Cauchemar!

[darkemeralds]

Have you ever noticed how the most shocking nightmares, when viewed through the I'm-awake-now-thank-God lens of Jungian-esque analysis, are the most useful? And how the message is often pretty uplifting?

It's been years since I did any particular dreaming. I had a series of terrifying seizures which always came on first thing in the morning, and always in the context of trying vainly to remember a dream, so I became highly averse to remembering dreams. But just the past couple of weeks I seem to have taken it up again.

The one I had this morning between cat-letting-out and actual waking was a humdinger involving ice and high places and someone falling to her death and me hanging on for dear life so I wouldn't do the same thing. A wake-up-screaming nightmare.

And yet as soon as I was fully awake I recognized it as an ego-death kind of dream. I've been releasing lots of things, and ideas, and goals lately. Part of me falling to her icy death is a pretty apt symbol.

Still...rainbows and non-creepy butterflies tonight, please.

Comments

[jumpuphigh]

Come join me in my dreams. Last night, I dreamed about getting chicken salad on a croissant. :D

[kis]

Fascinating. My nightmares usually turn out to be not-so-horrific in terms of content when viewed in the light of day but the fear is very real. Not sure they're helpful ... I can only think of one whose meaning I understood. Possibly in the whole of my life, now I come to think of it.

[branchandroot]

Yeah, the ones I dream in the last phase before waking are generally the ones that are most a) coherent and b) alarming, at least if my brain has anything it wants to say to me. And wow do those stick, on waking.

Of course, if I find myself edging into that "almost up, now slipping back down" then I haul out of bed and freaking walk around, because that's a straight slide into sleep paralysis which /terrifies/ me.

[executrix]

You saved the world! A lot!

[karen_jk]

That sounds like a good spin on a scary dream! Hope your unconscious gets the message and calms down.

I have been having repeated dreams where I am choosing my husband, or having a relationship with several people including my husband, dreams which involve a lot of anxiety about what the right choice is, and a lot of guilt as well.

This is probably because I'm inching closer to separation, and it's darned scary.