6/07/2011

Another incredibly vivid pregnancy dream (nightmare)

It all began with a routine drive to campus, when I took a new road that I hadn't taken before. All of the sudden I was driving on a road that was inclining farther and farther upward. As I reached the top, I saw that the road plateaued, and just went on for what looked like forever. But it was beautiful! The sun in the sky, Utah lake before me, green, glassy, and clear. Gorgeous mountains in the background. Suddenly I realized I was speeding and started to slow down until I noticed another car behind me, trying to speed up. I too started to accelerate. But suddenly the plateau was going downhill, and the downhill slope was steeper and steeper until all of the sudden it was a straight drop into the glassy green lake below. I had been trying to slow down and now slammed on my brakes, hoping not to careen off the edge.

And then I woke up (kind of). And fell back to sleep, right into the middle of the action in my dream.

I'm slamming on my  brakes, but I notice a canoe in the middle of the lake--if I can just land into it (which I do) then I can float to safety. I (somehow) grab my pillow to protect my face/sleep on/use as a paddle. But the lake is trying to take my pillow, too. The waves swirl me close to shore where there is a beehive right on the river bank. Except the bees look like ants with wings, and I know if I get too close they will cover me from head to toe. But the green glassy water now looks murky and gross and I don't even want to touch it, much less swim in it to shore. As I get closer and closer to the beehive, the lake takes my pillow and suddenly I'm in the water scrambling  for shore but trying to avoid the bees, and the wind lifts my shirt higher and higher, exposing more of me to the bees but covering my face so I can't breathe or see them coming, and just as I can hear the bees approaching...

I wake up again. This time with a bloody nose. And also extra terrified.

Good thing this dream happened while I was taking a nap this afternoon, and not in the middle of the night. (How would I ever fall back to sleep after something as scary as that?)

I blame almost drowning in the lake last summer for this nightmare.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Wow... That's a horrible dream!! I am sorry you're having such scary dreams. I have crazy ones all the time. I guess I better never get pregnant... ;)