I had this very weird dream last night.
A lot of this dream was pretty sketchy.. and disjointed.
But in the end I was walking in a room filled with large snakes, constrictor types. I had my small son with me. There were tables and on all the tables were several snakes. On one of the far tables two large snakes were lying. One was just finishing swallowing another, unrelated snake or reptile it seemed. Then a snake saw me and started towards me as I was backing out of the door with my son in arms. It starts to really come at me, I turn and am knocked down. I suddenly can't move and I feel this heavy weight on my body , my arms and legs are immobilized. My son in my arms seems oddly still and sort of blank. I can see the large head of the snake coming over my shoulder. I muster ever ounce of will I have and I bite it on the face. I can feel the crunch and I am sort of repulsed and while I can taste some sort of liquid it doesn't taste like blood to me which seems odd. And I am able to think pretty clearly. I can feel suddenly my arms and legs and I let go and I can see that one side of the snakes head is sort of crushed and bloody with the one eye severely damaged. I am expecting the snake to retreat hastily. ( I have kept various snakes and am very familiar with snake behavior and whenever a snake is injured by it's prey it beats a hasty retreat) Instead, this snake with it's huge head turns to stare at me with it's one good black eye. And I remember thinking this is no ordinary snake. But I'm not afraid ..I am furious. Then I wake up in a sweat. In the moment my eyes open I see a dark shadowy figure standing over me. I sit up to get a better look ...really kind of full of adrenalin. And it sort of just blows away...like smoke. My son is in bed with me, and his body is in an unusual sleeping position. At that moment he takes a very deep breath..almost like he was holding his breath before and just took a big in breath and then sort of readjusts himself into a more normal sleeping position.
It led me to get up and post a couple of additional questions on the C's thread.
Particularly whether sleeping with the parent offers any sort of psychic protection.
I also remember when my oldest was younger she had several weird dreams that she still remembers. One was with preying mantis that were coming to get her, and in that dream she said that she was awake enough that she kept trying to move her arm to touch me and when she finally managed to touch me she woke up and she could see them with her eyes open crawling up the wall and out through the corners in the ceiling. She also said that she would dream all the time that she was being pulled up out of bed and through the ceiling but if she could touch me she would sort of get sucked back down.
When she first started sleeping alone one of the things she would say was that she was scared and didn't feel safe.
Lately, we have been talking about all of this, because these sorts of dreams, some of them she says she sees even once her eyes are open. So we started talking about the material I've been reading in the Wave series. She said the last time she felt, that presence, she said she actually can here footsteps in her room with her eyes closed, come for her, she kept saying in her mind, I don't agree, I won't go with you, I won't do what you say, and it went away.
Just wondering ....don't know what to make of it all. Trying to stay pretty open.
Additionally, as I learn more, I have noticed that my oldest has had sleep issues her whole life pretty much. She has been taking melatonin about a year now and that has helped. She may also have Pyrrole syndrome. Anyway, she has said, now, that there are many times she wakes up exhausted for no good reason and with bruises or scrapes or sore places on her body that she doesn't remember getting during the day.
There are a number of high strangeness type events that she has related but nothing really during the day. Except one, where she saw large scaly claws opening the closet door in our room. She was about 4 when that happened.
I also remember as a child having snake dreams and being very afraid of the alligators coming through my window at night.
I always just thought it was because we were in Fla and snakes and gators are pretty common.
Just got done reading High Strangeness and I'm looking at all these things with a different lens I suppose. At the same time I don't want to create something where only imagination and stress may be to blame.
any thoughts?
A lot of this dream was pretty sketchy.. and disjointed.
But in the end I was walking in a room filled with large snakes, constrictor types. I had my small son with me. There were tables and on all the tables were several snakes. On one of the far tables two large snakes were lying. One was just finishing swallowing another, unrelated snake or reptile it seemed. Then a snake saw me and started towards me as I was backing out of the door with my son in arms. It starts to really come at me, I turn and am knocked down. I suddenly can't move and I feel this heavy weight on my body , my arms and legs are immobilized. My son in my arms seems oddly still and sort of blank. I can see the large head of the snake coming over my shoulder. I muster ever ounce of will I have and I bite it on the face. I can feel the crunch and I am sort of repulsed and while I can taste some sort of liquid it doesn't taste like blood to me which seems odd. And I am able to think pretty clearly. I can feel suddenly my arms and legs and I let go and I can see that one side of the snakes head is sort of crushed and bloody with the one eye severely damaged. I am expecting the snake to retreat hastily. ( I have kept various snakes and am very familiar with snake behavior and whenever a snake is injured by it's prey it beats a hasty retreat) Instead, this snake with it's huge head turns to stare at me with it's one good black eye. And I remember thinking this is no ordinary snake. But I'm not afraid ..I am furious. Then I wake up in a sweat. In the moment my eyes open I see a dark shadowy figure standing over me. I sit up to get a better look ...really kind of full of adrenalin. And it sort of just blows away...like smoke. My son is in bed with me, and his body is in an unusual sleeping position. At that moment he takes a very deep breath..almost like he was holding his breath before and just took a big in breath and then sort of readjusts himself into a more normal sleeping position.
It led me to get up and post a couple of additional questions on the C's thread.
Particularly whether sleeping with the parent offers any sort of psychic protection.
I also remember when my oldest was younger she had several weird dreams that she still remembers. One was with preying mantis that were coming to get her, and in that dream she said that she was awake enough that she kept trying to move her arm to touch me and when she finally managed to touch me she woke up and she could see them with her eyes open crawling up the wall and out through the corners in the ceiling. She also said that she would dream all the time that she was being pulled up out of bed and through the ceiling but if she could touch me she would sort of get sucked back down.
When she first started sleeping alone one of the things she would say was that she was scared and didn't feel safe.
Lately, we have been talking about all of this, because these sorts of dreams, some of them she says she sees even once her eyes are open. So we started talking about the material I've been reading in the Wave series. She said the last time she felt, that presence, she said she actually can here footsteps in her room with her eyes closed, come for her, she kept saying in her mind, I don't agree, I won't go with you, I won't do what you say, and it went away.
Just wondering ....don't know what to make of it all. Trying to stay pretty open.
Additionally, as I learn more, I have noticed that my oldest has had sleep issues her whole life pretty much. She has been taking melatonin about a year now and that has helped. She may also have Pyrrole syndrome. Anyway, she has said, now, that there are many times she wakes up exhausted for no good reason and with bruises or scrapes or sore places on her body that she doesn't remember getting during the day.
There are a number of high strangeness type events that she has related but nothing really during the day. Except one, where she saw large scaly claws opening the closet door in our room. She was about 4 when that happened.
I also remember as a child having snake dreams and being very afraid of the alligators coming through my window at night.
I always just thought it was because we were in Fla and snakes and gators are pretty common.
Just got done reading High Strangeness and I'm looking at all these things with a different lens I suppose. At the same time I don't want to create something where only imagination and stress may be to blame.
any thoughts?