A while back I had an odd dream. I was sleeping with someone at their place, I think for the first time. Anyway, the dream goes a little something like this...
I wake up in the dark staring at the ceiling. The owner of the bed was asleep, but had my left hand held tightly in his right hand. After a few seconds, he says in a very clear voice while still sleeping, "The devil is in the centre of the room." It's still completely dark and I can't see anything at all in the room so this shocks me rather badly. It's at this point that I realize my right hand is hanging over the edge of the bed and something is holding it tightly and won't let me lift it up. I strain and pull but my hand won't budge. All of a sudden it comes free, my hand flies up onto the bed... and right at this point I wake up from the dream.
Needless to say, when I woke up in the same room, same bed, and next to the same person (who was happily snoring softly to themselves), I was rather disturbed. Luckily the room was a bit brighter and I could see everything clearly. Now I don't subscribe to the concept of a traditional devil, the Lucifer of biblical stories or any of his counterparts in other religions... but I don't discount the possibility that such a being/force/intelligence could exist. My philosophical stance on existence is that anything, however improbable, is still possible and thus in some counter reality or parallel existence, all possibilities will be explored and each facet of what we look at in our own reality will be explored and find itself expressed.
Anyway, the point is that I don't discount that a devil of some sort could exist, I just don't think of it in traditional terms. So the feeling I had upon waking in that room wasn't the most fun ever. What a mind fuck :)
So I eventually fell asleep again, but it was a fitful sleep to be sure.
