Dreams......

Have you ever had those dreams where you wake up from a bad dream and go back to bed and the dream just keeps going on and on, even though you wake up again and again? I had one of those last night. So, here is the dream I had.....


Justin and I started watching a movie after we put the kids to bed last night. (Sweeny Todd) Anyway, I fell asleep on the couch and woke up around 3am with a dream about being back in High school. (Which is a nightmare in itself.) My back, head and neck were hurting and I was seeing flashes of lights and passing out in my dream. I asked to go see the school nurse. When I got there, it was in the old school cafeteria that was in the center of the school in one of the offices off to the side. People were still eating lunch in their assigned lunch blocks. There was a price list in front of the nurses office. It said...

To get into the office, you have 4 options.

For a very long wait and to sit in an old broken down hospital bed: $3.00
For a long wait and a recently used hospital bed: $5.00
For a minimum wait and a nice posh bed: $10.00
If you don't have any money and would like to use the phone to call for an ambulance: $1.00
Ambulance ride, paid up front: $1,000.00

There was also a disclaimer from the school nurse and school. It said....

NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGES OR DEATH WHILE WAITING.

I did not have any money on me because when I was in high school, my mom made my lunches and so she didn't give me money to spend on lunch. I was dragged back to the classroom where I continued to have the same symptoms. But when I passed out, I woke up with less clothes on, embarrassing pictures taken of me and people laughing at me and the photos. I guess someone felt sorry for me and paid $5.00 for me so that I could go see the nurse.

They dragged me down by my wrists to the nurses station again and gave the receptionist the $5.00 so that I could get a place to wait for the nurse. While I was waiting for the nurse, the receptionist came up to me and said "It will be $20.00 to see the nurse. She is taking care of all the sick patients and will get to you within 3 hours". I told her that I did not have any money to see the nurse and she told me that I could lay down for the 3 hours in the bed that was paid for and then I had to go back to class. I was not allowed any outside calls.

I stayed there for the three hours in and out of consciousness and found myself on the floor outside the nurses station with two people picking me up and dragging by the wrists again, back to class. One of them said to me..."if you didn't have the money to pay for the nurse to look at you, then why did you come down here in the first place"? I felt like I was going to die at any moment. I was put back in my chair, same thing happened again and there were less clothes on me every time I woke up. I just kept looking at my watch to see when school would end but the time kept going backwards instead of forwards. School was never going to end and I was going end up dead in the chair that they left me on and if I kept passing out, I was going to end up with no clothes on and have people laughing at me and more embarrassing photos of me every time I woke up.

After passing out and waking up, the last thing I remember was that Justin was there (I didn't meet him until after I graduated so I was very confused b/c in my dream I knew him) he was carrying me out of the room and out of the school with the school right behind him telling him that he could not do that and that he would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law if he didn't drop me at that moment. He didn't care, he just walked me out of the school and all I could see was the bright light of the sun and I was woken up to Justin asking me to wake up and that it was time to get going for the day. I'm guessing that he had been trying to wake me up for quite some time and that's probably why he was in my dream at the end.

Even though it was a dream, he was still my hero and I love him for waking me up from that awful nightmare. But what a crazy dream. I swear it was all of my nightmares rolled into one.

I just had to post this one since I actually remembered it so vividly. Has anyone else had dreams like this to where you remembered it so vividly?