blather: weird question

[arrow00]

A weird question for my flist:

when you were a kid, did you have a recurring nightmare? if so, what was it?

I had one that was the usual monster-somewhere-in-the-house-coming-to-get-me, but whenever I had a fever and was delirious I had another that was very hard to quantify. It came in various forms but the theme was the same. there was some gigantic piece of machinery, ponderously heavy, made of wooden cogs and levers and chains, and if I touched the wheel the machine would creak into motion and I knew I was destined to be chained to it forever keeping it moving. Or a giant pyramid of stone was suspended above me and I was holding it up but knew it would crush me eventually.

Something about responsibility, or adulthood, but there was also a sense of my insignificance in the giant scheme of things.

What about you, oh my flist?

Comments

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

That is a recurring dream, though. What are velociraptors to you?
(btw I find them hugely terrifying.)

[imwalde.livejournal.com]

Right, I just meant it wasn't ever the same setting/dream prior to the velociraptor attack, and the fleeing goes differently, too. They are the lone recurring element.

I guess they are to me the ultimate predator? BECAUSE YOU DON'T SEE IT COMING. They hunt in packs! By the time you see one, it's too late, because then the other two come at you from the sides! I think when the hunter expert dude dies in the movie, it made a big impression. I interpret it to mean that my subsconscious thinks they are a far more rational thing to fear than ghosts or whatever spooks me when awake.

[arrow00.livejournal.com]

What was more terrifying to me: the velociraptors in the cornfields in, was it III? Because they were ALL AROUND, just the rustling in the corn and no way to see in any direction. ::shivers::

Sharks are my velociraptors, though. I have had awful shark dreams ever since I saw Jaws for the first time. (I grew up by the ocean.)