Dreams? Oh gosh mine are so twisted. I really doubt anyone can make full sense of them.
Here is a story that took place in a few seperate dreams all woven into a twisted and (for me, probably not for many others) quite scary story.
1) Once, when I was little, I had a dream that there was an area of construction in a city that I lived in. Due to the construction, there was a sysetem of tunnels resembling a mine or something. The tunnels were about two or three feet in diameter, so I had to kneel to crawl through them, though I have no idea why I crawled through them. Anyway, just about 20 feet in there was a set of metal bars blocking the way. It was full daylight outside and the mine area behing the bars was lit, so I could see quite clearly. Behing said bars? A brown puppy with a red collar that my dream self recognized as my dog. There is a bend to the right about five feet behind the dog. As I see it, a dark, humanoid shadow starts approaching from past the bend and... the dream ends.
2) Relatively soon afterward, I had a dream that I got lost in my dad's large mattress factory, which was actually a mixture of his mattress factory and his very large toner factory, both from real life. The whole building's lights were off, so it was a dim blue color everywhere. I eventually get so far into the factory that I don't know where I am, but at the end of the room I'm in I see a lit door... leading to the same tunnels as the previous dream. At this point, just as that same shadow from those tunnels just begins to appear, my dad walks in from behind and we go home. Dream ends.
3) I know it was between the originals and the most recent dreams. I was in a massive, all wood lodge, which sort of functioned as an indoor waterpark also made entirely of wood, with the hallways on the floor I'm on making a seeming maze of countless doors. The shadow appears only very briefly, around corners like in the original dream. The only reason this is really listed in this post is because of the shadow and because the next dream in the sequence relates it much more to the first two. It also marks the shortst/least significant appearance of that shadow.
4) This one is way more complicated, but I remember it the best as it happened about 7 years after the first two (last summer) and was the longest. I am some sort of magical wizard or some shizz, and by the looks of the dream it was influenced by Lady Gaga's VMA's dress, one that was more elegant than her other outfits. She herself is there as sort of the leader/mentor of me and a small group of others; one fat, bald man with a moustache, one middle aged woman with gingr hair somewhat resembling Elizabeth I, and a younger man with short blonde hair. We are in a church made completely of grey stone and the four of us (not Gaga) are standing in a circle and Gaga is in front of us, with a massive stain glass wingow behind Gaga. There's a wooden door behind us. We apparently have some mission of some sort, and before I can blink we're going through the door and into those recurring tunnels, while Gaga herself stays at the church for some reason. We go through them, with the creepy shadow rarely showing itself, to discover they lead to th massive lodge/indoor waterpark combo place with seemingly hundreds of floors. If you look up a set of stairs, they keep going up forever. There's a single floor below us, but no exit on that floor. The upper floors are devoid of people and of water. Then, the shadow that haunts my every dream starts fighting us and kills the fat man, the woman, and the young man. Before it can kill me Gaga appears in a sort of rainbow-y halo of light and destroys the creature, afterwards returining me to our original church-like building. And that's where the saga ends, though there's a sort of sequel to it.
5) This is a relatively short dream compared to #4. My friend and I are at our school, next to a stairway. We discover a door in the side of the stairway, as our other friends arrive at the scene. All 5 of us open the door, which uncovers another stairway leading to a previously-unknown basement. The basement is exactly like the regular floors, but lit in the same blue shade as the factory from dream two and there's trash and dark slime all over the floors and walls. The shadow thing is there and takes three of us furthr into the floor where it's pitch black. My remaining friend (also th original one from the dream) and I run away as fast as we can, closing the secret door to th basement forever (hopefully).
So that's my major series of recurring concepts in dreams. Here's my explanations for a few things:
Wooden waterpark lodge: When I was nine in 2005, we were at Noah's Ark Waterpark in Wisconsin when we got a call that my favorite cat ever, with whom I had a close bond, had been hit by a car and killed. However, we were never at apredominantly wooden waterpark untli 3 years after I actually had the dream.
Tunnels: somewhat influenced by a book I read once, but only in imagery - not in purpose or setting or anything.
Church and Gaga: Church based on my own imagination's construction of the church frequently featured in the book series The Dark Is Rising. Gaga is a Merriman-like figure in relation to the books.
I have absolutely no idea, however, what the shadow is, and I'm scared of another dream happening since I found out that it somehow survived the fourth encounter for a fifth. Perhaps it wasn't destroyed, but instead suppressd, represented by it being trapped (Assumedly, otherwise why close the door in dream 5?) under my school? I think a number of things have probably manifested themselves in this "shadow".
I probably sound completely insane. >:
