Writers Block: Dreams

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Do you usually remember your dreams at night? Do you analyze and/or record your dreams in your journal? Are there any recurring themes?

Submitted By detroitlions60

More often than not, I don't remember my dreams. When I remember them it's usually because they either struck me as quite odd/interesting/wha-huh? or because they frightened me.  I don't frequently have nightmares so when I do I tend to remember them. For instance, last week, I remember having one that was at least partially a memory and partially just fear.

A few months ago I had someone come to my door late at night and knocked -- repeatedly -- then tried the door knob. This scared the crap out of me, and I suppose it belatedly made it into a nightmare that I had last week where the same incident happened in my dream only, as I stood in the hallway, the person magically appeared in my foyer... and it was Capt. Phil, the crab-fishing sea captain that died on The Deadliest Catch... only it wasn't the guy who seemed so nice on the show.  He was terrifying and ghostly, and I tried to get away, grabbing my keys to hit the car alarm button that just wouldn't go off while I hit the garage door opener to escape out the back before running to my neighbor's house screaming for Mr. Horton to open the door... while Capt. Phil stole my car...

Huh.

I have no explanation for the dream.  None at all.

Recurring dream throughout my life:  Realizing that I have missed an entire semester (or more) of calculus (university or high school.  It could be either), haven't attended classes, don't know when or where the class was to meet, but knowing that  I will flunk unless I make an 'A' on the final exam... and I always hated calculus and haven't had the class in a bazillion years and how the frell am I to pass a final exam on it?!

And last night I actually had a dream about BtVS's Spike... which really doesn't happen much... if ever.  But I remember being vaguely aware that it's been ten years since Season 5.  I'm guessing that I was working out fanfic in my sleep because the area of the fic that I'm working on harkens back to Season 5.  That's all I've got on that one.

Then there was the twilight sleep/dream thing this morning where my alarm clock/radio went off but I wasn't quite awake yet, and the radio station was playing one of those perfectly horrible political ads that I suppose the state is becoming notorious for and in my still mostly asleep head, the whole thing was coming off as a bizarre spoof of really, really bad political ads.  Then my awake self kicked in and realized that horrible as it may be... that's a real ad.

So, I guess, recently I remember more dreams than I thought  I did... or something.