I've been having some weird dreams lately and decided to write some of them down. Actually I don't remember dreams too often, but lately I have been so...
05/02/2001
Too much coffee
On the subway I drifted into a dream. I remember following somebody, maybe more like chasing. I was eating something that I remember as mushrooms, although I know they weren't I can only remember them that way because what they were is not describable anymore. I was eating them in an attempt to find something or go somewhere and I thought they would help, although inside I already knew that they wouldn't help and would possibly do me harm, I ignored these thoughts. I then found myself standing at the top of a terrible looking stairwell spiraling into the ground. The steps seemed to be carved out of the ground itself although they were old and black. I was contemplating descending, but was too afraid. What ever I was chasing seemed to be descending ahead of me. Then I heard a sinister voice saying go down, go down follow, follow. I then had a sinking feeling in my belly and felt a terrible dread at what lay at the bottom of the steps, and it seemed that if I went down I may never come back. the feeling filled me with such dread that it shook me awake back into the bleak faces of those around me wishing there was someone there to tell me I was fine. Then walking home thinking about the dream, I crossed an over pass over Chung Shiao and had this incredible urge to run and leap from the railing, not for any sort of depressed, suicidal reason, just that I felt like jumping and my heart started to pound and adrenaline flowed. I quickly got on a bus, returned home, and here I am.
03/09/2000
Barely remember a thing
I should have written this one down earlier. I finally remembered another dream this morning and now i have forgotten most of it. Anyways, it contained most of the nonsense that dreams contain. The only thing i really remember anymore was thinking, this is all too weird, it must be a dream. Then I thought, if this is real, then my dead baba(grandmother) couldn't be sitting over there, and i turned and looked, and she was sitting there looking at me. I new right away that it was a dream, but for some reason i panicked, my heart started pounding, and i woke up breathing heavily. If only i hadn't panicked. I missed a perfect opportunity for a lucid dream.
19/8/2000
I am glad I decided to go to sleep tonight.
Taipei
I was on a bus standing up at the front and I told the driver I wanted to get off at the next stop, but he couldn't understand my Chinese so he just stopped the bus and ran off. He started to hail a cab for me and I kept screaming that I didnt want one but he either couldn't understand my Chinese or just wouldn't listen.
Then the cab driver got out of his cab. They were both standing on the sidewalk looking at me. Then I started to run away in frustration, but I turned back. The bus driver was smiling at me semi-benevolently. He said I just needed to get laid and took out some money. He started to hand me a 20 dollar bill (It was supposed to be HK money but didn't look like it) and said for the next time I'm in Hong Kong. But then he changed it to 100 and gave it to me. So i asked him, will this be enough? He just chuckled and said don't worry about it. So I took out a handful of change from my pocket and gave him the fare, shaking his hand and saying Youre a good man as I did it. Then I turned and walked away. Next I'm walking in the Xi Men Ding area of the city. I went into a movie theatre to see what was playing. There was a guy there who had just came in from the Philipines. I know this because the other guy he was with was telling him about a movie that was playing about the philipines and he didnt want to go see it. I stopped at a cafe but i cant remember what I ordered. The same two guys were in it. I was trying to avoid them, although I don't know why. So I walked to someother cafe thingy and was talking to the owner, who was heavily into golf. The rest of the dream is pretty vague and hazy. All I can really remember is the guy at the shop really wanted me to stay and wait for his son, who would be there very soon, he kept telling me. And I was eating things of an undescribable nature and drinking coffee with soy milk and something else that turned it thick and syrypy. Also the foreigner from the philipines was there. We were both waiting for the son and when the son did arrive (he was overweight with a shaved head and piercings) he started to tally up everything we had eaten and drank, although the owner said it was on the house. I remember trying to avoid all these people for most of the rest of the dream, and also a feeling of being followed and watched, and running away from something I couldn't see. I find this last part interesting because Ive heard of dreams like that before, although I can't remember ever having one.
I think the whole dream is a result of having two cups of coffee to try and stay awake, and then falling asleep before the caffeine kicked in.
08/20/2000
This one began with me going into a McDonald's and ordering a large order of fries(I Never eat at Mcdonald's). I spoke in Chinese, but the girl behind the counter was American and she couldn't understand what I was saying and she started mocking me and making fun of me, so I asked to speak to her manager but she told me he wasn't in, so I started calling over the counter for him. which upset the counter girl. Then another girl came over, someone who spoke Chinese so I told her I wanted the manager because this girl was a real jerk. The first girl seemed to understand what I was saying now and was denying everything, so I grabbed her hat and ran out the door. Suddenly I was in Winnipeg running down the street that I live on near a McDonald's. But the next thing I remember was being on a subway back in Taipei. I got off when the train stopped to find I was standing in a tunnel(no light at the end, bummer), so I turned to get back on. The cars had started moving and the doors were closing. I ran towards the nearest door and a girl stuck out her hand and said come on the doors are closing. She helped me on and I thanked her and told her I had left my bag on the train, but there was a greasy oily substance in the palm of her hand and she had smeared it all over my hand. I then went and retieved my bag. After that I went to the back of the train where three ppl i knew were. It seemed to be a normal passenger train now, because the cars were sleeper cars and they had a whole room set up as though they lived there. One of the ppl was a girl and apparently my girlfriend, although I had never seen her before and the other was her older brother who was fat and laying on the bed, I can't remember any details about the third person. I had some gifts for her in my bag, one which was supposed to be a big surprise, but I was waiting for her brother to leave, because I wanted to give it to her in private. Actually the only thing i really remember about the rest of the dream was a shelf at the back of the room that I kept adjusting because it seemed to be about to fall down. It was a strange square box on brackets in the wall, but the box was upside down and I couldn't figure out why the girl wanted it upside down.
Anyways, my neighbours started fighting at this point and I woke up before I could find out what the surprise present i had was.
