Nightmare 1

What a crazy dream! There I was, minding my own business being asleep and all when suddenly I was plopped back home in Malaysia. I don't recall what I was doing exactly, but I think I was waiting in the front lawn for a relative (an aunt I don't recognize) to bring my sister's baby Iman back home. All was fine and dandy for a while when suddenly my family members all turned into zombies! Not the six feet under, stinky rotting maggoty type zombies either. Nope, they were whole and looked normal. Except they were zombies. Don't ask me how I knew. I remained the only non zombified person on the compound and staged an escape.

By escape I mean that I ran like hounds of the Nine Hells were intent on gnawing on my entrails. All the while I could hear a voice in my head and as it turns out, the original zombie was my relative! She keeps on telling me to surrender and just drop in for a bite (I know, how polite!) and I just kept on running. I managed to escape and hide but over time I knew that they would eventually zombify the world. Wierd eh?

And then for some reason I went diving by a beach. I went in search of something I lost, but after a few dives I felt that the sea had reclaimed it. All the while zombies were multiplying of course.

In the back of my head I knew I was dreaming. I even woke up a few times, only to resume the dream when I fell back asleep.

So on a whim i'm currently checking a dream interpreter at http://dreammoods.com

I've looked up the keywords "chase", "zombie", "diving", "beach" and "lost".

Here's what I got:

Chase.
Chase dreams may represent your way of coping with fears, stress or various situations in your waking life. Instead of confronting the situation, you are running away and avoiding it. The pursuer or attacker who is chasing you in your dream may also represent a part of yourself. Your own feelings of anger, jealousy, fear, and possibly love, can assume the appearance of threatening figure. You may be projecting these feelings onto the unknown chaser.

Zombie.
To dream that you are a zombie, denotes that you are physically and/or emotionally detached from people and situations that are currently surrounding you. You are out of touch. Alternatively, it may indicate that you are feeling dead inside and are simply going through the motions of daily living.

Diving.
To dream that you are diving into clear water, signifies an end to an embarrassing situation. Although you may experience some temporary setbacks, things will surely look up. Additionally, this dream may mean that you are trying to get to the bottom of a current situation and the root of your problems or feelings. It may also refer exploration of your unconscious.
To dream that you are diving into muddy water, signifies that you will suffer anxiety from the path of your affairs.

Beach.
To see the beach in your dream, symbolizes the meeting between your two states of mind. The sand is symbolic of the rational and mental processes while the water signifies the irrational, unsteady, and emotional aspects of yourself. It is a place of transition between the physical/material and the spiritual.
To dream that you are on the beach and looking out toward the ocean, indicates unknown and major changes that are occurring in your life. Consider the state of the ocean, whether it is calm, pleasant, forbidding, etc.

Lost/Lose.
To dream that you lose something may mean that you really have misplaced something that you had not realized yet. It may also be a signal for you to clean out and reorganize your life. You have become overwhelmed and distracted with the hustle and bustle of day-to-day life.
On a symbolic note, losing things in your dream may signify lost opportunities, past relationships or forgotten aspects of yourself. Your personal associations to the thing you lose will clue you into the emotional meaning and interpretation of your dream.

So lets take it from the top. According to this, i'm trying to escape everyday life. It also looks like i'm trying to figure myself out in the midst of major changes in my life. I should also clean out the skeletons on my closet and reorganize myself.

Well, put it that way, it doesn't sound so bad. Bear in mind that I didn't pick out the positive statements in each of the interpretations. Instead, I looked at all of them and saw a common theme. When I get home i'm going to take a gooooooooood look at myself hehe.

Either way, things should get interesting. Today will be my first day of class for this semester and tomorrow my younger sister is coming to stay with me.

Major change in my life indeed.