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ednbarby:
I do have Jake in my dreams in a way - Jack and Ennis are in my dreams almost every night, as sort of "extras." They very rarely speak, but when they do, they are Jack and Ennis and not Jake and Heath. They're always wearing the immortalized shirts and the hats and they're always together. They never speak directly to me when they do speak - it's always to each other in a reflection on something I or someone else in the dream has said. Their presence is always very peaceful and I always awake feeling reassured. Amazing what our minds do to try to heal our waking selves when we sleep.
sparkle_motion:
I love the fact that he cried and made you uncomfortable, makes me laugh.
I've had a couple "trying really hard to impress Jake" dreams too. Usually it's with my clever wit and enlightened commentary.
henrypie:
Mmm, Barb, how beautiful.
I don't know about healing: I dreamt two nights ago that I had a four-chamber cage/tank in my bedroom with fish, birds (that looked like lobsters), hamsters and gerbils, and tiny tabby-striped mice. I decided to switch things around a little -- put the mice in with the hamsters, put the gerbils in with the FISH... why? Why did I do that? I suddenly realized the gerbils were drowned, on the bottom of the fishtank with their little feet moving slightly with the currents; the birds were dead, half the fish were dead... God, it was so awful. I woke up whimpering in helpless horror at my own awful misjudgment. I was telling my coworker about the dream and, embarrassingly, started to cry. Weird. We tell each other our weird dreams but we do not cry in front of each other.
Maybe the healing begins when I wake up and realize I'm being warned to be more responsible. ?
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: henrypie on April 28, 2006, 03:32:43 pm ---Mmm, Barb, how beautiful.
I don't know about healing: I dreamt two nights ago that I had a four-chamber cage/tank in my bedroom with fish, birds (that looked like lobsters), hamsters and gerbils, and tiny tabby-striped mice. I decided to switch things around a little -- put the mice in with the hamsters, put the gerbils in with the FISH... why? Why did I do that? I suddenly realized the gerbils were drowned, on the bottom of the fishtank with their little feet moving slightly with the currents; the birds were dead, half the fish were dead... God, it was so awful. I woke up whimpering in helpless horror at my own awful misjudgment. I was telling my coworker about the dream and, embarrassingly, started to cry. Weird. We tell each other our weird dreams but we do not cry in front of each other.
Maybe the healing begins when I wake up and realize I'm being warned to be more responsible. ?
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How awful, Sarah! Of course it's easy for me to say my dreams heal me now because I'm not having the night terrors that have haunted me off and on for years. If you don't know what a night terror - as opposed to a nightmare like what you had - is, be glad. Be very, very glad. And in case you're very, very glad, they're very violent hallucinations that only about 2% of the population, supposedly, experience just as we're falling to sleep. The thought is they're caused by a genetic abnormality in which the switching mechanism in the brain that helps us go from Stage 1 sleep to REM sleep is awry, and so our minds go directly to REM sleep while we're still partially awake. My hallucinations involve the sense of some sort of malevolent presence that isn't supposed to be there standing over me and about to do me great bodily harm. Sometimes I see a male, shadowy figure. Sometimes an actual man with a face, and not even a particularly scary one but just one I don't recognize. Sometimes it's animal-like. The one continuity is that it causes me to bolt upright in my bed, jump out, and go running and screaming from the room. All while I'm still partially asleep. I can go for years without having one, then have three in a week. I don't know what triggers them, but I think it might be excessive sugar. I think this because I've been essentially on the South Beach diet for three years, now. First to lose 15 pounds, which I did, then because I realized I had not had a single night terror since I cut down on the sugar and I wanted to keep it that way.
Long story short (too late :)), I know from dreams that don't exactly heal. I also have a recurring dream-dream that I'm getting ready to go on a very important trip and I'm deliberately dilly-dallying along, knowing I'm going to miss the plane and it's going to essentially ruin my life, yet dilly-dally I continue to do. I never wake up particularly refreshed from those, either. Wish I knew how to interpret dreams so I could tell you what yours means. Hopefully someone here will be able to enlighten you. Someone once told me that the missing the plane dream means something completely different from what I thought it did - something about what different forms of transportation symbolize or something or other. I thought it was silly and so I dismissed it and now I've forgotten it. Yet I still have the stupid dream from time to time. Only difference is now Jack and Ennis are there in the airport. :-\
henrypie:
-the running-out-of-time dream (aka dilly-dallying)
-the performance dream in which I'm handed a piece of music I've never seen, or I'm handed an instrument I don't play, or I'm in the dress rehearsal of an opera and I haven't attended a single rehearsal up to that point and don't have the role memorized (popular twist: I'm missing a key article of clothing, like my trousers)
-the taking-care-of-animals dream
Those are the biggies.
You know, Barb, I actually do go into immediate REM sleep -- it's the only trace of narcolepsy that I seem to have inherited from my mom, who is narcoleptic. But I don't have night-terrors. My mom does, though, lemme tell ya. I know it's scarier for the terror-haver, but it's scary for others in the house, too. My experience consists merely of dreams of REM-level detail seconds after I fall asleep.
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