Don't you wonder why sometimes we can just have the worst dreams? I have often wondered why that happens sometimes but thankfully I only have a really, really awful dream once every 5 years or so. Once I dreamed I woke from a deep sleep and there in the doorway I could make out the outline of a man in a sweatshirt with hoodie and he just stood there, saying nothing but I could hear him breathing, with something - I couldn't make out what it was - held in his hand. I remember freezing with fear in the dream and being completely unable to scream or even move! It seemed to go on forever.
When I awoke, it was so real to me I was a total wreck. I didn't go back to sleep the rest of the night. Turned on every light in the house and got my gun out of the drawer! That stupid dream haunted me the whole next day and then I thought of it at times for the next week and I wondered if it were some type of warning - and I don't even believe in stuff like that - but that is how real that awful dream seemed. Most dreams are just that - dreams. And during some dreams I am aware it is a dream. And usually wake after dreaming with no feeling it was in any way real or real-seeming. But every once in a blue moon, you can have those that just seem so, so real. And they are usually bad dreams with me. Wonder what causes them?
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |