Inception

There has got to be a time whereby you have a dream out of the ordinary. It can be a wonderful dream or a scary dream. Unfortunately, it was the latter for me. "Dream within a dream" happens occasionally but it has happened twice to me.

It goes on something like you dream normally and you enter another "dream". For me, the scene was on 23rd August 2011, the day I am never looking forward to. I was at the SAF Boat Jetty preparing for my scary journey to Pulau Tekong. Probably due to the close proximity of the airport, I managed to dream of a Singapore Airlines Airbus A300 (which has long gone into history) with the tropical livery (which has never been on any SQ A300s, only Boeing 747-400s). I even remember the registration as 9V-SBB, which happens to be one of Silkair's Airbus A319-100. As the dream continued, I was ushered into a waiting room which looked alike to a Muslim mosque with the sign "men only" at the entrance. Several minutes later, I was called to board the ship. At this moment, I knew it was a dream. I remember so clearly that I have 2 more weeks till enlistment but why am I boarding the ship now? I tried to wake myself from the dream no matter what, this cannot be true.

As I woke up from my second dream, I had memories myself in my first dream going on Facebook and checking airplane websites for the registration 9V-SBB, only to turn out to be a Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-200 which has also long gone from the fleet.

This is one of the scariest dream of my life. It is something I never wanted to go through in my life. National Service is putting emotional and mental stress on me even before I enlist, what is going to happen when I go in? I might just become a lunatic when I am deprived of freedom and dignity. I must had been a bad person in my previous life to have to go through such a torture in my current life.