Chapter:

The-recurring-Dream

1. Why does little, old man close door when he sees Kim?

The little, old man closes the door when he sees Kim. The old man too sees Kim at night. He thinks that she is a ghost.

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2. Write about a dream that you have seen recently.

Yesterday I saw a terrible dream about a ghost. In my dream I found myself sitting with my friends in the jungle. When I was a little away from my friends, I saw a ghost dancing around me. It was telling me that I was going to be killed. In my dream, I cried so badly. I was asking for help. My friends did not listen to me about what I was saying. I fell in a critical condition. I thought I had to kill the ghost. Then, the fight began between me and the ghost. The ghost had had very sharp claws and red eyes. It was so furious so I was. I tried to thrash it on the stone. Fortunately, I succeeded on my own and the ghost was thrown into the river nearby. Finally, I went to my friends who were looking at me. They asked me how the fight was like. I also narrated the event as it has happened. The next day, the result of my dream came true. I got the first division in the exam.

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3. Tell what you know about people in your part of country who say that ir body can be in one place while ā??spiritā? is in anor.

In my part of the town, there are many superstitious people who believe that human spirits travel around when their body is in one place. They say that it happens especially when they are asleep. One of my villagers says that he always finds him with his family when he is sleeping in his bed in town. His family members, too, see a similar dream. He also says that they frequently get informed about each other this way. According to him, it is because of the movement of spirits.

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4. Why do you think Kim has this dream?

I think Kim has this dream because of the unfulfilled wishes of her past life. She might have had a desire to meet her grandfather. But she might have died before meeting him. The old man could be her grandfather. Therefore, her spirit might have visited the house of the old man.

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5. Describe dream Kim has almost every night.

Kim has a mysterious dream. It is a dream about a person and place, which are completely strange to her. She has this dream almost every night, so it is a recurring dream.

Her dream always begins on a country road. As she stands there, she sees a white cottage with green shutters on the top of the hill. A lane with a white fence and a hedge on both of its sides leads to the cottage. In one of the rooms, she sees a little old man with white hair and a white. When she tries to talk to him, she wakes up.

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6. Some people think all dream have special meanings. What do you think? Tell about it, using examples if you can.

Dreams are a common phenomenon. Everybody dreams. However, dreams have still remained mysterious experience. Psychologists like Freud wrote volumes of books, and classified, and interpreted dreams. However, there is no convincing explanation even today. I donā??t find a special meaning in dreams. Some of my friends tell me that their dreams come true. Once, one of my friends told me he had a dream that his three-year-old son was chased by a buffalo. After a week, he came to me with eyes filled with tears. His son had died. Another friend of mine told me that his house caught fire after he had seen a dream. In his dream, he had seen a burning forest.

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7. Write down summary of story "The recurring dream".

The story starts with a description of Kimberly Clark, the protagonist of the story, who is twenty-five years old with all qualities of a normal young woman. She is pretty, she loves to dance, and she has many friends and a good position in the office of a large company. Despite these all, she has a problem. She has been troubled by a strange and mysterious dream that haunts her every night.

The strange dream always begins on a country road. Kim stands on this road and sees a lane with a white fence and a hedge on each side. At the end of the lane, on the top of a little hill, she sees a small white cottage with green shutters. Then she walks up the lane to the house, goes in and looks around. In one of the rooms, she finds a man asleep in bed. He is a little old man with white hair and a white beard. When she comes near his bed, the man wakes up. Then he sits up and looks at her. When she tries to speak to him, she wakes up. She is very surprised troubled by the dream because she has never known any little old man like that and neither the place.

Kimā??s roommate knows everything. So, one day she proposes Kim to visit her (Janetā??s) parentsā?? farmhouse to feel peace in mind. As they pass through a country road, Kim sees a similar scene which she sees in her dream. They stop there. Janet does not want Kim to go and see the small cottage but Kim goes.

The house was exactly the same, except for a sign in front of the house which said ā??FOR SALEā??. Unlike her dream, Kim goes to the door of the house and knocks and to her surprise, the same old man answers the door who immediately closes the door. After Kimā??s request, he opens the door. Kim again asks why the house is for sale. The old man reveals that the house is haunted by a ghost. Kim tries hard to think to say something instead asks who the ghost is. The old man gets surprised and shocks her by replying that she herself is the ghost.

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8. Why does Kims body shake when she sees little, old man at door of cottage?

Kimā??s body shakes when she sees the little old man at the door of the cottage because it is the same old man whom she every night sees in her dream, so she trembles in fear.

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9. What do you think is reason some people have recurring dreams?

Some people have recurring dreams because of their problems and unfulfilled wishes. When a certain problem troubles us constantly, we feel stressed even when we are asleep. As a result, we may have a dream related to it. Moreover, if we cannot fulfil our desire, in reality, we may satisfy ourselves through dreams. Thus, dreams are related to deep wishes.

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10. Tell about experience with a strange dream (a dream of yours or of someone you know.

I still remember the strange dream I had four months ago. It was a dream about a place I had never seen before.

As usual, I had gone to bed at 10:30. In no time. I found myself with a group of friends on the village road. There were pine trees and tea gardens on each side of the road. After some time, a bus appeared there out of nowhere. We all ran to get on the bus. The bus headed towards the hill. There were a number of bends, but we safely reached the top of the hill. We could see a green forest, stretching far up to the plains. Around us were tea plants in rows. The rose bushes made the place look very beautiful. Soon we found ourselves in a hotel. There, a girl of about twenty served us tea and fried rice. While we were eating, there was a big landslide. We ran here and there in terror. As I was crying, I woke up. Although I realized it was a dream, my heartbeat for a long time.

Last week, I went to Illam with my friends. After we had crossed ā??Charlieā?? the scenery was very beautiful. There were tea estates, pine tree on either side of the road. The road was similar to the one I had seen in my dream. As we reached ā??Harkateā?? and started taking our breakfast in a hotel, it reminded me of the dream I had some months ago. The beautiful tea estates, evergreen forest, hills there made me feel that I had already been familiar to that place.

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