Strange dreams

I’ve had some pretty bizarre dreams the past few days, many disturbing and some quite interesting.

I don’t recall the dream from two nights ago very well now but it seemed to revolve around a few family members who have already died. At one point in the dream my grandmother appeared, or I should say her presence was noted. The strange part of the dream was I was focused on the top of the line electric toothbrush she had in her bathroom. Whatever it was, it had all the bells and whistles included. I honestly couldn’t say anything specific about it though. Anyway, what’s particularly odd about the association is my grandmother had worn dentures for most of the years I knew her and thus didn’t use a toothbrush. That one was odd, bizarre but not bothersome.

In another point of the dream I was engaged in a conversation with a cousin who died several years ago. She was only three years older than me and she was 39 when she died so I guess that was about thirteen years ago. First of all it is weird to think that much time has passed since then. Anyway,  we were talking and I mentioned to her that I missed both her parents, who have also died. They both died a few years after she died, so that was kind of weird. But within the dream I also said to her that she had also died, before her parents. So I was talking to a dead person within my dream. And it wasn’t like talking to a ghost or anything like that. She appeared quite substantial and it seemed almost normal to be speaking to her. That one was rather disturbing and I do wonder what triggered all that.

Last night was a different sort of disturbing with me falling asleep and immediately going into not so much a dream as an assault of disturbing images. I couldn’t say what they were but each time this happened I woke myself up. I must have not been quite asleep when the “dream” would start. I had other disturbances to my sleep, unrelated to dreams. I had a cough that started up and wouldn’t settle down so I got up and got a drink of water, sat up for a little while, then returned to bed. At another point, one of the dogs woke me and seemed to want to go out but then she didn’t. I don’t think I had much proper sleep for several hours.

Then towards the end of my sleep, I had a totally different sort of dream. It was a perfectly normal dream at the beginning with some normal sort of happenings mixed in with a few oddities, as happens often. At some point though, it seemed to shift into some sort of fantasy story, of the young adult/ older child sort, with children or teenagers involved in some sort of tasks. It seemed to progress quite nicely until there were obstacles place along the way by some less pleasant sort of character(s). Eventually I started to wake and couldn’t sustain what was happening so that was essentially the end of it. I must admit to liking this last dream far more than any of the others.