Writer's Block: Dream on
Jul. 12th, 2010 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I've always been able to remember my dreams, but lately, while I KNOW they are very detailed, when I wake up, I just lose them completely. I do keep telling myself I need to write them down, but I never do.
I do have some recurring themes in my dreams that I've had my whole life I think. Locations, mostly - sometimes I dream I'm in this big house; sometimes it's like a palace, sometimes just a regular house, sometimes a beach house, but somehow it's always the same place. It always has hidden rooms and a hidden staircase, and it is always haunted.
I used to have these horrible waking dreams about spiders; which probably explains why I'm still so phobic about them. I'd think I was awake, and there'd be spiders on my wall, or whatever, and I would literally wake up screaming. One night I woke to find myself cowering on the floor in front of my door with my dad standing over me asking me what happened.
When I was pregnant with Charlie, I kept having dreams that I'd had him, but wasn't able to see him. Recurring anxiety nightmare except for the fact that he was an emergency C-section, (wherein my bladder accidently got sliced, and I have a habit of going into shock when under any kind of anesthesia, so...issues) and then I was in recovery etc and didn't get to see him until several hours later. So it seemed a bit prophetic to me in hindsight.
I've always been able to remember my dreams, but lately, while I KNOW they are very detailed, when I wake up, I just lose them completely. I do keep telling myself I need to write them down, but I never do.
I do have some recurring themes in my dreams that I've had my whole life I think. Locations, mostly - sometimes I dream I'm in this big house; sometimes it's like a palace, sometimes just a regular house, sometimes a beach house, but somehow it's always the same place. It always has hidden rooms and a hidden staircase, and it is always haunted.
I used to have these horrible waking dreams about spiders; which probably explains why I'm still so phobic about them. I'd think I was awake, and there'd be spiders on my wall, or whatever, and I would literally wake up screaming. One night I woke to find myself cowering on the floor in front of my door with my dad standing over me asking me what happened.
When I was pregnant with Charlie, I kept having dreams that I'd had him, but wasn't able to see him. Recurring anxiety nightmare except for the fact that he was an emergency C-section, (wherein my bladder accidently got sliced, and I have a habit of going into shock when under any kind of anesthesia, so...issues) and then I was in recovery etc and didn't get to see him until several hours later. So it seemed a bit prophetic to me in hindsight.