Chaoticshifter’s Directory of Dreams

This nightmare used to plague many of my nights when I was in my teens.

I am standing on top of a cliff. The sun is setting and the sky has been lit up with varying shades of amber, orange and red. Interestingly, the cliff is a very tall one with a really narrow top; I can barely place my feet on the top.

As I watch the sky, I notice a pool of darkness forming in the sky, right above my head. It slowly starts spreading across the entire sky. I start getting afraid. The pool spreads almost to the horizon, sinking the whole area surrounding me in near palpable darkness. I can barely see a ray of light on the horizon.

Suddenly, there is a burst of light on the edge of the almost impenetrable shroud of darkness. The sky gets flooded with a brilliant golden light; the darkness seems to melt in front of it.

This is where I would wake up.

I had this nightmare frequently when I was still a child, around 8-9 years of age.

I am standing in front of a run down, dark house. Something attracts me toward the house; I feel compelled to enter it. As I enter, the heavy wooden doors close behind me with a resounding thud that echoes throughout the house. I try to open those, but they are stuck good. I am trapped in the house, all alone.

I am not at all afraid at first, due to some unknown reason (since when did dreams start following logic, anyway ?). I search through the entire house, both the ground floor and the first floor. Interestingly, none of the floors have any windows anywhere, but there is a diffused light throughout the house. This allows me to see everything. I search throughout the house but find absolutely nothing. The house is completely empty, except one single broken chair in one corner of a room.

This is where I start getting afraid. An amorphous horror takes over my mind, and I feel a chill in the air. I start shivering, maybe with cold or fear, I can’t really tell.

This is when I used to wake up and feel my nightsuit soaked through with sweat. I have never been to any house that even vaguely resembles the house in the dream. I did not get to watch any television until I was around 12 years age, so watching some B-grade horror series or movie is out of the question.

The nature of this dream has eluded me till date. If you feel you can try to explain the cause of this dream to me, please leave your comments.

What is a dream ? Is it a reflection of a person’s subconscious mind, displaying his/her deepest fears and wildest fantasies ? Or is it a window to a person’s future, as some astrologers claim ? Or, is it a divine warning, as prophets often put it ?

I am almost a regular dreamer; not many of my nights go by without one or two dreams. It is probably my luck that I can remember most of my dreams in vivid details even after I wake up. I used to note these down in my personal diary, until one day, a friend convinced me that I should put these up in a blog.

Read on below, and try not to be too surprised. Some of my dreams are quite odd in nature. You’ve been warned.

Oh, and please do make comments. If you can analyze some of the dreams or try to explain them from your point of view, I would really appreciate that. To be honest , some of the dreams leave me quite dumbfounded.