A mysterious stranger

Throughout my life I have dreamed of places that I have never been or seen and whenever I have been through such places, something hits in the brain and the dream starts to rollover in detail. It all started when I was in the 3^rd Grade. From that time, I was just curious if this is a common thing or if it means anything to me? I always just assume that since I saw it before, I am just supposed to be there but at the same time I am also curious of explanations for these kinds of experiences. Sometimes it is a deja vu experience sometimes not. The real life scenario doesn’t happen in the same story line of the dream but sometimes it feels like I have seen the future.

I once dreamed of a desert and in the dream I have seen the residents of that place. I was living and enjoying with them. A few months later, I and my family moved to Dubai for spending holidays and there I saw the actual location and same people.

I also remembered when I was in school, our class took a field trip to the Museum and I knew where I have to go, where are the bathrooms, where are the sitting rooms, How many people are there etc. It’s all because I had dreamed about it months earlier. My class fellows and my teachers wondered how I knew all that after all it was my first ever visit. From then on this phenomenon has been off and on.

Recently approximately four months ago as an adult, I dreamed of being sitting in an auditorium and seeing empty seats and a stage and then toured the Symphony Hall a week later and stood in the same place I saw in the dream. I’ve also dreamed of the inside of churches and then found myself in them.

Now here comes the real part which is keeping me upset a lot. From nine or ten days, I was continuously dreaming about a tall and bulky man with a bald head, who follows me everywhere I go. It doesn’t matter where I am at, my house, my office, in subway, in restaurant. It all looks so much real. Sometimes it looks like he wants to tell me something. Sometime he acts in such a weird way that it pisses me off. I don’t understand what the hell meaning of this dream. I don’t think it was a premonition or that I am a psychic. I actually think that there is a logical explanation here, and one that has to do with memory.

Each day I woke up with a heavy head from that dream trying to figure out any danger or any sign but cannot put my finger on it. That day, I was travelling in local bus across an overpass when I suddenly recalled a dream just a few days earlier of what seemed like that exact spot. The view from the overpass was strikingly similar with my dream. Then I knew what will come next. Up the road a bit, after some curving, there would appear a row of beautiful stone attached with flowers houses on the left, seeming somewhat out of place. I am damn sure enough, that is exactly what appeared, a row of beautiful stone houses on the left, and they indeed seemed oddly out of place. I could not recall having been along that route before, yet I could recall having clearly dreamt recently about that route.

In the night, I again saw that man and this time to my amaze, in the same exact place of which I dreamt before and today encounter it while travelling on the road. I was standing at the place viewing the surroundings and suddenly I heard a horn of a vehicle. I turned my head and saw that man sitting in the vehicle looking towards me. That’s the point I woke up and could not sleep again the whole night figuring it out how to end this. Two days have now passed and that evening, I was waiting at the subway for train arrival. Train arrived and I along with other passengers tucked inside the train. As soon as the train starts to move, to my bewilderment, I saw that bulky man standing near the corner of the wall smoking a cigarette and talking on a cell phone. I tried to stop the train but to no avail. I got off the train at the next station and rushed back to the previous station. I tried to find that man but to no avail. That night I could not sleep properly. I was thinking of ways to meet that man and to find the answers of my dream.

For the next five days I used all my strength to find that man but I got to see a glimpse of him outside a restaurant. I saw him near a car in the parking lot but until I reached him he was long gone. I waved my punch in the air in anger. Next night, I was walking on the sidewalk of the roads. I was lost in my thoughts and didn’t know that I have reached the row of stone houses, the place I dreamed earlier, I realized it when my chain of thoughts broke. I was admiring and watching the place when I heard horn of a vehicle. I at once turned my head and saw that bulky guy sitting inside a car. I began to approach him. He also quickly came out of the car and coming towards me while watching his surroundings. Entire area was empty and no one was there. When he reached near me, he quickly took out his gun and pointed at me and instructs me to give him all my belongings. I hesitate and he began to snatch forcefully from me. We begin to quarrel with each other but he was more powerful due to his size and easily overcome me. He hit me in my gut with his boot and I fell down on the grassy area of the place. He got his gun in his hands and points at me. I closed my eyes and waiting for the end to come and there was a loud bang and I feel fire and heat inside my head and suddenly I opened my eyes. All the surroundings have changed as I was lying down on my bed. It was a dream or maybe a future and everything I saw was so much clear. After resuscitation, I got off from my bed and went into the kitchen for water. As I was drinking water, the dream starts to roll over again in my head and I realize that I got the answer. I knew now that man is a burglar and will rob and even try to kill me and now I have to protect and save myself from what’s coming on to me. I will stop and change my destiny by changing the future...