Had a nightmare last night that I was at my aquarium job and my coworker informed me I had to be a restaurant server that day. Not at the aquarium restaurant, but at a random burger diner nearby. It was extra stressful because they had a list of people who had called in with their orders in advance and the times they’d be in, but they didn’t take precedent over customers walking in.
I was trying to clean when a big rush came in and this guy kept staring at me and I could hear his thoughts, which were that I was doing a bad job and the place was filthy.
Then a family came in, parents and a set of twins, and one little rambunctious toddler. I commented on the matching dinosaur shirts the twins wore and asked if they were celebrating anything. At that moment I noticed the extremely large balloons and present sitting on the table and they laughed because OBVIOUSLY they’re celebrating a birthday.
Before they could answer, their toddler wriggled free and made a break for it. They yelled after him (his name was Shutterstock?????) and I went to catch him. Suddenly sirens started blaring in the restaurant and everyone ducked to the floor. I crawled after Shutterstock who ducked next to a young woman and turned pale with fear. The woman said “yeah, we found a severed head.”
It was just sitting on the floor and the little boy was frozen in front of it
I shut my eyes and grabbed him, cradling him close and crawling back to his parents, as he trembled in shock
I woke up equally disturbed by the dream and amused at the phrase “my beautiful baby boy Shutterstock”










