{"id":2893,"date":"2013-05-29T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2014-02-09T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T20:05:07","slug":"what-is-it-with-these-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/2013\/05\/29\/what-is-it-with-these-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it with these dreams?"},"content":{"rendered":"

And can we make them stop?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I am not a person with a strong belief in the predictive power of dreams.\u00a0 I don’t think they are premonitions or portents.<\/p>\n

Thankfully.<\/p>\n

Because I have been having some very odd ones lately, and I’d hate to think what they presaged if I gave any credence to that idea.<\/p>\n

Usually, I think dreams are sort of a mash-up of images from your waking life.\u00a0 With the exception of the Actor’s Nightmare\u2014where you can’t remember what play you are doing or everybody else is speaking lines from a different play or in a different language or, worse, your costume is missing.<\/p>\n

That one is an anxiety dream.<\/p>\n

I have, in my life, had it in various other incarnations as well.\u00a0 The Director’s Nightmare\u2014where you are at tech rehearsal and no one\u2014not the actors, not the stage manager, not the designers\u2014will do what you ask.\u00a0 The Playwright’s Nightmare\u2014where your reading is starting and you realize you forgot to tell your leading lady and there’s no way she can fly in from the Coast in the next 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, those stress-related imaginings are just that.\u00a0 Imaginings.\u00a0 None of them have ever come true.\u00a0 (Although I have stood on stages and watched fellow actors’ eyes go blank and known something perilously similar to the Actor’s Nightmare.)<\/p>\n

The thing I am wondering about today is why, all of a sudden, I am having these Grand Guignol horror movie-like dreams.\u00a0 For the last couple of days.<\/p>\n

Mafia hit men.<\/p>\n

Axe murderers.<\/p>\n

It’s not like I’ve been watching horror movies recently.\u00a0 Or even the news.<\/p>\n

I’ve been spending my time with BBC period pieces.\u00a0 Edward VII.\u00a0 Downton Abbey.\u00a0 Edward & Mrs. Simpson<\/em>.\u00a0 (Just as a side note, imagine my surprise to find Sylvia Buchman’s (Paul Reiser’s mother on Mad About You<\/em>) younger days were spent, in part, as Wallis Simpson!)<\/p>\n

And when I haven’t been enjoying tea cups and crown jewels, I have been trekking to the Delta Quadrant with the crew of Voyager<\/em>.\u00a0 (Someday, I will get even with my niece for this whole Netflix thing, but that is a subject for another time.)<\/p>\n

So, I haven’t been basking in terror.\u00a0 And nothing particularly stressful is going on just now that would translate into a fear of getting killed.<\/p>\n

I’m just having these horrible dreams.\u00a0 And I’m not enjoying them, and I’d like them to stop, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And can we make them stop? I am not a person with a strong belief in the predictive power of dreams.\u00a0 I don’t think they are premonitions or portents. Thankfully. Because I have been having some very odd ones lately, and I’d hate to think what they presaged if I gave any credence to that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","tag-wondering-wednesdays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}