Dreams/Nightmares

[mako88sb]

I don't know if this is been done here before but thought it might be interesting/entertaining to hear about the strangest or most memorable dream/nightmare you had. I've had some doozies over the years but most of them I forget pretty quickly. Here's the one I had a couple nights ago:

First off, I'm Canadian but my dream started off with me being a sailor on board an aircraft carrier somewhere in the Caribbean. I'm much too old to be changing careers so don't ask me why. No idea of which carrier but definitely American. So far not a bad dream but I'm sure a bit of a nightmare for the USN. Things deteriorated pretty quickly when the lady captain of our ship who vaguely resembled Captain Janeway happened to notice a food container had been tossed overboard. Nobody would admit to being the culprit so she decided on randomly picking 15 of us to be abandoned on a deserted island and of course I was one of those selected. Hmm! A bit harsh even for a dream. In pretty short order the 15 of us were dropped off with pretty well nothing but the shirts on our backs. One of the stranded also happened to be a pregnant ensign.

Some of the dream is already a bit fuzzy but I do remember asking the captain that if can make it to the US border somehow, will I be allowed to walk back to Canada? She rather rudely told me NO!! She then told the rest of us that they would never be allowed back home. Something I thought really odd was that I was worrying a lot about my teeth and wondering how long they would last without regular dental care. I've always had great teeth with minimal problems so why I'm worrying about this in a dream is a bit weird. I also remember flipping out a bit about how somebody could condemn 15 people to a fate like this over a bloody food container. Strangely, everybody else including the pregnant ensign just seemed to be accepting all of this and were giving me funny looks as if to say, "shut up and quit with the whining".

So, at some point during this dream, I decide to head over to the north side of the Island thinking I might be able to see more islands that might be close enough to swim to. Everybody else seems peachy-keen about just staying put so I'm off on my own. I soon find following the beach around to the other side is a no-go because of high cliffs and have to climb up some pretty rugged terrain. This climb seems to have been the longest lasting part of my dream and I remember coming up against impassable terrain a couple times and having to backtrack a fair bit. Finally reached the top and sure enough there's a island off in the distance. Close enough though, that I can see what looks like a resort area.

This is when I really get to feeling distraught about my situation. How can I swim that far? Is there sharks around? I have no money or passport. Will I ever see my wife and kids again? I woke up around this time but it took awhile before my groggy mind was able to figure out I had been dreaming. Wow! What a relief. None of it happened! I'm sure everybody has had that feeling before. My wife was sleeping soundly or I would of told her about it. I rolled over and was asleep in minutes.

This is when something very unusual for me happened. I resumed my dream. I had a friend who did this quite often, especially when he was younger. This was the 3rd time for me that I can remember. I didn't resume were I had ended up at the top of the hill. I had skipped over the swimming across and fighting off sharks part and was now in the resort area. Not much to the rest of this as I woke up again soon after. All I can recall is trying to find somebody I thought looked friendly enough and might be willing to help.


I found a site that might be able to help me analyse my dream. Just not sure if I should bother. Has anybody here ever taken the time to figure out what their dream is about? Anyway, if anybody else has one to share, go for it.