So I woke up this morning at 6am and prompty said “screw that” and fell back asleep; then woke up at 7:30; then woke up at 9:30 and said “yeah that’s about right.” I was having two dreams throughout, though, one evil and one awesome. The awesome one I’m actually going to use as inspiration for a storyline for some comics so I won’t put them here. But the evil one!

This dream was a bit of a recurring one, I’ve had it before almost identical, maybe 4 or 5 times in the last 10 years. Me and a few others (barely any interaction don’t remember who) go to ‘investigate’ a haunted house. It’s a fairly modern house, definitely not rustic victorian, but it has a gloomy basement with dirt floor (and really high ceiling down there so going up the rickety stairs takes forever), modern locks, no creaky floors, etc…

Now when you show up at the house there’s a note on the front door, a nice form that says “these people will die:” and a bunch of blanks. And a policeman shows up to aid in the investigation about halfway through the dream and as a joke he writes his first name down. Then he gets a little nervous and crosses it out with a scribble. About 5 minutes later he dies; but first we see him in the mirror and his face is all covered in creepy white makeup kinda a cross between KISS and death, and just before he dies me and another person see him without the mirror in same makeup.

I seem to have this ability, I can see people’s shadows get slashed up and get all Misty, then a few seconds later the person gets slashed up the same way (the mist being blood spraying out about them) by an unseen force.

There’s a pressure of time in there somewhere, I don’t remember why, but we have to figure out how to stop the house from killing before XYZ time otherwise we’ll all die.

Through the course of the dream my teammates start dying too, I find them hung in the closets or slashed up (I usually see their shadow through a doorway into another room getting slashed up, and I run in to see them looking at me going “what you looking so panicked about? ABALALALLLAHGUGUGHGhhhhhhhhhh”

There’s rooms I’d walk into and hear weird moaning and see flickers of ghosts but usually I just panick and run away, and when I go back with backup it’s gone.

The kinda trippy part is going down to the basement though. Imagine giant, cavernous basment (1/2 km per side?); has some gloomy lights so you can make everything out faintly. Only structure are the walls (So far in the distance can’t really see) and one flight of stairs, rickety wooden style, about 6 stories tall, right in the middle with light streaming down from the house above through the particles suspended in the air. Long steady shot; me walking down the steps slowly, it’s really creepy if not amazing cinematography. Go brain!

The corner of the basement is a ‘dig’ of some kind, evidence or archeological, lots of fancy floodlights pointed at the ground. This is where it gets kinda trippy. As I walk into the area, I’m suddenly hit with a historical flashback, where I see what happened here long long ago. Turns out were on some alien planet that has been long colonized (?? I’m sure the dream starts off in 1995 earth), and this spot was one of the first human landing sites. I watch as three astronauts all suited up are dicking with some instruments when the charismatic guy (looks like stereotypical captain but I’m not sure) ends up cutting the air hoses to the other dude and girl’s helmet. I think girl was his and other dude was stealing her away? Anyway he was right pissed. But the girl was something special or something and cursed him pretty hardcore.

Anyway then I snap out of flashback thing and I notice a little key on a chain in the dirt where chicky died, so I grab that and rush back up the stairs because now for some reason I “know how to solve this” but I have no idea why. I hold the key up to the ceiling in the house halways and I start seeing some glass bubbles show up (cloaked or something?(??)) containing cameras behind darkened glass. I start smashing them, then a computerized SAL-voice chirps in threatening me (in spacesuit womans voice! ghost in the machine!) and the house starts shaking a bit.

Now that whole robotic-ai-gone-mad thing is a new angle but I’ve been playing SpaceShip13 recently so it’s a new addition to this recurring dream.

Normally I end up at the giant oak doors to the big fancy study, which is solidly locked. The door won’t open for me but I slide in the key and then I wake up. HOWEVER, this time is different!

This time I slide in the key and the lock clicks, I pull open the door… And I swear I think my brain dreamed up this whole reality to end at that point, and I divided by zero or something when I opened that door. Because as soon as I opened it, it turned out it wasn’t the study at all, but the front door! and just down the three cement steps was the drab green jeep from the Indiana Jones 4 trailor I saw not too long ago, complete with ring of soliders holding guns pointed right at me. They ask me to get into the car rather politely.

I hop in and the guy with the glasses that melts in Lost Ark is in there, and he is asking me all sorts of questions. The jeep ends up in a barn at the other side of town, and I’m sure he’s going to kill me and toss me out, but thank god I wake up.

Any dream that ends with me being Harrison Ford is a dream to behold. Maybe it will happen someday?