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Published : 8 months, 2 weeks ago (Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:02:46 PDT)
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I was sick over the past 3 days and guess what, I had some really striking dreams - I guess being febrile keeps the brain more active overnight - heh.
I was too tired to write everything down immediately and so I am left with bits and pieces.
Interestingly, I was on a train in 2 of them and the 3rd one was a Bollywood themed one. The train dreams have become frequent recently. I don't remember having as many before.
D#1
The only thing I remember was that I was on a fancy train and it was going too fast for my liking.
D#2
This was a partly lucid one. I was on a train that was travelling through a valley of some sort. - there was a river on one side and hills on the other. I don't remember what happened but at some point I realized that I was in a dream. Then I decided that the landscape around was too dull. Instead of hills there should be cliffs on the side of the train-tracks. So I drew them and voila! Sheer black granite cliffs apppeared where the hills were. I even adjusted their height because the first drafted ones were not to my liking :)
D#3
This entire dream had a blue hue.
I was in Pune, my hometown. IRL a river runs through it. I crossed the river on a small arched foot-bridge (IRL none exists).
There was a street fair of some sort. I was drawn to a voice that I recognized. It belonged to an RJ from a radio program I used to listen to back when. She was announcing that they were showing an old Bollywood song. Much to my amazement, the song was being projected in 3-D.
I started watching the black and white (and blue-tinted) projection of Waheeda Rehman (actress) singing romantically to Dev Anand (actor). After a minute it dawned on me that she was singing "Jaane kya tu-ney kahi" and I thought 'how is this possible?' because IRL that song is sung by W.R. to Guru Dutt (another 1950-60's Bollywood movie star). An intersting factor was that my mind had not merely substituted G.D. with D.A. in the same song & situation but put the song in a totally different scene. More surprise - IRL I haven't seen that 'song-situation' starring WR and DA ever. I totally made up that scenario.
Yet, I enjoyed the whole show with the sweet song and the novelty of 3-D projection.
After this I moved on to another section of the fair when I heard the opening "tabla" beats of another favorite song of mine - "Chalte chalte" from the movie Pakeezah. No surprise that I went to see where the song was playing - it was not too far from where I was. As happens in dreams I was gliding everywhere without really walking or being aware of the altered form of locomotion.
Repeat of previos scenario where Meena Kumari was being projected in 3-D (with blue-hue). She (rather, her projection) was dancing really well but not according to the original choreography in the movie. IRL it was known that she was not a good dancer and so a stand-in dancer was used for this song and most of it was picturised using long-shots. However in the projection I could clearly see her face as she danced around and she was dancing well. I watched and listened to the song till the "last whistle" (if you have heard the song or seen the movie then you'll know what I am talking about).
Jump to next scene - my maternal grandma's old house - a big family gathering in the pink colored room (I hated that color) - it was my uncle's & aunt's choice - small house and lots of people - my grandma's brood, and also her siblings, their kids & grandkids.....
All I remember is my uncle complaining about someone spilling some green chutney (sauce) on his new white shirt - his new shirt is spoiled - he will have to take it to the cleaners to get the stain off - his wife (my aunt - both creators of the aforementioned pink color) trying to mollify him - I was thinking - he is more irritated about having to spend money at the cleaners - he is so stingy (IRL he is known for his parsimonious ways :) - my uncle wasn't shouting/screaming - but he got that particular tone in his voice when expressing his displeasure (this reflects RL and IRL I hate that too).......
Was that my younger brother at whom my uncle's ire was directed? - the more I think about it the more I seem to think that it was - but he looked very young - 5-6 years old - he was terrified, guilty, shocked - because he wasn't expecting such an extreme reaction to what he considered a minor accident - he couldn't even gather his wits about him to say sorry to my uncle - did I interevene - I don't remember - surprising, since I have always been very protective of him.
Many other things happened - but cut to .....
End of dream - everyone is getting ready to leave - one of my mom's cousins ( who I have seen only 4 or 5 times in my entire life) is saying goodbye to everyone - her faceless (in the dream) son (age 3-4) is tagging along - she is wearing a navy-blue sari - when she turns around to someone (who?who??who???) - and says something to the effect of - "thats settled then, there should be no further dispute (or conflict) between the 2 of you now" (who are these 2? what is the conflict?)" - albeit smiling.
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