Graveyard

Not sure why I've been having lots of weird dreams lately. And it feels surreal too. This time round... Not sure if I can consider this a "nightmare" or a scary dream, but I dreamt of being in a graveyard! Well it's not exactly a nightmare cause nothing scary happens. It's just me dreaming of going for Qing Ming at my grandparent's tomb, and walking through the graveyard. It's actually pretty peaceful.

So the dream began with me driving inside my car with my parents and brother. As I was in the car I saw people on a nearby graveyard doing Qing Ming (QM) and my mum told me like "oh look there's already people doing Qing Ming". The weird thing is that supposedly, because of the pandemic, we didn't want to go when there's a crowd. So we went to the graveyard before dawn. It was still dark!

And things went as per normal during QM, my cousins slowly came and join us one by one. We did the prayers and so on. Usually during QM my dad would go to my... Grand uncle? I'm not sure how to describe the relationship but yes, it's my granduncle cause it's my dad's uncle tomb. So in the dream my dad asked me to go there to light some incense and I went there myself, alone. 

As we went before dawn, the light was slowly turning bright. My grandparents' cemetery is located on a hill facing my hometown from above. So the sunrise sky in my dream was amazing. I was making my way to my granduncle's tomb when I couldn't find the way heh. So with the help of one guy from the cemetery, he was guiding me through the cemetery and giving me shortcuts etc. The sky was still kind of dark. The weird thing is the dream felt serene and peaceful. It's not like some scary dream.

Eventually I made my way near my granduncle's tomb and there's this massive tomb. And it's amazing too. The tomb actually consists of a carved horse carriage. There were a few horses pulling a carriage which apparently contains the body of a person. The cemetery guy told me that he's an important figure. The thing is, this tomb doesn't exist in real life (on my grandparents' cemetery heh).

Also another weird thing is I found some westeners carrying surfboards walking near the end of the cemetery. Which I presume, we are actually near a beach. So yes, weird dream.

Anyway the weird thing is... I usually dream of something because of experiencing that "thing" in real life before I sleep. Like maybe listening to graveyard stories, of watching something about graveyard, or talking about graveyard etc. But this time round, no. I dreamed this in my afternoon nap and I didn't "experience" anything about graveyard prior to that. So yeah, weird dream really!

I'm quite fascinated with dream meanings and symbols so I went to do a bit of googling and found out that dreams about cemeteries carry the meanings and symbols of rebirth, end of something and start of something new etc. So yeah I hope it symbolises the start of something new! Especially with the beautiful sunrise I saw in my dream, perhaps that fortifies the meaning of the dream.

And well yeah, this whole year is truly an interesting journey so far. It feels like the end of something and the start of something new. I'm embarking on new journeys right now and at times these felt a bit daunting. But at the same time I'm also excited for them, as it feels like I have a new direction to travel to, hopefully a direction that brings me, and all of us to a better place, a better position.

Alright not sure what's with all these weird dreams but they always leave me intrigued! 

To more weird and wonderful dreams haha.

In Need of Travel?

Right, back again for a dream diary post and it's an interesting dream mwahaha One that involves traveling. In the middle of a pandemic, to Bali. Perhaps I'm just in need of travel haha.

So the dream started with me being in the middle of an airport again. I don't know which airport I was in but definitely not Jakarta. I was just walking, making my way to the boarding gate. The layout of the gate is weird, cause 3 boarding gates are combined into one. My boarding gate was number 2, but somehow somewhat I entered number one instead. And the staff still stupidly let me in hahaha.

I entered the gate and was just walking through and through and eventually finding myself walking out of the gate, into the tarmac. It was so fishy because I couldn't see the plane, and find it. After that I found myself walking out of the airport. I asked the security guard where my flight is, and he told me "Oh you entered the wrong gate, please re enter the airport again". So Bizarre! And I made my way again.

Apparently gate number 2 is located hidden behind the door of gate 1. I found the gate, and I almost couldn't make it for the flight. The flight was weirdly full, but everyone was wearing a mask, thank goodness. And then we make our way to Bali. Which like magic, I just landed in Bali in like a few minutes heh. I landed in Bali and was walking inside the airport, getting some food to eat first.

And yeah, I woke up. 

Perhaps I'm just in need of travel! :P

Dolphins on Highways

Alright, looks like my weird dreams streak is being carried into September. So here's my opening my September entry with a dream diary entry mwahaha. Now it's about dolphins.

So yes I was dreaming of going on a roadtrip somewhere. Turned out it was... Medan. Yes of all places, I decided to go to a city on the northern of Sumatra. The weather was fine but halfway through the journey there was a huge rainstorm. And the highway I was driving on was flooded. But somehow the water was clear, like blue kind of clear. I felt like we were in a beach or something haha.

Then as I was driving I saw this black thing moving in the water. And suddenly a dolphin jumped out of the water! It felt so magical to see a dolphin. Swimming in a flooded highway. So magical HAHA.

And then we kept on driving and somehow we landed in Jakarta. It was no longer raining but yeah. From Medan, to Jakarta, in a car. Dreams are amazing really haha. And then I woke up!

Apparently seeing a dolphin in your dream is a good omen, according to some dream interpretation sites. It's about expressing your views and thoughts or something like that. 

That's all for the dream diary. No more weird dreams please, pleasant ones will do!

Of Concerts and Planes

Hello, here I am back again with another dream diary entry! I swear I've been having vivid, weird dreams lately. And today I'm gonna talk about two of them that I had few days ago.

This was the dream I had on Thursday night.... It's kind of a nice dream but at the same time also a stressful one. I dreamed that I was asked to play with SPSB again for MD! So in the dream I received a WhatsApp message from Cheryl asking me that I need to play for MD. Of course I replied yes, even though I know I haven't touched the clarinet in 7 years and that I am in Indonesia.

So yes in my dream I was still in Indonesia. The concert was supposed to be at 9 PM, I have to be in Esplenade for sound check at 8 PM, and the time in my dream then was 7 PM. So technically I have one hour to take a flight to Singapore HAHAHA. I remember I was running frantically, grabbing (magically) my clarinet, my blazer, tie and so on and hopped into my car. And then panicking that it is surely impossible to go to the airport and fly to Singapore in an hour hahaha.

Magically I even got time to have dinner halfway! Feeling stressed out, I decided to take a motorcycle taxi (gojek) to Singapore. Yes. And it did happen. I was grabbing my stuff on the motorcycle and arrived in Esplenade at 8:30 PM. Then Jaws came and told me that I have missed the soundcheck. But I still need to perform later 30 minutes later. I don't even know the pieces we were playing. So stressful!

Then I woke up. I'm glad I woke up hahaha. Even though I'd love to "see" the performance!

Then last night I dreamed of me being in Singapore and trying to take a flight back home. Due to COVID protocols, I have to do some swab tests thingy. In my dream I was walking along Orchard Road and I was buying stuff to bring back home. I looked at my ticket and my flight was at 2 AM (weird timing I know). I went back home (to Pandan Valley) and started packing up. It was 10 PM back then, when I realised that I looked at the wrong timing for my flight!

So 2 AM is the time of my flight back to Singapore. My actual flight to Indonesia is at 12 AM! Meaning I have 2 hours to go the airport. Once again, magically, I managed to grab a taxi to Changi, and somehow smoothly checked in my luggage, did the health tests and so on, and went inside my gate at 11:35 PM. I almost missed my flight. And then I went inside the plane, and I woke up.

I'm really not sure why I've been dreaming of stressful scenarios. According to psychology, dreams like this means that there are some unfinished things that we need to do. Well yes I did have a few work this past week and perhaps that's one of the reasons. I just love (and hate) how real and ridiculous these dreams are. How the impossible can happen, and how they turn to the possible haha.

I've always been fascinated by dreams. Just like Inception, we don't know how we ended up in the middle of our dreams do we? Dreams are also believed to be us experiencing our "mind" when we're sleeping. And that's why I find them so fascinating. And also why I started this series.

Alright I hope you had an Awesome August. It was rather quite a brutal one for me. Here's to a more Superb and Subtle September ahead for all of us I guess. Take care and stay safe! 

Of Gig and Dreams

Alright hope I'm not gonna bore you with another dream journal but here it is! Not sure why but I've been having bizarre dreams lately haha. This time - watching a concert in the middle of a pandemic.

So as usual my dream began with me in walking in the middle of a place. This time round it's a huge mall, apparently it's a new mall in my hometown. It's pretty huge, almost as huge as Takashimaya in Singapore. And it was the basement, and there were lots of food stalls, just like Taka. It was rather crowded and whew so many people were not wearing masks (I was). And I'm freaking out haha.

And then we reached the end of the basement and there was a supermarket. I was just shopping around and suddenly Neal was there and so was Jes and then we suddenly shopped together heh. After that we made our way back to the basement and on our way, there was a concert going on? And it was Coldplay. This is so weird heh. And because of social distancing rule, the audience was very small and they were also separated by 1 metre rule. But some people broke the rule and rushed to the stage.

So while Coldplay was performing "Adventure of A Lifetime", this stage crew just stopped Chris and spoke from his mic reminding people to practise social distancing. And this happened a few times heh. Imagine, a random stage crew stopping Coldplay once every while just to remind the audience to keep themselves 1 metre apart. What the hell is happening! Haha. Weird dreams I tell you.

We made our way out of the mall and there was this building that resembles a school. There was a classroom and people were seated in the exam format and I went in, asking what's happening. Someone then told me that they were watching Coldplay's AHFOD dcoumentary cause they were not allowed to watch the gig at the mall (HAHAHA). And so I decided to join them. Weird weird weird.

Then I woke up.

Not sure why I dreamed about this but perhaps it's probably because I was listening to Coldplay's AHFOD the night before. But yes, this is another weird dream. Mind me but I think I'm going to write a lot of dream journal entries. Perhaps it's an interesting way to keep the blog filled! :P

I will see you soon. Hopefully with a not-so-weird dream next time. 

New York, Tattoo

Alright I'm going to try to document as many dreams I have as possible in the dream diary series. It's quite an interesting thing to do. And also last night's dream is really a weird one!

Okay so the dream began with me getting tattooed by the tattoo artist that I got my tattoo from (hi Ash!). Somehow the tattoo was a surprise. I was getting tattooed on my back, and I didn't know what I was getting tattooed with. Eventually the tattoo was revealed, and it was a huge, pink chrysanthemum spread across my back. I was so shocked because... Okay I do plan of getting a chrysanthemum tattooed on my body, but definitely not a big and pink one! Haha. But it was a nice design nevertheless.

Now this is where the dream gets weird. I then found out that I was actually in New York. Even though Ash is actually in Singapore heh. So anyway after getting tattooed I decided to have lunch. Of all places in New York, I decided to get KFC for lunch. I was trying their vegan Beyond chicken nugget and some Beyond burger. And I was just eating them while making my way home. So absurd haha.

And yeah I didn't know what happened next, I was just walking and walking and then I woke up.

Not sure why the tattoo dream but it might be because I was watching some tattoo videos the night before (about someone getting a tattoo). As for the KFC part maybe because I was watching a vegan fried chicken recipe before. And so my mind decided to go to KFC heh.

Alright that's all for this random dream diary. Here's to more weird and beautiful dreams!

Airport Dream

Somehow these days, I've been having really vivid and weird dreams! Okay I don't have much to talk about these days so here goes another dream diary entry haha.

Okay so the dream began with me walking through this crowded (anxiety inducing, thanks Covid) hallway. It was quite huge and wide, and many people were walking (with and without mask oh gosh haha). I don't know what that place was until as I reached the end, I saw that huge board of departing flights like in Changi so I learned that it was an airport. I didn't know where I was going.

I went through more hallways with shops inside (I presume it's airport shops) and I was then walking with LTY heh. We went to the boarding gate, and at this time I still didn't know where we were going! It's so crazy in the dream that I just kept on going even though I didn't know where I was going. I guess that's how dream works haha. Anyway we boarded the plane and it was an SQ flight.

There was no social distancing in the plane and I was so puzzled. I still didn't know where I was so I asked a flight stewardess and she told me we were in New York (what) and we're flying back to Indonesia. But when I looked at the TV on the plane, we were not landing in Jakarta but in some place with weird abbreviation. And I asked the stewardess again and... Turned out it's a city somewhere in Sulawesi where we go there to be quarantined haha. And the plane would then go to Singapore.

I woke up halfway during the flight. That's all.

And this dream was from a few days ago. Then I had another weird dream!

So this dream started out in the airport again. This time round it was Jakarta airport, I recognised it from the brown tiles below. And I was in a lounge sipping some drinks. There was a cashier who gave me some change and told me to "enjoy my flight to Amsterdam". So I thought okay I was going there.

But then somehow when I landed I was in the US?! HAHA. I was in Atlanta or Alabama, I forgot where. And there were a few of my friends there and we wanted to go and move there for good. We stayed in an apartment and there was our school beside the apartment, and also there's this old library where we went to. It was such a bizarre dream. The weirdest part of the dream is that the apartment that we stayed resembled a lot like Pandan Valley HAHA. They look similar!

Alright that's all for this dream diary series. I don't know why I kept on dreaming of airports heh. It's just a strong sign that I need to go for a holiday haha. Alright I hope you're keeping safe and staying healthy. Have a great remaining of June ahead. Take care and stay safe!

Vegan Scallops

Okay this is a really really random post but I took a nap just now and had a very very vivid weird dream! It's been so long since I did a dream diary entry so here goes I suppose!

So my dream started with me walking in the middle of my hometown. There was a huge event/celebration going on in town (weirdly, in the middle of a pandemic heh) and I was checking it out. I couldn't figure out what the event was, it wasn't clear. All I know is that it happens at night and the roads are closed for it. It was getting late so I decided to walk back home. It was 9 PM ish in my dream.

On my way home I passed by this newly opened vegan restaurant near my house. It has a very nice and standing-out decoration and design. Definitely not something that is usually designed in my hometown. I went inside and the interior design was even quirkier! The floor tile is checkered like a chess board. There were lots of mirrors and even chandeliers. The dining ware is super classy too.

As I made my way to the counter to order I was told that it was opened by a Norwegian couple who moved here. They are vegans and their mission is to bring their vegan scallops here. Even though it's expensive. And also I don't know why the customers are all Caucasian even though we're in the middle of my hometown haha. Before me was this boy who took so long to order. 

They ended up shooing him away. And when asked what I wanted to order, I asked for their recommendation and they recommended me their vegan scallop. Which takes the shape and form of a scallop but vegan. Only in my dreams I suppose haha. I tasted it and it was okay but still puzzled about why there's a Norwegian restaurant in the middle of my hometown hahaha.

Then I woke up from this bizarre nap.

Okay possible reasons for the dream outline. The night before this I watched a BBC video about a debate whether oysters are vegan or not haha. As for the event in the hometown it was probably because the streets of my hometown were packed today and I was caught in a jam.

Okay that's all for this dream diary entry. See you soon!

Weird Dreams

Okay I know this is a weird way to start a post in a new month but... Here's another dream diary entry. I've been having weird dreams, in fact, 3 nights in a row! I can't remember the dream I had last night but it was weird. But the dreams I had back 2 nights ago are still vivid in my head.

Here goes. So on Friday night when I went to bed... I dreamt that I was in Amazing Race! Or something like that. Basically a traveling reality show thingy. I was with my cousin, Febi, and as usual we had to do some challenges to get our next clue for the next destination. The weird thing was I don't know where we were, all I know was that our first challenge was to try this traditional Chinese medicine treatment method. And there was a lady assisting me who speaks with a thick Chinese accent so... 

I assume I was in China or something haha.

The "treatment" involved me entering this hot water tub. After that she threw some leeches in! WTH haha. Apparently it was some acupuncture method but instead of needles, it was leeches. The weird thing was that I can feel "sensations" while I was dreaming. Not sure how, it felt really real. And the worst part was... After they sucked my blood, they turn into centipedes -.- Anyway I finished the challenge and we were happy because we were the first team. Then I woke up.

And on Saturday night I dreamt of going back to Singapore! But it was a super weird dream... Like I was actually walking in my hometown, on this particular street I know. After walking for a while, I just told myself "Hmm I want to go back to Singapore". And after a few turns I actually arrived in Somerset 313 WTF HAHAHA. And I was feeling really sad because my favourite CD shops were closed down already? And it was like 12 PM and I called Jeslyn if she wanted to have lunch. 

Weird weird dreams really.

Okay sorry for the weird post to welcome this new month of November! Can't believe we're in the last two months of the year already. 2018 will soon come to an end and a new year is dawning upon us. 2018 has been a weird year. Can't really put it into words. Well I'm just seriously hoping that the rest of the year will go and end beautifully. And not weirdly heh. Hope you had a great October. Wishing you a beautiful epilogue to this year too! Seize the day, take care and see ya :)

Weird Dreams

This is a really random post, but I had a really weird dream last night. Also scary.

Like all dreams, I don't know how it all began. All I knew was I was in Singapore and I was staying in an Airbnb. The house is an ordinary house and it was near Pandan Valley. The owner of the house live there as well and the resident of the house was the landlady, her son and daughter. But somehow her children are not close with her, they were very cold. But the landlady was nice to me!

Somehow somewhat, I got thrown away out of the house and left behind on the roadside. And then the landlady put a cardboard on top of my body saying "Pregnant at 11 weeks" HAHAHA WTF. People looked at me in disgust and just walked off without caring about me. So sad. And then the son of the landlady came to me and turned out his mother was suffering from a mental illness and he, and his sister, was trying to get rid of her out of the house. And suddenly I felt really sad.

He brought me in again and I woke up. And then I fell asleep again.

I dreamt again but it was a whole new dream.  I was driving in the middle of the forest with my family. There was my parents, my siblings and aunts and uncle. We were all apparently in a holiday? And somewhere in Korea hah. So we checked in to the resort and it was just an ordinary day. Then came a lady who claimed to be someone who practiced traditional Korean medicine. She offered to do acupuncture on my two feet and I said sure. And she was really good, I felt no pain!

And then the nightmare begins, I forgot that my feet were having needles on them. So I stepped on my foot and realised the needles were piercing more inside my skin. One of them actually bent and tore my skin apart. However I felt no pain at all and that lady was like "see I'm good right?" -.-"

And eventually I plucked the needles one by one and I woke up again. That's all.

It was really a weird dream. Couldn't really understand how these dreams came about. Except for the second part! The second part might be explained with me plucking stones/metal scraps on my sandal which got stuck inside, and it hurts when I walk. So I was plucking them yesterday. As for the pregnant and Airbnb part, I'm not so sure haha. Oh well dreams are just amazingly... Weird.

Alright I'm gonna start a new series called Dream Diaries! If I ever remember my dream that is. I think I did something like this a few times before. Should try to label these posts! Alright that's all for my random post. I hope you enjoy it. Here's to more... Beautiful dreams haha.