THE RECURRING DREAM

To my respected English sir, Mr. Prakash Gautam to whom I shall remain indebted for setting the foundation on which this summary is based.

The Reccuring Dream

Kimberly Clark is a young woman of twenty-five years old. She works in a large company in London. She sees a mysterious dream. It is mysterious because it is a dream about a person and a place, which are completely strange to her. It is also mysterious because it is a recurring dream. She has the same dream almost every night. The dream always starts on a country road. Kim stands on this road and sees a lane with a white fence and a hedge on its either side. At the end of the lane there is a little hill on which stands a small white cottage with green shutters. In the dream she walks up the lane and enters the cottage. She sees an old man sleeping. She goes near his bed but the man wakes up and sits up. When Kim opens her mouth to speak to him, she wakes up in her apartment in London.

The dream troubles her a lot. She has never seen such a house and such a man. And yet night after night she has the same dream. She talks to her friend, Janet Wilson, about the dream. Janet often finds her friend troubled by the dream. So, once she takes Kim to her parent’s farm in the countryside for a few days. Early morning they leave the city in Janet’s car. As the car takes the turn onto a country road, Kim sees the house of her dreams. She makes Janet stop the car and walks up to the house. On her knocking, an old man opens the door. It is the same old man that appears in her dreams. When she speaks to the old man she comes to know that the house is frequently haunted by a ghost. Kim asks who the ghost is. The old man says, “It is you.”

There are two common explanation of the story.
1.    When Kim dreams, she sends her thoughts to the old man in the house. This means when Kim is dreaming, the old man thinks he is seeing a ghost.
2.    When Kim dreams, her spirit leaves her body and visits the house of the old man. Kim’s spirit then appears to the old man in the form of a ghost.