Dreaming

[cyan_blue]

I had an odd dream last night... I was living in an apartment, and one night there was a shadow outside the hallway door... someone was standing there, just watching through the door's crack. I yelled at them to go away and stop stalking me, but instead they pressed against the door and came in... the lock did not hold.

And somehow I knew that if I showed fear I'd be harmed, but if I showed bravado and joked with them in response to their bullying, I wouldn't be. I was scared, but I kept it up, even as more and more of their friends (7 or 8) arrived through front door and back door - the back lock wasn't holding either. I had to pretend that I was their friend and welcoming them in and that their entering against my will wasn't anything that bothered me that much. This went on for some days.

Finally I started joking with them that I was going to call the cops, and it became a game - I'd threaten it, they'd joke back, and we'd all laugh. Except I really did it. I told them, "I'm going to call the cops now," and they laughed and said Fine, do it. Well, I thought, I warned them. And I went into a room with a closed door and tried to call in secret so they wouldn't hear me... but the cel phone had no reception!

I ran up the street and called 911, and the operator kept wanting to get all sorts of bureaucratic details, and I kept saying No, no, just send someone to my location, I'm in danger! She transferred me to someone higher up, who asked me my location, and somehow the intersection had 5 street names so it took a while to explain. But finally they came, and arrested everyone who was invading my apartment, and I was alone in silence in my apartment. Changed the lock to a stronger one, which would hold this time, but even so I knew that it was just 1.5 days til they'd get released on bail, and I had to figure out what to do from there.

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[zanzara.livejournal.com]

ummmm...I think you had my nightmare for me. Thanks for taking it off my chest ;)