Nightmare

[dreamflower]

I just woke up from an extremely vivid and unsettling dream.


The DH and I had gone for a drive to visit our son and his family, who were apparently living here on the Coast (they don't--they are several states from here) and found them living with friends in a storm-damaged apartment building. We visit, giving gifts to the grandkids, and leave, but find ourselves lost in unfamiliar streets, and blocked by rubble from getting back to the familiar ones. Then for some reason we abandon the car (my DH's bright yellow VW Thing which we sold nearly 25 years ago) and set out on foot. We find ourselves having to cross an increasingly flooded bridge on foot, having to hold on to the railing as the water grows deeper and deeper. Just as it seems inevitable that we would have to swim and be swept apart, I say "I can't do this" and wake up.


I can't imagine why I would only *now* be having such an obviously Katrina-induced nightmare. It's been eight months since the storm, and this is the first time I've had an unpleasant dream that was not the sort I usually have. It made me twitchy. It's almost time for us to get up anyway--at least in another half-hour--and I am ravenously hungry.

Comments

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

{{{hugs}}} The mind takes time to process big events like this and most often that surfaces in your dreams. I hope breakfast was good and that you will have a lovely nap later on...

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're dreading the coming hurricane season too, as well as feeling stress from Katrina. Hope you're doing better by now.

[shirebound]

Oh dear, that *is* an unsettling dream. *cuddles you*

BTW, did you end up moving after Katrina, or was your house saved? I can't remember...

*more cuddles*

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Maybe you're dreams come from all the newspeople reminding us how close we are to a new hurricane season. Let's all pray this year is kinder to the coasts.

*hugs*

[mumstheword54.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear! *snuggles Dreamflower*

Why the delayed nightmares, I don't know. My brother-in-law whose house and property were damaged in a hurricane still has nightmares even during "mere" tropical rains, so I don't think it's unusual. But it still isn't fun.

Hope the breakfast helped, dear.

*more hugs*

[dreamflower]

(((((hugs back)))))))

Cheese toast and chocolate milk--comfort food, and just what I needed.

[dreamflower]

You know, that could be it. The TV and newspaper are doing a "count-down" thing to the hurricane season as if it were Christmas or something.

[dreamflower]

((snuggles up to the cuddle))

No, our *house* was fine, more or less--at least compared to most folks--we did have to have some expensive repairs--though we lost a *lot* of trees and our carport completely. But we have nevertheless dithered over moving anyway. I don't really want to, but my husband does, and I have to say his concerns are valid--I don't want him to have to risk life and limb at the hospital during the next storm season either, and as long as he is working at a hospital on the Coast it will be a problem. Still, we couldn't make up our minds, and now the '06 season is nearly upon us...

[dreamflower]

Amen! to *that* prayer!

(((hugs back)))

[dreamflower]

((((((hugs back)))))))))

Thank you, dear! I just could have done without this one. *sigh*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I think all the press about hurricane season probably kicked your subconscious into high gear. But it sounds like a rotten dream anyway. *many hugs*

[gryffinjack.livejournal.com]

((((hugs)))

How awful! For the local media to be having a countdown is dreadful, scaring people like that. Yes, they should have specials about what to do to prepare for hurricane season and lessons learnt from Katrina, but not do things which will traumatise the public even further. Our local media has not done that fortunately - yet.

[songspinner9.livejournal.com]

Well, darn. Yeah, PTSD does odd things, like popping nightmares into your head when you've finally relaxed a bit. Not fun. (see my last post...I do truly understand how weird the human brain can be)

HUG

[coneygoil.livejournal.com]

That's odd, because I've had a couple hurricane related dreams last week, which is something I've never had before. Makes me wonder if other people down here are having those kind of dreams right now as well. I'm sure people who've been through the worst of it have had bad dreams about it, but people like us who were "less" traumatized may be having those kind of dreams because hurricane season is coming up real soon.

[lily-the-hobbit.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
Our mind sometimes takes strange roads to cope with what happened.

[maidenform.livejournal.com]

The human unconscious works in mysterious ways, doesn't it? :( *hugs violently and never lets go*

[danachan.livejournal.com]

Our subconscious thingies really do work in funny ways, don't you think? No idea why you'd be dreamikng about that, and just now -- but last night, I dreamed about my step-father and he's been gone (and gladly so) for years now. Our brains our weird.

But still.

*great big hugs*

[lil-banik-slave.livejournal.com]

*Tight hug* How aweful. I'm not a dream interpretator so I can't think what it might mean, if it even has a meaning. Did anything happen during the day that might have brought it to the front of your mind.

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I'll bet it's the whole countdown thing - like hurricane seaon is something to get wxcited about. *snorts*

[periantari.livejournal.com]

I hate vivid nightmares like that--i've had my share of vivid dreams and none are as terrible as one that seems so real. :(

::Merry and PIppin and all hobbits and me come to hug you::

(((((you))))))