Woke up shitpaniced

Last night, I dreamt I was in an office where apparently I had a couple coworkers and we were there working evening overtime. This dream office was just your very ordinary typical modern office, other than the big black Dell CRT monitors that used to be very common in the early 2000s. One of my "coworkers" was female, curly hair, glasses, the other was male, and there was a male janitor in the office.

Suddenly, the female started acting very strange and in a very bizarre and erratic manner. I turned one of the monitors around to discover that she scrawled all over the front of it with a Sharpie marker, in a letter styling that looked like gang graffiti, but the characters were much smaller and in several rows, like she was writing a letter. The janitor and male coworker were trying to calm her down, but all I could do was run. Apparently, my (absent at the hour) dream boss borrowed my laptop and it was in the office, and I was debating for a second if I should try to retrieve it, but I figured if anything happened to it, I could just get it replaced. I just wanted to get out of there. I went into the hallway, shut the door behind me and between me and the commotion, and struggled to get a backpack with my things in it onto my back when the dream ended, and I woke up shaking and terrified.

The thing about this dream is that these coworkers weren't people who existed at any point in my life. Nor did the woman act particularly threatening twards me or anyone else, it didn't look like she was upset at any particular thing, nor was she violent. But something inside me, my instincts screamed "get out GET OUT! DANGER!!!" as those instincts were telling me something was imminently very dangrous about this woman but didn't say what that danger actually was. And I've had a few other fairly recent dreams of trying to get away from someone who was vaguely menacing and having to deal with an obstacle while trying to get away from that person. Like the backpack I was strugling with in last night's dream. Different situations and people, but same overall theme.

I called the dream "mundane" because it was a very low grade nightmare, almost to the point of being just another run of the mill dream. And yet I've had plenty of full on nightmares involving natural disasters and such that did not make me wake up in a panic.

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anonymous Other June 25, 2025 at 8:27 pm 0 0