"...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.