Dream: Khalil's Anger

Date: 01/02/2016

Description:

I think that this was a long dream but I only remember two scenes.  The only people I remember in the dream are Navin, Khalil and Dad.  The part of the dream I remember was set in the city in an apartment building.  It was a red brick building with an outside metal staircase that was missing some stairs.  The first scene I remember was of Navin showing me how to hack into some system.  I do not know what the system was or what the benefit of hacking into it was but I know it involved breaking into a room in the building and using a computer there.  The room was one floor above where we were.  I believe that it was Khalil’s apartment and he was letting me stay there for a while.  We were on at least the third floor.  I have only a few images of the inside of the apartment.  I think I remember setting up a sleeping bag in one of the rooms.  The next scene I remember starts with me trying to break into the room.  I was outside on the staircase trying to jump up to the balcony above our floor.  Apparently the stairs between ours and the next floor were missing.  For some reason, the rails of the balcony above me were thick green rails like the ones at Phyl’s.  I was tried to climb up and was hanging on the rails with both hands.  I had jumped up to grab them from standing on the rails of our level.  I could feel myself swinging out towards the street below and was getting concerned when Khalil walked out.  He asked me what I was doing and I told him I was trying to get upstairs.  For some reason I was wary of him and I had a feeling that he was going to push my off the rails.  He was speaking in a suspicious way.  He was seemingly deceptively happy with a cheesy grin and he sounded almost sarcastic.  He told me that there was an easier way and told me to pick the lock of the door in front of me.  It was the door to the room next to Khalil’s.  I suppose it was not in use.  I was trying to pick the lock when I felt afraid of Khalil again.  I could see his face even though I was not looking at him.  He was telling me to look at him.  When I looked he punched me in the face and I believe he broke my nose.  He punched me a couple more times before I could ask him what he was doing.  He told me that I knew what this was about.  I told him I did not and he started telling me about how I lied to and betrayed him.  I had no idea what he was talking about.  He punched me many more times before going back inside and locking the door.  I thought he was trying to trap me on the balcony when I remembered the stairs.  I started climbing down the stairs.  I had to jump down levels where the stairs were missing.  I eventually got to ground level just as Khalil showed up carrying all my stuff.  I thought to myself, “Oh no,” because he had my laptop and I knew he was going to try and break it.  He threw down my duffel bag first and then my laptop.  It landed on my duffel bag and did not break.  I do not know if that was his intention.  But then he moved as if to step on it so I ran in front of him.  Then he started beating me again.  Apparently Dad was down there doing something in a garden next to the building.  He saw Khalil beating me and was coming to step in but I ran in between them and told them both to stop.  I took some time but they both eventually stopped.  Khalil went back inside and Dad asked me what that was about.  I told him that I did not know.

Sometime later, I ended up back on that balcony.  I was trying to make sense of everything.  I was pacing thinking back on the previous events.  I had a moment a lucidity.  I said aloud to myself, “I have been dreaming about Navin a lot lately,” which is not true as far as I am aware.  I do not know why I would say that unless Navin has been in the dreams I do not remember.  The next thing I said was that this was the first time I had dreamed about Khalil which is in fact true as far as I know.  But then I “realized” that I was not dreaming and was wondering what I was talking about.  For some reason I starting digging into my pocket.  There was trash and old receipts that I started throwing away.  Then I found two pieces of paper that looked like receipts at first.  I was going to throw them away but then I looked at them more closely.  One said something like “Canadian Citizen” at to top and somewhere in the middle was a line with just the word “Amnesia” in big letters.  There was a lot of other stuff on it.  The other paper had “Future Army” written somewhere in the center.  I t had “U.S.” in multiple places and it looked like either an application or some kind of identification card.  I was concerned that some of the other papers I just threw away might also have important information on them.  I was wondering if this had to do with why Khalil was mad at me and if so, why this would make him angry.  The first thing I noticed was the Canadian part and my initial thought was that he was mad because I didn’t tell him that I was Canadian but the other parts seemed more interesting.  I did not believe any of what the papers implied, however, and thought that someone had planted them in my pocket and someone was trying to turn my friends against me.

I woke up after that but not completely.  I had a number of small continuations of this dream but every time I woke up the continuation vanished.  I do remember, however, being on some computer, it might have been the computer Navin showed me.  I was using the command prompt and my login changed from “lloyd>” to “alexander>”.  Maybe that was my real name if the things I found in my pocket were true.