The weird dream about the spaghetti man

There's a dream theme going on here, team.

What is a recurring dream?

• a dream that occurs over and over again, night after night

• example: my boyfriend dreams about being in an exam that he never studied for and not knowing what to do during the exam

• side note: I don't get exam dreams like this and I owe it to a) still being in school and b) having already done that irl (more on that story in a later blog post?)

The context:

I've only ever had one recurring dream in my life, and it happened to me when I was about 4 or 5, just about to enter junior kindergarten. Before this, I was in preschool. I think what happened was that I was scared about this Big Change and smol me didn't know what taking the bus would be like. I'd only ever been on those big travel busses and I was pretty scared to be alone in one of those big things.

The dream:

• I'm sitting at the foot of the carpeted steps that led to my basement exit

• At this time, my basement led to our parking, which is where I assumed the bus would go to pick me up. Don't forget that I was 4

• I would be "waiting for the bus" and really scared, and my friend would comfort me and tell me that everything would be okay

• HERE'S THE SPOOKY PART.

• My friend: the 30ish-year-old man who had no skin and had a spiked, deformed head. In my dream, I saw that the man had no skin and I could see the exposed yellowish/brownish flesh underneath, with pools of blood oozing. It kind of looked like lasagna.

• In the dream, I was not scared of this man at all, I was mostly scared of taking the bus. The bus would be a double-decker version of the Coach busses you would take to go on vacation. And that was really spooky to me because I would be all alone and have to take it by myself.

• Only when I looked back on it later in my adolescence did I realize how spooky it was tbh. I later nicknamed him lasagna man.

Reflections:

• The spiky head and the yellow make me wonder if my child brain tried to form a real human version of Homer Simpson mixed with Lisa Simpson's spiky hair, which is why he didn't seem scary at all

• My mom let me watch The Simpsons for a brief while before she realized it was Definitely Not For Kids

Intrigued? Read about my other weird ass dreams

• My post-apocalyptic dreams

• My whole dream tag

Two Post-Apocalyptic Dreams

Dream 1: - it’s post apocalypse but like aliens have taken over and they’re nice - apparently I work at this intergalactic research centre and I’m on a ship to collect info - ship hits iceberg - im like OH NO,I cant swim - water pours in - someone looks at me funny and is like - you know the ship is self healing right - AND SURE ENOUGH THE SHIP SEALS RIGHT UP

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Dream 2: - recent dream - it’s post-apocalypse but it’s like not as apocalyptic as one would think - there’s some greenery growing back - there’s just a heck fewer humans, you see maybe one across 2 cities - everyone congregates in these rebuilt houses/ stores to stay together and share resources - I stay at one of these housing stations - I find my ikea glass tupperware there and I know it’s specifically MY glassware because irl I’ve been trying to remove the sticker and it DOESNT COME OFF so it’s rn just soaking and the sticker remnants are of a particular shape - idk how my glassware got there but i’m like - this is communal but also this WAS MINE before the apocalypse so I’m taking it with me

cool technology part of this dream - anyways I have my ikea glassware packed away - I call my uber to to the next city with a “housing station” -which apparently, i still have a phone, there’s still electricity and there’ still uber post apocalypse wowowoww - what there ISNT is currency. Like there are no dollars anymore. No one cares about money anymore - everyone barters - so uber adapted to that and created a barter system on their platform - when you enter in the city you want to go to (e.g., because there’s only one housing station per city bc so few people), it shows multiple options of drivers who are making the drive the next day (it’s almost like rideshare) - so when I entered in the next city I got the following exchange offers - one whole roast turkey - 3 boxes of tangerines - 11 black dots (which I think is the "new"currency that they’re trying to do but I look at it swipe immediately, distrustful) - the last thing I remember is being like, wow 3 boxes of tangerines is EXPENSIVE how you gonna find that post apocalypse

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