Undisclosed - Zach Bo1inger
Dream: Boarding School
I am 16 years old. I have just been sent to a boarding school. The longer I am there, the harder it gets to think straight. I am riding in a car with people I know I should recognize, but I can't think of who they are. We pass a billboard. I look up at the billboard which pictures four women in bikinis. I notice one of the girls in the picture is the girl sitting in the passenger seat. We drive another 5-10 minutes, and we come to a house that has the same billboard standing in their front yard. They have a winding driveway that passes behind the billboard.
There's a party there. There are several kegs there, tons of people. All the guys look like they came straight off the set of 90210. I decide not to drink tonight.
As the party goes on, I seem to get hit by lapses in time. I'll be laughing by the pool one minute, blink, and find myself sitting on the bumper of some car. I'm not unconscious during these lapses, because nobody else notices that I was "gone" for this time. There were probably several of these lapses, but the last lapse must have spanned several days, because when I regain awareness, I am walking down the hallway of the school. I'm trying to figure out which day it is so that I know which class I should go to. I decide to walk around to the different classrooms and see if anything looks familiar. I look into every classroom on the first floor and see nothing familiar. I decide to go look around the second floor, even though I am pretty sure I have no classes up there.
I walk up the stairs, and realize that not only do I have no classes up there, but I have never been there. Downstairs was a typical, sterile, concrete and tile school. Upstairs was a lot of stained wood. It looked like I was the first person to go up there for about 10-15 years. It was dark and dusty. I looked into some of the classrooms, there were cobwebs everywhere. One of the rooms looked like an old locker room. There was a bathtub in the middle of the room. In my unclear state of mind, I forget that I am supposed to be in class. I decide that I need to take a bath and get some of the second floor dust off my body.
The one thing that looks less that 25 years old is the bottle of bubble bath next to the tub. I clean the tub with this bubble bath. It cleans up easily. I fill the tub, and climb in. For the first time since the dream began, I feel relaxed. I hear the door open, and tense up again. Four old teachers walk in, and they're pissed.
One woman leads the pack, and she is scowling at me. I am wondering if she hates me, or if she is a bitter old woman in general. My mind is racing, trying to remember if I knew this lady. I vaguely remember being in a class of hers, and her thinking I was one of the biggest troublemakers she has ever taught. She looks like she finally has me where she wants me. She tells me to stand up.
Suddenly, I am uncharacteristically modest. Normally I don't mind being seen naked, especially in my dreams. But in this case, I object. She sternly insists that I stand up. I rise, and there is silence. As the bubble slide down and reveal my body, one of the male teachers looks down and see that my penis is pierced. He is shocked.
"What kind of drugs are you on?" he asks. My first panicked reaction is to try and convince him that I am not on anything, which as far as I knew was true. But his question got me thinking about my little lapses of awareness. "Wait!" I say, "I think I may be on something! I think somebody is putting something in my food!" Three of the teachers are visibly mad at me for making excuses for my behavior. The fourth looks scared. I can't tell if he's scared that he might be eating drugged food, or if he's the one drugging the food and he's scared that somebody's on to him.
Either way, I'm convince that this is what's going on. The women grabs me by the arm and drags me down the hall. Two of the teachers follow us, but the one who looks scared doesn't move. I try to look back at him as I am dragged out of the room, but the teacher who is dragging me grabs my head and turns it to look at her. "I've been waiting a long time for this." she says, and I lapse out again.
When I come to, I am watching everybody I go to school with lined up in single file. The line is walking onto some kind of spaceship. It all falls into place. I decide that the reason somebody was drugging the food was to make everybody complacent. It was supposed to be something that would make everybody focused and very susceptible to suggestion. Nobody standing in line questions why they are walking into a spaceship.
But the drug had the opposite effect on me. I lost the ability to concentrate, and became restless. But they still won, because with my total inability to think straight all I could do was stand there and watch everybody load onto that ship.
Then I woke up.