Time travelling and getting stuck in the future
Last night I dreamt that I went back in time with a guy and a girl in their early to mid twenties to stop some sort of unfortunate event from happening to one of their friends in high school. I think their friend may have still been alive in the present, and it was never established what exactly happened to him. We time travelled by taking an old elevator with a scissor gate door that went down into an old department store when the store was closed. The number 8 was somehow significant; we had either gone back eight years, or we had gone back to 2008. We found the guy in a courtyard in town early in the evening and warned him about whatever was going to happen to him. This was apparently all we needed to do. He was about to play in some kind of sporting event and invited his friends to join. I wanted to get back to the present, but his friends wanted to stay and watch him play in the game. I was debating on whether to go back by myself or go to the event to avoid getting separated. I went back to the department store with the two people I had time travelled with, and I was trying to convince them to come with me now. They said they were going to stay and attend the event but told me to go ahead and take the elevator back to the present. I said I wanted them to come with me to make sure we all made it back, but they weren’t going to leave until after the event.
I pressed the elevator button and started going up, but the elevator got stuck between floors. I could still see the store through the bottom of the door, and I could see sunlight coming in through the top of the door. I was thinking about going through the escape hatch in the ceiling. There were people at the top, and they somehow got me out (I can’t remember if they got the elevator working or pulled me out).
I had come up in what looked like an old western desert mining town surrounded by hills. I saw a tour group walking around, and I recognized an older blonde woman as Denae, one of the chaperones from the Minnesota school on my Europe trip in 2004. I called out and got her attention, and I said I needed to talk to her son Eric (who was ostensibly the guy in the duo I had time-travelled with). Denae gestured to a kid who looked like an eight-year-old version of Eric. This didn’t make sense because I knew I had gone forward in time, so I surmised that this Eric was a younger relative of the Eric I was looking for. I walked around asking for today's date, but no one would give it to me. I ended up in the lobby of a posh hotel in a greener area, and I walked into a parlor that had a TV playing CNN. The date was on the TV screen, and the year was sometime in the 2040’s or 2050’s. I now knew that I had overshot 2020, and I was trying to figure out how to get back. That’s all I remember.
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The scissor gate on the elevator and the desert town came from watching 3 From Hell before bed. In one scene, a prison guard shut Baby in a chamber with a scissor gate so that some other inmates could kill her. After escaping from prison, the inmates travel to a rundown desert town in Mexico.
I pressed the elevator button and started going up, but the elevator got stuck between floors. I could still see the store through the bottom of the door, and I could see sunlight coming in through the top of the door. I was thinking about going through the escape hatch in the ceiling. There were people at the top, and they somehow got me out (I can’t remember if they got the elevator working or pulled me out).
I had come up in what looked like an old western desert mining town surrounded by hills. I saw a tour group walking around, and I recognized an older blonde woman as Denae, one of the chaperones from the Minnesota school on my Europe trip in 2004. I called out and got her attention, and I said I needed to talk to her son Eric (who was ostensibly the guy in the duo I had time-travelled with). Denae gestured to a kid who looked like an eight-year-old version of Eric. This didn’t make sense because I knew I had gone forward in time, so I surmised that this Eric was a younger relative of the Eric I was looking for. I walked around asking for today's date, but no one would give it to me. I ended up in the lobby of a posh hotel in a greener area, and I walked into a parlor that had a TV playing CNN. The date was on the TV screen, and the year was sometime in the 2040’s or 2050’s. I now knew that I had overshot 2020, and I was trying to figure out how to get back. That’s all I remember.
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The scissor gate on the elevator and the desert town came from watching 3 From Hell before bed. In one scene, a prison guard shut Baby in a chamber with a scissor gate so that some other inmates could kill her. After escaping from prison, the inmates travel to a rundown desert town in Mexico.