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Night of the Rat

Night of April 8, 1978. Saturday.

I am in my Cubitis bedroom in the middle of the night but am somehow aware of the presence of a giant rat in the (now empty of chickens) shed. There is also a sense of isolation. I can see the movement of this giant rat in the background behind the first partial wall of the shed - mostly only moving from left to right and back again at which point it does not seem to be aware of me. It is about the size of a pony. Even though I am aware that I am dreaming in some ways, I am not aware enough to focus on something other than this potential threat.

At one point, seemingly while standing outside somewhere, yet sensing I am in bed at the same time, I look up and see the giant rat leaping down upon me, vertically from above, and it almost seems cartoon-like. I recognize that I am swallowed and floating in a hot liquid inside of its stomach, and the awakening is extremely slow - with the sense of being within the hot liquid and floating somewhere lasting for at least several seconds. This is actually one of the only vivid nightmares I have had in my lifetime, though it did not at all seem like it was associated with any type of sleep apnea (as most or all of the others had been). It also seemed to start in a deeper sleep than usual. I believe this linked to a precognitive connection to my brother Dennis, but in a very negative way relative to possible upcoming influence and associations in my move back to Wisconsin, which turned out to be very accurate in that way. He even had a tattoo later on that was much like the imagery in one part of my dream.

What is especially interesting is that the imagery has a somewhat unrealistic feel and perspective (almost like a very specific in-dream "frame-rate"); a precise sense; a superimposed aura-like aspect that is much the same "feeling" and imagery at one point as that from the "Night of the Rat" segment from the movie "Nightmares", which did not come out until 1983.

This dream was directly linked to real life concerns as well in that at least four very large rats started to be active in our home for the first time since we moved there and for only a couple months prior to our move to Wisconsin. There was a part of the ceiling that was damaged by a leak by which the softer tile then sagged down to be directly open to the space below the roof, which the rats sometimes occupied (although my father eventually fixed it with a piece of wood). They also ran across the clothesline even though they seemed too big to do this as easily as they did.

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