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DREAMS

The "Drowning" dream:

In the middle of a grassy field on a hill top, there was a log cabin. At both gable-ends there was a tree. I was a soldier in uniform, a plain, pale-green uniform and I was firing a rifle at another soldier...presumably, the enemy... from beside the off-side track at the front of a tank. Peeking around from the right gable-end of the cabin as I looked at the windows and main door of the cabin, a soldier, crouched down began firing at me. I was crouched down on one knee. I saw a flash from the mussel of the soldier's rifle and watched in trepidation as the bullet came towards me in a sort of slow motion and I watched in horror as it entered into the bicep muscle of my right arm. I felt no pain, but my arm was useless now; it would not move when I tried to move it. I dropped my rifle, stood up, turned and ran down the hill towards a perimeter wire fence. I ran along the fence looking for a hole; a way through it into the field beyond. I was being chased by many soldiers, and felt fearful of being caught or shot, so I moved on and found a small hole through which I clambered and was now running alongside a small brook, which had a depth of a couple of inches of water running along it. I came to a path across the brook, which covered a pipe through which the water continued to run alongside the fence and field. I stopped on the path just above the pipe underground, anxiously looking behind me...the soldiers were getting dangerously closer!

I looked down at the water passing through the pipe and saw I was suddenly standing on a ledge, high above a ravine. The water as I looked down, now looked like a long, snake-like bootlace etched deeply in the ground some 400 metres far below. I knew I had to jump off the ledge and down into ravine below to escape the soldiers...so I launched myself off the ledge. Down and down I fell, tossing and turning in the air, the full force of gravity gripped my entire body and I felt sick with the falling sensation. Then suddenly, the water came at me like the speed of light and I landed on my feet, crashing into 2 inches of water...unscathed...I could not believe my luck! I turned to hide inside the pipe, but somehow, it had transformed itself into a massive cave-like cavern, the sides and roof of which suddenly began to cascade down into the water before me. I knew I could not enter and live, so I turned and ran downstream. I went at the run, splashing my way through the shallow water, and then the water appeared to get deeper and deeper. Soon I was wading through it knee-deep, then I was swimming. I swam for my life and noticed as I progressed, the river was getting narrower and narrower. I passed under several bridges, they too were getting narrower and smaller. Suddenly, I found myself swimming into a 2 metre diameter pipe half-filled with water. I continued along inside the pipe, which was getting narrower also, soon I was under water swimming in a frenzy towards the end of the pipe as my lungs were about to burst in my chest. When I eventually found the end of the pipe, I could go no further as there was a grill closing the end of the pipe off at which I pulled and pushed to release, but it was all in vain...I had no more air in my lungs and just as the grill gave way I swam out of the pipe into what seemed like a deep lake, but my lungs gave way and water gushed into my mouth and filled my lungs. I struggled helplessly in a choking agony as I drowned. It went momentarily dark, then I opened my eyes...no more pain, no more fear and I was breathing the water in and out of my lungs as though a fish would through its gills. I felt weightless and at peace...then I woke up gagging for air!

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