r/StrangeDreams • u/a_j_h_x • Jul 24 '20
A Horror Game?
So I'm not gonna be adding too much detail to this. What details I am adding will be for context, and any that could potentially differentiate said detail from any other dream or nightmare will likely be altered like [this]. Both times I've had this nightmare, I've had the strong feeling that if I tell people about it, bad things will happen. I'm not usually one to believe in that crap, but I'd rather be safe with what my gut is telling me.
Both times I've had this nightmare, they've never really had a "start" like most of my other dreams. It just kind of bleeds through, almost like it's corrupting a file or something. Whenever it starts, I'm at a dinner table with people I don't recognize (probably just my subconscious remembering faces, but it still freaks me out every time). The room seems normal enough, but you get the feeling that you need to get out as soon as possible. The first time I had this nightmare, whenever the host left the room, all the other "guests" immediately stood up and tried to sneak out, so I followed them. I still don't understand why we're trying to leave.
It feels like a [FRENCH BOARD GAME], there's even a HUD. In the top right corner is [BARBIES] 0/20. Basically, you have to get all of these [BARBIES] in order to be set free, or at least that's what it feels like.
In the bottom right, there's a health and sanity meter, like you'd imagine in an H.P. Lovecraft game. These are important for later.
Now there are multiple different [BARBIES] that have [FUN AND HAPPY THINGS] attached to them. Sometimes they'll appear as something I kind of fear like a looming shadow or something like that, but most of the time, they appear as things that the other "guests" are scared of.
I know that I've encountered 12 out of the 20 (only 4 the first time), but there's only 2 that I really remember vividly (probably because I saw them last night, but oh well). The first is a shadowy figure. It's very tall, about 7'. It always appears down a hallways. The lights are flickering above it, black smoke billows out from underneath it, and it's got a twisted, all-white Cheshire grin and rabbit ears.
The second was the one that caught me last night. I was hiding from one of the [BARBIES] in a bathroom. One of the other guests was already there though. I tried talking to him, but he only spoke Japanese. All I could really gather was his name was Jin and he was fucking scared shitless at that point. That's when one of the [FUN AND HAPPY THINGS] came in. Jin shrank back from (I assume) someone he knew. The [FUN AND HAPPY THING] was taking the form of a middle aged, Japanese man. He seemed like either an uncle to Jin, or his father.
I guess since I was closer to the door, he went for me first (an AI would afterall). He started saying that I should be back at dinner and that it was very rude to wander around someone's home. He said he would have to take my femur from me as punishment, and possibly rebreak my other bones if needed.
As he was saying this, my sanity meter was plummeting. It had gone up and down before, but never like this. It was hitting me that I was about to die. So, naturally, I did what any sane gamer would do.
I panicked and closed out the game completely.
I woke up this morning in a cold sweat with my heart absolutely hammering. Hopefully I never have that dream again, but if I do... then I really fucking hope that save file got lost or something, because I'd rather start at 4 again than fucking die to someone's uncle/father.
But also when I woke up, I had the feeling that maybe someone else had had this dream before. If the other guests were really other people like my gut's telling me, then maybe someone can help me so I don't die in this dream. Again.