Four Horses

Ok, so the dream starts out a bit confusing, as another dream is kind of ending, and mixing in with the start of this dream. I am driving in my pickup truck with 3 random people from my past. They have nothing to do with each other, each from a very different time period, and definitely not currently in my life.

So we are driving around looking for a familiar place, and I recognise this one gravel road, and decide to take it. As I take the road, there is a guy on the side of the road indicating I have to turn around, but it is too late, I can't turn around as the surrounding does not allow it. The road is very funny, and it takes a lot of concentration to drive on it, swerving between pot-holes, and revving up sliding, muddy hills, eventually the road flattens out, and there is a country house that looks very familiar.

I stop the vehicle and get out, telling the people I have been here before. The place now looks like a diner, it is white, with an odd shape roof, like waves of the ocean, with gum poles sticking out of the side. There is a beautiful lake in front of the building, with the greenest, softest grass, that looks so inviting in front of it, you just want to go lay down on it.

Just at this point, as a walk towards the building, the people in the car changes into my wife and my new born baby, I tell them to stay in the car, and as I start walking toward the building, I get a flash back memory...

Walking into the building there is a door to the kitchen on the left, a door to the barman area in the middle, and a really narrow path to the right, where customers can sit.... it feels like I use to work here? I can not pass through to the right, it is too tight, and makes me claustrophobic (I remember lots of weird little artefacts and each bar chair was different, it suited the occupants personality), in the kitchen it takes me to a different dream... a dream a the ocean on holiday (a recurring dream for another day)... walking towards the bar serving area pulls me out from the flash back, into the field, halfway between the white building and my vehicle.

There are mountains to the left, awesome view, also an old tractor under a shade net to the left, and faint whispers or memories of people that use to be here.... but now just me.

In the distance there is a MASSIVE horse. A horse built from pure muscle, terrifying. I can feel its anger from a distance, I can sense its hate, its rage, its aggression, built on the strongest motivation, love.

It starts running towards me... I am frozen still, my hands clenching, I start to tremble and sweat. This horse is really big, maybe 4 times the size of a normal horse... stronger than any beast I have ever seen or imagined, and its coming straight at me. You can hear, and feel every beat of its hoofs hitting the ground, doof doof doof doof doof doof, louder and louder. Its worse than any fear that I have ever felt. It is worse than any pain I have ever felt. I is worse than any sadness I ever felt. I have never been so scared.

It stops dead in front of me, I dare not breathe.... Its head is as big as my entire upper body. I just know it can with one movement of its head, pick me up and throw me so high and far, that I will break a few bones and get seriously hurt. I immediately realise, that this tremendous beast can kill me instantly, but it does not want me dead. Dead is too easy.

I stand frozen in fear, sweating an ice cold sweat, each muscle tensed to the max for a few minutes, the horse swaying my body with its warm breath, for a few minutes, until the horse allows me to unfreeze. As I unfreeze, I know I am in the wrong place, and should not be here. No one should be here. Sorry will not help. I wronged the universe be being here, and therefore I am doomed. I now have to move backwards.

I move backwards with the horses presence in my face the whole time, even though he is not moving, I move back faster and faster. Then I hit the wooden gum-pole fence in the centre of my back and fall over backwards on my neck. Everything is pain, each part of me so uncomfortable and in pain, I have never felt this horrible in my life. Death would have been more welcome than this.

It felt like hours and hours of this pain with the horse standing there proving his point. Then this man, cowboy like, appeared next to me, and explained, you should not go there, you will be destroyed. This horse and 3 others like him, killed 3 men recently for stealing some horses from their herd. He then took me, in a vision like, to a broken down stone house, where I saw the 3 men sitting, and the 4 horses come in to the house. The main horse, the one that I encountered, walked up to one of the men, the man went through the same agony as I did, then the horse slowly pushed his head against the mans chest, crushing it slowly, eventually pushing it through a sharp edge of a stone from the broken down house.

One of the other massive horses, decapitated the second man with one of his massive hoofs, but it happened so slowly, the man was in agony and pain, wishing for death to come to him faster.

The third man was already dead when I looked his way, with the other two massive horses standing in front of him. He was probably in a hundred pieces or more, the terrified look on his face was enough to haunt anyone for days.

I looked back at my vehicle, I knew it was the only safe place for me, but it was occupied by my wife and my son.

And I woke up. With an ice cold sweat, shaken, nail marks in my hands as I clenched my fists, terrified of everything around me, not sure where I was. It took me quite some time to recover from this one.

Till next time.