Drift IX. The Popular Teen

A rainy winter day

Location: some private high school in the US

I was a popular kid in the dream - everybody gossiped about my suitors, in fact everybody was my suitor, and all my actions were under spotlight in a favorable manner. I was late for choir practice, but the instructor was fine about it because I sang so well; I was then late for sketch class, and all my classmates helped me moving faster.

But, I already thrown up twice in between two art classes - I was pregnant, and the young version of me was racking her brains about what to do with that situation.

Reluctantly waking up... It was a heavenly feeling - to be a popular teen. At least in a dream too young and too late.

Photo: Emma Watson in The Bling Ring

Drift VIII. The Surgery

Unspecific timeline, seems like summer

Location: A hospital in Bangladesh

Admittedly in reality, I had let my mind drift a little bit about J. In this dream, J is quite into me, despite his long-term girlfriend. He was sitting through some training on my right, and his left hand was lightly brushing my right leg.

After the training, he mentioned that I was too tall for a girl of his preference, and that we should match better in height - so we went to this "couple surgery" to "stabilized" bone mass around our knees, and condense some of the structure.

Out of surgery, I know I've sacrificed a lot for him - my height! (note that I'm pretty short in reality). But when we got out of the surgery room, raising my painful legs I could not catch up with him. And he would not break up with his girlfriend.

In the end we just stood from afar, at each end the hospital, smiling at each other. 

Picture Credit: Charles M. Schulz

Drift VII. The Hunger Games

Early Jan, a rainy night

Location: Some twisted city

Beo and I both became animals (specifically, an ox and a horse). We somehow entered this voluntary experiment in a crowded room full of oxen and horses. The crazy scientist was recruiting volunteers: "$180 bucks will be paid, if an ox is willing to be eaten by a horse, under my supervision of course."

What?!! $180 to die?

But Dims really went! He crawl up to the corner of the room where there were machines to monitor his vital signs. A horse quickly followed him, and started to kick the back of his head at a very constant, mechanic, seemingly harmless manner. He looked fine in the beginning, but shortly his vital signs all dropped! And he was eaten by the horse afterwards - there and like that. I was...just an emotionless, by-standing horse, astonished by the scene, in a crowded room filled with oxen and horses...

A few minutes later, Beo (human shape) with 180 bucks in hand popped up, whispering: "I sure know how to fake death, huh?"

And I can't believe there is such a picture to be found......

Drift VI. The Wedding

Jan 2014

Location: Baltimore <--> Canton

Told the bf that I'm going to Canton for some business. But actually I was going back to get married with a college classmate of mine (funny how in reality we were just friends, never even had any fling or chemistry). In the dream the marriage was arranged, so I was not happy at all with the idea. But the thought of meeting my old college friends was comforting - oh Maggie, how I miss you.

Met the future husband at the wedding, he looked so bad now with his tobacco-dyed teeth, deeply-wrinkled forehead, chapped lips, weakly skinny body - he used to be a good-looking and kind-hearted lad back in the days. I instantly cringed and wanted to back out. As more and more guests showed up at the wedding, it came to my realization that they were all those folks I DISLIKE/HATE at college. But I needed to hug them and thank them for showing up.

Thankfully, Maggie was there too. She came back for me! Ever since UK, I've never saw her again. But it slowly became obvious that she came back to Canton just to meet an important public health figure. She would not run away with me from my arranged, utterly miserable wedding.

Frustrated, ignored, I came back to bf with a bruised heart: "I told you I was going to my wedding, have you forgotten?"

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Drift V. The Epiphany

New Year

Location: Somewhere in Venice

Boating with some elderly Europeans, the weather was perfect. But they suddenly looked up to the sky and pointed to something apparently very shocking in an unpleasant way. I looked to the direction where they were pointing at - it was dark clouds rapidly creeping up and consuming the whole sky. Amongst the clouds, there was occasionally a gigantic 'hand' that was swinging down and smashing through the water, trying to look for something.

My friend reminded me to take off my gloves - because that 'hand' from the sky was looking for something that has human shape but not human radiation. I took it off, hiding myself from the searching web of the 'hand', suddenly kayaking through the water with perfect skill - I moved so fast, breaking the waves, and it was unprecedentedly exciting.

Half awake, the epiphany hit me: if the vicious cloud from the sky forms in the shape of a hand for its searching mission, it must mean that some supreme being created we humans in their shape...right?

Waking up, it's the same old philosophical question that I've been asking myself; or man has been asking himself since the beginning of time.

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