u/ImJokingButWhyNot

This is almost exactly as I saw it, down to the 3d Mario background (except I replaced myself with the Red Spy and my profile pic).

Several years ago, in about 2022 to early 2023, I was becoming increasingly right-wing and radicalized. It was so much that I began to call people being gay "wrong" and advocated for banning of gay marriages and such. I was only in like 8th or 9th grade. I had been watching Youtube videos at lunch, specifically scrolling through shorts. I was following all of these right-wing channels, like Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk (pre-neck incident), Michael Knowles, Andrew Tate and the like. Those are the only ones I distinctly remember being in my dream.

Anyway, one night in roughly March or April of 2023, I had a dream where me and a gay lover (I am not gay irl), as well as two lesbians (who are also straight irl as far as I know) who were travelling with us, were being hunted down by these people. Well, more of the ideas of the people rather than the people themselves (although I did see them as the people), as well as my former self (who was advocating for these terrible things). There was also a crowd filled with people I knew personally who shared these ideas, carrying torches and pitchforks and other weapons. I knew that if we were caught, we would be tortured and killed as an example to others.

We were hiding behind some walls, and were trying to tell each other it would be okay. It was very emotional, and I knew that we would be caught eventually. Like in some movie, I ran away to buy some time for my lover and the lesbian couple who were with us. I remember being cornered up against a wall and about to be caught, and this crowd chased after me and finally cornered me, about to torture me to death.

Then I woke up nearly screaming in fear. I went from extremely conservative Christian to moderately liberal Christian who accepts and encourages others to explore themselves overnight.

What's weird is that this dream is the most coherent dream I have ever had, and this image I recreated is the most distinct visual I can give. This singlehandedly turned me to an actually good person, rather than only repeating what I'd heard and thought was "right". I used the bible to advocate against LGBT people, and now I use it to advocate for them (I believe God intends for us to work it through, and that not everyone is a straight, white cookie-cutter family). This also made me no longer racist, I have never again used the "statistics" to prove superiority ever again.

u/ImJokingButWhyNot — 25 days ago