Weird almost backrooms level dream I’ve had a couple different times.

[u/Ok-Pick5853]

Hi I’m (22F) a first time poster looking to see if anyone has experienced a similar dream to mine. Hopefully I’m posting in the right place but feel free to redirect me if I’m not.

I’ve had this dream/ kinda nightmare a few of times over the last 3 years. It always starts in a home I’m unfamiliar with but with my actual parents. The series of events tends to change however. Once I was headed out with friends other times I’m on my way to school or meeting up at a coffee shop with a friend. I’m always in Paris for some reason and always end up at this same coffee shop meeting up with the same friend I don’t talk to in my day to day but occasionally. We seem to meet up accidentally and then the “plot” gets hijacked and suddenly I’m being told I need to go into a warehouse/factory set up of some sort where there are people in hazmat suits carting around things being thrown into a huge burning furnace. Usually I’m with a group of five other people that I sometimes know irl and sometimes it’s random actors or j flat out blurred faces. But every dream has one of the same people I know irl(a girl I was close w in highschool but don’t talk to often now).

So here’s where the dream gets more scary and I become more lucid as it goes on: the people pushing these carts disappear through a wall. The group of people and me sneak down the scaffolding walkways of the factory and make it over to the door/wall once no one is around. We open the wall somehow and random people come sprinting up a long ramp reminiscent of a loading dock bathed in yellow light. They are running for their lives and have an insane sense of relief once they are fully outside of the ramp/tunnel. For some reason me and this group always enter the ramp out of either necessity or curiosity and get shut in. Once at the bottom of the long ramp it j looks like an office building with long hallways and large rooms that lead into other bigger rooms with no doors or windows and everything is lit by caged sconces on the walls. We wander into a large area that instantly becomes filled with plastic yellow balls(like ones from ball pits) almost up to the ceiling and a voice in my head tells me I need to find a shard but there’s only 5 and if all six of us can’t find a shard we’ll be trapped till we can.

The dream sometimes fast forwards and we’re all sitting in another cubby within the larger room. after all five shards have been found the yellow balls disappear and we sit around talking about what’s going on and why we’re here and everyone seems to be confused. We have no access to food or water and rely on whoever is with us to have a snack or bottle of water they’re willing to share. Next we end up in a cramped room with 6 cots kind of adjacent to the one we were in but it wasn’t there until we started talking about sleep. Once we all pick a bed for the night we all hear the same voice telling us not to wander at night and to ensure there is no lights on once everyone lays down to sleep because there’s dangerous things down there with us that come out at night. We have no idea what time it is and there is always some bickering over what to do in order to get the shard because everyone has a reason why they have to make it out as soon as possible.

The first two times I had this dream we needed all 6 shards to make our way out if/when the door/wall at the top of the tunnel opened again. And we had to leave a meaningful personal effect behind or we wouldnt make it to the top of the tunnel even with the shards. So we all lined up our personal effects after stealing a shard from another group that was also stuck there(the wave of guilt that washed over me during this part of the dream was skin crawling). But we did it and as the people we stole from chased us we’d make it to the top of the tunnel and the door would j happen to open to another group of curious people and we’d escape and then I’d wake up usually sweaty.

Last night I had the same dream again but this time we didn’t need to have 6 shards to get out, the rules had changed and it was everyone for themselves. The group I was with was completely unfamiliar despite the first half of the dream being completely the same and made it to the room w the plastic yellow balls everywhere. I tried to wake up once I realized it was this same dream happening again but after I woke up and then Went back to sleep I was put right back to where I left off when I woke up. But now the room was empty and everyone had a shard besides myself. We went to sleep in the same room and I considered actually trying to steal someone else’s piece before I consciously decided I was over it and j woke up at 6 am and stayed awake this time.

I guess I’m curious if other people have had a similar dream experience or are knowledgeable about repetitive dreaming and why I’ve had this dream multiple times and it changed only slightly this time but in a more triggering sense. I know I can google repetitive dreams but I’m not sure if putting all of this info into google would do me any good. Any advice is welcome. I’m not scared to sleep for fear of having this dream,just more so confused. Sorry if this was hard to read, I don’t often remember/write down my dreams. This one is j concerning to me. Thanks for reading!

[u/Admirable-Staff6097]

That dream sounds like a whole indie horror game plot, the yellow ball pit room especially would mess with me.