Cola with Parizad

The setting is of a place which looks quite like my Nani's. I am in my room sitting and doing something. A few moments later I come downstairs because of the noise that is constantly hitting my ears.

Across the road is a plot enclosed in a walled boundary having a big iron gate. A few vans and cars are parked nearby blocking the small colony road. I go in through the small gate within that big one to find a guard sitting inside with a tent type partition made. Puzzled because of the happenings, I ask him, "Kya ho raha hai yahan ?". He says, " Shooting chal rahi hai."

Surprised, I look for some way to get in. After much cajoling, the guard lets me in. Inside, it's a village scene with a charpoy towards the far end and a few crew members with equipment on the side I enter from. A lady is sitting on that charpoy with her back towards me, talking to a guy.

All of a sudden, that guy stands up..I see him and he sees me..It's ----- from IIT K. He comes up to me and explains the whole business. And then, I get to meet Parizad Kolah of TGILC right there! We have a bit of a chat and some cola and I ask them to wait right there. I go back to my room to fetch my camera.

The camera clicks a few times and I have a photo right there with a famous TV personality. Then out of nowhere, I find that a set of stairs has come up at the rear end of that plot leading to a lower level of land. They resemble the steps Farcry has in it's monkey-treehouse level. I go down and ....

A Friend visits me

It is sometime around 6 in the evening. I have just got up from my afty-evening nap. I take a look around and go down again. A few minutes later there is a knock on the door. I get up, open the door to see Prof. Vishu standing there with a TA. I shake my head and then realise that it's not him.

It's one of my friends from school and his dad. I am a bit surprised but I ask them to come in. Just then I see two glass tumblers soaked in dust, lying on the lower level of the table. ( In reality, I haven't used any of those in the hostel). I pick them, get up to go and wash them so that my guests can have water, but he stops me. Instead he picks up my glass kept on the table, takes a hard critical look at it and then puts it to use. Uncle does not seem to be interested in having water.

We have some chat for a while and the clock ticks to 7:30. So dinner comes into the picture. They decide to have it in the hostel mess itself although I have already informed them of the possible consequences. I lock my room and we go down.

The scene downstairs is a mirage of sorts. The entire dining system has been changed. Instead of the usual stuff, it is more like a buffet system with lots of dishes to choose from. Can this be true? I got confused as to whether I was dreaming in that dream. Maybe I was.

Two in One

[1] I am Hanuman (LOL) and a gargantuous demoness is chasing me. I keep flying for sometime and then I reach the Himalayan region. It is becoming difficult for me to keep myself away from her huge claws. I am on some peak and she is coming straight at me. With great strength I throw a huge snowball and she bites the floor. Then she thinks for sometime and casts a spell. The whole snow field turns into a salty one. There is salt everywhere. The salty air makes me sick and then....

[2] This one is about cricket in the hostel wings. The one involved looked like the C-15 wing but actually much wider. I am bowling. I don't remember which guys were playing that day. I get someone out and then a big fight starts about him being out or not. As usual I get in the mood and start up my shoutbox. It continues for a while and then all is normal.

De-Evolution

This one is about Holi and a "de-evolutioning" act that takes place. My friends and I are playing Holi and then out of nowhere Mr. Laloo (our Railway Minister) comes in. LOL. It's a surprise for all of us. He is all alone without any security and covered from head to toe in all sorts of colour patches. He joins in as if he were somebody from our group. All this is OK types i suppose but the real thing is what follows.

We had somebody who was capturing us playing Holi on his handycam. Mr. Laloo too gave some nice shots showing his big set of teeth as well. Evening came and we all gathered to have a look at the video. There was no Laloo in the video. In his place was a monkey showing off his white teeth. His face was quite like Laloo's. This was so strange. I mean, get Darwin out of his grave and show him this !!!

Mini Bus Service

It's been almost a month since I last wrote something here. I had quite a few dreams but somehow they didn't make it to this eternal message board. This one, by the way, is like a short extract of something big.

My friends and I are on some kind of a mini bus; we are not just there as passengers but someone from us is in the hotseat as well. The place we are travelling in is a village area with broken, pot-holed roads.

Suddenly, there's appears a stack of bricks about a feet high, right in the middle of the road. All of us rush to the back end and the driver magically pulls off a bus-jump. Just then, when this brick layer ends we find no path for the bus coz there's a truck standing right in front and a car which had come swinging in from the right hand. Mysteriously again, we find ourselves as we were before this situation. The truck and car are left behind. I had closed my eyes and so can't describe how this second feat was done - did we teleport or did we shrink breadthwise ?

Then, I am thrown out of the bus and I catch hold of a handpump handle to avoid hitting the ground directly. Not much damage occurred here as the bus was moving slowly coz of the bad condition of the road. I shout out loud to stop the bus immediately and end the adventure. Nobody listens.....

RDB meets RPG

This one is an unusual mix of a lot of things. I am in some place that looks like the remains of some old fort and hordes of enemies swarm in from all the sides. It's a cross b/w Japanese RPG games and a scene from the Matrix series where Neo fights of swarms of Agent Smith. The RDB element comes from the scene where British soldiers close in on two of the heroes in the film and surround them. Of course, they get caught but my story is different.

Showing amazing fighting skills (as they show in the Japanese games) I fight off those evil souls until one last one remains. He is not the boss but I get a strange feeling. Then, as if in a virtual reality game I see a lot of weapon options on the screen (yeah, it seemed I was in a game in my dream). All sorts of weapons and the keycode to get them get displayed on top of the view I see. One option stands out from the rest.

It says 190 : Nihilism cloth. I press the keys 1, 9 & 0 (but God knows on which keyboard) and there appears a maroon coloured cloth out of thin air right in my hands. I wrap it around the last one standing in front of me and he vanishes as if I sent him to some distant planet by casting a spell.

Japanese Magic

Well this one is really weird. I don't remember the beginning very clearly but I do have the end. I am some kind of a saviour for the people in some place in Japan. There's some guy who is very ugly in his deeds. Some people have gone missing and it's assumed that this guy is responsible for it. Somehow, I find out where he is and go there to change the course of history (LOL!).

It's a part of an amusement park. There is a giant wheel which is running all empty. One difference that I notice is the positioning of the platform from which people get onto it. At a level of around half the wheel's height there is circular platform with stairs on one side (for people to get in) and on the other side is the control room. It is like a ring structure in the middle of which the wheel is set.

The evil guy is in the control room reading some book on magic. This is shown to me by means of a moving camera that first shows the landscape view and then a close-up of the enemy as it happens in video games. I am right below the cabin. Seeing him I rush up and he too comes out for a fight. After a fierce battle (LOL) I finally overpower him and throw him down from the platform. He dies there and people rush in from all sides thanking me.

I don't know what happens just after this but all I remember after this part is that I am sitting with that guy having a casual chat and his Japanese (Chinki !!) girlfriend. (and yes I was talking Japanese)

Alphabet Sudoku

This one is a short incident. I am in some lecture hall which looks like a cross b/w the LTs & the OAT we have. It was more like the LT in Munnabhai. There's some lady teacher and she gives me a card which has an empty grid made on it and she asks me to fill it up with whatever words I want but there should not be mismatch. I ask her what she means by mismatch and all I get is an angry reply. I am asked to leave the class, but to my surprise all the other guys seem to have no problem with what the card thing is. The look on their faces gives me a hint that such thing has happened earlier as well and that this was my second outing from the class.

Quite a long break

It has been more than 45 days since I unleashed something here. And all these days I travelled to god knows what all dimensions and places. There were a lot of things that caught my attention (of course, while sleeping). Dragons, witches, soldiers, battles, sci-fi worlds, ultra techie weapons and gadgets....they were all there.

One incident that really stands out is what follows. It was a terrifying one with both me and my dream-self getting involved. The story goes like this. I am in Pakistan as a spy. (LOL....) I clearly remember getting a briefing from the commander at the station and secretly passing on this information to India. There were some other Indian spies there although all of us were unaware of each other. It was all going well until one day....

We were watching some program going on at the OAT (which incidentally looked more or less like the OAT we have here at IIT D). Suddenly, the program was stopped and the commander came forward to make an announcement. The gentleman next to me was declared to be an Indian spy. "Oh god! Is it my D-day as well", I said to myself. He was taken away by two security guards. And behind this one there was the lady who was his newest friend.

Then it was my turn (damn it!). I too was taken away by two security guards. And the reason why I was caught was because they had found an Indian Railways ticket inside a parcel that had supposedly come from my home in Pakistan. (Why are Indian agencies so foolish always ???) It was then that my real self began conflicting with this virtual one. The thought that came to my mind was - "Oh man! how am I to get my B.Tech. now? " (LOL)

Both of us were taken to a distant part of the establishment under tight security. It was a hell of a place, and of course similar to some of the Pakistani prisons we have seen in movies. Before putting us into cells a demo (read demostration of extreme hatred and torture) was given to us. One of the jail inmates was pulled out of the cell and he was forced to eat like a dog. Some food was thrown on the dirty floor and he was made to eat it by licking the floor. It was terrible.

We were doomed....and this is where the story ends.

What a ride !!

This one is really a mix of all sorts of things.

I have to give a presentation in Prof. Raju's (LOL) course. The time is around 10 o'clock. I find myself at the desired place (It was not the departmental committee room but a room on the first floor of a house somewhere distant.) Presentation's have started and suddenly I remember I haven't got the CD. Mine is due in 20 min. PANICK....
I don't have a cycle to go back and get the CD. Then I find one Abhinav (one junior elec dulla) right there but I don't know why he was there. He gives me his bike key and I rush down the stairs to get back.
Its a Bullet like bike. I start it up and then proceed.

INTERMISSION...

Now this is the first time that the hero's bike changes during the interval. I find myself riding on not a normal bike but some weird fantasy machine. Its a flat 3x3 piece of quilt that has a handle and wheels. On my way (well I forgot to say that since the presentation was not in the department so I too wasn't goin to the hostel.I was going home. Yippee!! I am an attachee now) I see dad in his car. I know now that I wud have to give my presentation right at the end since dad wud have locked up the house. Anyway I reach the place..well let me describe this place as well. I never knew before this that we lived in main Hazratganj (Lucknow's main shopping place).

I reach the Ganj crossing and it shows a red light. So I stop ( India has adopted a right side of the road drive system by then). The guy on the side selling magazines tells me not to leave the vehicle on the road as I was going to. So I lift it up in my hands and take it upstairs. Surprisingly, no one notices anything about the weird ride I am on.

The door is locked. Oh man!!!! Then I see someone coming up the stairs. It's dad. I quickly get in the house take the CD and...........

NOW WE HAVE A BREAK IN THE STORY....

Then again it resumes and instead of being in Ganj I am at my own house ready to go back. And oh my god the bike (LOL) isn't starting up. I then sit down and analyse its tiny engine. Its like a steel pipe that blows out fire from one end and some fuel gets pumped in from the other. I try a few times but in vain.

And then I wake up.....

All messed up

Exams hv come and all things are messed up including my dreams. I hv been getting up too late for the past few days and in that hurry of getting up and start magai I forget wotever fantasies the Peter Jackson in me (LOL !!) was developing.

Only one thing I remember is that I am in some place and I ask a local tea stall guy about some cycle shop. Then I find myself crawling through some place which sort of looks like a sort of godown or warehouse. The tunnel is a bit sticky and I am pushing hard to overcome that thin section and then I WAKE UP..

All over.

Robbery

I am in some house. It looks a familiar one although I don't get it exactly partly because the lights are off and partly because I am not sure.
Surprise! Surprise! - there's someone else with me. Its a girl..LOL....how cud that have happened even in a dream !!

And then the story unfolds. We two are robbers and we had done away with all we cud find lying without cover. Only the safe was left. I guard the main door while she tries her skills at the iron container containing god knows how much. There are some clicks and ticks and then suddenly I see a man coming up the stairs towards the door. We quickly hide. He gets in switches on the light and.....

Gaming Hell

I find myself in some sort of hall that has been partitioned into blocks of some kind. It looks like some kind of setup for an exhibition. (It reminded me of the Book Fair at Pragati Maidan that I had been to.)The exhibits are not there; in fact the place looks like its going to be cleaned and repaired for the next exhibition to be held there.

And then, out of nowhere, I see something spectacular. Its a Killer Rig (if u don't get this term refer to any gaming mag). Its a huge thing- to say the truth about twice the size of a normal CPU we have nowdays. And the best part - there are huge thick ducts for liquid cooling inside it as visible from the see through side. On the side of it I see a label. Wanna guess wot it says - 5000 $ is the price it quotes for that box alone, leave aside the other essentials.

Numbers

Nothing much today except that I saw( or heard) a sequence of numbers :
100, 150, 175, 500, 1000 ..
Maybe its an effect of 'LOST'.
thats abt all I remember.

Double Trouble

The first thing I am posting is kinda weird. It was not somethin I dreamt at night but during the two hour evening nap I took.

It was a kind of mix color and gray; I mean a mix of the present and the past. I was at my place where we used to live some 10 years ago. Dad was to go for some work n I was to accompany him. Till this time it was the present. Then suddenly as if we went back in time and in front of us was the old car we used to go in. Pretty strange.

Mom was in the balcony and I asked her to get a book for me to read as the journey wud take time. The weirdest part was that the book I requested her to bring was a collection of stories by Chekov that I had taken from the hostel library around 10 days back but never read a single page !!

I took the book and we went somewhere...
the rest I guess wud come in some other dream.


Then during the normal sleep I had another experience. It was a kind of station like this. I felt like I was in someplace that was a mix of Lucknow's Charbagh station and Half Life 2's City 17's setup. It was kinda weird and I dont exactly remember what I was doing there.

Suddenly, I see myself moving towards some particular platform. In the dream I get to know somehow that some of my school friends are there leaving by some train although I guess I wasn't in school in that setting.

And then.... I see a Maglev (Oh God! I suppose its come from one of the presentations I had seen yesterday). Those of my school friends who were sometime in some boarding school were aboard; and they were all wearing school uniforms !!! It was one strange sight. I bid them goodbye and turned back....and hey presto! I m back at Charbagh.

I see my grandparents come in from somwhere and my parents coming to receive them. It becomes a sort of a family gathering and we leave and .......

Dreamless

Well...its so awkward. I didn't have any dreams for the last two nights.
Maybe it's coz the report that I had to submit.
Let's see tonight.

A Blur

Today's dream was a total blurry thing. It involved me, my mom and we were at some new town. Rest all was unclear.

The Gems child

My brother and I were going in a tempo, a public one that even drops you at your doorstep and not at the main crossings . ( I realised this was a new service - who wud need a car now?). The vehicle stopped at a house and a kid around 10 stepped down. The moment he turned around after paying the tempo guy, something fell from his hands. We saw that he had got a Gems packet in his hands which had a hole and all the pieces that it contained were scattered on the ground.

The kid's face changed expression and he was about to cry. Seeing this I stepped down telling my brother that I'd be back in a few minutes. I went to the kid and prevented him from collecting the dirty pieces of candy that had fallen. He made faces and then in a strange manner pointed towards a house. I took him to the house and went straight into the front room. (I didn't ring the bell or knock at the door but directly opened the door.)

His mother was there and she quickly rushed to take her child. She thanked me politely and ......

That's it...end of the dream..On gettin up I was wondering what was this dream for?

This ain't a dream

I just decided to post my dreams for the world and so started this one. I hv had dreams that I can't explain. Some of them don't have a complete story, just a scene and I almost feel like I am there.
Starting this one was a bit of trouble. I ran out of names for this blog. The first one I tried was mydreamdiaries.blogspot.com - NOT available. I checked it up and to my amazement some other guy had started his own dream blog just a day earlier. After quite a bit of thinking I came up with this blogname; wotever name I thought of had already been registered, so I added the word blog to it and finished it up.
Perhaps, if I had started earlier, meaning school days, I wud hv blogged so much that blogspot wud hv probably become a paid service - LOL!!
Anyway, I hv started and the first one is coming...