I had a bad dream last night.
I won’t bore you with the diddly details that dreams are filled with, we’ll skip to the end. Bear was little and we were sitting on our bed which wasn’t our bed but somehow also our bed on the second story of the dream house. Not my dream house but the house in my dream. It’s convoluted, I know, I don’t make dream rules.
I was having that sort of Very Serious Talk™ you have with little people about, I believe, keeping better track of her necklaces (insert enormous eye roll here) when I looked out a window and saw a fully formed tornado about fifty feet from the house.
Disclaimer: I’m terrible at distance. Suffice to say the tornado was enormous and close enough that in the blink of an eye I dismissed the idea of getting to another room.
So I snatched Bear up and tucked her under me as I crouched beside the bed. I shielded her while furiously whispering, “It’s just big wind, it’s just big wind, it’ll be over soon.” And it was big wind and it passed over the house without tearing us into the sky and dreamworld went on.
Y’ALL. When I say I woke up sobbing.
It doesn’t take Freud to figure this one out, except I guess maybe it does because seconds after waking I was certain I knew what this dream was about and an hour later I’m not so sure.
I’m feeling helpless with so many things bearing down on us. I want so badly to protect her from the world but there’s a damn tornado coming and as BrightSide put it you can’t stop nature.
And now that I’m rereading this I also think maybe it’s about why are we worrying about things like putting away necklaces when there’s a tornado coming. There are bigger threats.
I can tell I’ll be thinking on this all day.
I always wondered if dreams are prediction, commentary or entertainment. It probably depends, right? Anyway, hope you’re not reading this from Oz. 🙃
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I agree, it must depend on what’s rattling around in my brain when I go to bed. Seems like a good argument for mastering meditation.
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My dreams have become really unsettled and messed up. Messes up the sleep which just adds to the problems
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It really does. I’ve forgotten what it’s like to have long term restful sleep.
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I think the world is getting to us. I had a dream last night that basically was all about being lost (i.e., having no control) all by myself. Yep. Cue the political warnings.
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My kids have learned to dread the phrase “so I had a dream last night.” Usually means my brain worked overtime making connections while I slept and BOOM, time to talk about that thing last week.
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Your subconscious is warning you.
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Sure seems like it.
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It is a worrying time for women in the US. Or perhaps all over the world.
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I think it is very telling, there are so many layers of fear and protection going on in the world right now, and your dream continued the challenges
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Absolutely. I’ve dealt with chase dreams most of my life but don’t recall ever feeling so distinctly terrified for one of my children like this.
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Totally worth thinking about.
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There are so many layers to this thing.
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Indeed.
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