Dreams

[mrissa]

Still dizzy. GAHHHHHH. May not make it to Andrew's wedding this weekend. This does not please me, in case you were wondering.

The up side to this wretched week is that I seem to be having excellent dreams about people I don't get to see very much. They're generally extremely happy dreams. Even the bit where the dream ended with ksumnersmith standing up and saying, matter-of-factly, "And that's why I'm going to help you kill that [word I have not heard Karina use]" -- that was disconcerting, but still happy.

Who do you get to see in your dreams, if you remember them?

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[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

My mom, sometimes. It's nice.

Dumb question about the vertigo, but have your doctors looked in your ears? Friend of mine is recovering from an illness and has a new medicine and she was getting horrible vertigo that her doctors initially thought was a side effect (and therefore told her that it would go away as she adjusted to the medication), but finally, one of them thought to look in her ears, and she had an ear infection--obviously not a huge one, but enough of one to affect her balance.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

My main doctor looked in my ears, but the doctor I'm seeing on Tuesday, while a specialist in vertigo, is at the MN Ear, Head, & Neck Clinic, so I imagine they will cover that end of things nicely.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, going by your userpic, we can't call you a dizzy blonde...

Maybe it's a function of age, but a fair number of the people who show up in my dreams are technically dead. Doesn't seem to matter at the time.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't been a dizzy blonde since about the second grade. That was when I made the transition to dizzy brunette status. (markgritter claims it's when the original human mrissa was switched with the alien mrissa. Pay no attention to him.)

I dream of my Gran pretty regularly, so I don't know how much a function of age it is.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I usually dream about people I miss, which is wonderfully bittersweet. I always knew it was time for vacation to be over when I'd start having dreams about college classmates again.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

This has been a lot of that, yah. My godfathers last night, alecaustin and ksumnersmith and my friend Slacker and a lost old Math Club buddy before that. It's People I'd Like To See Week in my dreams.

The nice thing is that this week they've all been happy. I hope my subconscious is right.

[sksperry.livejournal.com]

I barely ever remember my dreams, and when I do they're rarely about people I know.

Maybe I'm having someone else's dreams?

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I had that as a story idea once, about trying to find the person whose dreams you had.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I tend to have very random dreams, which I usually forget soon after waking up, leaving me with just a nagging 'something really strange just happened' feeling.

Last week I dreamt I lifted up my cat and found a hedgehog underneath, which I thought was strange even in the dream (although rather cute). I forgot about it until I lifted my cat up later that day and found I was automatically watching out for the prickles.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That's awesome.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Oh, and also, *hug*. My mom's been up (as opposed to down and resting) with bronchitis for the last month or more, and lately I've managed to combine the two of you into one worry, so every time I talked to her, I would worry about you too, and every time I saw a post from you, I would worry about her. So please tell your body that my mom is finally getting better, and thus you should too.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That's a very good theory. Thanks.

[ellarien]

My father (who died nearly twenty years ago) wanders into my dreams from time to time, though not so often of late years.

Otherwise, it's mostly colleagues and family, sometimes fictional characters, and occasionally, the last year or two, LJ people I've never met.

Feel better soon!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I dream of my Gran, who died ten years ago, fairly often.

I had to stop and think and then think some more: ten years ago? No, that couldn't possibly be right. That's far too long. But it's true, ten years ago.

[gjules.livejournal.com]

They've done the move-your-head-and-watch-your-eyes test to rule out benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) already, right? I had a week or so of it a couple of years ago -- horrible spinning couldn't-walk-down-stairs dizziness. Apparently it's more common than people realize. There's a site here that focuses on it (http://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/bppv/bppv.html) and agrees with all of what my doctors told me at the time. The home-exercises have zapped a couple potential recurrences for me since then, although I haven't had anything like the original case.

In my dreams I'm usually in some other world, almost never ours, with people I know quite well. Then I wake up and realize I've never met them.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

They had me move my eyes rather than my head at the regular doctor. I'm sure the specialist will do the rest.

I have the opposite dream thing, really: I sometimes label people in my dreams as people I know, and then wake up and think, "Wait. That guy in my dreams who was my college friend Josh? Josh has a dark beard and a shaved head and a pretty solid frame, and that was a spindly clean-shaven blond guy. Why did I think that was Josh?" The answer, of course, is that it was Josh; it just didn't look like Josh.

Happily, this week everybody has looked like themselves.

[gjules.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I imagine the specialist would check for that one; it's pretty common. (Hope you feel better soon -- dizziness is unpleasant in ways you really don't get while you're not dizzy. A bit like seasickness, that way.)

I do both the inventing-people-whole-cloth thing and the thing where someone looks like someone I know, and maybe kinda acts like them, but is actually an entirely different person.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I generally have inappropriate people - that is, I knew *that* person but not in *that* place. Or they wouldn't have been likely to be doing that thing or with that other person. Apparently my subconscious is very eclectic.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

The last dream I had that I remembered* featured my dad and my sister. Both of whom were determined to kill themselves in tremendously acrobatic ways**, in symbolic protest of something**. I was trying desperately to convince them not to.

It was very upsetting. And I could only call my sister to make sure everything was fundamentally okay (it was).

Sorry about your sub-optimal physical condition.

*an event in an of itself
**I knew it in my dream, but have since forgotten

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, hon. That sounds awful. I'm so sorry.

Last time I dreamed that something awful had happened to one of my friends, I woke up to find an e-mail from her in my inbox, and it was fine. So that was good timing on her part.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

I see my friends occasionally - and the friends and places are mixed and matched, so I see peoeple who don't know each other together. Couple of times I even saw friends I haven't met ever - my LJ friends.

I also quite often see my late grandparents. they died around two years ago, and I miss them, and I happy to see them in dreams.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

When I dream of people I know, it's almost always high school people. When I do dream of college people, it's almost always the "freshman crowd." I very rarely dream about family members, and when I do, it's usually disturbing. I practically never dream about coworkers or friends I've made since college, and when I do, the dream usually puts me and them chronologically back in that high school, first year of college time period.

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

I would imbue my dresser mirror (which, if it is not the thing I've possessed the longest, is a near contender) with the magic of memory-keeping.