19 Jul 2025
Dream
So I can was at Keira’s dads house. Either that or I was at my old house. I had the Nintendo switch connected to the tv and I had bought and downloaded Among Us for it. After it had downloaded, it appeared that I had two Animal Crossings on my switch and no Among Us. One was my normal Animal Crossing, but one was Animal Crossing with the image slightly distorted, and in the dream it felt very scary. As you do, I clicked on the game and loaded it up. It started flashing black, white and red distorted videos of the game, as if it was Among Us, but real life crewmates murdering each other. I couldn’t interact with it, not even close the app. Keira, my friend, and her dad and brother and stepmum were all sat with me. They all flinched and looked away, terrified. I started crying. It was horrible. Like one of those fake anti-piracy screens. It was making the sounds from Among Us when the imposter kills you, but instead of an animation, it showed someone actually stabbing someone through their head with a knife. And there were horrible screams. I was trying to frantically turn it off, and I couldn’t. I couldn’t at all close the app. It kept playing the black and red flashing murder, Carter (Keira’s stepbrother) started crying and hugged his mum and looked away. Carter isnt one to cry. I was telling everyone I was sorry over and over again, and when I finally got to the Home Screen, the text above the game was red. It showed “Animal Crossing” in red, with some typos and flickering from black to red. I had left it like that for a second and asked if everyone was okay. I had said for them all not to go to sleep or it would have a horrible affect on their dreams. So they went to the kitchen. I had taken the switch out of the dock and turned it off and went to sleep. The next day, I went to my friend, Zack’s house. I don’t know what it actually looks like, so my brain had imagined it as my boyfriend, Lucas’ room. I had the switch with me and was telling Zack a bit about what happened. He was trying to cheer me up and change the subject, and we were laughing about something when my phone started ringing. It was an unknown caller. I had pressed the red button, but the green button had smudged into red, and it answered the call. It was a woman. She told me what to do and how to get rid of this, and to stop it from spreading. She told me to disconnect from WiFi and forget any connections in my settings. So, I did. She told me what steps I needed to follow in order to get rid of it. However, in my dream, she seemed scary and untrustworthy, almost as if she wasn’t on my side. She had helped me to get rid of the terrible distorted version I had of Among Us. She told me what had happened, that it was a temporary glitch in the Nintendo E-Shop, and it was caused by files of Animal Crossing and Among Us becoming corrupted and assigned the new update together, to become one horrible and blood curdling piece of malware. She told me more about it and that 8 people have had this experience, and that I was the first to download it after the update. Zack looked terrified as the Nintendo Switch theme had turned red and the colours had then inverted. I told him it was okay and that it would all be okay and sorted out eventually. She told me the steps, which I followed. Eventually, I had got rid of the malware. Everything was better. She said she’d pass it on further and remove it from the E-Shop and get it fixed. She said for me not to download anything from the E-Shop just in case of this happening again. When I got home from Zack’s a few hours later, I was messaging him on my laptop. The terrifying thing is, there were red blotches and smudged dots next to every message I sent.
