Escape Africa (13)

 

13. Nightmare Abroad:

I first travelled to London in June around the anniversary
of the Tube and Metro bombings. I was sharing accommodation in south London for
few weeks prior my return home. I came back to the flat after a long day over
touring around London town and surround when my route back passed one of the
train stations that had been bombed the previous year. Not using that line I
was walking by the station when the crowd stopped to take a moment of silence
to remember the attack. It was a bit weird I thought but I paid my respect and
carried on feeling I’d somehow been there longer than I had. I fell asleep that
night I started having nightmares about random things from back home and felt a
sense of urgency to go back home, I was leaving for home a week later. In the
dreams I felt like I was being pulled up, straight up and I may dreamt I was
floating but the sensation didn’t last long as a suddenly fell back down onto
the bed and woke up. I had literally fallen a short distance with enough force
to move the bed because the guy a shared the room with woke up to ask me why
I’d jumped into bed. Best I can tell I lifted off the bed, floating in midair
at least l little bit. It freaked me out and I never mentioned it until I
returned home. I was having coffee with my friend who had been working in
London the year before when the bombings occurred.  Told him what I experienced, he looks at me
and says it was strange because he’d experienced the same thing in London the
year before around the time he was returning home. Weird feeling, nightmares
and the floating sensation.  It’s a mind
bender that we experience the same thing a year apart in London, we stayed in
different accommodation in different parts of London.