Consciously Dreaming?

Drama used to happen even when the Semi-Retired Drama Queen was in bed.

It happened a few years ago when the Semi-Retired Drama Queen was still the reigning Drama Queen. At that time, she was still living her semi-depressed life amidst the historical remnants down south and came to KL for some errants. She camped at her friend’s company apartment in Damansara Perdana while her friend was away on a business trip. She is normally a light sleeper.

Before I proceed, here’s the definition of the company apartment: Any employees of XXX Company can make use of that facility for certain duration just as long as they pre-book the place.

Here’s what happened. She arrived at the apartment at about 9pm, switched the aircond on, showered and went to bed early that night as there was nothing else for her to do. In the middle of the night, she heard people coming into the house. It sounded like a Chinese family (father, mother and very young kids) and they were moving things around the house.

Suddenly, the 'mother' came into the room she was sleeping in. The then Drama Queen thought that those people were probably employees of XXX Company and that her friend had forgotten to book the apartment. She did not bother waking up as she wanted to avoid the awkwardness of introducing herself to a bunch of strangers in her semi-clothed state. Therefore, she pretended to be sound asleep.

“Who is this?” she heard the 'mother' said, half-whispering to the 'father'.

“OK, children, let's go out, we’ll sleep in the next room. Better take picture first, just in case,” added and started clicking away. The then Drama Queen thought that she would temporarily ignore the incident and get her friend to deal with the situation first thing tomorrow morning.

The next day, she rang her friend who was in Penang and told him about the whole incident. Although busy, he made numerous phone calls and found out that no one else was at the apartment the night before. The then drama queen also inspected the the room that was supposedly occupied by the Chinese family and found no evidence of people sleeping in it.

Both of them then decided that the whole incident actually happened in the then Drama Queen’s dream!