I had this dream last night that started out weird, got really terrifying, then ended weirdly. and I had all of it typed out in great detail before I accidentally hit back and lost everything RIP
Anyways, it started out with me being a teacher for a grade 1 or 2 class (can't remember which, but either way I was in charge of a bunch of very young children). My classroom was actually in the place where I currently work, which is at a vet clinic. Instead of having desks all the kids sat at treatment tables (at my work we only have 2 in the treatment area, but in my dream the room was longer so that it could accommodate more treatment tables) and my desk was at the dental table.
In the dream, the lesson I was teaching involved me giving each student a beta fish. I was just about to give the first kid their fish when things got really terrifying. Basically a gunman had entered the school. There was no announcement or anything saying that we had to go on lockdown or anything, it was like everyone just suddenly knew that this was happening and that we had to deal with it. So we were all hiding under desks treatment tables when the gunman walked into the class. He was wearing a suit, dark sunglasses, and had this really creepy smile (Now that I look back on it, he looked a lot like the hearse driver from Burnt Offerings).
And then things got really weird from here on out. I was freaking out, because there's a gunman in the class and rather than just opening fire he says he has a list of pre-selected people that he wants to kill in this class specifically. I had no idea if I was on the list or not, but then I had this thought where I was like "Don't worry, you always survive things like this." Kind of a weird thought to have, but it was actually a reference to another very similar dream that I had (I may have even posted it in this thread. I'll look for it later. Edit: found it). So for some reason, that was enough to calm me down.
But then the gunman calls out the name of the first kid on his hit list and I felt like I had to do something to stop it because I was supposed to be the person in charge of the class and it would be my fault if I let this guy kill any of the students. So I'm freaking out, trying to find a way to stop this guy when I have this other super weird thought: "No one will die if you wake up right now." And idk how I was able to do it, but I somehow managed to force myself awake.
I know that lucid dreaming is a thing, but I've never experienced it or even tried to teach myself how to do it. I also don't usually remember my thoughts in dreams, so it was kinda weird that I did in this one. Also, I need to stop having dreams about school shootings. I don't know why that's happening, but that shit really needs to stop.
TLDR; Had a dream that referenced a previous dream that I had. Then proceeded to stop a school shooting by just waking up.