Scariest dream I’ve had in a long time

I was at a pool party with high school friends, and we were all laughing and splashing and singing Alicia Keys. Then the scene changed, and we were at an abortion clinic: Erik and me, high school girl friends, and high school guy friends with their girlfriends. We were all sitting there waiting and waiting. There was one girl already in there who had some kind of complication, and we all saw her come out limping and screwing up her face in agony. The clinic was cold and sterile and metallic. I don’t think I’ve ever felt such terror in a dream, even when I had bad guys chasing me (as often happens). I went into the bathroom with Jackie and we were both shaking and crying and freaking out.

They took me to the back for my abortion, and put me under, but when I woke up I had a baby boy. I was shocked but the baby was so sweet, and I was so relieved not to have to go through the abortion, I couldn’t complain as I knew I ought to because they’d made that decision while I was asleep. Erik and I took our baby to a hotel room so we could all rest. I knew the baby was a newborn so he couldn’t sit up or anything, but he was able to open his eyes and talk to me and think grown-up thoughts… which was not creepy in the dream, but adorable and comforting. He was wearing a striped shirt and had the cutest face.

Then tiny flies started pouring into the room, and I knew they were Dr Seuss’s minions come to get my child (I know… WTH?!). I cast a protective shield over the baby and tried to conjure frogs to eat the flies, but they couldn’t stave them off for long. By the end I was forced to pick up one of my decoupage magazines and use it to smash the flies against the furniture. I banged and smashed and smacked, and dead flies stuck to my hands and fell off the tables and coated the magazine all over. But the baby was okay.

**edit 7/3**
What’s even more bizarre now about this dream is that Jackie also had a dream about having a pool party with our high school friends. In her dream we started out at a wedding and then had this pool party, so I guess my dream just picked up where hers left off.