Sunday, December 27, 2015

Automotonaphobia

The dream was a lot longer, but I didn't write it down as soon as I woke up, so I've forgotten most of it. I just remember that every year these people got together a group of teenagers to use for experiments that somehow involved black bunnies. I ended up being part of this years experiments, but I don't remember much else about that. I remember having a fear of robots because I knew that in the near future they would override their programming and basically take over the world. There were green police robots that kind of looked like Bumblebee from Transformers (except green), and I remember passing them and knowing that they were designed to be good guys but could easily override their programming and turn into bad guys at any minute.

Friday, December 25, 2015

High School or College?

This one is spotty, but I remember a good portion I think. I was living with my mom in an apartment that slightly resembled the actual apartment I used to live in with her. I had some friends over, and it was nearly the last day of school, but I hadn't been able to attend because I was out giving birth to my son (who I actually gave birth to nearly four years AFTER high school.). We were sitting in the bathroom and my friends were updating me on everything that was going on at school, and telling me that our teacher, who I guess was named Ms. Tish, had finally let the class finish a movie we started forever ago. Throughout these discussions, I found myself remembering a high school, and I had to keep correcting myself that I was in college. We were discussing whether or not I should even bother going back to school this year as there were only three days left and there was no way I could pass the final exams. Plus students weren't required to attend the last few days if they didn't have an exam. My friends left I guess, and I proceeded to straighten my hair with a broken straightener. I remember someone telling me I was ugly and no amount of straightening was going to fix that, or something along those lines. After straightening my hair, I took it in the shower for some reason. After I got in and turned on the water, my mom came in and demanded to know what I was doing and why. When I told her I was taking a shower, she said "uh huh, sure." or "yeah right.", which is weird and very uncharacteristic of my mother. She was never the type of person to call you out on your lies whether you were lying or not.
I remember another part of the dream involving some friends of mine, but I don't remember exactly what point it took place at. We were out in what I guess was a swamp as there was murky greenish water and several unsafe bridges over it. Me and two other guys (I think Jimmy and my last ex), were riding motorcycles (which I don't even really know how to do) over the bridges, and someone ended up crashing or sinking or something. Otherwise we had fun.

Brain Surgery

I went to the doctor with a problem with my hand shaking, and he told me that there was something wrong in my brain and he would have to perform surgery. For some reason Jimmy also went in for surgery with me. They were going to put us both out and perform surgery on us, but once they had already given Jimmy the anesthetic, they were about to give it to me and suddenly said that I can't get the surgery because I have a blockage in my heart, aka clogged arteries, which for some reason had something to do with brain surgery. They went through with the surgery on Jimmy, but for some reason they cut his throat and pulled something out. I remember being concerned that the doctor had killed him, but then figuring he knew what he was doing. I left there and went on a search in what I guess was my mom's pantry to find extra virgin olive oil,  which is supposed to clear blockages in the heart. It took awhile, but I found some and then had to find shot glasses, which I eventually did, and took several shots of olive oil. It tasted gross. Afterward I guess I left the hospital, because I remember running into a girl I used to go to school with named Megan. We climbed some mountains and rode in her fancy red sports car on the way to find someone named Skylar, who greatly resembled a cross between Jimmy and a guy I went to high school with. I think Skylar turned out to be a drunk with absolutely no future, and when he asked why I was coming to see him I explained that I did not know and that the doctor had told me it would be good for my health to spend some time with him, though I can't recall him ever saying that.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

My Son's Foster Family

I dreamed that our son (who I distinctly remember giving birth to) had been a foster child in the past. I saw a video online somewhere from when he was maybe three months with his foster family. He was lying in a crib and crying and these two other kids were acting like they were drunk and throwing things like bottles at him and saying stuff like "come on Gabriel!" "Yeah, come on Gabriel!" as if urging him to magically get out of his crib and come over. Afterward I went to my baby and picked him up and hugged him hard as I cried. I felt so bad for him, and I was so happy that I had gotten him. I couldn't help thinking that I was meant to get him because I already knew what to name him. I think I also burned down his foster family's home at some point.

Mom And The Blue Ambulance

I had a dream that my mother went back to the hospital in a blue ambulance because she wasn't eating enough to stay alive. Beforehand, she was waiting out front of this house we were in (though I have no idea whose house we were in. All I know is I didn't live there.) with one of my coworkers for the ambulance to come. I remember someone who was supposed to be my friend (I guess the girl who lived in the house) asking me where my mom was going. I insisted she wasn't going anywhere and went over to the window to look out, at which point I saw her standing with my coworker and waiting for the ambulance. Once it arrived to take her to the hospital, I simply stayed by the window and waited for her to come back. When she returned I ran out to greet her, and she told me that she would be fine just as long as she kept eating. We hugged each other and I don't remember what if anything happened after that.

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

The Black Ghost

This will be short. I had a dream recently in which I thought there were spirits in our house, so I set up cameras like in Paranormal Activity. I was shocked to discover the ghost of a light skinned black man laying in our bed right next to Jimmy.

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Pieces Of Dreams

This is probably a couple dreams since I slept like a rock, but I remember next to nothing. I remember jumping from a large wooden tower because I was in a video game and there was no other way down, but it was okay since I had more lives.
I remember going to a little tiny store that sold pretty much nothing but baby food to use my son's WIC vouchers. It was a store I remembered from a past dream, though I don't recall ever dreaming of it before, and there was a shelf right in the center of the room that made it practically impossible to get to the baby food.
I went to a different store (this may have been another part of the first dream) where they sold Native American artwork. I found one that I really liked and the Native American working there told me it was like $150,000, which I couldn't afford, so I bought a beanie baby wolf for $6 instead. Before selling it to me, he told me some kind of cleasing ritual had to be performed, and he lit it on fire and then shook the fire out and gave it back to me practically bald.

Friday, December 18, 2015

Missing Childhood

I was being persued by someone and trying to get away, and my mother was with me, trying to find a place for me to hide. I don't remember much from this one, but I do remember passing several playgrounds, some of which were all exactly alike except for the paint. I think we passed a cemetery at some point and tons of buildings and grassy areas for picnics. I think there was even a subway train station, despite the fact that there isn't a subway train anywhere in the town we were in, which I somehow knew. I think we eventually settled in a church and I hid out in a wardrobe inside a small room. After awhile I thought I heard the person chasing us enter the room, and I was freaking out, but when the wardrobe door opened, there were three or four children peering in at me. I came out from my wardobe and proceeded to play games with the kids.

Keys In The Abandoned Town

I dreamed that I was in an empty town with three other people who were supposed to be my family, I guess. There was a dad who I remember resembling the dad on the movie Disappearance, a mom, and a son. I was the daughter. I kept finding keys everywhere with color coded tags and was taking pictures of practically everything. I remember my brother and I were looking around by what turned out to be an old mental asylum for women when I found the first ring of keys hidden behind a metal door. It had several keys, each a different color, which I quickly realized was for each different area of the town. I think yellow was for education,  like the schools, and green was for health, like the women's hospital. I left my mom and brother and found my dad in a print shop freaking out about a picture that had printed made of blood or something. He was calling someone, some woman, who I somehow knew he had a crush on or would develop one because as part of the plot he and my mother didn't feel for each other like they used to, and he was going realize he still loved her by the end of the dream. I found another set of keys inside of a printer with tan stickers or whatever and took those and started trying to open things in the print shop. All the while the woman my dad had been talking to on the phone had already made up her mind to come find us in this town to help is settle whatever was going on. I started trying the keys in random locks around the print shop and just as I found one that fit, I woke up.

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Zombie Apocalypse

I was the leader of a group living in the middle of the zombie apocalypse and everyone was living in small groups in several trailers. I was going from trailer to trailer, scaring people and scolding them for not being prepared because I could have been a zombie. Will add more later if I actually remember.

The Secret Pond

I dreamed there was a pond behind a fence behind the apartments where I used to live with my mom. While there is some truth to this, the pond in my dream was much prettier. The water was a beautiful crystal blue whereas the real pond behind the apartments was more of a murky green. Jimmy and I apparently used to go to this secret pond with our friends to relax and enjoy life. We would swim and soak and dive (in the dream. In reality, I have only known Jimmy for about four years.). We kept the pond a secret from literally everyone because we knew that if anyone else ever found out about it, they would use it for profit, therefore ruining the beauty and sentimental value of our sanctuary. Somehow one of our bosses from work came across our hideout and, just as we expected, had every intention of destroying it, so we had to go back in time to find our boss as a child and invite her to our pond so that she too could see just how beautiful and wonderful it was. We found her and took her to the pond, but I don't remember if we convinced her, although we probably did. I do remember,  however, a fifties style diner with the stereotypical black and white checkered floor tiles, an arcade, and a haunted maze that Jimmy, me, and our friend went through. I don't remember who the friend was, or even if he was a friend of ours, but I do remember that he was black, and I was following him through the maze for the first part because he seemed to be taking the most accurate and direct route. I was the one who found the exit though, and I had to call out and go back to find the other two so that we could leave. The maze came out into a darkened movie theater with a very small group of people watching whatever was playing. I don't remember much besides that.

Friday, December 11, 2015

The Circus

This was one of those dreams that seems familiar but isn't. Apparently I decided I wanted to start my own clothing line because I was at a store matching pants and shirts to make outfits with intention to sell them. I also tried my hand at making a crib. Later a circus caravan arrived, and it had apparently come before because one of the women knew me and I knew her. She seemed very happy to see me. I think she asked me if I was ready to join the circus and I told her no because I had a family to look after. They proceeded to perform and as I tried to leave I felt like someone was watching me and following me. I don't know if I ever saw him, but I'm pretty sure he was a shady guy in a trench coat. I remember running to the circus because the guy was blocking the gate exit and hiding inside of a van. I think the lady helped me disguise myself as an actor and I had to join the circus after all. I wish I could remember this one better.

The Library

I dreamed that I was at my old high school and desperately looking for a Goosebumps book called Night of the Living Dead, which I'm pretty sure doesn't exist as that is an old movie (Night of the Living DUMMY maybe?). I found the book but couldn't get it for whatever reason, so I left. Apparently I lived at the school because I snuck out of my room that night to go to the library. I found the door cracked and pulled it open to sneak inside. I looked all around for the book, but this time I couldn't find it. I kept searching until morning arrived and Jimmy found me in the library and told me the baby was awake.

Sunday, December 6, 2015

The Parent Games

Like the rest of my dreams lately, this one will be spotty. I remember thinking during this dream that this has to be a dream because stuff like this doesn't happen to me. Jimmy and I were pushing our son in a buggy and came into an area full of ninjas and such, and had to say a password or fight them or something to get through. I think once we got through, there was a small shop like you would see in a tourist town that sells souveneirs. All three of us were seperated from each other and taken to different places. I remember a man leading me down a boarding terminal, or whatever those little mobile hallways they have at airports are, towards a plane. I passed several teenagers, and I remember one guy with long wavy brown hair telling me "don't get on the plane". I guess I didn't listen because the weirdness continued. I remember yelling and shouting at everyone, demanding to know where my baby was, but no one would give me an answer. I saw Jimmy one more time, and that was when we were riding in a shuttle type vehicle. I asked him what was going on and where our son was, but he either didn't know or couldn't say. Just before we had to get off, he told me in a low quiet voice, as if trying not to be heard, that this was something all parents had to go through and we would be out of here soon enough if we passed all the trials. I remember being taken to a tiny enclosed space with another girl where there was a wooden bench and an unusual sticker on the floor with a combination of letters written on it. I don't remember exactly what the girl said, but it was something along the lines of 'look for hints'. I took the sticker as a hint and tried to quickly copy the letters to my hand, but I was sweating so the marker didn't work, even after I tried to dry my hand, so I wrote it on my jeans instead. I came around from behind the wall to find a hockey field and people playing. I think I was supposed to play for one of my tasks, but I don't recall doing so before waking up.

Friday, November 27, 2015

Childhood Friends

I dreamed about two guys I used to know as a teenager. In my dream I worked with one and the other worked at a small restaurant inside the store or hotel I worked at. I asked the restaurant one to have a donut and glass of orange juice ready for me in the morning, but it turned out he wasn't working that morning. For some reason, I scolded my other friend for the first guy not having my donut and orange juice ready. I ordered some noodles from the grouchy old man working there instead and asked Jimmy to wait for it to be made while I went over to talk to the guy I worked with and play with his long hair which he never really had or would ever have. When my noodles were ready, Jimmy angrily told me so (I guess he was jealous of the other guy) and went on to work. I ate my noodles, which turned into fried tenticles and then soup with all sorts of strange ingredients like a christmas eraser and a tiny toy man. I finished and proceeded to talk to the guy I worked with some more, laying my head in his lap and playing with his unnatural long hair, which is also weird since he always had a crush on me when we were teens, but I never had any feelings like that for him. I would even make up excuses not to go out with him. But that's the end of the dream.

Thursday, November 26, 2015

The Kissing Show

I dreamed that I was at a show at a church with a greek theme and I had brought one of my coworkers. After the show and for the second time with a different girl, Jimmy took her back stage and showed her what I guess was called the red room, which turned out to be a dark room in which he would show girls a laser light show he had created or something with his phone. Angry that I had never seen the show, I went back stage to find him, but after three flights of stairs and a yellow slide I couldn't. I went out to the car where he turned out to be and ran into an old friend that I don't even talk to any more on the way. Still upset, I gave him a hug and he followed us home, except we never got home. I confronted Jimmy about the laser show and he gave me a bunch of excuses for never showing me, but he finally did and it was weird. It was like laser pictures and stuff and the app could apparently hack into technology so that the show would appear on buildings and such. I asked him if he'd had interactions with any of the girls he had shown it to and he said he had kissed one, a girl I was friends with in high school. I got mad, broke up with him, and gave all his stuff back before leaving him on an empty road as all the cars had gone around us when we got out to argue. I walked back to the church and went upstairs until I came to an empty closet on the day care floor. Jimmy followed. A janitor saw us and told the pastor who asked if we needed anything, and I told him I needed a place place to stay as I was moving out of Jimmy's house. He didn't question it and left us alone. I demanded to see the negatives of some photos he took in the red room (I guess he didn't have actual photos?) but when I looked I couldn't find any. I woke up as Gabriel (our son) was crawling up my back and clinging onto me to peer over my shoulder to see the negatives in the dream.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Waffles and The Shop

I had these last night but I barely remember anything. I remember that in both dreams my mother was still alive. In the first, a friend or ex coworker of mine opened her own adult shop that sold "toys" and the like. I wanted to go and buy some but it felt awkward since I knew the owner, so I just stole some instead. I went home and showed my mom (and even gave her one!) for some reason, even though she never had anything to do with that stuff. I then disappeared to use my own.
The second I woke up from wanting waffles. It was a very simple dream. My and several of my coworkers (one of whicb I really don't even like) were crashing at my mom's apartment, and she made us waffles. I seem to remember her going to bed and us getting up to get more waffles (the freezer kind), but mostly the dream was just us hanging out in my room, talking and eating waffles.

Monday, November 16, 2015

Horror Movie Dream

The main part of this dream was like a horror movie that I already knew the plot to, maybe from reading a book, and was trying to get someone to watch with me. In the beginning, I was walking home and some dogs were following me and didn't want to get out of my path. I told someone about the movie, and the plot was that there was a guy who lived in an apartment who was supposedly in love with a woman in a house next door or across the street, and he could see into her window. He would watch her every night. In the movie, another man "accidentally" kissed her while team lifting a box with her, and the stalker got super pissed. I knew that he would later approach her and ask her to sleep with him. She would say yes, and they would date for awhile until she discovered that he was the creepy stalker, at which point he would try to kill her. Cliché really. Back to me in the real world, my mom came over and told me that there were affordable apartments beneath my house, and it turned out that I was living in the woman's house. The end.

Friday, November 13, 2015

Zombies and Our Unknown Son

I felt like I literally spun out of this one. I recall discovering that Jimmy and I apparently had a son named Kyle that we didn't know about who was 3 years old or so (Apparently I also had another one that I had no memory of giving birth to. I remember being concerned about having lied at the hospital that my actual son was my first.). We went to pick him up from daycare for lunch so that we could spend a little time with him and figure out how we had a kid this long without knowing about him. The drive there, Jimmy was making jokes that he had adopted the kid or that he was his kid with another woman (both jokes he would really make. He thinks he's so funny.). Turns out he wasn't actually our kid and Jimmy's dad was confused. I also remember going down a long winding gray side that actually slowed you down towards the bottom rather than speeding up. I remember an elevator that we had ran into zombies just outside of and picking up a dull knife, a pocket knife, and a fork on a shelf or counter next to the door. We got into the elevator with a group of people only to find two people inside, one who was biting into the other one's neck. When the neck biter turned around, I stabbed him in the chest with a a hammer that I had gotten from somewhere. He died and the other person with the bite turned into a zombie and came at us. I don't remember who killed him. We got to the bottom floor and came out to find more of the creatures and killed them as we ran through the hall. I killed a few and I remember one was super difficult because I stabbed him in the chest so much that his insides were showing until he finally died. I remember killing a zombie with a spoon and tearing out its heart at some point as well. I also remember going down the same large gray slide that I had seen earlier in the dream, but instead of going all the way down this time, I stopped myself and crawled the rest of the way down to see if there were any zombies. We all came to rest in a large dark room with a red carpet floor, and I think that's the point that I spun out of the dream, which had never happened to me before. It was like being on a fair ride or as if I was one of those newspapers on tv that spins, stops, shows the headline, and continues the process with each newspaper. It was odd. Funny thing is the power went out shortly after I woke up and I just knew the zombies were here, haha. But it came back on.

Legos and Childhood Friends

This one is actually two because both are so spotty. I had a dream that one of my childhood friends came over to visit at my mom's old apartment. We reminisced and even played some of our old childhood games again. For some reason one of my other childhood friends' parents came over to visit, and they didn't believe that I had a kid. I guess they thought I was either a dork or completely innocent. They asked if I had a baby, and I tried to hint by saying I had baby aspirin, which I pulled out of my purse, but they just laughed about it. They had brought an attractive red haired guy about my age with them, who was apparently that friend's brother (even though she only had a sister, and everyone in the family had dark hair.) He was smoking and told me it was okay and that his parents thought he was a fuck up too and I felt like he understood me and ended up crushing on him.
I've been playing Lego Pirates of the Caribbean a lot lately, and my second dream was that I was actually in the game as a Lego person. I don't remember anything I did, but I know I was a Lego person.

Planes and Babies

I dreamed that I was the child of a rich person and for some reason it was tge rich kids' job to provide cookies to the first two rows of everyone on a plane (I guess they were the important people?). I kept messing up and asking too many questions and knew I was probably getting on everyone's nerves. Me and a group of people left the plane and proceeded down a dimly lit street at night. We came to a house with the window open where one of my coworkers was babysitting her grandson (he's about 3 now, but in my dream he was still a baby) and changing his diaper. I happened to be carrying my son who also needed a diaper change apparently because he was sagging a lot. I put him up to the window to see my coworker and her grandson and she oohed and ahhed over him like almost all women seem to do. I don't remember what happend after that. I want to say I vaguely remember a hole in a wall and my group all ran away.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Mechanical Failure

I remember Jimmy and I being on a boat with sails and other boats surrounding us. Jimmy said one boat was the same as ours but I remember insisting that it was bigger. I don't remember how, but we found out that Wal-Mart was letting technology take over people's jobs. At our Wal-Mart there is a McDonald's, and I remember coming out of the back room and going to McDonald's with Jimmy. For some reason it was just outside the door into the back room even though it's normally at the front of the store. As we approached, we saw one of our coworkers get sucked into the floor and only the top of her head was visible. We asked the guys who do the waxing about it, and they told us that we would be okay as long as we stayed on the tiles closest to McDonald's, so we followed them to the restaurant, got some food, and headed back. I remember the drink machine was fully mechanical and it would only squirt a little bit of my Wild Cherry Pepsi into this tiny little cup at a time as if it was taunting me. We went into a classroom full of other people with McDonald's who were sitting at school desks and eating, and after a bit, all the doors locked and we were all locked in. I don't remember much else sadly... That may have been where I woke up. Disappointing. But I do remember everyone was panicking, and I guess we were told to stay in our seats because Jimmy and I were sitting next to each other on the front row. I think we were all required to complete some kind of tasks in order to leave. Too bad I don't remember the rest... if there was more.

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Pokemon Cards in Church

Another short one due to lack of memory. Jimmy, me, one of our female coworkers, and some other guys attended the same church. I was either running late or not planning on attending that day and was watching the service on TV. The announcer was zooming in on each guy and saying how handsome they looked in their suits. When they got to Jimmy, our coworker, who was sitting next to him, said they were going to get married and cuddled up to him. I don't know why I wasn't there for sure, but I changed my mind quickly and rushed over to challenge her to a Pokemon card battle with my deck full of Eevee evolutions. Our alarm went off and woke me up before I could see who won.

Attack of the Zombie Vampires

This one is hazy, but I'll write what I do remember. For some reason the world had been taken over by zombie vampires and me and some other people and a group of fairies were the only live creatures left. One of the fairies was in love with one of the zombie vamps and left our group to go to him despite our warnings, leading her to become one of the enemy. I recall trying to sneak through a room full of them at some point. There was more, but I barely remember it.

Friday, November 6, 2015

The Ghost Photo

I had this dream yesterday, I think. The whole dream was basically me looking for a certain photo from a trip Jimmy and I had taken with our old friend Anthony and a few other people to Egypt or somewhere as the picture was taken in some caves or catacombs made purely from sand like in a pyramid. I had found a video of it on my digital camera where we had been exploring these caves and I was filming and saw a spirit of an old man with a white mustache who had flown over my friends' heads and right at me. The picture I was trying to find had the ghost in it. I'm not sure why I couldn't just find it on my camera, but I guess maybe I wanted the hard copy. The dream was mostly us looking through boxes and stuff for the photo and reminiscing about the trip. Mostly it was just that we walked through a cave and saw a ghost. No mummies or anything.

Fanny and the Desert City

Like most of my dreams, I only remember bits and pieces from this one, but I'm trying to get better, and they say writing them is a good way to get better. Supposedly, it also helps you lucid dream. Last night I dreamed that I lived with a group of people in the middle of a desert or something. We sent two a day to go into the city for whatever reason. In this dream we were trying to rescue someone (Jimmy, I think). We sent a Pikachu and a Raichu named Fanny into the city, but they also got captured, so they sent me and someone else after them. Apparently I could drink gasoline without dying, despite the fact that I was pretty sure I would die while drinking it before we left on our adventure through the desert. When we got to town, we found Fanny and Pikachu and I remember tracing someone's body like a police investigation and Fanny was looking at me all angry and saying I better not touch the dead person because they were his/hers. We infiltrated a building full of hookers and other such things. The girls were laying out on masaage chairs because whoever bought them was required to give them a massage before they would sleep with them, which is actually a pretty good idea, especially since all the guys were old and creepy. I guess they found me at some point because they threw me in a cell and somehow I knew Jimmy would be joining me, so I was getting everything laid out and ready for him. They threw him in there with me later and we laid in the bed and talked as far as I can remember. I don't remember much else besides that.

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

My Coworker's House

I had this dream a few nights ago, but it has stuck with me, so I figured I'd write it down. My fiance and I, along with some other people, went to my coworker's house to pick up something, and it was the most amazing house I had ever seen. It was all made entirely of beautifully polished wood and there was one room that looked just like you had walked outside. It had a pond with lilly pads and rocks and a real waterfall (not those fake glass ones that light up). In the back corner of this room was a bunch of stray cats he had let in and given food to. After we met his mother and sister (he wasn't there), we went to explore this grand house that he had built with his own hand. There was a bar downstairs made of the same polished wood, as was the narrow staircase that led upstairs to the bedrooms (I often dream of narrow staircases for some reason), and just before you went upstairs there was what appeared to be a living room with a couch and one of those springy lamps that you squish between the floor and ceiling, but the entrance to the living room was blocked by a bunch of random stuff like it was being used as storage. It was interesting. I would love to live in or even just visit a house like that.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Robot Children

This dream was cut short by our alarm, but here's what happened. I was in a classroom with another girl (I don't remember who) and a bunch of other strange people. They kept staring at us while they were writing on their papers about something in green ink. Somehow I figured out they were robots (I think I saw their eyes glow red briefly) and wrote a note to my friend on my paper that said something like "they aren't real children, they're machines". Of course, she had a crush on one who asked her to spend time with him so she ignored my warning and I went on my way. I went through a white hall and a bathroom that was just as white aside from the brass handles and spout on the sink, and I thought the robot children were following me, so I closed all the doors behind me and tried to hide, and someone (another girl I think) gave me a strange golden spikey ball that could apparently be used to keep away one's own kind. I remember asking "why would you want to keep away humans?" And then the alarm woke me up.