Misty-Black Little Beings and Oddly-Shaped White Ship

[Lars]

Hello all,


I wanted to share a dream I had about two months ago, although it still feels like it happened yesterday. I keep thinking about it—over and over, every single day.

It started with me in a house that had a pool, palm trees, a nice balcony the weather was perfect, sunny, ideal for swimming. It felt like the kind of place people go to relax and have a great time. But despite this, I felt uncomfortable. I was just standing there, looking around, almost like I was expecting something or someone perhaps. I was a bit nervous, for reasons I couldn’t explain. I didn’t swim or do anything, just observed.

Then, suddenly, two strange, short beings appeared. They were around 140–150 cm tall, black-greyish in color, but... misty. It was odd despite the environment being crystal clear, they looked foggy, like their bodies blurred with the air. I couldn’t see their faces. They were trying to hold onto me somehow, but I didn’t feel them physically—it was like I knew they were trying to grab me, but couldn’t sense it directly.

Then I saw a big, white spaceship hovering over the pool. It was massive, oddly shaped like an amalgamation of geometric forms fused into one. It glowed a bright white and had an eerie shine. The moment I saw it, I felt weak, uneasy. Not entirely terrified, but definitely disturbed.

I started walking, while the foggy beings still tried to cling to me. Then I saw an axe on a table nearby. I didn’t hesitate—I grabbed it and struck them both down. They died. I saw their blood, which was also misty and grey. But even after killing them, I couldn’t fully see what they looked like. Their appearance remained hidden and foggy somehow.

Then I looked up at the ship, as if silently saying, “Look what I did.” The ship began to rotate slowly at first, then faster and faster. The speed terrified me. I turned and ran. I saw a door and ran for it. The moment I stepped through woke up.My heart was pounding so intense, i couldn't breathe properly.

When i woke up my heart was still pounding so fast.Little odd for someone really sleeping, is that not? - I didn’t feel sick or drained afterward, just... rattled. The fear lingered for a while. But what strikes me the most is that I remember every detail—nothing faded. It’s still vivid, every moment intact, like a memory burned into me.

I’ve been wondering if this was more than just a dream. Maybe an abduction? Maybe I killed two mentally-controlled grey beings? And that white ship—was it some kind of overseer? A master craft, a mother-ship? I’m not clinging to any specific interpretation, just speculating.

Sometimes I even wonder—maybe this happened in another timeline?

 

[Moine]

Hello Lars! : )

I'm sure that we have never met before, so we're complete strangers to each other! I'm also fairly sure that others might have had similar experiences, especially on this forum, so maybe looking around the dream section might be worth your while, as you mentioned that you're still collecting the pieces from that experience.

I don't have much to offer, aside from what can I formulate for you either -- since I'm just one person, in a "sea" of persons -- my perspective, opinions, and conclusions obviously are incredibly limited. Furthermore, since I'm not really a socialite, I don't really post to these sorts of things -- however, you did ask (somewhat?), and it sort of does relate to my own knowledge base and life experiences. So here goes nothing!

But fore-mostly, I will provide a set of rhetorical questions that you have to ask yourself, and you need not reply to them.

• 1) What is the state of your psychological condition? What are you most vulnerable to? What sort of situations produce those states of dread, fear, anxiety, and torment, which hinder your ability to think properly, and to react, in a way that you want, to a situation as it is presented to you?
  
  
• 2) What is the state of your life? What are you wanting to do, to accomplish, to search for, and eventually -- to realize?
  
  
• 3) How are #1 and #2 interconnected? Are you at a particular moment in your life, in relation to everyone else around you, where you may, or may not, curiously and actively engage with another person's life path in a meaningful way?
  
  
• 4) How are you still affected? Is there something in your being that is "kind-of" missing? Are you still the person that you once were, or are you reconsidering things, interactions ... possibilities, that were simply straight-forward before this experience?
  
  
• 5) What is the probable trajectory of your current path in life? With whom were you probable to interact with? With what sorts of interactions were you otherwise able, and willing, to engage with? What sort of experiences would have these things resulted in? Most importantly ... What would your life have meant in the greater scope of things, in the future?
  
  
• 6) How are #4 and #5 interconnected? What are the possibilities and experiences that you seek out, and what is the potential meaning of any "interference" that you might have encountered?
  
  
• 7) Were you simply witnessing an experience, or were you actively participating in it? Were you actions in the experience the result, or the culmination of your life experience, your temper, your habits, and your willful choice, or were they simply a projection, like what you would encounter while watching some film?

Potential insights to #1 and #2 may be found here, and here, respectively.

In working out these questions, you may be able to work out exactly what you experienced, with your own discernment.

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(Que some Lord Of The Rings theme). But there are also other things to be considered. The foreboding and imminent nature of your initial experience, foretells a particular nature, a nature that I will not spoil, for it will tie directly into an upcoming article of mine regarding Stonehenge (surely selfish advertising, is it not?), and its physical, acoustical, and electro-dynamic properties. But the other things? ...

The apparitions of figures not exactly of a concrete, physical nature, but rather of a variable, and partially physical nature? The communication, or rather projection, of intent onto your person? Your interpretation of that communication/projection, as applicable to your nature? Your reaction to that commucation/projection, as applicable to your nature? And eventually, your response to that molestation of your own being, with affect being thoroughly indignant? As to any symbolic motifs, what could it mean? Is there any connection to Greek or Medieval heroic trials? Are these things applicable to your situation? What result would they produce? Did you actually "slay monstrous beasties"?

Are you a fellow dragon-slayer, perhaps? I've had my own nightmares, and weird experiences. Up to a certain point, I was merely an observer to them. After a certain point, I took decisive action in them, and many things have been slain in my dreams. Since then, I've had the most quiet, and tranquil nights that a person can imagine.

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As to when and where this dream might have occurred? Well, you stated yourself, that you dreamed this dream, while dreaming, no? That in itself, is a tautology ... a circular, or cyclical, or self-referential argument ... or better yet, a statement. Again, you basically need to answer it yourself -- yet prejudiced opinions, or biases might come up. I'd keep an open possibility to it, like you said.

As to why you still remember the event, in taking reference to the tradition of memory, there are certain features of memory that are arousing, in and of itself. The current Wikipedia summary of it is actually quite cogent, and concise, so I'll include it here:

"Affect​

The importance of affect or emotion in the art of memory is frequently discussed. The role of emotion in the art can be divided into two major groupings: the first is the role of emotion in the process of seating or fixing images in the memory, the second is the way in which the recollection of a memory image can evoke an emotional response.

One of the earliest sources discussing the art, the Ad Herennium emphasizes the importance of using emotionally striking imagery to ensure that the images will be retained in memory:

We ought, then, to set up images of a kind that can adhere longest in memory. And we shall do so if we establish similitudes as striking as possible; if we set up images that are not many or vague but active; if we assign to them exceptional beauty or singular ugliness; if we ornament some of them, as with crowns or purple cloaks, so that the similitude may be more distinct to us; or if we somehow disfigure them, as by introducing one stained with blood or soiled with mud and smeared with red paint, so that its form is more striking, or by assigning certain comic effects to our images, for that, too, will ensure our remembering them more readily.

On the other hand, the image associated with an emotion will call up the emotion when recollected. Carruthers discusses this in the context of the way in which the trained medieval memory was thought to be intimately related with the development of prudence or moral judgement.

Since each phantasm is a combination not only of the neutral form of the perception, but of our response to it (intentio) concerning whether it is helpful or hurtful, the phantasm by its very nature evokes emotion. This is how the phantasm and the memory which stores it helps to cause or bring into being moral excellence and ethical judgement.

In modern terminology, the concept that contains salient, bizarre, shocking, or simply unusual information will be more easily remembered. This can be referred to as the Von Restorff effect."

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To conclude ... The most humiliating thing, to a director of a horror film, is when their anticipated audience knows all of the characteristics, motifs, and tropes of the feature. Instead of responding in fear and shock, the audience can then respond with humor, in view of it as an out-dated genre, or in other words, a comedy.

Please, Do Enjoy. : )