I am battling a miserable bug.\u00a0 At first I thought it was just a cold, but I’ve had multiple fever spikes of 102F which seems odd for a cold.\u00a0 I’ve taken a couple COVID tests, so I know it’s not that.<\/p>\n
Regardless, I’ve been spending a lot of time sleeping- sometimes with a fever.\u00a0 And I have had some true “fever dreams” to go along with it.\u00a0 One unfortunate theme has been some pretty crazy dreams of a sexual nature, 100% involving people I DO NOT have any desire to have sex with.\u00a0 Ever.<\/p>\n
There are a lot of theories about dreams.\u00a0 Some people say dreams are just wish fufillment.\u00a0 I call BS on that.\u00a0 If that were true, I would have sexy time dreams about Jon Bon Jovi on the regular.\u00a0 \u00a0And I don’t.\u00a0 I’ve maybe had 2 dreams like that in the entire time I have been in love with them – and that’s over 35 years.\u00a0 And I promise you that I don’t have any desire to repeat high school, drive a bus, or live in a commune in the desert.\u00a0 All things that have come up in dreams lately!<\/p>\n
Another theory is that dreams all coded messages.\u00a0 On the surface that makes a little sense, but the problem is that there is no one consensus on what a specific dream theme means.\u00a0 As an example-\u00a0 one very common dream that I have had is about your teeth falling out.\u00a0 Depending on the source, that could mean that I’m worried about money, I’m worried about losing my youthful beauty (ha),\u00a0 or that I’m embarrassed about something I said.\u00a0 Or any number of other things equally as unrelated.<\/p>\n
In my most recent dream theme- sexy times with people that I have no desire to have sex with- there isn’t a consensus there either.\u00a0 Maybe I admire something about that person.\u00a0 Maybe I need to be looking at the location we are having sex in- the bathroom means I have a dirty house and the kitchen means I’m “cooking up” something new.\u00a0 Maybe I’m unhappy in my relationship.\u00a0 Maybe I need to forgive someone OR I’m ready to forgive them.\u00a0 Yeah- not a lot of help there.\u00a0 And no, I am NOT unhappy in my marriage for the record.<\/p>\n
So we are left with the third option- dreams are just random firings of your brain while it’s processing the previous day and they don’t mean diddlysquat.\u00a0 I normally tend towards this one, even though I do have some dreams over and over again.\u00a0 My brain is 51 years old- it is really going to go to the bother of creating something entirely new every night?\u00a0 Why not take a shortcut here and there when you can?\u00a0 That makes sense to me.<\/p>\n
So what do you think?\u00a0 Do you have disturbing dreams that kinda freak you out?\u00a0 Do you put any stock in them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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