In the night ……… mare

I just can’t tell you about it.

Suffice to say, it was a dream that turned into a nightmare. It was when his face turned towards me. It turned out to be someone else. Someone from the past. It was unexpected. In my dream I tried to distance myself but it wouldn’t work. It was the first time for this dream. I wonder why? Why now? Why did it turn into this nightmare?

So, again, at four, as the night before, I was up.

I went back to bed after about an hour. F was sleeping and, from time to time, snoring. Rufus was sleeping and, from time to time, giving that ‘death rattle’, gasping for breath as if it was to be his last. It’s quite scary, really but I guess he does it most nights, if not, every night.

This morning I had to get up to do the tyres. I wish now I had booked it in for Friday. Friday is going to be beautiful. Ah, well, I’ll have Friday afternoon off instead.

10 thoughts on “In the night ……… mare

  1. Nightmares, uh? I’m with you, pal.
    Normally I do not have nightmares, but in the 7 days it happened on 4 nights. It’s a good score, isn’t it? I did not write about them in my blog, because I think it is not worth it. By the way, I would like to tell you that maybe your brain is elaborating something that you do not realize at conscient level. No, I’m not Freud and I have always avoided (and almost hated) psychoanlists. I can do the analysis on my own! Maybe something is scaring you (not only the situation of Rufus). Anyway, when you woke up you found that everything was ok, or at least as you like it, right? That is the important thing.

    • 4 times in 7 nights IS a good score (if you can call it that)! This one was unexpected. I am really not sure what it was ……… and someone from the distant past, too!

      Yes, everything was OK apart from the thinking of the nightmare.

  2. HI ANDY-

    I hear tell dreams represent unresolved stuff – take a ‘look-see’ into that possibility. And also big hugs to Rufus and wags from Gracie too.
    Love to you
    Gail
    peace…..

    • Rufus says thanks for the hugs and wags :-). He seems fine though so I think it’s just that I don’t normally hear it.

      Unresolved. For sure but it is so long ago now. I wonder why it suddenly ‘appeared’? As they say, let sleeping dogs lie – certainly in this case.

  3. Hi Andy,
    it sounds really creepy.

    I’m having WEIRD dreams / nightmares. I dreamt for two days in a row the tsunami. The first night the tsunami hit my home town.
    Yesterday night I dreamt about my dad. He was at the Isola dei Famosi :D -have you ever seen it on tv? -.
    :D

    • Hi Lola,
      Yes, it was really creepy. And a shock.
      Yes, I’ve seen it, of course. F likes it. Now I know your Dad’s in it I shall have to watch the next episode ;-)

  4. I’m guessing Rufus is a young child? Or maybe a dog?! (wasn’t sure whether to type that – thought you might be offended if it was a child… but then again might be bothered if I thought a dog was a child, too…)

    Anyway, both my sons have done the death-rattle thing repeatedly in their sleep when young, and I too had that thought. Luckily they’re both still alive and kicking, and probably just had a bit of phlegm.

    • Hi Alice,

      :-D Rufus is a dog – and he’s 16 which makes him the longest-lived Beardie I’ve ever had (by three years!) – bless him. No, it’s OK, I wasn’t offended. This death-rattle has more chance of being a real death-rattle than the ones your sons had, I think.

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