DREAM

A LONG-TERM PROJECT OF RECODING MY DREAMS

24.10.2016

I saw the whales, the tsunami, the floating hotel on the sea. Robots, mysterious parcels and French windows on the 26th floor. It looked like a novel that had different chapters, the name of the chapters were quite psychedelic,

"melancholy moon, evening primrose and I"

"sanguinolent sea salt, lime and sad me"

I ran to the stairs and tried to find out the hidden reality. Waves tumbling, the killer whales became more and more anxious, they were swimming around the floating hotel, and arrowed the surface continuously. I hid the clues I found and pretended nothing had happened.

The people in the room at the 26th floor were conspiring. And I, a waiter in white clothes was trying to prevent it.

14.04.2017

I went into the field, the breeze kissed my face, my whole body was relaxed, I felt so comfortable.

I walked across the grass and reeds to a pond, besides the pond, there were five or six sets of jazz drums which were placed in no particular order, and some of them were floating upon the water. I did not understand why, but when I knocked on one’s surface,

Boom---

Hey, I knew why they were here. When it rained, the rain drops would hit them, “bang, bang, bang, boom, boom, boom”, as if it were a concert. Plants and animals around would grow content when they listened to the concert of nature.

I touched the reeds and thought that the man who came up with the idea must be a romantic philosopher.

15.09.2017

I met Ninagawa Mika, in a state of urgency and confusion.

I walked in the rain to her residence, there was a female Japanese artist with her. We were sitting and chatting with each other, she said I had to pay tuition for ten classes if I wanted to study with her. A total of 30,000 US dollars.

I checked the exchange rate, RMB against the US dollar was 1: 9.3.

I left her home, walking through the walled community

Rain ran down my face, I looked through the guardrail to the outside, the chaotic scene flickered: hurricane, tsunami, people left with their family.

I thought to myself: "what am I doing?"

28.06.2015

I revisited Budapest with friends, I was in a very cheerful mood.

We went to the aquarium to see the polar bear show, there was a large stage above a pool. Visitors stood around. We were on the far left very close to the stairs.

When the performance began, a family of three went downstairs to stand next to us, they looked very strange, so I glanced at them one more time and felt a little gloomy. At that time a huge polar bear appeared on the stage, it was holding a transparent dead rat and blowing it by the mouth.

On seeing this scene, the man of the family suddenly jumped out with the gun, and pointed to the polar bear with an emotional breakdown. I suddenly knew, in fact, this family were spirits of rats. The rat in the polar bear’s mouth was just their little son. They sought vengeance.

The other tourists began to flee, we were trapped by the family, we couldn’t escape, so we stood there in terror.

The Polar bear began to speak and conversed back with the man, as a result, the man fired a shot, the bullet pierced the bear's right eye ... he then turned around and looked at us in shock,

“Why are you still in here?” He said. I stared at his exhausted face and whispered: “Can we leave now? ”

He nodded. Then we ran.

12.11.2016

After experiencing buying vegetables at the supermarket and money laundering in the bank, I and other people went travelling to the moon. That one was the person whom I was very familiar with, very dependable, I couldn’t see her face clearly, I guessed she might be an old friend, or even the vision of myself.

The small boat carrying about ten people flew to the moon, after ten minutes of sightseeing other people went back, however I wanted to wait 2 hours for the next boat.

They were gone, we were the only two remaining on the moon. The landscape wasn’t big, I could see the whole soil and slope grass for a glance, the place we didn’t know was forest and sea.

Alone we ran naked, painting together, catching fish, we hid the tent with bright light when the day became dark and had started raining, free and easy, without fear.

Two hours felt like a long day, when we went back, the bag full with a finished painting, and raw fillets of fish.

17.10.2017

I had a 10-year-old boy.

I took him to live in the Netherlands, Japan, and China. We lived in each place for one year, I let him learn the different languages. One day he asked, "Why did you do that?" I said, " It will make you have an easier life when you grow up.”

One day the child disappeared, I forgot him, as if he had never appeared. I inherited a very luxurious big palace, named Willow Garden.

I didn’t know where it came from, I had never heard of it before. It is located behind my dorm in Vlijmen. Enormous, gorgeous, like a square peg in a round hole.

I went to visit the palace with friends, just like visiting an empty museum. I called and asked someone to change the carpet, the huge Persian carpet covered the whole room. Close to the window I installed modern lamps with some northern European style bulbs, it looked like the interior of a café.

I opened the window, the wind was strong, the curtains were blown up and chandeliers started yawing in the gust. I could not open my eyes. I struggled to close the window, but when I eventually closed it, the wind stopped.

I went to school as usual. However a person broke into Willow Garden during the night, the next day a tutor said that we would be divided into two groups to find the culprit. I knew who she was, she was in another group. But I did not say, I looked at her eyes and pretended to know nothing.

07.06.2015

There was a metamorphosis at high school often delighted in the killing of people. The first day I went to school, a boy received a letter, it read that someone would kill him at four o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

In fact, I knew who was the metamorphosis. The boy was very nervous, he took the note out and showed to his classmates, but they all thought this was mischief. I secretly protected him every day.

The boy wanted to quit school because of his fear. His family was in the countryside, his 5-year-old little brother heard that he would go back. Happily he went out to meet him alone, but he was too small and accidentally fell into a ravine and died. No one knew realised. The boy arrived back home and knew his brother had disappeared, he was worried and searched everywhere but found no trace.

The next day the metamorphosis came to his village to kill him, the boy thought his brother was killed by this man, so he asked me to kill the metamorphosis first and help him find his brother. The metamorphosis was afraid of being recognized, so he returned to the school.

Finally, after endless searching I found the decomposed corpse of the boy’s little brother.

After returning to school, I received the same letter. The metamorphosis appeared with a knife chasing me at school, but I was stronger than him. He realized that he was unable to defeat me, so he asked to give him a break and then continue to kill me tomorrow.

I said, "Are you sick?"

19.01.2017

Everyone around the bonfire sat in a circle, the host announced that we were to have a psychological test. At that time my state of mind had been very unstable, I felt great pressure and strong anxiety.

The host came up with a tape recorder, "test your violence." In an hour, the subjects would enter another world, surrounded by fear, and show their true self in stringent state.

It was said to be a test, but more like a level game, when I entered in the train scene I thought about this. There were some people among passengers who wanted to kill me, and I had a huge hammer.

I was not myself at all, I killed everyone on sight, as if a frightened mad dog.

It was said to be a test, but more like a level game, when I entered in the train scene I thought about this. There were some people among passengers who wanted to kill me, and I had a huge hammer.

I was not myself at all, I killed everyone on sight, as if a frightened mad dog.

It was said to be a test, but more like a level game, when I entered in the train scene I thought about this. There were some people among passengers who wanted to kill me, and I had a huge hammer.

I was not myself at all, I killed everyone on sight, as if a frightened mad dog.

It was said to be a test, but more like videogame. When I entered the train, I thought about this. There were some people among the passengers who wanted to kill me, and I wielded a huge hammer.

I was not myself at all and I killed everyone on sight, as if I was a frightened mad dog.

Forty minutes passed, I had broken all the king’s heads on each level. When the radio stopped, I was pulled back to the bonfire and waited for a moment. Suddenly, a girl’s voice was heard, "The next twenty minutes will be the final level, the most horrible one ..." Then I was sucked into a dark double-decker bus, I saw a little girl standing in the middle, then I raised my sledgehammer without pause ...

The little girl fell to the ground, her head was broken, blood flowing like a stream. She looked at me and said: "Don’t you understand? You were losing. You should not kill them, you should control yourself, what you have to do is to escape, keeping alive in this hour ... the death of all means your failure.

I put down the sledgehammer, crying and screaming forward, on the final level I lost my weapon, I couldn’t protect myself anymore, and the next twenty minutes no one knew what would happen ...

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MENG DONGLAI

MENG
DONG
LAI