Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Morning
Dreamt I was in some sort of school, I believe it closely resembled Rosyth more than any other, especially the IBC area. Saw Jingxuan and Mr. Ow sitting at a table chatting - I said "Hi" to JX but I completely overlooked Mr. Ow at that point in time, and had just started to walk away when he called me back and rebuked me for ignoring him. I felt so insecure afterwards - I mean, I really am prone to overlooking people sometimes! - that I just had to look for a quiet corner to hide myself in, but I couldn't find any. 

Somehow I found myself in a doctor's office (IDK why I keep thinking of it as the ship's doctor) where this cocky doctor was currently attending to another child. When he got to me he pulled up the sleeve of my shirt, exposing my upper arm. He had what looked like a syringe in his hand, and after prepping the site he promptly jabbed me in the arm with it. I peered at my arm and then realised that it wasn't a syringe he was holding, but a long needle. I thought, "Oh, he must be poking me first with the needle to make way for the syringe later on". He removed the needle, and then - here must certainly come the syringe - NO, HE REPEATEDLY STABBED ME IN THE ARM WITH IT. I couldn't feel a thing, and all I did was just lie there on the bed watching him stab me repeatedly with the needle. He then left to attend to the other child again. I shifted on the bed a little, and realised that there was a vaccine bottle lying next to me. I called him over.

"Hey, isn't this used to sterilise the needle?"
"Oh! I must've forgot!"

I woke up feeling very indignant that he had just used an UNSTERILISED needle to poke both the other child and me.

Afternoon
I was dressed in a Starfleet command division skant-type uniform. Data appeared to be malfunctioning, behaving erratically and refusing to listen to anyone. I took his hand and suddenly he became quiet. I thought, "Let's get out of here immediately!" and pulled him along to escape from...well, somebody. The environment around us was oddly tinted red - the sky was that shade of red as it would be at night when overcast with clouds, and everything just seemed very Mars-like, all red and dusty.

We ended up at the void deck of a HDB flat and I dragged Data up the stairs, pausing to stop at the landing between the first and second floors. On the second floor there was a man in an motorised wheelchair. He turned, almost as if looking at us, and I made to go down the stairs again, thinking he was hostile.

Somehow I ended up in someone's house, full of arcade games in the living room. The Starfleet uniform had been replaced with my usual t-shirt and shorts. I was supposed to meet someone here, for something like a play date, and when I sat down at the table I was shocked to find that the person I was supposed to meet was younger than me, just a child. We did play the arcade games there for a while, but I soon began to feel the child's mother's hostility bearing down on me, as if asking me to leave. I decided to go, then, but when I stepped out of the gates I realised that someone had taken my slippers. With the strong hostile feeling still attempting to bore holes in my back I decided I would go home barefooted.

On my way back home I passed by an area that resembled Little India or Kampong Glam, with the colonial, two-storied shophouses and their five-foot ways. I passed by a rather interesting-looking bookshop and I decided to drop in to see if they had any unique postcards on sale. I saw a few with some good looking designs, but every time I tried to pick them up I kept taking the wrong one, and I never could see their prices so eventually I gave up and moved on. The shophouse area I was in appeared to either be new or undergoing reconstruction, and once I came to the end of the five foot way I was unsure of moving on in my barefooted state.

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