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arrow00 ([personal profile] arrow00) wrote2009-02-01 02:18 pm
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blather: weird question

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?

[identity profile] pir8fancier.livejournal.com 2009-02-02 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, this is really freaky, because I would have a similar dream when I was sick except that the machinery was a roller and it was getting closer and closer all the time and I knew it would crush me. Of course, it never crushed me but truly it's the only nightmare I've ever had. And it was the same everytime I got sick. Never changed.

[identity profile] arrow00.livejournal.com 2009-02-02 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
What is UP with that, anyway? And why does being sick change the tenure of our dreams so radically, and make them recurring?