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Dream Journal Night Dream 2/13/03 I am walking to school. It is really hot out but there is a lot of snow on the ground. I’m bundled up in tons of layers of clothing: a big, fuzzy facemask, an extremely heavy coat and snow pants, and oversized gloves. I notice people walking by me in shorts and tank tops, looking at me as if I were crazy. I am sweating profusely. I try to take off my facemask but it is stuck to my face. I take off my coat but there is another one underneath. I suddenly realize that I don’t know where I am. Strange buildings that I have never seen before surround me. It begins to snow. I feel so relieved because I am so incredibly hot. I sit on a bench and attempt to take off my gloves but they’re so huge that I only fumble around with my hands. Sweat is pouring down my face and I begin to feel like I cannot breathe. I panic and start yelling for help. Suddenly I am at school. I see a girl from my Spanish class and ask her to help me. She begins to speak quickly in what I’m guessing is Spanish. I ask for help in Spanish, but she cannot understand me. I feel so sick and hot that I jump into a snow bank. I wake up. This dream was extremely vivid. It seemed so real. When I woke up I was sweating badly, my heart was racing and my face was flushed. I didn’t feel like I had any control whatsoever over this dream because no matter how hard I tried to take off my coat and hat and gloves, it just couldn’t happen. It was an emotional dream also. I remember feeling so panicked and distressed and feeling like I couldn’t breathe. I still felt like crying even after I woke up. A possible theme of this dream may be the lack of control I feel in my life right now. Another way it kind of relates to my life is that the girl from my Spanish class that was in the dream is my partner for this huge project we have to do that we haven’t even started yet. I am feeling substantial anxiety over that fact so that may explain her presence. Night Dream 2/14/03 I am watching TV at my apartment. I am watching some game show I have never seen before. My boyfriend is a contestant on the show. When the game show host asks him to tell him a little about himself, he proposes to me on the show. My phone rings. It is the game show host and he wants to know my answer. I feel very pressured, as it is live on TV so I say yes. Everyone on the show begins to cheer and clap. The door opens. My boyfriend walks in carrying all of his stuff. He is moving in. I tell him he can’t move in because my mom will be mad. He asks me to call my mom and tell her we’re engaged. I refuse because my mom would be mortified. He takes a pocket watch out of his front pocket. It has all these strange dials on it. He says, “I am twenty-five years old, I’m almost twenty-six. I want to start having babies. I don’t have much more time.” He points to the watch. My mom calls and tells me she saw the game show and that no daughter of hers is getting married until she has a college degree and is twenty-five years old. I tell her it was a joke. The doorbell rings and a priest enters. My boyfriend puts a huge diamond ring on my finger and the priest pronounces on man and wife on the spot. We begin to devise a plan to keep my parents from knowing. My boyfriend’s brother stops by to drop off his daughter’s old crib. I wake up. The theme of this dream was definitely marriage and getting older. I had this dream on Valentine’s Day night after my boyfriend told me he has almost all the money saved up for my engagement ring, which really upset me. This definitely relates to my life because it is a constant topic of conversation and a major issue in our relationship. He’s almost twenty-six and ready to get married but I’m only twenty and not ready. My mom has constantly been telling me I cannot get married until I’m twenty-five, like she knows what’s going on. This dream wasn’t overly emotional because I feel like I knew it was a dream the whole time. I also think I directed this dream entirely. I made it focus on all the issues I am worried about. It also wasn’t particularly vivid. I can’t recall very specific details. Daydream 2/17/03 This daydream took place while I was waiting for my clinical psychology class to start. I “dreamed” that I was at my parent’s house. My dad walks in with the mail and places a huge stack in front of me. They are all letters from graduate schools informing me if I have been accepted into their programs or not. My mom runs to grab the camera.
Approximate Word count = 3502
Approximate Pages = 14
(250 words per page double spaced)
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