I usually don’t remember my dreams, but there was a particularly disturbing one a few weeks ago that I thought was interesting. I was trapped in an arranged marriage to a foreign singer I didn’t like. The singer doesn’t exist in real life, but in the dream was a rich and famous celebrity who was madly in love with me. The singer and both our families expected us to one day have kids and raise them. My family kept telling me how hard it was to get a rich and beautiful singer as a partner, and how lucky I was to be married to a celebrity. The singer’s many fans were deathly envious of me and wouldn’t let me say anything negative about the marriage or their idol. The few times I did, I got dozens of anonymous hate messages telling me to kill myself.
Our families went shopping together for our new house, a house both families would jointly pay for, where we would live together as a couple. The whole dream was characterized by inescapable dread.
I’m not trapped in an arranged marriage in real life, but I’ve been reading about arranged marriages in the early 20th century, so that must have been a factor.
Two years ago, I had a similar nightmare I wrote down. I was at home, but it kept turning into another home, a house on a snow-covered hill with bare black trees at the bottom. The trees were black and brambly, and against the blue-gray sky they somehow evoked a sense of pure horror. There was one big tree on the left side of the path you walked up to reach the house, and a brambly thicket to the right, black thorny undergrowth so thick that nobody could ever walk through it. In the dream, I went to various other places trying to escape, like the grocery store, but every place I stayed in gradually transformed into that house on the snow-covered hill.
Has anyone else here had vivid, interesting, or disturbing dreams? What are your best or worst ones?
