I have a friend named Bibi who is famous for prefacing all of her comments with a story. She claims it's because she's Latina and therefore is a divergent (as opposed to linear) thinker. I always tell her, though, that us Americanas can be just as divergent and it's not cultural, it's just bad writing. I am the case in point. Today, I'm prefacing my preface.
My whole life I've had really vibrant, vivid dreams. I actually dated a boy in high school that I dreamed about regularly. The bizarre thing is that LITERALLY every dream I ever had about him came true, including the really bad highlight job he gave himself before Senior Prom and the re-occuring dream I had that he would call me 3 days after he got released from his mission. I dreamed about my husband and the circumstances in which I would meet him about 2 weeks before it happened. I also dreamed I would teach at Dixon Middle School.
I also have a lot of dreams that are totally nonsensical- my all time favorite being the dream I had Freshman year of BYU where Pope JPII came to give a devotional on campus and I ended up joining him on a cross-country rally on his tour bus that was painted to look like a pineapple. He let me try on his entire collection of hats including his pope hat, a Medieval jester hat, and a giant cat in the hat hat. I have traveled the entire world (and several other ones) in dream form, and have held hundreds of different professions including Lion tamer, Pool Hustler, Burlesque Dancer, and President of the United States. I am also often a chain smoker in my dreams. The creepy thing is that I've never smoked a cigarette in my life, but I can plainly taste the smoke and I get a nicotine rush when I'm smoking in my dreams. What does that mean?
Also, one time I dreamed I got to talk with some dead relatives who explained to me the circumstances of their death, which I'll NEVER forget.
That leads me to a repeated dream I keep having- pregnancy. Now most of my life I've dreamt of having children. I have given birth to a couple dozen mystery children- usually horribly deformed or otherwise impaired. I've given birth to full grown adults, and to babies who can talk. But I've never been able to imagine myself pregnant until this summer when I had a dream that was so vivid I actually thought it was real. I was walking in my back yard in late July looking at a red rose bush that was blooming, and I just knew I was pregnant. I took a test and it was positive. I experienced the whole pregnancy up until the time I went in to labor, then I woke up.
I've had other versions of this dream a few times, but the most realistic was the one I had two nights ago, that I can't get out of my head. I was in a cabin somewhere. I'm not sure where. Maybe it wasn't a cabin, but there was wood paneling on the walls. Anyway, I remember feeling sick, and thinking I should test- which is nothing new because with PCOS I have had many, many false alarms. In fact I once experience 4 weeks of morning sickness only to find out I had a burst cyst and the $50 I'd spent on pregnancy tests was just money down the tube, and I'm sure I've had at least 1 early term miscariage.
Anyway back to my dream. I took the POAS test and the results were uncertain, so I went to a doctor who confirmed I was pregnant. It was so real that I can actually remember smelling the doctor's office. I went back to whatever building I was in that had the wood paneling and told Luis, because I was actually already like 4 1/2 months along. I remember reaching down and I could feel my belly starting to get a little bit hard. I could actually feel the baby start to move inside of me. I was so excited and so scared.
It was so hard to wake up from it, because it's something I've wanted for so long- most of the time secretly because in order to cope with this stupid disease I have I usually wear my brave face and not tell people I still cry whenever I hear baby announcements.
But it got me thinking. I really don't think I'll ever have children. I never really thought I would be able to since I figured out around age 12 that there was something wrong with me. And I've never been able to actually imagine myself pregnant or with a child, so what's with the dreams? Back to what I was saying earlier, I have always had some weird stuff going on in my head so I started doing dream analysis in college to try and make sense of it all, but I've never come across this before. Well, I looked up pregnancy dreams recently and here's what I got:
"As possible as a pregnancy prophecy may be, usually the meaning of these dreams is not found in a literal event. This should not however, lessen the impact or meaning of the dream as pregnancy dreams are extremely potent. They are telling us that something important is coming; something life-altering is forming in our being. When we think of pregnancy in symbolic terms the dream is much easier to decipher."
Pretty cryptic, huh?
I wonder what's trapped in my subconcious literally waiting to be let free? If any of you have any experience with dream interpretation, please clue me in on this, because it's really weirding me out.
Thanks!
3 comments:
I have a lot of dreams that happen later. Sometimes years later. It's always weird little things, too, nothing major. A couple of weeks ago, I was walking into the lobby of our apartment building here, pushing Sam in his stroller, and I looked into the mirror that covers one of the walls, and realized I had dreamt about that moment about 2 years ago.
Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever dream about anything significant. Though chances are good I wouldn't realize it if it did happen. Sometimes I'm kinda dense.
Hmm, so I'm beginning to think this must be a family thing because I do the same thing. Granted, since I've had kids I don't remember sleeping deeply enough to actually have dreams very often. And when I do, they are usually pretty bizarre. But, it still happens occasionally.
It is SO totally a family thing. Don't even get me started on my theories about how and why.
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