DREAM: Life, Death, Surviving

The dream started off with me at a house that I didn’t know. I went outside where a cat was having kittens. As she had them a line of people drew close to watch. The next thing you know the kittens are in a bowl instead of in the cat’s belly. Instead of all the kittens being newborns some were older, some were very tiny and some were black leaches. It then began to rain but only for a few minutes but it rained so hard it flooded the area. My sister tried to help clean up the area by taking everything (including the cats) and tossing it all in huge plastic tubs. She tossed the mother and her kittens in a tub with rocks and water. I was so angry I began screaming at her.

The next part of the dream that I remember is riding with the mother, sister and cousin to find a bar owned by a politician. My mother wanted to talk to the lady owner for some reason but I can’t remember why. We drove around all night looking for it. The cousin drove the car and made the most inappropriate sexual comments anyone could make in the presence of their aunt. We finally found the place but it was closed. The car began acting up so we pulled into a garage that was close by. We were there until mid-afternoon. When it came time to give my cousin change back she discovered she’d been handed a fake one dollar bill. She handed it back to him but I thought he should give her a real one. He and I had a few words but he decided he’d go ahead and give her another bill. That was fake too. He then gave me a legit five dollar bill which I promptly handed to the mother. She sat down with it but somehow lost it.

The next part of the dream I remember is my sister holding a gun to my head singing some rap song. I was furious because she knew what it felt like to be on the other end of a gun so playing with a gun seemed cruel and hurtful. The gun was then taken by someone else. That person shot us both once in the head. We fell backwards, through the floor boards which broke open right into the sea. The bullets turned into the large pole on a boat that holds the sale. With it’s ropes floating behind it one pole stuck out of my head and one out of my sister’s head. Together we sank to the bottom of the sea. Then the poles simply disintegrated but not before we reached the bottom and saw others who weren’t “lucky enough” to survive the ordeal. With wounded heads we swam back to the top. I woke when we breached sea to air.

DREAM COMMENTARY:

A person could easily see the last part of this dream as hopeful but I don’t. I hear my mother telling me I didn’t have things so bad, after all others had it worse. Let us not forget the swim from the very bottom of the ocean to the top where there was no boat to pick us up. The dream simply ended with me taking a big breath of air as I came up from the water. All I did was survive the shooting ordeal but I was still stranded in the middle of the sea.

As for the deformed cats, that’s typical for my dreams as is roaming around all night looking for something I never find. There’s also some twisting and turning which is typical in my dreams.

RECURRENT DREAM THEME:

Tangled content, a night time setting, things are not what they seem, riding in the backseat, deformed cats, water.

FEELINGS UPON WAKING:

Angry and sad, nervous

DREAM: Life, Death, Surviving-Monday, October 13, 2008-10:31AM EST