Friday, October 22, 2010

big houses and slums

I am supposed to go to this huge house where people can come and learn from seminars. My sister had already started teaching them. There are about 4o of them in the study area. The house is colossal. Dim yellow lights are everywhere. What was she teaching them? It's making me puke. It took me forever to straighten my hair. People left, it seems. to take a break. My turn to teach business marketing will come in time later.

And I survey the house. It looks a little ominous, so rich and amazingly huge for a few people to own. Wait a minute, who owns this house anyway? At first it was just me, my sister, the maid, and a few cousins. Suddenly the house started filling up. In a snap...where did these hobos come from? I remember. They came back to sit and study. I did not feel like teaching anymore. I went outside and found a cab where a few other people are taking a ride.

The driver, he looks attractive, but he was driving erratically. Why is he driving with his feet so confidently? "You need to stop or we will all die!" What an impossible feat! I jumped off the car and ended up in a disgusting, mucky town where I had to find my way to get away from the goons. Driver was behind me trying to help me get out of there. "Where are you going??!" Was he really concerned. Everywhere there's mud and muck, and garbage and people looking so disheveled. Slums.

I want to get out, thank you driver for helping me. I keep running and taking me feet off the wet, dirty ground.

Will I ever get out of here? I was able to hitch a ride. Be careful! The goons were shooting! Was that my uncle rescuing me? He came just in time in a fast car and I jumped inside. Handsome driver was sprinting as fast as he could and jumped in as well, I gave the key to him. And off we went.

I don't know where we were next. I'm awake.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

witches and powerful short men

Two girls walking to find some place where they will be safe. Found one and thought people were friendly... until they were betrayed. It turned out they are two witches practicing a certain form of religion not unique to themselves. I tried to help wondering why they had to be punished. At some point they were delivered to a powerful family...the one witch wearing a blue gown was tazered. I was shocked at this cruelty.

My husband and I sat watching them perform rituals as a group, resembling that of the movie Avatar.

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Somebody's clunker rear-ended my car. Strangely, the victim was not me. The clunker blew up and resembled a skeleton in ashes. I waited in a public place that looked like a grocery store/deli. Two guys my age approached and asked if they could buy me a sandwich. I didn't know what to say. A sandwich cost a dime. They bought three, and one of the guys gave me a piece. After that, he said that they should be going and wondered if he would be getting text messages or calls from me. I said "No."

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It is a mystery how I got linked to this small young man, in this dream. There was a huge gathering and he was sitting right in front of me, so close as if he were my boyfriend. The speaker at the stage pointed to the man. This small young man, apparently, belongs to a powerful family and gets his way all the time. He was happy thinking I am involved with him. The speaker said "There is she who is with him now (we are glad that they have found each other!)". I left the gathering afterward to meet this tall, handsome man (who in real life is my husband) to be with him. Apparently the small young man who thought I was in love with him followed me along with his band of terrorists. He was so upset that I was with another guy. I said I am already engaged to this tall, handsome man, and it is him that I have chosen.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

a large square patch of the sky

Strange and sad dreams....

I come in to work and take my seat on the desk after greeting everybody. A young man has been changing the desktop wallpaper and icon designs on my computer. I cannot recognize some of them and was getting mad. Somebody told him to put things back the way they used to be. My grandma came and told stories...

In her town (I was there too) there were strange apparitions in the sky. Little dark things hovering above us, about 50 meters from the ground. There was no way to tell what they are until one by one they started coming down from the sky slowly. The neighbors were gossiping and couldn't quite figure out what they were. Slowly, they were falling to the front yards. They were dead bodies hung on balloons. We ran towards the house and tried to close the doors before they could reach our house. We were afraid the dogs would run to the backyard and eat them. The dogs were barking so loud.
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Some young guy was injured and we put him on a stretcher. He looked like he was going to die. Nobody seemed to care. He was in pure agony. I did everything to relieve him. To make him fell all right. The nurses were all stupid girls who didn't give a damn. They tended him after so long and then we brought the young man to his friends and family. I said, Why does it seem like you don't care about him? He's in such a bad shape and almost dying?

"Well," they said. "He's a real jackass and doesn't deserve to be loved." I felt so sorry for the young man.

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I was in the part of the world where it felt like the tropics, and things were so familiar. I was walking around the city, maybe to the mall, and realized that I left my two phones somewhere. I went to a pay phone and called the city department's lost and found. They said somebody turned in two phones, one is a touchscreen. Ok, I said they were mine, and felt so relieved. I tried tracking down the city hall. A man gave it to me. I came out and talked with friends and family. I felt so happy being in a familiar tropical place. I said, wow isn't this so great? And then we noticed there was large square patch of the sky that was starting to get so dark. People, everybody else, were scattered in what seemed like a park with tall walls and bridges.

Suddenly the dark patch of the sky started sliding vertically (a vertical sky?) and coming down so fast. It broke into hail and injured and killed people. Everybody ran for shelter. My mom, my sister, I was separated from them. I kept crying as we ran. People were getting buried in the soil. We tried to help them but we have to run for our lives. I lost my sister. My mom was with me. When will the sky stop falling?

Everybody I saw looked like battered and beaten. The men at the city hall were trying to help. I was asking them where I could find my sister. We kept looking around, dazed, confused, what happened to the world? I turned and I found her weeping in one corner. I grabbed her and she said No! Her head was cut off her body.

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Tiny pups everywhere. Dog pups, tiger pups, all cute and furry. My cousins and I were adoring them. Where did all these little animals come from? Still having fun with them when I jolted to consciousness. It's 10:25 in the morning.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

the angry black swirl

On a skiing trip, what seemed to be a fun adventure turned out to be a "quasi" disaster. We were in a hotel hallway when we saw a wonderful thing happening in the sky. The mountains were shimmering like nothing anyone has ever seen before. They are also looking like they're shaking a little bit. Everybody in the hotel peered outside to watch a marvelous sky display....In the blink of an eye, this marvel turned into a black swirl of wind and dust. In the blink of an eye, it cut off a part of the mountain. Everyone started screaming and running away. A great stampede. I could not find him. He went out jogging early in the morning. Now I don't mind losing my shoes in the middle of the hysterical, escaping crowd, but I am so panicked not knowing where he is and if he is also escaping.

The huge black swirling tornado is getting so close, getting so close. "What are we going to do?" I kept screaming his name. I have no choice but to sit, wait, and choke back my tears. The boys were with me. "Where is he? Where is he?"

Then he came back from jogging, oblivious to what was happening. At about the same time, the angry tornado shifted into the opposite direction.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

A dozen kids and counting

We got a call from my mom one day. Actually it was us (my siblings) who called her. "What's up?" She said, "Well, I found somebody I really love and I'm going to live with him." We were shocked. What is going on? In a way, I felt happy that she is happy with her new life. But I was also confused. Even more so, when we found out our dad was also looking for somebody else. And succeeded in doing so.

She left with a neighbor (some lady's husband), but he met a well-0ff, light-skinned widow with a dozen kids. We had to live with them. It was chaotic. She is nice as can be, but there are so many characters involved in her family. He seemed just as happy. We were kids, so how do we know what was going on?

When I woke up, I was all the more baffled. In real life, my parents never divorced. In real life, I'm already 27 years old.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Those Gorgeous Houses

They say true nature comes out in the most unexpected times and places. My cousin and I had been checking out some nice stuff at Victoria's Secret. Along with my other girl cousins. I was planning a surprise costume. I was looking at the trinkets section and found a little thing of pendant costing more than what I thought I paid for. $32, I thought, was too much for a gaudy pendant. I told my cousin let's go and return the damned item. I wasn't about to be fooled.

Another cousin who has been constantly showering me with gifts has gone a little weird. One time she has stopped doing it. I started resenting her. I did not want her to be around. She was leaving and I did not want to say goodbye. I was too selfish to even care.

I came to visit all my uncles and aunts. They all have pretty houses now. All very fancy, though small. I never thought it would happen. But yeah, these were, by the way, just all dreams so what the heck. Even though most of them were dirt poor, in my dream they were able to afford those gorgeous houses. How funny.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Something in New Mexico

Something in New Mexico was happening. I preferred not to go, but he wanted me to. I obliged. Seemed like a circus theme park of sorts. We had to walk around eccentric characters. The young boy was with us. The older one wasn't. Poor little kid had to be left home to work so he can make money.