I had this dream a week ago. I was staying at a friend's house in Jakarta for a week, so maybe that's the reason I had weird dreams. This is a short one as I didn't write it down immediately after I woke up, so I can't really remember the details.
The dream:
I was living in a kind of plantation-cum-estate, in what seemed like a 18th-century Indonesia/Southeast Asia (colonised area). I guess I got references from history books (I just recently finished Raffles and the British Invasion of Java by Tim Hannigan). There were a lot of people living there, including my family. The workers (or should I say slaves?) were mostly Asians from parts of Asia/Southeast Asia. I recognised a woman who's probably from Thailand. Everyone spoke English in my dream though. Yes, weird. Anyway, I can't remember what happened in the beginning of the dream but what I remember is that there was the plantation/estate owner who's apparently an African and he was very mean. I can't really remember why he was mean or how his meanness was exactly. But the people who lived on the plantation/estate felt oppressed and wanted to be free.
For some weird reason, the people thought that asking one of the women to sleep with the landowner was a good idea. One woman volunteered and everyone cheered her. She was the Thai-looking person. So, the woman went to the bedchamber of the landowner and slept with him. I didn't actually witness the sex scene in the dream as an invisible observer. It would be weird watching two weird strangers having sex in my dream. After they finished, the landowner started laughing and said, "How much of a fool are you? Do you think I don't know what you are planning? And I can sleep with anyone that I want!" Which makes perfect sense. I mean, why on earth would you sleep with your enemy if you were not going to get anything useful? She should have stabbed him in the back or something, but she didn't. Instead she just sat on the bed, looking shocked.
After that, I heard people talking in the living room. I went there and saw my family sitting together and there was one African woman. She was apparently the owner's henchwoman. She was also the executioner. She announced loudly that any attempt of mutiny would be punished severely and that the Thai-looking woman was waiting for her punishment. The punishment was getting your skull bashed by a clay pot. It was a heavy pot when I tried to lift it and in the dream I was imagining how painful it would be. I went out of the room because I didn't want to look, and when I was at the door, I ran into the Thai lady. She didn't look scared, just confused. I told her I wouldn't go into the living room because the African lady would punish her, but then I retracted and said that it would probably be worse if she didn't go.
She stared at me and nodded and went into the room. I stood close to the door and I could hear people murmuring. I could hear the booming voice of the African lady when she again announced the punishment. She offered the head-bashing or death. The Thai lady chose her head to be bashed by a piece of pottery.
I heard a loud cracking noise.
And then, I went back to the room. Everyone was gone except for my mum and an old man. I saw blood on the floor and in a bucket. I asked my mum how's the Thai lady doing and she told me that she's still alive but she wouldn't live for long because after all death was the only option offered.
And then I woke up.
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