Painful Mega-Mysteries

This morning I had a megadream.  It was the first time in years.

For those new to this blog or who have forgotten, I use the term "megadream" to refer to a dream that is vivid and profound to the point of being sensory overload.  I wake up from them with a splitting headache and feel weak and shaky as if totally drained of energy.  In the past they have tended to come in waves with long intervals in between.  Thus far, I have been unable to identify any cause or pattern.  They happen when they happen.

I take such dreams very seriously.  The reason is because they have almost always been enlightening if not prophetic.  While rarely if ever true in a literal sense, they usually contain elements that reveal facts I don't know yet or events that haven't happened yet.  Cryptic symbolism and metaphor are common.  I have also seen people in such dreams before meeting them in real life. 

Make no mistake; I take such dreams very seriously.

Some of the symbolism in this one was pretty obvious, I'd say...but the way it ended is leaving me mystified.  And then there was the person I didn't know who looked right at me at the end.  Who was it?

I still feel drained...