This dream had a really odd theme: it was about spending Christmas with a woman who was terminally ill.

We were staying at Ai Seng's house for Christmas. There were a lot of people there, as Zen and Shaolin were both staying there (I assume with their respective partners) in addition to me and Yu Lee, and we also had a terminally ill woman and her three children staying with us too.

The dying woman was relatively young, probably in her thirties. She was slim and had short blonde hair, and although her face had been aged somewhat by her illness, she was still attractive. She had twins who must have been 1 - 2 years old, and a little girl who was a couple of years older.

I don't remember many events from the dream (and to be honest it felt like we spent most of the dream sitting around and not doing much), but it was definitely Christmas day, and having the dying woman with us removed the feeling of Christmas from the atmosphere.

There were a lot of people staying at the house, and fitting everyone in was obviously a problem. Me and Yu Lee were staying in a room that definitely doesn't exist at Ai Seng's house in real life. I'm not sure what the room was normally used for as it had all of the furniture you would expect in a bedroom, but it was attached to the kitchen. I remember saying at one point that it was convenient having the fridge so close to my bed.

I'm not sure where everyone else was staying, but there was a bed in each of the bathrooms. It really felt like there were people and their belongings everywhere!

One of the first scenes I remember was that we were all sitting in some kind of living room. The dying lady started to break down from her illness, and obviously thought she was going to die. She said "Nice meeting all of you," but a while later seemed to have recovered.

Another part of the dream that I remember was needed to use the toilet. I went into the downstairs bathroom, and there was a bed and lots of stuff in there. I closed the door and locked it, pulled down my jeans and was just sitting down when there was a knock on the door.

"Steve, we need to come in and get something. Is that OK?"

I pulled up my trousers and opened the door and Shaolin came in and started sorting through the items in the bathroom. On my way out I heard her lock the door and put the seat down on the toilet, and I felt pretty annoyed that she had kicked me out of the bathroom and then used it herself. A little while later I brought it up when we were all together again and she said "Well, I was desperate," and I said "So was I."

The last part of the dream that I remember was going somewhere with the dying woman and her children. She wanted to go for a walk, so I'd offered to go with her, and now we were outside somewhere.

There were no buildings around, and the scenery was like something you'd expect to find in a national park. I don't remember there being much vegetation around us, and we were walking along a rocky surface with a pool of water nearby.

We stopped walking and started talking. The lady was telling me about how her daughter had been really ill recently, "ever since we'd been to that rock."

I asked her "What rock?"

"We were out for the day in Cardiff, well actually in Middlesbrough, and we were hiking when we came up to a big flat rock," the lady explained. "After the children had been playing on it for a while, we realised that it was covered in a thick layer of dust. A while later [the girl] got sick, and when she recovered from one thing she got ill again with another. Eventually we realised it was the dust causing it and went back to the rock to investigate.

"When we got back to the rock, we started to move some of the dust out of the way and found all sorts of rubbish underneath. There was a lot of household waste, but also dead mice and cats and things like that."

Just as she'd finished speaking, her little girl toppled over head first into the pool of water in front of her. The mum instinctively grabbed her out, and the little kid just stood there and said innocently, "I didn't even notice."

After that I woke up naturally.

Throughout the dream I remember thinking that I had a lot of questions I wanted to ask the lady about her illness, but I didn't think she'd want to talk about it. She seemed very accepting of her fate. I felt like I'd feel angry if I were in her position, but she seemed calm.

My memory of this dream is hazy and confused.

The first part I remember had something to do with driving. I think I was drunk, at a party, and for some reason I had to move the car. I was too drunk to drive, but as I only had to move it a couple of metres I still did it, but when I was trying to drive the car was going crazy and I couldn't do it.

The second part I remember was coming back in the house. Ray (from my school) was living in a bedroom in our loft, like when he used to live with us at York Avenue.

There was music on, or maybe I had headphones on, and when I turned it off I hear loud noises and everything seemed to be shaking. I asked Yu Lee what it was and she said that Ray had brought a girl back home. I asked where they were doing it and she said in the small room.

A while later I saw Ray, but now he wasn't Ray and instead was a fat, black, bald-headed police officer! I asked about the girl that had just left and he implied that he had had sex with her. I asked where, and he told me he did it in his car. I told him I knew he did it in the little room. I got angry and started to shout at him, and told him he's not to bring girls back and shag them in the spare room.

I don't remember all of this dream, and some of the stuff I do remember is a bit vague. I remembered it several times during the day, but each time it wasn't convenient to come a write it down.

I was in Spain with Yu Lee, staying in some kind of hotel, and it was winter. I don't remember much from the beginning of the dream, but I distinctly remember Yu Lee saying something along the lines of "I actually quite like the climate: it's nice not being too cold at this time of year. I could definitely live out here."

If you know Yu Lee well enough you'll know that this would never happen in a million years!

Something weird was going on at the hotel. I'm not quite sure what it was, but it felt like a hostage situation, and I'm not 100% convinced that I was on the good-guys' side. All I know is there were a lot of people everywhere, and it seemed like some kind of disaster, with people huddled together and generally trying to cope.

The one part of the dream in the hotel that I remember is that all of a sudden the floor collapsed in the corner of one of the rooms, and there was a deep hole left behind. I think some people were standing there when it collapsed and fell in, and there was a general feeling of panic.

There was definitely something strange about this hole that appeared, and it seemed to be magical, or evil. For some reason I knew that we could achieve something by standing right at the edge of the pit and looking down, but I didn't have the guts to do it.

I remember telling Yu Lee to look after everyone while I went somewhere, meaning to make sure that other guests don't escape. I don't really remember where I went, but I remember walking around the sunny Spanish streets with the ringleader who was holding the hostages, and it felt a lot like wandering around with my dad.

When I got back to the hotel I was worried that everyone would have gone, and sure enough the place was deserted. This is the last thing I remember before waking.

The main part of my dream that I remember is that I was working in a shop, but for some reason I couldn't come into work so Ai Seng was covering for me.

While she was working my shift me and Yu Lee went into the shop to buy a few things. The total came to a couple of pounds, but when she entered it into the till she just opened the drawer and gave us a load of money, as if she'd taken £50 and was giving us the change.

Afterwards me and Yu Lee were having a go at her and saying that if she wants to do that and basically steal from the shop, she should enter £50 into the till, but ask us for £5. That way we will hand her a £5 note and she will pretend we gave her £50, and if someone looks through the cctv footage it will at least look like we paid.

The next part of my dream that I remember took place in Slough, in York Avenue. I guess my mum was living there in my dream and I was going to visit her.

When I got there I noticed that Cliff and Sue (who lived next door to my mum) had a new extension, and then as I was walking down the street I noticed that a lot of other houses had extensions too. After looking at them for a while I realised that they were not quite right, and there were a lot of half finished buildings and exposed breeze blocks.

Later on I was talking to my mum and she was explaining how someone was funding people in the area to have extensions, but when they started doing the construction work, they were doing all of the houses in parallel rather than finishing one and moving on to the next one. When they were all nearly finished they ran out of funding so everyone was stuck with an unfinished extension.

The final part of my dream that I remember is that a car was driving down the road, and all of a sudden it stopped and someone wound down the window. They said that the fat man in the back was stuck and they needed some help getting him out.

I approached the car to help them but as I did so the doors all opened and everyone got out and told me that they'd sorted it out now.

In my dream I am living in a small apartment with Yu Lee. I'm not sure about all of the details, but the apartment feels a bit like student accommodation, although I don't think we are students. It's definitely not in a normal block of apartments, and I get the impression that it is in a building where people work or do research.

My apartment is pretty small. From the corridor you come straight into the living room which has a table and four chairs, a two seater sofa and a TV. It's not a very big room and the furniture takes up most of the space.

Out the back of the living room is a tiny hallway. Immediately on the left is a tiny, narrow kitchen, and the next door leads into our bedroom. I can only assume that there is a bathroom somewhere as it never appeared in my dream.

The first thing I remember is getting a visit from a young man with blonde hair, and he tells me that I need to testify in his trial. I don't feel that I have the option of declining: it is a legal requirement that I testify.

He has a very strange musical instrument with him that he tells me is some kind of flute. (It had a funny name, and I felt that it was alien. The dream had a bit of a Star Trek feel to it at this point.) For some reason I had to listen to a recording of some music and testify at his trial that the musical instrument in the recording sounds exactly the same as his instrument.

I agree to do it (not that I felt that declining was an option) and he leaves, telling me that he will return later.

A while later, a group of people turn up at my door. They are people that I have never met before, and to be honest they look a little bit scary. They tell me that they are a surveillance team and have been sent to keep an eye on me whilst I'm involved in the trial. They tell me that they need to take a few things out of my apartment for some reason so I say OK.

While I'm dealing with the 'surveillance team' there is another knock on my door. I ask them if I can answer it and they tell me to go ahead.

This time it is someone to do with my work at the door. He is older than me (in his 40s) and has some kind of document that he needs me to read. While I'm dealing with him the door goes again and two guys are at the door that need to talk to me about something. I tell them to come in and I talk to the original guy again while the two new guys wait in the kitchen.

The door goes a third time, and this time it is the boy who's on trial, and he has brought his flute back to play it for me. I tell him to set up in my bedroom.

The door goes again, and this time it is Christina, Stefan and Alana who have come to visit, unannounced. My tiny apartment is getting a bit crowded now: there is the boy in my bedroom with his flute; two guys in the kitchen waiting for me; the guy from work in the front room with me at the kitchen table; Christina, Stefan, Alana and Yu Lee hanging around by the sofa; and the surveillance team moving in and out and removing items from the apartment.

I ask the work guy if I can go and quickly speak to the others and see what they want, as it's going to take a long time to read his paper (which, by the way, seems to be a pretty long newspaper article and nothing to do with work!).

I go into the bedroom, and the boy with the flute tells me he is ready. I was just intending to pop my head around the door and tell him that I'd be a while, but as he's ready I decide to have a quick listen. He sits there fiddling with the flute, but he still seems to have a bit of setup to do, so I wait and watch what he is doing.

This is the first time that I got a really good look at the flute. It was a large instrument, probably about a metre long, and made from green stone. The mouthpiece was a long tube that you blow into, but the end where the sound comes out was really weird, like a large stone box with a cylindrical hole in the end.

After a few minutes he starts playing it and a weak sound comes out, but I'm too distracted to really pay attention to it. Yu Lee comes to the door and asks if it's OK for her to take Stefan, Christina and Alana out to look at something related to biology and tell her "of course!" By this point I'm stressed at having so many people in the house and glad to get some of them out.

After a couple of minutes I start to get stressed at having so many people in my apartment. The boy is still not playing his flute properly and is having some kind of problem, and is also fiddling with a CD player trying to play a backing track. I tell him I need to pop outside for a breather and walk straight out the front door, leaving all of the people inside.

I leave the building and walk down the street for about five minutes. After that I turn round and start walking back. I notice a black man in a uniform standing about 100 metres away from me. As I start walking back to the building he starts walking backwards, watching me the whole time. I realise that he is there as part of the surveillance team and is keeping an eye on me.

As I get back to the apartment building I see the rest of the surveillance team leaving in a white van. One of them winds down the window and tells me that they told everyone that I'd gone and wasn't coming back today. I feel quite angry that they said that as I was just popping out to get some air.

When I get back inside the apartment it is empty. All of the people have gone, and a lot of my things are missing too, for example the speakers from either side of my TV have been taken. I suddenly feel very alone and wonder where Yu Lee and the others are.

Edit

I remember one more part of my dream, but not where it fit in exactly. I remember walking down a corridor with the guy in his 40s, and I'm not sure how the conversation got onto it but he told me that he plays League of Legends. I asked what champion he likes to play and he said that he plays Nidalee. I asked him if he plays top lane and he said that he does.

Then he went on to tell me that he doesn't understand how to play mid lane and doesn't know what champions can be played in the mid lane and I told him that you could play Veigar.

The other thing I remember is that when I saw that my speakers were missing, I though "Oh no, now we can't watch LCS with the good speakers!"

Me and Yu Lee are at home, and we're both starving but haven't organised anything for dinner. I suggest that we should go out to eat but Yu Lee isn't keen on the idea. I'm not sure how, but somehow Yu Lee gets a small wrap with kebab meat and chips inside, which we eat, but afterwards we are still hungry as it was really tiny.

I say again that we should go out to eat and this time Yu Lee says that it's going to rain really heavily and isn't safe to drive. I manage to convince her and go to put my shoes on.

As I am sitting there, trying to get my feet into my shoes, I start to have real difficulties getting them in and get very stressed. Every time I try to push my feet into them the backs of the shoes get caught under my feet and fold down inside the shoes. I get more and more frustrated and eventually end up throwing my shoes across the hallway.

Yu Lee asks if I'm OK and I explain that I can't get my shoes on, and she manages to calm me down and help me to get them on. It starts to rain outside and Yu Lee convinces me to let her drive.

When we get to the restaurant, we realise that it is also a hotel and has rooms available. It is raining more and more heavily outside, so we decide to book into the hotel just in case we can't get back in the rain.

After paying for our room we order a kebab (it is a Turkish / Mediterranean / Middle-Eastern style restaurant) and sit down to eat it. After we've taken just a few bites out of it we decide to quickly pop up to our room and dump our stuff, and then return to the restaurant.

When we get back our food is gone. The waiter sees us waiting by the bar (where we were eating before) and calls us over to a table and disappears out into the kitchen.

By this point we have decided that we just want to get a takeaway and go back home as the rain is dying off. After waiting for a few minutes the waiter comes to take our order, and I order a beer. He says there is a problem with the beer and that he has to go and do something in the cellar, and then he rushes off to sort it out before we get a chance to tell him that we just wanted a takeaway. We are sure that he assumed we are eating in because he knows that we have booked a room for the night.

While the waiter is gone, me and Yu Lee talk about what we are going to do for the rest of the night. We both wanted to leave, but we agree now that we are there so we might as well make the most of it.

After a long time the waiter comes back with my beer. It is in a small brown bottle and is some kind of craft beer. I take a sip and it is a lovely, cold lager with a refreshing and slightly sweet flavour. We start to make our food order when I wake up.

I dreamt that I was watching a thriller in my bedroom.

The bedroom in my dream was not my real bedroom, and was not like anywhere I've slept before. It was a really big room, and it had a TV in it. I was with Yu Lee, and we were in bed (it was night time), watching a film.

The film made perfect sense in my dream, but now that I think about it it doesn't really make much sense at all. It started with a woman working in an office. She looks up at a spot on the wall where she normally hangs something, and whatever it was is gone and has moved to a different hook. She realises that something is wrong, and then moments later someone comes and beats her to death.

The story then goes back and starts to show the murderer's life, and how he turned into a killer.

It starts off with him hanging out with one of his friends, and for a joke they impersonate him. The killer than starts doing this kind of prank, impersonating and mocking people, until it gets a bit out of hand. He moves on to doing more violent pranks which involve beating people up whilst impersonating them, for example if his victim played golf he might dress up as a golfer, impersonate them and then beat them up with a golf club.

I can't really explain why, but the film definitely had a very sinister feel to it.

I remember two other things that happened.

At one point, Yu Lee told me the volume was too high so I got out of bed to turn it down. The TV was playing through some kind of amplifier so I turned that down, but then I realised it would be better to turn it down on the tv so that I could use the remote to turn it back up again, so I turned it back up on the amplifier and then down on the TV.

The second thing I remember doesn't really fit in with the rest of the dream. I'm not sure how this was connected to the rest of the dream, but we looked out through some patio doors (it was daytime) and there were some children playing in the garden. I went outside because I knew they were from next door, and I thought this would be an opportunity to talk to the neighbours. When I got out there one of the neighbours was in their garden but had their back to me and didn't turn round. I talked to the children for a while but then came back inside.

Back to the film, the pranks that the killer was doing were getting more and more violent, and then we see the killer going to the office building where the woman was murdered. He just starts setting up his prank when my alarm went off and woke me up.

That dream made a lot more sense at the time! I felt quite spooked when I woke up.

Me, Yu Lee and a couple of other people are sitting outside at a table. We are on a patio which has a roof over it, suspended by two metal girders which act as pillars at one end, and the house at the other end. It is a pleasant evening, and I think we are in another country.

We're sitting there talking and drinking and playing some kind of board / card game, when all of a sudden a volcano erupts on the horizon. It's quite far away, and all we can see is a massive column of smoke rising from the volcano. We comment that it might disrupt our flights the following day.

We continue with our game for a while, and the next thing I remember is looking up at another volcano erupting somewhere else on the horizon. This one is a bit closer, and is much more stunning to look at.

I tell Yu Lee to look at it just as it erupts, and from this far away you can clearly see several massive lumps of burning rock being ejected from the crater. The rocks are roughly spherical, and they are black with glowing yellow cracks.

As we watch, more and more rocks come out of the volcano, until all of a sudden a cluster of rocks come flying in our direction with one rock landing on either side of the house (but quite some distance away) and tumbling past us. I start to get scared as I realise how close they are coming, but stay and watch anyway.

The next eruption sends lots of smallish spherical rocks overhead, and a large cone shaped rock lands on its side in front of the house. It rolls towards us at great speed, and I suddenly realise it is going to crash into us. As it gets close I brace for the impact, and in the end the tip of the cone shaped part of the rock just touches the pillar holding up our roof, and by this time the rock isn't moving very quickly so it just stops.

After that the volcano blows out a massive cloud of stones, each about the size of a tennis ball, high into the sky. There must be thousands of stones this time, and it's obvious that they're going to rain down on us. We get up and run around the back of the building, but we're too late and the stones start coming down before we get there.

It feels like some kind of attack, with hundreds of impacts happening all around us.

The excitement gets the better of me and I wake up.

I dreamt that me and Yu Lee had just moved house, and the house that we'd moved into definitely had some things in common with this house, but some of the things were totally different. The downstairs hallway was the same as our current house with the same wooden floors, but upstairs was slightly different. There were two identical bedrooms with cream carpets and magnolia walls, with a low, sloped ceiling on one side of the room and a really wide shelf going all of the way along the shortest end of the room.

Ai Seng was staying with us, and we'd decided that we'd lived in the house for a while now and that it was about time we started making it our own. We were going to go and unpack some things to put on the shelf in our room to make it look a bit less 'magnolia'.

I headed downstairs to fetch one of the boxes, and when I got to the bottom of the stairs I couldn't believe my eyes: the hallway was completely flooded with brown, murky water. I knew it had been raining, but I never realised it had been raining that much.

I waded through the water into the kitchen and got a two-pint plastic jug to start bailing the water out. As I waded back towards the front door Ai Seng was telling me to be careful that the water didn't overflow my shoes, but it was already above my ankles at that point.

When I opened the front door (there was no porch in my dream), the driveway and street was wet but not flooded, and the sun had come out. I was just about to dip the jug into the water when my alarm went off and woke me up.