Friday Five: Midsummer Night’s Dream
Recently @DjLunchbox of The Wrestling Mayhem Show and Thoughtful Nature of Man mentioned that he was interested in doing a weekly blog post once a week answering random questions. Back before MEME was an anachronism people recognized, we young bloggers were having fun answering the mysterious weekly Friday 5. Turns out they’re still around and kickin’! So without further hem-hawing (Oh, I’m going to be using that for a while… Thanks Dr. B…):
Friday 5: Midsummer Night’s Dreams
1. What are some recurring dreams you’ve had?
I have a few recurring dreams, but the one that has a nasty habit of rearing its ugly head starts off with me on a beach with childhood friends. Usually it’s a mediocre beach (the kind with yellow, shelly sand and a long stretch of beach behind between me and the “hotel” while I’m sitting on the waterline), and usually the hotel/resort behind me is mostly made of glass with plenty of palm trees everywhere and an unusual amount of sun shining on it. Without fail I always notice the sky and water turn dark and foreboding and when the waves starts to pull back from the shore and curl up into a massive, pitch black, sky scraper sized tidal wave I turn to warn my friends, but they’ve already run off. In the past I’ve tried to run too, but I can never get away and that ominous, massive wave crushes down on me, smothering me, and beating my body against the rocks. Every bone in my body is broken and I watch myself drown and then slowly, with the rhythm of the waves, get pulled further into the ocean and eventually into the Abyss.
2. What is the significance of dreams in telling you about yourself?
I think it depends, but recurring dreams (like the one above) can be warnings from my subconscious about things I’d rather not think about or admit to myself about myself. In my most recent version of that dream it was a Caribbean island I was on, and when the darkness and tidal wave came, I didn’t even bother running. I just sat there and waited for it to overwhelm me. Even the smallest changes can alert you to alterations in thought and how you’re handling things.
3. How do you feel after you’ve had one of THOSE dreams?
It depends on what is meant by “THOSE” dreams, really. I’m assuming we’re still talking about the recurring dreams, and after I have one of those I always have a bit of an anxiety episode. Ultimately it leads to me reevaluating the circumstances and people in my life, and 9 times out of 10, I realize what is really going on, or what is likely to happen soon. Even though they rattle my cage a bit, they end up being helpful in the long run.
4. What was the last dream you remember?
I was lying in an open field of high grass with a dark forest creating the border of the field. I was staring up at the clouds, and I remember feeling the grass itch my skin and me watching a dragon fly who came to see what it was I was doing just laying in the grass. There was an overwhelming sense of peacefulness and calm. And then, suddenly, the dragon fly buzzed off and I could feel the air change. Before I felt the ground trembling I knew that men on horses were coming, and that I was in serious danger. I rolled over and saw the stampede of men with a banner and medieval weapons raised pounding across the field from the far border right toward me. I had nowhere to run and the grass wasn’t going to protect me, so I stood up. The circled around me and closed in. I didn’t understand the language they were speaking, but I knew I was going to either be taken prisoner or killed. I woke up when I was knocked to the ground.
5. When did you last dream about something that later happened as you dreamt it?
That would be last week. It happens quite a lot, especially when it comes to people appearing in my dreams and then making cameo appearances in my life. If I’m really stressing over a problem for a while, it’s not uncommon for me to dream about the outcome and it happen almost exactly as I dreamed it. Every once in a while I dream about a particular woman who always “gives” me numbers in some way, and those numbers usually hit that day.
If you want to join in on the Friday 5 fun (You know you do… I think you should. You really, really should….), simply copy the above questions or go to the Friday 5 site and answer them on your own blog. If you do, let me know so I can post a link to your answers too (I’m thinking of fun stuff like little icons of anyone else who wants to jump in that links to your particular post). If you would like to see @DjLunchbox, myself, and anyone else who decides to jump in feet first here answer a set of Friday 5 questions that you create because they’re burning in your mind, email one of us the questions and we’ll get right on it!
Have fun!
