Dreams.. weird, crazy and wild…!

I have always had dreams. Not day-dreams but *night dreams*. My dreams have featured Siddharth Basu as the young dictator of some unknown nation. His sister is Amita Kohli (a newsreader from Doordarshan days) and I happen to be her confidante. My memory fails me at this point; I had this dream many years back. Certain scenes flash across my mind where I stand next to a window with Amita next to me as we watch the erstwhile Quizmaster direct an army made up of Oriental-looking troops… God, weird is an understatement.

I have read somewhere that dreams are an indirect reflection of the daily happenings in one’s life. One night, I dreamt of a guy. Not anyone I knew but more of a mythical figure. He was human all right but no one that I’d ever met. All I recall is that he was incorrigibly charming. Young, smart, cute.. oh, even sweeter than Aamir Khan in QSQT. My dream ended with some kind of a promise of a relationship between the two of us. When I woke up the next morning, I desperately wanted the story to move forward. I consciously kept thinking of my dream all day long in the hope that it’d reappear the next night… Alas, it was not to be.

Another dream featured Richard Gere and me. I was in my early twenties and he appeared to be in his early forties. Oh, we were in love… 🙂 I recall a shot of the two of us standing on a bridge over a swift-flowing river. He’s trying to convince me that I must go ahead with my life since he envisions no future for our relationship. I turn to him and implore, “But we can get married! I am 24, you’re 40. We can get married…” I awoke all flushed and happy and wrote about the dream to nearly every other friend I had….:-))

I think I watched ‘Autumn in New York’ a couple of days back… Maybe this also points to the fixation I have about the older guy-younger girl funda in romantic relationships. I even wrote a story about it, many years later, though…

By the way, last night was even stranger. But when it comes to my dreams, I am rarely surprised. Last night, I dreamt that hariputtar, rileen and I were in a medical clinic. Now this place had an appearance of being in the outdoors. Apparently, all of us were waiting to be called in for a blood test. According to some newfangled technology, the blood was to be drawn from the ear. I am extremely needle-shy and this ear thing had freaked me out. But the other two guys were really cool about it. Don’t recall much of what happened later… but it was weird.