Tuesday, May 13, 2008

• Strange dreams...

  Last night (Sunday night), I had a very strange dream... and it felt so real too.  It is also evidence that I've been watching too much CSI: Miami.  (And sorry for breaking "The epic summary of 2W"; it will return.)

  So I was sleeping in my bed, as usual... and then I got shot in the neck.  Multiple times - but it wasn't bad enough to prevent me from whipping out a phone to call 911 in which I clearly told the operator I was shot multiple times in the neck and that I needed police right away (an ambulance didn't occur to me at the time).  The operator said help was on the way, and then became silent - which is weird, because 911 operators are trained to stay on the line until help arrives.  In my case, the operator would be trying to keep me awake.  But anyways, I'm lying there.  And then my breathing gets more laboured and shallower...

  What seems like eons later, three people show up in my room.  I only remember two of them: Lt. Horatio Caine and Dr. Alexx Woods, two characters from the hit show CSI: Miami.  The doctor asked me if I could move, and I barely croaked out "It feels like I'm paralyzed".  Then she (the doctor) said, "I've seen this many times before, he's beyond help."  Then she's getting ready to do whatever she does on dead bodies and Horatio's getting ready to do his one-liner, and I'm still lying there.  Then someone's singing something about Antarctica (which I thought was weird) but then everything faded to white...

  And then I woke up.  It turns out that I had a feeling of pins and needles all over by sleeping awkwardly, the door to my room was opened by someone, and the blinds were opened (I sleep with them closed to keep some of the ambient light out).  So I guess that accounts for the feeling of being paralyzed, the three people coming in, and the fading to white.  And the choice of characters definitely came from watching CSI: Miami.  Really weird.  Since I woke up at like 8am, I just went back to sleep.

  According to a dream interpreter I randomly Googled,

  Death is an everyday part of life. So dreams often use it to illustrate leaving something behind, such as childhood or a relationship. [...] Death is also something we sometimes create into a frightening spectre. It is something we all face. So some dreams in which we actually die, are a means of experimenting with meeting death. If we do not do this, if we are frightened of death and have not worked out a relationship with it, then we will not live fully and daringly. But in our dream life, death usually holds in it the promise of change or regeneration-rebirth is some way.

  So maybe that's what it means... who knows what the subconscience can conjure up.

  I know dreams are very personal things, but have you had any strange dreams lately?  Any close brushes?

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