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Dreams fascinate me. They really do. I know I've mentioned that before. It amazes me that while you sleep, your brain comes up with these complex, and sometimes bizarre, storylines. Often they express our dreams, our desires, our fears, even ones that we try not to be aware of. Sometimes they seem to have no connection to reality, randomly jumping from scene to scene wtih no transtion. Fascinating.
This morning I had a dream that woke me. About two weeks ago I had one, as well. They were very, very different, though. I rarely dream about actual people that I know (expect when they are a sidekick on an adventure. you can wipe that look off your face now.). The last few times that I have, I've had the strangest, saddest dreams. The one two weeks ago was like that. I dreamed that for some reason I had to marry someone to save them from something. It was a name-only marriage, of course, but it meant that I had to give up the person that I really loved. It was really weird. Especially the dream-choice of who I really loved. I'm still pondering that a little. But I woke up completely freaked out at having to make that choice. Yuck.
This morning's dream totally creeped me out. I dreamed that I was sitting on the floor by a bed and watching a movie. My brother comes in in the last ten minutes and won't stop talking to me. I yell at him and so he leaves. Suddenly, I'm distraced by a weird shadow on the wall. I look up and there's this huge cockroach crawling around the light fixture (which was one of those hanging light bulb deals--weird). So I'm watching the bug crawl all around the fixture and I'm yelling for my brother to come get it when it falls off the fixture, floats in midair for a moment and then flies to land on my neck. I scream and jump up trying to brush it off. That's when I wake up. The creepiest thing was that I felt it crawl on me in my dream. Try to fall asleep after that. I definitely sat up and turned on the lamp and checked myself and the entire bed to make sure there wasn't a roach. And then I kept feeling things crawl on me. I hate that. So I'm thinking that some less vivid dreams are in order. :)
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They always get me right as I'm falling asleep; normally, it's a shadow or something different on the wall or ceiling that my mind distorts just before actual sleep. Suddenly, the register grate is moving, or there's something standing in the doorway, or something wicked dangles from the overhead light. It's quite unnerving, without a doubt. And it's good luck going back to sleep after such things--the jolt of adrenaline is enough to ensure that sleep doesn't come easily . . . .
Posted by: froc | June 18, 2007 09:17 PM
I know! It could be the exact same shadow that's been on the wall, you just never really noticed it before, and if you see it at just the right moment....Sometimes you wish you didn't have any adrenaline...
Posted by: dramatic ren | June 18, 2007 09:24 PM
I know all about searching for the dream bug. Ugh!
Once when we were at school I dreamed Mr. Gibbs was really mad at us for not knowing our lines and he came into my dorm room and picked me up (still wrapped in my blankets), then he disapeared and I was just levitating. Weird. I thought you'd get a kick out of that one.
Posted by: Beth Martin | June 19, 2007 10:53 PM
this makes me laugh, because I can so picture you checking things over before turning out the light again...and because it reminds me of the poor roach that endured your wrath that night in the dorm...the one you couldn't find, but determined to asphyxiate all living things for three days with all the spray you used. Oh this memory brings such joy to my heart! Coming in the room, being nearly knocked to the ground from the smell, and seeing you standing on the springs of your bed while my mattress was on the floor and the walls were dripping from roach spray...
Posted by: Kelly | July 5, 2007 11:10 AM
i had forgotten about that! oh my goodness!!!!! :D
Posted by: dramatic ren | July 5, 2007 11:11 AM