Thursday, March 18, 2010

Strange dream

I have to write this dream down before I forget it. I just had it last night.

I was in a grocery store, and the characters from the T.V show "Friends" were there. I suddenly morphed into Rachel, and we were all chasing each other around the store in competition over this large bucket of gummy bears. Suddenly, Chandler was trying to reveal something inside his mouth. To the surprise of everybody, it was an orange cat, and it was alive. It emerged from his mouth covered in saliva.

Then all of a sudden, there was a wedding inside the grocery store, and I was still Rachel. I stole a bottle of alcohol which was meant for the bride and groom, and ran out of the store, with the groom chasing me. I was suddenly in the town of Ă–stersund, and it was in the middle of the night, but not quite dark. I ran through the empty streets, still being chased. I ran towards the library, but for some reason I cut through the church park by the old church, which is odd since it wasn't on my way. I remember thinking as I was running that it was probably not a very good idea to run through this park at night since the drunks in town hang out there. It was twilight and the branches of the trees were all bare and pointy.
I was able to reach the library unharmed.

For some reason, the front of the library had been turned into a kind of shrine for women who had been dumped in the past and wanted to leave flowers in some kind of symbolic gesture of letting go. I was still carrying something but it wasn't the bottle of alcohol anymore, but the bucket of gummy bears instead. I was still being chased. Now I and somebody else, I don't know who it was, escaped into the library. In this part of the dream, the library suddenly turns into a luxurious, white, modern villa. I and this other person are trying to close the front door, but the person who has been chasing me is trying to get in the door. I think he stuck a foot or an arm in, blocking us from closing the door. We finally manage to close the door, and this is where the dream takes a rather nice turn.

The villa now starts to move, like an airplane on a runway, and suddenly it takes off and leaves the ground. We start soaring above ground, passing beautiful mountain tops. Ă–stersund is located close to the mountains. I open the front door slowly and mountains with patches of snow on them, and we're so close to the ground that you can almost touch the peaks.
The villa is filled with these white beds, one after the other, in a row, all the way over to a very large panoramic window in the opposite side of the house. We are very comfortable during our flight.

Then, yes the dream continues, we hover so close to the ground that we actually land somewhere further up north, right smack on somebody's yard. While we're there, a charlatan out to steal money from us, tries to get in to our house by telling a lie.

This is where I started to wake up. It was a very vivid, colourful dream. We so often forget our dreams that I think I'll start writing them down. This one is full of symbolism.
You may very well wonder, "What did you eat before going to bed?? The answer would be "Feta cheese", but that's irrelevant.
This is nothing out of the ordinary for me, my dreams are always this strange. I don't really know what that says about my psyche, but I like the dreams. Going to sleep can be an adventure.

1 comment:

canadianne said...

what a fun dream..
there's a story there i can feel it