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I’m going to tell you the best dream that I’ve ever had in my life.

So, in this dream I’m walking,
although at the time when I had the dream I couldn’t
I was unable to walk. (I remember clearly
the sensation of walking from when I used to be able to.)

Anyway I was walking in the dream
and I was walking along through a field with long grass
and I was naked, walking through this field.
And in the distance the other side of the field
I can see an old old lady
and she’s wearing black clothes
and she’s very dirty and I know as I get nearer her
that she’s going to be really smelly as well
and kind of dripping scabs and all.

(I think I must have had that dream during a time when
when I was feeling very bad towards myself
and it was in a very difficult time)

I’m walking towards her
and she’s walking towards me
and I’m sort of compelled to keep going towards her.

And I’m getting closer and closer
and I’m sort of repulsed
whilst being drawn towards her.
And then we get to the middle of the field
and I find that I open my arms
and I put them around the woman.
And at that exact moment we fly up into the air.