Peoplephobia and Churchostage Date: 4/4/2025 ----- I had a dream about me being scared of the police, which started when me and a friend were walking home at night after stopping at a 7-11. Some cars slowly pulled up, and I hid behind my friend because for all I know, there could've been someone that would've killed us. That wasn't the case, but it instead was some cops in uniform, and they were asking some questions about what we were doing. We were answering them but it got to a point where I couldn't really unhide myself behind my friend from the blue team, and I got so scared to the point of me actually crying. The cop offered me something from dairy queen to help me get my feelings out but I declined, eventually reluctantly accepting. I had to use the bathroom after eating the ice cream because of something that made me all tingly and panicked and paranoid, so I scurried over to DQ, was given permission to use the back door and use the bathroom there. I wasn't really able to get myself out the bathroom though. It wasn't because of my bowels being angry, or me having to throw up or splash some water on my face, but something made me feel really paranoid and uncomfortable when a cop asked if he could open the door to check on me. I was there at the door, but didn't open it out of fear I would just be arrested without any reason apart from being "suspicious" with no valid proof whatsoever. When I tried to open the door, another cop was there but something about him made me yelp and panic, which made me hide inside a stall, but he just opened the stall I was in and asked what I was doing. I was too scared to respond and just curled up and put my arms over my head in case he was gonna use his taser on me. The cop wasn't putting up with it and dragged me out the bathroom, with DQ employees asking what was going on and why I was crying again. The moment i heard the other cop's voice (the one that asked if I was okay), I slowly opened my eyes but still had my arms above my head and was still curled up, that's when I saw large red text that said "Peoplephobia" in front of me. Somehow, someway, the dream morphed itself into me being at a church, and I was in front of someone who was tied to a chair. I helped them out, but I heard footsteps so I hid. It was this white guy in a brown coat, white hair, and blue eyes. He had a knife and was ready to stab the victim, but didn't and said he had more things to take care of, so he left. I was able to free the guy in the chair and break the door behind him to escape, but the guy heard that so we had to hide in the bushes outside. It was cold and uncomfortable but we had no choice. It was dark, so he couldn't find us easily. He went back inside and I whispered that we needed to kill this guy. That's when I detoured around the hall that he uses inside to find a bunch of robots that were in this little dining area, just standing. There were eight of them, and they had four red and blue shirts. I told them that the guy in the coat was killing people so we needed to finish him off instead, to which they offered to help me. They stood behind me as I turned to the guy who was coming this way. I pointed at him and ordered the robots to kill, and they charged at him. While they were doing that, I was able to pass him to the exit, but I heard sounds of short-circuiting and metal clanking, to find the guy in the coat still standing, and with a bigger knife. That's when he ran to me and I had to get away. He was almost able to capture me but I pepper sprayed him, and closing the doors that I used to free the victim and escape. We had a few injuries from his knife (that was now a sword), we were bleeding and bruised, but we managed to escape the church. We were able to get to a hospital thanks to some outside help and we described what happened to them. I think I saw Lorna from the Terrible Mouse series while in the ambulance when we were getting transported too, but the twist was that Lorna didn't seem to have a thing for wanting to kill humans at all, at least in this dream version of her, as she was a lot more upbeat and supportive despite us being absolutely hurt, to the point where she was patting my head. And in the sky before I entered the ambulance, was the same red text I saw earlier. Peoplephobia. ----- Archived by Lavie Extra notes: So not only do we have more themes of the church being a cursed and unlucky location, but also possibly a new theme of capiophobia. Of course me saying that is a stretch but I'm assuming it's due to current events going on in your world. The only thing I can really do is watch, though I kind of wish I could just pull you into the Dreamscape, even for a little bit.