I had a weird dream last night. I'm usually pretty good at picking it apart and figuring out what they mean, even while I'm still having the dream. But this one has me completely stumped.
I was on a school bus with a bunch of other adults. It was a typical yellow school bus, so I thought it was strange that there were no kids. All of the adults on there had some belongings with them and were dressed in multiple layers, as if they were fleeing from something. There was this *thing* leading the bus. It was sort of humanoid, but it wasn't human. It had yellow fur, about 2 inches long, and it was covered in that from head to toe. Except on its face. It was a little shorter fur there. It's face was supposed to be kind looking, as if it was a Sesame Street monster, but it wasn't kind. One look at it, and you could tell that it was not going to mess around.
It stood up at the front while all the adults were cowering in their seats. It started to tell us that we were about to leave, but he expected the rules to be followed. Then, he said a few rules. After he finished, he said, "So, if you break any of the rules, there will be consequences. Like this..." and at that point, an enormous black hand shot out of a dark space at the front of the bus. It's like the front of the bus disappeared and was replaced with this big, black emptiness. The arm was about a foot in diameter, and the hand even bigger, and it's like it was made of smoke, or something intangible. It was lightning fast, and it grabbed someone out of their seat and pulled them back into the darkness before the person even had a chance to scream. Just to get his point across, the yellow guy pointed at a few more people, and each time he did, the hand came out of the darkness, grabbed them, and pulled them back in.
As we started to leave, the yellow thing sat down next to someone in the seat behind me. I made sure not to turn around and look at it. As the bus left, everyone started singing a loud, raucous song. I was worried that the yellow thing would be pissed, so I made sure to turn around. I wanted to catch its attention so it knew that I was not one of the people singing, but it never looked at me. Instead, he turned his head from person to person, trying to figure out who started it. The bus stopped and he jumped up, demanding to know who started singing. His eyes focused on me, and said, "You did it." I shook my head and tried to convince him that I did not sing at all, let alone start it, but he seemed unconvinced. He finally was convinced enough, because he didn't send the hand out after me, but he did move me to a different seat.
I sat down and kept facing forward, not wanting to do anything that might upset him. And that's when my cell phone went off. It had fallen out of my purse when I was back in the last seat. He handed it to me and looked livid, as if that was somehow proof that I started the singing. I didn't know what I could possibly do to convince him that singing has nothing to do with a phone ringing, but he motioned for me to answer it, so I did.
On the other line was a woman telling me about a contest I entered. Now, this happened in real life. I won a contest, but so far, nobody has contacted me about the prize. They called and told me that I was disqualified because the CEO didn't like my video. I told them that was unfortunate, but according to their rules, I won. If they wanted the CEO to pick, they should have written the rules that way, and that I was going to place a call the their state's attorney general, and provide them evidence that shows they are running a rigged contest. They told me I didn't have any proof, and I told them I did. (In fact, in real life, I've taken screenshots, just to prove it in case something like this did happen.) The whole time, the yellow guy was watching me. It's like he was trying to figure out whether I was better than the people on the bus because I wasn't backing down from confrontation, or whether I was going to be a trouble-maker, and it was better to send the hand to get me. In the end, I must have passed whatever test was going through his mind, because he allowed me to continue riding.
Now, I almost never have nightmares, and while I guess you could call this one, I didn't really feel afraid at any point. I mean, I wanted him to believe me, but if a 10' long smoke hand is going to snatch me out of my seat, what the hell can I do to stop it? And if I can't stop it, why get worked up about it? So, there wasn't really fear exactly. But I really don't know what this dream means. I'm not feeling especially persecuted by anything. I'm not feeling like I need to convince somebody of something important. I don't really feel like there's anyone in my life that's in control over me, to the point of seeing them as a monster. And I don't feel like I'm being grabbed by intangible forces that are bigger than I am. So I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. It felt like there's something I'm supposed to figure out, because it wasn't just a throwaway dream, but I have no clue what that could be.
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