nightmare...

Last night I had the scariest lucid dream. Scarier than my man-eating mermaid one (since at least I knew man-eating mermaids do not exist). It started out with me being a high school physics teacher. The entire community was in fear, because there was a serial killer on the loose. His M.O. was to rape his female victims, cut a lock of hair, and strangle them. The other female teacher and I would make sure to get to school at exactly the same time in the morning (why we didn't just carpool, I don't know) and walk into the building together. We had adjoining classrooms, so we would prepare for our classes in the same room until students came in. We would keep the adjoining door open in between classes and always be in view of each other. One day, she showed up late. The serial killer had raped her, but she managed to get away somehow. He managed to cut off a lock of her hair. Although she didn't see him, she was fairly certain it was another teacher at our school. He drove a red mini cooper. We drove over to the principal's office (which was in another building across the street...kind of like my workplace). As we got out of the car, we saw the red mini cooper pull into the parking lot. We walked as calmly as possible to the office and told the principal (who happened to be my high school AP biology teacher...Dr. Snapp). Luckily she believed us, so she called the cops. She managed to seem like she was talking to someone else (other than the police) when the serial killing teacher walked in... We pretended to be making photocopies of our lesson plans... He started walking towards us, and then at this point I stopped dreaming about this.

The weird part about this dream was that I was completely aware that I was dreaming, but I couldn't control anything that was happening. Instead, I felt constantly paralyzed with fear. The dream almost felt like a premonition of things to come... and it was a weird amalgam of things. The classrooms looked like Twin's classrooms at her school. We had two separate buildings like the company I work at right now. My high school biology teacher was the principal. The killer's M.O. probably came from watching too many episodes of criminal minds. And I was keenly aware of the red mini cooper during the entire dream. There was a point where I even suspected that teacher (prior to my friend finding out...). It was hands down one of the scariest dreams I have ever had. The other weird thing is I felt like it transitioned into a different dream, which I can't remember at all. This was NOT the dream I was having when I woke up.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure what prompted the scary dream was the horror movie previews before Julie & Julia. Yes, even the previews for horror movies freak me out, which is why I can never watch them. No more scary stuff for a long long time....