Weird dreams
I had a pair of really weird dreams last night. In fact, I’ve been having weird dreams all week, but I don’t remember anything about the ones previous in the week. I definitely remember last night’s though. The first one was particularly odd because I had it after being asleep for only about an hour and a half, max. I thought you had to be asleep for 4 hours before you had dream sleep. But I had insomnia last night and I know I went to the bathroom at 11:37, and I laid awake for quite some time after that I’m sure, and I awoke from this dream at 1:17. Weird.
So in the dream, I’m at my Paternal Grandmother’s house (except of course it looks nothing like her real house did). Everyone’s asleep except my brother, Tim and I. Suddenly we hear a tornado coming. I think I even see a vortex spinning, that image sticks in my mind. So we start screaming, “Grandma, Grandpa, Dad, get up”. My Mom wasn’t there, I guess. What makes this even weirder? My Grandpa’s been dead since the year before I was born, and my grandma has been dead 12 years. So none of these people wake up, but I grab Roxie (I guess Lucy wasn’t there), and my brother, Tim and I head to the basement. My brother is pushing me and I’m like, “stop pushing, we’re going to all fall down the stairs”. And the stairs are covered in this green shag carpet and then the floor is covered in brown shag. And there’s a huge christmas tree (so huge it looks like a real tree indoors) and the basement has windows out on to the backyard and there’s a swingset and this awful storm, and there are two tv’s on and sparks are shooting out of the electrical outlet. And the wind is coming in and Christmas decorations are flying everywhere. And i try to turn the tv off, but it won’t go off and there’s this very sad children’s christmas special (I think it’s Christmas Eve), on, and this little stuffed bear is getting all his fur blown off. Very sad. And then I woke up.
Later, I had a dream that I was at my high school reunion, which was being held at my actual high school. I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt and hanging out with a guy from my high school and one of my current co-workers who was at my reunion for no particular reason. Everyone looked exactly the same as they did in high school and it was like the intervening 10 years never happened. Apparently I had not driven myself, and I had forgotten to bring tim, and i was trying to find a payphone (my high school had been completely remodeled) so I could call my mom to come pick me up so I could change clothes and get tim. And i walked through the cafeteria and they were having a talent show (!) and Lara, a friend/theatre “rival” in high school was performing a monologue where she was portraying several different characters. And they were all African-American characters from a movie that was geared towards African-American audiences (like Barbershop or something-I just knew this in my dream), which was really weird. And she had mannequin heads, like beauty school students use, she had set up as the other characters and she would talk to them. Most bizarre. So I asked the band boosters where the pay phones were and they told me and then I woke up. And I couldn’t go back to sleep.
I invite anyone who is skilled at dream interpretation to give me a clue as to what these mean. I figure the reunion is related to the fact that no one I give a flying flip about seeing has RSVP’d for my reunion. The first one, I have no earthly idea. Wait, I just looked at my calendar and I think Saturday will mark the 12th anniversary of my grandma’s death. Perhaps my subconscious remembered that. weird.
Comments
AshMita
2005-04-18T16:51:25.000Z
I think your postings are the sole source of life for the diaries. Way to keep the dream alive Julie!
Where is my entertainment? I want more postings!
Oh and I don’t know what your dreams meant.
But I do know that pregnant wenches such as myself have very, very odd dreams. I mean very. So keep that in mind!
