Last night/early this morning, I had another one of a good handful of weird dreams. Maybe someone can make some sense of it?
I was visiting my aunt and cousins in Oregon (go figure, I just visited them for real this last weekend), I don't remember much of what we did, but I think some of it was going around doing some sightseeing, except I didn't recognize anywhere we went. Their house was different too, more closed in and a bit darker than it really is. After we got back to the house, I guess I was washing my hair in a tub of some sort instead of taking a shower like I usually do. I remember my left eye starting to sting like I got a little soap in it or something, I covered it with my hand while I had my head in the water, and after a minute or so, the stinging was feeling worse. I wear contact lenses, so of course, I go into the bathroom to take care of it (why the tub was in a different room, I have absolutely no idea). My eye was turning red and it, as well as the skin around it, were getting swollen, quickly. It was like I'd gotten a bad black eye, only it wasn't a dark bruise and it swelled up a bit more and faster. Out of instinct, I knew I had to remove the lens in that eye, get rid of it, and try to flush out any bacteria from the eye so it could get better. However, it got a little more complicated than that - when I removed the lens, I saw that the inside of it was lined with a gel-like substance that was a dark pink color, almost kinda like the flesh of a light grapefruit. There was so much of this stuff, it almost filled the lens completely. Confused, I looked in the mirror at my eye again, and it was more bloodshot, and seemed like that gel stuff in the contact was part of the eye itself! I tried to see if the iris and such were still visible, but I couldn't tell if it was gone or if it was just so swollen that it was hidden or something. I looked at the contact in my hand again (I never turned it over, just kept the inside side of it up) and thought I might've seen dark shades close to the middle of the lens, like the iris was there. I went back and forth on this a couple times, confused and didn't know what to do. I didn't even have a blind spot, like my eye was still working just fine and it wasn't in any more pain (in fact I think the pain was gone at that point, but I might've just forgotten that it was hurting or something), but I couldn't even see a pupil in that eye when I looked in the mirror. I decided to ask my aunt for help, being that she's a hospital nurse. So I stepped out into the next room where my aunt and my mom were watching tv or something and tried to ask if she could take a look, but the words weren't coming out right, like I didn't know how to form the question. She then told me that she'd come down with the flu or something, though she looked more like if she had anything, it was just a mild cold. Just before I could turn back, disappointed, she came up to me, hands on my shoulders, asked some weird question like if I'd been close to a sick person for more than two minutes before, or something like that. She looked directly at me, and didn't react in any way to my damaged eye. I can't remember answering her, but I know I was confused by her words and behavior. I went back into the bathroom to the mirror and checked on my eye again. Couldn't have been more than one or two minutes, and it had already started filling with tears like it was trying to flush something out of it on its own. As I looked in the mirror, I noticed that the swelling had gone down immensely, the redness nearly, if not completely gone, and the flesh almost completely repaired and continuing to heal. The lens of the eye itself was back, and with each time that I blinked, I noticed (but couldn't feel) a thin film breaking up across the eye. Very much like watching a snake shed its skin, but not all in one piece. As this film broke up and was flushed out of the eye, it was nearly back to normal, just looked a little irritated. On top of that, it wasn't my eye color! My eyes are brown/hazel; this one was a deep, rich cobalt or sapphire blue color!
Anyone have any ideas as to what it might mean?