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My subconscious scares me sometimes.

I had this dream last night in which I lived in this quaint little village, where you knew pretty much everyone, but vampires started to appear. But these weren't your typical suck-your-blood vampires, oh no. They pretty much ate you whole. They would also something bash your head in with rolled up pieces of paper, and if that didn't work, they whipped out a block of tile from thin air. Plus they had little pieces of metal that, in the smallest quantities, could set you on fire. It was really creepy.

In any case, I guess I was trying to fight these demons, but they couldn't see me? I remember saving this one teenager from being burned, then I saved this old lady called Betty Smith, and shoved her into her group of friends to be protected. But her friends pushed her around their circle (trying to protect her, I should add) that she broke out the other side, and there were two vampires who burned her despite my efforts. Then two of my friends tried to save her, and one of the vampires tried to burn them too, by putting the pieces of metal down the back of their shirts when they bent over. I was able to save them, and somehow shoved the pieces of metal down the shirt of one of the vampires, and found out that it works on vampires, though not to the same extent as humans. [Side note - The vampire who tried to/burned Betty Smith, and tried to burn my friends was blonde with her hair in a half-updo, wearing a magenta dress and a red shawl].

After a while, the vampires discovered that I was the one foiling their attempt to, I don't know, eat and burn all of mankind, and tried to kill me. I somehow found a companion - I seem to remember the person being a guy, but I'm not sure, because I remember Courtney in the dream but I can't place where - and we were both trying to save the village and stay alive. We met this old guy which snapped our picture as we ran past, which freaked both of us out, because there was something about vampires having a connection with cameras. But we discovered it was a Polaroid, which calmed us down, because vampires use digital cameras (don't ask me why/how I "know" this...). So we ran up to the guy, he gave us the picture and these sheets of paper.

Eventually, this guy? and I found this old hut thing to hide out in (it was literally tiny, the max number of people that could have fit was probably three), and it had symbols on the walls. After a bit, I was able to find out how it worked - it was apparently an anti-mystical creature boundary. We read the pages, which described all of these mystical creatures, and apparently the vampires who ate/burned people were called Batman Johnsons. There was also this creature called a Luminar that could shoot shards of crystal out of the palms of its hands, and a little invisible lump creature thing that was supposed to be nice. There was a lot of information on more creatures too; I remember there being something about a companion puppy as well. But it was really interesting, and would have been a nice read if, oh right, we weren't being hunted down by crazy man-eating, flesh-burning Johnsons. (Rofl. xD)

Eventually this creature found us, and I was able to activate the barrier, so he got trapped in the wall for a few minutes. But either I wasn't working the spell right, or it was weak from non-use, because he escaped outside of the walls, and apparently made a hole in the hut, and stabbed my friend in both eyes. I thought the creature was a vampire, but it used shards to pierce my friend, so maybe it was a Luminar... At this point, I kill off whatever it was somehow, and sit sort of sit there petrified.

Then I woke up, and apparently the whole thing was a psychological experiment on how people would react in times of great stress? I was one of the few people who actively sought out to prevent the vampires from killing off others; a lot of people just tried to protect themselves, and a few even joined the vampires. One of them remembered stabbing someone in the eyes, so... I guess that was a correlation? It was creepy...

In any case, I was really freaked out when I woke up, especially since I didn't get so much into the "psychological experiment" part. If the dream was an hour long, maybe 30 minutes were spent protecting others without the vampires knowing it was me, 10 were spent running away, 10 were spent reading the manual, 9 were used to trap and eventually kill whatever crap thing killed my friend, and one minute was devoted to the "waking up" from the "psychological study."

Anyways, I have really weird dreams...