Bare with me here as I wrote this all down as detailed as possible as soon as I woke up as not to forget it.

I was out camping with my best friend. It was night time. I could see another campsite close to us but there didn’t seem to be anyone there. A woman walked through our camp who seemed to be arriving. She smiled and kept on walking into the distance until she disappeared. She looked familiar but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I remember expecting her to come back because I felt like I already experienced this moment. I was waiting for her and wondering when would come back when me and my friend decided to start walking.

As we started walking away from our camp site I noticed the moon looked huge and full and said “look at the moon it’s crazy” as soon as I had said that I realized it wasn’t the moon because I saw the real moon which was also full but much smaller and then noticed a third moon that looked like the shape of this emoji 🌙 it was a dark orange. We both noticed what was going on and commented on how trippy it looked like there were literally three moons in the sky. Then we noticed a shooting star like flash happening between two of the moons. At first it was a straight line that looked just like a shooting star, then it happened again but curved back. This took us by a big surprise. Finally there was just a flash and the shape a fish appeared in the sky. For some reason we both understood what it meant. I felt like some resolution had come to a question I had by seeing that shape in the sky. Slowly I began to realize that the part of the sky I was looking at was not real because some sort of text or animation started to play. I looked down from the sky to the horizon and noticed I was walking into some sort of half dome.

The sky felt like Caesar’s palace in Las Vegas and the dome met with the real sky seamlessly. As I walked into the half dome the dirt and grass I was walking on seamlessly became a carpeted elevator lobby. In the lobby there was a big touch screen that had our names on it. I felt fear that my name had been on this screen as I hadn’t given it to anyone and didn’t understand what was happening. I had the looming feeling of familiarity again like I had been here before, only this time it was much more sinister of a feeling.

My friend touched his name on the screen and a 3D avatar of him appeared on the screen and asked him to confirm it was him. He was excited about this and confirmed on screen. I was then prompted and an avatar showed up for me which I did not accept. The screen then generated a new name and avatar and asked me to accept. I can’t remember the new name it gave me but it generated an avatar of a woman. The graphics of the 3d avatars looked outdated. I tried to go back but the screen gave me no option but to accept the new name and avatar.

Suddenly a woman appeared behind us (this was not the woman from before) as if she was waiting in line, and chose her name and avatar on the screen. After she finished the big touch screen printed out three keycards, one for each of us. It was our understanding now that we were in a hotel and we’d each been awarded with our own rooms. I had still felt fear that kept growing stronger. I told my friend that I felt something was wrong and to please not split up with me. I didn’t want to go into a room by myself. He laughed it off.

We all walked down a hallway until we arrived to a room where there was a high table with barstools for us to sit on. At each seat was a little computer screen coming out of the table. We were greeted by a woman who instructed us to take seats. We sat. Behind us were big window panes with shutter blinds on the other sides of them. I looked through and could see people working at their computer desks. At this point my fear was still growing as was the familiarity of being there. I had knocked on the windows to try and get the peoples attention and asked them to get us out of there. They just smiled at me and kept working.

I sat back down and the woman started asking us questions. She asked strange, vague questions about our preferences to different random things. It’s as if she were interviewing us in a way that somehow highlighted our deepest insecurities and fears because she then asked us to look at our screens. It played images flashing in quick sequence. My friend and the woman that came in with us seemed to be very pleased with what they were looking at in an almost brainwashed daze. As I kept looking at my screen I began to feel overwhelming terror. I had felt inside of me the realization that they had been watching my every move and knew all my worst fears. It seemed somehow they were able to evoke them through these flashing images on the screen. I felt paralyzed and terrified and wanted to get out of there. Next thing I know I’m suddenly laying in what I recognize to be a dark hotel room and I can’t move. I sense that someone is in the room and inching closer to me and I begin to freak out.

This is when I finally woke up but in some sort of sleep paralysis. My eyes were still closed but I knew that I was awake and in my room. I couldn’t move my body but could still vocalize. I still felt terrified. At first I started grunting in an attempt to call for help from my girlfriend. I then was able to start to actually speak and started calling her name. I wasn’t necessarily screaming at the top of my lungs but sort of talking as loud as I could. I got loud enough to wake her up and she’s a heavy sleeper. She finally awoke and realized I was saying help help help over and over. She put her hand on me and asked if I was okay. and as soon as she did it felt like my soul or spirit or something had shot back into my body at once. I was able to open my eyes and finally move my body again. It felt as if I had woken up again. It was the craziest feeling. I have never woken from a nightmare screaming before but for some reason this specific dream brought out terror in me. The strangest thing about it was the feeling that I had already lived through it the entire time and knowing that something bad was coming.

Anyway yeah that was weird as hell and I was scared to go back to sleep because as I had started nodding off again, all this scary imagery started flashing in my head.