Dreams

On Sunday, I woke with a start. The dream I was in was so spooky, I had to get out! Really, the baby was crying, so I thankfullydidn't get to see how the dream ended.
This is how the dream went...

I awoke to my cell phone ringing. I answered and on the other end was a recording of my own voice. The recording of me said, "This is Lorissa. I died yesterday and I need your help." In my dream, that was enough for me to freak out and I threw my phone. Somehow I instantly knew what was going on. Someone intended to kill me and send a recording of my own voice to all of the contacts in my phone just to "mess with" people. Somehow, they inadvertently sent the recording before they killed me. So, now I knew that someone intended to kill me, but that's all.

Thankfully I woke up, for real this time. I went to feed the baby and a few minutes later I heard a child running down the stairs. The middle child came running in the baby's room, falling on me, arms catching herself around my neck. Big tears falling down her cheek, she's goth through the sobs that she had a bad dream, "the worstest dream ever," to be exact. Asking what happened, she was able to get out that I left her.

GULP! "Like I went on vacation?" I asked hopefully.

"No! You left us FOREVER!"

"Where did I go?" Fully expecting that she, too, had a dream about me dying.

"You left us to go to New York!" She sobbed.

Great, now I'm dying AND going to hell I thought.

I posted the gist of this on my Facebook page, and I got a lot of interesting responses. I even researched dream meanings a bit to see what all this could potentially mean.

Basically what I got out of all of this was that something is ending and I feel like I need help. To that I say, "DUH!" I also learned that if you dream that you are awake, but are in fact still sleeping, it's called a toxic dream. This made me realize that it had been literal days since I had even one glass of water. So, I don't think the dream was because of something I ate, watched, or knew subconsciously.

I hear that dehydration can cause some crazy stuff, like going crazy. So, I'm drinking my water in between key strokes and I hope that extends my life line.