Dreams on Replay

I had another tsunami dream again last night, writing about it now because I can't get to sleep. The sea has been a major theme in most of my reoccuring dreams. There has been too many to count and it has become par for the course. They used to come and present beautiful surfing and swimming experiences, then they turned to hidden basement 'wave' rooms like the waves that come out of the wall at a waterpark, but people would get trapped in the basement being smashed around the room by the waves. Then the big waves began making their dreamscapes in more realistic settings like the beach. :) ^^^~~~~

The last two tsunami dreams I think ended in what is known as a type of sleep paralysis, where you find yourself immobile in your dream as if cemented down and not being about to stir yourself awake either (knowing that your just dreaming, but can't escape). The beach seems pleasant, waves seem fine....then a few sneak waves approach, people get a little startled and giggle and head up the beach a little ways. Suddenly the sky feels still and heavy and you look out to sea only to notice it pulling back rapidly and exposing all the sand. By then the 'paralysis' sets in... it seems that you and whoever you are with and want to protect can not run up the beach to get to higher ground.

In these last two dreams I was carrying my daughter in my arms and in one I was trying to help my sister who was both pregnant in the dream and in reality. In these dreams you can feel how the sand gathers around your feet, anchoring you in. Then you turn to look over your shoulder to see the wall of water so high that you know you can never make it out approaching you with such a thunderous sound and force that is so awe-inspiring that you are utterly and hopelessly transfixed. The dreams usually morph at that point to some other nautical adventure, without having to explain if the tsunami swept us up or if somehow we could hold our ground in dreamland.

The other reoccurring dreams I have are all the cool cliche ones that you hear about. Lots of flying dreams, lots of airplane crashes, lots of dreams about staircases (everyting from spiral staircases to inverted Escher-esque going nowhere steps. This blog will be cut short because my daughter just snuck up on me while I was typing.....she just said she had a bad dream that she and I were in a car and a man on a road flagged us down. She said he was trying to hurt me and she couldn't stop him. :( So, I'm going to sit and dream-chat with her and hopefully both of us can try and have a good dream tonight if we can get to sleep.