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August 30, 2011 by Lauralynn Elliott

I often have very strange, and sometimes funny, dreams. I rarely have nightmares, but I think this one counts. The night before last, I dreamed that this man shot me in the back of the head. I felt myself being shot, although there wasn’t really pain, and then things got black and I was just gone. Then I came back. Only to be shot in the head again. This happened about three times, me getting shot in the head and coming back. Finally, I asked the man why he kept shooting me because I was just going to keep coming back. He said he had to because that was his job. What in the WORLD could have made me dream something like that???

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on August 30, 2011 at 3:18 pm | Reply Wulfie

Sometimes dreams are IM’s from..um…ourselves. lol Is there something in your life (a behavior, feeling, wish, activity, thing, fill in the blank) that keeps repeating? Something you keep going back to or avoiding? I’m guessing the dream has to do with some sort of repetition…the kind that doesn’t go away for whatever reason. Example: Maybe you’ve wanted to do something for a long time but haven’t for whatever reason and so it lurks in the back of your mind and keeps coming around.
- on August 30, 2011 at 3:42 pm | Reply Lauralynn Elliott
  
  Hmmm, I don’t know. I’ll have to think about that a little while, Wulfie. 🙂
on August 30, 2011 at 5:40 pm | Reply Susan Bischoff

Bad customer service experience?
- on August 30, 2011 at 6:17 pm | Reply andrewmocete
  
  That’s some really bad customer service.
  - on August 30, 2011 at 8:15 pm | Reply Susan Bischoff
    
    You will appreciate this, Andrew. You know how they F**K you in the drive-thru? Well, I’ve had customer service experiences lately… and it’s like they shoot you in the head, and instead of giving up like any SANE person, you turn around and say, please, sir, may I have another?
    
    LOL, Sorry for the rantiness in your comment, LL. It’s just that’s what your dream made me think of.
    - on August 30, 2011 at 9:27 pm | Reply Lauralynn Elliott
      
      Susan, you are too funny!
on August 30, 2011 at 6:25 pm | Reply andrewmocete

From what I’ve read, dying in a dream signifies change of some sort. Being killed like your describing could be a sudden change in your life. Possibly something you weren’t expecting and are not happy with. I know you lost your best friend recently. Maybe your subconscious is still working that out.
- on August 30, 2011 at 9:31 pm | Reply Lauralynn Elliott
  
  Maybe so, Andrew. I’m still really having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that she’s gone. She and I always enjoyed drinking coffee out of these little cups with faces on them. After she died, her husband gave those cups to me. I drank coffee out of one of them Saturday and burst into tears. I talked to my mom about it Sunday. I had the dream that night.
on August 30, 2011 at 10:04 pm | Reply Michelle DePaepe

I wouldn’t discount that connection, but isn’t it interesting that the man couldn’t kill you? You were invincible. Maybe it signifies your resilience over someone who’s been giving you trouble.
What did you have for dinner last night? A serotonin boost before bed can cause nightmares. The worst nightmare of my life happened earlier this summer. I’d taken a 5-HTP pill before bed (nightmares are an odd possible side effect). I was so angry with myself when I woke up. I couldn’t believe that my brain could concoct such an awful story (all my horror writing aside)!
- on August 31, 2011 at 8:49 am | Reply Lauralynn Elliott
  
  I think I had pizza for dinner that night. LOL. So who knows? No one is giving me trouble. Maybe it has something to do with having more headaches than usual. I have a few health concerns right now, so that might have triggered it. Dreams are such odd things. But last night I dreamed I met Alex O’Loughlin, so that made up for everything! 😉
on August 31, 2011 at 4:08 pm | Reply Wulfie

lol Meeting Alex would make up for just about anything in my book!

Nice dream input, fellow commenters! And Susan? You so sillyyyy, made me LOL
- on August 31, 2011 at 4:17 pm | Reply Lauralynn Elliott
  
  Alex is sooooo good looking and sexy.
  
  Susan always cracks me up.
on August 31, 2011 at 7:42 pm | Reply Tiffany A White

In college, I used to keep a dream book and journal next to my bed. My best friend and I would get together every Saturday morning with a cup of coffee and go over our dreams. It was fun…but the supposed definitions rarely came true so I don’t think you have anything to worry about. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway…..I’ve had similar dreams twice this week – that I’m pregnant. Is that my biological clock ticking?
- on September 1, 2011 at 8:49 am | Reply Lauralynn Elliott
  
  At my age, being pregnant would be worse than being shot in the head. Hahahahahahaha.
  
  Someone told me once that they kept a dream journal next to their bed. They actually used some of their dreams for ideas in their books. Now that’s an interesting concept.