Have you ever woken up and felt a profound sense of relief?

[XemaSab]

Last night I dreamed I had just moved to Santa Cruz, and my ex-boyfriend was living in Santa Cruz too.

I knew that he worked at a fabric store with a lot of my current co-workers, but he was in charge of IT and was never around.

Somehow I called him or contacted him and I told him I was in town. He sent me back the nastiest, most vitriol-filled letter with every decision I had ever made and everything I had ever done that he had no respect for. Sine he's known me for 14 years, this is a LOT of activity and decision making gone wrong.

Somehow in my dream I was with my grandmother and we were in a grocery store, and my other hot ex-bf was there icing cookies, and I took one look and said "aw, forget it." Then there was a part to the dream where I had to run across freeways trying to get home, and it was raining.

Then I woke up and realized it was all a dream. :D

[billyskank]

1. Not Evil John?

This morning I dreamed that I was just about to go to India and had a thousand things to sort out. I was glad to wake up and remember it was only Sunday and I wasn't going anywhere.

[XemaSab]

4. Ew! No Way!

Evil John was evil. Any dream with him in it is automatically a nightmare.

What, you weren't happy you were going to India? :shrug: :(

[Roon]

2. I always dream that I am smoking

I quit almost two years ago. I am always relieved when I wake up and realized that it was a dream.

[haf216]

3. The night for weird dreams,

I dream about a old boyfriend who's dead now. We were back together, but I took a job in another state with out telling him and he found out someway and we were fighting. I woke up relived that we were not fighting, but said because he still gone.

[XemaSab]

5. Interesting...

I haven't spoken to the guy in question in 4 years, but I know I won't call him anytime soon. :(

[haf216]

6. I dream about one of my ex's all the time.

I have not seen him in about 3 years, but he keeps popping up in my dreams. I know that there are unanswered questions with him, so that's why in think he won't get out of my head. Do you dream about him a lot?

[XemaSab]

7. Not really, no

But my dreams about him tend to be intense. :shrug:

[haf216]

8. It sounds like it was an intense relationship,

so... Mine about the guy last night are always very real. I can smell him. We were living in different states when he died and not seem each other for a while, but when he in my dreams he really there.

[crim son]

9. Much more frequently, the last eight or so months,

the waking is a return to dread and gloom. Sleep is where I hide.

[XemaSab]

10. Well yeah, that's why it was such an odd feeling

I had to post a thread about it. Ususally I wake up and remember how lame things are. :P

[crim son]

13. In that case, let's hope it happens again and again!

Whatever it takes, no? :hug:

[TimeChaser]

11. My dream last night had evil aliens in it

So yes I was pretty relieved to wake up and find out that the world was safe :P

[idgiehkt]

12. I had that experience this morning too

When I first read your story I thought you meant that the other ex-boyfriend was writing "aw, forget it" on the cookies, like, it's okay, forget the past and the mistakes that you may have made.

I had bad dreams last night because I asked someone a question in a pm and in my dream they answered me in a really weird way, like with magazine clippings and videos that were just weird, like they were pissed at me for asking or something, and then on top of it they wrote a really brilliant poem (or quoted one, or something) that was like it was written for that situation but it was really mean and made me feel stupid, the gist of it being that I should have known the answer or I shouldn't have asked or something. When I woke up this morning I felt so bad, just horrible, thinking about that 'mixed media' presentation I got in response to my pm. It was so bizarre, and it was one of those things where it took a long time to realize that it was just a dream because I could still recite the poem and see the magazine clippings and the video and stuff. Strange as hell, I was bummed out for a while after I woke up.

[trof]

14. Yep. "I don't have to go to New York."

For six years I commuted from Pensacola to New York (pilot).
Usually once a month. Sometimes twice.

Showing up at work on time was a bit confusing.
My flights usually departed at 1 or 2 a.m.
So I'd have a flight on the 10th, but I had to actually be in New York on the 9th.

I kept 2 calendars. One by my computer and one in the bathroom.
In BIG red letters "COMMUTE!" on the 9th.
In the next square on the 10th "Flt. 82 01:00 dept."
Many guys missed flights because they couldn't get in the mindset of being there the "day BEFORE" work.
In six years I was never late.
But I was sure fixated about it.

I quit in '99 and it was almost a year before my first waking thought was NOT "Do I have to be in New York today?"
:-)