This might be my first post or my last - I'll see how often I dream!
Anyway, I haven't had any nightmares for a while. I experienced many nightmared as a child, due to various reasons. Nowadays, I have wired dreams, that are sometimes interesting & moving. Sometimes they involve other worlds & amazing creatures. Thankfully I don't experience bad dreams too often now. I want to be able to lucid dream one day at will - so I can go back and revisit dream, and perhaps switch on the light in the dark.
Red Light District of Horrors
Sometimes I'm whey too sensitive to what's on the news, and it affects my dreams.
Anyway, the dream was set in a street not far from me. In the day time it's busy - full of ethnic food shops & takeaways. At night the street lights up from all the neon lights of the take away.
But in the dream it was night time and not many people on it - there wasn't much light - only a few places were open. The dream was set near the end of this street, where there is a big crossroad.
The main difference is that this street was a red light district in the dream(it isn't in the daytime at all). There was a menacing atmosphere, and I remember not feeling safe. I crossed the road to the other side, where there was a small narrow street, more like an alley which doesn't exist in real life.
This alley had some kind of arch connecting the building at the sides above, basically it signified that this this alley really was the heart of this red light district. You sometimes see these kind of alleyways in Soho London.
This alley was MUCH darker - it was lit purely by the low, dim lights if the shop along it. It was so dark I almost couldn't see to the end of it.....I didn't want to go to the end of it anyway - the place was really horrible, had a terrible foreboding sick atmosphere. I don't know why I was there, I wasn't looking for anything, just exploring.
I think I saw a man standing outside the shop to the left. I followed in, wanting to see what was inside there. He was dressed in vaguely late 19th century or early 20th century clothes. There was a lurid light in his shops - green and red. He went to the till area. Above on the wall behind him there was a selection of cross bones. He sold curious things - I didn't see them but I kind of 'knew' what eh sold - things like skulls, weapons, animals & strange things in jars....
He picked one of the crossbows off the walls and showed it off. He wanted me to guess what era it was from - I was kind of close but not quite - it was late 18th century used for hunting small animals. He seemed subtly proud of himself when he corrected me, and proud of the crossbow. I was getting uncomfortable and I left to go back to the main street. I didn't like the fact that it was so dark and was scared of it.
It was then I saw what really horrified me. Opposite the shop that I'd just been to, there was another shop with large front windows. In it there were corpses being displayed in the shop window in sex clothes & outfits you'd see in the cheapest sex shop. I remember thinking what a sick shop owner he must be. It was horrible, really shocking....and I hurried away as fast as I could and woke up.
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