I had a series of the weirdest dreams last night. All of them began with a setup perfect for the typical anxiety dream ( probably i was a bit stressed n so were my dreamzz ):
needing to get to a meeting and not being able to find the room (had to meet my instructor regardin my presentation )... but in each case, somehow the problem turned around into a situation that worked. They were like anti-anxiety dreams.
The weirdest by far was the dream in which I and few others got on a bus... with two cats ( yups n ppl thought we owned them :O). What could be better
for an anxiety dream than taking high-strung cats on a city bus full of people? I remember all the possibilities flashing through my mind - people
complaining about the cats, OneCat freaking out and biting someone, or bolting out the door at any given stop, or TwoCat wandering off to sleep inside someone's bag and getting unknowingly carted away. ( they were just walking along with us.) Not only that, but at some point the dream came to include a third cat . This complicated things in that as few people( xclude me though i was not spared in dreamzZ) might have a chance at carrying around two cats, but not three; At one point I had the clear idea that the bus went in a big loop and would come back to campus in about an hour, so all we had to do was try desperately to keep them under control for an hour and everything would be okay. (Famous last words, right? and besides, what the hell were we doing going on a one-hour circular joyride on a bus with cats?) Some part of my brain was conscious
enough to foresee this becoming serious trouble.But. All we had to do was to store TwoCat on the luggage rack over our heads, where he curled up in a comfortable ball and napped, and put OneCat in a window seat, where he happily watched the world go by. Magically, someone from my group remembered to bring food and water , so they snacked along
the way. The bus took us to a cool little park ( nit had swings !!!! sea saw n the ladder yippie )outside the city, where we all got out and played for a while (both cats comporting themselves like well-behaved children, not wandering too far off), and then the dream ended when we decided to go back campus before it got dark, knowing that the bus ride wouldn't be any problem :P
n nex dream snakes on a plane :P
Throughout the whole dreamz there was this little frisson of anxiety about all the things that could (and rightfully should have) gone wrong, but it all turned out beautifully well. What the ....? Dreams don't usually work like that. What does it mean when instead of chaos, I dream that things are more under control than they could ever possibly be?
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