"...then you shall have mine"

[mellowtigger]

My posts about dreams mention that I rarely remember any of my dreams.  Maybe just 3-4 times each year do I remember one.  Tonight's was more bizarre than usual.  It incorporates stuff that I have never before encountered in my dreams.  I consider it a nightmare since it caused me to wake up in panic mode.

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[kauko]

I wish I didn't remember my dreams since most nights my dreams literally run like a horror movie. Imagine having to experience some slasher film like it was real life and you were running from the scary killer on a nightly basis while you slept :(

[mellowtigger]

Ack! :( Yes, most of my remembered dreams fit one of a few recurring themes. "Running away in slow motion" is one of my nightmare themes.
One other nightmare theme includes a particular house that I abhor for the evil presence there that tries to destroy me. Those dreams always make me wake up in a panic too.

Tonight's was entirely new. I've never been a woman. I've never dreamed about slaves. I can sort of explain the guns and presidential motorcade as a loose association to my gun post that I disliked writing about.

Single people shouldn't be allowed to have nightmares. They require boyfriends to snuggle for comfort upon waking. :/

[kauko]

I can't tell you how many times I've died while dreaming, died, cut up, limbs chopped off etc. Its not wonder that to this day I have a certain unease with being in a completely dark, quiet room when I'm trying to sleep. But, I have to admit, my dog Karma is a great comfort to me while I'm sleeping, I feel much more at ease just having her curled up in bed with me. Unfortunately she's a bed hog.

Tonight's was entirely new. I've never been a woman. I've never dreamed about slaves.

*puts on BDSM dream interpretation cap*

Methinks you want to get in touch with your inner submissive bottom... just kidding :P

Single people shouldn't be allowed to have nightmares. They require boyfriends to snuggle for comfort upon waking. :/

I actually hate sleeping with someone else in the bed, I've slept alone my whole life and when I sleep in a bed with someone else I have such trouble sleeping. So, I guess sleeping with someone would help with my nightmares since it would keep me from sleeping :P

[mellowtigger]

*laugh*

I've nearly decided that it's a political dream. (That's a first, too.) A political dream about staking out ethical positions during periods of confusing conflict. In the first half of the dream (before the break in continuity) I am an acting participant who chooses to "do the right thing" to protect someone at risk to my own safety. In the second half of the dream (after the break) I am an observer watching another out-of-power person choosing to "do the right thing" to protect her remaining children at risk of her own life.

Consciously, I really don't think America is yet that close to the point of civil war. If my subconscious is already evaluating it that way, though, then it would explain why I have been so tired and out of sorts for the last week or two. Conflict is tiring business.

[mellowtigger]

The car driving backwards and with no one at the wheel would make an acceptable metaphor for the institution of government seeming to operate incorrectly or without rational oversight. That interpretation fairly accurately sums up my feelings about the legislative branch right now.