Night Entries

 

 

1. Witch and Brain

Had this dream when I was very young. I was in the kitchen at my parents' house and behind the washing machine, lingering beside the toilet, was a witch. I hate that spot in the house because no matter what it always makes me feel very unclean, in a straight faced sense. She cackled and flashed her fingernails and tipped her hat and asked that I remove my brain so that we could both eat it. Frightened more than horrified, I complied, and watched with slowly emerging horror that she was slicing my brain like it was a cake. I didn't eat my slice.

2. Running from Strangers/Monsters

Started when I was young, recurs every now and then, for apparently no reason. There are always these things chasing me and I run through places filled with different people every time I dream this. The figures i run away from are that of authority, I'm usually in the wrong somehow but i don't know and have no time to think of why. The landscape is different whenever I dream it and the people in it change too but basically I ask for help against the thing chasing me and the people don't help. They laugh or don't take it seriously or they are helpless to do anything about it. Its spooky and always makes me very nervous even after I wake up, very intense.

3. Religious Dreams

(i) I am supposed to pray, there is a large fire outside, visible through the windows on all sides. I think, in the dream, this must be Judgement Day. I'm terrified. I'm not very religious but the flames are getting nearer and I have to go and get ready to pray. This is significant because I never do. I'm Muslim so I have to wash up before I go ahead, but when I get to the bathroom, my entire family is there too. Really intent on washing up fast. I feel incredibly incredibly terrible thinking there is no hope for us.

(ii) A childhood dream. I dream I'm on the moon with Neil Armstrong and together we witness the halving of the moon, and I hear him exclaim "I can't believe it" or something to that effect. And at that point I remember that the scene is something like what happened in the Quran, and the Bible too I think, about a prophet halving the moon to prove to some king that God existed. Then the scene cuts to my father's room where he's just finished praying, and I see the spacecraft land on the moon, and my dad just laughs.

4. Precarious Heights

Perched on the bamboo strips outside my house six stories from the ground and I am the only one feeling a little scared and stressed out even if I am on the bamboo with the rest of my family. This dream only contains family members and the scenery is my multistory apartment block that i share with about 400 different families. I am either perched out on a bamboo stick, trying to get out of an elevator only to find it has stopped between floors and that i have to acrobat and balance my way out of danger despite being able to see the lowest landing being very very far off, my only footholds very precarious wooden planks. Sometimes involves someone trying to get me, which intensifies the danger and tension of the height-precarious situation. Associated with the feeling i get from this type of dream is what i call small space dreams, where ordinary objects that are usually big enough to fit me become very very frighteningly small. I'm not talking about clothes, but buses and alleys, and this is really quite freaky, usually i've died inside the spaces when i wake up.

5. Loved Ones

(i) Dreamt that my very good friend was being eaten by dogs and that I did not save her because of some reason I can't remember. Remember feeling very sorry but not that horrified.

(ii) Dreamt that a friend slept with various people. Recurring dream. Usually the other people involved are old, ugly or jocular. This is the same friend that was eaten by dogs. Issues, i think, played a part here.

6. Supernatural Dreams

(i) I am watching television with my family in the living room and my mother asks me to go and get something from my room for her. I go into the room and this weird creepy feeling comes over me. I turn to the window and there's this shadow of a cat's face, only there's no cat to begin with, looking at me. It's quite big (about half a metre wide) and hovers around the window pane. It tells me that I cannot move and teases me. I realize I can't move. I try to call for my family and I can see them, but they cannot hear or see me. The cat-shadow wants something from me but now I don't recall what. After scaring me it lets me go, and then I wake up.

(ii) There are ghosts (the stereotypical white sheet type) in my bed and I try to run away. My family has turned into Hollywood zombies (i.e. they look and act like the zombies you see at the movies) and I do not know what to do. I Go to the kitchen and jump out the window. I wake up.

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Include your email address, URL and name if you don't mind (I won't put it on the web) in an email and send it to me. There was actually a very nice submission form here but for some reason it doesn't work anymore. according to my records, it was doing fine in June last year. Nothing lasts forever, and I am very very sad. 

So don't wait, mail me!

Lately I haven't been dreaming at all. it might be a sign that i'm getting better at understanding myself and resolving the conflicts in my life, but it's probably just due to my lack of sleep and my unwillingness to get out of bed in the middle of the night to jot down a detail of a dream. But nowadays i get dreams where i think of something completely brilliant in my sleep, for instance a really riveting storyline complete with surprise twist and ironic ending but then forget about what it was in the morning. It's probably just a tease dream, because i like to think i'm really inventive and creative i think up self-uplifting dreams. I don't really miss the rest of the dreaming because i know i still dream, I just don't wake up in the middle of them, which is almost a comfort.

 

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