I got tagged by my sis, Alka and I need to share three of my dreams. When I thought more about it, it seems I get mild nightmares more than pleasant dreams! But how can I ignore a tag by my sis, so here I go.
1.This is probably the worst of the lot. Sometimes, I dream that I am getting chased by gun totting man/men. What makes it even worse is that many times, I see both Alka and I being chased together. Rarely do I dream that I am hiding/running alone. And this one never ends. I just wake up in the middle, after what seems like ages of running around. And the relief when I realize that it was only a dream is enormous.
2. This one is mildly related to travel. I dream that Sesha and I are going somewhere together. Sometimes, it is a bus and sometimes it is a train. He gets down somewhere and I am left alone. The vehicle starts moving and he is unable to board it in time. There was a time when I used to get this one frequently but now the frequency has gone down.
1. These are the mildest but the most irritating set of dreams. Look at the picture above. Can you ever imagine such a landscape inducing nightmares, even the mild ones? This time when I was in Sikkim, for two days I dreamed that I have to take a class and I knew not what to teach. And there are various variations to this one, and they come with vengeance when I am in the hills. While I was doing the Kuari Pass trek for two days I was dreaming that I was still a Ph.D. student and I have to submit my thesis and it is just not happening. Then for the next few days the dream was some exam I was taking and I was doing badly. I really hate the fact that these dreams come to me when I am in most beautiful surroundings and really do not have a care in this world. And I hate the ‘not able to submit the Ph.D.’ one most. Now that I have been teaching for a few years, I guess it is about time I started dreaming about grading copies rather than writing exams and submitting the Ph.D.
one dream used to repeat for me during my school & college days – getting late for next days’ exam and missing it. But it never happened in reality 🙂
i know this guy’s (manu) real scared of drowning.. he keeps getting these watery nightmares..water flowing in a mountain stream….he loves it… he’d take time out to sit by it… but take him close to a lake or an ocean (i hope he’s not hearing us say that word) and see him dissolve..lets say then, that he’s real sensitive about certain things that he like and likes not:-)
Prashanth, I guess most of us who studied in India will have some study related nightmare 🙂 Alka, but the good thing is I do not dream about them when i have to actually take them 🙂 I too wish I could take more breaks :)Manu, thanks for sharing. Nilesh, where are you?
Humm…. you dreamt of taking calsses when you are trekking? I think you have to take these breaks often. You are being too harsh on yourself.
Hi Mridula,I will do this, but is it fair to use dreams I’ve already blogged about? I rarely remember my dreams, but when I do, I blog them… otherwise I’ll have to start waking myself up in the middle of the night to see if I’ll remember any dreams….Teri 🙂
And I thought I was the only one who kept dreaming about my high school exams or cramming geography on the history exam day. Often I have shaken myself up from such dreams telling myself – “I have written all the exams I was supposed to write in this life”
Hi Mridula,i rarely see dreams and even if i see them do not recollect them after waking up. but here are two of them, which are etched to my memory , maybe because they were so scary.- when i moved to b’bay for job, first time leaving my family, i use to get this dream that whole world has turnedaround in such a way that neither i can contact my family and nor they can contact me. after this dream for quite sometime, i use to feel really terrible whenever this thought crossed my mind.- other one was, when i was very young, may be in 8th std. i use to dream that i am out on a nearby street in the night and their are snacks all around me and i am walking on street somehow avoiding them.PS: RSS feed for your site is not working. looks like it is not enabled for gonomad.
One SHIVARATRI, I consumed some(?) “Bhang” for Xperimenting. Dreams were terrible. I was fired from my job, asphyxia, demons kept coming from darkness and worst the ceiling fan collapsed on my head (this thing I always dreaded). It was really horrible but I never consumed bhang after that.
One SHIVARATRI, I consumed some(?) “Bhang” for Xperimenting. Dreams were terrible. I was fired from my job, asphyxia, demons kept coming from darkness and worst the ceiling fan collapsed on my head (this thing I always dreaded). It was really horrible but I never consumed bhang after that.
Interesting reading about your dreams.
ok ur dreams r less bizarre than alka’s n btw y do u sisters get haunted together with dreams 🙂 ?
i too have these dreams of something chasing in a desert… freaks the hell out of my life 🙂
Teri, you came out with a magnificient post.Pooja, the kind of pressure we go through in schooling, almost all my friends get dreams about writing their exams. It could be quite common.Nilesh, thanks a lot for sharing. Avoiding snacks? Now that is interesting. Has the feed started working somehow? It does for bloglines. And I am anyway so cluless about it.Karnail, thanks for sharing, my husband has told me some similar experiences of his with bhang and he too stays away.Thanks Sanjay.Maverick, I don’t know why both of us get hunted in packs and twice at that, in my dreams and as well as Alka’s dreams. How was your India trip?Viewer, thanks for sharing.