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forest/water dream

Had a dream that me and a few others were exploring in a large forest trying to find rare materials to sell (it was kind of like a video game). We were walking around this steep hillside covered in trees and blue flowers, but at one point I looked west and all of the flowers from a certain point onwards were water bottles instead. The rocks were all much greener, and there was a riverbank visible. I asked one of the other group members about it, and a ominous cloak billowing dark smoke said it was an especially dangerous area and we should be careful.

One of our group decided we should check it out because he'd heard about some sort of item, and despite our protests he ran on in there. We all had to go in after him and suddenly the terrain was insanely difficult to walk on, we all started tripping over rocks and plants. I asked how big this area actually was and nobody could remember so we pulled up the map, and it was HUGE. the second largest segment of the forest. We were all freaking out cos we weren't sure how much we could actually clear. There were enemies or monsters moving around not far from us both on the way forwards and behind where we'd come from. We had to be really careful.

Eventually we lost our footing, fell off the bank and landed in a river. Monsters tried to climb in after us and we scrambled to reach the banks. We got to a gateway point somehow and made it back to town. At that point there was a sudden pivot to another storyline.

It was a row of houses on a street in a poor part of a town. I had come to visit this guy with a friend I didn't recognise, and apparently we usually came round for something specific, but this time we were here to ask about the guy next door — a kind of scary guy who would come home and force his pet turkey to train for fighting. Which is a sentence I just wrote

The dude we knew said he had been working on a method of discreetly recording what the guy does using cups of water. He called it "liquid recording" and explained how it worked but it was completely nonsensical. We understood it anyway and we got ready to go out and try to record stuff.

We were going to position the cups of water around the bad guy's back garden secretively so he wouldn't know he was being recorded, but right as we placed the last cup he came home and we had to run back and try to climb back over the garden fence. He nearly caught up with us but we got inside and locked the back door. The main issue was that the front door had a broken lock, and I had to try and hold the door shut while we put cups of water around the house in case he got in. Which he did, and he had a gun.

He shot me twice, and the others a few times, though I couldn't catch the exact number. Really really not pleasant, though I was feeling pain in the wrong places? Anyway I was on the floor and watching as he wandered around looking at all the stuff on the table. He picked up the last cup of water left on the table, confused, and was like "why is the table all wet? And what's all this equipment for?"

The only guy who would be able to explain was passed out from blood loss, and he didn't actually care about an answer anyway.

There was a bit of a time skip and we were all still alive, the bad guy had done some medical stuff idk what but the only one who was still bleeding was the dude who owned the house. I remember looking at myself and thinking "this is not how gun wounds work?" which is the moment I realised I was dreaming. I looked over at the other two and they were discussing how they would try and call for help, and I decided I would try to help them by distracting the bad guy. When I thought that, suddenly the bad guy told me to come over and do something.

He wanted me to draw something with him? I honestly don't know why he asked for this but I sat down and tried to draw the thing he wanted while he made his own version. When he was especially focused I would look over at the others while they got ahold of a phone. There was a cup of water on the windowsill.

That was when I woke up, but there was more detail to what happened that I can't remember. Both storylines were in the same world, I knew because I looked out the window to the back garden and saw the forest we had been in in the distance. It was so weird and confusing. I woke up feeling absolutely awful.

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miku goku dream

Goku had adopted me as his daughter and we were looking up small 2-person houses to live in on a TV screen on the floor of a university building. Miku was a government official (along with a load of other synths) and she had artificially hiked up the price of housing to be impossibly expensive, so goku went and assassinated her. She shot a laser at him before he did and loads of news outlets reported that he'd died but he hadn't, and I went to visit him in hospital. Some of the other members of the synth government had also come to see him and we all laughed and made jokes about the successful assassination, then I woke up. This was probably influenced by me watching fake kasane pearto movie trailers.

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that last post was a train wreck my head feels so weird after that nap what is even goig on anymore

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I just realised I forgot to explain.

My brain said it was Despicable me but it wasn't. I kept on going "this is the guy from Despicable me" I know anton ego is not from Despicable me he is from Ratatouille. But in the dream he was from Despicable me. Sorry I should have cleared thta up but my brain is still not fully functioning

anton ego Olympics dream

I had a nap and I had a dream about anton ego from Despicable me except it was a weird backstory for how he came to be a food reviewer. He used to be an olympic athlete runner and was really successful but an injury to his knee forved hm so stop.

He had a wife, a young daughter and an older kid. His wife loved him sooo much and was really supportive of his athletic career, apparently it's how she met him. He would travel to different countries to run races, and he met her in I thinkkkkkkkk somewhere in Latin America? Anyway his family would travel with him to support him and they'd just travelled to this place I couldn't really recognise.

There'd been turbulence during is family's flight and his daughter had a weird dream because of it. Her older sibling had helped her turn it into a little movie and they presuented it as a surprise for their mum the next morning. Their mum had been worrying about anton's next race so she was really happy to have a nice distraction from it.

My mum woke me up by ringing me to ask if I wanted fried chicken at that point but I know that the story was going to go on so that while anton was practicing for the race, some kind of crazy accident would totally fuck up his knee. And his wife was going to get a pjone call and try to run there to see if he was ok and she would have to leave the kids on their own at the hotel. But they would have been fine. Anyway yeah

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anton ego Olympics dream

I had a nap and I had a dream about anton ego from Despicable me except it was a weird backstory for how he came to be a food reviewer. He used to be an olympic athlete runner and was really successful but an injury to his knee forved hm so stop.

He had a wife, a young daughter and an older kid. His wife loved him sooo much and was really supportive of his athletic career, apparently it's how she met him. He would travel to different countries to run races, and he met her in I thinkkkkkkkk somewhere in Latin America? Anyway his family would travel with him to support him and they'd just travelled to this place I couldn't really recognise.

There'd been turbulence during is family's flight and his daughter had a weird dream because of it. Her older sibling had helped her turn it into a little movie and they presuented it as a surprise for their mum the next morning. Their mum had been worrying about anton's next race so she was really happy to have a nice distraction from it.

My mum woke me up by ringing me to ask if I wanted fried chicken at that point but I know that the story was going to go on so that while anton was practicing for the race, some kind of crazy accident would totally fuck up his knee. And his wife was going to get a pjone call and try to run there to see if he was ok and she would have to leave the kids on their own at the hotel. But they would have been fine. Anyway yeah

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dog dream (with song!)

Just had a dream about a dog that lived on a street and would help other smaller dogs that were dumped get food from the little brunch place next to the block of flats. It would bark and scratch on the doors, then run back a bit so that the people would see the smaller dog, and give it some food. he would keep doing that until someone decided to rescue the dog.

Whenever he met a new dog, I'd be able to see what happened to the new dog prior to them being dumped, but one dog in particular got a musical number sung by their previous owner. They came from an abusive household and were left behind when the owner got too frustrated with the dog not doing as it was told. I remember some of the lyrics to the chorus.

does feeling good hurt

does happiness hurt

does being of use to me hurt

does punishment hurt

does consequence hurt

if a useful thing to me you were

then maybe you won't have to hurt

it was pretty sad to watch tbh. Song slapped tho.

but then a little girl came outside and gave the dog some chips and gravy, then her uncle came outside and scooped it up.

The main character dog was a dark brown standard poodle. its fur was really long and knotty and I think the whole thing was that nobody wanted to take it home, so it decided to help the more palatable dogs find places to go instead. I never got to see past the abusive home dog so I don't know if it ever found a home.

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Kids book about a guy who could speak to ghost animals through his reflection and make special magical connections to them to gain their powers. the connections were only temporary and the ghost would disconnect if he strayed too far from the reflective surface.

The book was almost completely blue except for his mother and her belongings, which were bright pink. he was an inky brown.

His mother had a job out of town which she would travel to for a few weeks, then afterwards come back and stay home for another few. his dad stayed at home and raised him and his four older siblings, three brothers and a sister. they lived in a big house in a snowy forest and would fish in a nearby lake to make money in a village a small while away. at first all the children would come with their dad to fish and each would be in charge of a different job, but then one day the dad started taking only the two eldest, saying "fishing was for grown ups".

also around this time was when the second youngest brother went missing. only the guy and his next youngest brother questioned it, and they never got an answer, the others continuing on as normal — until mum came home and asked too. originally their dad only intended on telling their mother and not the children, but she came to their room secretly and broke the news, saying not to let their dad know that they knew.

their brother was dead. the two eldest siblings had gotten up early to try and go fishing on their own, and their younger brother insisted on tagging along. they got to the lake and got ready to cast out the line — they had a giant fishing rod designed for catching the huge fish in the lake tgat was fixed to the ground and powered by a crank.

the sister pulled the line taut and the older brother let the catch loose, flinging the line out to the centre of the lake. the younger readied the basin for when they caught something.

the line tugged and it took all the children's effort to pull it back in, and the fish they had caught was way bigger than expected. they could only fit it halfway inside the basin, so the sister ran back to the house to ask their dad for help. the two brothers were checking over the equipment but the fish suddenly began to thrash around, slightly breaking the basin and almost snapping the line. the younger brother grabbed hold of the fish's tail, despite the older telling him to stay back, and tried to wrestle it back down into the basin.

just as the sister came back with their father, the fish flung the younger brother into the air, and he flew a short distance before slamming into a tree and flopping unceremoniously into the long grass below. the brother was too stunned to move so the sister and their father ran over, finding the boy unconscious. neither of them knew what to do and they had to sit there holding him until he quickly grew cold and stopped breathing.

that day when they'd gone to the village, it wasn't just to sell the fish. it was to discreetly bury the children's brother in the cemetery. they didn't tell the younger boys because they didn't want to upset them, they didn't know how they would react and felt guilty about the boy's death.

the mother took the younger boys into the village and together they found where the boy was buried. they left him flowers.

the youngest brother, the main character, started sneaking off to the lake at night, to pretend he was talking to his brother. the basin was being repaired and the tree his brother had been killed by stood quietly but clearly in the treeline. one night he looked into the water, which had a thin layer of ice over it. as he stared, another figure walked up next to his reflection. he looked behind himself but nobody was there. when he looked back, he saw his brother.

he wasn't scared. somehow this felt natural. he was surprised, sure, but it wasn't unpleasant. he sat and talked to his brother. his brother spoke back, clear as day, and he remembered everything.

that's about as much as I remembered from the book, but I was reading it because a sequel was coming out in the form of a movie — the first

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Had a dream where all of civilisation was destroyed due to a worldwide blight on apples that spread to other crops while people were focusing on apple conservation, destroying vast amounts of agriculture. Riots spread among the cities and entire countries were reduced to wasteland. I was sitting in my old bedroom when suddenly there was loads of noise outside, and then a crash, and then people were inside. I don't think anyone else was in the house at the time so I just got into my bed and hid.

Two people came through the door and were talking about if they should kill me or not. One of them said they might as well cos they couldn't afford to feed another person, the other argued that I was young and fit and usable (I am not fit.)

A tall guy came into the room and looked at me. He had dark skin and black hair, and a dark blue shirt. He said they shouldn't kill me.

None of the other people had ever seen him before. He wasn't with their group and they didn't see him walk in the door. They just left him with me.

He was alright. Time passed and I realised I was immortal. One day the tall guy disappeared. My house was now part of a forest, all except my bed and some of my things. Sometimes people would come over to see if I had anything worth anything, but they were unsettled by me and would quickly leave. I don't think I was human.

I had a very old black and white cat that would roll around and climb on my stuff. He was really friendly and every time he left to go on a walk, I would say "thank you for coming back" when he returned. He never left. I just sat there and drew.

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had a dream that my little sister died in a car accident. We tried to go shopping but I kept seeing things I thought she would like and having to remind myself that I couldn't give any of them to her. there were two ladies behind the counter who asked why we were so sad and when we told them they didn't know how to respond. We bought some things and left.

Then suddenly I was having a different dream where my sister was alive, and we were reading a bunch of cartoon characters' names as if they were in Latin and giggling about it. When I woke up I just didn't know what to think. Why did my brain do that? My sister is alive.

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Weird dream

Me n my family went to a big shop with lots of toys and nick nacks in it. I got a little gachapon toy doggy thing and mum and dad put it in their bag whole discussing what they were getting.

Discovered a small food stand but when we got close it was suddenly outside and chucking it down with rain. We all ordered food and discovered the hygiene and customer service were a bit shit (I spotted dad putting a burrito together on th e muddy floor at one point) but the food was great.

Sudden change to me on the bus with boj. Riley shows up with someone who is meant to be their mum? And we all sit together at the back. Unsure of the amount of time that passes but Riley, their mum and my sister all get off together and a different lady gets on who I apparently know. Some weird guy comes on and starts ranting down the phone or something about a load of random shit and being misogynistic. He gets off the bus and everyone goes "well he was a bit horrible" but the girl next to me reacts a bit strangely.

Cut to us in her car driving down a path in a forest at night. She pulls into a layby and spies on this weird guy, who's talking again to someone else. Apparently they talked him into flirting with a high status girl in the neighbourhood. We're in the front facing away from him but we hear him approaching and then running away again, then saying to his friend "you didn't tell me you guys are into silvers! Do you really like to skirt up swords?" I have no idea what this means. The girl has no idea either and asks me to Google it, but while I'm doing that, the guy's argument gets bigger and he might have hit his friend? Then he turns around and starts calling after the girl in the car, apparently her name was Ladea?

He kept shouting for her to slow down so he can talk to her but she turned the car around and tried to take a shortcut back across to the road, but she drove right into a pond and the car started filling with water. The guy climbed into the pond and opened both the doors on the right, but only went to help her and completely ignored me. She told him off for ignoring me and he got a bit grumpy about it but he picked me up and carried me over to a stump to sit on, then went back for her. I wasn't scared, just really weirdly sad. I started crying. I could hear the two of them talking before I woke up. I wasn't crying in real life, and wasn't really sad when I woke up.

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Had a dream that the family camper van was alive and her name was Vanessa. I wanted to go see my dad while he was out doing something so I got in the car and drove about halfway, but my little sister was with me and said she needed the bathroom. We pulled up to the layby next to the cemetery and got out, since there were several mobile homes and caravans there and we were going to ask if they had a toilet.

Two guys showed up with the initial intent to rob our van, but when they looked inside they found a black and white photograph of a woman lying back on a sofa who moved her eyes to stare at them. This was apparently Vanessa and the two guys freaked out. They came outside and were like "did u know about this?? This is fucked up" and I was like "yeah that's Vanessa :/ she's alright if you know her well" but they were still scared.

We continued trying to find a bathroom and then came back, discovering that two other people had tried to rob the van while we were all away. We went inside to check and one if the guys said "oh no they're going to come back!!" and I was like "Why's that so bad?" and he said "do you know what she's going to do to them??" and we all looked at the photograph. She was frowning, but when she saw us looking at her, it changed to a wide grin, and the other guy said "she's hungry."

We all ran out of the van as fast as we could, and I wasn't looking at it at the time, but the two other guys who were going to rob us went back in again, and when I turned around there was blood splattered all over the doors and the inside. I realised that this whole time, she only really liked my dad. She'd just been tolerating everyone else. Then I woke up.

This one scared me. Thankfully directly after I had another dream where I was playing with a guinea pig and my late cat showed up and snuggled with me.

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dream

Had a dream that, after a shower, I realised had a huge bruise across the left side of my body, and some of my skin was transparent and I could see my organs. Me and my family were getting ready to go out for the evening, and by the time we were getting ready to leave the house, my skin had stretched and I could see my intestines poking out. It didn't hurt at all and I kept saying to my parents, "I think there's something wrong. I don't know how I did this." they were mildly concerned. It seemed they were conflicted about whether we should go wherever we were going or take me to hospital first. I woke up leaning on my left.

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American dream

Had a dream set in the late 1800s or early 1900s about an American man who married an English woman he met while she was on holiday, then moved to England to help her run the business that her ex husband had left her with when he ran away and disappeared. I don't remember a super coherent series of events but there were some parts that stood out.

The ex husband's friends all still lived close by and they really didn't like the American guy. One night he'd gone to a pub and a group of them had been there, and they attacked him. His friend pulled him away and got him home, but he was really bruised and he couldn't hide it from his wife, and she was really upset. He wore makeup for the rest of the dream to try to hide his black eye but it didn't really work.

He was standing in an alley having a fag and a different guy came up to him. He said something like,

"that makeup doesn't work man, it makes you look weird. I can still see your eye through it."

He sighed and flicked his cigarette away and asked what this guy wanted, but I don't remember a lot of their conversation. At the end the guy said

"this isn't going to work. you need to be prepared to take care of these guys. they're your responsibility now."

I remember another scene of him being in a park with his family playing a game with one of the young daughters, and then someone taking him aside and threatening him.

The last part I remember is him sitting in the kitchen with everyone about to have afternoon tea. The youngest daughter had helped with the baking and her and her mother went to go and get some of the things that weren't on the table yet. The American guy decided to try one of the rum fig tarts they'd made, but the little girl had put WAY too much rum in them and by halfway through the tea he was zoning out and falling asleep. The middle daughter was giggling at him saying he'd gone squiffy and the mother was like "oh no" so she took the two youngest daughters up to their room.

The eldest daughter was there with her boyfriend and she was asking if he was alright and patting his shoulder, but he'd drifted off and had this fucking insane dream about what would happen if he did what their father had done. He was jumping over giant pine trees and knocking them down, running through a forest, and his wife, the oldest daughter and her boyfriend were wildcats running through it after him.

His wife stopped chasing first because the two little daughters had been left behind, so she went back to take care of them. The daughter and boyfriend stopped chasing a short while after that and decided to try to put together a home while helping the mother at the same time. It was clear they were all really struggling and miserable. He was still running, but at one point he missed his jump and fell down to the forest floor. He looked up and saw a blurry figure in the forest, but the daughter pulled him back and that was when I woke up.

The American guy had greying light brown hair (probably stress) and wore a lot of blue. His wife wore purple and had curly brown hair, but sometimes it would randomly be blonde. The youngest daughters wore white and were golden blonde, but the eldest had wavy brown hair and wore pink.

The girls were the children of the previous husband, but it was clear they all just wanted to forget about him, and the youngest daughter didn't really understand what was happening. They all really liked the American guy and called him dad.

Their mother was still upset about her last husband leaving, but it had been a year or so by now and she was bitter. She really loved the American guy but sometimes would get angry with him over something the old one did. Her last husband had a problem with drinking and she hated when American guy went to the places he used to frequent, half because she didn't want him turning out like the last guy, and half because she knew he would be in danger there. She hugged him a lot but hugged her daughters more.

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I had two dreams last night.

The first was about a man that was lost floating in space. He had been out with a partner on a spacewalk but a ship malfunction caused the two of them to be separated from the rest of the crew, and they were free-floating for about two days.

His partner ran out of oxygen before he did. Fortunately they died in sleep. He passed out from lack of oxygen shortly after, but it was only half an hour before a ship found them while driving past.

It was a huge research vessel that was picking up information about how the presence of humanity changes space's activity, and they immediately slammed on the brakes to pick the two people up.

The guy woke up a day or so later and he was really upset about the other person not making it. He didn't have much faith in finding the other ship either, since the malfunction was related to their lightspeed movement. It was a very old ship, built before canned gravity was invented, so he wasn't used to the weight of the research ship's gravity at all. It took him a long time to get used to it and to get strong enough to walk again.

He made friends with some of the researchers on the ship, and learned a lot about how they worked. He decided that when he got back to Earth he would pursue the same kind of science they had been doing so he could rejoin them. His old work on the other ship had been survey work, which he didn't like the high risk of.

They got back to earth at the end of the term and he went for a walk with a new friend in a forest near where he lived. They found some cool ant hills and were watching the ants crawling around, but then his arm started moving by itself and acting strangely. It started to hurt him because it was yanking out of its socket and hitting him, so they went to a hospital to see what was wrong.

Nerve damage in the air? WRONG! alien parasite in the air.

Literally. Their theory was that some kind of parasitic animal was pulled in by his suit's filter and he ended up breathing it in, from where it made its way to his arm and set up shop. Unfortunately with no way to separate it from his arm and the damage to his shoulder and elbow joints already done, they agreed that amputation was the best option. The same researchers from the ship decided to start a whole new sector to study his arm and learn about the parasite so that they didn't have to pop any arms off again, and he was 100% joining them.

The second dream was about a group of adventurers in a video game who had entered a very dark and mysterious area. The big bad had just arrived and they were fighting it, but it was a scripted battle that they were forced to lose. Three party members ended up unconscious and the fourth got up to chase the bad guy, but he was too fast. When they turned back to look at the rest of the team, they were trapped in a sort of prison box? And there was a big mouse ordering some people to take them away.

Four ran over to them and asked what was going on, and the mouse said that they had been found guilty of treason against tge big bad guy and were going to Prison. four was like WTF!!!!!!!!!! / and ran over to their friends to make sure they were all still alive. They were, but they had very low hp and mp and basically could not do shit. The guys took them away down a corridor with invisible walls and threw them into one big collective cell that several other prisoners were also in.

A guy with purple hair and snakebites came over to help them out, and four asked him what the heck was going on and what kind of prison is see-through??? and purple told them that the walls aren't usually invisible, the big bad guy and the mouse just did this to torment Four specifically. Which sucks.

He said that the prison was designed so that time never passed inside, so all the prisoners remain the age they were when they went in. Purple had been in there for 120 years, having gotten a life sentence like everybody else. Four asked what it was for and he said Tresspassing™.

It was at the point where there was a tiny little community inside the prison, of people who could never return to their loved ones and only had eachother. It was kind of sad. Anyway they did a load of stuff I can't really remember, purple managed to slip out of the cell and raid the store cupboard for some stuff to help the rest of the team, got them all back on their feet and then they made a plan to overthrow the mouse guy.

I don't remember much about how the plan went, but purple and three (a girl in the team who did magic) fell in love while they were trapped in the prison. They were there for like a month so it wasn't like rediculously fast or anything. Eventually they broke out of the prison and successfully found a loophole which immediately pardoned their sentences. Except for purple.

Purple actually did trespass on the big bad guy's land. He had admitted to it and been caught doing it. He was never getting out of his sentence. And what would be there for him if he did? It had been 120 years. Everyone he knew and loved was long dead. The world was a different place now and he was tired. He was so tired.

Before the team left, he walked over to give three a kiss goodbye. Suddenly he pulled out her shortsword and everyone was like WUH but he didn't hurt her.

Heeeeeeeee killed himself. Said he was sorry. The others tried to help him but it just wasn't going to happen. Three understood that though they loved eachother he had long since passed his time, and when you're only living for the sake of one person you have nothing once they're gone — and she was an adventurer. There was no telling if she would survive the journey, and purple couldn't come with them. She was still really sad about it.

The mouse was freaking out for some reason. Apparently if any prisoners ever came to harm or died in the prison, the prison board would come over and inspect the place to make sure it was safe, and they were doing a SHITLOAD of illegal stuff here. Purple said this was the main reason why he decided to go through with sucide. To get everyone out of the prison so they didn't have to be stuck there anymore.

Purple died in three's arms and she decided to use magic to fuse his resolve with her sword to make it stronger (idk what this means) and they left a note with one of the prisoners that details EVERYTHING that was bad about their stay in case the mouse tried any bullshit. They moved on and then I woke up.

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guys im crying

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Bear dream

Had a dream about a small rainbow teddy bear who lived in a forest in a community of other animals. There were some humans in the village but it was mostly animals.

He struggled a lot with impostor syndrome and didn't really believe he deserved the loving family he had. This was also partly due to survivor's guilt, because he used to live in another community with his birth parents, which actually was destroyed by an evil cheetah and a large pack of hyenas, and burned to the ground. He and about four others were the only ones to escape the siege, and he believed that he was unworthy of becoming the leader of this new community because he couldn't prevent the loss of everyone else.

One day he was trying to solve an argument between two other animals, a fox and an okapi, over something being broken. He couldn't seem to get them to stop, and he thought about how his dad would have resolved this so much faster, and his mum would have fixed the broken item immediately. He looked over at his shelf, which had various magical multicoloured figures that represented the people in his community. When he got upset he would organise them and clean any dust off.

These figures were created when he became friends with other animals. Each one was connected to his memory and he kept them very safe.

Some of the figures were damaged slightly because they came from the old community. Their colours were faded and scuffed and no matter how hard he tried he couldn't make them look how they did when his friends were alive. This mixed with the frustration about the fight resulted in him grabbing all the figures and climbing a mountain where a campfire was. There were a few humans and animals sitting up there, three in particular who were his adoptive family.

One was an old lady who had lots of colourful beads and badges on her long hair and clothes. She saw the bear looking upset and asked what was wrong.

The bear said that he didn't deserve his figurines — his new friendships — and that both him and everyone else would be better off without them.

A mouse came over and insisted that that wasn't true, and his new community loved him and wanted him to be happy, but the bear just shook his head.

One of the other humans in his family reminded him that things might happen to him if any of the figures were damaged, and he might get hurt, but he wasn't listening.

They all watched as he walked over to the bonfire on the cliff and chucked all his figures into it.

There was a magical painting on the side of a cliff a little way away that had images of every animal in the community. The old lady moved the image over to the bear, and saw slowly each of his colours disappeared, and he drew further away from the rest of the animals. Then suddenly part of the painting started to disappear and she turned in horror to stop the bear from burning himself in the fire. She patted out the flames and said to him,

"burn the figures, burn anything, just not our little boy, not our little boy!"

There was a flashback scene. A small creature that looked like a fox of some sort was scrambling through the forest towards the community, desperately trying to tell them that the cheetah was going to attack them. The cheetah caught up to him and knocked him over, dislocating his leg and slashing it open. The cheetah left him thinking he would die soon enough, but he got back up and continued crawling towards the village. He tumbled down the hilly slope and staggered towards an ibex, begging it to listen to him, but it was so much taller than him that it couldn't even hear him. He dragged himself towards a shorter animal, I think it was a badger? And told them, but he couldn't get all his words out properly because the pain was too much.

The badger ran to find the bears and tell them vaguely what he could make of the warning, and some other animals and humans attempted to help the fox with his leg. The bears were like OMG and tried to find a safe place the community could move to, but they'd only just announced the route when the cheetah barrelled through the walls of their main hall and attacked everyone. A few people made a scramble across the panicked crowd and made it out of the village, which were the ibex, the badger and a red eagle, but nobody else could make it out before the hyenas surrounded them on all sides and went for them.

Soon a hyena knocked over a lamp and started a fire, and the whole place went up in flames, killing both the community and many of the hyenas. There was a small underground cave that the fox had been brought to that the hyenas hadn't found before the fire broke out, and the ibex ran back in during the mess to carry him out of there.

The fire was out by the morning thanks to some humans from a nearby growing community throwing water on it and smothering it, and they went in to find anyone who might have made it. There were dead animals everywhere. It was horrible.

they found a small basement under the bears' house and hiding in a cupboard was the little bear. The basement had been airtight so the fire couldn't spread down there, and he had to wait and listen for the screaming to stop before climbing out.

There was one other animal that survived the fire, a painted dog, who was pulled out from under a destroyed house. Other than that, nobody. No one was left.

Then it cut back to the present. The little bear looked like normal, but he didn't recognise anyone in his community. They were saying hi and asking how he'd been but he just didn't know who they were. He only recognised the few animals from his old home, and only just. He knew their names and faces, but not much else.

I woke up right as he was about to talk to the fox, who was missing the leg that had been hurt before.

This one was confusing. I feel like I should remember more of it than I do.

All the animals were really colourful and bright. The forest they lived in was mountainous and full of tall, thin, white cliffs, and swamped with thick leafy trees and flora. The old community was in a clearing, while the new one was on two separate levels, a plateau slightly above the trees and a larger artificial clearing. It was always dark and warm and bustling, but strangely a lot of the animals I saw weren't native to this kind of environment.

I know that eventually the teddy bear would regain all the figures as he learned how to love himself and others again. The older ones came back too, but not like new. They stayed damaged.

[dreamsausage]