Re: Dreams!
Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 10:07 pm
Last week, I went to the movies and saw The Babadook - and immediately the following night, I had a Babadook dream! Well, it did not deal with exactly the same creature, but it was still rather unsettling...
The dream begins with me waking up - actually snapping awake, immediately alert and focused.
I'm in bed, but sleeping in an impossible place - my old room at home, where I spent my youth. These days, it is stuffed with crap my dad put in, and I sleep in what used to be my baby room when I visit my parents, and my mom sleeps in the big bed in the guest room. While there are no indications that this dream plays in the distant past, my room is my own again.
I have been awakened by an approaching airplane. Even though it is night and dark, out there, I immediately see the silhouette of a B-1B Lancer bomber! The huge thing is flying maybe 100 meter agl, and is not more than 200 meters or so away!! Even though subsonic, it passes in almost an instant - and I must assume they pulled up really quickly, because a few klicks on, there's the side of a mountain to smash into if you are flying so low...
Despite passing so close, the sound is only moderate, like a nearby car, and not the earth-shattering roar I'd expect... I immediately jump up and rush out of my room, to see my father just emerging from the little bathroom. I call him into my room but of course there's nothing to see anymore.
Anyway, I decide to go to the bathroom - which my dad has just left. And I have no freaking idea what he did there, but when I rushed out, he had been applying toilet paper everywhere, on the floor, the door handle... outside the bathroom!! I quickly determine I will not check the state inside the bathroom, and go to the right, down the hall. Despite trying to be quiet, my mom in her room wakes up and says something. But as she is not sleeping in the guest bedroom - the only way to get into our main bathroom - I just go in there, turn on the light, and...
... and something follows me in to the room!!
It is a quite peculiar... thing. It is about 1.5 m tall and approximately humanoid. It's legs, torso and arms are all made out of what looks like thin grey plastic pipes, though - about 5 cm in diameter. The legs are two parallel pipes, which join at the hips in an inverted U, and the shoulders are similar except of course somewhat wider, to accommodate three of the pipes. Everything is rigid, no joints, totally straight. The arms and legs end in "spear points" - the tubes converge, retaining their rotational symmetry, to points, not triangularly, but slightly curved. On top of a very short neck is a head which is initially hidden in blond "hair" which looks like a bundle of dried straw.
The creature hovers toward me, absolutely silent, not threatening per se but utterly curbstomping my sense of reality!!!
After some short break, the flaxen hair is gone, and the head is revealed to be a kind of double point emerging from the neck. There are no facial features, no kind of clothing, nothing.
Then, I think I woke up, or the dream ended in some other way.
The dream begins with me waking up - actually snapping awake, immediately alert and focused.
I'm in bed, but sleeping in an impossible place - my old room at home, where I spent my youth. These days, it is stuffed with crap my dad put in, and I sleep in what used to be my baby room when I visit my parents, and my mom sleeps in the big bed in the guest room. While there are no indications that this dream plays in the distant past, my room is my own again.
I have been awakened by an approaching airplane. Even though it is night and dark, out there, I immediately see the silhouette of a B-1B Lancer bomber! The huge thing is flying maybe 100 meter agl, and is not more than 200 meters or so away!! Even though subsonic, it passes in almost an instant - and I must assume they pulled up really quickly, because a few klicks on, there's the side of a mountain to smash into if you are flying so low...
Despite passing so close, the sound is only moderate, like a nearby car, and not the earth-shattering roar I'd expect... I immediately jump up and rush out of my room, to see my father just emerging from the little bathroom. I call him into my room but of course there's nothing to see anymore.
Anyway, I decide to go to the bathroom - which my dad has just left. And I have no freaking idea what he did there, but when I rushed out, he had been applying toilet paper everywhere, on the floor, the door handle... outside the bathroom!! I quickly determine I will not check the state inside the bathroom, and go to the right, down the hall. Despite trying to be quiet, my mom in her room wakes up and says something. But as she is not sleeping in the guest bedroom - the only way to get into our main bathroom - I just go in there, turn on the light, and...
... and something follows me in to the room!!
It is a quite peculiar... thing. It is about 1.5 m tall and approximately humanoid. It's legs, torso and arms are all made out of what looks like thin grey plastic pipes, though - about 5 cm in diameter. The legs are two parallel pipes, which join at the hips in an inverted U, and the shoulders are similar except of course somewhat wider, to accommodate three of the pipes. Everything is rigid, no joints, totally straight. The arms and legs end in "spear points" - the tubes converge, retaining their rotational symmetry, to points, not triangularly, but slightly curved. On top of a very short neck is a head which is initially hidden in blond "hair" which looks like a bundle of dried straw.
The creature hovers toward me, absolutely silent, not threatening per se but utterly curbstomping my sense of reality!!!
After some short break, the flaxen hair is gone, and the head is revealed to be a kind of double point emerging from the neck. There are no facial features, no kind of clothing, nothing.
Then, I think I woke up, or the dream ended in some other way.