Submitted to: Contest #335

Dream Log

Written in response to: "Write a story that ends without answers or certainty."

Fiction Horror

Dream ending on 6:25 AM, Monday, November 3rd, 1997

I was in a pool with my mother and we went exploring in a deep changing room that ended up being more pools or green water. The water felt warm to the touch, like a tepid bath. Mom kept asking to leave and we just kept getting lost trying to find a way out. There were slides, pool toys, and things scattered around. Most of the toys looked like little cuttlefish or things with tentacles that didn’t exist in real life. The room was not lit well, but there was a source of light somewhere at the bottom of each pool.

I felt fully in control of the environment and my own body in this dream. I woke up five minutes before alarm. I had a feeling of being tired still.

Dream ending on 6:31 AM, Tuesday, November 4th, 1997

I appeared in a field of silver wheat and tares with no house of clear end in sight. The moon was yellow and had 3 rings going in different directions made with some sort of dust or asteroids. It looked like the crater was closing and opening at will. The sky was a deep purple, but it wasn’t dark. I went through the fields and found nothing feeling the stalks between my hands, as if it were all just really tall grass. I heard moaning of a creature in pain. I woke up to the alarm one minute late. I was able to call out to it! It responded with more moaning. I could not find it still and spend the dream searching for it.

I felt in control of only my body in this dream. I woke up one minute after the alarm, feeling physically tired. My legs were sore.

Dream ending on 6:14 AM, Wednesday, November 5th, 1997

I fell up into the sky and kept falling. I was able to glide but just barely. The sky was a amber color and there were some orange clouds. The moon was there with the same three rings and central crater. There were some large creatures that were similar to the pool toys in a few dreams prior but were reaching for me. I avoided them and fell into the green sun, washing warm waves over me as I fell.

I felt in control of only my body in this dream. I woke up 16 minutes before my alarm. I felt no difference from when I fell asleep the night prior.

Dream ending on 6:27 AM, Thursday, November 6th, 1997

I arrived to the silver wheat and tare field again, but they were split apart from someone before. I felt the need to run through them again. The moon’s crater seemed centered, as if it was watching me. The moaning continued but I was able to get closer. There was something shambling in the field. Nothing seemed to get accomplished. I looked at my hands, and they got irritated from pushing apart new sets of wheat and tares. My feet felt some senses of irritation and pricking at points. The sky was a deep purple this time.

I felt in control of only my body in this dream. I woke up three minutes before my alarm. I felt a phantom set of irritations on my hands and feet.

Dream ending on 6:19 AM, Friday, November 7th, 1997

My family was at a forest with me. A strange man with a mouth replaced by a tentacle was present but treated as a friend. The sky was a dark yellow and the moon with three rings was in the sky with the green sun. My family was having some kind of party. I ran into the woods into the shade. I sat quietly. I heard something about looking to the moon for guidance. There was a clear echo saying to follow the green light.

I felt fully in control of the environment and my own body in this dream. I woke up 11 minutes before my alarm. I felt no difference from when I fell asleep the night prior.

Dream ending on 5:42 AM, Saturday, November 8th, 1997

I woke up to the silver wheat and tare field again with more of the field pushed apart. The ground felt less sharp. I called out to the moaning as it was still there. The sky was darker in purple. The moon was acting like an eye more clearly, watching me and blinking. A ray of green light down into the field from the moon. The moaning seemed more intelligible, calling for Kir’unga to lead it to its death. I ask the voice why. It answered “Such a blessing would be to unfeel my sin and vice. The moon watches me relishing in my regrets as I lay here in the bounty of my sin and vice. You must hurry. You must redeem me by spilling my veins to allow what I sown here to die. My vice is forfeit unto any who can free me. Any who can succeed me will inherit only what can make a soul grander.”

I took sleeping medications as directed. I felt in control of only my body in this dream. I woke up 48 minutes before my alarm. The irritation on my hands and feet extended from my dream with greater intensity.

Please I want to go home. I will sue you for malpractice if you don’t let me.

Dream ending on 5:37 AM, Sunday, November 9th, 1997

I fell up into the green sun, hearing screaming. My skin felt like it was slowly tingling from the heat and some kind of acid simultaneously. The cephalopod creatures were shrieking at me. I kept falling but could glide faster. It was difficult to see and my vision was blurred. When I closed my eyes, I still was able to see around me, while the colors seemed inverted. It became harder to breathe in and out. The smells were fishy and gross.

I took sleeping medications as directed. I felt in control of only my body in this dream. I woke up 53 minutes before my alarm. My skin felt tingly, but I was more energetic for other reasons.

Dream ending on 6:29 AM, Monday, November 10th, 1997

I was put in a black void by something. I sat there. My limbs were missing and I felt something press onto my chest, taking all the air out of me. A green light was shining on me but there was no source.

I didn’t take sleeping medications in fear of side effects. I felt no control over this dream at all. I woke up one minute before my alarm. I am begging you, please let me sleep normally again. This isn’t worth anything. Whatever your giving me is not working. I’m waking up tired, in pain, and coughing. I have no idea what this stuff is or what that thing is emitting. The brainwave activity that is being shown to you guys is clearly not normal. I’m terminating my participation in the clinical trial now.

Dream ending on 4:17 AM, Tuesday, November 11th, 1997

I fell up into the moon. It looked upon me. The cones and rods of the eye are so beautiful and reassuring. I saw every last detail. It was so large. Suddenly, my air was taken from me. I was cold. I was freezing.

I took the sleeping medication as instructed. I didn’t feel like I needed to control myself. I woke up two hours and thirteen minutes before my alarm. I felt like I needed a nap.

Dream ending on 4: 11 AM Wednesday, November 12th, 1997

I appeared at the town pool changing room and found the back pools still there. It was lukewarm pool water, smelling of chlorine and some metallic scents. The pools had blue ink in them with the green water. A few people I recognized from the sleep clinic were there clapping saying I was back, cheering. I saw a boy’s head in the pool. A large octopoid was in the pool. None of the speech was intelligible past the cheering.

I took the pills. I didn’t care. I feel fine.

Dream ending on 4:01 AM, Thursday, November 13th, 1997

I was in the skies, talking to the green sun. He said to me that in this world, there is true life. The warmth became burning. It all became bright. It was his enlightenment. I want to ask it more things. What then is a dream? What can we find? I discovered its meditation in the form of self-reflection, like the first buddha except this brings direct enlightenment of the self to the forefront as it should. The chemicals that rebalance in our head from sleep do not always correlate any future to us yet insist there is truth in them. How can we imagine what our life is from a endless landscape of what we feel, think, or imagine? Is it only to serve an escape? Such a sanctuary of mine was pillaged by an ever watching thing that enacts rash judgement and shepherds anyone it likes. But why? What is this thing? Is it me? Is it all an inference from what is or what my thoughts were looking inward? Nothing is logical, but it is sensical here in my head. The world is beyond my grasp to understand as it is. I held no true dream as I was held in the cold black, motionless and lame, yet content to let air escape my lungs and fill my chest with invisible gaseous tar.

You have shown me what you wanted me to see too! I see it now! I believe you! I want you to know that you’re 100% right and have all the science to prove this! Whatever you have here is great! There’s absolutely no issue with it at all. The great moon lord is my father now and all the other cryptic rhymes in between! I wrote it here now. I am done now with the study. You’re all correct about the gate into the other minds and the greatest mind!

Dream ending on 3:49 AM, Friday, November 14th, 1997

He was there in the field. He is my friend. He deserves to be made new like you taught us at the lab. I have done so. He is me and I am with you. He had no form, but needed my help in his own death, so that within his death he can dream of the moon. We are together and can brighten the world with our dream now.

Dream ending on 3:33 AM, Saturday November 15th, 1997

I did not need sleeping pills. I simply used the safety stone and pow! All my sleep troubles are gone! I am well rested. I feel refreshed and ready to take on the day!

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James V
01:46 Jan 07, 2026

I dig this. Good stuff!

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Peter Whitney
03:03 Jan 07, 2026

Thank you very much!

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11:38 Jan 05, 2026

Beautiful dream.

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Hayden Trull
13:22 Jan 04, 2026

Wow. On a first read, I will do a poor job analyzing the text, so I will simply share my emotional experience and initial thoughts. This was an effective mix of cosmic horror, somewhat Lovecraftian, and science fiction. I loved the slow-drip of information. What seemed at first a simple dream log turns out to be recordings that are part of a clinical trial. Another great thing you had was the uncertainty of who was doing the redacting. Was it the narrator, or was it whoever runs the clinical trial redacting things?

On another level, there was something really Jungian about this. Have you read the Red Book? A lot of the imagery was similar in tone, and gave me the same feeling as reading your story here.

Good job!

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Peter Whitney
15:38 Jan 04, 2026

Thank you very much! I'll have a look at Red Book.

As for who's redacting... maybe I'll keep that unknown. :)

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