The Big Bad Wolf is Coming...

(Artwork: Jessie Wilcox Smith)

Been having strange dreams again. Nothing new there. I'll stick to the most recent ones:

Dream #1

- In this dream my mother told me that she dreamed I was part of The Matrix, but not to worry because my kids were fine. (I have no children, by the way).

So yeah, The Matrix? I don't even like that movie and have only seen parts of the first one.

Dream #2

- This was yet another parallel universe dream. In this dream I found my aunt, and when I asked if she knew who I was or if she'd ever seen me before, she answered that no, she didn't.

I then began to outright panic and cry like a lunatic. Even in my dream I was amazed at how affected I was by this knowledge. It just felt awful knowing that I didn't even exist in this other universe along with people that were supposed to be my family members.

Dream #3

- This might not sound like a nightmarish dream, but it certainly felt like one.

In this dream I suddenly realized that I had one very large section of hair that turned stark white. It came out of nowhere and was an irreversible condition. Nothing I did would get rid of it.

It wasn't like an aging kind of white either. It was more like something terrified me so horrifically that it literally turned my hair white.

I'm 99.99% sure what this dream was all about.

Dream #4
(January 17)

Had another exhausting pet rescue dream last night.

I was in some neighborhood where the mega-rich lived. At one of these homes we were having fun watching some wild critters; ducks and the like. One of my dogs, Izzy, saw one of the ducks and went after it. Immediately afterward I see that there's a fox out there, too.

Next thing I know I'm petrified out of my mind trying to find all three of my dogs, but it's proving impossible because I am surrounded by nothing but dogs, dogs, and more dogs. There were puppies and adult dogs everywhere, and then even some newborn dogs sleeping all cozily inside cupboards. (There was some woman sitting in a chair next to it, keeping watch over them).

So I'm frantically calling out Izzy's name, all the while also looking for my other dogs. I think I saw Maddie, and she was in protective mothering mode. (Maddie has never been a mother, but she is protective over our other dogs). I know this because there's a little puppy underneath her belly. She was sheltering it, although it surprised me that it wasn't Abby or Izzy that she was protecting.

I keep searching for Izzy, and I see a lot of dogs that are similar to her but not quite. It was really frustrating and overwhelming.

I think I finally found her, and then I started searching for little Abby. I think this is when I woke up.

By the way, Maddie in this dream was actually our old dog, Bambi. It was kinda strange because I was searching for Maddie, and even when I found her she looked just like Bambi. She and Bambi were the same.

Which isn't too surprising I guess, since we've always joked that if pets ever do reincarnate Maddie might be Bambi come back to us. They're very similar in personality and in some ways, appearance.