Friday, February 26, 2010

The Dream Journal.

i have always had vivid dreams and remembered them when i woke up. most dreams were pleasant, about something that had happened, or about someone i knew. only a few were ever actually bad, but i have definitely had my share of murder dreams. this probably stems from my Bones, Psych, NCIS, and Monk obsessions, but i've definitely been the victim of a few bad dreams-involving serial killers especially. a couple nights ago i had a dream that a serial killer wanted the BYU creamery, but the BYU creamery was my home. he was trying to get to me in my home, in the BYU creamery. there were other details, but that was the gist of it. since when is the creamery home?? or BYU for that matter? its not. just to get that straight. and when BYU features in my nightmares..there has to be something wrong with that.

but then last night. usually i've been having baby dreams, or dreams in which i'm pregnant (don't read too much into that). but last night, i had a dream i've never had before. i was going on a mission. now why would i do that? i was going on a mission to Sweden. now, i love Sweden, and i was excited to go there, but i had this conflicting emotion like i wasn't supposed to go on a mission, like it was wrong of me. especially since i was only 19. and then, as i have often thought as my friends leave on their missions how terrible it would be to try to pack for two years, or in my case one and a half, my packing anxiety featured in my dream. i was on my way to the airport when i realized i'm going to SWEDEN, and that it gets COLD. i didnt have any jackets, gloves, tights, etc. i didnt even have a suitcase with me. nothing. no long missionary skirts, no button up blouses, nada, zip, zilch, zero. while i was freaking out about that, i woke up.

it really threw me off, this dream. i'm not going on a mission..its just not feasible. i might if i could go at 19, but when i'm 21 i'll be one semester and a capstone away from getting my nursing degree, and to leave then would just be stupid. that is, if all works out in that department. but anyway. that's all folks!

2 comments:

Jeff said...

It wouldn't be stupid... Tara left with only one semester to go and she loves it. But it's definitely something you should decide for yourself. But it's not stupid.

Lauren Claspell said...

I think my favorite dream is still the one where you are loved dearly by the Red Hats Society old ladies and your nanny was this big swan thing. Did I ever tell you that the Red Hats Society shop place next to my dance studio got changed into a tattoo parlor? Who does that?!?