» Tue May 15, 2012 1:04 pm
Oh, and I had a dream-related experience that I still find disturbing to this day. Keep in mind that I'm normally a skeptic, not at all superstitious, but:
For a class project when I was an undergrad, we had to buy an item from a fair-trade organization and write a paper on it. I ended up buying a tapestry online from a place out of Guatemala. They were normally very expensive, but they had a clearance section for "flawed" items that were really cheap. For the tapestry I ordered, all it said was "minor defect/abnormality". I got it in the mail and saw absolutely nothing wrong with it, so I hung it up on the wall in my bedroom.
It's not at all unusual for me to have really realistic and bizarre dreams, but shortly after hanging up the tapestry, I started having waking dreams, where I would wake up in the morning but still be dreaming at the same time, and actually see the things from my dream in my room. Except every single time, the things were in the tapestry.
For example, I dreamt that my mom and I were being chased by some crazy guy and I woke up just as he had grabbed my mom. But since I was having a waking dream, I actually "saw" my mom in my bedroom -- she was standing with her back to me, her face pushed into the tapestry. Another one was of this scary devil-looking creature that was trying to kill me, and when I "woke up" his face was coming out of the tapestry.
At first I found it kind of fascinating, but it really started to bother me after a few months, so I took the tapestry down and it never happened again. I still have the tapestry but keep it stored in a box, lol.