What are maze dreams about?

Every couple of weeks or so, I dream of a big old cluttered house. Its never the same house but the things that are the same are: very large with lots of rooms, sometimes maze-like; usually give an old feeling, sometimes decrepit; always familiar, like my family lived there once; always cluttered usually with old objects that belonged to my family when we lived there. It just looks abandoned with all the junk inside.

So, a LONG time ago, I don’t know, maybe ten years ago, I had a nightmare that I still remember quite accurately. Not the order of events, but the setting. It was set at night at this large building... the building was made of concrete and was clearly abandoned. It had an extremely creepy and unnerving aura. I think it was a layer of offices and cubicles on the first floor, with who knows what above. The “cubicles” were all separated by these glass walls. The offices with glass walls stretched for a long distance... the whole room of cubicles itself was massive. However, the cubicles weren’t necessarily the creepy part...

The building had these labyrinth-like halls (again, concrete, abandoned, and creepy as hell) which I would walk through. I felt alone yet in the company of another being. The creepy part was the Minotaur that followed me loosely... it was dark so it was difficult to see but I could make out the massive bull head. It followed me through the halls and when I made it to the cubicle room it stared at me from all the way across the massive room. I could see the Minotaur from the other end.

The next part of the dream took me outside the building, to a very small, yet good-looking house (one room) with a small yard and a fence. I believe behind the House was forest. Inside the house there was this living being... and they were friendly... but they were made of leather. I think I allied with the leather man and we defended the yard from either the Minotaur or stuffed animals.

I cannot fully explain the creepy aura that this building and Minotaur gave off. I’m sure everyone has those dreamlike “places” that take hold in their imagination. This place is one of those for me. Imagine a Minotaur stalking you in a labyrinth of concrete walls. This nightmare will always impact me and anchor a fear inside of me.

Thanks for reading this far. Please tell me if you understand the creepy feeling I’m trying to get across.

Okay, so this morning I went back to sleep because I was missing school and .. I had a pretty horrifying dream. I’ll try to remember best I can.

First, there were these people, who seemed like they were in a cult of some sort or something like that . And I lived with them somehow, but it wasn’t normal. This was NOT a normal dream. This had a very eerie vibe that made me feel like I was actually in danger. I know weird stuff happened, but I just can’t quite remember or explain it. Now, there’s a section of this dream I remember almost perfectly. These people invited me and my friend to Chuck E. Cheese , to do something (I can’t remember), and I said yes. My mom was driving us there. The town we were in was very ghost town-ish and deserted and eerie. I remember the feeling I had in the dream, which was incredibly nervous to do whatever this was and if my mom found out we were meeting with people, then I started thinking about all the possibilities of getting kidnapped, murdered, etc. so I said we should go back home, so we started to. Then, my friend gets a phone call and I know she shouldn’t answer it but she does. My mom and I can hear it from her phone, and it’s a strange voice repeating a sentence over and over. My mom tells her to put it on speaker so we can hear what she’s saying and she does. They’re talking and I can hear what the voice is saying, but I can’t make out the words at all. I ask them what she’s saying and then , I wake up. Since it was a scary dream, I wake up with that same relieved feeling that we all do when we wake up from a scary dream. I start looking around but everything is somehow fucked. I wake up again, once again relieved and weirded out. But once again, stuff is weird (I can’t explain how), I wake up again. And again. And again. Each time getting less relieved and more scared. The final time, I don’t “wake up again” I’m just still awake. But I can’t move, so I know Its sleep paralysis. I do my trick to get out of it (which is moving ur toes) and then I’m out of the car with my friend in front of Chuck E. Cheese. For some reason we decide to go around the back to look, and there are the people. We then go back to the front and walk in the actual Chuck E. Cheese (it looks like the middle of Chuck E. Cheese, but it’s grey and eerie and deserted) a door opens with one of the girls telling us to go back there. Then, for SOME reason, my friend disappears, the people disappear, and I’m on my schools track. I’m in a track practice with other people. I run, much faster than I can actually in real life and am not last place. The coach, (I forgot what she looked like) went up to the girl in last place and started telling her she’ll be her assistant and stuff. Then the dream switches to me in a room. It’s a really dusty, plain room, almost like a hallway with a bed. And there are 3 doors on the wall. I guess I turned into Sarah from the movie “labyrinth” and I forgot who I was, or something. I forgot that whole portion of the dream though. Then these people at some point come up into the room without acknowledging me, and someone, I’m assuming my imaginary dad, says “someone is in one of these doors” the two other men open the last door, and there’s nothing, and then they open the door next to me, and there’s nothing, and they say “I guess there’s nothing here” , and my imaginary dad says, “you didn’t look in that brown door” and they ignore it. So I go up to the brown door in the middle, open it, and I’m startled by uhh, this is kind of when things get silly in the dream..Dobby from Harry Potter, but then he disappears. I can’t remember what happens next, but later, I help a lost Harry Potter remember who he is and he returns to hogwarts. Very weird ending.

I then woke up. Normally. Though. Like in real life. Or is it...? 😱😱 also very scary thing to add on to my eerie day!: they found a dead body at a local park I was very recently at with my friends! Not related, but I thought it was creepy.

In the dream I am in some kind of abandoned mountain side station with 2 other men we are not friends but have teamed up so to speak. We are trying desperately to find our way out to escape but I don't know why. The facility is empty pale blue walls it has an almost clinical feel but I know it's not a hospital. I see a man run into a room finding light up the stairs he keeps running not looking where just desperately heading towards the light. He is blocked by a metal gate that looks out into the outside world, it must be a cliff face there are vines and moss hanging down on the other side then a trap door shuts behind him pinning him between the gate and slab to his back. There a 2 wholes in the wall and a level seemingly to lift the slab for. 2 men then rush into the room they go for the lever but the stuck man warns them about the trap that the lever will send 2 spear like spikes coming out of the wall to impaled those trying to operate the lever. With this knowledge in mind they proced carefully and manage to succeed. The 2 men are of myself or the one I feel most comfortable with and a hard looking tough man, the kind of man a shy kid sometimes ends up with to protect them from bullies not realising that they are the bullie. The 3 of us then proceed to explore the rooms in search of an exit still try to escape, not rushed or in fear just escape a maze of all look the same corridors and rooms. The man and my friend do not like each other I say that we should try to look for provisions food and the like. We search a group of rooms each taking one I find a small room with a table couple chairs and a fridge. I open the fridge to find some food, but what stuck out was 3 bottles of cold beer... I call my friend and the man into the room to what I have found my friend is happy about the beer and shares a quick drink with me seeming friendly towards me, I remember how cold and refreshing it was. The other man then comes in my friend makes no attempt to hide his dislike for him and grasps the 1 remaining beer from the fridge and heads out of the room. The man comes to the fridge in search but I know there is none left then I look and there is one more bottle hiding in the corner I get it and offer it to him I feel a disappointing gaze from my friend who sees the exchange and feel uneasy. My view now changes to the pov of my friend going to the elevator and pressing the bottom, something seems wrong though a he feels the need to wrap a cloth around both of the hands and pull tightly as if getting ready to strangle someone on the other side of the door. The other man catches up with him and he stands to the left of the elevator at what seems like a safe distance. Then seeing the door behind my friend begin to open his eyes go wide a d my friend turns to meet the challenge. What happens next is so horrific that I still cannot explain why I saw it. My view shifts back to 'me' the man in the small room with the fridge, I come round the corner to the elevator and am confronted with the terrible sight of the elevator doors trying to shut with a body inside the doors, these doors however do not close sideways these close from top to bottom. Between each half ly's a crumpled bofy of a strange man whos head is forced forward at an unatural angle his back straightlyind down between the two halfs of the elevator doors. His head being slowly crushed with the pressure. I feel sick and struggle not to vomit. I look to the right of this and see my friend in a similar condition not mangled or anything like that of the stranger but struggling to save himself from being crushed between another elevator doors trying to shut with his body in between. I then look left and see the other man in an open elevator shaft on top of the elevator itself moments before being crushed between the elevators roof and the shaft ceeling. At this point I wake up....

I was trapped in an industrial labyrinth with only a pistol. It was barely visible with the only ambient light coming from holes in the roof of the warehouse. I was chased by these disgustingly fat sausage shaped monsters frantically dragging and waddling themselves towards me with these frail and disproportionately small arms.

Their skin was a discolored gray with dozens of brown and green spots as if it were badly molding bread. The monsters’ skin stretched so tightly around their bodies that their rib cages bulged through despite their obese figure. The bottom portion of their faces were split open and dangled loosely like raw steak.

I tried shooting the monsters but that only seemed to make them angrier. Dropping the gun I ran, stumbling clumsily over stray pipes and occasionally my own feet. I cried, begged and screamed for help but my cries were drowned out by the cold darkness of the labyrinth and the guttural and bubbling growling coming from the wall of flesh nipping at my heals.

A burning vibration, what I believe to be dream pain, radiated throughout my foot into my calf as I collapsed to floor. I looked back to see half of my leg submerged in its gaping and fleshy maw, it’s cold and indifferent eyes locked with mine. I clawed at the grimy linoleum flooring as the monster dragged me deeper and deeper into its mouth.

I could feel my skin rip, the pop of ligaments being tore from bone and the crushing of said bone. I could feel my breath get lighter and and hear my screams grow fainter as it’s tongue crushed down on my rib cage. The shrinking of ambient light coming from the labyrinth being the last thing I saw as it’s mouth closed shut.

The darkness of its insides melted with an unknown ambient light and I found myself back at the beginning of the labyrinth again, eyes desperately trying to fix themselves to the darkness around me, the monsters directly in front of me.
This scenario looped more than 5 times with me dying every time until I finally woke up.