I don't enjoy resting. Whenever I nap, I have these things I've deamed "daymares", dreams where people from my past or present turn against me and I'm left feeling isolated. There are never any monsters in these dreams, normally these dreams surround being alone and targeted by people; my worst nightmare. (Sadly, I was targeted this summer at my work but this dream contained none of these people.)

This daymare happened because I had woken up 'early' (8:00 AM) and went back to sleep until 9:15.

It began (I think, since I don't believe anyone really recalls when their dreams actually start – if dreams actually do have a starting point), in a public pool. (An odd location, as I haven't been to a public pool in over a year!)

Apparently, in this dream, I often visited these pool and swam in it, because I had noticed an important file folder, complete with one of my favourite books, drifting around at the side – my mind remembered that previously I had brought this stuff here, and that, somehow, I had left it and it got into the pool. My boyfriend made his comments on how I had forgotten it, so I swiftly (feeling a little anxious because they may now be damaged beyond repair), retrieved both the favourite book and file folder. I proceeded to leave them in a dry spot with the intention of driving them completely. Perhaps they could be saved.

Then, I suddenly was holding a teddy bear which was wet. I let it go and it began going to far from me! One of the kids who I graduated with and who bullied me swam over to me in his present-day form, and offered to help me retrieve it. I was surprised! This kid constantly bullied me in my past and was now offering to help? He got me my bear and then left.

But somehow, I ended up in a big warehouse after this. (No recollection on how I got there, probably warped or something). It was purple and dark, and there were items all around, like the garage for a Toys R Us or Walmart, perhaps. Friends from high school who I now hardly speak with were all there, including one high school-into College friend who I now do not speak with. While we "played" or did some task in this warehouse, I noticed that of all my high school chums, my College friend entirely ignored me and treated me poorly. While we all sat in a circle, I decided to confront her, asking her directly why she despised me so when we had been good friends before.

She turned to one of my old high school friends (who I think she still hangs out with now), and said; "Fine. I'll do it. I'll tell you why we don't speak. You gave me a large hickey at some party recently! You basically violated me!" At this, I'm feeling REAL anger, because in my dream, I do not recall such a thing. (Obviously not, as it never happened.) In anger, I desperately attempt explaining to all my high school friends that it wasn't true, but I was more angrier with her reassurance that she was telling the truth. Distrust, I sought out my boyfriend, only to have him start laughing.

"Should we tell her?" He said to some of my other high school friends who he would not possibly know or correspond with as he came from Russia and had never met them.

"It was a prank! We got you good. Your friends helped me along with it!"

I then realized that this whole place was full of my high school people pulling pranks on each other, and I was mad! I was literally stressed but slightly relieved when he told me it was all a prank. I was preparing to yell at him but I woke up suddenly and realized that he had left for his work – and I panicked, as I had stayed up late making him a lunch!

So, I quickly woke up, ran to the kitchen, grabbed his lunch, and called him, where he came back and noticed how stressed I was about the dream and gave me a hug.

Man! There's just no escape from these stressful thoughts, are there?