Dream Fragments

• I am redoing my ponytail and half of my hair falls out in my hand as a big chunk.

• Someone stole my clothes including my favorite sweatshirt. I am very sad. It feels like a big loss.

• I have a tiny red lightbulb in my left ear that needs to be removed.

• I am at my mom and dad’s house, getting attacked by a snake head. The snake has no body at first but then starts growing a body with legs. It can’t be contained. There is no venom but lots of sharp teeth.

• I am sitting around the dinner table with my mom and sisters. My older sister and I make eye contact and to be funny I stick out my tongue and she pretend “dies.” Then we all start playing the poison dart frog game. I am the poison dart frog. 

• I am missing a knee cap and have to have surgery to get a new one. The “hospital” is the doctor’s front porch and the “beds” are lawn chairs. Strangely, I trust the doctor to do a good job but I am so afraid of the pain! 

• It is the night before I am going to be swimming across the Atlantic Ocean with my family. We are in my home town. Everyone else seems ready, prepared, but I feel a bit anxious, like I don’t have everything I need. 

(Which one of these resonates for you? If it was your dream what would it be about? Comment below beginning with "If it was my dream..." or "In my imagined version of this dream...")

© Genevieve Camp, An Awakening from a Dream, magazine collage, 5” x 8”