- Mood:
Fear
Do you believe in things that seem to defy explanation? I myself never really have but lately I'm not so sure. Strange things have been happening recently.
Such a thing happened last night and I'm writing this down to record it.
I had an odd, slightly disturbing dream last night. In it, I was kneeling down on the grass of our top orchard. In front of me were something like ten possums. Three large, obviously mature ones were sitting on their haunches about 5 metres in front of me while the remainder were running in erratic circles around these three, as if in a frenzy, and were making panicky noises. The three sitting on their haunches were all facing myself, staring at me with those enormous possum eyes. They looked for all the world like they were pleading for something. I had the distinct impression they were the possum group's elders. The circling possums seemed to get even more panicky and moved in increasingly erratic ways. Then from somewhere came an agonizing.. shreik, I guess would be the word. At that, the dream faded. I remembered the dream quite clearly when I woke and when I saw my father this morning I told
him about it.
My father looked quite surprised after I mentioned the dream to him and admitted that he had had a nightmare last night. He had woken up in the early hours of the morning still grunting and groaning as though he had been using a lot of effort. I laughed and asked why. What had he been dreaming? He said that he had dreamt he had been fighting a possum, trying to beat it to death with a stick.
How odd I thought. We both dreamed of possums on the same night.
What really freaked me out was when I went up to the orchard just before (out of curiosity) and found a newly dead possum lying among the plum trees, in the longish grass. It was the same place as I had dreamed about. It appears to have been struck around the head.
Here, we normally dispose of dead possums by throwing them unceremoniously on a fire. This possum, however, I think I will bury..
I kid you not. This just happened last night/this morning.
Maybe Halloween decided to came a couple of days early.. O_o;;
Corny horror
