I've had this dream twice now. I still don't understand it. I need help.
I just had a dream I've had before, but it changed.
Both dream starts out with me coming back home from some kind of journey or something, I don't remember. But when I come back, magic exists. In both dreams I knew it was a dream.
But the first time, I didn't want to leave. At all. The dream world was beautiful and everyone was so nice... The second time, I felt uneasy. Everything looked more rundown and old; the people there were giving me weird looks constantly. And i could smell this really sweet smell. But it was so sweet it smelled bad. It was like they were trying to hide something.
But anyway, the first dream I had a teacher who I became best friends with. She was the main focus of the dream. The second time, she was still there, but changed... She looked like she was fading in and out of the world, and was crueler than before. I kept saying I wanted to leave the class, that I felt sick. (I didn't, I was trying to get out so I could wake up.)
Eventually, she snapped, and said I'd never, ever leave, and that I wouldn't be allowed to ask the principal to leave either. The next couple days, which seemed as long as days in real life, I kept trying to send the principal letters. He never responded.
Finally, it was 'game day.' This had been my last day in my previous dream, but the world around me had gotta more and more solid each day this time... The first time I didn't get to the thing I needed first, but the teacher said it didn't matter, that i got to stay because she won.
This time I remembered that and was frantic trying to get it, because I was pretty sure if I didn't, I wouldn't get to leave the dream. I knew what I had to get, kinda.
Then this kid ran in, and I remembered he had been used as a distraction in the past dream. I bolted across to him and screamed at him, demanding to know where she was. I bolted back and forth then screamed at him that I'd done this before, that I knew she was coming.
He told me where to go and I burst in at the same time as her. I grabbed the one I thought I needed, and one that was kinda like it just in case. She screamed about how I was a traitor and not allowed to leave, and started chasing me on her horse.
I ran out into the arena and was trying to run away, but she was faster. I was trying to fight her but was failing and almost gave up, but then the world around grew even more real, almost. Like it was trying to trap me. So I stood up and kept fighting against her, and finally got a hit in and she disappeared.
The other characters in the dream were whispering and moving closer as the world faded out and I woke up.
I don't understand it, why was the dream so different? I've had repeat dreams before, but they weren't like that... Being trapped in a dream is ridiculous, so why do I feel like I narrowly escaped it? I'm very confused.
