Describe the
last nightmare you remember having. What do you think it meant?
The last
nightmare and really the only one I remember having was a repeating one I experienced
as a young child. It’s not that I don’t have weird or bad dreams. I sometimes
wake up as an adult thinking, “Wow, that was a yucky dream.” But they don’t
really make the status of nightmare in my mind because I can almost always
connect it back to what I was worrying about earlier in the day or some person
or situation I came into contact with that were not part of the usual fair of
my life.
Anyway, the
nightmare I had as a child occurred in the house I grew up in between the ages
of 1 and 13. All our bedrooms were
upstairs at the time with my 2 brothers sharing a large room next to mine. My parent’s master bedroom was straight down
the hall from mine. I could see their doorway from my bed. At night, my mom would tuck me in and leave
the hallway light on for me, and the door wide open. I thought the light stayed
on all night, but apparently she turned it off when she went to bed (just as I
would do with my own kiddos), but I didn’t know that, which is important to the
explanation of my dream.
The dream was
always the same, and it took place from my own bed looking down that long
hallway to my parent’s bedroom. I would
dream that 3-4 men would come into my room and pick me up in my bed and carry
me down the hallway, like a kidnapping. They
didn’t say or do anything, just picked me up and took me away to my cries and
screams. I always woke up from this dream terrified, but I would immediately
calm when I saw the hallway light on because in my dream, the hall was dark, so
I knew that it was just a dream because the light was still on when I woke up. Except for one night…I had the same dream and
woke up to a dark hallway. I remember vividly staring down that hallway in fear
of those men coming to take me away. It was so dark and scary. I stayed awake to watch the doorway for what
felt like hours, but I’m sure I probably fell back to sleep not long
after.
What do I
think this dream meant? I think it was the not so unusual fears of a little
girl who was getting older and realizing that the world was not always such a
safe place where bad things do happen and bad people live. I don’t think it was any more than that, but
for a young elementary school girl, it was my worst nightmare ever, and it has
never left my memory. What about you? Do
you have nightmares you’re willing to share?
Sometimes bringing them out into the open makes them seem less scary…
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