{"id":72,"date":"2005-09-05T10:57:52","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T18:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/?p=72"},"modified":"2005-09-05T10:57:52","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T18:57:52","slug":"dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I had a couple of strange dreams last night. Both were really strange, and I don&#8217;t know where they came from, but here they are.<\/p>\n<p>The first one was about bone surgery on someone I knew (or rather, the sister of someone I know, but I can&#8217;t remember who. The only thing I remember is that she was Indian (from India) or something similar. Sorry, I don&#8217;t know the politically-correct term for that). But anyway, I knew who it was, and I was helping a friend. So as it turns out, both me and my friend were in the operating room helping. It was all very interesting. So I helped out the surgeon, and it was for the best. We were doing some sort of surgery on the sternum, but I don&#8217;t remember much more than that. It did involve cutting the sternum in half, at least. Of course, I don&#8217;t know how it ended, since my mind has gone blank about the ending.<\/p>\n<p>The second one was about alligators. There was some problem with alligators. All these people (me included) were fishing from the top of a tall bridge. Something happened, and we out to get these alligators. So we were fishing for them. It ended up that I caught one of them, and we were trying to kill it without bringing it onto the bridge, since that would be dangerous. So someone tried to shoot it with a laser gun. It broke off the line at this point, and so this guy jumped off and fell with it into the water. This was a &#8220;slow-mo&#8221; sequence, matrix style. The guns shot different color beams, and the targeting thing was reminiscent of the &#8220;blue boxes&#8221; targeting thing from the Gantz anime. Somehow, at this point I am mentally following this guy, even though I am sure it was not me who jumped off. So the alligator and I get into this long, drawn-out battle. The alligator seemed very intelligent, almost human. It knew that the guns did not work under water. I don&#8217;t remember how this one ends either, but I do remember going into some very fast rapids near the end.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what is really interesting about these dreams is not the strange stories (which are somewhat interesting, and I really wonder where they came from, and how they are reflecting my personal life) but the fact that I <em>did not die<\/em>. This is a very strange occurrance. I almost always die in my dreams. (By this, I mean I completely die, and get to watch over myself as a &#8220;spirit&#8221; or something similar, sometimes it is also from another person&#8217;s point of view) So I&#8217;m curious <em>why<\/em> I didn&#8217;t die this time, since there were definitely ample opportunities, especially in the alligator dream.<\/p>\n<p>On another note, I&#8217;m happy to be getting paid today without working! Yay for holidays!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I had a couple of strange dreams last night. Both were really strange, and I don&#8217;t know where they came from, but here they are. The first one was about bone surgery on someone I knew (or rather, the sister of someone I know, but I can&#8217;t remember who. The only thing I remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}