Rory’s Dream

Young Rory was a loner.

He only attended school because he had to.

Rory would stray off on his own after his lessons.

His peers would laugh at him on his way home, shouting things like: “too good for us, are ya?”

And:

“We’ll show you who’s too good for you!”

Rory ignored all.

His school mates began to wonder what he had.

Aha

The dream!

Rory had the dream!

Rory was on his way back home from school one day. Daniel from his English lit class asked him if he wanted to come to a party, saying: “We would really like you to come along”.

Rory said:

“No thanks”.

Daniel then said:

“What’s wrong with us?”

Rory went on his way without saying anything.

Daniel threw his bag over his shoulder and ran to catch up with his mates.

Rory went home to his house. His mother Tara had his afternoon snack ready – yogurt, banana and honey.

When it was Rory’s bed time, he

Read his book for half an hour.

He was reading “Tales of the Unexpected” by Roald Dhal.

He then sank into his dream.

Rory was in Holland Park.

It was the summer holidays.

Once again he was on his own.

A huge rainbow formed above him.

Rory gasped.

The dream turned into a dream trip in which he could actually feel things.

I mean for instance he could taste the food.

Then, Rory was in the West End of London.

He found himself being able to raise himself away from ground level and hurtle himself into the sky.

Rory became afraid and turned around in his bed to awaken from the dream.

When his alarm clock rang, Rory reached his arm over to switch it off.

By the time he got himself out of bed the dream had faded away.

Back to reality!

Back to school again!

Daniel approached Rory at break time asking:

“Do you wanna join us for football this evening?”

“No thanks”.

Replied Rory.

Daniel explained he was not giving up and then sauntered off.

Rory had to walk past Daniel on the way to his sociology class.

He had no choice.

He asked Daniel to leave him alone.

Mr. and Mrs. Newham were holding a dinner party to celebrate Mr. Newham’s promotion to Chief Executive.

The Newham’s were Rory’s parents.

Rory had to be up early by 7.30am for school.

He was allowed a nice glass of wine and then he went to bed just before midnight.

The kitchen was in the basement, so he was well away from the noise and laughter.

Rory’s bedroom was on the fourth floor of the house. He fell asleep into his dream and found himself in a boat on the River Thames.

The boat started breaking into pieces.

Rory had to swim to land. His clothes were soaking wet. He awoke to a shudder from the cold water.

Daniel was standing at the gates of St. Cuthbert’s secondary school in wait for Rory.

Daniel gave Rory a light friendly kick in the leg.

A school teacher noticed this.

Mrs Simpson said:

“That was not nice.”

“You will apologize now or you will do one hour of lines after school.”

Daniel laughed saying:

“That was only a joke.”

Mrs. Simpson shook her finger at him.

She explained:

“I’ll let you off this time but never again!”

She walked off hurriedly.

That night, Rory went to bed early.

His exams were coming up and he needed to do a lot of revision. His dream came again.

A ghost entered Rory’s bedroom.

Rory pulled his duvet over his face.

He shouted through his duvet at the ghost:

“Go or I will demonise you!”

The ghost vanished leaving a trail of shimmering stars and moons.

The next night Rory fell asleep and woke up in a room that was a tip.

He got his bits and pieces together which had fallen from his bag during the night and went into the front room.

There was a young couple in the basement flat garden.

Rory walked through and said:

“This place is a tip.”

Rory woke up.

Rory went to school one day.

Daniel approached him again in the playground at break time and said:

“Be my mate or I could get funny.”

Rory answered back:

“No, I won’t.”

Daniel laughed and shouted from a distance.

“You wait!”

Rory was not the slightest bit worried.

The next dream took place in Leicester Square.

He was standing next to the train station.

It was midnight.

Two youths came along and invited Rory to a party.

They told him to wait for a while.

Rory waited for ages.

A rough sleeper came up to him with a blue sleeping bag over his shoulder.

Roughy, his street name, warned Rory about the two youths.

He told him they were thieves.

Rory woke up.

I wonder what would have happened if the dream had carried on!

Rory is on his school lunch break.

He is recounting his dreams and the reasons for them.

At this point I will talk about related thoughts forming the dreams, as mentioned in chapter eight, i.e. company with a certain person can lead to that person appearing in a dream.

Wait and see!

Rory sank into his dream.

Daniel came into his bedroom as a knight!

Dan was in the same maths class as Rory that day.

See – a company related dream!

Dan – the knight – pranced around Rory’s bedroom and then faded away.

Rory’s parents had another dinner party and he was lightly drunk.

He had not closed his wardrobe.

It was near Christmas.

Rory dreamt that the wardrobe had come alive with Santa’s elves, Christmas stars and mini Christmas trees floating around.

A fairy wearing a tutu and a veil emerged from the back of the wardrobe, waving a wand.

Characters started emerging from Rory’s previous dreams.

Rory got up from his bed, yet found he was unable to move without falling everywhere.

Rory was confused. Was this last dream a dream or not?

When he woke up – or so he thought – his bedroom was dishevelled i.e. his bedside table was in the middle of the room now and the fairy’s pink veil was left on his carpet.

Did this all happen?

Rory sank into a deep sleep. He woke to a loud rap on his bedroom door.

It was Tara, his mother. He was late for school. To his relief, his bedroom was how it was before he went to sleep.

Rory now knew it had all definitely been a dream. Rory called out “I am not well!”

His mother called back: “You were well enough for a glass of wine last night, hence you shall get up and get ready for school!”

Later on that day, Rory falls asleep in his history class and his dream fades out until night time, when he finds himself in a barn in Devon.

A character comes into the barn. Rory grabs onto the character. The dream becomes a trip. They become friends.

He then lets a band of roughs into his bedroom.

They sit at the end of his bed.

One of the roughs grabs a bundle of sheets and towels from the airing cupboard outside his bedroom in order to keep them warm at night. Something tells him to get rid of these people.

They are really nice, yet Rory senses they are up to no good.

Before the dream gets too close to reality, he ushers the roughs to his bedroom door and they float away.

The room becomes dense with the dream atmosphere. There are no characters in the dream. The atmosphere lingers for a while on awakening, yet not for the whole time.

Rory’s parents, especially Stanley, are concerned about his future.

They do not feel he is achieving much at St. Cuthbert’s due to certain reasons.

Rory stays on, yet he moves to another class.

Stanley and Tara do not approve of Daniel. They believe he is not from a good background.

They tell Rory to keep away from him.

Rory then goes through a depressing period of worry and he starts buying cans of cider and he plays truant.

He forges a letter from his parents explaining his absence from school.

Tara catches him at it.

He forgot to lock his door.

Tara clasps her hands on her hips and bursts into tears.

“How dare you!” She exclaims:



“After all the trouble we took to get you into another class!” She sobs. She proceeds in opening his wardrobe.

She senses something is hidden in there.

Yes – there are several cans of cider.

Rory is now 16 years of age.

His parents send him to boarding school to secure his future.

When Rory came back home after his first term he was a bit subdued.

Stanley and Tara hold a discussion and reach the conclusion that Rory will get used to the vast change in schools.

They were right.

After the following term he was really happy and enjoying his school days.

Rory’s boarding school is in Hampshire which is where Stanley and Tara are planning their holiday.

They pick up Rory from St. Martin’s boarding school and drive to their lodgings.

They have a lovely week visiting friends and they go to a barbeque in a huge garden!

They drop Rory back to school in time for the new term.

Two of Rory’s school friends rush up to him at the school gates and tell him there is going to be a midnight feast by the swimming pool that night.

They all start laughing.

Tara leaves Rory with a hamper and the parents drive back to London, waving.

Rory’s dreams start again.

I believe due to settling into the new environment.

Rory has not yet had a nightmare.

Evil has not quite reached the dreams, yet is about to!

It is now Halloween time, it is midnight and Rory is fast asleep.

A witch in a huge purple velvet cloak enters the dormitory.

Rory is frightened.

The witch has a quick wander around the dorm and she sits on Rory’s bed. She wraps her cloak tightly around him.

He fears she is about to suffocate him yet “Thank Christ” he wakes up finding his sheet and blanket wrapped tightly around him!

Rory stays awake in order to prevent another nightmare occurring.

Time has flown by as have the Halloween witches!

It is Christmas Eve.

Rory is at a party at his next door neighbour’s house, Budge and Margaret Slater.

Stanley and Tara did not come along.

The kids are playing hide and seek in the bedrooms upstairs.

Rory returns home at midnight looking forward to his Christmas pillowcase.

Rory is deep within his dream by midnight.

His bedroom transforms into a huge castle, lit by many candles.

There are a few little boys strumming make-believe guitars on raised wooden planks.

Rory manages to lift himself into the air and he hurtles around in the sky.

He then flies towards a beach in Australia with two huge helium cylinders strapped to his back.

He enters a market by a beach.

The colours within the dream are amazing.

Rory wakes up in his bed!

He falls back to sleep into a short dream in which Rory sees Santa delivering his gifts.

He wakes up and looks out of the window and it is like a snow scene from a book.

His pillow case is abundant with gifts.

Rory’s parents are not getting on well.

They are arguing immensely.

Tara wants Stanley to go to an A.A. meeting.

Stanley then insists he is not an alcoholic, that he is a stable drinker.

Tara nearly shouts: “You came back roaring drunk last night, I had to run all the sheets and blankets through the wash – I won’t say why! You have a choice. It’s me or the alcohol.”

Stanley was lost for words; he laid his head on the kitchen table. Stanley asked: “What about our Sunday drinks in the living room along with our lovely music?”

Tara crisply answered: “We shall see after your first A.A. meeting.”

Rory’s dreams carry on.

The pictures in his bedroom become tripping objects, what he sees is not actually there. This is hallucination.

Rory’s dreams are wide ranging yet they tend to go back to the ones in which he can fly away from danger.

Are the dreams perhaps telling him something or are they now perhaps part of his life?

It is now another end of term holiday.

Stanley drives down to collect Rory from his school.

He greets Rory at the school gates.

Rory senses there is something his father wants to tell him.

It is Rory’s sixteenth birthday and he wonders why Tara is not there.

Stanley waits for Rory to fix his seatbelt and then says:

“I’ve got some sad news. I must tell you now.”

Stanley pauses and looks down.

He faces Rory and says:

“Your mother has passed on.”

Rory gasps and says:

“I don’t believe you.”

Stanley sternly says:

“Well you have to, I’m afraid.”

“She died in a car accident in the New Forest.”

Rory goes through the rejection process and one day he breaks down in tears.

Rory and his father are in the car on the way back from the theatre on his school break. Stanley holds Rory, rubbing his arm gently and he says:

“Don’t worry. Time will heal everything.”

There is a green velvet arm chair in Rory’s bedroom.

In his dream, there is a character forming on the chair.

When Rory is fully awake, the character stays on the chair for a while and then fades away leaving a disappearing green mask.

Rory is running home from the park.

Of course, again, a school break!

He is late for a cinema trip with his parents.

He trips over an ice cream and wakes up on his bedroom floor.

He gets up and sits up in his armchair for a while.

He sinks back into his sleep.

A plot begins to emerge.

Rory moves into a shared flat in Holborn.

He then starts thinking back to the flat he had in Earls Court and regrets the move.

He goes through a series of dreams, waking up in Earls Court and then back in Holborn.

The plot becomes a nightmare.

His flat mate George becomes an evil character.

Over dinner one night, George tells Rory he has to move out.

There had been a mistake in some paper work and the move was a mistake.

Rory finds himself in a train, heading for Manchester.

He feigns sleep because he has not purchased a ticket, yet to no avail, the ticket inspector is not stupid and Rory has to pay a fine of £10.00.

Rory arrives in Salford.

He rings through to his previous Earls Court residence and tells the landlady the Holborn flat is haunted.

He is told he can move back.

He hitches a lift to Victoria and takes on the walk to Holborn.

He tells George he has come to collect some of his belongings.

George shouts at him:

“Who are you!?”

“Go from my flat, now!”

Rory’s landlady forms at the door in a black dress.

The dream then fades out, along with the characters.

Rory is back in his armchair.

Normality has returned.

Rory’s dreams are about to come to an end.

He is reading “Oliver Twist” on his chair.

A hypnotist in a green cloak appears.

Frank, the hypnotist, throws a brown blanket over Rory and softly rubs Rory’s forehead to bring him down to earth.

The dreams start fading out.

Stanley moves to Ravenscourt Park and he hires a removal van.

Stanley is impatient and he tries to lift a two seater settee.

He then trips over a tall lamp in the process with the settee falling on him, breaking his arm.

Once in hospital Stanley gives Rory the keys for the new house and tells Rory he has arranged everything for the move in his absence. He will do the finishing touches when he’s discharged.

Rory leaves Stanley at eight o’clock pm.

He has sat on the chair next to his bed for four hours.

Rory lies down when he gets home. He then falls asleep.

Another witch enters into the dream atmosphere.

This time, Rory jumps up because he does not want the dream sequence to start again as there just might be another nightmare. When he drops off again, Rory receives a thump.

A book lands on his head, yet in his dream it is not a book.

The thump is due to falling from a high rise block, then raising himself into the air and knocking his head against a brick wall.

This lot explains being able to feel actions in dreams; the same ethic as tasting food due to some food left in the mouth.

Stanley is back from hospital, now.

He puts Tara’s belongings in the spare room, the attic and he places her Victorian doll, Rebecca, on a small wooden armchair.

The doll’s eyes glare for a few seconds and Stanley assumes this is a reflection from the light.

Rory dreams that night.

Rebecca crashes into his bedroom on her wooden armchair and her eyes are sparkling with fury.

She is in a white lace nightie and she whispers, with her hand over her mouth; “Your dreams, Rory, and your nightmares, will not stop until you get rid of me!”

It is a loud whisper.

In the morning Rory tells Stanley to get rid of the doll, he says she is demonic.

Stanley then says; “How dare you suggest that. She was your mother’s treasure.”

Rory frowns and says nothing.

When Frank returns, he wants to perform a final exercise to clear the dreams out.

He wishes to create goodness around Rory by a form of exorcism.

Frank suspects there is a mediator in the house yet Rory does not want to annoy Stanley by mentioning Rebecca again.

Frank carries through the exorcism again and the dreams cease for a while.

The doll is on her wooden armchair on the kitchen table one morning.

Stanley insists he took her down from the spare room last night and this happened several times.

One night, before Rory goes to sleep, he hears something crashing down the stairs.

He opens his bedroom door and he sees Rebecca’s burgundy satin cushion on the landing.

The spare rom is the attic and Rory’s bedroom is on the fourth floor.

Rory works out Rebecca must have gone down to the kitchen yet she is on the second floor landing.

She has red marks on her face and she is weeping.

“Get rid of me”.

She sobs:

“Get me out of here.”

The next morning Stanley insists this was all a dream and calls Frank back.

Frank is to no avail because Rebecca is the mediator as when Stanley and Rory go for a break to Devon for a few days, they leave Rebecca behind and the dreams stop, when they return, they start up again!

The dreams did not enhance through the farm house atmosphere.

At one stage Rory thought a wooden armchair would start creaking at night!

It is time for Rory’s last dream.

Rory is asleep in his bedroom and Rebecca hurtles through.

She lies down next to him and he proceeds in throwing her out of his window.

The dreams stop!

Rebecca acted as a conduit.

She was the centre point for all evil.

Rory is now a teacher in a London grammar school and he has many friends.

The dreams have gone, yet it’s still a mystery, due to Rebecca, whether any of the dreams were real, as she was a conduit.

The End