Dreams From Imi, Vol. 2

A former dreamer, The In Between , wrote to me after reading her interpretation:“Thank you for this deep analysis. I definitely have always felt a strong outside pressure to live a certain life, and didn’t want to pursue my own real writer dreams unless I absolutely knew it would happen for me. I woke up feeling a sense of taking the risk that my life could have room for this authentic version of me. I asked for a sign that day and I think your dream analysis coming just now may have been it.”

Dreamer (anonymous upon request):

This is a dream from 2020. I was deployed overseas. COVID. Bunkers and sirens. Base on lockdown.

I had the craziest dream that could honestly be turned into an anime. It was very detailed but relatively short, so I’ll give you the synopsis.

It was around holiday time and everyone was shopping for gifts for their loved ones. There weren’t as many people left in the world ever since these overlords came and destroyed 80% of the population. All that was left now was Earth and a broken, massive boat about the size of Noah’s Ark, full of holes that kept it sunken below these lords who lived beneath the throne of these universe-sized rulers.

There was a daughter, the size of a giant, who sympathised with the humans, so she spent her days walking around making sure everyone had the supplies they needed and that morale was up. A cute pink-haired girl.

She had an older brother who was about half the size of the Earth. He also sympathised with the humans, but due to his colossal form, he could never openly align with them or else his father, who ruled over everything below him, would find out.

They were like concepts as well as real things, so it would look like they were sitting still on a throne, but their power was very real. There was also a grandfather, about the size of the father, not bigger, but the power his smaller figure radiated was terrifying.

So the son and daughter had been in cahoots with the humans, allowing them to stage a rebellion. The daughter, being closer in scale, was directly helping the people of Earth revive the boat in hopes that it would float so they could ride it up to the father, who had essentially initiated the takeover of Earth.

The boat was being patched and fixed around holiday time, and while everyone seemed happy and jolly, there was tension underneath it all because the boat was actually finished, just intentionally left with holes so they could seal them at the last moment and begin the rebellion.

The father lord was aware of this. He loved his children, more so his son than his daughter, and the only way they could overthrow him was to defeat him. But they were young and naive and had never seen his full power, so they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into.

So on the day, they initiated the overthrow. The sister and brother did everything they could to pair with the humans and launch the boat. So many people hopped on and began floating up toward the atmosphere where the father overlord was.

Then the overlord used his power, called permafrost, and froze everything below him in the blink of an eye, including himself, except for his eyes and mouth. He toned down his power just enough so that his son could escape and live, but 99.9% of everything was completely frozen.

The son was frozen too, except for his right nostril. He was frantically hyperventilating, trying to move and breathe through it. Eventually, he managed to break free and escape, along with a mysterious human riding on his arm, who was suffering the same fate.

Then I woke up.

What this dream is expressing:

This doesn’t read like a random dream.

It reads like the psyche trying to map power, survival, and the possibility of change all at once.

A system with a world built on layers above and below, with powers and those who live under them. This is an indicator of how power feels both distant and suffocating at the same time.

In dream language, this often points to an inner architecture that formed early, not necessarily in childhood, but in a moment where the psyche had to reorganise itself quickly in order to survive something overwhelming.