20 Nov 2025
Dream
When I was six, I used to watch a lot of “hacker” videos on YouTube. They were fake, but as a little kid, I didn’t know that. They actually scared me a lot, even though I kept watching them. I didn’t realize that the fear was building up inside me.
One night, I had a nightmare that really stuck with me. It seems silly now, but back then it felt terrifying. In the dream, my dad was a hacker, and there were hidden tunnels all around our house. Every time I tried to talk to him, he would escape into one of the tunnels.
I remember being in an office in the dream, and my dad opened a drawer and said he needed to get his phone. I thought he was just grabbing it normally, but the drawer opened up into another secret tunnel and he disappeared again. He kept avoiding talking to me.
Looking back, I feel like the dream actually connects to real life a little. My dad doesn’t like talking about feelings or anything deep or spiritual. Whenever something emotional comes up, he tries to avoid it, just like the dream version of him escaping into tunnels.