Electric Cotton Candy Rodeo

Bad Dreams

I am not a peaceful sleeper.  I have to take enough sleeping pills to knock out a small pony and goodness knows what I do after that.  Usually I wake up in my bed with Big Kitty sleeping on the pillow next to me.  He can’t sleep next to me because I must kick him.  I have had some weird sleeping incidents.  When I was a little kid, I remember getting ready for school, putting on my backpack and barging into my parent’s room in the middle of the night declaring I was ready for school.  They sleepily walked me back to my room and told me it was not time for school yet.

When I was going through all the Andy drama, I tried taking melatonin to sleep because it came so highly recommended.  Unfortunately, it made me hear Satan voices talking to me out of my rain machine and I ran away into the kitchen and ate 20 string cheeses.  I decided that was not for me and so I laid off all the sleepytime medicine.  But then I started extreme sleepwalking.  And yes, I am calling it extreme, because the way I do it, it should be a sport.  I’ve woken up in weird parts of my apartment usually with a kitty curled up next to me.  However, the night after the melatonin adventure I woke up with my face on my keyboard…covered in chocolate (both the keyboard and my hands and face) and the keyboard was on.  I am pretty sure I was playing in my sleep, I’m sure not very well.  Kitty was the only wittness and I don’t think he would ever tell….unless he was offered treats.

For now, I stay in my bed, but I still have the most bizarre dreams.  Like sometimes people say “I had a dream my teeth are falling out,” or ,”I had dream I was sleeping with my teacher!”  That is just like my dream except it would be my teacher pulling out my teeth in a church parking lot and then slowly disemboweling me as I was forced to watch.  In my dreams, I’m trying to hurry up and pack a hotel room and I have Kitty in a carrier in the car but it takes me so long to pack that he roasts out in the car.  My family will drive away from serial killers in a rick-shaw as little melted demons jump out of a microwave and chase us down a pyramid.  I don’t lay around and read horror novels before bed or drink the blood of massacred voodoo chickens, but I dream these horrible things.

So the latest dream I had I was trying to cross these murkey waters in my bridesmaid’s dress with Ali’s family.   They easily walked through this water without getting wet and I told them no, I had to stay in the weird cardboard canoe her dad made because I could not get my dress ruined.  I finally had to get out of the canoe and the dress got wet and I drowned.  I told Ashley, and she said “Oooh let’s look up your dreams in the dream dictionary.”  I was skeptical of this.  ”Do they have a definition for dress wearer sits in a weird carboard canoe and slowly drowns and can feel her lungs burning?”  Ashley was like “Well…let’s just look up drowning.”  Here are some dream definations that we discovered thanks to the reliable source,

Drowing–

To dream that you are drowning, indicates that you are feeling overwhelmed by emotions. Repressed issues may be coming back to haunt you. You may be proceeding too quickly in trying to discover your unconscious thoughts. You should proceed more cautiously and slowly. If you drown to death, then is refers to an emotional rebirth. If your survive the drowning, then it means that a waking relationship or situation will ultimately survive the turmoil

Murdered (this is if someone is murdering you.  It is a whole different ball game if you are the murderer)

To dream that you are murdered, suggests that some important and significant relationship has been severed. You are trying to disconnect yourself from your emotions. The dream may also be about your unused talents

Unused Talents?  Hmm, that must be what it means when random murderers grab my intestines out and stab me a zillion times.  I just need to set my creative ability free!

I also find it amazing that people dream things like “Your ex-boyfriend wins you a stuffed animal”  ”rabbits” and “Cotton Candy.”  What nice dreams all about fertility and childhood (hopefully not in the same dream?!) I did have a dream about cotton candy, but it was a prison and I had to eat my way out of it.

It’s been suggested to think about happy thoughts when attempting to sleep so tonight I am going to think about an electric cotton candy rodeo.  Everyone is dressed in Christmas light western wear and wrangles bunnies with cotton candy lassos.

Before I head down this road of sweet fluffy goodness, I figured I had better check out the dream dictionary defintion of rodeos.

Ah hem.. Rodeo

To dream that you are at the rodeo, suggests that you need to take control of your animalistic forces and primal urges.

Rawr!  Look out!  I’m coming at your with a sexy mouthful of cotton candy.