Only in my dreams February 27, 2007
Posted by charmingbutsingle in Life.trackback
Sometimes I am running.
Running fast, because someone is chasing me. And I’m huffing and puffing and jumping over things, climbing up stairs – always looking behind me to confirm that someone is there.
I get to the roof of a building and I start jumping from rooftop to rooftop. And my feet hurt each time I land on a hard concrete roof with a thud, sometimes scraping my knees.
I don’t care. I am just running and flying and jumping.
I can feel the air filling my lungs and then rushing out as sweat runs down the small of my back. Every part of my body aches – my chest feels tight. It is so hot.
But I keep running.
First I see people looking as I’m running by them, but then they become a blur of things that I’m passing in my running.
Then I hit the open road and I’m really making good time. I have been running for almost an hour it seems. I’ve stopped looking back, stopped wondering who or what is chasing me.
And when I am too winded to run anymore, when my legs tremble from overuse and my chest hurts from exhaustion, I stop and hunch over, desperately trying to catch my breath. Bracing for what will happen when I am caught.
No one comes.
I look up. I am alone in the middle of nowhere. If anyone or thing was hunting me, they are gone and long forgotten.
I am physically drained, emotionally spent and terribly confused.
And then I wake up.
Is it just me, or was that kind of hot?
It must be nice to recall dreams in that level of detail. I imagine this is a recurring dream. But what does it mean? Or does it mean nothing? Is it the subconsious whispering desperately to tell you something, or just inane babling of a brain at rest?
My recurring dream I can recall most vividly centralizes around alien invasion, destruction of everything around me, and attempts at fighting back.
Then ninjas.. thousands of them…
Okay sweetie, you’re starting to worry me and I don’t even know you! You sound (from the dreams anyway) a bit stressed, a bit scared, a bit confused and generally reeling from this whole Life Is Hard thing. Hang in there, it’ll get better- and meanwhile, eat lots of chocolate!
THere’s a decent place to start her if you care to: [http://www.dreammoods.com/]. And yeah, it sounds hot, as in exhausting. Cheers & Good Luck, ‘VJ’
There’s a decent place to start here if you care to: [http://www.dreammoods.com/]. And yeah, it sounds hot, as in exhausting. Cheers & Good Luck, ‘VJ’ [Sorry for any confusion!]
Running from something in a dream indicates anxiety.
I often dream of running and basically getting nowhere fast. My self-analyzation indicates I’m scared of going nowhere and getting stuck in a rut. Sounds a/b right…!
I love dream interpretation!
Oh man! I had that dream years ago, except that timed slowed down and I got eaten by whatever was chasing me.
I dismiss most of it as ramblings of the subconcious, myself. While it’s nice to think our brains may know the answer and tell us in our sleep, I don’t think it’s a reality.
A dream is a dream. Nothing more, and they don’t tell you anything you don’t already know.
Wow… I never remember my dreams in that much detail. If you keep having the same dream over and over again… it probably means something.
i agree– anxiety. you must be stressed out. smoke more cigarettes and IM me in the morning. LOL