I had my first bondage dream last night! When I woke up and realised what had happened, I was very excited – it’s cool to have your dreams to take a new turn.

In this dream I was a novice in a magical order. The following day was going to be my initiation into full members of the order, but first, my superiors told me, I had to go through a ritual ordeal, so that my magic potential got unlocked.

The ordeal went like this: I was taken to an empty courtyard. In the middle of it grew an ancient oak tree. I was stripped naked and tied to this tree, facing outwards, and told that I had to spend the night like this. I could ask to be untied any time, but then I would have to leave the order.

In the meantime, throughout the night visions would come to torment me: they would seem disturbingly real. But, tied to the tree, I’d be able to do nothing to defend myself. I was to survive the night of helplessness so that I had access to power.

I woke up before I got to see any tormenting visions, but in the dream I was sure they would involve people with whips.