Insomnium [2024]

Dream 8 - The Witches' Escape

July 19, 2022

I dreamt I was transferred to a mysterious school hidden deep within the woods. My dream began with me sitting on a wooden chair, covering my mouth with a handkerchief, unsure of what was happening around me. Suddenly, an old friend from 11th grade, Jackie Rhem Guyos, approached and told me I should change my crush. In my dream, I had a crush on a boy similar to someone from my hip-hop performance group, but Jackie suggested I should instead have a crush on Mandy Boy, an old elementary friend and classmate.

Then, the scene changed, and I found myself in a different setting. I saw three women—they were witches, but very kind ones. The first was a Black woman, around 40 years old, who seemed to be their leader. There was also a woman with classic Chinese features, and a third woman whose appearance was blurry in my dream. The three of them were visiting an old woman living in a cottage in the woods. They spoke in a language I couldn't understand and then said their goodbyes. Ready to leave, they jumped high into the air, gracefully landing in the woods as they flew. They paused at a beautiful lake and dove in, and suddenly, everything in the lake turned two-dimensional, including the fish and lake animals. The entire scene shifted into thin, rotating lines, and the three witches transformed into snakes. The Black woman became a white-and-yellow snake, while I couldn't recall the colors of the other two.

They landed on a large tree, and the white-yellow snake noticed a nearby white snake and ate it. Then, a group of beastly creatures arrived to check the lake, joined by children with black, glazed eyes, holding huge bamboo poles across their shoulders. Their eyes were filled with evil. The woman with Chinese features urgently told the white-yellow snake to spit out the other snake to avoid leaving any trace, so she did, but slowly. The other snake fell into the pool, drawing the attention of the beastly creatures. The snake that fell transformed back into her human form, wearing a sky-blue dress that floated along the waves, standing completely still.

The beastly creatures ordered the demon-eyed children to chase the witches. The Black woman and the girl with Chinese features transformed back to human form and tried to run, while the girl in the pool remained frozen. The children dropped their bamboo and chased after them. One demon child attacked the Black woman, but she used magic to subdue him, and they managed to escape from the temple. Outside, the beastly creatures confronted them. Whispering to her companion, the Black woman said they should fly away, planning to return later to rescue the girl left in the pool. They leaped into the air, shouting, and escaped, finally landing in a nearby town.

The dream then shifted to a new character, a beautiful girl who was a highly skilled online gamer, especially talented in playing Mobile Legends: Bang Bang with her main hero, Vexana. The scene returned briefly to the girl in the pool, her eyes frozen, with bubbles rising from her mouth.