The Old Woman

June 23rd, 2025

The dream started with me sitting in a giant hospital room, waiting for hours. The feeling of boredom and exhaustion was already hitting me and the dream had just started. I was endlessly staring at a light-yellow wall, and a nearby clock was ticking. 

I look down to my phone to check the time, 10:45pm and looked out the window to a pitch black sky. Nobody was in the hospital room, nobody was in the bed. I had no idea what I was doing there or waiting for. 

I get up to leave and as I'm walking out of the building and heading towards my car, there was an old woman in front of me walking just as fast. For some reason, she still wasn't going fast enough and my dream self thought it was necessary to start running ahead of her. I heard her gripe about it behind me and I smirked as I walked up to my car.

But I suddenly my stomach twisted with fear, I wasn't supposed to make a noise loud enough for her to hear me. What was I thinking? She knew I was laughing at her. 

When I got to my car, I was too scared to walk the extra two steps to the drivers seat so I jump into the back seat thinking she'd catch me. I waited in my car for a few seconds so she would walk past. I saw her stare at me as she walked by and I thought she was gone. 

But I screamed bloody murder when I looked straight ahead and saw her body facing forward in my drivers seat, and her head facing me. Her neck became long and flexible, her eyes were white.

I woke up screaming.

I looked it up to see what this dream could mean and some themes came up:

Hospital: Feeling of being stuck wasting time, or waiting for something that isn't happening

Time & Darkness: Feeling lost, emotionally tired or isolated

The old woman: desire to escape the pace of others, or being afraid to move forward fast but being afraid to be seen by someone who represents tradition, authority or guilt.

Hiding in the car: personal control and movement, but avoiding control as I didn't take the drivers seat.

The horror, neck twisting: Being seen and judged by something you thought was gone, pure psychological horror.