Pandemic Dreams of Stranger Things

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Kristin Devine

Kristin is a geek, a libertarian, and a domestic goddess. She lives in a wildlife refuge in rural Washington state with too many children and way too many animals and works with women around the world as a fertility counselor. There's also a blog which most people would very much disapprove of https://atomicfeminist.com/

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  1. Avatar Jaybird
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    My dreams have mostly been exhausting. You know the Mitch Hedberg bit: “I hate dreaming because I just wanna sleep. I’m fast asleep, and next thing you know, I have to build a go-cart with my ex-landlord.”

    My dream last night was an Oceans-11esque caper movie but I got caught by someone that I have seen exactly *ONCE* since age 12. While trying to talk my way out of being caught by telling the absolute God’s Honest Truth, my two cats had an altercation when one got too close to the other and they had a rather loud conversation that woke me up.

    But the part where I raised a bridge that hadn’t been raised since it was lowered on Dec 31st, 1999 and finding a hidden room underneath (it was only accessible when the bridge is raised, you see) was pretty cool.Report

    • Avatar Kristin Devine in reply to Jaybird
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      That hidden room has got to have a hidden meaning!!!Report

    • Avatar Jaybird in reply to Jaybird
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      Last night I had two stress dreams.

      1) I was back in Michigan in the late 70’s early 80’s in my upstairs bedroom and my mom came in while I was sleeping. She gave me a soothing backrub and murmured something about time and then left and I stayed asleep in the dream.

      2) A bit later, I couldn’t find my car. OH! THERE IT IS! I couldn’t believe that I found it! It was in a crowded garage and everything and there it was! Oh, I parked in the handicapped spot. Oh, crap. I’m getting ticketed. Wait! I have a handicapped placard in the glove department! Oh, crap. The ticket people are now giving me an extra ticket for using a handicapped placard despite being able-bodied. Then I woke up.

      AND I IMMEDIATELY CALLED MY MOM. She’s fine. Pleased that I called. Getting through this okay but going a little stir-crazy. She has paper towels and toilet paper and chicken.Report

  2. Avatar InMD
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    My son is 2 and a half and while unable to really comprehend what’s happening he obviously knows something is up. He’s in full time daycare but hasn’t been in weeks now. Instead he’s been juggled between me, my wife, my mom, and my mother in law (we are very lucky to be up to our ears in grandma help).

    Anyway this morning he told me he saw his boppa (my father in law who died in late Feb, just before everything started getting crazy) while he was asleep. He said they were on a boat together in a storm.

    Didn’t seem too worried about it but I’ve been pondering all morning what kind of weird way has little psyche is processing all this.Report

  3. Avatar LeeEsq
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    I’ve noticed that this pandemic is really causing me to think about how I’m really not happy with many areas of my life and causing anxiety from everything being on hold. This has caused me to have some rather vivid dreams about everything going down a bad road or just abruptly ending and I’m stuck dealing with living a life I don’t want. I’ve never really had these dreams before hand but now in the pandemic I’m having lots of them.Report

  4. Avatar gabriel conroy
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    Weirdly, I have covid dreams, but they’re not *bad* dreams, and not even stress dreams (a la, trying to call 911 and keep getting the numbers wrong on my phone).

    They’re not good dreams, really, but they’re just dreams in which covid is a present, but still theoretical* reality. A coworker who I don’t usually interact with in normal times (or now) tells me her husband is an ICU doctor and might have covid. That sort of thing.

    There usually is a point in the morning, when I awake before the alarm (which I do often) and think to myself, maybe it’s all a dream. But then I see the evidence (usually, it’s the fact that we have a drying rack for laundry in our kitchen because we’re doing the laundry by hand, now**). And then I remember this is real.

    *Mostly, but not completely, so in real life. My sister’s sister-in-law had it and had to go to the ICU. But thankfully she recovered and is now home. So far, that’s my closest personal connection to an actual case (or at least, to an actual case that came close to being very bad).

    **I guess this is a humble brag. I may be wrong, but I believe (knock on wood!) that laundry is the only major inconvenience so far. Otherwise, we have (again, knock on wood!), been extremely fortunate compared with others.Report

  5. Avatar Kristin Devine
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    Last night my husband dreamed we had to make our way through this huge state park that was full of traps and this woman appeared to give us all these hints about the things we had to do to navigate our way through unharmed. I told him it was corona related and he scoffed, but it’s pretty obvious to me it had a deeper meaning.Report

  6. Avatar Fish
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    Totally off-topic, and not a dream, but you losing your dream children in a crowd is spot-on for the time I lost my oldest boy–six at the time–at a sports stadium. We had left our seats together to go get him some Dippin’ Dots (or something) and we were headed back to our seats. I turned my head to find our section and he was just…gone. I circled the arena twice–TWICE!–and I could not find him. I was about to go seek help when suddenly he appeared out of the crowd about ten feet away, clearly looking for me. I got to him as quick as I could, latched on to him, and gave him a terror-driven lecture about not wandering off in crowded places. It was one of the most terrifying moments of my life.Report

  7. Avatar twenty oktavia
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    the nightmare that came true and experienced by humans in the world today is the existence of a covid-19 pandemic. even the impacts caused by this pandemic are numerous, one of which is that people do not get income and their economy goes down. therefore, we must help the poor who need it, as did the Airlangga University in Indonesia. full information is in the following link: http://news.unair.ac.id/en/2020/04/20/various-efforts-made-by-faculty-of-dental-medicine-to-prevent-covid-19/Report

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