I dont typically dream like, ever, but when I do it's so life like I dont know I'm asleep and sometimes that makes the experience very scary.
I had a dream about Arkham.
Somehow I was in this biiiig biiiig room, with all these concrete cells. Very brutalist. They didn't have windows, or name plates, just numbers on concrete cubes.
There was a small common area that jutted off to the side of the room and I don't remember why, but when I came inside I was already in a bit of a tizzy. I walked over to the only person in there, this woman with the brightest red hair I've ever seen, and asked about where I was.
She was clipping a few small brown hedges. She didn't bother looking up, and she talked very slow, like she was tired, or maybe drugged.
"Ohhhhh you know. Everyone knows they're here, when they're here."
Then a deep, TERRIFYING alarm went off, and I panicked. She just slowly turned to me and gave me a stare. Anyways, no way that WASNT poison ivy.
"Youd better get somewhere secret, fast. Youre small, so go get smaller. Behind the concrete, in between the wall. He won't check that you're there."
So me not knowing who the fuck was coming to GET me, ran over and did what she said.
Unfortunately, I could see out the other side as a tall, lanky, horrible gentleman stepped out once the hydrologic doors opened up. Some weird, horrid smelling smoke followed and this nasty chemical smell filled my nose. It was so gross. Genuinely he was like if a skunk was a person.
He kinda mosied over to the woman, and they talked for a second, before she put her things away, and went back to her own cell.
Then I stayed reeeeally quiet. And it was probably only 30 seconds, but it felt like minutes.
Then the quiet got quieter.
Anyway, some men came in and grabbed him by the arms, before one of them hit him and they dragged him out the doors.
But that was actually so scary lmao.
Moral of the story, Arkham gives the inmates a few short spurts of free time out of their cells I guess, and being trapped in that common area while all of them take their allotted times out is rather terrifying.