16 May, 2006
woke up for like 5 mins...

just had the scariest dream in a longlonglong time... im not very sure wad happened but its just the art class pple went on a class trip to somewhere... like an aquarium or museum or something of that sort where there were lots of glass display boxes with some unidentifiable stuff inside.... then suddenly the place was filled up to my waist with water and there were lots of snakes - they were quite small, arnd 70-80cm long maybe, but they were yellow and brown and looked like those huge pythons they carry around the zoo to take photographs.

strangely the pple around dint even seem bothered by the fact that they were soaked in water and snakes. then in the dream, i had this phobia of snakes and i was trying to get out of the place because everyone else was already outside except me and someone else, i think it was jiyue...

and everywhere around there were snakes entangled in each other and hanging just above the water surface.. we just about screamed everytime we turned around the corner just to see these slimy wet creatures with beady, glassy eyes.... then in order to get out we had to duck under the water and swim through the murky water in order to get pass the snakes coz neither one of us wanted to touch them to entangle them and get them out of the way. and guess wad. there were snakes squirming around below the water surface oso.

so after i closed my eyes shut and swam/ paddled through all that muck and got out, i was wet and dirty and trembling at the sight of the digusting snakes and i just ran up to the first person i saw and tightly hugged that someone and started crying like mad. then after that the person started consoling and comforting me because i was still trembling and wierd stuffs happened.....

then i woke up. trembling still. aiyah it was a super wierd dream. since when am i terrified of snakes? but in the dream, i was so genuinely frightened by the creatures even though i knew they were not very big and quite harmless. so much so that when i woke up , i was still trembling...

also for the sake of the art varied assesssment we have to do... i tried thinking back to the dream to sort of know more... i think its only the last few minutes? hours? of ur sleep that u actually are conscious of ur dreams... and that usually in a dream, its not fully a first person or third person view, it changes at times ... like when i saw the snakes it was first person, but after i could see myself hugging someone and at that period of time, my view changed quite fast to and fro. hence the whole perception thing is screwed. as for colour... some of them are true to life (the faces of the pple arent like purple of something) but the surroundings (the things that dont feature too prominently in the dream) are a myriad of colours.

dreams are all representational... nothing about them is abstract at all. but somehow pple tend to use abstract ways to depict them . isnt that wierd.
and all that about your dreams being a reflection of reality? that could be true. but if u dream about what u desire to do subconsciously, does it mean that , to a certain extent, ur dreams are up to u to control?

also, can pple recognize things in dreams even when the surface of that thing is not there? (like i can recognize pple in my dreams even though i dint see their faces or any part of them, but i can say for sure that they are the pple i know) so is the surface actually a demarkation of the thing/person? or does it not matter? (which is a big question because pple actually start recognizing the pple around them by the way they look)

aiyah... loads of questions... no answers.

10:16 am*