Dream Episode (I've lost count) - Potential marriage. Monster-in-law. Cold cold room...

Day of dream: a looooong time ago

I was at my fiance's house, having a pleasant afternoon with my mother-in-law to-be. Though I wasn't quite talking to my mother-in-law (to-be) in person. I was sitting in a simple wooden chair, having sort of a video conference with her - through a black cat... Her (female human) assistants, about two to six of them, were with her. They were wearing black dress suits.

My mother-in-law to-be asked me if I was learning the things that I have to learn to be a daughter of the family. I must have said I have not completed my "trainings," either that or I was not doing to well in them. My mother-in-law - or the cat rather - seemed annoyed with me. I felt like a child being reprimanded. She then had to attend another meeting, and strode out with her assistants, after commanding me to show myself out as usual.

My mother-in-law to-be's house had always made me feel the need to obey. Although this time, I felt rebellious. I was walking through the narrow corridors of the Japanese-styled house toward the exit. Instead of turning at where the door is, I stopped one turn prior... I had never explored the house before. The aunt was in the kitchen at the other end of the house. I checked to make sure she wasn't looking, then made my way up the short steps up the stairs.

The second floor wasn't high at all. It seemed more like the half storey. I slid the paper-screen door open, and found myself staring at silhoutes of bodies lying in rows on bamboo-lined raised platform, leaving a narrow walkway on the side against the wall. The bodies were wrapped in clean white cloth. The ancestors of the family were remembered, and always given a place in the house...

The aunt called out to check that I've found my way to the exit. I quickly slid the screen-door shut, not feeling too comfortable with the dead, and hid on the steps...


Feel: the house reminds me of the Winchester's Mystery House in California, except there's a Japanese flavour to it. There was even a beautiful color-glass window on the steps that I ascended...