Halloween came early...

Yup.  There it is again.

If you've been following this, you know I've had a number of dreams about being in some alien or otherworldly land, not knowing where I am, and being given strange looks whenever I ask.  These dreams usually begin with me floating or flying to this unknown place, finally landing, then walking around, attempting to get my bearings and trying to talk to people who are not very responsive or helpful.

This dream followed that theme yet again.  It began with me in a room with 4 other people.  We were talking about a woman we all knew.  Suddenly, I took off and floated out of the window, and behind me, I heard one of the group say "There he goes, he's off again!" as though I did this sort of thing regularly.

Anyway, I flew through the window, some music started playing and I then found myself in a new land.  As with previous versions of this dream, the window acted as a portal to this alien place.

Again, as before, I found myself wandering the streets, looking at shop and road signs for anything familiar.  I didn't recognise the language or the people, and a voice in my head constantly spoke in a strange, unknown language.  I approached a man and asked him where I was, and he actually responded in English, saying "You must be drunk, mate!" and carried on walking.  He was the only person who spoke a language I understood.

I continued walking and found myself in what looked like a tourist gift shop.  I picked up some of the tat looking for clues, but nothing really leaped out at me.  I walked all the way to the back of the shop and even considered trying to steal something, but only for attention.

Now, as I left the shop, things started to get really strange.  The people were no longer people.  Their faces and forms became grotesque and creepy looking.  A couple walked past me, and their heads looked like peeled pumpkins with human eyes, bared teeth (as you might see on a skeleton) and blood red lips.  Everyone around me now looked like this too.  I saw one other man pull out a large chunk of his skull and casually inspect it.  In spite of this, I was not at all scared, I accepted the situation for what it was.  I speculated as to whether they really looked this way all along, and I wasn't able to see it before for some unknown reason.

I carried on walking until I came to what looked like an archway.  To the side of the archway was a creature that looked like a giant eyeball that'd been stretched and elongated vertically.  The tip of this eyeball creature protruded outward at an angle, moving and tracking people that walked past it.

At this point, I looked up and saw a group of normal looking people sitting in what what looked like some sort of balcony above the archway itself.  They were playing music on an unknown instrument that was made of long, vertical tubes that were hit with spoon-like implements.  This created a hollow, ringing sound.

The music kept on playing as I woke up.