Dreams

I have been having the strangest dreams lately. I don't know if it's the stress from what happened with "Cynthia" a few weeks ago, the stress of wrapping up classes before spring break, or the stress of preparing for this interview/constantly wondering what my future will be like. I dunno, maybe I'm stressed out. Anyway, here are a few espcially strange ones from the past two weeks.

Last week, I dreamed that I was in a creek with my younger brother. Suddenly, I saw two crocodiles heading for us. I scrambled out onto the bank, with my brother behind me. As I looked back, I saw my dad in the creek, just hanging out with the crocs. "That's strange," I thought, and figured that if my father was peacefully occupying space with the animals, my brother could, too. So I promptly pushed him back into the creek, at which the crocs immediately pounced upon him, chewing on his head. That's when I woke up, very frightened, and very confused.

Apparently I have sibling issues, because a few nights ago, after the Oscars, I dreamed that I was in the living room of my parents' house with my brother, watching TV or something. We then saw a smallish red and black snake slither up to us (very much like Nagini in that scene from Harry Potter, when she slithers down the table toward the audience on her way to eat the Muggles Studies teacher. Which they showed on the Oscars) and promptly bit my brother. I ran to call 911 while his arm bloated up horribly, and I'm pretty sure he died in the midst of my call. Not sure what that means...

Last night I dreamed that I was on a water polo team and we were training really hard. We were about to compete against another team that was much bigger and better than ours. The coach of that team was none other than CMF, my college swim coach, though in my dream his name was David. Apparently he was also recruiting, because there was some element of "Oh, I hope I'm good enough to get on his team" even though we were already on another team. I think this dream came from the fact that I had just complained to the Boyfriend extensively about my unhappiness with my body and how I would probably feel better about myself if I were swimming. But still, it was strange.

I guess the two things I can take away from these dreams are 1) I want to kill my brother via reptile and 2) I should start swimming again. Hmmm...

ciao