“ I’m at the cabin. I decide to leave the place. I am alone, and I start walking at the border of a road. A guy passes by with an ATV and it looks almost exactly the same as my own. I make him stop and I look at it. It has some differences. I decide to come with him and I sit at the back of the quad. We start talking about how great the these vehicles are. I finally decide to leave the guy, so he stops and I start walking on the road once again. I soon figure out that night is coming very soon and that I must make a fire because I’m about to get caught in total darkness. The overall light goes away very quickly. I go at the edge of a lake nearby and I find a flashlight. I realize it is too late for me to make a fire and that I would hurt myself trying to find wood so I go back to the road and I keep on walking. The flashlight is barely making any light. As darkness surrounds me, I see two lights at the distance and I realize that this is my entire family who’s coming to the cottage. They see me and they let me come with them and my little journey ends there. “

” The dream was about a futuristic city, very similar to those found in Japanese anime. There were many tubes, tunnels and cables all around. I was with one of my sisters and some unknown people. We found ourselves on the outside of the city. It appeared to me that the sky was in fact made out of cables as well, however. We embarked on a circular plate which began to move over the ground. Some sort of elevator. Men were chasing us. They were armed and wore plating and helmets. They were mostly grey and blue and did not seem as human as we were. They kept on coming in an infinite number. I kept on fighting each and every single one of them on this elevating plate. I would often push them so they would fall from the elevator. I do not remember much more about this dream, but I recall seeing a taller, darker man watching me fight at the distance. “

” I am walking on the border of an old road. There are corn fields on both sides. It is obvious to me that the season is fall. I have a backpack and I am travelling. Hitchhiking. I look around and I see a girl. Turns out she was my first girlfriend.

” Why don’t you come with me in the forest? “

” Okay, let’s go! “

I leave the road and I follow her. We soon end up in the forest. There are multiple very beautiful plants with a rich, healthy green color. I reckon this looks like summer, now. I cannot identify the plants and they seem like those found in Amazonia. I keep on walking on a nice little path. As I am walking, I notice that the path is now full of dead leaves and other things – it is now fall time again. Finally, we end up in an open area. There is an old, almost undone tree house. Yet, it appears to be solid and steady. There are two abandoned vehicles. A white school bus and a sky blue truck. They are rusty, but they are beautiful like old, forgotten treasures. Tall grass surrounds both of them. The first thing I see on the borders of the open space: blueberries. It’s full of blueberries all over the place. And they seem so fresh and there are so many. I eat a lot of blueberries. They are delicious. As I eat the blueberries I find out that the whole place is now full of white, fresh snow. The snow, however, is only concentrated around the blueberries. It is in a near melting state. This makes the blueberries stand out even more and the whole place is stunning to look at. I feel very calm and appeased at this point. The area appears to be made out of gold with the sun’s light.

I decide that I want to set up camp in this area. However, since I am travelling with some sort of established “law” I choose not to sleep in the tree house or in the vehicles. I ask the girl to bring me an axe. Suddenly, I see a wood panel full of different axes. There are firefighter axes, small axes, tomahawks… Name them and you have them. I take a grey axe that seems to be the newest model of them all. I start chopping down some wood. The sun is setting very quickly and I fear that I might not have the time to chop all the wood to build my little log house. I feel cold. I tell myself that I will be freezing tonight if I do not take this wood and make it into a fire. My ex-girlfriend takes care of lighting the fire. I think about all of those blueberries. Bears eat blueberries. I do hope one will not come around here tonight. My ex-girlfriend screams.

” Look behind you! “

There is a bear. The whole place is now very dark. The bear is slowly walking towards me, moving its head from left to right, right to left, balancing forever. I yell at it. It stands up, avoiding eye contact. I grab some wood, but all the wood I grab is rotten. Each and every time I hit the bear, the wood breaks. The bear is angrier. It growls and breathes very hard. It knocks me down on the ground and overpowers me. I punch it.

As I punch the bear, I start feeling like I have some sort of power within my fist. I punched the bear many times without any results, so I concentrate on one single fatal punch. I punch the bear right in the face and it goes back at least three feet in front of me. It falls on its back, and then it leaves, running away. I feel like I used all of my ”power punches“. For some reason, I felt like I only had three punches allowed and that this was the last one. My ex-girlfriend asks if I am alright and I say “yes…”. But I feel very weak. It is now night time so we decide to leave the forest and go to her parents’ house up on the hill. As I walk with her, I feel better and my energy is coming back. In the last remaining images of this dream, I found out that it was now spring time and that many flowers were growing and blooming very rapidly under the moon’s light. A very thin dew floats around the hair, highlighted by the light. It is truly a very beautiful area.

As I walk, I scratch my hand on something. I look at my hand and there is a plant all around it! I try to remove it, but I cannot. It does not hurt ( nothing truly hurts in dreams ), but I feel like it is draining my energy. My ex-girlfriend removes it as if it was nothing. I have a red “J” mark on my hand. She takes a look at it. She leads me to some sort of area where there are many bags and boxes containing many letters and numbers and “glyphs” that I cannot recognize. Finally, we find the “J” box. It is a transparent one.  She opens it and there is some sort of sheet of paper in it. It has “J” on it, printed in red. It is some sort of prescription, I believe. “

” I am in a basement. The basement is made out of concrete. I walk towards the stairways and I stand going up. At first, the people I see are very poor and, as I go up, the people seem healthier and richer. As I walk, I notice a dark window on the wall. I look at it, and I see a very vague silhouette of a man that is also trying to look at me from another window. He, however, has glowing green eyes. A small, brown haired boy comes to me and tells me not to pay attention to what I see through the window. I go up the stairs with him. Soon enough, we find ourselves at the top of the building. There is a very intimidating thunderstorm raging on. There are many small houses made out of glass all around. I enter one of the houses – the biggest. There is a scientist inside. There are many papers on his desk and on the ground. Many telescopes and other scientific tools. There are tools that I do not know of. I remember some sort of globe with many triangles attached to it. The scientist is looking at the sky with his telescope. It seems he is looking at the lighting bolts. He notices me and he says:

” You came just in time! Sit and watch! “

I sit down on a very thin chair made out of aluminium. There is some sort of natural phenomenon going on at the distance. Some clouds are moving towards us in a circular form, pretty much like a ball of clouds rolling down the sky. As it comes closer and closer, the lightning bolts hit the glass building many times. I am not scared, but I feel like this place is dangerous. “

” I am in a very futuristic hospital. The walls have curves and nothing seems to be flat in this hospital. It’s full of fancy, almost surreal objects and decorations. I feel like I’ve been waiting for hours and that I’ve spent all night long waiting. I feel tired. The secretary calls my name. I step up and go to an examination room. She asks ”why are you here young man?” and I start explaining that I am very sick. However, as I explain it, I cannot describe what is actually wrong with my body and I lie about various health problems. She prescribes me some sort of medication. “

” I am in what appears to be Stalingrad with plenty of soldiers, some Russians, some Germans. This is obviously happening during WW2. I am surrounded by the soldiers. It appears my arrival has made them stop fighting. Perhaps did they notice I was different? There are some tanks here and there. There is a heavy smoke, a fog of war over our heads. They ask me questions in german and russian but since I cannot speak these languages, I do not answer and they become angry. There’s a man with a knife and he wants to stab me. Other soldiers hold him down. I see a man, sitting and sleeping, his head and arms on a table. It’s Sigmund Freud! I walk towards him and I tell him to help me and every time I say something, he covers his ears so he can keep on dreaming. And I wake up. “

” I was in my grandfather’s house. Many family members were here with me. It was as if we were all reunited, celebrating something. It was night time. We were talking in the kitchen when someone knocked at the door. It was a young woman in her 20s. She was of hispanic origin. She said that she had something to sell, but we weren’t interested. She insisted, so we let her enter. Out of her bag was a box with a lot of paper sheets of different size and color. Then, I saw that there was a light smoke coming from the area where the stove was located. There was a saucepan and an omelet was being prepared. I took care of it and served it on a dish, because the meal was ready. When I turned around, the girl was gone and there was a bird. I believe she metamorphosed into this bird. But it was made out of wood and shining metal. It was like a small machine bird. Steam would come out of it, in-between two pieces. The wood was light brown, the metal was of a dark, golden color. It had a crest over and on the back of its head, it was made out of vivid, light green feathers. It began talking. It was like a robot. It could sing and fly like a real bird, but it also could talk, record and deliver information like a computer. It went on my shoulder. I enjoyed this dream a lot. “

Dream #39 – Ghost child

February 23, 2010

” This time, I was at my best friend’s house. His father was there. We were supposed to go to some meeting. It was very cold outside, so we all wore heavy clothes. As I was about to leave the house and follow them, I had the feeling that something was behind me, so I looked back and I saw a fading silhouette of a young girl. I could barely see her and her words would only come in waves so it was very hard for me to understand what she would say. I finally understood that she was four years old and that she felt lost. I went outside to tell my best friend about this ghost, and he told me that he was aware of her presence, and that I shouldn’t talk to her, because she would trick me and harm me. When I came back, I tried to ignore her, but she became aggressive and evil. I went outside once again, knowing that she wouldn’t be able to follow me, since she was bound to remain inside this house forever. “

The patient had yet another dream about a futuristic war. The recurrent themes of war, bears and demons seem to be almost omnipresent in the recent dreams of our patient. These elements appear to be haunting him as he is trying to understand their meaning.

” I remember being in a house with many civilians. I was the only soldier around besides a couple of men. I was in a hospital, but it was in a very poor state. We were in a desert area. The hospital’s windows were broken and the doors had been removed. It appears the hospital had been subject to a military siege. I spoke to the civilians, warning them that the enemy would soon take over our remaining defenses. Everybody hid where they could while I was looking through a window. A heavy sand storm was occurring and I could barely see anything. Suddenly, I saw about 10 armed men. They all wore torn clothes but I could clearly see that they all wore white and brown. Many of them had black skin although some of them were caucasian. They spoke an unknown language. I didn’t want them to notice us, so I hid like the remaining people. “

Dream #37 – Dentist

February 21, 2010

” I was in a waiting room. I was supposed to go to the dentist. I felt like I had been waiting for a very long time. Finally, after a moment, it was my turn, and I entered a room. I sat on a chair and somebody gave me a couple of pills which I swallowed. I do not remember anything else. “

Dream #36 – Bear hunt

February 20, 2010

I had yet another dream with bears. Many men were hunting bears. I heard gunshots so I went towards the direction of the sounds and I found three men firing at a black bear. The bear was wounded. Another, taller bear was there, trying to scare the hunters away, but it wasn’t working. I had to fight with the three men to prevent them from murdering this bear. They eventually ran away, but when I looked back, the two bears had vanished.

” In this dream, I was with you. It all happened during some sort of holiday. There were fireworks and happy people. I went to a very large house with many people. Some of them were people I knew and others were strangers. One of these strangers told me they had animals in cages in another room and that these animals were doomed. The animals would be part of some sort of ritual. I didn’t like this idea, so I asked for your assistance and we both went to that room and we opened all the cages, freeing all the animals. Bears, raccoons, wolves, foxes… Many animals ran away. We escaped in your car and ran away from this city. “

Dream #33 – Mouse

February 14, 2010

” I had a very short and peculiar dream last night. I was outside and it was very cold. I saw a baby mouse on the ground. It was dying. The mouse was also deformed. It only had one eye and three legs. It had very little fur on its body. I went inside my house, but after a few seconds, I came back outside and found the mouse once again. It wasn’t moving anymore. I took it and as I held it inside my palm, the mouse regained its life. The animal was still very weak, so I gave it some food and water. During the whole dream, the mouse appeared to be aware of my generosity.

 

Suddenly, I realized that there were cats in my house. I didn’t want the cats to kill this mouse, so I ordered my siblings to keep them away from it. The mouse remained in my hands during the whole dream. “

Dream #32 – Languages

February 13, 2010

” In my last dream, I met once again alien beings. They were small and looked like little children. Their skin was very similar to olives and they had large, curious eyes. I was not scared because it was obvious to me that these beings were stricly focused on learning and discovering. They led me inside a small artificial cave with many plants. There was a lot of moss on the ground, walls and ceiling. I saw many grey stones with glowing blue symbols. A deep purple light was illuminating the cave, but I couldn’t find its origin. One of the aliens showed me a particular stone on the left. The symbol was a planet with multiple halos around it. I touched it and some sort of knowledge was immediately transmitted to me. This stone was about languages and communication. I understood that all the stones in this cave held knowledge on different subjects: astronomy, medicine, nature preservation, etc…

 

Something happened, however. I sensed a malevolent spirit around us. It took control over me, commanded my body to act aggressively, and the alien beings were very scared and ran away from me. I was very angry at this spirit and I fought with it, travelling from one dream world to another. After a brutal fight, I ended in nothingness. My body was floating in a black world. It was an empty world. I felt reassured, but I also felt that this evil spirit was still out there and that it would attack me again in further dreams. “

” I woke up today with a very high feeling of sadness. In my last dream, I was looking at myself in the mirror. I looked away for a moment, and when I looked back at the mirror, I met a girl. It was as if I knew her in my dream. It was as if I was deeply in love with her and that I was finally reuniting with her. Now that I am awake, I am totally confused, for I do not know who this person is. I told her that I missed her and that I wanted to see her again. She refused. She was the most beautiful person I had ever seen. I was crying. I wanted this girl to love me so much. I still do not understand what happened during this dream. I’ve met a lot of people in my dreams, but never like this. This person was very real to me. Her face is still there, in my mind, and I fear that it will never go away. I will try to find her back in my future dreams. “

In this dream, the patient found another human being who seemed to be more aware of his surroundings. This being, unlike most “dream people”, knew exactly what to do. The patient believes this man wasn’t an ordinary dream character.

 

” This dream was out of the ordinary. I was in a white room. It seemed to be a very advanced environment, technologically speaking. I met a man who wore black and white clothes. He introduced me to another man who was his assistant. He told me that he had found a way to travel through various planes of existence. He explained that by eating a special kind of meat, I could travel with him and his friend. I agreed to eat the meat he gave me. The meat was raw and yellowish. To my own surprise, it was very tasty. When I ate part of it, I began to realize that I was travelling at a very fast speed in some sort of vortex. I ended up in a world that looked similar to ours, but me, the man, and his friend, were the only humans. The beings who inhabited this land were similar to gorillas, but they wore clothes and could talk a language that I couldn’t understand myself.

 

Some of them feared us, however, and they began to act aggressively towards us. I had to run away and we went on separate ways. I ran into a house for shelther only to find out that the same kind of beings were living in it. I suddenly remembered that I still had some meat on me and I began to eat it, hoping that I would travel to somewhere safer, which I did. I found myself in a “sphere world”, a world which only had floating balls and bubbles everywhere. I soon found the man and his assistant. He was with another friend who was living in this world. I shook the man’s hand, thanking him for allowing me to travel with him, but I woke up immediately after. “

” I was in a forest. It wasn’t the nicest forest and it certainly wasn’t the forest I saw in my last dream, but it was a good forest. The trees were healthy, there weren’t so many dead branches and rocks on the ground and we could walk within it without having problems. Many friends were with me. Some were old friends and some appeared to be friends but I do not know them, but they still were friends to me within the dream and we were having a great time. We were on bicycles on a very fine path made for cycling. It was very dark and the night was beautiful. The weather was warm and I could feel the humidity in the air. It began to rain but the rain wasn’t cold and we were enjoying it. I even talked about the fact that I have never caught a cold by standing in the rain because I enjoy it so much, which is true.

After cycling for a while, we came out of the forest and found a grocery store. Some friends went inside. I stayed outside, checking out my bicycle. When they came out with what they needed, we went back on the path and the rain was falling heavily. We reached an old cottage. A woman in her 50s was waiting for us. She had three children, two young girls and a young boy, aged between 5 and 9 years old. We gave her the groceries and camped outside. She invited me to stay inside, but I wanted to stay with my friends. Many of them were not prepared for this and lacked the camping equipment, so I gave them mine. Another man was very well equiped and held a lot of knowledge on how to survive within the wilderness. I didn’t know who he was, but I began to find a friend in him. I asked him if he wanted to make a natural camp with me by cutting down trees and he agreed. I woke up. “

” I was walking with my family and some friends. We were on a very high mountain. The air was thin but refreshing. When we reached the top, I saw a breathtaking scenery right before me. Trees by the thousands, rivers, wild animals, all living in harmony. We could see higher mountains to the distance. The tops were covered with snow and ice. My goal was to live off this land for a while and then I would reach the mountains and find what was behind them. I had everything ready. I had some food, the necessary equipment, everything. I hugged everyone who was with me.

Then another one of these bears came from within the bushes. It was an old white bear. It wasn’t a polar bear. It seemed like some other sort of bear that doesn’t exist in this world. This bear didn’t want to let me enter these lands, but it wasn’t aggressive… I just knew that I had to wait at the border until the bear would judge me worthy of entering this sacred place. I realized that I had been allowed to see this land before being able to enter it. ”

Dream #14 – The Bears

January 6, 2010

” I have been having many dreams with black bears recently. I’ve encountered many bears in my life while living in the wilderness… But these bears in my dreams are different. They are old and seem to be completely passive. It’s as if these bears are trying to communicate with me sometimes. On only one occasion a bear attacked me in my dream. It ate me alive. Surprisingly, in my dream, I was not afraid. It was the opposite, actually. To me, being eaten by this bear was part of something. It was a step forwards. It was a message. It ate me and I was part of it, but when I ultimately woke up, the bear was part of me. “

Dream #12 – The Fish

January 4, 2010

” Last night I had a very peculiar dream. I was fishing on a boat. Suddenly, a very large fish came out of the water and tried to bite me. I tried to catch it with my fishing rod, but it wouldn’t even try to bite on my hook. The fish was as big as me and I feared for my safety. At some point, the fish’s attacks became bolder and more dangerous. I began to realize that this was no ordinary fish and that it was challenging me. I jumped into the lake and shapeshifted into a fish and fought the beast within the water. “

Dream #10 – Working

October 3, 2009

The patient remembers being in an office with multiple people. He remembers being the employee of a small business ran by a couple in their late 40s. He even remembers their appearance: The woman had light brown hair and was slim. Her husband was relatively tall, had brown hair and wore glasses. The working environment was motivating and the patient recalls that other workers were very friendly. His work consisted of painting pictures on the walls of a brand new home. He remembers painting an ethereal landscape in a kitchen. Once his work was over, he went outside and found an old friend’s cousin and talked to him for a while. They talked about the patient’s friend and how he was doing, then the patient left.

 

He remembers that at this very moment, he saw that it was 12:30am. It was very dark and he was tired. On his way home, he walked on the street where his grandfather lives. His grandfather seemed to be a whole new man. He did not act like he uses to be in the waking life. He was ill-mannered, too energetic and his tone was aggressive. The patient recalls seeing his old ATV in the backyard and he thought his grandfather had been hiding the vehicle after stealing it. The patient then heard the sounds of children playing and searched for them. He woke up. Children were in the park, running with a dog.

Dream #9 – Prison break

September 24, 2009

I was travelling with my family. We stopped in a small hotel and as I was unloading the car of its packages, bags and suitcases, I discovered that there was a forest behind the building. I chose to go inside it, for there was a very clean path piercing through the woods.

I found an old cottage. Most of it was undone, broken, rusty and old. I went inside and immediately saw tap water. I was very thirsty and I drank it with my bare mouth. I felt fulfilled, but then I saw a yellow and red sign saying that the water was poisoned. I went back to my family, feeling sicker with each footsteps. Temperature appeared to be raising. I collapsed and lost consciousness.

I woke up in a prison jail. There were 3 other inmates. It appears we were all captured in the same way by drinking poisonous water. They all told me they had committed a crime and I told them that I was innocent. They were shocked to learn my story and they tried to help me. They said they were the product of this world and that they would have revenge on it. As a prison guard came in, we all rushed towards the exit and knocked him down. We went to the armory and we took various weapons. An alarm went off. Tens of armed guards came and a very intense battle began. We managed to kill many of them, but when I looked back at my friends, they were all dead.

Dream #8 – Battles

September 19, 2009

The patient recalls leaving home and encountering three tall men on the streets. The men started harassing him verbally, and then they engaged in a fight. The patient was outnumbered and, although he put up quite a fight, was slowly losing the battle. As he was losing the fight, he remembered that he was dreaming and unlocked a lucid state of dreaming. He concentrated on himself and his energy and through a scream of anger, he became very strong. His muscles grew in size and a bright, red fire surrounded him. He then managed to destroy his enemies in a single blow. The patient then recalls wandering through this dream in search for a peaceful and quiet place, but he woke up soon afterwards.

 

 
The patient, however, went back to sleep and had another dream which resembles a nightmare. He remembers being some sort of ghost hunter. He was in a haunted house and suddenly a ghost appeared through the wall and fought him. The patient remembers falling in some sort of ghost world as physical contact was made and he managed to kill the ghost by drowning him in a lake. The patient then remembers finding himself in his hometown, walking on the streets. He recalls meeting a group of boys and one of them accidentally hit him will he was passing. The young boy argued that the patient should have moved out of the way. The patient said ” I was there first, you had to move. “. The young boy explained that his candies, that had now fallen on the ground, couldn’t be eaten anymore and the patient decided to buy him new candy to close the argument. The patient, however, had no money in his pockets. A strong feeling of helplessness came to birth within the patient who subsequently woke up soon afterwards.

Dream #7 – Future Japan

February 22, 2009

Today the patient told us of another dream. This time, he was at home with his mother and she was complaining of having multiple large insects invading her house.  The patient went to bed ( in his dream, of course ) and tried to sleep, but as he was lying down, a spider-like creature attacked him. It tried to bite, but the patient killed it. After this, the patient stood up and searched for other insects. He soon found many others and they were coming out of an open door leading to some sort of amazonian forest. He looked behind him and when he looked back, the amazonian forest had been replaced by a city – a Japanese city. It seemed to be a very advanced city. Everything was white and clean and people appeared to be very happy to live there. The patient crossed the door and went forward.

 

The city seemed to be underground. The patient couldn’t see the sky. He wanted to talk to the people surrounding him, but they all spoke Japanese and he did not. Suddenly the patient had a strong desire to find a specific man. He had a picture and information on the man. The patient, however, found a very large pool. The pool was U shaped. The patient was fully clothed, but wanted to swim too. Many people were swimming. Many children were there with their family. The patient smiled and waved at many children who smiled and waved back at him. The patient swam all the way and came back to the entrance.

 

When the patient came out of the water, everyone seemed to leave at the same time. Soon enough, the area was deserted and the patient was wandering in a dark corridor. He met two women who were discussing the necessity of war. The patient told them:

 

” I am not on either sides because no one cares about me. You fight for dominance and gold, but the only war I would die for would be the fight for life itself. “

 

The two women dissapeared, vanished. The patient was left in total obscurity. At this point, the patient believes that it was the start of a very small nightmare. A vampire-like man came and challenged the patient to a fight. The vampire would spawn at various places around the patient and try to attack him with a two handed axe. The patient countered every attacks, but he grew weary and woke up.

Dream #6 – Assassin

February 21, 2009

I was at some sort of congress, a celebration. It was as if I was flying – or as if I wasn’t there at all. There were many people. Perhaps over 500. Suddenly, I saw over the shoulder of a man holding a gun. He was aiming from the window of a very tall building. He tried to shoot a woman who appeared to be very important, but missed and hit a man nearby. He threw his rifle on the ground and ran away. At this point I became myself in a physical form and tried to stop him, but he drove away in a car. In his escape, he shot a police officer and so I decided to take the officer’s car to chase him. I communicated my position to the radio but the police seemed to think that I was the killer. We were driving very fast in the streets. While at the beginning it appeared to be noon, we were now very late at night. Lamp posts were lighting down the streets and many neons flashed from both sides.

I eventually lost sight of the assassin and crashed my car. I didn’t know what to do. I left the car and tried to hide from the police who were about to catch up on me. I went in an area that was very peaceful. There was a white arch with a large garden. When I started hearing the sirens, I decided to leave this place and hide in a nearby forest. I came very close to being caught, but the police cars didn’t notice me. Unfortunately, an old woman alerted the police and they started running towards me. I woke up.