dream theatre

[fox]

i dreamed that my mother, crossing the street against the light, stopped and turned and said "what?" when she didn't hear me when i called to her that a car was coming. and the car hit its brakes, but it couldn't swerve or stop in time, and its tires squealed as it hit her.

i, naturally, screamed. my vision, in my dream, went black, as though the dream had cut to commercial.

when the picture came back, it turned out she'd just been bumped and startled, but not struck by the car. someone had called 911 and i could hear sirens coming, and my mother had hopped up from the ground and come over to assure me she was okay, where i was sitting on the curb and still screaming.


at which point i woke up. so naturally my whole nap was for no purpose at all -- i don't feel even a little bit rested, but i'm sure not in any hurry to go back to sleep.

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[ajinamoto.livejournal.com]

You know, I once had a dream that my cat was trying to follow me to work and was sort of hugging my leg. I shooed her back home and told my mother to get her. My mother picked her up and snapped her neck. I saw blood coming from my cat's mouth and I ran to my mother, so angry I wanted to kill her. I had my hands out to wring her neck and she looked so defiant and then all the anger left me. I woke up crying.

At the time I was sick and on high doses of medication. I wrote that dream down.