Closet-aphobia

(Pre-amble: I struggled with claustrophobia for many years. I'm still mildly claustrophobic. I think drowning would be one of the worst ways to die.)

In my dream a few days ago I was at some kind of nerd party. Some of us were playing table top RPGs, others were working on some kind of research, etc. One person was showing pictures of her research trip. At some point I realized I had to go to the restroom. So went and found one.

It was one of those dinky "half bath" kind with just a toilet and sink. This one was so small that the "sink" was just a spigot and there was a drain on the floor. The toilet had a roughly 10 inch diameter. I was having trouble sitting on it so I decided I would just pee and hold the rest, but the toilet was so small I missed and got pee on my boxers, doh!

I turned the faucet on to try and wash the spot, but when I turned the faucet off the water kept running. I quickly found out the drain didn't work! I turned towards the door to get out when the entire room shrunk, but the door grew taller and I had to reach up to get to the handle! Now my shoes were soaked. I grabbed the handle but it appeared to be broken and my fingers were slippery.

The water level kept raising and the claustrophobia kicked in and I started to panic.

Somehow I forced myself to wake up. Unfortunately, it was 3 AM and I did not get back to sleep. As of writing this I still feel a little groggy from lost sleep.

Laje
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In a daze

A few nights ago I dreamt that I was at work in a staff meeting when we heard that someone got shot. We debated whether the person shot himself or if he was shot by someone. After a couple minutes another person came in the room with a rifle and started shooting us! It turned out to only be a pellet gun. This person thought it would be 'funny' to shoot people because the other guy shot himself...
I vaguely remember there being more but it's gone now.


Last night I dreamt that I was trying to help find a woman and her baby that had been kidnapped. Somehow I knew where the kidnapper had gone. (I've previously had a dream about this particular villain doing a kidnapping and found him in a secret lair.) Not sure how I knew this information, but it strikes me it was because of the previous dream.

I traveled to this small rundown almost rural town just outside of the LA area and went straight to this business that was like some kind of "fun place". It had pinball machines, arcade games, a ball bounce room and a crawl around jungle gym. It was closed so I broke in and started searching.

It didn't take long to find the woman. I helped her get out of the building and I told her I would find her baby. I was shortly there after attacked by the villain's henchmen. They had guns and I had nothing so I punched one and ran around a corner. Soon I found myself jumping over pinball machines and through tunnels trying to get away from them and still find the baby. I heard the villain's voice tell me I'd never find the baby, but he was wrong. I found a stack of pillow by a slide and under them was the baby wrapped in a blanket. I grabbed him and ducked under a pinball machine just in time to not get shot. I looked at the door and saw the villain briefly before he ran out.

I was forced to wait because two of his guards stayed behind for a couple minutes firing their machine guns. By the time they left, the villain had already gotten away, but I returned the baby to the mom.

I looked around and noticed the sun was starting to get low on the horizon and you could see some of the LA smog in the hills. I pointed this out to someone and noted this is why I don't live in southern California. That someone turned out to be a kid I met in Oregon in real life when I was working with a church youth group. (In the was the age I knew him a few years ago; around 12.) I was happy to see him again and he told me to come with him back to his mom's place so we could catch up.

When we got there it was dark and I lost him. For some reason I decided to try the door but it was locked so I went to the back door and it wasn't. It was really dark in his house, but somehow I knew generally where things were so I wouldn't bump into them despite the fact that I had never been there before. I whispered his name to get his attention, but got no response.

Somehow now I was holding a katana, but I didn't have a sheath for it so I balanced it on my shoulder. I was trying to get to a bedroom door when I accidentally stumbled on something and it crashed to the floor. Suddenly a light came on and there was his mom where pajamas and a robe. She was annoyed at being woken up. I looked around and the kid was standing not far from me looking in the fridge, like nothing happened. The mom got annoyed at me until the kid told her who I was. She said something like "fine, but don't make anymore noise" and then went back to her bedroom.

I vaguely remember there was a little more but it's gone now.

many many

I had several dreams last night. I'll start with the last one.

I was with my brother and his fiance in some water thing, we were swimming up stream. When we finally got to the end we had to crawl thru a small duct back into a building where some meeting was going on. They were crawling behind me. Everything was fine until we got to the end. When we got there I saw a woman screwing in a grate to close off the hole out of the duct. There was not enough room to turn back. I yelled at the woman to please unscrew it so I could get out but she just ran away. At this point my claustrophobia kicked into overdrive and I started to panic. I pushed the grate but it didn't move. I checked another grate but it didn't move. I screamed again telling them I was claustrophobic and I'd end up breaking the grate. I didn't want to break the grate but I was really starting to panic. At this point I woke up, but I'm still shaking as I write this.

Another dream I had, my wife and I were driving around when we saw my father in law walking on the side of the street. He didn't see us as we drove by. We were apparently headed to an old house that she lived in for a little while as a child (this isn't true, she lived her entire childhood in the same house her parents are living now). We were exploring it when she came upon a for sale sign and found out her parents were selling it and had just lowered the price from 214,000 to 114,000! I told her we should just buy it ourselves. Then we noticed my father in law coming into the house and we hid. I have no idea why and only vaguely remember us waiting until he left and discussing more about buying the house from them.

The night before last, I had a dream that I decided to go get sandwiches for lunch and I went to the sandwich shop riding a mini bicycle which was only 2 feet tall and had 6 inch wheels. When I got close enough to the shop to see it, suddenly there was construction in the way with fresh poured concrete. I kept trying to get around it but construction guys would appear and so would more fresh concrete and they would tell me to go around. I was getting frustrated and ran into muddy grass that bogged down the bike. I got off of it and crawled thru the sludge like mud to another cement section which also turned to fresh cement when I go there. I was so frustrated that I crawled thru it, too.

Laje