started to leave the building. When we got outside there seemed to be cars of parents (maybe) picking every one up to take us to school so I went to jump in the closest car to me and that’s when I saw the car that was shooting at me earlier pull up and seem to stare right at me. I pretended to not pay attention to them and continued to get into the car. As soon as I sat down in the back seat on the passenger side someone got out of the suspect car and was suddenly waving a gun through the opposite window. There were 2 other kids and an adult driver in the car I was in and a girl sitting next to me in the back seat. The suspect, who didn’t say a word and looked like an extreme parody of a thug in the movie Menace II Society with his dark locs and wet jheri curl, was waving a gun and shot the girl next to me. In my mind I was screaming “DRIVE BITCH DRIVE!!” but it didn’t happen so I began talking to the suspect and letting him know that I am not a gang banger and I don’t know why he was after me. Talking to him didn’t seem to be working and that’s when I feel that I woke myself up so I would not get shot.

You are not alone Amanda.