Strange recurring dream...
When I was younger, I would often fantasize about being a cowboy in the wild west. Countless summer days were spent reenacting famous outlaw stories I had heard in story books. As I grew older, I grew out of this cowboy fixation and ultimately forgot about it during my adolescent years.
Today I am 18 years old and about to head off to college. For the past 4 months or so I have had the strangest, most vivid dream I have ever experienced or even heard of. The dream begins with me being in a rather mountainous area of the wild west. I cannot move but I can hear two men talking with rather excited tones to their voice. I cannot understand what they are talking about but I somehow understand that they are in a hurry.
After a while, the speakers come into view with their back facing me. It then occurs to me that they are gold or silver prospectors, as I notice their extremely dirty clothes and pickaxes. As soon as I make this realization, one of them turns around and stares me in the eye. I cannot begin to describe the horror of this prospectors face. He looks as if he is 90 years old and has a white beard down to his knees. His face is contorting and seizing seemingly uncontrollably and black liquid (oil?) is oozing from his mouth.
The other man soon turns around and I see that his body is human, tall and slender, yet his face is that of a horse. This horse man has extremely buck teeth and is buzzing his lips and shaking his head back and forth.
I then look into the eyes of the horse man and can see the reflection of the object that has driven these men to madness. I see a bed of the most beautiful gold one can imagine, but with a slight twist. I am the gold, and my face is clearly visible embedded in the gold. They rush towards me screaming and as soon as they bring their pickaxes down to harvest me, I awake in a cold sweat.
Is this normal?