Friday, April 18, 2008

My Dreams Are Funnier Than Your Dreams

I sometimes have really vivid dreams. And often my dreams tell me things about how I'm feeling. For instance, I have a dream where I am driving a car, adn I am going really fast on a curvey road, and when I pump on the brakes (usually on my way downhill), the brakes don't work. That means I am feeling very, very stressed out.

Also there is a dream I have where I float upwards and am flying over the neighborhood, and it feels very cool, and I think about where I want to go, and who I could spy on, and then I keep floating up and up and I can't stop floating up. Kind of like in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when Charlie and his grandfather eat something that makes them float, and they float upwards towards the fan, and they have to belch their way back down. Except I can't figure out how to get back down, and I get all panicky. That usual means I'm anxious about something.

My other dream that indicates general ookiness in my life is the one where I dream there is a spider either on me, on the wall near me, or hanging over me. That dream I usually wake up from convinced that it was not a dream, and I jump out of bed, turn on all the lights, and worry that it crawled into my sheets, and debate if I want to get back into bed. And then eventually I usually realize it was a dream spider. Sometimes I am kind of doubtful. And once I made it all the way out of my room, down the stairs to get the vacuum, and back up before I realized that perhaps the spider I wanted to vacuum up was not real.

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