The Undead Dream of 9/4/04

I dreamed that I was locked in a stone room and the walls began dripping with blood. A friend was in there with me, and I think that it was Susan. I sensed rather than saw the shapes of ghostly children swimming through the air outside the stone walls, and I understood that they were a menacing presence. A priest came in and tried to tell us that we were imagining things, and then he was somehow sucked against the door and began to fade until he disappeared. I got the impression that he had been pulled through. We could hear a sound like animals attacking a kill outside, and soon the door began to seethe with even more blood--the priest's. The children had eaten him. I had one vision of a ghostly girl swimming through the air--glasses on, hair swirling around her head like it would in water, and blood seething from between her teeth as she chewed up the priest. The children disappeared after that, but I could now feel the presence of the priest outside, and he was angry like the children had been. Marks began to appear on the wall noting all of the people who had died in the room. I saw a notation for each child, and I learned that they had been tortured and killed inside. A notation appeared at the very end for the priest, and I learned that he had been a sacrifice to mend the suffering of the children.

It was at this point that things took a novel turn. Somehow, the priest and Bindy became one, and I could see Bindy/the priest running around the floor of the room with her/his back up and generally acting like a really scared cat. I knew somehow that Bindy/the priest was a ghost and that the reason for her/his fear was that she/he couldn't understand what was different about her/himself. Josh came into the room and I terrifiedly asked if he could see Bindy/the priest, because I knew that if he couldn't, I'd know that she/he was a ghost. He couldn't, and then I freaked out, and it was probably at about this time that the real Bindy started bothering me. At any rate, I woke up and was spared any further contact with the undead.