This is the second dream in a few months that I've had about people with rotten faces.
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I have a recurring dream where I'm walking through a city vaguely based on places I've lived, and I'm trying to get somewhere, but I'm lost. Often I end up in some kind of mall/hotel thing. For whatever reason my phone GPS won't work. Usually, this just goes on this way for a while and then meanders off aimlessly, with nothing more sinister happening.
Sometimes, though, it goes further. In this version, the more I try to orient myself, the more I get lost, and every block I take, the neighborhoods get more sketchy and dangerous. People follow me with apparently sinister intent, although none actually do anything. Again, this second stage is sometimes the end.
In the third, even rarer version, the sketchiness starts taking a supernatural form. The sky's color is dead, and everyone is gray-looking and rotten, like zombies. They don't seem to notice me at all, and shuffle along completely oblivious to their surroundings. Buildings are more than dilapidated and boarded up now. Many of them are ruins.
This is creepy enough I usually wake up here, although sometimes I'll recognize it as a dream and either wake up deliberately or turn the Sun back on.
The final stage of this dream, which I've only gotten to two or three times, the entire city is not just ruined, but endless streets with nothing but rubble in sight. Smoke rises from some of the piles. Absolutely nobody is around, although there are vague shadows that disappear when I look at them. The sky is blood red or pitch black, but in either case, I can still see clearly.
Finally, I see a mostly intact building up ahead, with some kind of light coming from the top. I get to the building and climb an extremely rickety set of stairs to the roof, where there is some kind of giant monster like one of the bosses from Shadow of the Colossus, and defeat it in a titanic battle. That ending is fun.
The other rotten face thing I have isn't a full dream, but something that sometimes happens in another dream. I'm talking to someone, and then suddenly right next to them is a fattish, bloated looking woman with a seriously fucked up and rotting face, just looking directly at me. She also has other wounds all over her. It's usually pretty gory.
The person I'm talking to can't see her, and for some reason, I'm pretending I don't, because acknowledging her would somehow have terrible results. Sometimes she just disappears and I forget about it for the rest of the dream, but sometimes she lunges at me, jolting me awake. Glad I haven't had this one in years.
