Let me preface this by saying I'm at a very good place in my life right now. I'm happily married, have a 2 year old son and life is going great. I've always had problems falling alseep, sometimes going as long as a month without any real sleep. I don't know what the problem is, but don't like doctors or prescriptions, so I've never done anything about it. No matter how tired I am, sometimes I just can't fall asleep. I usually get only an hour of actual rest per night. Anyways, I finally had a good nights sleep last night, which is probably the first time in a good 5-6 years. It was very refreshing. However, I had some very crazy dreams that I don't know how to react to. The first one, me and my son were at some sort of animal show, with an audience, announcers and a stage. For some reason, me and my son were on stage with a crocodile. The croc attacked my son, and I freaked out. I jumped on the croc and did all I could to get him to release my son. Suddenly my father was on stage with us (I've also become very close with my father since the time I moved out of my parents house), and I asked him for his gun so I could kill the croc. I got his gun, but it was too late, the croc had eaten him. I started crying and ended up shooting at the audience because they were all laughing. My mind was racing with the thoughts of how I would deal with the death of my son, and explaining to everyone how it happened. I suddenly realized it was a dream and woke up. It took me a while to calm down from the dream, it was one of the oddest things I have expirienced. In the second dream, I was at some sort of school, although I don't know what age I was. I wasn't really in the classes, it was almost like I was a teacher, but the students weren't really paying attention to me, as I was in the back of the classrooms. There was some sort of play that started, and I was trying to help this group of kids that were no more than 8-9 years old with their costumes. There were 2 boys and a little girl, and the girl was crying because she had a hole in her costume (I don't even know what kind of costume). I fixed it for her and it was liked I saved this girls life she was so relieved. She smiled at me and thanked me. Well the two boys started fighting with each other, so I turned to look at them, and we were all on the gym floor playing basketball. The boys were yelling at each other, and one of them started hitting the other. I somehow became enraged at this boy, and I started punching him. It was so graphic, like a scene from the movie Fight Club. I hurt this boy quite bad, and the other boy started running away. The next thing I know, I was outside as the two boys were walking past me. And the one boy (the one I beat up) was drying his tears with the other boy's arms around him, helping him walk. He looked up at me and said "We don't want to play anymore" and they kept walking. At that moment, my alarm went off, and I woke up. These dreams were very graphic, and I can remember most everything very clearly. They just seemed very wierd to me. I usually have dreams on nights that I do fall asleep, but I haven't had any dreams that stuck with me lately. I've been kind of confused by them all day. I do however feel great that I finally had a good night's sleep. It just feels good to write this all down and maybe let other people read. Thanks for letting me share, and thank you Google for pointing me in the direction of this forum.
Well... I think I have a small guess to what your first dream might mean. Since you are new to being a parent, you are worried to all the dangers you, your spouse and your son might face in the future. Well... that's all I have to say. I'm not quite sure about your last dream. That's a difficult one. Good luck. =) And Oh, and welcome to the forums!
I'd almost wager that you have a badly aspected mercury. (astrology). Hopefully it'll move out of the bad aspect by progression. One remedy would be relocation. But another may be meditation, if the problem is one of 'thinking too much'; if it is a matter of stress, then other pragmatic remedies should be sought. Since you say that you can go months without 'rightly' speaking, it could be a matter of stress. One possible croc definition: http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art31540.asp some symbols: http://hometown.aol.com/spearl813/dreamy.html
Thanks for the info, there's some good information on those sites. I've thought abotu the stress thing, and I really don't feel very stressed lately. I've been in a very good mood lately, and I've been a very happy person. Last night I got about 3 hours of good sleep, but after I woke up around 3am, I was awake until I needed to get ready for work. I'm not really into astrology, so can you halp me out with a "badly aspected mercury"? Are there things I can do to hopefully change this? Relocation is not really an option, although I've thought about maybe trying some medication, I just get very unnerved over the thought of depending on a drug to fall asleep. Any thoughts are appreciated.
I of course don't really know about the biology of sleeping, but I do know how nice & refreshing it is. I also have a kind of groundless fear of medication... so I would suggest trying the usual kind of 'natural' methods (that you've probably already done)... some I've heard of/tried include -a bath an hour before bed -warmed milk, and recently I heard a thing on the news about a melatonin-like substance in cherries that is supposed to help. If you're really not getting hardly any sleep (as it sounds), and OTC medicine one night a week certainly wouldn't get you hooked, and might provide a nice little nocturnal vacation. Good luck!
