Tuesday, April 18, 2006

I Lived a Lifetime...

...in my sleep last night. Every trivial, recent concern unleashed itself in my subconcious in the form of twisted and surreal dreams. I'm exhausted.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've never had that before, but I imagine it's like watching a long re-run. If that would happen, I think I would just change the channel! :)

Colleen said...

I've had nights like that - it feels like you didn't sleep at all. Hopefully it's all out of your system now & you'll get a good nights sleep tonight.

Jeff said...

I can identify with nights like that - I hate them! Hopefully tonight will be better and more peaceful!

Stephenie said...

it wasn't like a rerun. it was more like sick ways to solve problems or problems gone to the extreme. i started to share an example, but have wisely thought better of it.

has anyone ever laid down to go to sleep and as soon as your head touched the pillow you remembered a dream you've had befor? there is a name for that, but i can't remember what. it has something to do with being in the same place and in the same position that evokes the memory.

Christopher said...

Deja-vu? I heard a really neat thing about that once. That deja vu is really the Spirit going before us and when we get to a specific place, we feel like we've been there before. But I've aso experieced that when I go on the curve by the Farmer's Market in downtown Muskegon. It's weird, because the same color car is next to me and I think I hear the same song. I don't know if it's true, but it seems that way. What's also wierd is that I don't know what song it is, just that when I hear it, I recognize it.

Colleen said...

I don't know about remembering a dream I've had before but I have had repeated dreams and repeated themes and places in my dreams. It wouldn't be so weird if they really exist and I'm familiar with them but they are unique to my dreams.

anna said...

Twilight Zone.

Jeff said...

I used to have recurring dreams about a plane crash. Different than most plane crash dreams, I was on the ground, hearing the pane engines whining and failing and trying to run away before the plan crashed near me throwing firey debris and people!

Maybe the injured people scared me more because I'll admit I've also had numerous dreams about running away from people who were hurt or puking! Needless to say, in reality, I am terrified of hospitals.

Jeff said...

...just reminded me; my latest "run from the puker" featured our friend Norm S running behind me down a stairway with a sick child. I couldn't run fast enough. What's up with that?

Now Steph, if I can share that, you can share one of yours!!! Spill the beans!

Stephenie said...

i too had a terrible recurring dream. sometimes different things would happen but i knew it was the same b/c it FELT the same. there was a beautiful woman in my dream who was poked by with a long needle by a really mean ugly man. she would scream and scream. once i was playing cards with a group of adults and a mean person took my cards away. i would always have a sort of tickle in my sides and i couldn't wake up.

when i got older the dreams stopped but the tickle in my sides turned into terrible pain like a sewing machine needle poking into me and i still couldn't wake up.

thankfully i don't have them anymore.

jeff, the first episode of LOST must have really scared you!

Jeff said...

Yeah, it did, very much... and I nearly screamed like a scared child on Cast Away when Tom Hanks came up from the water after the crash to see the huge, screaching jet engine above him about to turn him into applesauce! YIKES!

The needle thing sounds pretty scarey - especially if the pain was real. I know sometimes we dream about things based on things that are actually, physically happening (sounds, etc). Wonder if you were having cramps in your side and then dreaming about it. I have a little asthma, and I've often dreamed I couldn't breath only to wake up to an actual asthma attack.

Lisa used to have scarey dreams too where she couldn't get herself awake.