I had a dream/nightmare on Saturday night that really shook me up and wanted to know if there was any significance to it or if, since I can't recall ever having a nightmare before, I overreacted from inexperience with them. I recall JMG you saying you don't really do dream interpretation so this question is for anyone who wants to chime in.
From what I recall, there were two parts: in the first, I was in some sort of public procession with my mother and my fly was down and I was trying to close the zipper but it was stuck (of course this wasn't the disturbing part). Then suddenly I was asleep at my parents' house near a major eastern US city and was awakened while it was still dark by the neighbor kids outside counting down as if it was new year's eve (I guess the windows were open). I thought "wait, it's not new year's!" Then when they said "happy new year!" a huge explosion over toward the downtown area lit up the sky which I realized was a nuclear bomb. I recall thinking "whelp, this is it" and my eyes started to throb from the radiation I guess, which is what woke me up in real life. My eyes were still throbbing then and I was pretty shaken up, with my heart racing; it took me awhile to fall back asleep and all day yesterday I was in a funk from it.
Do you think there's anything significant here? I'm feeling much better today, so I'm glad of that. I rarely recall dreams and don't give them much regard but this one was so vivid and visceral. I was almost expecting to hear sirens start going off all over the town while I was lying there after I woke up!
A dream that shook me up
From what I recall, there were two parts: in the first, I was in some sort of public procession with my mother and my fly was down and I was trying to close the zipper but it was stuck (of course this wasn't the disturbing part). Then suddenly I was asleep at my parents' house near a major eastern US city and was awakened while it was still dark by the neighbor kids outside counting down as if it was new year's eve (I guess the windows were open). I thought "wait, it's not new year's!" Then when they said "happy new year!" a huge explosion over toward the downtown area lit up the sky which I realized was a nuclear bomb. I recall thinking "whelp, this is it" and my eyes started to throb from the radiation I guess, which is what woke me up in real life. My eyes were still throbbing then and I was pretty shaken up, with my heart racing; it took me awhile to fall back asleep and all day yesterday I was in a funk from it.
Do you think there's anything significant here? I'm feeling much better today, so I'm glad of that. I rarely recall dreams and don't give them much regard but this one was so vivid and visceral. I was almost expecting to hear sirens start going off all over the town while I was lying there after I woke up!