Category: Nightmares
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Up at 4:30
Up way before the crack of dawn, chased awake by nightmares of a guy with a knife going after a little blond toddler in an airport. Did laundry, paid bills and cleaned the kitchen, and now I’m settling in to get words. Starting point 75,512. I don’t know where the extra ten words came from;…
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Back from Dreamland
Starting at 24,854. Much reach at least 27,854. My last two dreams weren’t nightmares, which is a bit of a switch. The first — very odd — was that I rescued some bizarre fish that two guys had pulled from Beaver Creek in the flooding Beaver Creak State Park (E. Liverpool, OH), and that it…
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Back To Work
Did not sleep worth a damn last night. Had three — count ’em, THREE — nightmares: one about being on an aircraft carrier that was under fire; one about a schoolteacher in possession of an unregistered weapon who dumped a bunch of stolen money in my backpack; and the last one about being questioned by…
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Nightmare
So … I was back in the little house on Todd Circle in Laurinburg that I bought after the divorce, and for some reason I’d redone the back bedroom into a painting studio. I was working at the easel — painting something bright and colorful and abstract — and suddenly the easel floated off the…
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Dreamed about going back into nursing
I put my registered nursing license in mothballs at the end of 1992, but this morning before I woke up, I dreamed about taking the steps needed to return to active duty. Prior to this, I’ve occasionally dreamed of doing cardiac codes, working trauma from auto accidents or gunshot wounds or any of the other…
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The Weasel Has Landed
Good God. I found the weasel. And a fireplace poker to hit him with. You know, from Weasel Of My Dreams. Thank you, all of you who offered dream interpretations on that one. They were tremendously helpful. And thanks to Sara Donati, from whose weblog I found Jennifer Crusie’s website. Where I found both the…
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Weasel of My Dreams
I was walking through a spacious, beautiful house last night in my dream, admiring the play of light through the windows and following some sweet music that I could not quite catch. My family was around, but not with me, and the whole mood of the place was bright and happy. I passed a couch.…
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Dreaming Talyn
I dreamed the next section of Talyn so fully and in such detail that I was actually surprised and disappointed when I opened the manuscript this morning and it wasn’t there. So now I’m typing in the dream I had before waking. This so rarely happens to me that it was almost a unique event…
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Trying to get the dream back
I woke up this morning, having just dreamed the solution to a problem I’m having with the revision. Problem was, it was five in the morning, and I didn’t go to bed until one AM. So I lay there thinking about how I would use this solution — fixed it carefully in my mind, was…
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Beefcake and the Queen of England
Last night I dreamed I had an audience with the Queen of England, and out of gratitude, she gave me a gift — an adjustable paper ring, white, stamped with red ink that said “Compliments of the Queen of England.” She then sat in a throne above a long line of cars and threw similar…