I want to share an old dream I had. The dream goes like this:
It was snow, and I was at the Zoo. The animals there were very agitated and the zookeepers couldn’t keep things under control. The problem was of escaped snakes. I was near the zookeepers and they needed help to capture the snakes, which were actualy dark green cobras, I offered to help them capturing the snake. While I was near the snakes, they weren’t aggresive at all, they were very calm and friendly. So I wanted to touch them. When I touched the snakes they agreed that I can capture them. The zookeepers didn’t know how I did that, but they were impressed and thankfull, as I collected them all.
The dream continues when I’m in the city and it’s still snowing, and strange looking people looking like some tribal people, heavily armed and looking like mercenaries were sitting by bonfire. They saw me, and decided to capture me to use me as a weapon. I remember wondering in the dream: why me? what do I have? what weapon? who are these people? … Looking at my body better, I observed a long red cobra snake coiling around my back, at my spine. It’s head was near my right ear. It looked also like it knew me for a very long time and always protected me. In the dream when I met the snake, I had the felling like ” At last we meet again ” or ” Long time no see! “, which was very peacefully and joyfull. It was like I met an old friend or ally again. Then I realised those people wanted the red cobra and not me. The snake gave me a very charmful stare at me and said in my mind ” Don’t worry, they can’t get me “. The ground started to crumble, hurting the mercenaries. The snake and I escaped.
The third and the last part of the dream comes in. We are in the elevator. Suddently a huge dog jumped out of nowhere and attacked us. The dog looked like a massive pincher, without skin and with red eyes, like a hellhound. I was very scared, but the snake bit the dog. The dog shrunk in size, growling of pain and dissapeared.
The ending was also strange. I was looking with the snake, and I noticed a big scar this snake had on it’s right part of the head. The snake told me: “Don’t worry, we’ll meet again”, and was gone. My dream ended.
What is interesting about this dream is the scar that the snake had. It was exactly like I have on my chest. I had a rough accident when I was a kid deforming my chest bones. The snake had the same scar as me, but on it’s head. I still have the scar today, only less observable, and my spine bones hurt sometimes.
I asked many people about this strange dream. Some people said that the snake in the dream called Kundalini snake, some said it was my guardian spirit. Kundalini snake, or guardian spirit, or just a fruit of my imagination… I just wanted to share my dream, though any interpretations are welcome. I have never seen this snake since then, but wonder what is it if we will meet as it promised in my dream.
Cheers to all.
Seung-Hyun Park
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When this happened I was about 10 or 11. We lived together, one big family: my parents lived downstairs with me and my grandparents upstairs. I spent a lot of time upstairs talking to my grandparents, as my parents were busy working. Once I had a weird dream. I dreamt that I was going over a hanging bridge which was strung over a rocky canyon with some other people I don’t know. I had never in my life seen such a bridge or a canyon. So I remember I was surprised even in my dream. Far underneath me there was a river. The bridge was made out of ropes to hold at and little planks which were tied with ropes too. I decided to cross it. When I almost reached the other bank the bridge burst. I managed to hold on to the rope and get to the bank. It was very difficult, and all the other people who were with me perished. They fell into the canyon, and I woke up, went upstairs and told it to my grandparents. Upstairs was the only TV in the house. Granddad had bought it and there we all sat together watching it in the evenings.
That day we sat together to watch a film. We didn’t have many channels. All the films we saw were from the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service and were old. At least my age. They also repeated films often, but that film I have not seen before. It was about a dancer and I think it was set somewhere in South America. The girl was about to go over a bridge and suddenly I recognized that was the bridge from my dream! She was the last to go on the bridge which was over a rocky canyon. All the other people had gone on the bridge already, walking it and she was the last one to step on it. Suddenly bridge broke, all the people fell into the canyon but she could make it back, as she held on the rope.
This was so strange. I remember everything in details, even now, many years later. I don’t know the films name, alas, and never saw it again.
Seung-Hyun Park
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About twenty years ago, I was a naughty boy and a little bossy. I fought with other boys almost every day and sometimes I fought with my elder sister. I was five or six years old when I saw Superman on T.V the first time. It seemed he could do everything, so he became my idol. My dream was to be a Superman.
Finally I made up my mind to be Superman. So I called up all of my friends and said in front of my house, “Is there any body that can jump from that second floor?” A silence flew through my friends. I said, “All right, all of you are like chickens, but I can do it”. They said “Are you sure?” I said “Sure! And if I do it, I’ll get all the marbles that you have, but if I fail, you will get all of my marbles. Good deal?” They said, “O.K” So I went up to the second floor with the Superman costume, stood at the edge of the floor for a few seconds, and took a deep breath. I felt cold because I was almost naked. But what a brave boy! I jumped with my arms extended like Superman. During the flight, though it was just a second, I could see every eye of my friends get wider.
“CRASH!” I fell down on the ground. And I was knocked out for just a moment.
When I opened my eyes slowly I could see my mom’s nose. I had to go to the hospital with my mom because a part of my tongue was cut in the crash. But I got the marbles later and I became the leader in my group of friends.
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