[Elysium]

I was doing my best to sleep in this morning in between getting my hair chewed on by my cat, getting hopped on by my other kitten...etc....

I drifted off and I had this short, but intense, snippet of a dream. I was in a room, standing at the foot of a bed facing the headboard. On the wall behind the bed was a large picture that took up most of the wall. While I was staring at it, I heard this loud pop/crack sound and the picture exploded towards me. The glass shattered and flew at me and I could feel myself getting thrown backwards. It only lasted about two seconds maybe and I bolted awake. My heart was beating fast and I had that feeling of wanting to run away. I looked at the clock....It was 9:32 AM.

I decided to get up and feed the animals because I didn't feel like I was going to be able to sleep anymore after that. Tonight I was reading a news story that there was a 3.7 earthquake in my area and that a lot of people were reporting that it felt like one "big jolt". USGS says that the quake happened about 9:30 AM!! I wonder if I was consciously aware of the quake, but so relaxed that my mind put the jolt in my dream. I wonder if the cracking sound and the exploding picture were actually the sound/feel of the big jolt?

Dreams are very intriguing!!

[danvb]

That particular shake gave the people around Palm Springs a pretty good jolt! It certainly is very possible that you subconsciously took note of it and then tried to make sense of it in the form of a dream...

Indeed, dreams can be very intriguing.

My wife, daughter and I lived aboard a 45 foot boat on Puget Sound for 10 years. We had a couple of cats living with us too. One night I dreamt that I was in the water and riding on the back of one of my cats. We effortlessly swam across the Narrows and back. We swam around for quite a while. My cat understood what I was thinking. We felt very connected somehow. I don't know, but I knew what my cat was thinking too. Apparently there was no size difference between us either. I don't know if my cat was bigger than normal or if I was smaller, but it didn't seem to matter. There was a wonderful feeling of detached abandon and peacefulness. We were on an exciting adventure!

Anyway...

When I woke up from the dream my cat was sitting on the rug next to my bed, licking himself dry...
He'd fallen overboard, crawled out of the water and was drying himself off next to my bed. He'd trailed water all the way through the boat from the swim step, up to the pilot house and then down the stairs into my stateroom.

While it was not the least bit uncommon for one or both of our cats to go for an unexpected and unscheduled swim, I had never dreamt about it until then.

While I was asleep, how could I have possibly known that my cat had taken the "big step" off the side of the boat? Beats me!

Yeah... dreams can be DARNED intriguing!