With the uncharted rolling power cuts that we have been having in Tripoli for over a month now it's been disruptive to planning your day/evening and work, so sometimes you just have to manage ad hoc and take your naps when you can and finish some late work when you can too.
For example you are planning to work on a report after dinner and when the house is quiet only to be 'surprised' by the electricity going off at 8 pm, since it won't be back before 11 pm at least and it's cold and you'rw freezing, there is not much to do really except go to bed.
That's why I'm awake now at 3 am, I slept from 8 pm till midnight when the electricity returned and then I played catch up with emails and such. But that's not the story....
While I fell asleep, I started dreaming that I was having difficulty swallowing and something was choking me in my throat; so in the dream I'm there poking my fingers inside my mouth trying to find the obstruction. Moving around I discover a string which I start to pull at with both my hands just like a floss string that I'm pulling out of my throat it seems. I feel better each time a section of it is coming out and it's really long, black and full of dripping mucus, this keeps going apparently for hours in the dream as I'm aware of monitoring the process with a wall clock, until finally I kind of hit rock bottom with this and the string is pulling at something in my throat and this part is now painful so I look in the mirror to try assess what is it that is stuck to the string only to find out that it is woven or pierced into the uvula in my throat ( believe me I had to check this term online as I never knew it although from numerous Tom and Jerry shows I knew what it was supposed to look like :P ).
In the dream, when I see this I know that I can no longer remove this string on my own and will need some type or surgical assistance, just like removal of a piercing but I have the fear of loosing the string if I put what's left of it back in my mouth. I'm already gagging at the thought.. so I cut the string to a manageable lenght about a metre and leave it hanging out of my mouth and simply continue freaking about how did I ever get into this kind of situation anyway...and I wake up when the lights in my room are back because the electricity in real life is back!
Would anyone care to offer any interpretation ? Can't be an indigestion can it ? it's too vivid
For example you are planning to work on a report after dinner and when the house is quiet only to be 'surprised' by the electricity going off at 8 pm, since it won't be back before 11 pm at least and it's cold and you'rw freezing, there is not much to do really except go to bed.
That's why I'm awake now at 3 am, I slept from 8 pm till midnight when the electricity returned and then I played catch up with emails and such. But that's not the story....
While I fell asleep, I started dreaming that I was having difficulty swallowing and something was choking me in my throat; so in the dream I'm there poking my fingers inside my mouth trying to find the obstruction. Moving around I discover a string which I start to pull at with both my hands just like a floss string that I'm pulling out of my throat it seems. I feel better each time a section of it is coming out and it's really long, black and full of dripping mucus, this keeps going apparently for hours in the dream as I'm aware of monitoring the process with a wall clock, until finally I kind of hit rock bottom with this and the string is pulling at something in my throat and this part is now painful so I look in the mirror to try assess what is it that is stuck to the string only to find out that it is woven or pierced into the uvula in my throat ( believe me I had to check this term online as I never knew it although from numerous Tom and Jerry shows I knew what it was supposed to look like :P ).
In the dream, when I see this I know that I can no longer remove this string on my own and will need some type or surgical assistance, just like removal of a piercing but I have the fear of loosing the string if I put what's left of it back in my mouth. I'm already gagging at the thought.. so I cut the string to a manageable lenght about a metre and leave it hanging out of my mouth and simply continue freaking about how did I ever get into this kind of situation anyway...and I wake up when the lights in my room are back because the electricity in real life is back!
Would anyone care to offer any interpretation ? Can't be an indigestion can it ? it's too vivid
8 comments:
It could be a symbol for having to live a lie under Gaddafi. You couldn't swallow the ideology, but you couldn't spit it out either, so it just stayed in your throat and you had to talk around it.
Mitchell that's not bad so you think the dream was more retroactive?
I am worried. Nightmares involving the body are often signs of an underlying condition. Because, when we are awake, we always have sooo much work to do, important and less so, that we neglect our body and silence the alarm signals it is sending. So, if these signals are more subtle, only during sleep can they get through the brain and be "broadcasted".
It may be just overwork or mild cold, but still my advice is to visit your doctor to examine you.
I thhink dreams like that are a help and a guide to what I am processing and recognising as going on in my life.
Someone asked me what emotions I was feeling during the dream when I described a vivid dream to her. That helped me focus on what it might represent for me.
I had a very similar dream a few months ago. The only difference is that I was in the middle of a crowd, and I felt something choking me in my throat so I stuck my finger in my mouth and started pulling out a long cord or string, It was so long and I kept pulling and pulling until a small black ball came out. I called my parents who were amongst the crowd to show them what came out my my throat and my mom's reaction was like "No wonder you've been feeling so down. Now you should be better". And my dream stopped there.
I couldnt find a interpretation for my dream and it bothered me for many days until I forgot about it.
Maya I agree it is time to go see my doctor as I had two other dreams following this one. One where I have weasel like creatures coming out from my body and destroying it from withing and another where I am lying in hospital with a drip and loosing all my hair in large chunks - this is scary :(
Globeonmytable : thank you that helps if I want to describe what I was feeling it was pain and horror at the same time so how can we help analyse that ?
Lebeeya, yes strange dream but at least you got the thing that was choking you out - not me :(
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