dream a little dream of arrrrgh

[lagilman]

Had a dream last night that I'd met up with an old former-friend in an open-air bar somewhere (a city I was living in, but not one I recognized) and our bags were ransacked/stolen. I lost my wallet, my phone, my laptop, my keys... and my companion blamed me for it.  And when I went back to my apartment I had no way to contact the cops, so had to find one on the street.

They were, as you can imagine, less than helpful/sympathetic, though they took my report word for word.

Then I woke up, reassured myself that it was only a dream, went back to sleep, and had a dream where my laptop at least hadn't been stolen, but the hinge was broken and the screen was cracked enough to interfere with my actually working on it.

First thing I did when I finally woke up for good was check to make sure all my backups have been processing properly. I'm not sure if this is a general work-anxiety dream, or an awareness that my laptop's coming up on four years old now (which is closer to six or seven in writer-use years) and I can't afford to replace it...

either way, it was kind of terrifying.

brrrr.

Comments

[janetl.livejournal.com]

Why does our stupid subconscious have to drum up problems we don't actually have?

Now I'm wondering psychologists still use the term/concept subconscious?

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Dreams like that are so stressful. I hope whatever underlying worry is triggering these goes away soon.