Crying Dreams

[Anime Monster]

Has anyone ever had a dream that they've woken up from crying? I had one last night and when I woke up, I couldn't stop. In my dream someone that I consider family took something from me that had a lot of sentimental value and sent it to a compactor to go to the dump. The dream was strange in a lot of ways, but I woke up crying and couldn't stop.

I rarely do this, so I was wondering, does this happen to anyone else?

[LadyRiona]

Periodically, it's happened to me, but not recently. I remember once, when I woke up, I knew I'd been crying because my eyeses were all crusty-like, and then I had a vague recollection of waking up in the middle of the night crying, but going back to sleep. Usually, I'm crying in my dream, too...

[Ravendust]

It's only happened to me once before...

[paintedmusic]

It happened to me once before -- in October of last year. I remember the dream so clearly. I'll skip the first part for you because it's got nothing to do with the scene that made me cry:

At the same time as my dad's, my cell phone started ringing. When I answered it, a gruff voice barked, "This is the Cuban Coast Guard. All of the Vamanos family is dead."

I stuttered, "Wh-what?"

He repeated what he said, and then I thought, "Um... okay..." Before he could hang up, though, I thought, "Wait a second... what's Betsy's last name?" [Betsy was my piano teacher since I was eight years old; now we're sisters in all but blood. This past year, she went to a medical school in Cuba.] When I started to cry, he hung up. I felt as if... I don't even know how to describe it. No one very close to me has ever died, thank God; and this -- I didn't think I would survive it. I thought I was dying.

Then, my dad ran in (he'd gotten the same phone call -- that was why his phone had been ringing) and said, "Shoshana, don't worry. It's everyone in the family but Betsy."

I was still crying but was extremely relieved. And then I felt guilty for feeling relieved when her entire family had died. I thought, "I should call her brothers and tell her," before I realized that they were included in "all the family."

I woke up with tears streaming down my cheeks, and I continued crying for fifteen minutes. For the life of me I couldn't figure out if it had really happened or not, and I was literally paralyzed with fear. Finally, I figured out that it was just a dream. Do you want to know what proved it? my dad has no cell phone. once awake and thinking clearly, I could remember Betsy's last name, which isn't Vamanos. But it took me fifteen minutes to figure out "Betsy can't be dead because my dad doesn't have a cell phone." But yeah, for the first fifteen minutes I was crying my eyes out.