Encrypted messages and the Egyptian pyramids

Three things were in my mind when I went to sleep a few days before Diwali

1. That I will be attending a family get-together on Diwali


2. I have not written a review of the ‘Lost Symbol’ in my blog


3. And a book about Egypt and the pyramids

So as you can imagine my dream was a mega-mix of all these things...

I am home (It is not exactly my house but in the dream it is). I am waiting for all my cousins to come as it is Diwali. One by one they arrive and we all head towards the terrace of the building. This is where all the fun is supposed to happen.

I organise a game for them. The objective of the game is to decode a message and find the clues which will lead to a hidden treasure.

By that time I am airborne! I have a pair of beautiful wings and there is an angel (a really old man with wings) near me. Both of us are watching the contestants patiently at a few feet above the terrace fluttering our wings!

But try as they may, my cousins fail to find the answer. The angel gets kind of impatient and tells me that he does not have time and wants to find the hidden treasure at the temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt!! At that time in the background I can see a giant pyramid in the middle of an ocean (??) I try to calm him and ask him to wait.

Since I find that there is no way that my cousins will solve the puzzle I murmur the answer to them. When I turn around I find that the angel has disappeared...

Well..the rest.. I can't really remember..Hmm Maybe the angel went to find the treasure..any guesses??

Hospitals, Babies and Museums- A Jigsaw Dream

Now this dream was more like a jigsaw puzzle..Was hard to find the head and tail of it..Anyway this is what I managed to put together...

I am in a hospital and waiting for the doctor. The doctor does some tests and tells me that I have critical Iron deficiency! Suddenly I get the feeling that I am really sick. My mouth is all dry and there is some sort of sour taste. And the doctor confirms that if I am not given the right medicine I will die (!!).

I can’t remember what happened next but it seemed I had become a resident of the hospital!! Fully cured? Probably..And I have a job there too..Any guesses?? To take care of cute little babies:-) And I am kind of famous there with all parents depending on me to take care of the babies!!!

Then..another break in the dream...I am now a small child with short hair and very shabby clothes.. Perhaps I was searching for a lost baby..anyway I am looking all over for something. 

Soon I find the place I am looking for..but it has transformed into a beautiful art museum..There are lots of people and I look around in awe...Hmm then what?

At some point I believe I saw my friend showing her new salwar with considerable excitement. It was of some impossible colour combination and there was nothing to do but to agree with her that it was really good!

I am a Spy??!!

Sigh...I never ever thought that I would become a spy in this life. Well, thanks to my hyper-active sub-conscious mind, it was made possible...in this very funny dream...

I am a spy. And I am not alone. There are a large number of girls who are all spies. Our aim is to secretly deliver some message to some place.

So I start walking (God knows where). On the way I see another girl, whom I recognize immediately as a fellow spy. So I whisper the secret message in her ear and move on. This girl now starts walking and meets another person and repeats the same procedure (What the hell!) Finally we meet somewhere and get the secret message all neatly written. It is telegrammed to my (poor) uncle who is our chief!

Everything is just fine until...

I get arrested by the police, because apparently I made some stupid mistake and gave the whole operation away! They ask me about the secret message and I feign ignorance. They search my bag and find nothing (since it was all telegrammed earlier, so clever!!!). And they let me go.

Outside, the whole spying community is waiting, obviously angry with me for making such a flaw... Suddenly a car appears and helps me escape from the tricky situation. But on the way I notice that my bag is not with me! I have to go back..

On reaching the Police Station, I find that there is a huge exhibition there (ahem!). I purchase a big bottle of shampoo from there and return home happily! :-)) (Girls will be girls, huh??)

No multi-tasking please!

In Office

Boss: Did you do that job I gave you earlier?

Me: Of course I did!

Boss: When??

Me: A long time back

Boss: But then why didn’t you give it to me? You know, you should hand over your assignments as soon as it is done..What were you doing anyway??

Me: Oh, I am sorry..I was busy mopping the floor

Boss: Here??

Me: No, no at home..And I was watching TV at the same time

Boss: Aha! That’s the whole problem! You shouldn’t be multitasking! You should do only one job at a time! You should concentrate on whatever you are doing...How many times have I told you..
....

Hmm...some dream huh?

The Flying ‘Things’ and the Golden Safety Pins

“It is coming!!”

“What??”

“Something scary, I am sure!!”

I wait with fear for the scary thing inside a house. I guess I was talking to somebody in the house, but can’t remember.

Anyway I secure all the doors and windows carefully. I know something is coming...

And they come. Something dressed entirely in black..And they are flying!!

On closer look, it seemed to be human...Hmm... It more or less looked like the Asuras (demons) we see on TV.

Anyway those things were trying to enter my house. What was I supposed to do???

And then I find myself outside the house. There are a lot of people around and they are moving about. I soon find out that the demons attack only those who move. That is, if we stand like statues, they won’t hurt us!!:-))

All the people around also seemed to realise this and they all stand like statues! Not even a blink! And the black things come and inspect us, watching us closely if we are moving!!

Soon I am in for a surprise. One of the demons comes and talks to me and gives me something..A large number of golden safety pins!!!! It seemed they acted as fangs for the demons..It worked this way: they put two safety pins into their mouths and there- two shiny fangs all set and ready to bite or whatever!!

As far as I can remember, I did not take those safety pins! I have had enough as it is!

By Thunder!

My friends and I are on the terrace of a building… The weather is really great and we are all in a good mood. Suddenly, the sky darkens and our smiles disappear. It starts raining heavily and there is thunder and lightning too. A storm builds up and approaches us howling, and at frightening speed...

We are all scared to death and run towards a small room. Inside we find a man who also looks really scared. He is saying “This is a wooden cabin; we won’t be safe in here. We need to get out!’

And then suddenly the room transforms into a lift and starts moving down. But then, a thunder strikes and my arm gets burnt! I am in deep pain…

Soon the lift stops and I find that I am alone in the lift! Everybody else has disappeared. I get out of the lift and look around…There are so many rooms around but no one in sight…

The rest of the dream involved a lot of searching, running, jumping and so on. All left to your imagination:-)

Travelling in a bag!!!

This dream was amazingly clear and went on and on like a mega serial... Read on!

The four of us, my parents, husband and me are planning for a trip somewhere in India. We are going by train. My parents can’t come because their passports have expired (!) We decide to go anyway and my parents hide inside our bags!!!! We set out to the railway station. On the way we meet an aunt of mine who is in a very bad mood.

“Why do you have such huge bags?”

“Oh, we started packing and ended up packing just about everything!! We believe in travelling heavy!”

“Ok, keep this chain inside your bag. I don’t want to carry it around.”

So saying she opens one of the bags and sees my mom!!!

“What the..!!"

We smile sheepishly. And we get told off.

We finally catch the train. My parents get out of the bags and are happily enjoying the view outside.

But then the TTR makes his appearance. I am scared stiff.

“What are we going to do now??”

“Oh it is OK. We can just give them some money and they won’t say anything” my father says.

So when the TTR comes, my husband gives him money- just enough for the three of us. But not for my mother.

“Oh my! I am in trouble! I am in trouble!” my mother exclaims.

"Come fast! Here is a suspicious woman in this bogie.” The TTR shouts into his walkie talkie.

And they come. Men and women in white uniforms march towards us as if they meant doom. As we wait for the climax…

“Oh don’t worry. Give us some money and we won’t do anything!”

So we give them money. And we travel happily to our destination….

The End…

I failed...yet again..

How many times am I going to see this dream (nightmare rather) again???

Well..Here is what I saw a few days back...

I am studying for my Math examination. I go through the various formulas and stuff and I am very confident, maybe a little overconfident. So I really do not bother to read through it thoroughly.

I attend the examination the next day. There is only one question and it carries 100 marks. I start writing confidently, and soon realise that I can’t remember the formula well. Meanwhile, my classmates are trying to copy from my answer sheet! And I scold them all!

Anyway after the exam I go home. On my way, I meet a friend of mine and I ask her how she did at the exam. She says “Oh the exam was very easy. The formula was 0.893x10^-3/12a, right?”

I stand there dumbfounded as I had forgotten the 12. In short I had failed!

So I tell my mother “Mom, I am going to fail the exam. Please don’t scold me, I will try next time!”

And there ends my nightmare..:-(

Jumps, Floods and Blasts

Oh goodie!! I got to see another dream yesterday :-) This is what happened...

I am in a friend’s house. She is kind of annoyed with me because I had not called her for some time. So she does not give me a warm welcome or anything...Then after sometime:

Friend: “Why is your hair so messy?”
Me: “.....”
Friend: “Why don’t you colour it??”
Me: “Fine. Come with me to the beauty parlour then.”

After that we set out (probably to the beauty parlour, but I do not remember reaching there). Once I get out of the house, I see a big problem staring at me....

You see, the house is actually in the middle of a pond, and, one has to jump a few feet to get to the other side (clearly not my cup of tea)!! Ahem, first of all I do not know how to swim. So I am not very sure whether I will make it, or drown! (How the hell did I get IN to the house????) My friend now, has landed on the other side gracefully like a cat and is beckoning me to make my move...

And so I jump......and I make it (maybe because I was thinking hard not to fall down:-D)! Phew!!

After that I do not know what happened, but I find myself in the house again and my friend is not with me. And then, I hear a sound from inside.

The sound of water flowing....

When I go inside the room to check, I see lots and lots of wires and from somewhere water is leaking!! Already the water has reached up to my knees!! Panic attack!!!!

I get a feeling that all these wires are going to be trouble and run outside at full speed!!!!

Boooooooooooom!!! There is a huge blast, and the house does not actually go to pieces, but kind of skids and comes to a halt in front of me! And I think "What am I going to tell my friend now???"

Thankfully it was all in a dream:-)

The Invisible Thugs

Another one of my crazy dreams:-)

Four or five guys are being followed. Whether they are good or bad, I have no idea. They are in a car and going at top speed. Then suddenly they come across a garage or something. They speed inside and pull down the shutter. Then comes the interesting part!

One of the guys has an impressive power- to make anything invisible, including himself. Hmm... starting to sound like an X-men movie, huh?? Anyways, he makes all of them invisible. Another guy suddenly appears and drives away in the car. (Maybe for a false trail??)

And so they wait.

Soon the pursuers make their entry. They know that they are hiding inside and that they are invisible. So they start searching (like trying to walk in a dark room with arms stretched out). Now I feel that I am one of those invisible and that someone is just close enough to catch me!! So frightening!

And I wake up:-) End of story! Interesting?? :-)

The Part-time maid affair

I have been thinking of getting a maid, seeing the sorry state of our home- thanks to our busy schedules (and laziness:-D). I had a dream a few days back about the same.

It went like this:

My parents come to our house. It is in a state of disarray and my father tells me: “Your house is full of WORMS! (yuck!) What have you been doing??” “I have never seen any worms around here” I exclaim. Then my mum says “It is time to get a maid. This won’t do.”
So we set out in search of a maid. And we finds one, somewhere. She is wearing large spectacles and is serving food to someone. Then in the background, somebody says: “She seems to be fine” But somehow I am not convinced.

And that’s it. Such a boring dream, not even worth recording...Anyways, one day I might read this again and think of the days when I worried about part-time maids!!

P.S.- Our house has not been infected by worms, yet!!

A vampire story!

How will you categorize this dream? Weird? Funny? Horrible? Scary? For me it is perhaps the weirdest and in some ways the funniest dream I ever had (till date).

The setting: a huge castle with velvety darkness shrouding every nook and corner (Imagining a Dracula castle will do). An owl is hooting, wolves are howling (hmm I made that up :-D). I am inside the castle with some friends.

Suddenly something bites me! What is it?? Well, er..a dog! What happens next is, I get affected by rabies?? Nope, I develop symptoms of a vampire!!(??) Since I am turning into a full-fledged vampire, I would obviously need some blood soon. That means my friends will be in danger. So I ask them to keep away from me and lock myself up in a room.

Then some villains come to attack us. Their intention is simply to kill us. One of the guys gets inside the same room I am hiding, to get some weapons (the room in question is loaded with weaponry). As I am just a new-born vampire, I am not absolutely sure what to do. But then the guy spots me and tries to shoot me.

And that does it! My vampire reflexes come into play and what follows is something like an action packed scene from a movie! And of course, Flawless Victory for me! (I did not drink his blood or anything! Thank God!! :-/

And then... I officially become a vampire...

I should not have read Twilight before going to bed. Can't imagine what I would have done if the dream/nightmare continued. Fortunately, I woke up before doing more damage!