Dreams

Have you ever had that reoccurring dream where you’re either walking and trip, or maybe skating and fall? Or maybe the infamous dream where you fall off a cliff. Maybe a loved one pushes you? I find these the most annoying and obnoxious dreams ever.

In mine, I’m always either ice skating or rollerblading. These are two activities that I typically choose to not take any part in due to me being extremely clumsy. In the dream, I’m usually all by myself just strolling along nicely, something that wouldn’t happen to me in real life. As I’m minding my own business, for no apparent reason that I am aware of, I trip or fall and as I’m falling, I trust my hands our in front of me to catch myself and jerk awake! It’s a pretty scary feeling to wake up from jerking forward. I’m always disoriented and confused when I get out of that dream.

This dream usually occurs when I’m riding I a car and I fall asleep (don’t worry, I wasn’t driving). I was supposed to be keeping my mom awake One our trip to Kansas to visit some family. I was doing a terrible job and accidentally fell asleep in the passenger’s seat. When I jerked awake from my dream, I almost threw myself out of my seat and, as my mom put it, scared the living daylights out of her. She was worried and asked if I was okay. I politely replied yes after the couple of seconds had passed that I took to calm myself and get a bearing on my surroundings. I proceeded to tell her why I had woken up so suddenly and she suggested maybe the dream means something.

I believe dreams are a collaboration of all the different occurrences that happened throughout a person’s day and some worries they might have suppressed. I think it’s just a way for the brain to try to sort them out in your subconscious. I don’t think dreams can tell the future. They can only jumble up things that have happened in the past. You brain my very well be able to put together the things that have happened and predict the future and you might get lucky and be right once in a while, but I don’t think they can foresee exactly what’s going to happen in the future.