Dreaming

I don't know about you all, but I have always enjoyed a rich and varied dreamscape during sleep. Lately, which I'm sure is due to raging pregnancy hormones, the dreams have been sagas. I wake up and attempt to write them down in the morning, but they often fade into the shadows of my mind - where they lurk until something prompts me to remember. This often provokes a powerful feeling of deja-vu, which I enjoy frequently. My dreams are where my brain ties together things I've seen, thought, heard, read, conversed about during the day. Anxiety often manifests as me wandering some great fictional city, unable to get to my destination, with my attempts to find the way foiled by wrong directions, nonworking payphones, strange barriers like never-ending steps going upward, etc. Water is also a big theme in my dreams. Storms, tidal waves, waves crashing on a beach, all of these appear regularly - but for some reason they are comforting to me. I've told people about my tidal wave dreams and they think it must represent some scary thing. It's hard to describe why, but it isn't scary to me at all. The water is never out to get me. I am usually on shore, watching the wave come in. Chaos may ensue in the dream, other people are fearful, but I always feel a sense of wonder.

Last night I dreamed I was on the shore of Lake Erie during a raging storm, and the waves were washing over my feet, then higher and higher. A good guy friend was with me, and we held hands in a non-romantic way as we watched people fleeing for higher ground. We stood and watched the roiling sea together, unafraid. It was a beautiful dream.

What do your dreams tell you?