Dream #60 – Tengu

” It’s night time. I can see the full moon. There are no clouds in the sky, yet there is rain. I am at the edge of a forest, near a small path. I am waiting for someone. I am a ninja, once again. Since I am waiting and I have nothing to do, I walk a little and I take a look at the area. The view is breathtaking. The moonlight shows a vast land full of vegetation surrounded by mountains. At some point, I hear someone running towards me at the distance. I hide behind a farmer’s house and I wait. Soon enough I can see a being that is not human, yet he has human characteristics. He is smelling my presence. He is about 8 feet tall, but he is always in a bending position because of the weight pressure he has on his body. So even if he is 8 feet tall, he is about 6 feet high. His body is both muscular and not. He has a very muscled structure around his chest, back and lower body which make him look like a hunchback… But his legs and arms are very skinny. He seems to be extremely strong despite his tortured appearance. He is holding multiple objects on his back. He has some sort of backpack made out of multiple dark-colored clothes ( red, white, purple and black being the most important colors ) and I assume that what is inside this backpack is the gold I am searching for. He has an oil lamp on one hand and a stick on the other hand. His face is very similar to a mummy: human traits, yet all the flesh is gone. He barely has a nose. It’s as if his nose was cut in a previous and ancient battle. His skin is dark brown. He has a blind, white eye and a pale brown one. He is moving extremely quickly, yet stopping in a unhuman way. He moves like an insect. As I look at it, I feel like this creature is pure evil and that it has no human weaknesses. The foul appearance of the monster pushes me to end its life quickly.

I attack him. I have multiple weapons at my disposal. I first throw five shurikens in a very fast movement but the creature is extremely quick and jumps over my shurikens. It drops its gold in the same movement, because I did hit the backpack. The lamp falls on the ground and there is no light except for the moon’s. We fight within the darkness and the pale rays of light provided by the moon. His stick is as hard as my sword and he is stronger, quicker than me. His hits almost paralyse my arms. I run away, but not in a cowardly kind of way. I actually know that there is a place for me that could help me kill the creature. It follows me and it taunts me in its own devilish language. At some point I arrive near a cliff. There is a waterfall and at the bottom there are plenty of nasty rocks. My plan is to push the creature in order to make it fall on the rocks below. We fight a little as I am running for the cliff, because it is quicker. I execute plenty of attacks, especially with some sort of bladed nunchaku which repels the creature for a time. At some point, there is a large tree and we fight on its branches. I end up losing my nunchuks, deeply stuck in the tree trunk after missing a hit. The creature managed to hit me many times at that point. I take out my only remaining weapon – a Ninjatō ( shorter than a katana ).

We end up and fight at the edge of the cliff. I fight with everything I have, but the creature is so strong that it destroys my sword. As it strikes the last, final blow to end my life, I roll under it by passing between its legs and I execute a kicking motion on its back as I am rolling, pushing the creature and ultimately making it fall to its death. I take a look below and I see that the creature is lying in the water among the rocks, dead. Suddenly, the creature itself disappears, leaving only its clothes. I assume that this is normal for such a creature. I go back, collect the gold and I quickly find myself in front of who I assume to be my master and Daimyo. I tell him that I have killed the creature and that I have collected its gold. I talk about numbers that I cannot remember very well at that point. There was 200 000 and also 300 000 “something”. I believe this was the sum that was retrieved by me and another ninja who had killed a similar creature prior to the events.

Dream #58 – Post Apocalypse

” The entire family is here. A friend is also here, and he tells me ” Are you ready? “. I immediately acknowledge that some sort of natural disaster is about to hit us, but none of us knows what it exactly is.

Some seconds later I abandon my body and I have a vision of the Earth itself. The seas are boiling, and all of the ice found on the planet melts at the same time. I can clearly see North America being overrun by water. Suddenly, I revert back to my body. Heat comes out of nowhere and I can sense that my body is burning. I lose pretty much all of my skin. Surprisingly, I am the only one who actually loses any skin. My family members are hurt, but they remain the same.

The heat is gone now, and I feel like it would be better to go out and get some fresh air. The landscape changed. I look back and the house is gone. I am in some sort of desert made out of dried mud. There is a friend there. She is searching for something within some mud cracks, it appears. I talk to her and she tells me ” Go help my boyfriend, he needs help “. He is not happy. He is searching for something as well, but he can’t find it. ”

Dream #57 – The End

The patient was very shaken by this dream. His anxiety was at a very high level. He told us he never had a vivid dream such as this one.

” I am in the wilderness. I reckognize this place. This is where I go to see the sunset, on top of a small hill that overlooks the lake. I took many photos there.

There is an eagle in the sky. He flies in circles for a short while, then I lift my arm at shoulder height, and he descends and perches on my arm. He is a friend. He is not a pet, but a companion.

My family is bathing at the lake’s shore. Everything is calm.

Then my eagle feels something. It fears something. Something huge. Something menacing. I order it to fly away, to flee to safety.

The sky turns red. There is a gigantic bright light coming from the sky. It leaves a large tray of fire in its path. But it doesn’t touch the ground yet. It’s still in the air, going at great speeds.

We begin to feel heat. We are burning. We all go in the lake to prevent burning even more. The water in the lake is also warm, but it still is better than on the surface. We hide underwater for as long as we can, then we get a breath of air.

Suddenly there is a light coming from the distance and we all get pushed by what seems to be an extremely strong wave of wind. At the same time, a deafening sound comes with it. The comet, or whatever it was, crashed not far from here. We hide in our cabin and listen to the radio to learn about the disaster that just struck us. “

Dream #54 – Dying Ninjas

” I was sitting on the ground with my back against a building. A companion was in front of me. We were both ninjas. He was obviously dying. I was nervous. He had a very nasty wound on the right side of his body. We had to wait, however, because we had committed an assassination some minutes ago and many other ninjas were trying to find us. I was sitting there helpless, watching him slowly dying. He wore a very dark green ninja outfit with some layers of brown. It seemed like an honorary outfit or something. Or perhaps was it made in order to hide in trees? My own outfit was black and I seemed like I was of a lower rank – or that my mission had been different that night. The dying ninja was old, perhaps in his 50s or even 60s and his eyes were grey. We had no weapons and we were helpless. We were doing nothing but looking at each others eyes trying to find some sort of meaning to the situation. “

Dream #52 – Pyramid

” I was in a large circular room. The room only contained a very impressive golden pyramid made out of many tunnels. All of the light was concentrated on the pyramid and everything else was dark and impossible to see. In every tunnels, I had to accomplish a certain task. After acheiving the task, I would go back to the large room and the tunnel in which I came from would close. In one tunnel, I had to fight a faceless, thin, yet muscular adversary who wore torn grey clothes. In the second one, I had to find a planet through a telescope. In another one I had to find an emerald in a sand pit full of rocks. After closing all of the tunnels, a long golden and silvery stair appeared and I was able to reach the top of pyramid. I do not remember what was waiting for me on top.

Dream #50 – White Lights

” I was outside, in my grandfather’s courtyard. It was very late in the night. Many people were on their roofs. I went on my grandfather’s roof. The neighbor, who is on his own roof with his family and friends notices me

” You have come to see the lights too! We haven’t seen them yet. Oh, look! “

A light comes from the sky. It is white and oval shaped in a horizontal manner. It dances in the sky from a distance. We comment and argue about the size of the object. Then, two more lights come near it. The objects dance together in the night sky. Suddenly, they fade out and are replaced by an even more impressive sight: an entire plot of land, propelled in a way or another by some invisible force. There are buildings and people on this piece of land. It’s as if they are transporting people to some location. That is all I remember. “

Dream #48 – Elderly in Japan

” I am a very old man. In fact, I do not even know if I am myself. All I know is that I am in a wheelchair and that many young people are surrounding me. I am in a garden with plenty of different flowers. There is a small stream separating the garden in two. All of the people around me are Japanese. They keep on saying things like ” We should go that way! “, ” No, that way! “. A young Japanese woman is moving my wheelchair around the garden and we end up alone in a silent, calm area. I see a young geisha in a vivid red kimono. She comes next to us and salutes us. She is extremely beautiful. The most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. There is another Japanese woman with western clothes accompanying her. I ask the woman ” Why are you accompanying this geisha? ” and she says something in Japanese that, in my dream, I understood, and although I do not know what it meant, I remember that I cried. “

Dream #44 – A Great Battle

” I see two armies. Both of them are separated by a small sea. I fly around, looking at them at a great distance. One army is about to launch a naval strike. At the middle of the sea, there is a boat full of warriors, but it seems that they are scouting the area to prevent the fleet from being attacked. The sea is grey with a brown mist hovering all around. It gives the whole vision a “ sepia ” look.

I then find myself in a golden palace with diamonds on the walls and silvery pillars. I have a small group of warriors behind me. We are all bearing different colors. Our armors have precious stones as ornaments. My own armor is white and golden and I have two small, very sharp swords. I have an helmet and a mask. We arrive in front of a throne and there is an emperor who is hiding behind his personal guard. They are all red samurais. On the left and right of us, there are two groups of warriors who are now attacking us. On the left, there are warriors wearing armors with the same colors: black, green and white. They all have yari spears. I cut their yaris with my swords and I manage to kill many of them, but then I see that my warriors are being killed by the other group on the right. They are red and white samurais wielding no-dachi swords. I manage to kill many of them, executing feats only a skilled warrior could execute. I jump very high and I run very quickly, attacking and slaying my enemies and then… I wake up. “

Dream #31 – Attack Squad

” This short dream was very vivid. I was older than I am right now. I was a squad leader in a war. We had been conquering a very important headquarter and the enemy was vanquished in the area. One of my soldiers brought a map of the land and I had many other men around me. I believe it was some sort of futuristic war, but our weapons reflected those we see today in the military. The map was full of very useful information. I designated a bunker on the map. Me and my officers had to reach this bunker before the enemy would regroup. We were very uplifted and impetuous. We were proud and the morale of my soldiers was very high. I told them that we would celebrate once this bunker would be taken care of. “

Dream #29 – Spider

” In this very short dream, I had spider webs all over me. The spider itself was still attached to its web. Every time I would shake and try to make it go away, the spider would come closer and closer. “

Dream #24 – The Octopus

” I don’t know what happened last night. I woke up, at least I think I woke up, with the feeling that something was over my head. I looked at the ceiling and there I saw it. It was a living shadow. Some sort of dark octopus. And I could easily see it as I can see the neighboor walking to his car. It was about the size of a cat. I could see its tentacles waving in all the directions. It was coming down on the wall. It was going for me. I felt its malevolent spirit within my own soul. We were having some sort of connection. I felt like this thing was a parasite. I felt like it was pure evil. I felt all of this in under a second of pure fear. I couldn’t scream, I could barely react to it. I jumped out of my bed and went to turn on the lights, but when I looked back, it wasn’t there anymore. I turned on the lights. It was 2:47am. I don’t know what it was, but it was there. I have never seen something like this in my entire life and I am scared. “

Dream #20 – The Lights

” I had a very small dream. I remember seeing a shiny white light in the night’s sky. I was in the forest, near my camping ground. Suddenly, the white light divided in two. The two lights were moving very quickly and would fly around randomly. I remember being very afraid of the lights. I am unsure if it was a UFO or not. I feared that they would see me. I felt isolated and defenseless. I woke up at the middle of the night with the belief that this wasn’t a dream… But that it was a memory. ”

Dream #19 – Pharaoh & Son

The patient woke up and immediately told us about his last dream.

” This dream was a very special one. It was most certainly one of the “visions”, the kind of dream that stands out with something, a message, perhaps, that I have yet to understand.

 

I saw hieroglyphs. Images of lost, long forgotten egyptian rituals. I saw signs and symbols of gods and deities. I saw a pharaoh. The pharaoh had a wife and a son. His son was a newborn. The pharaoh was on the top of a temple. His wife and son were beneath his arms and he was desperately sheltering them from whatever would come. The sun was on their left and the moon on their right. A brilliant light appeared at the middle, over the pharaoh’s head. The light was stronger than the moon and the sun reunited. The light was pure and dangerous at the same time. The pharaoh’s wife covered her son’s eyes. The pharaoh grew wings and covered his wife and son with them. They were both spared from the light, but the pharaoh, as a sacrifice for sparing his wife and son, became blind. The pharaoh lost his balance and fell from the temple. Since he wasn’t sheltering his wife anymore, she became blind as well… And as she tried to cover her eyes, she lost grip of her infant son. The baby fell with the pharaoh at the bottom of this temple. During this fall, the pharaoh and his son became connected. Both of their heads blended into one another. “

Dream #16 – A warrior’s death

The patient recalls yet another dream in which he is at war. The recent dreams involving soldiers and battles have been troubling him to say the least. He believes these dreams represent something that he has yet to understand.

 

 

 ” I recall this dream as if it was a memory of my own. I don’t even see it as a dream. Sometimes I have dreams… They are so real… They are what I call ”visions”. I am a Japanese soldier. I might be as old as fifty years of age. It’s confusing, being on the other side… Like this. I know exactly where I am. I am on the island of Iwo Jima. We lost the battle. I am a prisoner, but not for long. There are enemy soldiers all around me. They are mocking me. They know I am already dead to them. I am gravely wounded. I am bleeding. I can taste my blood within my mouth. I stand alone on the battlefield. Smoke seems to be coming out of everywhere. I can hear the distant sound of grenade detonations. They are laughing. I have a handgun, but I do not have any ammunition and the only weapon I have is my sword. I know I will not go out of there alive, so I fight with the remaining energy that is left in me. The soldiers come towards me with swords taken on the corpses of my friends. Every time one of them charges me with a sword, I am shot by a rifleman who stands at a safe, yet close distance. The bullets are extremely painful, but I refuse to scream. I refuse to die. He shoots me in my legs and in my arms. They are trying to kill me with the swords of my friends. The rifleman is helping them. I try to keep my defensive position, I try to keep them all within my sight, but they are numerous. I manage to inflict many wounds to my foes, but when a soldier is wounded, another takes his place and I am shot once again by the rifleman. They are laughing.

 

 Suddenly, after wounding one more soldier, I receive another shot, this time in the back. I cannot keep the pain inside and I scream… But my scream turns into rage. I turn around and I can see that the rifleman is reloading. I take this as a sign. This is it. I rush towards him. He sees me. He is trying to reload, but he loses grip of the bullets he was about to put within the rifle. I scream once again with all the rage I have within me. He screams back… In fear. I decapitate him. I turn around and I can see that the soldiers let go of the swords and are now aiming towards me with their guns. I am shot, but I die with the strong sense that I have avenged my friends and that I preserved my honor by not being killed by our own blades. “