Dreaming of death


陳書耘

Some analysts say that dreams are the messages from our unconscious inner worlds.  Although we cannot choose our dreams or construct their scripts, while dreaming, we can interact with various people, places or things in the dream world.  A dream is like a hallucination that is also a fantastical journey in our sleep that either relieves us of pressure or tries to detract us from a certain habit.  But whether you believe it or not, besides these functions, sometimes dreams can provide us with a glimpse into the future……

I dream of different things and different people in different places everyday.  There are thousands of various combinations in my dreams, but one curious dream stands out.  When I was still in high school, one night I dreamed of my student teacher.  Although I hadn』t met her for a long time, I still remembered her uniform smile.  In the dream, she was smiling like usual.  Although the recollection of the dream had faded, I can still remember clearly that she seemed to enjoin me to do something.  She didn』t appear for a long time, but it』s strange to say, her figure was ineffaceable.  It stayed in my mind.

The next day, when I was preparing to go to school with my parents, one of my neighbors came over and gossiped like usual.  Suddenly, she changed the subject and said, 「Do you know?  Just last night your elementary school teacher died in a car accident.」  I was surprised and finally understood that last night her coming-in to my dream actually was an impartation of death.  And perhaps those words she told me, which I couldn』t understand, were the desires that she could not attain, the wishes she wanted me to fulfill for her.  As I thought of such notions, her figure in my dream grew much more vivid.

As the pace of life in our contemporary world gets faster and faster, we are gradually losing touch with our inner world and the possible sixth sense that some of us may have.  Fortunately, we still have our dreams and they are still full of enigmatic puzzles.  They are our gateway to inexplicable power.

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