I entered this dream after a mentally fatiguing day of report building in powerbi. I decided to take a little nap before going to congratulate dad on his new truck and oo and aaa about it. When I laid down, I entered the dream:
I woke up in a house. In the dream, I knew this was my house - but it was not familiar to me. Pieces of it were familiar, but the entire structure was not a place I had been before. There was the carpeted hallway from the house I spent the earlier years of my life, the addition that was in my maternal grandmother's house, the room I am currently typing this in, and the sunroom from the family home I spent the majority of my childhood in. It was sunny, and the house was empty - but that was okay. I liked it.
I walked out of the house after exploring it a little bit. I notice that someone is hooking up big pipes to the house across the street - perhaps for fumigation/extermination? I'm not entirely certain how that process works, but it seemed reasonable to dream-me. I went back in the house and there was a man I'd never met before. We had some pleasant conversation - not memorable, fella never gave me his name - and he left. There was a time skip in the dream and the next thing I realize, the house is getting foggy. I walk into the living room and see the pipe pumping...something...into the house. I immediately start freaking out and rush out of the house. I rush down the street and end up knocking on a door, very confused. The man who was in my dream house answered and let me in. The rest of the night passes uneventfully, and I return to my home eventually to sleep (in the dream). When I enter my home, there is a woman - Olivia. I have never seen this woman before, and she knew a disturbing amount of information about me. She told me that she had been waiting for me and that she was very excited to begin our life together. Nervous, I walked away - who was this woman and what did she want? how did she get here? so many questions...
At this point, I'm aware that I'm dreaming. I open my eyes in the real world to ensure that it still exists and instead slip into a deeper sleep. I awake in the dream, and there's a dead baby in the dream now. The baby is bleeding from the back of her skull. I start freaking out, because there aren't supposed to be babies in the house, especially dead ones, and especially in the room i wake up in. Olivia enters the room, sees me in distress, and sits behind me on the bed to hold me as I drift off again, somehow, while panicking. When I awake after some dream-0within-a-dream nightmare, she is still holding me. I'm not certain what is dream, what is meta-dream, and what is real now. To test it out, I squeeze Olivia's hands and she squeezes back. Thjinking I have finally established base reality, I exclaim "holy shit, you're actually real" and she excitedly says yes. Then, the elephant in the room rears its head - the dead baby. I ask her if she knows why there's a dead baby in the house. Her response chilled me - "who do you think I am?" It was said in such a matter of fact tone, its gravitas was lost on me. Olivia is the dead baby? but how did it die? Olivia continues, telling me that I dropped her and she died - in the same matter-of-fact tone. It was too much. I ran from the house and ended up at the shores of a shallow, warm, calm, benign lake. I walk into the lake. In the lake, Olivia is swimming, and her rotting baby corpse trails behind her. Thinking this was some sort of release ceremony, I mentally let go of olivia and consigned her essence to the lake. Later, returning home, Olivia's smiling, glass-eyed head greeted me from over the fireplace.This dream may represent feelings of uncertainty and anxiety in your waking life. The unfamiliar house and the presence of different elements from your past suggest a sense of disorientation and confusion. The man you meet and the foggy house may symbolize external factors or influences that are causing you distress. The appearance of Olivia, a stranger who knows personal information about you, could represent a fear of being vulnerable or exposed. The dead baby may symbolize a fear of loss or the end of something important in your life. Overall, this dream may be reflecting your subconscious worries and fears about the unknown and unexpected changes in your life. It may be a reminder to confront and address these fears in order to find peace and clarity in your waking life.
