Recurring Dreams

I ask people all the time if they ever have recurring dreams. Or dreams that have a similar theme over and over. When I was little I had a strange dream several times. I dreamed that I was standing in the "yellow" bathroom in the Tamra Drive house and some dude with Stretch Armstrong arms reached into my parents bedroom window, stretched into the bathroom, where I stood in the doorway, and abducted me. He threw me into the back of his truck and took off. I couldn't jump out because he was going too fast. In one of the dreams he stopped real sudden-like and I flew over the hood of the truck and woke up before I hit the ground.

I also dreamed several times that I lay captive in some strange old house, strapped to a red velvet couch. Some scary dude was sitting next to me trying to inject something into me, but I always woke up after I escaped into his backyard. Just a dirt pile, rock-strewn backyard where I hid.

Those were the scary dreams.

Then there were the good dreams where I could breathe under water or fly. My last several dreams have been that I could jump insanely high. And I was LIGHT. I jumped to the top of a 50-foot cottonwood tree, swung through the branches and landed back on the ground as if I were nearly weightless. That must be what the moon feels like.

Blake tells me that he often has dreams that lead into each other. Like one night he's dreaming and the next night it picks up right where it left off the previous night. He also tells me he thinks all dreams have some meaning to them. Perhaps.

Me, I think they are likely just a manifestation of the random jumble of emotions we have experienced over the previous few days. I have other theories about dreams as well. Like the theory that we dream in the future. Why do I say that? Have you ever heard a noise and had it become part of your dream that is already in progress? I have. I can be dreaming along and hear a noise in the house and its place in my dream fits as if it were planned. I know this is all weird, but these are the things I'm thinking about today.

Another thing...I love it when I type out a blog entry and then hit the "spell check" button to discover that I have NO misspellings. Awesome!