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by Vladimir Sidorov » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:34 am
The strangest dream I remember having is also one of the most confusing for me to try to explain. It's kind of the opposite to the "dreaming, though everything seems real" type of thing.
A few years ago, I happened to be dreaming that I had locked an eight-foot vampiric gargoyle of sorts in my closet because, apparently, it had been chasing me because I was labeled as its midnight snack. Now, in the dream, I was frantically trying to keep the closet doors shut because, well, duh, I didn't feel like being eaten just then. I had to get rid of this beast somehow, so -- just as dreams have that knack of getting rid of every possible bit of logic ever -- I suddenly came up with the clever idea that if I flipped the light switch in my room, I'd instantly kill the thing.
Now here's where it actually gets really odd.
At this point in the dream, I actually woke up. Meaning, I was conscious and everything, but my brain for some reason kept telling me that I was still dreaming. I remember yelling at the top of my lungs for my folks and running to hit the light switch because I thought I was in the dream, acting in the dream. It wasn't until my parents walked into my bedroom and my dad lightly slapped my face that I realized that I was, in fact, awake.
I was fifteen years old then, so being afraid of monsters in the closet was kind of out of the question for me. The weirdest part of the whole manner of sleep was not knowing when I actually was awake. I still don't know if I had been sleepwalking or what, but it was freaky as hell.
If Freud were alive, he'd probably tell me that the beast symbolized my repression of innate homosexual tendencies, and that my inability to recognize my own consciousness was a reflection of how unhappy I was with my cushy childhood. And then I'd reply with, "Dr. Freud, you are a fraud, and none of that makes any bloody sense because your statements are not factual!"
...or you know, with like, "Screw you, man; I'm going home."
Wait. What the hell are we talking about?