No Gripes About Cutting People in Half

    Much of this dream I now remember in a mish-mash.

    I believe I (was it even me? I don’t remember, but I guess I’ll refer to the “protagonist” as myself) was in a haunted house of sorts. (The inside-the-haunted-house part, I dreamt in first-person. Too many horror point-and-click games?) No, not the funhouse variety, more like a real haunted house. I think there was some being lurking around, trying to chase me. It was human in shape, but it sure didn’t act human. Or maybe there were multiple of those creatures around that I kept killing in order to defend myself. I do remember blood. And I do remember cutting heads. And strange noises. But one really weird thing was that there was some pause feature that I was able to use… I can’t recall specifically for what, but it was to my advantage. And I believe one of the creatures was chasing me out.

    Outside the house, there was one of those monsters (the same one that was chasing me out, perhaps…?) lying on the pavement ground. (Here, I am seeing the dream in third-person.) There was short, green grass nearby, and the sky was a little dim and blue, casting a light in the same colour upon everything below. The “monster” had a dark cloak on (but at this point, his face was visible, and I could see some brown stubble on his upper lip), and looked more human than the other monster(s) from inside… Yet I had severed his head. Then, some woman in a cloak arrived… Her cloak was mostly black, but had embellishments embroidered with gold-coloured thread. She said something like, “I have no gripes about cutting people in half.” I think she was from a tribe or clan that cut enemies in this manner shortly after the enemies have been killed. She performed this ritual on the dead monster/man. After that, I don’t think I saw her again.

    The next scene I remember had me and two or three others (some of my real-life friends, I think). We ascended into the sky in a V-formation, similar to the way that Canada geese do… But we didn’t have one person as the centre of the V. I was on the right side in front (if you looked at the formation from an aerial view), with someone else directly to my left, and the remaining people were following from behind. The person beside me and I, we clasped hands together, and the whole party sang Bohemian Rhapsody.

    The final part, we were back on the ground. Again, the grass was short, and completely green…no traces of yellow to be found. We were walking toward a garden sort of area… It looked a little like the backyard garden in one of my old homes: kind of like a steep staircase. There were a few small evergreen trees scattered about amongst ground-level plants and tons of soil. At the top of the staircase garden was a white fence, and a gate. There were a lot of people in front of me and the others I had flown with, and no one behind. We kept walking towards our goal when a monster appeared from behind in the distance. I think it looked partly like a human, partly like a creepy rag doll… I think we got rid of her, though. We made it to the garden. I didn’t see the part where we opened the gate.

-bookguild