In Great Detail, Day 15
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sereneI haven't done an IGD post in a while. I plan to spend the day on DW, catching up with people and making posts. Please forgive me if this results in a cluttering of your lists. I'll use cuts any time a post gets longer than a paragraph or so.
Day 15 – Your dreams, in great detail
I wasn't sure whether to talk about literal dreams, or aspiration dreams.
I had recurring nightmares when I was a child, especially during the year that we lived with my aunt in Philadelphia. I was stuck in an attic bedroom, and the solitude and creepiness really scared me. No one took this seriously, so I spent that year being afraid at bedtime. Add in that I spent most of that year in full-leg casts or with crutches and leg braces, and it really is a very powerless time in my history.
Anyway, there are three nightmares I had over and over. I tell about them a lot, because they really are funny in the telling, but at the time, I am not kidding: they were TERRIFYING.
1) The most frequent one was this: I am looking down on a vinyl record with Alfred E. Neumann's face in the center. It is getting larger and smaller (his face, that is), as a deep male voice says scary things that I never could remember when I awoke. I estimate I had this dream hundreds of times.
2) My family are all rabbits. My mother is chasing us kids, trying to kill us by rolling poisoned pool balls at us. Had this one dozens of times.
3) This was the least frequent, and least scary, more like a classic anxiety dream: There's an octopus chasing our family, trying to french-fry us. That's all I remember, but it was long and elaborate, the way anxiety dreams often are for me.
In almost all my nightmares, then and now, I'm being chased. I'm not sure where the Alfred E. Neumann thing came from, and I wish I knew what the voice was saying. It was probably something nonsensical, but oh, man, it scared me so much.
Day 15 – Your dreams, in great detail
I wasn't sure whether to talk about literal dreams, or aspiration dreams.
I had recurring nightmares when I was a child, especially during the year that we lived with my aunt in Philadelphia. I was stuck in an attic bedroom, and the solitude and creepiness really scared me. No one took this seriously, so I spent that year being afraid at bedtime. Add in that I spent most of that year in full-leg casts or with crutches and leg braces, and it really is a very powerless time in my history.
Anyway, there are three nightmares I had over and over. I tell about them a lot, because they really are funny in the telling, but at the time, I am not kidding: they were TERRIFYING.
1) The most frequent one was this: I am looking down on a vinyl record with Alfred E. Neumann's face in the center. It is getting larger and smaller (his face, that is), as a deep male voice says scary things that I never could remember when I awoke. I estimate I had this dream hundreds of times.
2) My family are all rabbits. My mother is chasing us kids, trying to kill us by rolling poisoned pool balls at us. Had this one dozens of times.
3) This was the least frequent, and least scary, more like a classic anxiety dream: There's an octopus chasing our family, trying to french-fry us. That's all I remember, but it was long and elaborate, the way anxiety dreams often are for me.
In almost all my nightmares, then and now, I'm being chased. I'm not sure where the Alfred E. Neumann thing came from, and I wish I knew what the voice was saying. It was probably something nonsensical, but oh, man, it scared me so much.
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Date: 2010-12-27 12:04 am (UTC)I could see Alfred E. Neumann being scary, though.
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Date: 2010-12-27 01:13 am (UTC)EXACTLY. It's just that one trivial thing in a nightmare is VERY VERY WRONG THANKYEWVERYMUCH, and it just makes my mind go all fetal-position.