A bout of being overly cerebral caused me to experience three strange dreams within a five-day period.
During my waking hours, I pack as much productivity into my day as possible. If I focus on one thing to completion, I’d complete that one thing faster, but rarely does my schedule afford me the luxury of doing that unless I’m bumping up against a deadline. Without a firm deadline, I juggle various projects throughout the day.
One new project is finding a supported group home for my nephew. Although he’s a high-functioning person with autism, he’s not maturing as he should because he’s only ever lived with his grandparents or his mother. If things continue like this, his grandparents, parent, aunts, uncles will be deceased and he’d be as lost as a child despite the fact that he’s currently in his 30s.
I’ve clocked several hours, taking detailed notes while watching webinars and summarizing PDFs for the past couple of weeks. So much so, that the accumulated research seeped into my dreams.
I frantically ran around in my dream, searching for a periodical table to prepare for an exam. It’s been years since I’ve had to prepare for an exam, much less teach a science class.
Dream Interpretation: organizing information to prepare for a transformation or to clean up a messy situation.
That’s precisely what I’m attempting to do. Make sense of which services my nephew qualifies for while simultaneously helping him organize his life.
The next night, in a continuation of an educational theme, I dreamed that I was attending a graduation. Several wooden folding chairs had one of my friend’s names written on it. Someone informed me that my friend had donated money for those chairs.
Dream Interpretation: dreaming about several chairs means that someone is about to be rewarded for doing good work.
That tracked since my friend is a dedicated mother, teacher and yoga instructor who also conducts antiracism workshops for other white women. That last part may sound counterintuitive, but in order to have real conversations about race, white women need to first say the quiet part out loud, which may be traumatizing to hear for people of color. The goal is to help other white women first work on themselves before they reach across the racial aisle to continue antiracism work.
In perhaps the sweetest dream, I was socializing with a group of people who were calm, gentle and all around lovely. Even as I interacted with them, I felt that their mannerisms reminded me of sheep. Never thought that “sheeple” could have a positive connotation. I’m sure these were shapeshifters because I’m currently binge-watching “True Blood.” Among other series.
Dream Interpretation: dreaming of sheep indicates comfort, dreaming and heightened expectations.
I can only credit that feel-good dream to my dance classes, of which I take at least two a week. Don’t know how much longer I have it in me for such a strenuous workout, but I’m going to attend until my body tells me “no.” Just like I did with capoeira.
I’m sure my dreams will take a sharp, anxiety-filled turn in the next week: Dad’s long-awaited return. That one change will trigger a cornucopia of changes.