Nightmare

[rimturse]

I'm still in the middle of the move and really don't have time to blog, but I just had to write down this horrendous nightmare:

I'm at a huge dinner party. I'm surrounded by friends and family, but also strangers. We sit at round cafe tables, long tables and wooden benches. There are bowls of salad, iced water, wine, softdrinks. One of the guests will serve as the main course. I'm not worried that they will pick me, I guess, I don't believe this is really happening (well, it wasn't, but you know what I mean). Then suddenly they put a body on the table. She's face down, I remember thinking that she had pretty calves and feet. Her hair is dark. They start to cut her in pieces, severing the head, and the legs from the torso. I am wondering why there isn't any blood. Beside me, my cousin whispers: "Are you okay with this? I mean..." I turn to look at her and suddenly realize that the corpse on the table is someone I know. As they turn her around I see who.
"It's okay," my aunt tells me. "She wanted to do it." - I wake up retching. Then I wake up C to tell him I had a nightmare (poor guy).

Comments

[maggiemotley.livejournal.com]

Horrible one! You should be able to draw all sorts of self-analysis out of it when the yuck factor dies down.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

You're probably right, but I'm a bit worried about what I'll find :/

[cathemery.livejournal.com]

Gruesome! I hope you get a break from moving stress to relax in soon, and to make sure whoever that was in the dream is ok in waking time. I know I'd feel better. :)

[frigg.livejournal.com]

I called my mother just after reading your comment and she reassured me that the person is doing fine. :)

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Eeep! That's horrible!

Probably you need to sit down and relax with a nice cup/glass of whatever you like to drink that relaxes you, and pray/meditate, whichever you like to do. Read some nice poems before bedtime, or listen to soft classical music. Hopefully you can get all the badness away before bedtime comes again.

I know how you feel, though. I get bad dreams, too. Nothing like that, though!

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Dug out my tea kettle from a moving box and had my first mug of Earl Grey in ages. Also forced myself to slow down with the work and meditated right before going to sleep. And it worked! Haven't had any nightmares since. Thanks. :)

[pjthompson]

I don't know if this will make you feel better or worse, but Jung always said that every person and object in a dream is really just an aspect of the dreamer him or herself.

Perhaps you're feeling all eaten up by this move? I'm sure you must be exhausted.

Good luck with the rest of the move and hope you feel better.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can definitely relate to the Jung theory. I AM feeling eaten up by the move. I was working more or less non-stop 12-14 hours a day every day of last week. C and I agreed that there was really no need to stress that much and we've been taking it easy since then. We still put in a lot of work, but there has been time for a few naps, quality time and a bit of TV as well.

Thanks for the reassurance, I was beginning to worry about the murky depths of my mind. Perhaps I should be writing horror instead of fantasy.