Tuesday, September 9, 2008

How My Dream Almost Killed Me

- I didn't plan on writing this story at this present time. This story is autobiographical. I may be cheating a little bit because the majority of the story takes place while I was dreaming. Also I've awaken from my nap approximately six hours ago. But I believe this still count because I can remember everything vividly.

In my dream I'm arguing with my mother in her room. Contrary to what takes place in reality, my voice is over-powering hers and I'm actually winning this argument. I soon grow very, very angry. In my furious anger, I begin breaking things in her room such as lamps, mirrors and everything else I could get my hands on. Let me remind you that this is my parents' room!!!! I then remember throwing something at the T.V. and breaking it with a huge smile on my face. Then my father walks in and my smile gets even wider. I purposely show him what I did as he calls my name. My dream was now over as my father wakes me up by continually calling my name. I wake up very angry as I see my father's face. For a split second I thought I was still dreaming and was preparing to say something real nasty to him. Perhaps an act of God placed me back in my right mind as I realized I was no longer dreaming. By realizing that this was now reality, I avoided experiencing the "long sleep".

2 comments:

Corey Frost said...

Thanks, Tyrike. The interesting thing about reading this story, as I'm sure the others will find, too, is that the reader instinctively tries to infer something about your relationships with your mother and father. We don't know that much about you, so we see you here as a character in a story and we try to read between the lines. What does the dream mean? What does it say about the relationship between these characters? We won't try to psychoanalyze you in class, but it's interesting to see the effect of a dream on a narrative.

Let's have more! Anyone else have a dream story to share?

Trishy said...

Very intense! I really liked it, and I agree that it is a dream in which one tries to analyze it.