Yet Another Dream (Now In 32-Bit Colour!)
I had an anxiety-driven dream last night.
It didn’t have any logical story or anything like that. What I remember of it begins with me going down the stairs looking for someone. I’m on the first floor originally; I go down a floor and then back up to the second floor where I find the person I am looking for, who, for some reason, seems quite melancholy…a few scenes later, Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay in Friends) is giving some kind of weird presentation to a class, but she turns into some else.
A little while afterward, I notice that the time is slightly more than 14:15. I realise that I have to catch the train to Mumbai, since it is the 4th of March and I’m supposed to leave for home on the same day. Strangely, I’m talking to my parents, who are in Ahmedabad. Anyway, I have this sudden doubt about the scheduled departure time of my train, so I check the ticket, which says that my train will leave at 15:09. So I get really worried that I’m going to miss the train; how am I going to find transport and get to the station in less than forty-five minutes? I haven’t even packed yet. I’m rushing to get ready as soon as possible; but then funny things start happening — like I wear the wrong shoes and socks, so I have to take them off again, and everything seems to be getting delayed.
Then I woke up. You would imagine that I’d have heaved a sigh of relief, but I didn’t. I noticed that the time was almost 08:00 and I would have to rush to get ready to attend a class. You see, real life isn’t very different from dreams.
Update 2006-03-01 15:35: Now I recall that I also saw a couple of people slide down a tube (like one of the rides in a water-park). They were chased by a ghost when they reached the other end. The ghost seemed as if it was made of dense white vapour.
March 2nd, 2006 at 05:19
Even I had a strange dream last night. I dreamed that appa, amma, deepti, me and Vivek are all in Ahmedabad in your campus. And you tell us to just wander around for a while, coz you have some things to do. It seems to be some sort of college festival happening. And we are all walking around just checking out all the events, and we come across this dance competition going on– and we are in the crowd watching. And we realise that you are taking part in that competition. And we are all so thrilled and amazed, to discover that you dance (and dance rather well), and we were also wondering why you never mentioned that you like to dance, and we’ve never seen you dancing before. It was totally weird! I was also packing my suitcase in the dream– not sure wher I was headed, though!
March 2nd, 2006 at 06:13
DA-IICT had its annual techno-cultural festival called Synapse on 26th-28th February. In fact, it even had a dance competition called Footloose, although I did not take part in it.
March 2nd, 2006 at 06:50
Oops.…now that’s interesting.….were there group dances– people wearing white shirts and black jeans and dancing?- coz that’s what the people in my dream were wearing in that competition.
March 2nd, 2006 at 07:09
I’m not sure…I never went to watch.
I believe they were wearing dance costumes, basically whatever went with that particular dance.
March 2nd, 2006 at 08:06
I too dreamed yesterday that we were somewhere on a big campus and were taking you to your hostel room .I was surprised to find that it was the same room you had been allotted since 7th class. Only there was a second person who was supposed to sleep under your bed.
March 2nd, 2006 at 11:29
This is getting eerier and eerier!
March 3rd, 2006 at 02:22
u know this is a bit funny too
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:12
I thought I hear somwhere that youre not suposed to dream in colour.. Bu I think I do.
as to anxiety — I dream that I have forgotten a class possibly for much of the year. And Im not even at school/uni anymore! it is like oh Im supposed to be doing a maths class — and I havent been to an this year so far arrgghh– can i make up all the assignments? can I just pass doing the exam? have I missed the exam entirely?