The dreams I had were years ago, but I remember them like they were yesterday. This one is my personal favourite so I thought I would share them with you all:
The first one I was running across the grass of Alexander Palace, wearing a white dress and barefooted, with a hat similar to the ones the Grand Duchesses had with the ribbon wrapped around the base and blowing in the wind. I was laughing, smiling, and I felt my hands being taken. When I looked to both sides to see who it was, surprisingly I saw Maria and Olga. It wasn't in black and white like all the pictures we have seen, but Olga's hair in the sun nearly blinded me, it was that blonde in the sunlight!
Maria winked at me from my other side and the next thing I know we stopped running, and a small girl zipped past us. It was the little Imp herself, Anastasia, who was cheering and yelling happily. Just as she realised Maria, Olga and I had stopped she placed one foot forward to run but slipped, and there she was standing in a puddle up to her knees, ruining her dress which was identical to the ones the three of us were wearing. We laughed hard and hard at the youngest, who turned her head and pouted at us, her mouth moving but no sound coming out which bewildered me, however from the expression on her face they were not overly pleasant words!
When I realised the dream had not included Tatiana, I heard a voice shout from behind us in Russian, a language I did not understand, but my brain immediately reacted and I shouted back, the voice coming from my lips not the one my realistic body was accustomed too, and there was Nicholas, Alexandra and Alexei. Alexei was laughing at his older sister who was stomping towards us, her legs and bottom portion of her dress caked in mud. Alexandra was looking disapproving at the dress, but a little smile was trying to creep onto her face and Nicholas was holding his stomach, he was laughing so hard. When the four of us reached them, Alexandra immediately began tending to Anastasia's dress and Nicholas gave Olga, Maria and I kisses on our cheeks. I saw Alexei turn to me and mouth a word, and in my confusion I woke up.
I late hypothesised that my dream had placed me in the position of Tatiana, enjoying a time spent with her family. I thought it was amazing my brain had just taken my obsession with the Romanovs into a dream that placed me in the point of view of the second daughter herself!
My brain had also, when I came to think of it, had made Alexei and Anastasia mute because I had not heard how they sounded, including Olga, Maria and Alexandra, but because we have videos of Nicholas' voice-some pitched down-my brain took that and placed it into my dream!
From the appearance of Anastasia, Maria and Olga and my own age at the time I believe my dream took place in 1912.
