I had a pretty interesting dream just now. I wrote it down in a hurry as soon as I woke up so the writing isn't very polished. All of the characters in the dream except for myself were people that I came up with on the spot — as far as I can tell, I don't know any of them IRL, online, or from any fictional franchise. I feel like the dream had a lot of details that I already forgot.
I was at a boarding school of some kind, and there was this door that was normally closed and there was an electronic system that basically prevented people from ever opening that door. Then there was a student who was apparently been there, and he was completely freaked out by what he had seen there (but he wouldn't tell us what it was or anything else about the place) and he also said that he forgot something of his in there that he had to retrieve.
For a pretty long time, he tried to get the door open, but it didn't work out. Then one day, there was someone who apparently had access to the other side of the door who went in, and we (the student who had forgotten something, and me and my friend because we were just curious) just sneaked in while the door was open. There was this very strange security cam on the corridor on the other side of the door that basically looked like an eye attached to a very long mechanical arm, and the arm was moving and turning around and it was super intimidating. Also I really just wanted to see what was the big deal about that place so I just randomly peeked at a random room, and it was basically a normal classroom and there were students in there who were total strangers to us and not at all happy to see the student who had already been there and they started to get extremely hostile towards him, and they also made it pretty clear to us that we weren't supposed to be there either but they weren't particularly hostile towards us.
But obviously taking a look at the classroom didn't suddenly make the student find the thing that he had lost, so we got out of the classroom after he had basically begged for the students who were there to not hurt him and just let us leave, and kept searching for the lost item. As the search progressed, the student's behavior just kept getting fishier and fishier, and there was a point at which it started to look more like there was some evidence there that he wanted to destroy rather than an item that he wanted to retrieve. Then he found some photos from a drawer that was inside an empty classroom (I don't know what was in those photos), and then he just ran away and me and my friend left as well. It was pretty trivial to open the door from that side so we could get back to the normal parts of the school.
Then we started to see some of the students that we met on the other side of the door come to the regular parts of the school (even though we had never seen them there before) and confront the student that ran away with the photos. One of those students told me that Harvest is strictly better than Gold, but Gold is still better than Mountebank during that time. The student with the photos really just wanted them to stop and he tried all sorts of things to make it stop. In the meantime, me and my friend were puzzled by the other side of the door, because it was so strange that there could be a door that almost nobody could open, but that there were still students and classrooms on the other side. My friend also thought that the security cam was probably designed to be so intimidating that if someone accidentally got there, they would want to leave immediately.
Then the student with the photos suggested to us that we could switch rooms (as in the rooms that we slept in) because his room was almost right next to that door for some reason and he thought that if he was no longer in that room, that could help him with his issue with the students and stuff. So we agreed because we thought it could give us more information about the other side of the door. As it turned out, there were a lot of people who tried to get on the other side but they were all denied access — we saw and heard them constantly when we were in that room.
Then immediately the following night, I just randomly woke up in the middle of the night and the door was just blatantly open and the security cam wasn't being intimidating, so I thought I was probably welcome to go there and investigate. I went to the same classroom that I had previously peeked at, and there was a lecture going on and the room was full of students (some of which I recognized from the previous time I had been there) and there was a PowerPoint presentation about some super weird stuff. Nobody really paid any attention to me as I stuck around. Basically, at first, the lecture was about some unexplained serial killings that had occurred in the area, and then there was a wax animation about some super bizarre looking monsters and I think the implication was that those monsters were really behind the serial killings. One of the monsters had beige skin and it was living in a well and it had a jelly-like body. At first, I was startled by the monsters in the wax animation, but then I realized that it's probably a wax animation because there is no real footage of those monsters because they don't really exist, and then I was fine with it.
But the part about the monsters started to take really long, and it was being taught to us as though it was completely real, so I started to feel kind of uncomfortable again, so my attention was caught by a bucket of water with a string coming out of it. I couldn't see what was in the bucket, but I just pulled the string, and the string was pretty long and I kept pulling it until I saw something attached to it that basically looked like the arm of the monster that I described before (and I assume the rest of the creature was also in the bucket but I stopped pulling as soon as I saw that so I don't know whether or not that's the case) and then I just nope'd the fuck out of there. As I was leaving, the other students started to get angry at me because apparently I wasn't supposed to leave, and they were getting worried that I would tell other people about what I saw there (nobody ever told me that I wasn't supposed to do that in the first place) because I guess I wasn't considered to be reliable after I had gotten scared by the monster. Then the electronic system keeping the door closed made me swear that I wouldn't ever tell anyone, otherwise it wouldn't let me out. And that's when the dream ended and I woke up.