Animal Anxiety Dreams
Leopard
I’m walking along the Serengeti like any normal day and suddenly my spots begin to fall off. I’m freaked-out, of course, and I try to roll around on the ground to get them back on me but it just makes it worse and they continue to fall off, but at a faster rate now. I start to run away, but as I’m doing this I realize that my spots have become a trail that will lead my enemies to me.
Lobster
I am just walking along and then I find myself in some sort of trap. It’s like everything is in slow motion and I can’t get back out the way that I came in. I’m in a real panic and then very slowly the trap, with me in it, begins to rise up through the water and I just know that something horrible is going to happen, and that’s when I wake up.
Woodpecker
It’s always the same tree. I’m pecking away, trying to find some grubs or ants to eat and then I break through a barrier and I’m looking into a big room that’s in the middle of the tree where my mother is having sex with my uncle. My beak is stuck in the tree and I can’t look away. It’s horrible.
Butterfly
I am flying along and then something happens and I’m only able to fly in a straight line. I’m doing everything I can, but still, just a straight line. I feel so out of control, so lost.
Kangaroo
I’m looking in my pouch for my Joey and I can’t find him. I’m frantic and just keep digging deeper and deeper, but all I keep pulling out are tufts of hair and then I’m completely bald and I know, I just know that the Dingo got my baby and that it was my fault.
Squirrel
I’m getting ready to hibernate for the winter and I’m collecting as many nuts as I possibly can. I can’t stop eating them and I’m just getting bigger and bigger and bigger and then I start to float up into the sky and I feel like I’m going to drift away into the vast universe and never be seen again.
Seahorse
I’m floating around and everything is very calm. I don’t feel threatened at all and in a flash there are Sea Monkeys everywhere. The chattering is horrible and there’s nothing I can do to get away, and then they all pile on my back, whistling and teasing, and I try to buck them off but I can’t.
Penguin
I am on an ice floe alone in the middle of the ocean and the water keeps getting warmer.
It made me cry.
That is hilarious. You certainly had me at Woodpecker (still giggling) Perhaps Heidi could provide interpretation , she seems a deep thinker:)
Jon, there is a thin veil between the animal and human worlds, I think, and Candace, Heidi has been preoccupied by many subjects lately, but hopefully she’ll have some time to put her thoughts down on them soon.
Your blog is always a treat, a reward for finishing my work, cleaning the house, and most often, inspiration before I start my day. Thank you!
Rebecca:
You are as sweet as cotton candy with angel wings.
Mike – brilliant! The woodpecker had me laughing and the Penguin left me sad. A wonderfully well written roller-coaster ride. Keep it coming!
Master McKinney:
Thank you kindly for your generous and very super nice words!