I’ve just had a very strange dream about Pete Sampras. I am certain that it holds significant meaning, although I’m yet to really decipher it as I’ve just woken up. In the dream I had been eating at my favorite restaurant in Phuket, which is a little Italian place called Farang near Central Festival, where I ate tonight, incidentally.

It was early evening and I was walking away from the restaurant when I noticed Pete Sampras walking toward me wearing his tennis clothes and carrying his tennis bag. I was unsure why he was in Phuket, but I had a look around me and somewhere I saw the result of a tennis match that Pete had just been in. Pete had won the match three sets to two. I decided to congratulate him on the match and pretend I had seen it, because I really wanted to make friends with Pete.

“Wow!” I shouted. “What a match. Five sets. That was unbelievable.”

Pete seemed happy enough to talk to me. He was putting his tennis bag in his car and admitted that it had been a great match, but he was now very tired. The match had been against Miss Universe’s boyfriend, Paradorn Srichaphan.

Victorious Pete told me that because of the excessively long match, he was going to have to stay in Phuket an extra night. Pete then walked away from me and to Farang restaurant where he sat at a table with a man. This man was balding, had tanned skin, and I hated him. For whatever reason, I was really jealous that Pete had chosen to sit with this man and not hang out with me.

I heard the guy call to the next table, “Hey dude. You got a light?” I was fuming and considered going over there and joining Pete and his new friend.

And that’s all I can remember. There are so many pointers in this dream that I’ve got to try and work out what it means. I remember reading Pete Sampras’ name on Wikipedia a few days ago when I was reading about Tim Henman retiring; I ate at Farang restaurant not three hours before the dream; I wrote a story that mentioned Noppadorn today; and I’ve recently quit smoking.

The flag marks are there; I just need to think about them when I’m a bit more awake.

Have you had any strange dreams recently?

Techno' tags: Thailand, Phuket, Pete Sampras