Big Dreams

Most of the time, I can't really remember my dreams when I wake up. But a few dream memories stick around for a long, long time.

One of the rare times that I slept while Angel was awake.

 

To this day, I distinctly remember, when I was about 7 years old, I dreamed that I interrupted my mom while she was speaking with someone, and she promptly took me by the hand and led me down into a secret dungeon where she kept her other hundreds of children who had all also made the mistake of interrupting her. She locked me up with them, in spite of my tears and requests for forgiveness.

When I was 9, I dreamed that our house was surrounded by wolves and the whole family had to hide in Mom and Dad's closet to escape from the wolves.

When I was 18 and newly engaged, I had a dream that it was my wedding day and my parents told me that Angel didn't want to marry me, but it was okay because they'd found another great guy to replace him, and I could just marry that guy instead. Distraught, and not thinking clearly, I agreed to go through with the wedding. After the ceremony, I saw Angel at the reception, and I went to speak with him. He had wanted to get married after all, my parents had tricked me! Angel was upset, but I followed him around trying to explain that I wasn't really married, after all, we hadn't lived together yet, and I would just get the marriage annulled and marry Angel instead.

And a few weeks ago, I dreamed that Angel and I woke up to find my uncle and grandpa in our backyard with a lion in the back of their truck. Angel grabbed the gun from under the bed, and I headed out the door with him to see what was going on. Once we were outside, I saw a tiger in our front lawn. Angel told me, "That's not a tiger, it's just a little mountain lion." And I was like, "No. I know a tiger when I see one." I made a bolt for the car, trying to get to safety, but the tiger attacked me and I woke up from my unconsciousness in a hospital room, together with Angel and a nurse. I thought Angel was being altogether too happy and chatty with the nurse considering that his wife had just been viciously attacked by a tiger in our own front yard. He said she was his coworker, but that didn't make sense to me because we weren't in the burn unit, we were in the tiger attack unit.

I'm sensing a theme here. Apparently, wild animals appear often in my dreams, and usually my parents or  my husband play the villains.

Have you had any particularly lucid or memorable dream recently?