Today I dreamed that I was at home with my boyfriend, but he was not my real boyfriend. I had gotten a pug for a dating gift, but the animal had an evil spirit inside. Every time we were alone, he would raise knives to hit me and speak curses in languages I did not understand. I fell down the stairs just looking at him.
So I tried to perform an exorcism on him, with all possible unrealistic pomp and witchcraft. When my boyfriend saw this, he called the police. I didn't see anything, I was focused on looking the dog's eyes, but when I looked up to rest, I saw a strong policeman with a big mustache looking at me seriously. He handcuffed me and said that we would take care of my ''problem''.
It was then that they took me to a huge sanatorium on top of a hill. It looked very much like a castle, with large halls, huge doors carved in gold, stone staircases. There wasn't torture and screaming…or people throwing poop on the walls. They were all normal people who were being forced to become 100% happy and playful all time. I looked at it all with suspicion. It was impossible for everyone to be happy all the time.
There were art activities, studies, reintegration into the job market and children's play. In one of these "activities", I saw a boy. He was blond, about 12 years old, wore a red shirt, short hair, thin cheeks. He had been indicated to participate in the game: "how to act with your parents". There was a room with an actor as a father, a normal living room..but with about 60 people being an audience..like one of those auditorium shows.
When he finished the performance, he asked his "teacher":
-Did I do well this time? -The nervous look, cold sweat and looked at me.
The teacher wrote down some things and turned his back, then the boy turned to me and said:
"- You need to do well in your turn. Don't forget to smile."
The view from my window was beautiful: clear blue sea and a beautiful sunset, but a dark and gloomy forest in front, where not even that blood red and orange sunset entered. I thought it was really weird and decided to go and investigate.
To go out from sanatorium was not that hard, it was just pretending to the guards I was really happy and that I would play in the sand on the beach.
When I got close to the forest, I realized that it was surrounded by a high concrete wall and a padlocked gate. I went around trying to find another entrance. When I looked again, the door was open and I went inside. There were huge trees, tall, old, dark and surrounded by fog.
I was walking in tree corridors trying to find out what was there, when an old man appeared beside me. He had a staff and a golden garment like gold. He spoke to me that in order to to activate the forest I needed to go to its center and extract the beauty of it.
Gradually, the forest became beautiful, alive, clear, the houses were restored, the mills were spinning, the birds were singing and there were white, pink and lilac flowers everywhere. The trees were no longer scary, they were green and flowery and the sky, which was already very dark, cleared as if we were in the morning.
Suddenly, I hear a scary song, like these ones that come before a boss in games: he was a guardian of the forest, similar to those of the "Lord of the Rings", but thin and with a horned helmet on his head.
He chased me through the trees while I ran and tried to find a way to stop him from killing me. Suddenly, the old man appeared and gave me his staff. I climbed a tree and stuck the staff between the creature's eyes, which turned to dust, the helmet falling heavily on the ground. I didn't want this but I had to.
And then, I finally woke up.
