This week's chapter talks a lot about sleep and dreaming so I thought I would talk about one of my recent dreams.
About a week ago I was having dreams that I could remember nearly everynight (go figure, once I started my dream journal I couldn't remember any of them). The one that sticks in my mind the most however also kind of scares me.
To start with, you have to know one thing about me. A little over a year ago I tore my left ACL playing summer basketball, and I was out for the next seven months... In my dream I ended up tearing my ACL again, but it was on the opposite leg. I had surgery on it and was once again in the full-leg knee brace, only this time it was on my right leg. The weird part was that all the pain I felt was still in my left knee...
It kind of scared me because I took it literal, to mean that I was going to tear my ACL again. We talked in class how most dreams usually don't mean what they seem to, so that makes me feel a little better, but I still can't figure out why I had the dream in the first place. The only thing I can figure would be that my knee had been bugging me in volleyball practice a couple days before.
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That's so weird I used to remember all my dreams too but as soon as we started this sleep log I can't remember them as easily. I think it's all in my hear; I'm thinking to much.
ReplyDeleteThat is really odd. I would say that tearing your atnerior cruciate ligament would be a dramatic thing in your life. So maybe, that terrible time in your life came back to you when you were thinking about it before bed, and that is the reason you dreamed that way.
ReplyDeleteI don't really think that dreams are premonitions of what is going to happen, but I do think they might directly relate to something that IS happening. Maybe the pain you felt on the opposite body relates to something disturbing in your life that is unexpected?
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