About a dream

Last night I dreamt a bizarre dream yet again. Most of my dreams (I’m sure like all others’) make no sense in structure. A lot of my dreams are linked to fear. Fear of falling, fear of not being prepared for an important exam, sometimes even fear of a tiger attacking me (sounds hilarious right now, but scares the **** out of me!)

Last night’s dream was similar and yet novel. I will narrate from the hazy details that I still remember. I was frantically searching for something, some place…I was kind of lost. I was by myself and though there were people around me (strangers), I did not ask anyone for help. I somehow managed to climb a long, mysterious and very inviting staircase, only to find myself standing on the final stair, and looking at an empty space before me. There were no walls on the sides to provide security and balance, only emptiness and me standing on a final stair. Before me was the deepest chasm the mind can imagine. I was at a dizzying height, just a step away from falling off into never-never-land.

I remember the feeling of vertigo very clearly. I remember feeling scared to death and immobilized. I felt that if I moved even an inch, I would lose balance and fall off. I closed my eyes in helplessness. It is usually at such moments that I wake up suddenly from sleep. But this time it was not to be. As I closed my eyes, a stranger (one of those people from the world back down) comes to my rescue. He picks me up in his arms and carries me to safety. (This may sound romantic and all, but that’s not how it really was in the dream). It was really about me being in trouble and someone saving me. This savior was unknown to me, and yet his presence was familiar. I remember feeling his presence even as I started taking the first step of that frightful staircase. He was standing there noticing me. I had paid him no heed. As eerily as it began, the dream ended as I was being brought down to safety.

Maybe this stranger knew what trouble was lurking ahead and was watching over me? Maybe he was trying to warn me and I did not understand him? Maybe he intentionally meant for me to take that staircase as he wanted me to learn a lesson? Maybe he was the inventor of this staircase?

I’d love to attach an interpretation to this dream. It would be very exciting and intriguing to do that. But it will not lead me anywhere. I will be left with a senseless dream and lots of open questions. I’d rather just treat this as what it is: a dream.