Remember that Bernstein Bears book “The Bad Dream”? The one where Sister Bear has nightmares and Mama explains to her that at night, your brain is trying to piece together everything that happened during the day but the puzzle gets distorted and she has nightmares as a result of the puzzle being messed up? I’m one of those people where I can usually piece together dreams because of stuff that has happened over the past few days, just a bit more topsy turvy. It's pretty well known in my family that I have pretty insane (some say terrifying) dreams. And while I do not want to scare anyone with some of my more.... uh.... disturbing dreams... I will share the three types that I frequently have:
1. This one thankfully has lessened in frequency but I for many years I always use to dream that my teeth were falling out. My brother-in-law is a dentist so I would always be frantically trying to call him or get to his office so he could fix my broken mouth (formerly mentioned brother-in-law also informed me that dreams like this usually mean that you grind your teeth in your sleep). I would dream either that my teeth were just falling out on their own, one by one, or that they were extremely loose and lightly pushing on them would cause them to come out into my hand (where I would desperately be trying to hold onto them for the rest of the dream). It was always terrifying! But like I said, I don't have these as often anymore (so maybe that means I stopped grinding my teeth in my sleep).
2. This is one that has occurred more often in recent years: I dream that I am about to go somewhere on a trip and I realize at the last minute (such as the plane is boarding or the car is about to pull out of the driveway) that I haven't packed my bag at all or am still scrambling to pack. Or I have a bunch of stuff that I am trying to fit into a box to take with me, but I keep getting interrupted and the box never fills up. It is one of the simplest yet most frustrating dreams ever. All I want is to finish packing and yet I can’t. Another variation of the dream: I have the worst vision of anyone I know (go ahead, try and challenge me. I guarantee my vision is worse. This is one contest I have never lost) so sometimes I dream that my contacts aren’t in and I am struggling to see whatever I am trying to pack which is only two inches in front of my face. Bottom line: This dream is frustrating and I am sick of having them yet I had one just last night so they clearly aren’t leaving anywhere anytime soon.
3. This one is actually the worst of the three and ever since graduating from college I have had some form of it at least three times a week. In the dream I am back in high school and I guess I am visiting or something. but then I run into an administrator who informs me that “Oh no Annie, you never really got credit for your Economics class in high school so I guess your college degree is now null and void. Gotta start all over! See you next semester!” I had a different version after graduating from high school where it was a new law that you had to go back and redo middle and high school and try to improve your grades the second time around. So maybe this new post-college one is sort of along those lines. But my goodness, I wake up thinking that I have to go back to high school (horrible thought all by itself) and do it all over again and go back to college and retake 150+ hours of classes (maybe that wouldn’t be the worst thing ever. Being broke blows).
Point being, considering sleep is suppose to be a time of rest and rejuvenation all of these dreams aren’t really aiding in that. No wonder I’m always so exhausted.
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These dreams don't seem so bad compared to some of the nightmares you have told me about. In fact, these seems downright normal! Most of your audience has probably had some version of dream #3. There is an episode on Cheers which covered the same topic and it was HILARIOUS! Especially Woody's contributions!
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