#can't let the only dream experience I share with you guys be the darkest one

[beneathtreemomo]

So I had the weirdest dream in a long time today? and it was so weird purely because of how dark it got near the end even if it didn’t feel that dark? other than that it was actually a pretty normal dream, which is actually probably ANOTHER reason it was so weird because normally my dreams are completely 3rd person fantasy story settings and characters I’d never seen before or just fictional characters and stuff. But yeah, this was a really interesting dream where the entire dream stuck with me hours after waking up so I thought I’d share! Please heed the content warnings, I keep the scene where they happen super vague but it still happens so I want you guys to be aware!

(Content warning: chara death, suicide) 

So in this dream, I was friends with Dan and Phil (but also not Dan and Phil? The personalities were pretty different and also they were back to their emo hairstyles) and for whatever reason they went on a trip somewhere with my dad, mom, and I and after this weird borderline romantic walk through an aquarium-like place with strange and wonderful creatures that both do and don't exist (there was a creature that looked like it could be something out of an indie horror game) we were in the airport heading for my home.

For whatever reason we were all like. Changing our clothes to prep for snow I guess? And dad had to spray my rain boots with non-stick spray (weirdest part of a dream I've ever had ngl) but after that he goes to get changed himself or something and then I shoo Dan and Phil off to get changed themselves but then when they come back they aren't in snowy weather clothing? They're just in jeans and long sleeves. And there's like a close friends moment between the three of us while there's subtle romance between Dan and Phil and I go back to our things to make sure we had everything when mom comes back out of the bathroom where she changed.

Dan and Phil are just casually talking with Dan's arm across Phil's shoulder when suddenly this random guy who looks around their age and as brown hair going to his shoulders (he looked a lot like the carnival guy from we're the millers and I hate myself for having to use that movie as a reference) comes up and just???? Gets in their faces??? And you can see the discomfort on Dan and Phil's faces. Even I'm uncomfortable and I’m not even close enough to hear whatever they might be saying. So I call my mom over because I'm also pretty scared of confrontation, but then this dude gets even /more/ in their faces if that's possible and has started to grab Phil's wrist and Dan's getting angry while I'm going "Okay, can't wait for mom" and I run over and try to pry this dude's hands off of my friends while snapping to let them go and mom finally gets here and she yanks me away to take my place.

But something happens that causes it to turn into a fight where the man shoves her away and into a wall, and he straight up punches Dan then for whatever reason basically kidnaps Phil and since I'm the only one left I just start chasing him, occasionally screaming "GIVE ME MY FRIEND BACK/HE'S TAKING MY FRIEND" and hoo boy does it get everyone's attention but no one actually does anything to slow him down apparently because it takes me forever to catch up with him. 

(also at this point I'm not me I've like shifted into a dude or a girl with extra poofy hair like 3 times and camera has gone from first person to third in twice as many)

When I finally reach him we're on the first level of this place I guess?? And this level is like this really pretty night time lush forest-y place with this big long spiraling staircase leading to a raised platform with like half the forest-y plants that I think in another dream had been set up for Santa and was a magic hot spot or something. BUT ANYWAY, CURRENT DREAM: Man is there and Phil is sort of phasing in and out of existence because my brain was like "unimportant extra info not needed" but man had been stopped by a coworker of his? And there were still a handful of NPCs around but they were super far off for the most part. 

BUT COWORKER STARTS TALKING TO HIM and is trying to get him to let Phil go as I come running up and have a chance to catch my breath but Man get even angrier and like. Pulls out this little bb gun thing or something? It’s super small and shoots these tiny miniscule silver balls that are probably smaller than a pencil’s eraser. But oh man it packs a punch. 

So this man basically has Phil in a headlock and he starts threatening me and coworker to leave him alone but we don’t so he tries to shoot me and somehow time slows down and I can dodge it! It almost hits an NPC dude but they’re fine no worries.

But Man still won't let Phil (who at this point doesn't even look like Phil just has similar features) go and I??? Proceed to do the stupidest, bravest thing I will never do and /charge/ at the man when he's looking at his coworker. Man startles and starts shooting and for a few moments my hands do all the blocking and it stings like you catch a fast ball at full speed or something even though they're doing way worse than just bouncing off my hands. Then, uh, stuff happens and ope look at that I'm dead/dying and then man shoots himself and coworker somehow got hit too and I don’t have a single clue what’s happened to Phil because he’s officially been phased out of the dream, BUT AFTER DREAM SHOWS COWORKER HAVING GOTTEN HIT IT FADES TO BLACK AND COMES BACK WITH THE AREA A CRIME SCENE WITH LUCIFER AND CHLOE FROM THE SHOW LUCIFER ON THE CASE AND THEY'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENED

Ella explains the wounds I have and the prints on the bb gun (which btw is basically a little extra mini water gun painted all black, my brain was nice enough not to make it scary in most ways possible like even the dying part was like “ow that stin-- wait” and then switched POV before much else could happen) and they don't see the spot where man shot himself because it’s too small, or maybe they do but he made it look like the same killing shot as what got my character. Either way they just know he's dead via head wound and Lucifer basically solves the case then and there with one of his "I don't particularly care about this lets move it along, I'm trying to prove a point it's now been proven" attitudes/quips but Chloe and Dan are like "Yeah, it probably was but we don't have enough evidence to support that, there might still be a killer out there" AND EVEN DREAM ME GROANED IN EXASPERATION AND ANNOYANCE BEFORE I WOKE UP and that was the weirdest dream I’ve had in a while.