The philanderer

An interesting one, this,  You'll see why in a minute.

In the first part of this dream (which may have actually been a separate dream, but they seemed to blend into each other), I was floating around the darkened kitchen in the house I grew up in as a kid.  For some reason, I've had quite a few notable dreams about that house since leaving there some years ago.  Also, whenever the kitchen appears in any such dreams, it's usually at night, in total darkness and has a creepy vibe to it, which is weird because I never thought of the kitchen as being creepy at all when I lived there.  That said, I think it stems from sometimes spending late evenings in the living room watching TV with the kitchen right next door which, as it was not in use was obviously in darkness.

But anyway, I'm digressing big-time.

In this dream, I was floating around the creepy, darkened kitchen when I was possessed by a ghost.  I then realised I was actually playing a video game and I had just "died" because the ghost had possessed me.  I then found myself looking at a 'Game Over' screen.

I then restarted and was walking along a busy street, and this time, I was possessing people for a short while and taking control of their bodies.  I would eventually leave them and "jump" into someone else.  The last person I possessed was a middle aged black woman.  Upon possessing her, my walking became laboured and unsteady and then I suddenly collapsed.  At this point I "jumped out" of her body and see her curled up on the ground in a pile of blood whilst sad music played in the background.  I thought that maybe I'd possessed too many people in one go and "overloaded" this woman, but that was not the case.  I was to find out what really happened later.

The dream then switched to me being at a party one evening.  In this part of the dream, I was married and my wife was at this party with me, though she was elsewhere mingling with other guests.  At one point, I ended up in the toilet, but as I hadn't locked the door behind me, a woman followed me in seconds later, and I could see her reflection in the mirror that hung above the toilet itself.  It turns out she was a woman I used to work with a few years ago in my last job.  She was very tall.  Much taller than me.

Upon seeing me, she just nonchalantly intoned "Oh, it's just you", and shut the door behind her, leaving the two if us cramped together in the small rest room.  She then sat on the bowl, pulled down her pants and took a piss in front of me as if it was an ordinary, everyday thing for her to do.  (It is also worth noting that this woman is actually married IRL and had the same husband in this dream.)

After she'd finished, she stood up, and the two of us started fucking - right there in the toilet.  It would appear we were both having an affair and cheating on our respective partners.

Around this point, the dream returned to the possession scene from earlier with the woman curled up on the ground, and it was then that I learned it was due to her being unwell.  In other words, I'd unwittingly possessed a sick person.

The dream then went back to the party, and later, I fucked two other women in the same toilet and then tried to escape the party before my dirty dealings were rumbled by calling for a taxi.  I was told I had a 40 minute wait, so I went for a walk.  There was still no sign of the taxi, so I went to a house down the road from the party. The woman there as another "mistress" who kindly let me call for a taxi from her place.  When it arrived, it drove me a short distance before taking off into the air and depositing me into a strange house that was furnished entirely with fake white fur carpets.  I floated slowly down to the ground and then woke up.

And no, the aforementioned ex work colleague whom I ended up shagging in this dream was not someone I ever thought about in that way before, so I don't know where that came from.  :S

Alien invasion

Yes, I am quite aware that there are certain reoccurring themes in my dreams.  And aliens seem to be one of them.

So last night, I dreamt that earth was being attacked by aliens.  I looked in the sky and saw a flying saucer that filled most of the sky in front of me.  The unusual thing about this spaceship though was that unlike the flying saucers you typically see in movies, this one was also quite thick (to scale, imagine 6 or 7 CDs stacked together).

Anyway, from the window of this ship, I could see the aliens, and on the ground people were running around in a wild panic.  We all ran into this building just as a beam shot from the sky, directly from the craft.  The last thing I heard was a friend of mine shout "Our race is doomed!" before everything turned white.  And it was at this point that I died.

Or at least, that's what I thought.

I woke up thinking that the dream was over and that earth had been destroyed, but when I went back to sleep, the dream continued and it turns out I had somehow survived the blast in once piece.  Anyway, the aliens had now colonised the planet, and I was talking to a woman who explained that the aliens viewed us humans the same way we view insects and that they thought nothing about wiping us out.  The remaining humans, including myself thought about getting together and forming some kind of resistance.

Later on, I was in a bathroom stall brushing my teeth when a female alien walked in.  She had long, pointy teeth and explained that her race had nerves on their teeth that caused sexual arousal when they were stimulated, which made her interested in my toothbrush.  That's all I remember.

Another out of body experience

Strange things happen when you go to sleep lying on your back.

Only this time, I wasn't really sleeping.  I somehow found myself in this halfway state, on the nexus between sleep and wakefulness, and everything was dark.

I distinctly remember thinking "This body is not me, I am consciousness".  This thought rang through my mind in a continuous loop.  The next thing I know, I was swimming through the blackness of my room, but it felt like I was somewhere else.  I had strange auditory hallucinations; a robotic choral voice singing a distinct A chord (strangely, this has happened before), children laughing and a voice telling me not to try to hard to force the sensation, to relax and let go.

In the midst of this, my mind raced through a number of very different dream scenes almost like someone randomly flicking through TV stations.  At the time, those dreams were very vivid, but I can't remember them now.

I woke from this feeling relaxed and calm, as I have done from all my past out of body experiences.

The chase

My general recollection of this dream is somewhat fuzzy, but what I have recorded here is what I remember.

In this dream, I recall being in the queue in some kind of shop .  The guy behind the counter had a misanthropic attitude and seemed to hate everyone.  When I got to the front of the queue, I started talking to him and was able to get past the hateful exterior to see his was actually quite a sensitive guy whose attitude was just a defence mechanism against being hurt.

When I got outside, I noticed that my girlfriend and a friend of hers had been waiting for me a little way up the road.  I started to walk towards them and my girlfriend proceeded to run up the road.  I just figured she was in a hurry to get home, so I didn't bother chasing her.  When I turned the corner, she was still running, so I called out, asking her to slow down.  She shouted back "No!".

I carried on walking, and continued up a hill.  Once I got to the top, I saw her talking to an older guy and she was pointing at me.  She then went and stood on the other side of the road as the guy came over to ask for directions (apparently my girlfriend had told him that I would know where he was trying to get to).  However, I wasn't in the mood, I wanted to get home and wanted to know why my girlfriend kept running off, so I slowed down time, struck the man in the chest and knocked him out.  (I wasn't trying to hurt him, I just wanted him out of the way, and thought that slowing down time would stop my girlfriend from running away).

After doing this, I went over to my girlfriend and noticed something on the floor by her feet.  It was a blood bag, the type you get in hospitals.  The bag was leaking, and blood and spilling onto the road.  On the bag was a note that said a person called Andrea Pisci had been banned from the shop I was just in for trying to send fraudulent mail abroad.  It turns out that in the dream, this Andrea Pisci person was my girlfriend's real name (which is not the case IRL), which suggested she had been lying to me all this time and wasn't who I though she was.  I was quite shocked by this sudden revelation, but then I woke up.

There was some strange, haunting music playing in the dream at this point just before I woke.

Apocalyptic foreshadowings

27th July

I had the following two dreams on the above date in the same morning.

In the first, I was in a supermarket, surrounded by people who were running away from something.  Apparently, some kind of doom was impending, but nobody would say what it was.  Even so, everybody was very frightened and hysterical.

In the second dream, I had started work again (I'd been off the previous week), but I was now working in Israel for some reason (a place I have never been to, and would not consider visiting any time soon).  There were guards and border control officers everywhere, and in order to go between offices and locations, I was constantly stopped and had to undergo checks and searches.  In this dream, I felt very uncomfortable and was worried a bomb might go off at any minute, and I would be caught in the midst of it.

Moving on to last night (i.e. the date this entry was posted), I dream there had been some sort of parasitic outbreak.  People were suddenly being consumed by a weird fungus that would grow out of their bodies and turn them into zombies.  Once the fungi had erupted from their bodies, they would let off spores into the atmosphere that would spread the parasites to more people.

The part I remember was being in some sort of train station.  I was with two other guys and a young, mixed race woman.  One of the guys wanted to leave the station to go and get something outside.  I tried to stop him, warning him about the outbreak, but he wouldn't listen.  So, we let him leave, and shut the door behind him.

Soon after that, I walked around to another door and saw the same guy outside.  He looked like he had now been infected as there was a large, leaf-like fungal growth protruding from his stomach.  His friend (the other guy) ran out to him.  I ran back and told the woman in our group that both the men had been infected, and as a result, we had to get away from them as quickly as possible as they would be coming after us.  So, the woman and I ran into the station.

On my advice, we took an escalator down into the lower levels of the station and it was then that we realised, to our horror that everyone else was infected there too.  There were scores of people on the platforms, in tube trains and on the escalators infected with the parasites, all trying to get to us.  The dream ended as we were running to avoid them all.

Riots and alien worlds

This entry concerns two dreams, the first of which I had in the middle of last week, but I was away from home and didn't get a chance to record it until now.

In that dream, I found myself hovering over an alien world.  I was on a planet that looked as though it had been blasted by an asteroid, but was still inhabited.

The planet surface was rocky, and the asteroid appeared to have gouged a huge crater out of the planet, leaving the inhabitants to live around the edges of that crater and along the perimeters of its ledges towards the planet's centre.  Think of someone taking a huge bite out of an apple, and you'll get the idea.

Anyway, it was dark, and the air had a strange, brown mist to it.  In the distance I could see a silvery orb of light which I presumed was the planet's moon.  The moon was actually very bright, more so than our own in fact.

As I hovered, I caught a glimpse of the beings that lived there. They were dark skinned humanoids in appearance, but were definitely not humans like us.  Their hair formed long dreadlocks or plaits and their bodies were very athletic and muscular.  They seemed like a tribal, warrior race of sorts.

These beings lived in abodes that appear to have been dug out of the rocks (caves with front doors, basically) and their streets were lined with large statue-like things that opened to one side (like iron maidens) and housed sentinels who would come out at the first sign of a disturbance in the neighbourhood.  From what I could make of the planet, it was as if they had technology at some point, but the asteroid had forced them to revert to a simpler, more primitive way of life.

These aliens also did not strike me as being particularly friendly.  As soon as they saw me, they started trying to chase me, shooting me with arrows, which they bound, five in a row and shot from large crossbows.  I was fortunate that they were not able to hit me.  Their tongue was guttural and coarse and they seemed quite feral.

At one point, I landed on the surface and came face to face with a female alien, and at this proximity, I was able to get a closer look at their appearance.  Their brows seemed to be creased to a perpetual frown and their teeth were sharp and pointy.  You could say they looked like Klingons, but with smoother, more human-looking faces.  The female alien spoke to me in her alien tongue and was quite aggressive.  For some reason, I felt the need to kiss her and she responded by wiping the kiss and spluttering.

In the second dream, I was floating along an urban cityscape at night.  There were lots of people running around who were suddenly attacked by police in riot gear.  The people then started screaming and running for their lives and I ran with them for a while.  I then thought about trying to help them, so I took off from the planet, charged up a huge ball of energy and fired it towards the surface.  It was then that I realised I'd wiped everyone out.  I felt remorseful at this point, but it was too late to do anything about it.  I had killed everybody.

Sasha

In this dream, I was in a shopping centre and bumped into a cute African girl who immediately caught my eye.  She was bubbly, charming, sweet and genuinely nice.  Her name was Sasha.

The dream jumped around quite a bit; at one point I was in a nightclub at 8am in the morning waiting for the Post Office to open (don't ask).  Then I was in the queue in the post office, but I'm not sure what for.  Then, I was talking to Sasha again, and I asked her out on a date, and she accepted.

From that point on in the dream, Sasha and I were an item.  Again, the order of events got jumbled; we'd be walking hand-in-hand through the same shopping centre (I think she worked there), then we'd be on a date, then I'd be at her house in her bedroom with her talking to me as she got changed in front of me (giving me a nice view of her pert breasts and lovely, dark nipples), then we'd be on the street walking together again.

Then we were walking down the road near the shopping centre one dark night.  I suddenly heard boisterous, drunken chatter from some men nearby, though I hadn't seen them yet.  Sasha then literally disappeared, and by that I mean, she was no longer there. I became frustrated and started looking for her, but she was nowhere to be found.  However, something told me she was still around somewhere.

I continued walking along the road again by myself and then I saw her walking towards me again from the opposite direction.  When she reached me, she wearing a completely different outfit and was her usual, bubbly self.  It was as if the disappearing act hadn't even happened.

Sasha and I embraced, kissed one another.  She then said to me "Boyfriend, I am so happy!  You've made me see the beauty in dating again!".  At this point I got worried as it occurred to me that I was now two-timing against as I already had a girlfriend (that is, my girlfriend from real life).  I started to worry about how I would keep up the pretence of dating both of these women, making sure they never met or suspected the other existed, and the fact that at some point, I would have to break up with one of them which would not be pleasant.  Sasha in particular was so excited to be with me, that I felt awful about the prospect of potentially breaking her heart.

As the reality of the infidelity started to take hold, I slowly woke up.

Now, this is an interesting dream on many levels.  For one, my real-life girlfriend is quite similar to Sasha (both in character and appearance).  Also, we have had some problems lately (as mentioned in my last entry), and although things have improved, there is a small part of me that has my eye on other possibilities; largely owing to the reasons for our problems, which I will not go into here.    I think this dream was addressing these issues and Sasha represented some potential opportunities from the real world.

And you want to know the spookiest thing of all?  Later that evening on the train, I saw a girl that looked just like Sasha from this dream.

Spiritual Enlightenment

As I said in my summary post below, it's a been a long time since I had a dream I could remember, but this morning I did.

I was in a shopping centre looking for a supermarket.  However, it turned out that all the shops had been replaced by creches, and every time I went into what I thought was a shop, I saw lots of young children being minded by adults.  

I was a little baffled and asked one of the adults what had happened.  Interestingly, this particular creche was run by Christians who made it their duty to indoctrinate the kids in their care.  I noticed bibles, crayons and children's colouring books all over the floor.  I spoke to a tall, middle aged man who ran this creche and asked what happened to all the supermarkets.  He confirmed they had all been replaced by creches like his (though not all of them were Christian).  He was then about to use this as an opportunity to try and convert me, but could somehow sense I wasn't interested, so he left me alone.  

I left the creche and walked outside where I saw a sign which read 'Spiritual Enlightenment This Way'.  This caught my interest as I knew it was something deeper and more substantial than what the Christians were offering.  I followed the sign and found myself descending a spiral staircase in what was looking less like a mall and more like an old school building.

My excitement grew as I reached the bottom, wanting to know what this enlightenment was.  When I got to the bottom, I came across a wooden door that was ajar.  I opened it and found another wooden door locked from the inside (I could see the lock mechanism on the door, but there was no handle).  Disheartened, I realised I couldn't open the door and turned to leave, but the door behind me shut, and the previously locked door opened.  I found myself in complete darkness then heard someone laughing.

Now, this would normally be eerie, but I wasn't afraid.  I steeled myself as an inner voice (not audible, but within me) told me that this darkness was not to be feared, but embraced and understood for what it was.  I then woke up.

For a while, I pondered on the meaning of this dream, but the more I think about that darkness and the effect it had, the more I think I understand the principle of the dream.  We tend to view darkness as evil and foreboding, but this is not always so.  Sometimes, darkness can represent the unknown, and this is what was happening.  The laughter did unsettle me a little in the dream, but even then, I understood that laughter was not sinister, just something I did not yet understand.

Now I just need to apply this to my life somehow.

Summary

So, I haven't posted anything for a long, long time.  This is mainly because I haven't had many dreams that I've remembered in detail since my last post.  Not until now that is.

I don't even know who is reading this.  The stats say I have visitors, but who you are and where you're from, I do not know.  I don't even advertise this blog.  It's really for my own personal musings, but it's cool that someone might stumble upon it.  So if you're one such person reading this now, then "Hi". ;)

So, before I get into the new dream, I'll give a quick summary of the notable dreams I've had since my last post.  As before, I don't really remember the details of these dreams (which is why I never recorded them in the first place), but they are worth summarising, so in no particular order, here they are.

1. Dreaming I was flying across an alien planet that seemed to consist entirely of three colours: a silvery, almost luminous grey, a luminous green and a very dark, inky black.  The grass was this grey colour and swayed in the wind, the sky was black, and as I traversed this landscape, I found a building whose door was a large stone plinth.  This was was also grey, with luminous green inscriptions.  The door opened for me and I found myself walking along dark hallways flecked with green.

2. Staying at a hotel with my girlfriend in Ireland.  We were the only two guests and the hotel was run down, dark and had no electricity.  Oddly enough, there was looped music piped over a tinny PA system.  This was after I learned some news which almost ended our relationship.  As I write this, we are barely hanging on by a thread.

3. Flying over another alien planet whose population were humans like us, only their personalities were quite different.  I was flying along a road, I couldn't read the signs as they were in an alien language.  I flew into what looked like a car garage and found a woman hiding behind a car.  Upon seeing me, she knew knew I was from the same place as her.  She recognised me because, to use her words, I was "warm".  Apparently the humans on this planet were cold, emotionless people who apparently lacked empathy.

4. An extremely disturbing dream where I was a spectator in a mental hospital (for some reason, those places give me the creeps even though I've never set foot inside one).  The walls were blue, and the first thing I saw was a young black boy around 4 or 5.  He was completely naked and kept putting his finger in his anus and putting it to his mouth as he had nothing to eat.  His father was in the room with him across the way.  He wore a metal cage-like brace over his head which was chained to the wall and spent the whole time rolling around on the bed and forth singing 'The Shoop Shoop Song" really badly.  His voice was distorted like he was talking over the phone.  He was clearly out of his mind and oblivious to his son.  I woke from that dream feeling deeply perturbed.

5. I had been invited to a party in a large house in the middle of nowhere.  In order to get to the house, I had to take a train and then an elevator to an underground tunnel that lead to the house.  The house itself was very big, but the party took place on the ground floor, both inside the house and in the courtyard.  I got out of the elevator with several other people who were also attendees, and we all went off and mingled when we got to the house.  At one point, I found myself looking at staircase which lead to the first floor of the house.  It looked dark and foreboding so I walked away and returned to the party.  I then observed that the people were different.  I saw one of the girls from the elevator, (a twentysomething black girl) and asked her if she noticed anything strange and when she looked at me, I noticed her canine teeth were longer than before and to my horror, noticed that everyone except me had turned into a vampire.  I ran through the tunnel and made my way to the lift and back to the train. The dream ended with me realising there were also vampires on the train.

6. I was in the middle of a zombie apocalypse and had 3 other friends with me.  We were trying to find somewhere safe to hide from the zombies as it was getting dark.  We found a wooden shack in a field and went there for refuge.  It was very dark, and two of my party kept making noise, so I decided to leave.  The third guy (a good friend of mine IRL) followed me and we went off together looking for somewhere else as the dream ended.