dreams

[mamajoan]

It's times like these I wish I had the ability to interpret my own dreams. (I'm pretty good with other people's dreams, but not mine.) I had two dreams about death last night. In one, a guy from my college alumni email list had died. I knew that I had been with him when he died, but I didn't remember it. I was running around town frantically, looking for...??? Then a woman who had also been there came up to me (she might have been this particular woman on the list) and I asked her, "was I there when he died?" and she said yes. Then we were pounding on the door of another guy from the list, and his wife came to the door -- it was very late at night so she was annoyed. We asked if P. (her husband) was there. He came down and looked at us, and I said, "it's me, Joan, from [the list]." He just turned around and started going back up the stairs toward his bedroom. I was yelling after him, "It's about C [the guy who died]!" He turned back, and I said that C. had died, but then P. turned around again and went back up the stairs. I was really hurt. I had thought P. would be all upset, and would take charge of things and comfort me and call whoever needed to be called, but all he cared about was his sleep.

In the second dream, I was at a party or political fundraiser, and a guy fell down. We somehow knew that he had had a heart attack recently, and we thought he might be having another one. Then I was on the phone with my mom trying to tell her who the guy was and that he was having a heart attack, but she wasn't listening because she was mad at me for something.

I also dreamt about maple syrup, but that was a whole other thing. Anyway, those dreams kind of disturbed me, especially the one about C. dying. I wish I knew what, if anything, it meant.

Comments

[linuxboxchatter.livejournal.com]

for anything it may be worth, i read in a used bookstore about a theory of dream interpretation that may help. it seems that when you dream a thing happens to another, ie another's death, job loss, etc. it is a warning that something may be amiss and to be on your guard. but when you dream things happen to yourself the dream can often mean just the opposite, ie. a job loss may mean you're in for some kind of good thing at your work, or a lustful incident may mean things are on the mend with your spouse. i have no idea what the paperback was titled, or whether the theory has any credence. i know it said nothing about taking your dreams literally, so at least that much is good news for you and C.