Lady GaGa has a creepy recurring dream in which a phantom urges her to slash her wrists to save her family.
The Poker Face singer, who has learned from her mother that the bizarre nightmare is perhaps a secret society ritual, admits she uses the imagery from this and other dreams in her songs and videos.
She tells Rolling Stone magazine, "This phantom... takes me into a room, and there's a blonde girl with ropes tied to all four of her limbs and she's got my shoes on from the Grammys... and the ropes are pulling her apart.
"I never see her get pulled apart but I just watch her whimper, and then the phantom says to me, 'If you want me to stop hurting her and if you want your family to be OK, you will cut your wrist.' And I think he has his own, like, crazy wrist-cutting device.
"And he has this honey... and he wants me to pour the honey into the wound, and then put cream over it and a gauze. I looked up the dream, and I couldn't find anything about it anywhere. And my mother goes, 'Isn't that an Illuminati ritual?'"
And when Gaga gets really stuck over the meaning of a dream, she turns to her pal, spiritual advisor Deepak Chopra.
The singer asked him to help her interpret a dream in which she's eating a human heart.
She adds, "I was freaking out... I was like, 'The devil's trying to take me, Deepak. I'm a good girl!' And Deepak goes, 'You are so very creative, my Gaga. You should make this into a video.' And I guess, in his own way, he spoke to me about learning to respect and honour my insanity. It's part of who I am."