Hostage dreams: I experienced a series of reoccurring dreams about being held hostage in September 2000. One, I was being held hostage, or actually one of the hostage takers (because I had a gun), inside some kind of Wal-mart/Target type store. It was sort of like guerrilla warfare, I had to protect people, or try to escape, I’m not sure. Another, I was held hostage by an ex-history teacher of mine from high school. I was kept inside a room with 2 other people in his house. I had to go to the bathroom, and asked if I could leave the room and go, and he said yeah. The door had never been locked, and he wasn’t really keeping us there. A 3rd dream, possibly a later part of the previous dream, I was in a basement where a card game was going on (poker, or something). There was a man there trying to cheat people. He took one of the coins on the table, and a knife, and put a big dent into the coin with a knife, and left it on the table. I guess, doing that, turned the coin into a bomb, and everyone got scared (there were a lot of people there) and started to run up the stairs. The coin jumped and exploded, sending little pieces of metal all over. Someone asked who did it, because no one had seen him do it the first time except me. So I said, “he did” and pointed at him. Then he grabbed me and held me at knife point, while people were running up the stairs. So I said, “no he didn’t do it, I don’t know why I said that.” Then he tried to do it again, while still holding me. But then I wasn’t with him anymore, and I was near the stairs. Mostly everyone had gotten up the stairs. My mom was at the top of the stairs and I was trying to sneak up the stairs to get away, but she wouldn’t let me because I was the one he wanted. They kept me down there. That was basically the end, I don’t remember anything after that. There is a slight explanation for this dream, as on the soap opera that I watch, one of the characters had been kidnapped at gun point. There’s no explanation for the people involved (parents, ex-history teacher). I don’t know much else about how to interpret it either. They only occurred for about 2 weeks. I know that 4 days in a row I had dreams about being held hostage. They haven’t occurred since.