Strange Dreams

[busyglen]

I do dream on occasions but very rarely have one that wakes me up or that I can remember in detail. I awoke about 5.0am this morning after the following.

I was back in my childhood home in the living room and my mother was there although I only felt her presence, I didn't see her. There was a very thin strange black cat standing by the sofa and my mother said `where have you come from?". I went over to it; stroked it, and it followed me to the door. I went through a couple of doors and each time it stopped for me to open them. When I got to the back door and opened it, it looked up at me and then went down the steps. I started to close the door, but felt really sorry for it and opened the door again. The cat looked up at me and tentatively started to climb the stairs towards me....and then I awoke! It was so thin, but had a lovely face, that I can't forget it.

I guess I could put it down to the fact that we are in the throes of demolishing the kitchen and having to transfer a fridge, microwave and some food to our spare bedroom so that we can eat whilst the new one is being installed. It's on my mind that I'm still trying to provide food, rather than having a `take away' or eating out. I know we won't starve...it's just the stress thing.

Any ideas? What strange dreams have others had? :confused:

Glenys

[BeeE586]

My strangest dream involved a cow. I am not really claustrophic and lifts don't bother me, but I never close doors and do not like total darkness. I have flown, gone through tunnels on trains and canal boats and the London Underground, but when I had a scan which involved my head going into the tunnel on the machine, a nurse had to hold my hand.

I dreamed that I was in 'a cupboard under the stairs' with a sloping roof with a black and white cow in front of me so that I could not reach the door handle. I was trapped and woke in an absolute panic, icy cold, too petrified to move and with a thumping heartbeat. When my eyes closed I was back in this dream and still couldn't escape. My eyes closed several times but eventually I was able to move one hand and literally hold them open to prevent me slipping back. It was a terrifying experience and I do even now sometimes wake with a feeling of being trapped in a small space and I have to force myself to stay awake and to think of moorland or the sea - any wide open space. Any explanation anyone ? Why a cow ?

Eileen

Glenys - if you dream of that cat again do please feed it. I love cats and even though I don't have one now - not well enough to care for it - I sponsor a couple at the local sanctuary.

[mary elms]

Afraid I can't explain either of your dreams as I don't really believe there's a formula for dreams. It seems to me that our brains are trying to sort out all the things happening in our lives at the time, and yes, possibly trying to tell us something in the process. Which means that the only person who can really interpret them is the dreamer - though there are some basic images that we all see mto use.

But Eileen, your nightmare reminds me of something that happened to me many years ago before we were married.

Lee & I were boating along the Ouse in Cambridgeshire. We were trying to get to Cambridge in time for the evening service on Sunday but the river was just too crowded and we kept having to pause to clean weed off our propeller so we stopped and moored up on the path near Waterbeech. We went to a lovely, friendly Baptist Church there for the evening service instead. The next morning I went shopping in Waterbeech while Lee sorted the boat out.

This meant walking along a footpath through a field of cows. It was fine going but to my horror when I got to the stile to enter the field coming back I found that all the cows had moved over onto the path and were blocking my way. I turned to go back only to find a black labrador blocking my path. Now cows and dogs are my two worst fears - going back to events in childhood - and, judging from the time when I eventually got back to the boat, I must have stood there absolutely paralyzed for half an hour before I slowly and cautiously edged my way over the stile and around the edges of the field and out again at the other end.

UGH ! I still remember it vividly and we've been married 23 years. So my sympathies. Nightmares like that are horrid.

Mary.

[mary elms]

On a destinctly lighter note I dreamt about ants the other day. These ants kept going on adventures only to find they'd gone nowhere and eventually they decided that the only way was to eat their way out of the nest! I woke up laughing and woke Lee up to tell him all about it :D Now I wonder what that means! :confused:

Mary.

[busyglen]

That's a weird one Eileen. Sometimes when we are troubled by something we dream of an object that has perhaps disturbed us as a child. Just before I got married, all sorts of pressures built up and one night I fell asleep and suddenly dreamt that I was being enveloped by a huge spider....it was closing over me and suffocating me. I screamed and awoke and ran to put the light on as I knew I was dreaming but needed the reassurance. My mother came rushing in as she thought I was being murdered!! From the age of 5 I have been frightened of spiders from watching a film of the Swiss Family Robinson.....a huge spider filled the screen and bit the little boy. It stuck in my mind and if I am really disturbed I dream of spiders. So......could a cow have featured in your childhood? Just a thought.

Forgot...I love cats too and I was meaning to feed it before I awoke. Also my mother was a softy for animals as well so I don't know why I felt compelled to take it outside. Weird eh?

Glenys

[busyglen]

On a destinctly lighter note I dreamt about ants the other day. These ants kept going on adventures only to find they'd gone nowhere and eventually they decided that the only way was to eat their way out of the nest! I woke up laughing and woke Lee up to tell him all about it :D Now I wonder what that means! :confused:

Mary.

You're obviously a busy person Mary.....are you working too hard and they're telling you to slow down?? Don't go eating too many cream cakes though! ;)

Glenys

[busyglen]

I have only had one `outstanding' dream in my life and I truly believe this one had a `message' for me. The rest are simply jumbled bit's cobbled together for no reason.

My husband had to go into hospital for a big operation and I was very nervous and worried. I was terrified something would go wrong and that I would be left on my own.

The night before the operation, I dreamt that we were going with friends to a huge hotel for some sort of function and it was packed. I said I would get us a seat and he went to get drinks. By this time all seats were taken and a I found one on my own, sitting next to a stranger. I looked for my husband and he had disappeared, nowhere to be seen. I got frightened and ran out feeling very alone and in a strange place. After walking for a few minutes, I suddenly found myself in a beautiful wood, birds were singing, there was the trickle of water from a stream....it was SO peaceful. I felt a perfectly calm feeling come over me, and an otter slid down a bank and scampered into the water. I came out of the wood and thought I would get something to eat, but realised I hadn't any money and I didn't know where I was. I started to feel alone again and started to cry and then I looked up and there was my husband walking by my side. He put his arm around me and asked why I hadn't waited for him as he wasn't going anywhere on his own. I awoke then....and felt so happy and reassured that everything would be ok. And it was! :)

Glenys

[mary elms]

What a lovely dream, Glenys.


Don't go eating too many cream cakes though! ;) Oh but they taste sooo good! :D

[BeeE586]

I have never been afraid of cows and cannot recall any adventure with one. It is small enclosed spaces that scare me - I can never watch or read about earthquakes or anything like that where people are being dug out of rubble.

The operation reminded me of another dream that I had before I was married. My own mother died when she was 31 and I dreamed one night that I would die when I was 30, and with a date - May 24th - firmly fixed in my mind. When we were fixing a wedding date we thought of Whit Saturday 1947, but the church was booked so we were married the following Saturday, May 31st. A while later I recalled the dream and thought - May 24th, the day we didn't marry.

In 1951 I was admitted to hospital for removal of a kidney - a very serious business in those days. I was told that I would be in bed for at least four weeks before the actual op. but a day or two later a nurse came late in the evening to 'prep' me as it was all going to happen the next day and yes, it was May 24th. Obviously, I didn't die then or when I was 30 - I am now in my eightieth year.

Eileen

PS When I mentioned the scan and my head going into the tunnel on the machine, it wasn't a brain they were seeking, just the bones at the top end of my spine that were under investigation !!!

[busyglen]

Obviously, I didn't die then or when I was 30 - I am now in my eightieth year.

Eileen

PS When I mentioned the scan and my head going into the tunnel on the machine, it wasn't a brain they were seeking, just the bones at the top end of my spine that were under investigation !!!

Wow Eileen....perhaps they also decided to look at your brain at the same time, to see if they could glean your secret for longevity? :D

Regarding your dream, it just goes to show that dreams don't always come true. My gran died October 14th 1948, her youngest daughter died October 14th 1958, and her eldest daughter 14th October 1868. When my mother was quite ill in October 1998, ( she died Sept. 2000 ) we all began to keep our fingers crossed, and heaved a sigh of relief when the date passed. It's strange how we have a `thing' about numbers and dates isn't it?

Glenys