Dreams

[bryguypgh]

I had a dream last night that there was this T Rex in this football field, and the game announcers in their booth were chuckling that the guy it was chasing, like a rodeo clown, kept frustrating it by disappearing behind various barriers after taunting it. The announcers said "well that's it- 2 hours in the ring with the T Rex! Come on out!" So

Comments

[sonbanon]

It's like it was a scary nightmare that my brain was trying to make funny, but it ended up being neither.

Just like the movie!

[atraxen]

Ever since I was young (4?) I've done the same, or variants of it. The first dream I can remember was having fun driving a really cool go-kart around a track, when all of a sudden a witch started trying to crash me into the sides. Fun+scary = strange...

I think it's some sort of mental self-defense (ala in Harry Potter, imagining the thing most frightening to you as a ridiculous incarnation of itself). These days, if I'm having a normal 'they're trying to kill me, my friends, and my family' dream, I always manage to find a firearm/sword/something (even in the bathtub) so I can defend them. Different management mechanism, but same outcome - the scary isn't so scary anymore (though it is 3 shades stranger...)