blather: weird question
Feb. 1st, 2009 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arrow00A 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?
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?
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Date: 2009-02-01 11:30 pm (UTC)Weirdly, I kind of BROKE this dream--after having it recur many times I finally had a dream where I glanced at the window and it was a TEDDY BEAR, with shiny green eyes. And then I never had it again.
I don't have a whole recurrent dream now that I can remember, but there is one recurrent event or theme which is, whenever I'm having a bad dream and I need HELP in the dream, I cannot ever, ever get a phone to work. Ever. This is probably something about being rotten about communicating when I'm fucked up and need help, who knows.
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Date: 2009-02-02 02:01 am (UTC)me, too: I had a recurring monster dream (pounding slow footsteps, always coming) and I remember the time I finally decided to wait for him. When he showed up I talked to him and found out he was more like the funny monster in the Bugs Bunny cartoon (Bugs puts his fur up in curlers.) I never had the dream again.
The phone thing is interesting. ::peers at you::
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Date: 2009-02-07 01:23 am (UTC)And the noncommunicative thing is not currently relevant, I promise.